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Beware the Cyber Ghouls: Spooky Threats Lurking in Digital Shadows

SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Spooky fact : The infamous Mirai botnet attack in 2016 turned more than 600,000 IoT devices into cyber zombies, leading to one of the most significant DDoS attacks in history. Stake your defenses : Invest in threat detection tools that identify anomalies across your network.

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Microsoft fixes two SharePoint zero-days under attack, but one is still unresolved - how to patch

Zero Day

JULY 23, 2025

Responding to the exploits, the software giant has issued fixes for SharePoint Server Subscription Edition and SharePoint Server 2019, but is still working on a patch for SharePoint Server 2016. Make sure that the Windows Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI) is enabled and set up properly with an antivirus product such as Defender Antivirus.

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

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Ransomware is undoubtedly one of the most unnerving phenomena in the cyber threat landscape. The infamous Locky ransomware was first spotted in the wild in February 2016. CrySiS, also known as Dharma, has been around since 2016 and continues to be active at the time of this publication. inch diskettes. About the essayist.

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Behind the scenes with the head of Kaspersky’s GReAT

SecureList

JUNE 22, 2021

During his tenure at Kaspersky, he has spearheaded the company’s research on some of the most infamous cyber threat campaigns in recent memory, from the highly destructive computer worm Stuxnet to the Dukes advanced persistent threat which targeted the White House and the US Department of State in 2014, as believed.

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Top Cybersecurity Companies for 2021

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

NINJIO empowers organizations to be prepared for cyber threats through their engaging, video-based training courses. This includes antivirus, identity protection, SIEM (where Gartner names it a Leader), endpoint protection (graded a Visionary by Gartner) and secure web gateways (Gartner Challenger). Founded: 2016.

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BotenaGo strikes again – malware source code uploaded to GitHub

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 26, 2022

As of the publishing of this article, antivirus (AV) vendor detection for BotenaGo and its variants remains behind with very low detection coverage from most of AV vendors. Figure 8 shows the low level of antivirus detections for BotenaGo’s new variants. 4000456: AV EXPLOIT Netgear Device RCE (CVE-2016-1555). Background.

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AT&T Alien Labs finds new Golang malware (BotenaGo) targeting millions of routers and IoT devices with more than 30 exploits

CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

As of the publishing of this article, BotenaGo currently has low antivirus (AV) detection rate with only 6/62 known AVs seen in VirusTotal: (Figure 1). CVE-2016-1555. CVE-2016-6277. CVE-2016-11021. 4000456: AV EXPLOIT Netgear Device RCE (CVE-2016-1555). VirusTotal scanning results of BotenaGo malware. A2pvI042j1.d26m.

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The Top Cybersecurity Breaches in the UAE

Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Dharma ransomware first emerged in 2016 and uses a popular phishing strategy of impersonating Microsoft with email subjects such as Your System is At Risk. The email directs victims to download antivirus software. The download link does install an antivirus, but its an old version that wont catch Dharma.

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BlackCat ransomware

CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

For these reasons, it has been voted as the “most loved programming language” in Stack Overflow since 2016. Install Antivirus and/or endpoint detection and response on all endpoints. Additionally, it is a cross platform language, allowing developers to target several operating systems with the same code. Conclusion.

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10 Ransomware Examples to Stay Away From

Spinone

JANUARY 22, 2020

Although at the end of the 2018 ransomware seemed to be slowing its pace on the cyber threat arena, 2019 has shown that this slowdown wasn’t anything but “the calm before the storm” Ransomware statistics for 2019 vividly illustrated the rapid growth of high-profile ransomware attacks and new, more disrupting ransomware examples.

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GUEST ESSAY. Everyone should grasp these facts about cyber threats that plague digital commerce

The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

This is one of the most widespread cyber threats, making up at least 27% of all malware incidents as per Verizon’s annual DBIR report (2020). Computer viruses often utilize deception techniques and keep evolving to evade antivirus software. million customer records from a Japanese travel agency, JTB Corp, in July 2016.

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The Most Common Types of Malware in 2021

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

Ransomware is one of the most widespread cyber threats, making up at least 27% of all malware incidents as per Verizon’s annual DBIR report (2020). Computer viruses often utilize deception techniques and keep evolving to evade antivirus software. million customer records from a Japanese travel agency, JTB Corp, in July 2016.

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5 Major Cybersecurity Trends to Know for 2024

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

While these solutions (such as [Microsoft365]) offer a level of protection and capabilities (antivirus, anti-spam, archiving, etc.), This year will see the first enforcement of two new laws in the European Union: the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and The Network and Information Systems Directive (NIS2).

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Indictment, Lawsuits Revive Trump-Alfa Bank Story

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In October 2016, media outlets reported that data collected by some of the world’s most renowned cybersecurity experts had identified frequent and unexplained communications between an email server used by the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank , one of Russia’s largest financial institutions. trump-email.com). trump-email.com).

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Beware the Cyber Ghouls: Spooky Threats Lurking in Digital Shadows

Microsoft fixes two SharePoint zero-days under attack, but one is still unresolved - how to patch

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

Behind the scenes with the head of Kaspersky’s GReAT

Top Cybersecurity Companies for 2021

BotenaGo strikes again – malware source code uploaded to GitHub

AT&T Alien Labs finds new Golang malware (BotenaGo) targeting millions of routers and IoT devices with more than 30 exploits

The Top Cybersecurity Breaches in the UAE

BlackCat ransomware

10 Ransomware Examples to Stay Away From

GUEST ESSAY. Everyone should grasp these facts about cyber threats that plague digital commerce

The Most Common Types of Malware in 2021

5 Major Cybersecurity Trends to Know for 2024

Indictment, Lawsuits Revive Trump-Alfa Bank Story

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