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Quote:Now, new reporting by Motherboard shows that while LocationSmart faced the brunt of the criticism, few focused on the other big player in the location-tracking business, Zumigo. A payment of $300 and a phone number was enough for a bounty hunter to track down the participating reporter by obtaining his location using Zumigo’s location data, which was continuing to pay for access from most of the carriers.

Worse, Zumigo sold that data on — like LocationSmart did with Securus — to other companies, like Microbilt, a Georgia-based credit reporting company, which in turn sells that data on to other firms that want that data. In this case, it was a bail bond company, whose bounty hunter was paid by Motherboard to track down the reporter — with his permission.

Quote:Security researchers have been warning about a simple technique that cybercriminals and email scammers are already being using in the wild to bypass security features of Microsoft Office 365, including Safe Links, which are originally designed to protect users from malware and phishing attacks.

Safe Links has been included by Microsoft in Office 365 as part of its ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) solution that works by replacing all URLs in an incoming email with Microsoft-owned secure URLs.

Therefore, every time users click on a link provided in an email, Safe Links first sends them to a Microsoft owned domain, where it immediately checks the original link for anything suspicious. If Microsoft's security scanners detect any malicious element, it then warns the users about it, and if not, it redirects them to the original link.

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The threat actor continues to target organizations in the financial and retail sectors, the researchers say, using Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher, and PDF files pull the malware on the victim computer host.


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A first salvo of malicious messages was shot on November 9, 2018. It was a small campaign with several thousand emails delivering Word and Publisher documents laced with hostile macros.

A larger campaign with tens of thousands of emails occurred six days later and carried messages with .DOC, .PUB, and .WIZ documents, all specific to the same Microsoft Office components mentioned above.

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Quote:During the holidays a silent attack was slowly spreading through business networks.
Companies like Tribune Publishing and Data Resolution were hit by a fairly new and unique type of ransomware, Ryuk ransomware

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Quote:Kaspersky Lab technologies have automatically detected a new exploited vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows OS kernel, the third consecutive zero-day exploit to be discovered in three months.

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Zero-day vulnerabilities are previously unknown, and therefore unpatched, software bugs that attackers can exploit to gain access to victim systems and devices. They are immensely valuable to threat actors, and difficult to detect.

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