Security Now with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Nov 17th 2020

Security Now 793

SAD DNS

Malicious Android Apps, Ransomware-as-a-Service

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Malicious Android apps, ransomware-as-a-service.

  • Where do most malicious Android apps come from?
  • SAD DNS is a revival of the classic DNS cache poisoning attack
  • How many Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operations are there?
  • Ragnar Locker ransomware gang takes out a Facebook ad
  • Two more new 0-days revealed in Chrome
  • Last Tuesday, Microsoft fixed 112 known vulnerabilities in Microsoft products

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