Category: SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for January 2020, (Tue, Jan 14th)

[Special Note: we will have a special webcast on this topic at noon ET tomorrow (Wednesday, January 15th. See https://sans.org/cryptoapi-isc )   Advertise on IT Security News. Read the complete article: Microsoft Patch Tuesday for January 2020, (Tue, Jan 14th)

More Data Exfiltration, (Fri, Jan 10th)

Yesterday, I posted a quick analysis of a malicious document that exfiltrates data from the compromised computer[1]. Here is another found that also exfiltrate data. The malware is delivered in an ACE archive. This file format remains common in phishing…

Quick Analyzis of a(nother) Maldoc, (Thu, Jan 9th)

Yesterday, one of our readers (thank David!) submitted to us a malicious document disguised as a UPS invoice. Like David, do not hesitate to share samples with us, we like malware samples! I briefly checked the document. Nothing new, based…

Windows 7 – End of Life, (Thu, Jan 9th)

A quick reminder note today for everyone. Microsoft Windows 7 operating system is at End of Life on January 14, 2020. [1]   Advertise on IT Security News. Read the complete article: Windows 7 – End of Life, (Thu,…

CCPA – Quick Overview, (Fri, Jan 3rd)

It's been quiet lately. Hopefully, it is not a calm before a storm if you will. I crawled out from under my rock and found that the State of California law that offers new consumer protection went into effect Jan…

Ransomware in Node.js, (Thu, Jan 2nd)

Happy new year to all! I hope that you enjoyed the switch to 2020! From a security point of view, nothing changed and malicious code never stops trying to abuse our resources even during the holiday season. Here is a…

“Nim httpclient/1.0.4”, (Wed, Jan 1st)

“Nim httpclient/1.0.4” is the default User Agent string of the httpClient module of the Nim programming language (stable release).   Advertise on IT Security News. Read the complete article: “Nim httpclient/1.0.4”, (Wed, Jan 1st)