The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Although most people think of ransomware as a dodgy application that encrypts data and holds it for ransom, the concept is much more heterogeneous than that. FBI spoofs 2012 – 2013. It surfaced in November 2012 and was making thousands of victims a day. File encryption 2013 – 2015. None of these early threats went pro.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2021

PKPLUG used a technique known as “ living off the land ” to bypass antivirus detection and target Microsoft Exchange servers. The analysis of the file revealed that it includes the encrypted and compressed PlugX payload. Aro.dat is, in fact, an encrypted and compressed PlugX payload.” ” reads the analysis.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2019

This technology is stored in the Workbook OLE stream in Excel 97-2003 format which makes it very difficult to detect and parse by antivirus (AV) engines. doc and.xlm) to evade antivirus detection and bypass spam filters as well. This leads to XLM macros not being well known to the public. Figure 25: Customer-based AV solutions.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2020

DeathStalker is a hack-for-hire group discovered by Kaspersky, it has been targeting organizations worldwide, mainly law firms and financial entities, since 2012. The cyber mercenaries group known as DeathStalker has been using a new PowerShell backdoor in recent attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Information security products , services, and professionals have never been in higher demand, making for a world of opportunities for cybersecurity startups. GitGuardian is a developer favorite offering a secrets detection solution that scans source code to detect certificates, passwords, API keys, encryption keys, and more.

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