DLL or no DLL? Microsoft has lifted the lid on the inner-workings of a particularly nasty piece of fileless malware that aims to pilfer user data without needing to install software on the victim’s machine.… The Register – Security Secure Hunter Anti -Malware
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WordPress captcha plugin on 300,000 sites had a sneaky backdoor
WordFence says a fix has landed WordFence are warning that the WordPress Captcha plugin, popular enough to get around 300,000 installations, should be replaced with the latest official WordPress version (4.4.5).… The Register – Security Secure Hunter Anti -Malware
Sneaky devs could abuse shared libraries to slurp smartphone data
Privilege escalation is baked in to mobile OSes, if you look for it Oxford researchers reckon they’ve spotted the next emerging trend in Android advertising (and possibly malware): using common libraries to “collude” between apps with different privilege levels.… The Register – Security Secure Hunter Anti -Malware
Sneaky chat app Signal deploys decoy domains to deny despots
Reasonably secure messenger has, for now, outwitted those who would block it The latest update of Signal, one of the most well-regarded privacy-focused messaging applications for non-technical users, has just been revised to support a censorship circumvention technique that will make it more useful for people denied privacy by surveillance-oriented regimes.… The Register – Security …
Sneaky malware hides behind mouse movement, experts say – PCWorld (blog)
Sneaky malware hides behind mouse movement, experts sayPCWorld (blog)The malicious document downloads and executes a component that attempts to determine if the operating environment is a virtualized one, like an antivirus sandbox or an automated malware analysis system, by waiting to see if there's any mouse activity …Sneaky malware waits for multiple mouse clicks before …