eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Attackers often use botnets to send out spam or phishing campaigns to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. In 2008, the Kraken botnet with 495,000 bots infected 10% of the Fortune 500 companies. Phishing and Social Engineering. How to Defend Against Phishing. Examples of Phishing Malware Attacks.

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NopSec

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The attack vectors have broadened past spear phishing and vulnerable software. Modern variants of ransomware, called crypto ransomware, entomb the files stored on a hard drive using strong encryption. These were distributed via spear phishing attacks and watering hole attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Security services and tools include anti-DDoS , SOCaaS , web application firewalls (WAF), data encryption , and more. Other features include applying secure socket layer (SSL) or transport layer security (TLS) and AES-256 encryption. Also Read: Best Encryption Software & Tools for 2021. Facebook, and Oracle. EnterpriseDB.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 23, 2022

Phishing & Watering Holes. The primary attack vector for most attacks, not just APTs, is to use phishing. Some APTs cast a wide net with general phishing attacks, but others use spear phishing attacks to target specific people and specific companies. Deploy data encryption at rest and in transit.

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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. 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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eSecurity Planet

MAY 6, 2021

From behavioral analytics and machine learning to in-browser data encryption and an anti-bot mobile SDK, F5 offers industry-leading features. The Redmond, Washington-based software giant unveiled its Azure cloud service in 2008. Attackers can steal or phish users for their session ID and then use it to access the application.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

Cybercriminals often leverage social engineering tactics like phishing and spear-phishing to propagate sophisticated malware. 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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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

On the other hand, while passkeys may do much to stop email phishing , as biometrics won’t be an easy target, cyber criminals can turn to other malware to remotely hack and unlock a phone. In 2008, Illinois became the first U.S. These types of attacks are expected to increase. In the U.S., Awaiting the future.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2023

Enter Mystic Stealer, a fresh stealer lurking in the cyber sphere, noted for its data theft capabilities, obfuscation, and an encrypted binary protocol to enable it to stay under the radar and evade defenses. Example Mystic Stealer constant obfuscation technique Encrypted binary custom protocol. All data is encrypted with RC4.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The email goes on to talk about how EV fights deceptive websites and claims the following: The verified company name display allows the user to quickly determine the legal entity behind the website, making phishing and deception harder. For example, Microsoft failed to renew secure.microsoft.co.uk back in 2001. Too long ago?

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

KrebsOnSecurity first encountered Aqua’s work in 2008 as a reporter for The Washington Post. “The illegal money often comes from criminal activities like phishing, malware attacks, online auction fraud, e-commerce fraud, business e-mail compromise (BEC) and CEO fraud, romance scams, holiday fraud (booking fraud) and many others.”

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Since 2008, antivirus and cybersecurity software testers AV-TEST have kept track of the number of newly-developed malware worldwide, totaling at nearly 1 billion as of September 2022. Activation: The ransomware begins encrypting sensitive files or locking down the system. An August 2022 Statista report counted 2.8 Ransomware.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

Today, many reports are describing how infamous attackers are abusing such an emergency time to lure people by sending thematic email campaigns or by using thematic IM within Malware or Phishing links. The following VBScript is run through cscript.exe, It’s an obfuscated and xor-encrypted payload.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

The early 2000s also saw the emergence of new forms of cybercrime, such as phishing and malware attacks. Phishing attacks involve sending fake emails or messages that appear to be from legitimate sources in order to trick users into giving up their personal information or login credentials.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

Justice Department announces more than 70 indictments and 125 convictions or arrests for phishing, hacking, spamming and other Internet fraud as part of Operation CyberSweep. . Gonzales is later involved in a string of hacking crimes, again stealing credit and debit card details, from around 2006 until he is arresting in 2008.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 4, 2021

They're the long game operations where something as small as a single phishing email could escalate into millions of IDs being exfiltrated. It has operated since 2008. In the case of ransomware. But ATT&CK itself has tactics at the high level, which, which provides an overarching goal that an adversary was trying to achieve.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 4, 2021

They're the long game operations where something as small as a single phishing email could escalate into millions of IDs being exfiltrated. It has operated since 2008. In the case of ransomware. But ATT&CK itself has tactics at the high level, which, which provides an overarching goal that an adversary was trying to achieve.

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Yet, devastating moments such as the 2008 U.S. Law firms need to implement exceptionally secure mechanisms to protect content and file sharing to ensure that only authorized partners can access highly confidential documents, including data encryption capabilities or file-level usage rights.

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