eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Ransomware. In 2008, the Kraken botnet with 495,000 bots infected 10% of the Fortune 500 companies. Unlike ransomware, it might be a criminal operation that does not involve the collection of a ransom. Phishing and Social Engineering. Email is also usually how ransomware works. Jump ahead: Adware.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 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). Ransomware.

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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). Ransomware. Common types.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

From ransomware attacks locking businesses out of their data until they pay potentially millions of dollars to spyware tracking users’ every move through their infected device, the effects of malware can be devastating. Ransomware. Ransomware is one of the most virulent forms of malware on the modern Internet.

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NetSpi Technical

AUGUST 16, 2024

government’s approach has historically been reactive, highlighted by the 2008 Russian hack against the Department of Defense using simple USB drives, which led to the creation of US Cyber Command. Ethan Hobart, Senior Security Consultant While at DEF CON, I attended Social Engineering AI Like You’re Piccard by Jayson E.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

Mitnick was known for his social engineering skills, which he used to trick employees into divulging sensitive information or passwords. One of the most famous examples of a malware attack occurred in 2008, when a worm called Conficker infected millions of computers around the world.

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NopSec

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Ransomware Ransomware is a type of virus that impairs the use of a computer or damages the files stored on it unless a ransom is paid. Modern variants of ransomware, called crypto ransomware, entomb the files stored on a hard drive using strong encryption. This was then used to develop their own indigenous designs.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2022

Famously attributed to the SolarWinds and StellarParticle attack campaigns, this group has been operating since about 2008 and has targets ranging across most of the planet, including both the Democratic and Republican National Committees in the US. Social engineering training. Among them are: Removal from network access.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 11, 2021

Today’s columnist, Louis Evans of Arctic Wolf, says ransomware gets the headlines, but the Verizon DBIR study points out that security teams still need to lookout for business email compromises. An even starker contrast: 58% of BEC attacks imposed losses on their targets, compared to just 24% of data breaches and 10% of ransomware attacks.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Many of the contact tracing scams of 2020 similarly followed social engineering scripts that have been used in taxpayer identity theft schemes since the 1990s as well. 2020 saw a record number of ransomware attacks, and we can expect more of the same in 2021. At the beginning of 2020, U.S.

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