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Category: Threats

Posted on November 3, 2022November 3, 2022

“Defender security warning” SCAM

Windows Defender security warning is a type of scareware or a phishing scam.

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Posted on June 2, 2022

CVE-2022-30190 Exploit

This refers to a means of launching the Microsoft Support Diagnostics Tool (MSDT) which can be via a URI from a malicious source avoiding normal security checks including browser protected mode.

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Posted on February 27, 2019February 27, 2019

Invisible Malware

This can be a problem in some organisation that rely on anti-virus scans of storage devices as it doesn’t come in a file stored on the computer. Instead it is injected directly into memory.

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Posted on August 10, 2018March 10, 2020

On-Line Store Scams

Yet more scams.  This one is about on-line music stores but can be applicable to other goods. See this link on aboutguitars.uk

https://aboutguitars.uk/?p=852

Posted on February 18, 2018March 10, 2020

NetFlix Scam

A new scam going around by email.  Pretending to be NetFlix this scam is fairly obvious providing you are paying attention.

NetFlix scam

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Posted on January 6, 2018January 6, 2018

What are Meltdown/Spectre?

You will have seen a lot in the news about these two threats to the devices that you use and / or manage.

‘Meltdown’ and ‘Spectre’ are two related, side-channel attacks against modern CPU microprocessors that can result in unprivileged code reading data it should not be able to.

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