The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

A recent survey showed that one-third of all real estate transactions had a wire fraud attempt in 2020. To prevent malicious scams, companies should do the following: •Install high-quality antivirus software and spam filters. Encrypt all sensitive information and documentation. Phishing via texting.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 6, 2022

REvil (aka Sodinokibi) first appeared in May 2020 and has been responsible for numerous high-profile ransomware attacks, including arguably the biggest ransomware attack of all time—a supply-chain attack on Kaseya VSA in July 2021 that is thought to have affected over 1,000 businesses. An old enemy returns. New gangs emerge.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

While we can all rejoice that 2020 is over, cybersecurity experts agree we haven’t seen the last of the pandemic-related rise in cyberattacks. Thought to be pioneered by the Maze ransomware group , a new tactic emerged in 2020 in which ransomware authors changed their business model. Recent trends in ransomware back up these insights.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2022

The victims’ data is encrypted and sent to the C2 server geolocated in Russia. In addition, most artifacts extracted also matched a threat documented in 2020 and available here. At this moment, the infection chain is able to bypass the antivirus detection, with the latter EXE ( WpfApp14.exe Phishing wave. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2020

Since the end of April 2020, a new trojan has been affecting Portuguese users from several bank organizations. Since the end of April 2020, a new Trojan variant is affecting users from several bank organizations in Portugal. In detail, the bitcoin wallet was used in recent transactions, last: 2020-01-14 00:22h.

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McAfee

MAY 26, 2020

Though terrifying for many people, Brexit was handled relatively easily through a transition period, which goes until 31 st December 2020, during which UK organisations are bound by two laws: the EU GDPR and the UK DPA (Data Protection Act 2018 ). The post The GDPR, Year II appeared first on McAfee Blogs.

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Fox IT

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Throughout 2019, TA505 changed tactics and adopted a proven simple, although effective, attack strategy: encrypt a corporate network with ransomware, more specifically the Clop ransomware strain, and demand a ransom in Bitcoin to obtain the decryption key. Week 2, 6-12 of January 2020. TA505 Weekly Schedule, week 2 2020.

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Fox IT

JUNE 2, 2020

Publicly discovered in late April 2020, the Team9 malware family (also known as ‘Bazar [ 1 ]’) appears to be a new malware being developed by the group behind Trickbot. The purpose of this blog post is to describe the functionality of the two components, the loader and the backdoor. Similar payload decryption technique.

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Webroot

MAY 3, 2022

The average cost of a data breach in 2021 rose to over 4 million dollars , increasing 10% from 2020. Included in Webroot’s SecureAnywhere Internet Security Plus antivirus solution is access to LastPass®, a reliable and secure password management tool. Discover Webroot’s antivirus solutions and learn more about LastPass.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Krebs wrote for The Washington Post between 1995 and 2009 before launching his current blog KrebsOnSecurity.com. Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp [link] — Schneier Blog (@schneierblog) August 1, 2019. — Dave Kennedy (@HackingDave) July 15, 2020. Dave Kennedy | @hackingdave. Eugene Kaspersky | @e_kaspersky.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 20, 2022

billion in 2020.”. Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on Heimdal Security’s blog and is reprinted here with their permission. MSSPs in 2022. What happens on the market? Well, as MSSP Alert notes, “In the Americas, the MSSP and PSSP market will reach $18.81 billion by 2024, up from $12.01

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Spinone

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

How Sodinokibi Works Sodinokibi exploits a vulnerability in Oracle WebLogic ( CVE-2019-2725 ), trying to get access to user data and encrypt it. Sodinokibi often successfully bypasses antivirus software. This ransomware strain encrypts files and appends a random extension to encrypted files. Moreover, several U.K.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

One of the suspected FinFly Web servers was active for more than a year between October 2019 and December 2020. As it turned out, it was active for a very short time around September 2020 on a host that appears to have been impersonating the popular Mail.ru The activities peaked in November 2020, but are still ongoing.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

This is one of the most widespread cyber threats, making up at least 27% of all malware incidents as per Verizon’s annual DBIR report (2020). Ransomware programs gain access to a computer’s file system and execute a payload to encrypt all data. Unfortunately, most of the data it encrypted was lost for good due to faulty code.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 18, 2022

After completing the anti-analysis checks, the malware decrypts a URL by passing an encrypted string to the string decryption routine. iv) Antivirus - Retrieves the Antivirus Program installed on the machine via a WMI query shown below in the screenshot. Fetches Antivirus. Fetches ComputerName. Fetches OS and its version.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

Web antivirus recognized 675,832,360 unique URLs as malicious. Our file antivirus detected 68,294,298 unique malicious and potentially unwanted objects. In their blog, DarkSide’s creators heaped the blame on third-party operators. Number of new ransomware modifications, Q2 2020 — Q2 2021 ( download ).

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Fox IT

MAY 4, 2021

But if you would like to understand the rather tortured history of this particular malware a little better, the research and blog posts on the subject by Check Point are a good starting point. This golden age came to a sudden end with a sharp decline in 2020. Q3 2019 – Q2 2020, Classic fraud era.

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