An emergent and effective data-harvesting tool dubbed Oski is proliferating in North America and China, stealing online account credentials, credit-card numbers, cryptowallet accounts and more.

Oski started out targeting victims in North America, but in the last few days has added China to its set of targeted geographies. It’s also virulent: when it was first investigated, Oski had racked up 43,336 stolen passwords, primarily from Google campaigns. About 10 hours later, that number had increased to 49,942, with an in the logs from 88 to 249.

Source: ThreatPost

How do you protect yourself?

Proper security measures must be in place to defend against Oski malware and similar threats. Having proper up-to-date endpoint security provides a cross-generational blend of threat defense techniques to protect systems from malware.

Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). These updates resolve multiple vulnerabilities in AEM versions 6.5 and below rated Important and Moderate. Successful exploitation could result in sensitive information disclosure.

Source: Adobe

How do you protect yourself?

Download and install the latest updates.

The Ryuk Ransomware uses the Wake-on-Lan feature to turn on powered off devices on a compromised network to have greater success encrypting them.

Wake-on-Lan is a hardware feature that allows a powered down device to be woken up, or powered on, by sending a special network packet to it. This is useful for administrators who may need to push out updates to a computer or perform scheduled tasks when it is powered down.

Source: BleepingComputer

How do you protect yourself?

Proper security measures must be in place to defend against Ryuk Ransomware and similar threats. Having proper up-to-date endpoint security provides a cross-generational blend of threat defense techniques to protect systems from malware.