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2016-10-11 -Short Attention Span Theater-

StrongPity APT attack group booby-trapped WinRAR and TrueCrypt downloads

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Posted by gorb 2016-10-11 12:17|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Would someone translate that into a language a simple Rantburg surfer can understand?

Posted by Bobby 2016-10-11 13:07|| 2016-10-11 13:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Yeah, don't download anything, install anything or visit a website with adobe or java that you aren't 100% sure is ok.

Poisoned installers are the original program that has malware bundled with the program.

A watering hole attack takes a site that was previously ok, hacks the code and drops malware into it so when you pull it up it runs either a java, adobe or ASP code that attacks unpatched vulnerabilities and infects your computer.

Posted by DarthVader 2016-10-11 13:17|| 2016-10-11 13:17|| Front Page Top

#3 I tend to go to MajorGeeks for downloads.

I trust their links.
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Posted by OregonGuy 2016-10-11 14:38|| http://oregonguythinks.blogspot.com/ 2016-10-11 14:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Or buy a Chromebook, which is immune to this stuff.

Although not government cloud snooping.

Posted by phil_b 2016-10-11 19:31|| 2016-10-11 19:31|| Front Page Top

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