eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. This is especially true for your existing intrusion detection and prevention system (IDPS), antivirus, and anti-malware. A ransomware attack is about as bad as a cyber attack can get.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

That file was delivered via malscam campaigns around the world and its source-code is obfuscated in order to evade antivirus detection and complicate its analysis. The latter leverages the WinRar/Ace vulnerability ( CVE-2018-20250 ) dropping the malware itself into the Windows startup folder.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That reporting was based on clues from an early Russian cybercrime forum in which a hacker named Rescator — using the same profile image that Rescator was known to use on other forums — claimed to have originally been known as “Helkern,” the nickname chosen by the administrator of a cybercrime forum called Darklife.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The vulnerability is in MSHTML, the Internet Explorer engine. After 2018, we observed falling detection rates for FinSpy for Windows. In July, the Spanish Ministry of the Interior announced the arrest of 16 people connected to the Grandoreiro and Melcoz (aka Mekotio) cybercrime groups. Grandoreiro and Melcoz arrests.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) found that K–12 cyberattacks more than tripled over the pandemic, from 400 reported incidents in 2018 to over 1,300 in 2021. Install, regularly update, and enable real-time detection for antivirus software. When students turn 18, those rights are transferred to them.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The software, known as stalkerware, is commercially available to everyone with access to the internet. Stalkerware is software that is commercially available to everyone with access to the internet. In previous years, we have seen similar incidents with Mobiispy in 2019 and with MSpy in 2018 and 2015.

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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%. Millions of websites across the internet also contain vulnerabilities that make them easy targets.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2020

Since March 2019, Fxmsp announced in cybercrime forums the availability of information stolen from major antivirus companies located in the U.S. Between 2017 and 2018, Fxmsp created a network of trusted proxy resellers to promote their breaches on the criminal underground. Attorney Brian T.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

For more than two years, there was not a single sign of Silence that would enable to identify them as an independent cybercrime group. In 2018, they targeted card processing using supply-chain attack , picking up 550 000 USD via ATMs of the bank’s counterpart over one weekend. Like most cybercrime groups, Silence uses phishing emails.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2019

Germany and the Netherlands agreded to build TEN, the first ever joint military internet. Germany and the Netherlands agreed to build TEN, the first ever joint military internet. Firefox finally addressed the Antivirus software TLS Errors. Sodin Ransomware includes exploit for Windows CVE-2018-8453 bug.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

The group’s operations were exposed in 2018, showing that it was conducting surveillance attacks against individuals in the Middle East. The threat actor leverages tailor-made malicious documents with embedded macros that trigger an infection chain, opening a URL in Internet Explorer. Other interesting discoveries.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

On the modern Internet, malware is a near-constant presence. Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the precursor of the modern Internet we know, love, and sometimes hate. Worms and the Dawn of the Internet Age: 1987-2000. Viruses Get Their Name: 1974-1986. Want to Learn More About Malware?

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Spinone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Between the initial damage inflicted on your data, the threat of data leak to the Internet, and the loss of business as a result of damaged customer confidence, the net effect on your business can be major. This is quite a feat as it was only first discovered in mid-august 2018. Should You Pay the Ransom?

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Each and every major advance of Internet-centric commerce – from e-tailing and email, to social media and mobile computing, and now on to the Internet of Things – has translated into an exponential expansion of the attack surface available to cybercriminals. 2018 was no exception. Shock-immune public. The wider context?

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

As with any potential cybercrime, deterrence here will be aided by an awareness of what deepfakes are, how they work, and what they can and can’t do. Internet of Things, or IoT devices, already represent a mature technological industry. households had an estimated 11 internet-connected devices per household.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Those publications set off speculation about a possible secret back-channel of communications, as well as a series of lawsuits and investigations that culminated last week with the indictment of the same former federal cybercrime prosecutor who brought the data to the attention of the FBI five years ago. trump-email.com).

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