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Russia-linked BlackEnergy backed new cyber attacks on Ukraine’s state bodies

Security Affairs

The new malicious code act as surveillance software, they implement surveillance capabilities and remote administration features. SBU along with experts from a well-known antivirus company determined that the malware involved in the attack are updated versions of the Industroyer backdoor. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Microsoft’s case study: Emotet took down an entire network in just 8 days

Security Affairs

The virus avoided detection by antivirus solutions through regular updates from an attacker-controlled command-and-control (C2) infrastructure, and spread through the company’s systems, causing network outages and shutting down essential services for nearly a week.” Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – Emotet, malware).

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Mozilla removed 4 Avast and AVG extensions for spying on Firefox users

Security Affairs

These browser extensions are installed when users install Avast or AVG antivirus solutions on their computers on their PCs. “Are you one of the allegedly 400 million users of Avast antivirus products? “Are you one of the allegedly 400 million users of Avast antivirus products? This will be “US” for US English.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 221 – News of the week

Security Affairs

Firefox finally addressed the Antivirus software TLS Errors. China installs a surveillance app on tourists phones while crossing in the Xinjiang. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Bangladesh Cyber Heist 2.0:

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Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

eSecurity Planet

PagerDuty Operations performance 2014 NYSE: PD Auth0 Identity management 2014 Acquired: Okta. Company Sector Year Status Verodin Cybersecurity analytics 2018 Acquired by FireEye Kenna Security Risk management 2018 Acquired by Cisco PhishMe Incident response 2016 Acquired: P.E. Also read : Addressing Remote Desktop Attacks and Security.

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The stealthy email stealer in the TA505 hacker group’s arsenal

Security Affairs

During the last month, our Threat Intelligence surveillance team spotted increasing evidence of an operation intensification against the Banking sector. Investigating the attacker infrastructure we noticed interesting information such as the information of the stolen emails through our Digital Surveillance systems. Introduction.

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FBI shuts down malware on hundreds of Exchange servers, opens Pandora’s box

Malwarebytes

The FBI requested a rule change for expanded access powers back in 2014 , and it was granted in 2016. While coverage of the proposed powers focused on “hacking” systems and talking about the issue in terms of offensive / surveillance capabilities, what we’ve ended up with is something a little different.

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