Tag: Malicious


  • Phishing Dark Waters: The Offensive and Defensive Sides of Malicious Emails An essential anti-phishing desk reference for anyone with an email address Phishing Dark Waters addresses the growing and continuing scourge of phishing emails, and provides actionable defensive techniques and tools to help you steer clear of malicious emails. Phishing is analyzed from the viewpoint […]

  • If you downloaded “CCleaner” software from antivirus company Avast between August 15 and September 12, you have a problem. Cisco’s Talos threat research group discovered that company’s software download page was compromised to host a malicious version of CCleaner that contains malware.Computers that downloaded and ran that software became part of a botnet, a network […]

  • With global leaders the implications are potentially severe Someone released a video recently that seemed to show Nancy Pelosi slurring and mangling her speech. The video spread virally in right-leaning circles, but it soon turned out to be fake. I commented on this in my most recent newsletter, saying: What this shows us is that […]