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ASyncRat surpasses Dridex, TrickBot and Emotet to become dominant email threat

Malwarebytes

Top 10 Windows malware detection categories 2021. Top 10 Windows malware detection categories from January 2022 to May 2022. Dramatic change in email detections. Last year saw a significant evolution in email threat detections, and that change has accelerated dramatically in the first half of 2022.

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SolarWinds recovered from the last year’s massive Cyber Attack

CyberSecurity Insiders

The Texas based company issued a press statement at the end of last week that it was on road to recovery from the sophisticated cyber attack that affected almost all the US Government entities using its accounting software.

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Cloud Backup and Recovery: What to Expect in 2018

Spinone

Many IT specialists are predicting that 2018 will be “the year of the cloud”, as companies increasingly have to deal with the backup needs of massive amounts of data, connect more and more devices to the Internet of Things , and start to appreciate the benefits that a cloud-based IT strategy can offer.

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Ransomware Revival: Troldesh becomes a leader by the number of attacks

Security Affairs

Ransomware accounted for over half of all malicious mailings in H1 2019, Troldesh aka Shade being the most popular tool among cybercriminals. In 2017, password-protected archives accounted for only 0.08% of all malicious objects. In 2018, their number grew to 3.6%, while in H1 2019 saw an unusual rise of up to 27.8%.

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Malware controlled through commands hidden in memes posted on Twitter

Security Affairs

Security researchers at Trend Micro have spotted a new strain of malware that retrieved commands from memes posted on a Twitter account controlled by the attackers. In this way, attackers make it hard to detect traffic associated with the malware that is this case appears as legitimate Twitter traffic.

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MY TAKE: Here’s how diversity can strengthen cybersecurity — at many levels

The Last Watchdog

I met with Skelly at Black Hat USA 2018 and we had a thoughtful discussion about a couple of prominent cybersecurity training issues: bringing diversity into AI systems and closing the cybersecurity skills gap. Engineering processes eventually will emerge to account for a wide spectrum of biases. Hiring imperative.

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MITRE Expands Security Testing to Services, Deception Tools & More

eSecurity Planet

Rather, they demonstrate how each vendor handles threat detection using the ATT&CK knowledge base. They are able to give an unbiased assessment of detection and protection capabilities, as well as identify potential gaps, by selectively picking adversaries and freely sharing results.