Last week, Brian Krebs broke the story that some unknown actor was trying to disrupt Trickbot, an enormous collection of two million infected computers which…
Tag: Malware
Last month, the FBI advised everyone to reboot their home routers — later upgrading their recommendation to update your firmware and do a factory reset — in an…
It should come as no surprise that as cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, have risen in value, more hackers are finding ways to acquire it. The…
Last week, Eset Research posted a report about malware they had discovered which gathered information about infected computers and reported it back to the attack…
OPLIN 4cast #499: Anti antivirus
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Licenses for antivirus software have been part of most libraries’ annual IT expenditures for decades now. The internet is a dangerous place, as we all…
A couple of weeks ago, we got a glimpse inside the anti-malware/antivirus (AV) industry, when Google announced a change to the user policies for VirusTotal,…
It’s the middle of winter, so let’s talk about snowshoe attacks. These actually have nothing to do with the weather or dangerous winter footwear –…
OPLIN 4cast #344: Basic protection
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There was an interesting posting on the codeinsecurity blog a little over a month ago, which we didn’t see until recently, called “The anti-virus age…
You have to admit, the people who try to take over your computer or steal your private information for their own shady purposes are undoubtedly…
A week ago on Tuesday (June 21), the FBI raided a data center in Virginia run by a Swiss hosting company, DigitalOne. The FBI was…