Improvements Microsoft has made to Office document security that disable macros and other embedded malware by default has forced criminals to up their innovation game, a security expert said Monday. David Shipley, head of Canadian security awareness training provider Beauceron Security, was responding to a warning released by the FBI Denver field office earlier this…
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PUMA creeps through Linux with a stealthy rootkit attack
A new loadable kernel module (LKM) rootkit has been spotted in the wild compromising Linux systems with advanced stealth and privilege escalation features. PUMAKIT, as called by the Elastic Security researchers who discovered it during routine threat hunting on VirusTotal, was deployed as part of a multi-stage malware architecture that consists of a dropper, two…