Tech Republic Security

APRIL 27, 2017

According to Verizon's 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report, espionage-related attacks are growing in popularity, with malware and phishing still go-to tools for hackers as well.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Having been in the field for so long, we have witnessed some major changes in the cybercrime world’s modus operandi. This report shares our insights into the Russian-speaking cybercrime world and the changes in how it operates that have happened in the past five years. Client-side attacks on the wane.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 20, 2021

A federal judge in Connecticut today handed down a sentence of time served to spam kingpin Peter “Severa” Levashov , a prolific purveyor of malicious and junk email, and the creator of malware strains that infected millions of Microsoft computers globally. Levashov was arrested in 2017 while in Barcelona, Spain with his family.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2020

The four malware families are named Guildma, Javali, Melcoz, and Grandoreiro, experts believe are the result of a Brazilian banking group/operation that is evolving its capabilities targeting banking users abroad. Experts noticed that the malware uses the BITSAdmin tool to download the additional modules.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Today, we are showing readers just what that evolution looked like, in our State of Malware 2021 report. This report provides our most comprehensive analysis of last year’s malware trends, with breakdowns by malware category, malware type, operating system, region, industry, and more.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Group-IB supported an INTERPOL-led operation Falcon targeting business email compromise cybercrime gang from Nigeria, dubbed TMT. Group-IB , a global threat hunting and intelligence company, supported an INTERPOL-led operation Falcon targeting business email compromise (BEC) cybercrime gang from Nigeria, dubbed TMT by Group-IB.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

BitDefender Mobile Security feature assists customers in protecting against malware spread and phishing scams. NOTE 2 – Bitdefender has been assisting Europol European Cybercrime Centre in solving cyber crime from the year 2017 and is also assisting Interpol from the year 2020.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware. The infection chain. What should we learn from this?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2021

TA544 is a financially motivated threat actor that is active at least since 2017, it focuses on attacks on banking users, it leverages banking malware and other payloads to target organizations worldwide, mainly in Italy and Japan. Upon enabling the macro, the infection process will start. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 29, 2022

We’ve also observed several different wipers and cybercrime groups such as FormBook using the same tactics. These methods include using documents that exploit CVE-2017-0199 and CVE-2021-40444, macro-embedded documents, and executables. Figure 1: Phishing template. Figure 2: Phishing template. Victimology.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

According to Group-IB’s report findings, Asia is one of the most actively attacked regions in the world, the company presented latest cybercrime trends. In 2017-2018 hackers’ interest in cryptocurrency exchanges ramped up. New cybercrime groups are also expected to start operations in Asia and Latin America. Attacks on Crypto.

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Heimadal Security

JUNE 25, 2021

The financial cybercrime world is facing new threats. A 2017 IBM-X-Force Research pointed out a fresh new malware entering the final security domain: the IcedID Banking Trojan. As hackers become more creative day by day, they are also cunning and determined to become pros.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2022

A Ukrainian man was sentenced in the US to 5 years in prison for his criminal activity in the cybercrime group FIN7. for high-level hacking activity in the cybercrime group FIN7 (aka Carbanak Group and the Navigator Group). Iarmak is the third member of the FIN7 cybercrime group to be sentenced in the U.S. in May 2020.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

In May 2015, KrebsOnSecurity briefly profiled “ The Manipulaters ,” the name chosen by a prolific cybercrime group based in Pakistan that was very publicly selling spam tools and a range of services for crafting, hosting and deploying malicious email. One of several current Fudtools sites run by The Manipulaters.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

They could be on the other side of the globe, part of a cybercrime regime that will never be discovered, much less brought to justice. Likewise, lookalike and spoofed web domains and well-crafted phishing emails now easily trick employees into thinking they’re dealing with trustworthy sources. But the situation isn’t hopeless.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

The researchers from Google TAG are warning of Russia-linked threat actors targeting Ukraine with phishing campaigns. Russia-linked threat actors launched large-volume phishing campaigns against hundreds of users in Ukraine to gather intelligence and aimed at spreading disinformation, states Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG).

