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The Cost of Cybercrime

Schneier on Security

Really interesting paper calculating the worldwide cost of cybercrime: Abstract: In 2012 we presented the first systematic study of the costs of cybercrime. Our conclusions remain broadly the same as in 2012:it would be economically rational to spend less in anticipation of cybercrime (on antivirus, firewalls, etc.)

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Tracing the Supply Chain Attack on Android

Krebs on Security

” What follows is a deep dive into the identity of that Chinese vendor, which appears to have a long and storied history of pushing the envelope on mobile malware. cn who advertises a mobile game called “Xiaojun Junji,” and says the game is available at blazefire[.]com. “Yehuo” ( ? ? ) com and rurimeter[.]com

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Mobile malware evolution 2020

SecureList

In 2020, Kaspersky mobile products and technologies detected: 5,683,694 malicious installation packages, 156,710 new mobile banking Trojans, 20,708 new mobile ransomware Trojans. Pandemic theme in mobile threats. The mobile malware Trojan-Ransom.AndroidOS.Agent.aq The year in figures. Trends of the year.

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Tracing the Supply Chain Attack on Android

Krebs on Security

” What follows is a deep dive into the identity of that Chinese vendor, which appears to have a long and storied history of pushing the envelope on mobile malware. cn who advertises a mobile game called “Xiaojun Junji,” and says the game is available at blazefire[.]com. “Yehuo” ( ? ? ) com and rurimeter[.]com

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Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

eSecurity Planet

Company Sector Year Status Isovalent Cloud security 2020 Private Illumio Cloud security 2015 Private SignalFx Monitoring 2015 Acquired: Splunk CipherCloud Cloud security 2012 Acquired: Lookout Lookout Mobile security 2011 Private. Mimecast Email security 2012 Nasdaq: MIME. Bessemer Venture Partners. ForgePoint Capital.

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Best MSP/MSSP Vulnerability Scanning Tool Options

eSecurity Planet

Future features such as remediation, mobile device management (MDM), and SIEM data exports can be obtained by upgrading to Syxsense Enterprise. Security vulnerability scans and management become available with the Syxsense Secure product.

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Advanced threat predictions for 2023

SecureList

Mobile devices exposed to wide attacks. Although 2022 did not feature any mobile intrusion story on the scale of the Pegasus scandal, a number of 0-days have still been exploited in the wild by threat actors. But first, let’s examine how they fared with the predictions for 2022. What we predicted in 2022.

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