SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Yet in a recent report by Nationwide , only 13% of small business owners said they’d been targeted by a cyberattack, but when they saw specific examples of cybercrime — from phishing to ransomware — that number shot up to 58%. In 2018 alone, we saw thousands of data breaches expose more than 446 million records.

Malware 98

Malware Small Business Computers and Electronics Adware 98

SecureList

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

17,372 new mobile ransomware Trojans. Number of detected malicious installation packages, 2018–2021 ( download ). As in the previous year, this was largely due to the active distribution of adware from the AdWare.AndroidOS.Notifyer family. Mobile adware. Top 10 adware families detected in 2021. Figures of the year.

Mobile 145

Mobile Malware Adware Banking 145

SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

Ransomware attacks were defeated on the computers of 97,451 unique users. Ransomware programs. Ransomware attacks on large organizations continued in Q2. The new rule forbade the advertising and selling of any ransomware programs on the site. Number of new ransomware modifications. Geography of ransomware attacks.

Adware 114

Adware Ransomware Malware IoT 114

SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

Ransomware attacks were defeated on the computers of 74,694 unique users. Ransomware programs. Several members of the REvil ransomware crime group were arrested by Russian law enforcement in January. In January, Ukrainian police arrested a ransomware gang who delivered an unclarified strain of malware via e-mail.

Mobile 136

Mobile Adware Ransomware Malware 136

SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

25,314 packages were related to mobile banking Trojans, 3,596 packages were mobile ransomware Trojans. The majority (61.43%) of the discovered threats belonged to the adware category. Adware accounted for the overwhelming majority (61.43%) of all threats discovered in Q1 2021, a decrease of 12 percentage points from Q4 2020.

Mobile 105

Mobile Adware Banking Malware 105

SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Ransomware attacks were defeated on the computers of 108,323 unique users. Ransomware programs. Europol and the Ukrainian police have arrested two members of an unnamed ransomware gang. The group HelloKitty used to distribute its ransomware by exploiting the vulnerability CVE-2019-7481 in SonicWall gateways. Q3 closures.

Malware 138

Malware Adware Ransomware IoT 138

SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

com – all generated using RoyalRoad and attempting to exploit CVE-2018-0802. Andariel adds ransomware to its toolset. Notably, in addition to the final backdoor, we discovered one victim infected with custom ransomware, underlying the financial motivation of this threat actor. Evolution of JSWorm ransomware.

Ransomware 145

Ransomware Malware Banking Encryption 145

SecureList

AUGUST 15, 2022

Ransomware attacks were defeated on the computers of 74,377 unique users. Ransomware programs. The cybercriminals are promising $1,000 to $1,000,000 for doxing of senior officials, reporting web service, Tox messenger or ransomware Trojan algorithm vulnerabilities, as well as for ideas on improving the Lockbit website and Trojan.

Mobile 93

Mobile Adware Ransomware Malware 93

SecureList

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Ransomware attacks were defeated on the computers of 72,941 unique users. Ransomware programs. The third quarter of 2022 saw the builder for LockBit, a well-known ransomware, leaked online. The creators of the little-known AstraLocker and Yashma ransomware published decryptors and stopped spreading both of them.

Mobile 120

Mobile Malware Ransomware IoT 120

SecureList

AUGUST 30, 2023

Ransomware attacks were defeated on the computers of 57,612 unique users. Ransomware programs Quarterly trends and highlights MOVEit Transfer vulnerabilities exploited The Cl0p ransomware gang began heavily exploiting vulnerabilities in MOVEit Transfer, a secure file transfer software solution used by organizations around the world.

Mobile 98

Mobile Ransomware Malware Adware 98

SecureList

JUNE 7, 2023

Ransomware attacks were defeated on the computers of 60,900 unique users. In Q1 2023, we discovered builds from several ransomware families intended for running on Linux and VMWare ESXi servers, namely: ESXiArgs (new family), Nevada (a rebranding of Nokoyawa, which is written in Rust), Royal, IceFire. Most prolific ransomware gangs.

Mobile 99

Mobile Ransomware Malware Adware 99

SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The Conti Gang was another group that also had issues with their associates when an apparently vengeful affiliate leaked the ransomware group’s playbook after claiming the notorious cybercriminal organization underpaid him for doing its dirty work. In April 2021, the Andariel group attempted to spread custom Ransomware.

Cryptocurrency 140

Cryptocurrency Banking Cybercrime Ransomware 140