Subj : Sophos Virus News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Mon Dec 03 2018 09:16:36

Here's the latest anti-virus and System Security news from the Naked
Security Blog at Sophos. You can access these for yourself at

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com

You can also sign up to receive a daily digest (Monday through Friday)
of security issues and links, delivered right to your email box.

It's a reminder to PRACTICE SAFE HEX!! You could lose your data via
an attack of malware, ransomware, or be a victim of identity theft,
otherwise.

Note that text in some of the links may content text that some may
find vulgar, profane, offensive, explicitly sexual, etc. -- these are
provided to alert you that your system may have been infected!!

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Printers pulled into 9100 port attack spew PewDiePie propaganda

Printers worldwide printed messages urging people to subscribe to
the vlogger's YouTube channel in a demo of a well-known vulnerability.

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Router attack exploits UPnP and NSA malware to target PCs

The UPnProxy router compromise uncovered earlier in 2018 is now being
used to attack computers on networks connected to the same gateways.

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Microsoft cracks down on tech support scams, 16 call centers raided

Police raided 16 Indian call centers last week - a second big raid
sparked by Microsoft filing complaints about tech support scammers.

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Faster fuzzing ferrets out 42 fresh zero-day flaws

A group of researchers has found 42 zero-day flaws in a range of
software tools using a new take on an old concept - fuzzing.

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Monday review - the hot 21 stories of the week

From Black Mirror-esque social ratings IRL to the guy who had his
car stolen by hackers - twice, and everything in between. It's
weekly roundup time.

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