Rash Of Phishing Attacks Use HTTPS To Con Victims
Phishing sites are deploying freely available TLS certificates in order to dupe victims into thinking they’re visiting a safe site.
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Sabotage? Rash of fiber cuts dog Verizon
Verizon and local police departments along the east coast have been tracking a series of seemingly deliberate fiber cuts that have been robbing consumers of cable, phone and Internet services.
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The number and the precision of some the cuts leads police and others to believe they are related to the now weeks long strike between some 40,000 Verizon workers represented by the Communications Workers of America and management. The workers went on strike April 13 primarily impacting Verizon’s wireline business, in nine Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States plus Washington, D.C.
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Big-name sites hit by rash of malicious ads spreading crypto ransomware [Updated]
Enlarge / If you’re a gamer (or anyone else), this is not a screen you want to see. (credit: Bromium Labs)
Mainstream websites, including those published by The New York Times, the BBC, MSN, and AOL, are falling victim to a new rash of malicious ads that attempt to surreptitiously install crypto ransomware and other malware on the computers of unsuspecting visitors, security firms warned.
The tainted ads may have exposed tens of thousands of people over the past 24 hours alone, according to a blog post published Monday by Trend Micro. The new campaign started last week when “Angler,” a toolkit that sells exploits for Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and other widely used Internet software, started pushing laced banner ads through a compromised ad network.
According to a separate blog post from Trustwave’s SpiderLabs group, one JSON-based file being served in the ads has more than 12,000 lines of heavily obfuscated code. When researchers deciphered the code, they discovered it enumerated a long list of security products and tools it avoided in an attempt to remain undetected.
Hattiesburg police hit by bad economy – Hattiesburg American
Lillie Easton had hoped a police substation in her native Palmer’s Crossing community would deter the rash of petty crimes she has witnessed in past weeks. The 56-year-old was convinced a substation would generate more police presence – something …