A week in security (August 2 – August 8)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs:

• RDP brute force attacks explained
• The 3 biggest threats reaching for your antivirus software’s off switch
• Zoom and gloom? Video comms org agrees to settle for $85m
• COVID-19 vaccine appointment system attacked in Italy
• Chrome casts away the padlock – is it good riddance or farewell?
• NSA issues advice for securing wireless devices
• What is Tor?
• Amazon will pay you $10 for your palm prints. Should you be worried?
• Edge’s Super Duper Secure Mode benchmarked: How much speed would you trade for security?
• Apple’s search for child abuse imagery raises serious privacy questions

Other cybersecurity news:

• New phishing attack “sneakier than usual” (Source: ZDNet)
• Can the public cloud become confidential? (Source: Help Net Security)
• UK’s Ministry of Defence coughs up bug bounties for crowdsourced pentesting (Source: The Register)
• FTC warns of phishing text scam (Source: Infosecurity Magazine)
• Chipotle marketing emails hijacked to spread malware (Source: Security Boulevard)
• Prometheus TDS: The $250 service behind recent malware attacks (Source: Bleeping Computer)
• Raccoon stealer bundles malware, propagates via Google SEO (Source: ThreatPost)
• Microsoft says LemonDuck malware could be tricky to shift (Source: TechRadar)
• Warning over Facebook scam in Redcar (Source: The Northern Echo)
• U.S. Attorney: Providence man turned to social media to help in fraud scheme (Source: The Providence Journal)

Stay safe!

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