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SecureList

AUGUST 3, 2023

Introduction The malware landscape keeps evolving. DarkGate In June 2023, a well-known malware developer posted an advertisement on a popular dark web forum, boasting of having developed a loader that he had been working on for more than 20,000 hours since 2017. New families are born, while others disappear. Two files (Autoit3.exe

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2020

FireEye compiled the report using data from dozens of ransomware infections that it has investigated from 2017 to 2019. The timing of the ransomware attacks is not casual, attackers attempt to deploy the malware when the presence of the IT staff is reduced and the likelihood to be detected is low. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2023

A new variant of the Truebot malware was used in attacks against organizations in the United States and Canada. ALERT: Increased #Truebot malware activity targets U.S. & The attackers use the malware to escalate privileges and maintain persistence on the compromised systems. & Canada organizations.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2021

Check Point Research (CPR) experts have spotted a cheap malware, dubbed XLoader variant, which was upgraded to target both Windows and macOS PCs. XLoader is a very cheap malware strain that is based on the popular Formbook Windows malware. Thus, a “Malware-as-a-Service” scheme is used. ” continues the report.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other. According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. Phishing complaints were reported over 300,000 times in 2021 to IC3, the only Internet crime to crack 100,000+ complaints.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2019

The last time security experts documented the FIN8’s activities was in 2016 and 2017. FireEye documented obfuscation techniques used by the group in June 2017 and the involvement of PUNCHTRACK POS-scraping malware. “It is believed that the malware was deployed as a result of several phishing attempts.”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2018

The FBI said unlimited operations compromise a financial institution or payment card processor with malware to access bank customer card information and exploit network access, enabling large scale theft of funds from ATMs. million from accounts at the National Bank of Blacksburg in two separate ATM cashouts between May 2016 and January 2017.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2020

. “While the group’s key infiltration vector to the exchange is usually through spear-phishing against the corporate network, the executives’ personal email accounts are the first to be targeted.” Online cryptocurrency exchanges are a privileged target for cybercrime groups and nation-state actors.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

What is malware? The first real instance of malware occurred in the early 1970s — when BBN Technologies engineer Bob Thomas wrote the code behind the so-called “ Creeper worm.” Malware originally targeted computers themselves: logging keystrokes, stealing data, and spreading to other machines whenever possible. As many as 17.6

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2018

Industrial sector hit by a surgical spear-phishing campaign aimed at installing legitimate remote administration software on victims’ machines. Attackers personalized the content of each phishing email reflecting the activity of the target organization and the type of work performed by the employee to whom the email is sent.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In Q3 2017, SiteLock discovered alarming cybercrime trends that will likely affect websites for months to come. The most worrying trend for website owners: cybercriminals are increasingly using malware , or software that is used for malicious purposes, to take advantage of website visitors. Backdoor Files.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 15, 2020

. “The group is also using its web of contacts in internet infrastructure providers to squash garden-variety phishing attacks and another financial crime that is using the fear of COVID-19 or the desire for information on it to trick regular internet users,” wrote Reuters’ Joe Menn. ” SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The charges captures years-worth of North Korean hacking, including the widely publicized 2014 Sony hack, the 2016 hack of the Central Bank of Bangladesh, the 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack and others. The advisory contains technical analysis as well as indicators of compromise that security teams can use to detect the malware.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2019

Proofpoint analyzed two strains of malware tracked as ServHelper and FlawedGrace distributed through phishing campaigns by the TA505 crime gang. Security researchers at Proofpoint researchers discovered two strains of malware tracked as ServHelper and FlawedGrace distributed through phishing campaigns by the TA505 crime gang.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2021

TAG reported that Iranian-government-backed actors, known as APT35 and by the aliases Rocket Kitten and Charming Kitten, are quickly picking up speed, especially when it comes to implementing slick phishing attacks. Developing advanced phishing techniques to lure victims. Rocket Kitten successfully attacks university website.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2021

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IT Security Guru

JUNE 28, 2022

The pandemic has fuelled an increase in cybercrime that shows no signs of abating. Attacks on big brands make the headlines and the jargon used to describe vulnerabilities and malware is complex, making it appear to be a big enterprise issue. To add insult to injury, WannaCry was initially spread through a phishing campaign.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Since the malware in this incident was compiled on April 15, 2021, and compilation dates are the same for all known samples, this incident is likely to be the first involving Maui ransomware. This report included technical details of malware used in the campaign, such as Ecipekac, SodaMaster, P8RAT, FYAnti and QuasarRAT.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Of course, the CBR does not have anything to do with the phishing campaign – the hackers faked the sender’s address. A spear-phishing campaign set up to look like it was carried out by the Central Bank is a relatively widespread vector of attack among cyber criminals; it has been used by groups such as Buhtrap, Anunak , Cobalt , and Lurk.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Security firm Group-IB has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 In December 2017, Group-IB published the first report on this group: “MoneyTaker: 1.5

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Over time, we predict a decrease in “noisy” attacks such as SEO spam and redirects: As malware scanners and website developers advance their techniques, these types of attacks are easier to detect and remove. This makes stealthy attacks incredibly popular in the cybercrime community. Stealthy Cybersecurity Risks for SMBs. Ransomware.

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