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Network Attack Trends: Attackers Leveraging High Severity and Critical Exploits

By Brock Mammen, Yue Guan and Yu Fu
September 15, 2020 at 6:00 AM

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Exploits in the Wild for vBulletin Pre-Auth RCE Vulnerability CVE-2020-17496

By Haozhe Zhang, Qi Deng, Zhibin Zhang and Ruchna Nigam
September 3, 2020 at 12:00 PM

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Cybersquatting: Attackers Mimicking Domains of Major Brands Including Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Netflix to Scam Consumers

By Zhanhao Chen and Janos Szurdi
September 1, 2020 at 3:00 AM

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Threat Assessment: WastedLocker Ransomware Activities

By Alex Hinchliffe, Doel Santos, Adrian McCabe and Robert Falcone
July 30, 2020 at 6:00 AM

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Evolution of Valak, from Its Beginnings to Mass Distribution

By Brad Duncan
July 24, 2020 at 12:00 PM

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Threat Brief: Microsoft DNS Server Wormable Vulnerability CVE-2020-1350

By Mike Harbison and Brandon Young
July 21, 2020 at 11:30 AM

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Newly Registered Domains: Malicious Abuse by Bad Actors

By Zhanhao Chen, Jun Javier Wang and Kelvin Kwan
August 20, 2019 at 6:00 AM

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Palo Alto Networks Addresses Bash Vulnerability Shellshock: Mitigation for CVE-2014-6271

By Ryan Olson
September 25, 2014 at 7:32 AM

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