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Breach Exposes Users of Microleaves Proxy Service

Krebs on Security

Launched in 2013, Microleaves is a service that allows customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe. Microleaves works by changing each customer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address every five to ten minutes. io emerged as subsidiaries of Microleaves between 2017 and 2018.

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Mobile malware evolution 2020

SecureList

In 2020, Kaspersky mobile products and technologies detected: 5,683,694 malicious installation packages, 156,710 new mobile banking Trojans, 20,708 new mobile ransomware Trojans. The word “covid” in various combinations was typically used in the names of packages hiding spyware and banking Trojans, adware or Trojan droppers.

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NEW TECH: ‘Network Traffic Analysis’ gets to ground truth about data moving inside the perimeter

The Last Watchdog

Yes, the rapid integration of digital technologies into all aspects of commerce has enabled wonderful new services. Modular microservices, software containers and orchestration tools get spun up, using open source components; all of this mixing and matching occurs in the internet cloud, keeping things moving right along.

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MY TAKE: Android users beware: Google says ‘potentially harmful apps’ on the rise

The Last Watchdog

Malware deliveries Upon reviewing Android usage data for all of 2018, Google identified a rise in the number of “potentially harmful apps” that were preinstalled or delivered through over-the-air updates. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be.

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IT threat evolution Q1 2021. Non-mobile statistics

SecureList

In Q1 2021, Kaspersky products and technologies protected 91,841 users from ransomware attacks. Exploits for CVE-2015-2523 — use-after-free vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel — and CVE-2018-0802 , which we’ve often written about, were also in demand. The most common threats in all three were adware apps from the Pirrit family.

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Top 9 Cybersecurity Challenges SMEs Currently Face

Responsible Cyber

Small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly at risk of cyber-attacks, and often serve as a launch pad for larger threat campaigns, according to Cisco’s 2018 SMB Cybersecurity Report. The flexibility and scalability that the cloud offers makes this technology more compelling to small and mid-size businesses.

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Cyberthreats to financial organizations in 2022

SecureList

An incident investigation conducted by Kaspersky ICS CERT at one of the attacked enterprises revealed that they exploited a vulnerability in FortiGate VPN servers (CVE-2018-13379). With customers’ plain text information disclosed by leaks on the internet, cybercriminals have gained new attack possibilities.