Monthly Archives: February 2020


Apps In Google Play Store Found With Haken Malware

The Haken malware obtains sensitive data from victims and secretly signs them up for expensive premium subscription services.

The eight apps that were found have since been removed. Users have collectively been downloaded 50,000 times. These apps were utilities and children’s games, including “Kids Coloring,” “Compass,” “qrcode,” “Fruits coloring book,” “soccer coloring book,” “fruit jump tower,” “ball number shooter” and “Inongdan.” The apps legitimately function as advertised, but in the background covertly perform an array of malicious functions.

“Haken has shown clicking capabilities while staying under the radar of Google Play,” said researchers from Check Point Research. “Even with a relatively low download count of 50,000+, this campaign has shown the ability that malicious actors have to generate revenue from fraudulent advertising campaigns.”

Google Play store has been battered with new variants of malware try and stay clear of random free apps that are unknown.

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Kaseya Script To Run Patch My PC

Kaseya does an okay job to deploy software patches but we we decided it was best to create a Kaseya Script To Run Patch My PC.

This simple script grabs the latest Patch My PC from the developers website and places it into the kworking folder on the users workstation or server. The software has a string parameter to run as the System User to scan the entire system for installed apps and afterwards it will install the latest software Patch silently.
To automatically deploy this script on a scheduled basis, within Kaseya we used Policy Management and configured a new Scheduled policy to run this Patch my PC script every week.

Below you can see the Kaseya Script to run the Patch My PC. I also provided the download link for it.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScriptExport xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="http://www.kaseya.com/vsa/2008/12/Scripting">
  <Procedure name="Patch My PC" treePres="3" id="136611930" folderId="980255113206922" treeFullPath="myProcedures - [email protected] 
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Google Chrome Patch Gap down to 15 Days from 33 Days

Google has done a great job bringing the patch gap down to 15 days from 33 days. They also want to bring this number down further to once a week. Their goal is to quickly roll out patches for vulnerabilities. 

In 2019, security researchers from Exodus Intelligence have noted that on two occasions Google Chrome’s large patch gap can be exploited by attackers.

First in April, and then in September, Exodus researchers developed a proof-of-concept exploit code for security bugs fixed in the V8 JavaScript engine that had yet to make their way downstream into the Chrome code base.

GOOGLE Chrome is doing something about it.

Google Chrome users have some good news and the Exodus team’s research on the topic and subsequent warnings did not go noticed by Google Chrome Security team.

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How to install VMware tools on CentOS 7

VMware Tools is one of important components for virtual machine (VM) in order get excellent performance. It is a group of utilities that help to enhances the overall performance of the virtual machine’s guest operating system (OS) and improves management of the VM. Below steps shows how to install the VMware Tools on CentOS 7

How to Install VMware Tools ?

open-vm-tools is an open source implementation of VMware Tools from third parties and contains utilities that enhances virtualization management, administration and functions of the virtual machine in VMware environments.

root# yum install open-vm-tools

Without the VMware Tools, guest OS performance will lacks some of the important functionality.

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