Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Ransomware accounted for over half of all malicious mailings in H1 2019, Troldesh aka Shade being the most popular tool among cybercriminals. To bypass antivirus systems, hackers send out malicious emails in non-working hours with delayed activation. Links account for 29%, while attachments—for 71%. rar archive files.

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Ransomware Antivirus Malware Banking 71

Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

According to Constella, this email address was used in 2010 to register an account for a Dmitry Yurievich Khoroshev from Voronezh, Russia at the hosting provider firstvds.ru. NeroWolfe seems to have abandoned all of his forum accounts sometime in 2016. DomainTools reports that stairwell.ru Image: Shutterstock.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Latin American Javali trojan weaponizing Avira antivirus legitimate injector to implant malware. Javali trojan is active since November 2017 and targets users of financial and banking organizations geolocated in Brazil and Mexico. Background of Latin American Trojans.

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Antivirus Malware Banking Internet 119

SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

In particular, advertisers can display targeted offerings, and attackers can access accounts with various services, such as online banking. It stole credentials for various financial systems including online banking applications and cryptocurrency wallets in Brazil. Attacks on personal data. Number of installation packages.

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Mobile Malware Adware Banking 132

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

For access to the decryption key, the victim must make prompt payment, often in cryptocurrency shielding the attacker’s identity. This is especially true for your existing intrusion detection and prevention system (IDPS), antivirus, and anti-malware. Attackers will inform the victim that their data is encrypted. Offline Backups.

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Elie

MAY 30, 2018

Adversarial inputs include malicious documents designed to evade antivirus, and emails attempting to evade spam filters. This strategy is mostly carried out by implementing rate limiting on scarce resources such as IP and accounts. forums where accounts and IP addresses are routinely sold, as visible in the screenshot above.

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Accountability Artificial Intelligence Engineering Retail 107

SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

This included all contacts, sent and received messages with attached files, names of chats/channels, name and phone number of the account owner – the target’s entire correspondence. Instead, it tried to exploit the CVE-2017-0199 vulnerability. Otherwise, the reverse shell is created by the crond backdoor itself.

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Malware Ransomware Encryption Energy and Utilities 91

Elie

MAY 30, 2018

Adversarial inputs include malicious documents designed to evade antivirus, and emails attempting to evade spam filters. This strategy is mostly carried out by implementing rate limiting on scarce resources such as IP and accounts. forums where accounts and IP addresses are routinely sold, as visible in the screenshot above.

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Accountability Artificial Intelligence Engineering Retail 91

Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2019

Then, depending on the returned value, it runs a couple of privilege escalation exploits able to bypass the UAC (User Account Control) feature, a well known security mechanism introduced since Vista to avoid unauthorized system configuration changes. Stealer and CryptoStealer module to steal cryptocurrency wallets and saved passwords.

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Malware Advertising DNS Antivirus 71

Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2023

Oftentimes this is credential data, but it can be any data that may have financial value to an adversary; this includes paid online service accounts, cryptocurrency wallets, instant messenger, or email contacts lists, etc. Key Mystic Stealer functions include its ability to extract data from web browsers and cryptocurrency wallets.

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Cryptocurrency Password Management Malware DNS 52

SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

Attempts to run malware designed to steal money via online access to bank accounts were stopped on the computers of 118,099 users. At the end of last year, the number of users attacked by malware designed to steal money from bank accounts gradually decreased, a trend that continued in Q1 2021. Financial threats.

Mobile 87

Mobile Adware Ransomware Malware 87

Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2019

But GandCrab far eclipsed the success of competing ransomware affiliate programs largely because its authors worked assiduously to update the malware so that it could evade antivirus and other security defenses. Those records show this individual routinely re-used the same password across multiple accounts: 16061991. HEAVY METALL.

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SecureList

MARCH 28, 2023

We have come across a series of clipboard injection attacks on cryptocurrency users, which emerged starting from September 2022. As long as such attacks continue to thrive in the modern ecosystem of the cryptocurrency world, it’s worth explaining how they work and where the danger lies. bank SWIFT code, branch name, etc).

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Cryptocurrency Malware Banking Passwords 100

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Install an antivirus solution that includes anti-adware capabilities. In 2017, more than 300,000 WordPress websites were affected by a malicious plugin that allowed an attacker to place embedded hidden links on victim websites. If your antivirus software fails to notice a new strain, you can reinstall the browser.

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Malware Adware Spyware Antivirus 105

Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Most of us already know the importance of using antivirus , anti-malware, and VPNs to secure our computers, phones, and other devices against potential attacks. Taking this percentage into account, we can presume that out of 800,000 internet-connected printers across the world, at least 447,000 are unsecured. Original post: [link].

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Hacking IoT Firmware Internet 144

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. In another, they were able to compromise a WebLogic server through an exploit for the CVE-2017-10271 vulnerability, which ultimately allowed them to run a script.

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Malware Computers and Electronics Adware Cryptocurrency 100

Spinone

JANUARY 20, 2020

Some estimates of the damages exceed one billion dollars, taking into account data loss, service outages, disrupted operations, and recovery. The most preferred method of ransom payment is cryptocurrency because it is hard to track. The example – NotPetya cyberattack against Ukraine in 2017. But how does ransomware work?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

ECC is used for email encryption, cryptocurrency digital signatures, and internet communication protocols. For example, The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires security features such as encryption to protect patients’ health information. It was updated by Chad Kime on December 7, 2023.

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Encryption Passwords IoT Firewall 101

Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2024

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Cybercrime Spyware Data breaches Antivirus 96

Spinone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Ransom payments are generally demanded in the form of untraceable cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin. National Security Agency tool that was leaked by the hacker group “Shadow Brokers” in 2017. Endpoint security includes antivirus, anti-malware, and anti-ransomware solutions that scan and protect your end-user clients.

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Ransomware Backups Data breaches Encryption 52

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. It also would actively shut down antivirus processes to evade detection and removal.

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Malware Ransomware Antivirus Internet 138

Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Ransomware was a relatively obscure form of malware until the early 2010s , but it has increased in scope and the amount of damage it has caused year after year, aided by a proliferation of botnets , cryptocurrencies , and sophisticated criminal enterprises. AI makes it possible to identify patterns and correctly guess passwords.

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IoT Artificial Intelligence Technology Scams 130