Trickbot is not a new threat, but it is an evolving one. The latest twist of the banking Trojan knife as far as Windows 10 users are concerned is the addition of new methods to not only evade but actually disable Windows Defender security protection. As reported on July 14 in Forbes , Trickbot is a particularly stealthy banking Trojan that has been around since 2016. Since then, it was thought to have compromised no less than 250 million email accounts in an effort to distribute the malware payload. That payload includes the stealing of online banking credentials and cryptocurrency wallets. Microsoft has always been front and center as far as Trickbot attack campaigns are concerned, with weaponized Word and Excel files being a favored approach. The latest campaign is targeting Windows 10 users and implementing a highly detailed and convincing, but fake nonetheless, Office 365 page to prompt for browser updates that install the Trojan itself. Disab...
Last week, I gave a presentation on cybersecurity to college lecturers, and it was great fun. The presentation after mines was by someone from Quorum Cyber, and I enjoyed listening to it. One point that really stuck out was the advice on student education … “If you want to do Cyber Security, be good at Python and JavaScript” I smiled at this, because many years ago I predicted the end of JavaScript, as it just couldn’t cope with the strongly typed languages such as C#. I could only see a future of Java, C#, .NET, and so on, and where everything was run within a framework. How wrong was I? When I first started to use Python, I disliked it. But now virtually all the code I create has Python as my back-end code. And so it is JavaScript and Python that should be a core element in the education of our next generation of Cybersecurity professionals. You will find JavaScript is involved in creating a modern user interface, and now, with node.js, we s...