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Enterprise Technical Security That Matters - May 21, 2021

Written by Omnistruct Marketing | May 23, 2021 8:23:08 PM

Scammers Impersonating Windows Defender to Push Malicious Windows Apps

Browser push notifications can highly resemble Windows system notifications. As recently discussed, scammers are abusing push notifications to trick users into taking action. This recent example demonstrates the social engineering tactics used to trick users into installing a fake Windows Defender update. A toaster popup in the tray informs the user of a Windows Defender Update. By Craig Schmugar I May 17, 2021

 

Analysis of NoCry ransomware: A variant of the Judge ransomware

Researchers at Tesorion released a decryptor for Judge ransomware that also decrypts files encrypted by the NoCry ransomware. By Pierluigi Paganini I May 18, 2021

 

Newly Discovered Function in DarkSide Ransomware Variant Targets Disk Partitions

FortiGuard Labs has uncovered additional tactics used by the threat actors that attacked Colonial Pipeline. In this different DarkSide ransomware variant, FortiGuard Labs researchers uncovered an ability to seek out partition information and compromise multiple disk partitions. By Fred Gutierrez I May 17, 2021

 

MountLocker ransomware uses Windows API to worm through networks

The MountLocker ransomware operation now uses enterprise Windows Active Directory APIs to worm through networks. By Lawrence Abrams I May 19, 2021

 

 

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