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SHARED INTEL: How ransomware evolved from consumer trickery to deep enterprise hacks

The Last Watchdog

FBI spoofs 2012 – 2013. This quirk made the attack look more trustworthy and added a layer of flexibility to these scams. It surfaced in November 2012 and was making thousands of victims a day. WannaCry and NotPetya cyber-attacks have since been attributed to state-funded threat actors.

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Cybercrime Year in Review: 2013

SiteLock

That conclusion was supported by other security studies around the same time that found small businesses suffered the most cyber attacks. That very same week, other security researchers found that out of 44 popular antivirus products tested, only one was able to detect a keylogger.

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

2 – It demonstrates the importance of security awareness training for your employees! 2011-2012 — LulzSec — Lulz Security, or LulzSec, a break-off group from hacking collective Anonymous, attacks Fox.com and then targets more than 250 public and private entities, including an attack on Sony’s PlayStation Network.