Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2021

Though these scripts have slight variations, they mostly belong to a plague of adware strains— Shlayer and Bundlore. The malicious shell scripts used by Shlayer and Bundlore are usually malvertising-focused adware bundlers using shell scripts in the kill chain to download and install an adware payload.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Easily one of the most frustrating types of malware, adware is software designed to harass users with a torrent of unwanted or malicious ads. Some signs of adware infection include: Your browser is noticeably slower than usual. Common Types of Malware. website links redirecting to completely different websites from what you expect.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Cybercriminals often leverage social engineering tactics like phishing and spear-phishing to propagate sophisticated malware. Malware can be categorized based on how it behaves (adware, spyware and ransomware), and how it propagates from one victim to another (viruses, worms and trojans). Common types.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2021

Silver Sparrow is a new Mac malware that swooped in on February 18 and was found on nearly 40,000 endpoints by Malwarebytes detection engines. In fact, they should be commended for developing many beneficial technologies that help Mac (and iPhone) users stay more secure. Adware accounted for another 22 percent.

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

In Q1 2021, Kaspersky products and technologies protected 91,841 users from ransomware attacks. Two other vulnerabilities, CVE-2021-1647 and CVE-2021-24092 , were found in the Microsoft Defender antivirus engine, allowing elevation of user privileges in the system and execution of potentially dangerous code. Attack geography.

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SecureList

AUGUST 23, 2021

Most threats uncovered on PC and mobile devices were adware, but dangerous malware was also present: from stealers to bankers, often leading to the loss of not just credentials but money, including cryptocurrency. Another common type of software spread as games is adware, which shows illicit advertising against users’ wish.

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

The majority (61.43%) of the discovered threats belonged to the adware category. For instance, adware that belongs to the AdWare.AndroidOS.Notifyer family was distributed in the first quarter under the guise of a file named ir.corona.viruss.apk, and Backdoor.AndroidOS.Ahmyth.f Quarterly highlights. Verdict. %*.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 11, 2019

Yes, the rapid integration of digital technologies into all aspects of commerce has enabled wonderful new services. The underlying principle of NTA technology is simple and straight forward. This could give an attacker intelligence about code repositories and other tips about the structure of our engineering environment.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The malware primarily targets home users and uses software crack package and adware bundles to get into systems, according to software vendor Wonderland Technology. He said that vaccines “typically use software engineering decisions made by the criminal against them to prevent the ransomware from executing.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 13, 2023

Chrome has the infamously useles s 'Do Not Track' setting, and anti-phishing engines exist, like Chrome Safe Browsing or Microsoft Defender SmartScreen, but they work with variable levels of success and aren't enough by themselves. Blocks malware, viruses, adware, potentially unwanted programs (PUPs), and other threats. Halt hackers.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

In Q2 2021, Kaspersky products and technologies protected 97,451 users from ransomware attacks. As in the previous quarter, a total of 15 of the Top 20 threats for macOS are adware programs. In Q2 2021, we detected 14 new ransomware families and 3,905 new modifications of this malware type. Geography of ransomware attacks. Country*. %

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SecureList

AUGUST 15, 2022

In Q2 2022, Kaspersky products and technologies protected 74,377 users from ransomware attacks. The most popular protocols and technologies susceptible to these attacks include MS SQL Server, RDP and SMB. Attempts at exploiting vulnerabilities that affect various script engines and, specifically, browsers, dipped to 5%.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

” Microleaves has long been classified by antivirus companies as adware or as a “potentially unwanted program” (PUP), the euphemism that antivirus companies use to describe executable files that get installed with ambiguous consent at best, and are often part of a bundle of software tied to some “free” download.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In the early ’70s, Bob Thomas, an engineer at BBN Technologies, wrote the Creeper worm , the first program able to self-replicate over a computer network. In this blog post, we’ll explain the signs of malware, how malware gets on a website, and why it can be so damaging to small businesses in particular. A Brief History of Malware.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Number of new ransomware modifications, Q3 2022 — Q3 2023 ( download ) Number of users attacked by ransomware Trojans In Q3 2023, Kaspersky products and technologies protected 46,872 users from ransomware attacks. CVE-2023-4762 , a type confusion vulnerability in Google Chrome’s V8 engine. 2 Bangladesh 1.39 3 South Korea 0.65

