July 26, 2019

BlueKeep guides make imminent public exploit more likely

A public exploit for Microsoft's BlueKeep vulnerability is just days away. In fact, for those with deep pockets, it's already here.

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May 30, 2019

A million devices still vulnerable to ‘wormable’ RDP hole

An internet-wide scan has revealed almost one million devices vulnerable to CVE-2019-0708.

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May 30, 2019

Worms deliver cryptomining malware to web servers

An automated attack, targeting poorly-protected Apache Tomcat servers, turns enterprise hardware into a high-end cryptominer

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February 04, 2019

FBI burrowing into North Korea’s big bad botnet

The FBI revealed that it joined the Joanap botnet and started chewing it up from the inside.

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August 10, 2017

Emotet’s goal: drop Dridex malware on as many endpoints as possible

Emotet arrives as a malicious email attachment and tries to steal your online banking credentials

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May 15, 2017

The Windows worm is back – and this time it’s serious

Worms are a malware tactic from back in the day - but they still remain tricky to mitigate against

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May 18, 2015

Former virus writer open-sources his DIY combination lock-picking robot

Back in 2005, a youngster called Samy Kamkar wrote a JavaScript virus for MySpace. This time, he's made a DIY lock-picking robot - and you can make one too, if you like.

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May 09, 2015

Surely not the “Virus DESTROYS Computer” story again? 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]

Our weekly fun-but-serious one-minute security video. Malware hype, FTC action and some ancient history (well, the LOVE BUG)... enjoy.

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May 04, 2015

Memories of the LOVE BUG – 15 years ago today

It said "ILOVEYOU", and it promised a harmless-looking text file. But it actually contained an email virus that got just about everywhere. Could something like this ever happen again?

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