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Ransomware Revival: Troldesh becomes a leader by the number of attacks

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Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company: ransomware accounted for over half of all malicious mailings in H1 2019 , detected and analyzed by Group-IB’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-GIB), with Troldesh aka Shade being the most popular tool among cybercriminals. More than 80% of all malicious files were disguised as .zip

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Cybercriminal greeners from Iran attack companies worldwide for financial gain

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Interestingly, the threat actors likely didn’t have a clear plan on what to do with the compromised networks. For instance, to disable built-in antivirus software, the attackers used Defender Control and Your Uninstaller. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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SeroXen RAT for sale

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It has been historically associated with malicious activity performed by threat actors, APT groups (like in this Mandiant report from 2017), or government attacks (in this report by Unit42 in 2017). It was first released in July 2014 as “xRAT” and renamed to “Quasar” in August 2015. in March 2023, which is the most current version.

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Phishers prefer Tesla, top 3 malware strains in Coronavirus phishing campaigns

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CERT-GIB’s report is based on analyses of coronavirus-related phishing traffic by the Threat Detection System (TDS) Polygon as part of operations to prevent threats spread online. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Spyware: the most likely COVID-19 payload. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Top Network Detection & Response (NDR) Solutions

eSecurity Planet

In the race to offer comprehensive cybersecurity solutions, the product known as network detection and response (NDR) is a standalone solution as well as a central component of XDR. Companies have plenty of integrations to choose from for tools like EDR, SIEM, threat intelligence, and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE).

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Fxmsp: the untold story of infamous seller of access to corporate networks who made at least USD 1.5 mln

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Fxmsp gained worldwide fame in May 2019, after it was reported that the networks belonging to leading antivirus software companies had been compromised. According to media reports, Fxmsp had managed to compromise networks belonging to three antivirus software vendors. Geography and victims. The big fish.