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

In Q1 2022, Kaspersky products and technologies protected 74,694 users from ransomware attacks. The TOP 20 threats to users detected by Kaspersky security solutions for macOS is usually dominated by various adware apps. Adware from the Pirrit family was encountered most frequently out of all macOS threats in the listed countries.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Securing the expanding, sprawling, and sometimes conflicting collection of technologies that make up network security provides constant challenges for security professionals. The internet of things (IoT), operations technology (OT), and the industrial internet of things (IIoT) also now connect to networks. or network traffic.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The following vectors represent some of the most common ways a criminal could gain access to your accounts and is also known as an account takeover : Social Engineering. Credit monitoring involves using technology to keep close track of your credit report and credit activity. A common example is phishing. Credit Monitoring.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Recent research by Positive Technologies looked at the cyber threat landscape during Q2 2021 and found that ransomware attacks reached “stratospheric” levels, accounting for 69% of all malware attacks, a huge jump from 39% in Q2 2020. Linking engine remediation. Malwarebytes Key Features. ID Ransomware.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

In Q3 2021, Kaspersky products and technologies protected 108,323 users from ransomware attacks. In the three months covered by the report several vulnerabilities were discovered in Google Chrome browser and its script engine V8 — some of them in the wild. Number of new ransomware modifications, Q3 2020 — Q3 2021 ( download ).

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 11, 2023

Instead, hackers know that our mobile devices store a lot of PII, which can be sold on the dark web for profit or re-used in social engineering campaigns. There are many categories of malware that cybercriminals could install through juice jacking, including adware, cryptominers, ransomware, spyware, or Trojans.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

We found the loader for this file so interesting that we decided to base one of the tracks of our Targeted Malware Reverse Engineering course on it. The exploit was initially identified by our advanced exploit prevention technology and related detection records. PuzzleMaker. Other malware. Evolution of JSWorm ransomware.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In Q3 2022, Kaspersky products and technologies protected 72,941 users from ransomware attacks. Since many modern browsers are based on Google Chromium, attackers can often take advantage of the shared vulnerabilities to attack the other browsers as long as they run on one engine. Number of users attacked by ransomware Trojans.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Looking for alternative sources to download a streaming app or an episode of a show, users often discover various types of malware, including Trojans, spyware and backdoors, as well as naughty applications, such as adware. Popular shows as a lure. Conclusion and recommendations.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The simple worms of the earlier era paved the way for threats more familiar to modern-day users, including: Adware. RaaS offers one example of threat actors successfully adopting technology to spread malicious code, but the shift to cloud services introduced other dangers. Ransomware. Trojans/Spyware. Logic bombs.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

With all the appearing tools, technologies, methods, and attacks, the cybersecurity field remains one of the hardest to grasp and to keep up with. Closed Source – a proprietary technology whose copyright hides its source code and forbids its distribution or modification. Works as a part of a data loss prevention plan.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In the scramble for cryptocurrency investment opportunities, we believe that cybercriminals will take advantage of fabricating and selling rogue devices with backdoors, followed by social engineering campaigns and other methods to steal victims’ financial assets.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Data from the Brazilian Federation of Banks registered a considerable increase in crime (such as explosions at bank branches to steal money) and cybercrime (increased phishing and social-engineering attacks) against banking customers and banking infrastructure. Of course, this is the result of economic problems caused by the pandemic.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

These malicious apps constitute a risk for customers and developers alike—and they can be easily found online using the most common search engines. VIPs and executives can also be impersonated to conduct social engineering attacks.

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Spinone

MARCH 20, 2019

Despite all the technological solutions to any problem in today’s world, there is always the human-factor to consider. The best technology cannot account for the actions and specifically the mistakes that humans can make which may totally undermine the solution that technology provides.

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SecureList

APRIL 10, 2023

The binder’s main operating principle is that when the legitimate application is launched, it prompts the user to allow installation from unknown sources on a timer using social engineering, so that the bot can be installed. If the user rejects this, they receive another request after some time.

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