Malwarebytes

MAY 7, 2021

There has been much discussion of antivirus protection, patching your software, and using VPNs. Based on its assessment, it reckons that at least two million Britons are at risk from routers that haven’t been updated since 2016. found: * Weak default passwords. Below are the old router vulnerabilities Which? This is a good move.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2018

In June 2017, researchers at antivirus firm ESET discovered a new strain of malware, dubbed Industroyer, that was designed to target power grids. Industroyer was involved in the December 2016 attack aimed at an electrical substation in Ukraine that caused significant power outages. ” reads the analysis published by ESET.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2018

The malware was uploaded to VirusTotal way back in 2016, most likely the same year it was created. But for two whole years, until May 2018, Calisto remained off the radar of antivirus solutions, with the first detections on VT appearing only recently.” Use antivirus software. Enables screen sharing. Never disable SIP.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

The group is considered responsible for the massive WannaCry ransomware attack, a string of SWIFT attacks in 2016, and the Sony Pictures hack. In one case, attackers attempted to exploit, without success, the CVE-2017-16238 vulnerability in a vulnerable driver for the antivirus product called Vir.IT Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

To bypass antivirus systems, hackers send out malicious emails in non-working hours with delayed activation. The first half of 2019 saw a 10-fold increase in the number of password-protected objects, such as documents and archive files, being used to deliver malware. More than 80% of all malicious files were disguised as .zip

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2023

The Triada Trojan was spotted for the first time in 2016 by researchers at Kaspersky Lab that considered it the most advanced mobile threat seen to the date of the discovery. In March 2018, security researchers at Antivirus firm Dr. Web discovered that 42 models of low-cost Android smartphones are shipped with the Android.Triada.231

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2020

Fxmsp gained worldwide fame in May 2019, after it was reported that the networks belonging to leading antivirus software companies had been compromised. Fxmsp took his first steps in the cybercrime scene in September 2016 when he registered on an underground forum, fuckav[.]ru. Geography and victims. First steps. Recommendations.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

How not to disclosure a Hack. UK fashion retailer FatFace angered customers in its handling of a customer data theft hack. review Active Directory password policy. At the start of March 2021, Microsoft rushed out patches for a critical zero-day Vulnerability in Exchange Server (2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019).

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 14, 2021

They fell foul to password reuse. This means criminals figuring out the passwords to other criminals’ web shells could also potentially access the compromised servers. The FBI requested a rule change for expanded access powers back in 2014 , and it was granted in 2016. If folks aren’t careful, issues can arise.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Details included names, addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth and encrypted passwords, all of which could be used to access other accounts belonging to these users. The breach was not fully disclosed until September 2016. In June 2016, the Twitter and Pinterest accounts of Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, were vandalized.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2020

Dharma, also known as Crysis , has been distributed under a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model at least since 2016. For instance, to disable built-in antivirus software, the attackers used Defender Control and Your Uninstaller. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Iran). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2018

“AZORult is a robust information stealer & downloader that Proofpoint researchers originally identified in 2016 as part of a secondary infection via the Chthonic banking Trojan. For example: if there are cookies or saved passwords from mysite.com, then download and run the file link[.]com/soft.exe. com/soft.exe.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2021

But over the last few years, credible threats, exploits, and hacks of Apple products have become more persistent. There was KeRanger ransomware in 2016. In fact, news on Apple cyberthreats wasn’t just infrequent—it was inconsequential. Several effective Mac-facing miners joined the crypto-rush in 2018. Securing themselves in the foot.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Ransomware frequently contains extraction capabilities that can steal critical information like usernames and passwords, so stopping ransomware is serious business. Just in 2020, the SolarWinds hack could’ve been prevented for organizations that promptly patch software. Zero Trust. Update Anti-Ransomware Software. Offline Backups.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Shah provides her expertise in hacking, software development, and kernel development and advocates for open source initiatives. Lots of accounts including Bezos, Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Mr Beast, and a ton more getting hacked for a bitcoin scheme. — Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) February 17, 2016.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 22, 2021

Antivirus vendors detect it. And between 2016 and 2018, more than 1,000 IP addresses were found to be associated with it. It enables abuses like the mobile phone hack of Hatice Cengiz , former fiancée of murdered Washington Post columnist Jamal Khoshoggi. Digital forensics labs know how to catch it.

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SecureList

JANUARY 11, 2021

The listed code is used in multiple versions of the backdoor, including samples with MD5 150D0ADDF65B6524EB92B9762DB6F074 (2016) and 1F70BEF5D79EFBDAC63C9935AA353955 (2019+). The listed code is used in multiple versions of the backdoor, including MD5 150D0ADDF65B6524EB92B9762DB6F074 (2016) and 1F70BEF5D79EFBDAC63C9935AA353955 (2019+).

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Usage increased 185% from 2016 to 2017 and 165% from 2017 to 2018. While it may seem like a minor consideration, setting up limited network access to a static number of particular IP addresses can make a hacking attempt more visible. A 2018 study regarding VPN use worldwide is worth considering. The technology is by no means perfect.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

All of them were ordinary people using our free antivirus solution, seemingly unconnected with any organization of interest to a sophisticated attacker of this kind. The attackers compress stolen files into encrypted and password-protected ZIP archives. In 2016, the group began to focus all its activities on PoS systems.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys. This was a software flaw.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys. This was a software flaw.

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2019

Many modern devices, apps, and web browsers offer parental controls that restrict access to certain content for their kids but did you know that many antivirus software titles already include parental controls? Don’t share passwords. In 2014, Snapchat was in the spotlight after a third-party “snap saving” app was hacked.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Group-IB incident response and intelligence teams detected Silence’s activity in 2016 for the very first time. Initially, the group used hacked servers and compromised accounts for its campaigns. They carefully study the attacks conducted by other cybercriminal groups, and analyse antivirus and Threat Intelligence reports.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 5, 2021

In 2016, the Mirai IoT botnet shut down part of the internet, yet variations still plague us today. Vamosi: Welcome to The Hacker Mind and original podcast from ForAllSecure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. Maybe our current approach to IoT botnets isn’t working?

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Though polite, the Creeper was still an annoyance to some, and in 1971, Ray Tomlinson developed the first antivirus software , called Reaper. One of the first pieces of antivirus software , McAfee’s VirusScan, was released in 1987. Welcome to [link] Hacked By Chinese!”. Viruses Get Their Name: 1974-1986.

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