Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The group is also the author of the NotPetya ransomware that hit hundreds of companies worldwide in June 2017, causing billions worth of damage. According to WatchGuard , Cyclops Blink may have affected roughly 1% of all active WatchGuard firewall appliances. ” Cyclops Blink is sophisticated malware with a modular structure.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. ICYMI, Equifax forced to pull offline a huge database of consumer data guarded only by credentials "admin/admin" [link] — briankrebs (@briankrebs) September 13, 2017.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Related :Promise vs. pitfalls of IoT For small- and mid-sized businesses, firewalls, antivirus suites and access management systems represent the entry stakes for participating in today’s digital economy. Botnets at the time were just emerging; they’ve since become entrenched as the engine that drives all of cybercrime.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The headlines often focus on cybercrime against larger organizations, but everyone is a target. If the answer is yes to any of these questions, then the organization is a potential target for cybercrime. was about 34 percent of the total cost of cybercrime. Define the Target. companies overall have been successfully hacked.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2020

MATA is also able to target Linux-based diskless network devices, including such as routers, firewalls, or IoT devices. The group has been linked to several major cyber attacks, including the 2014 Sony Pictures hack , several SWIFT banking attacks since 2016, and the 2017 WannaCry ransomware infection. ” concludes the report.

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IT Security Guru

JULY 19, 2021

Although cybercrime as a whole has seen a rise during the pandemic, arguably ransomware has been one of the more successful and lucrative attack types. It’s clear then that ransomware didn’t reach its zenith with WannaCry back in 2017 but remains a disruptive and profitable threat to business operations. Consider Zero Trust.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2019

The latest variant appeared in the cybercrime underground in December 2018, it was named HawkEye Reborn v9. “The campaign starts with sending the aforementioned Excel sheets that exploit the well-known CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability, an arbitrary code execution bug in Microsoft Office.” ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2021

The worm scans and exploits existing server based vulnerabilities like CVE-2020-14882 and CVE-2017-11610 from the victim machine. After getting downloaded in the victim system, the worm first scans for vulnerable servers from the victim system to exploit certain known web server vulnerabilities like CVE-2020-14882 and CVE-2017-11610.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2023

Cybersecurity firm Sucuri has been tracking Balada Injector activity since 2017 but has only recently given this long-running campaign its name. Balada activity has been associated with well over 100 unique domains since 2017. What is Balada? Balada also leverages a dated but recurring User-Agent “ Mozilla/5.0 Windows NT 10.0;

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2020

Fxmsp took his first steps in the cybercrime scene in September 2016 when he registered on an underground forum, fuckav[.]ru. In early 2017, he created accounts on several other Russian-speaking forums, including on the infamous exploit[.]in, First steps. He deleted all offers linked to Russia and the ban was lifted. Proxy seller.

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Herjavec Group

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Check out how China teleported a photon into space in 2017. History shows he’s the first person to wrap the remote management business model around firewalls, from a small office on the east coast of Canada., In 2003, he knew that firewalls were too complex for all IT staff and for understaffed companies to manage.

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2018

US-CERT warns of cyber attacks on Enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions such as Oracle and SAP, both nation-state actors and cybercrime syndicates are carrying out hacking campaign against these systems. Cybercriminals have evolved malware to target internal, “behind-the-firewall” ERP applications. and Onapsis Inc.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This makes stealthy attacks incredibly popular in the cybercrime community. Perhaps this low cost is why DDoS accounted for 35% of all cyberattacks in 2017 and continues to be a favorite tactic among cybercriminals. Implement a web application firewall. Stealthy Cybersecurity Risks for SMBs.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The evolving world of cybercrime can be complicated, and at the end of the day, you just want what’s best for your business. In fact, 33% of all businesses hit with a DDoS attack in 2017 were SMBs. Fortunately, preventing DDoS attacks is as easy as installing a web application firewall (WAF). Loss of traffic and revenue.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

More businesses are moving online , cybercrime like ransomware continues its meteoric rise , and state-backed advanced persistent threat groups are targeting the weakest links in the hardware and software supply chains to compromise targets downstream. Microsoft). The first day you spin up a network, you have data,” said Miller.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

According to security firm Gemini Advisory, the Fin7 hacker group stole data on more than five million credit and debit cards that had been used at HBC credit card terminals beginning in May 2017. “This type of poor security practice should be avoided at all costs, as it exposes the company to easily become a victim of cybercrime.”

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Between 2016 and 2017, mobile devices experienced a 54% spike in malware variants, and Mac computers saw an 80% increase in malware attacks. But the reality is that cybercrime is on the rise for businesses of all sizes. Today, malware is incredibly common, and it continues to spread. As many as 17.6

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Cybercrime is a big business and cybercriminals are actively looking to cash in, no matter the website’s size or purpose. A web application firewall (WAF). Over 15 percent of malware attacks in Q4 2017 sought to exploit visitors for these resources. Your site may be vandalized and your hard work could be destroyed.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The new attack, as described by the researchers, targets security devices located between the client and the server (so-called middleboxes) — firewalls, load balancers, network address translators (NAT), deep packet inspection (DPI) tools and others. Sentencing will not take place until January 2022.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Through the years, we’ve seen several strains of ransomware make headlines: CryptoLocker in 2013, Locky in 2016, WannaCry and Hermes in 2017, GandCrab in 2018, and now, Ryuk joins the pack of notable names in criminal malware. The Ryuk ransomware family spawned in 2018 from a sophisticated Russia-based cybercrime group.

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Cisco Security

MAY 27, 2022

CyberCrime Tracker. The table below shows a summary of the slash commands our bot supported for Black Hat Asia 2022: Here’s a sample of a portion of the SecureX Orchestration workflow that powers the above commands: And here’s a sample of firewall logs as returned from the “/pan_traffic_history” command: Workflow #2: Handle Interactivity.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

For example, in a recent lawsuit that Google subsidiary Waymo filed against Uber in February 2017, the company alleges that a former Google employee downloaded 14,000 sensitive documents related to self-driving car technology before leaving the company. US State of Cybercrime Survey 2016, 2017. Click here to request a demo.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

National Security Agency tool that was leaked by the hacker group “Shadow Brokers” in 2017. It has been noted that paying a ransom demand only encourages this type of cybercrime and funds it. Use firewalls to block known malicious connections and IP addresses. Eternal Blue is a U.S. Should You Pay the Ransom?

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Fox IT

JUNE 23, 2020

Evil Corp were previously associated to the Dridex malware and BitPaymer ransomware, the latter came to prominence in the first half of 2017. Business associations are fairly fluid in organised cybercrime groups, Partnerships and affiliations are formed and dissolved much more frequently than in nation state sponsored groups, for example.

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