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Princess Evolution Ransomware is a RaaS With a Slick Payment Site

A new variant of the Princess Locker ransomware is being distributed called Princess Evolution. Like its predecessor, Princess Evolution is a Ransomware as a Service, or RaaS, that is being promoted on underground criminal forums. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/princess-evolution-ransomware-is-a-raas-with-a-slick-payment-site/
Academics Discover New Bypasses for Browser Tracking Protections and Ad Blockers

Security and user privacy protections included in browsers, ad blockers, and anti-tracking extensions are not as secure as everyone believes, a team of three academics from the Catholic University in Leuven, Belgium (KU Leuven) have revealed yesterday. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/academics-discover-new-bypasses-for-browser-tracking-protections-and-ad-blockers/
Microsoft Office 365 Having Login and Activation Issues

For the past hour, users of Microsoft's Office 365 service are experiencing problems when they try to login to their existing subscription or activate a new one. This is a known issue by Microsoft who recently posted on Twitter that they are experiencing problems. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-office-365-having-login-and-activation-issues/
Skim Reaper Device That Detects Wide Range of Skimmer Devices

A trio of academics from the University of Florida has developed a device that can detect different types of payment card skimmers β€”devices developed by cyber-criminals to collect data from credit and debit cards inserted inside ATMs or gas pump card readers. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/skim-reaper-device-that-detects-wide-range-of-skimmer-devices/
Windows 10 Preview Build 18219 Is Now Available With Improvements

Today's release of Windows 10 Preview Build 18219 is only available to Insiders in the Skip Ahead Ring whose availability was officially closed as of yesterday. This means that unless you had previously selected the Skip Ahead build, you will not be able to get builds form the 19H1 branch until they reopen it. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-preview-build-18219-is-now-available-with-improvements/
Coinhive Raking In Over $250,000 per Month From In-Browser Cryptomining

A research paper published at the start of the month estimates that Coinhive, a service for in-browser cryptocurrency mining, often abused by cyber-criminals, is making around a quarter of a million US dollars per month in mined Monero. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/coinhive-raking-in-over-250-000-per-month-from-in-browser-cryptomining/
Necurs Botnet Pushing New Marap Malware

Security researchers from Proofpoint have discovered a new malware strain that they named Marap and which is currently distributed via massive waves of spam emails carrying malicious attachments (malspam). [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/necurs-botnet-pushing-new-marap-malware/
Microsoft Launcher Beta for Android Gets A Big Update

Microsoft has just released a big update for Microsoft Launcher on Android and this time it includes several new features. This new released brings the Microsoft Launcher to version 4.13 and continues to be a popular app on the Google Play store with over 600k reviews and average rating of 4.5 stars. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-launcher-beta-for-android-gets-a-big-update/
Combating Social Engineering: Tips From Black Hat 2018

Social engineering is the use of deception to manipulate individuals into disclosing sensitive information that may be used to compromise a network, infiltrate an organization, gain access to trade secrets, or in furtherance of an espionage operation. In this article we look at ways to protect yourself from these types of attacks. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/combating-social-engineering-tips-from-black-hat-2018/
Windows 10 Preview Build 17741 Is Out With Much Needed Improvements

Windows 10 Preview Build 17741 is now available for Insiders in the Fast Ring and it comes with a Your Phone desktop pin, new build number, and greater memory for the Clipboard history. Overall, though, this build is more about general improvements and fixes as the company is now focusing more on stabilization of the OS. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-preview-build-17741-is-out-with-much-needed-improvements/
The Week in Ransomware - August 17th 2018 - Princess Evolution & Dharma

The biggest news was the release of the Princess Evolution RaaS and a new variant of the Dharma ransomware utilizing the .cmb extension for encrypted files. Otherwise, it was mostly small variants released that will not likely have many victims. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-week-in-ransomware-august-17th-2018-princess-evolution-and-dharma/
AZORult Trojan Serving Aurora Ransomware by MalActor Oktropys

Towards the end of July 2018, we saw a new version of the AZORult trojan being used in malware campaigns targeting computers globally. In this article, we will dive into the malware and analyze its execution flow and payloads. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/azorult-trojan-serving-aurora-ransomware-by-malactor-oktropys/