A variant of the Cerber ransomware spotted in the wild in the past month contains a function that searches for locally-installed security products and avoids encrypting their files, so firewalls, antivirus or antispyware products can continue working even after Cerber has locked the computer.
1BlackNurse is the name of a recently discovered network attack that can crash firewalls and routers via ICMP packets, known by most of us as "pings."
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