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Microsoft launches Project Freta to help prevent malware threats from going undetected

AnandKhanse@TWC — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 16:30:29 +0000

Microsoft is looking to employ a new approach to keep malware risks at bay, courtesy of Project Freta. In short, Project Freta is Microsoft’s answer to malware threats that often go undetected and cause great trouble to individuals and companies, and gain enormous economic value. Malware that goes undetected is subject to reusability. Such malware […]

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EmoCheck Tool that checks for Emotet malware infection released

AshishMohta@TWC — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 11:46:12 +0000

The Coronavirus malware that recently started infecting computers by luring the consumers about information about the new preventive measures for coronavirus-related pneumonia has a solution. This malware delivered the Emotet payload. The official antidote comes from JPCERT Coordination Center, which maintains the JPCERT/CC’s official repositories. They have developed this using Microsoft Visual Studio Community on […]

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Decryptor for Dharma Ransomware now available

AnkitChawla@TWC — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 04:52:23 +0000

Dharma Ransomware now officially has decryptor keys. Kaspersky RakhniDecryptor v 1.17.17.0 & ESET Crysis Decryptor v 2.0.3.0 have been updated to decrypt Dharma ransomware encrypted files and remove the malware. Kaspersky has tested and legitimized the master decryptor keys that were leaked online on some forums. The company has certified the use of these keys to […]

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Meet AI2 , Artificial intelligence based Security System that is 85% accurate

AnkitGupta@TWCN — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 02:27:00 +0000

Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the machine-learning startup PatternEx have demonstrated an artificial intelligence platform that predicts cyber-attacks with 85% accuracy. Named as AI2, this artificial intelligence platform is roughly three times better than present security systems, and also reduces the number of false positives by a factor of 5. […]

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AV TEST puts 8 security suites and 7 tools on an endurance test

AnkitGupta@TWCN — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 14:30:41 +0000

When using any Internet Security Suite or a popular antivirus software, it is important to know if it can protect your system from malware. A user cannot always test whether a particular antivirus tool or software is suitable as well as efficient for his needs. But, AV TEST put 8 security suites and 7 popular […]

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New Exploit allows attackers to disable Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit

HemantSaxena@TWCN — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 18:18:15 +0000

A recent report suggests vulnerabilities in Microsoft EMET tool can be exploited to disable all protections it enforces for other applications in Windows. Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) is a free Windows-based security tool that adds an additional layer of security to defend Windows OS from potentially dangerous virus threats. Researchers find Microsoft EMET […]

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Google Project Zero exposes flaws in Malwarebytes Anti-Malware software

AnkitGupta@TWCN — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 14:47:32 +0000

Google Project Zero has publicly exposed Malwarebytes for a security vulnerability that exposes its consumer version of Anti-Malware software to Man in the middle attacks. Incidentally, before going public, the issue was highlighted to the company 90 day ago by Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy. Early November in 2015, Ormandy informed Malwarebytes that its Anti-Malware […]

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Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) 5.5 is now available for download

AnkitGupta@TWCN — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 17:53:12 +0000

Microsoft’s Security tool, Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) 5.5 is now available for download. The tool until now has been running in Beta phase which Microsoft has made available since December 19th 2015. However, this 29th January, Microsoft officially unveiled the version 5.5 with new updates and functionality. Designed for Windows, EMET 5.5 acts as […]

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VirusTotal to detect & report firmware malware

HemantSaxena@TWCN — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 15:25:12 +0000

Virus Total, the free Internet security service from Google has now been equipped with a feature that lets a user know whether the firmware is infected. We all know, just as any application, even firmware is prone to attacks by different variants of malware, and can also be targeted for surveillance purposes as seen in […]

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Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware Beta available for download

HemantSaxena@TWCN — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 17:35:25 +0000

Ransomware has become a growing threat in today’s online word for small businesses. This variant of malicious software empowers cybercriminals using malware in bogus email to freeze computer files of a user until a ransom is paid. In the face of this challenge, Malwarebytes has rolled out its latest security offering called Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware. Malwarebytes […]

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Serious design flaws bypassing exploit mitigations found in AVG, McAfee, Kaspersky

AnkitGupta@TWCN — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 04:27:21 +0000

Popular Antivirus programs such as AVG, McAfee and Kaspersky were found to be providing easy access for malware attackers to infect PC’s with exploit mitigations. This is said to be happening because of serious design issues that they carry, as explored by Tomer Bitton, the Co-Founder & VP Research at enSilo. The flaw is said to […]

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PlagueScanner, an Open Source multiple AV scanner framework released

AnkitGupta@TWCN — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 19:30:37 +0000

Recently, GitHub published an open source multiple AV scanner framework, called as PlagueScanner. This open source multiple AV scanner framework is created by security researcher Robert Simmons. PlagueScanner framework is quite similar to the popular AV scanner owned by Google, VirusTotal. Just like VirusTotal, PlagueScanner lets companies and individual users to scan any file with different […]

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