Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

million Windows systems between 2018 and 2020. The software includes illegal Adobe Photoshop 2018, a Windows cracking tool, and several cracked games.” Most of the stolen files (50%+) were text files, some of them containing software logs, passwords, personal notes, and other sensitive information. terabyte of stolen data.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 26, 2021

I’ve written this countless times: keep your antivirus updated, click judiciously, practice good password hygiene. VPNs give the individual user direct control over the unique data stream transmitting data between their laptop or smartphone and the Internet. Related: Privacy war: Apple vs. Facebook.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Kaspersky has addressed several vulnerabilities in the web protection features implemented in its antivirus solutions, including Internet Security, Total Security, Free Anti-Virus , Security Cloud, and Small Office Security products. As in: under some circumstances, antivirus would still crash. ” continues the analysis.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The above-mentioned AIDS Trojan hailing from the distant pre-Internet era was the progenitor of the trend, but its real-world impact was close to zero. The Archiveus Trojan from 2006 was the first one to use RSA cipher, but it was reminiscent of a proof of concept and used a static 30-digit decryption password that was shortly cracked.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2021

The threat actors are actively exploiting the following vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiOS: CVE-2018-13379 ; CVE-2020-12812 ; CVE-2019-5591. In March 2021, government experts observed state sponsored hackers scanning the internet for servers vulnerable to the above flaws, the attackers were probing systems on ports 4443, 8443, and 10443.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

A historic records search at Domaintools on that tosaka1027@gmail.com address says it was used to register 24 Internet domain names , including at least seven that have been conclusively tied to the spread of powerful Android mobile malware. a firm that says it is “dedicated to the development and operation of Internet mobile games.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

On Christmas Eve 2018, cloud data hosting firm Dataresolution.net was hit with the Ryuk strain of ransomware. Other than different antivirus and not allowing RDP connections to the internet they don’t seem to have put any additional safeguards in place. More than a week later on Jan.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

That represents a 340% increase year-over-year, a 415% increase since 2018 and accounted for about 4% of the more than 6.3 This week, cybersecurity firm Akamai said they have observed more than 246 million web application attacks levied against the gaming industry between 2019 and 2020. The post Attacks against game companies are up.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2019

The Scranos rootkit malware was first discovered late last year when experts at Bitdefender were analyzing a new password- and data-stealing operation leveraging around a rootkit driver digitally signed with a stolen certificate. . ” reads the report published by Bitdefender. ” continues the repor.t.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

SI-LAB noted that Portuguese users were targeted with malscam messages that reported issues related to a debt of the year 2018. It downloads the next stage from the compromised server available on the Internet on an AWS S3 bucket. This is a clear signal that most of the antivirus engines don’t detect yet the malware signature.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

A historic records search at Domaintools on that tosaka1027@gmail.com address says it was used to register 24 Internet domain names , including at least seven that have been conclusively tied to the spread of powerful Android mobile malware. a firm that says it is “dedicated to the development and operation of Internet mobile games.”

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Widespread Cisco IOS XE Vulnerability Under Active Attack Type of attack: Attackers actively exploit vulnerabilities in internet-facing IOS XE systems to add new privileged users and back doors. The problem: Similar to 2018’s Spectre processor vulnerability, the iLeakage vulnerability stems from Apple CPU performing speculative execution.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2020

Organizations in the throes of cleaning up after a ransomware outbreak typically will change passwords for all user accounts that have access to any email systems, servers and desktop workstations within their network. who picked up his cell phone and said shut it off from the Internet.” ” WHOLESALE PASSWORD THEFT.

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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. Ransomware frequently contains extraction capabilities that can steal critical information like usernames and passwords, so stopping ransomware is serious business. Update Anti-Ransomware Software.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

review Active Directory password policy. He was quoted as saying that he and his co-conspirators would steal the data and if Tesla refused to pay the ransom the company's secrets would be placed on the internet. FBI Internet Crime Report 2020: Cybercrime Skyrocketed, with Email Compromise Accounting for 43% of Losses.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This archive is discreetly hosted on legitimate websites, cleverly disguised as firmware binaries for enigmatic devices labeled “m100” The Bitbucket repository was created on June 21, 2018, under the account of Julie Heilman, and it remains the sole repository associated with this profile. 8, 10.0.0.0/8, 8, 100.64.0.0/10,

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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. Melcoz had been active in Brazil since at least 2018, before expanding overseas. However, it never actually went away – it was simply using various first-stage implants to hide its activities.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The email antivirus was triggered most frequently by email messages containing members of the Trojan.Win32.Agentb We assume that those who called the numbers were asked to provide the login and password for the service that the scammers were imitating, or to pay for some diagnostics and troubleshooting services. Agentb malware family.

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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. Require all accounts with credentialed logins to comply with NIST standards for password policies. Require phishing-resistant MFA.

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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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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

KrebsOnSecurity began revisiting the research into Rescator’s real-life identity in 2018, after the U.S. ChronoPay used the MegaPlan service to help manage the sprawling projects that Vrublevsky referred to internally as their “black” payment processing operations, including pirated pills, porn, Mp3s, and fake antivirus products.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Cryptographic keys can be random numbers, products of large prime numbers, points on an ellipse, or a password generated by a user. ECC is used for email encryption, cryptocurrency digital signatures, and internet communication protocols. While the math remains the same, unique cryptographic keys generate unique ciphertext.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Most of us already know the importance of using antivirus , anti-malware, and VPNs to secure our computers, phones, and other devices against potential attacks. To perform the experiment, we used Internet of Things (IoT) search engines to search for open devices that utilized common printer ports and protocols. Original post: [link].

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Fake notifications about meetings in Microsoft Teams or a message about important documents sent via SharePoint for salary payment approval aimed to lower the recipient’s guard and prompt them to enter the username and password for their corporate account. These were closely followed by global Internet portals (17.27%) in second place.

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

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. On average, 7.67% of Internet user computers worldwide experienced at least one Malware-class attack. So, once again, we remind you of the importance of regular updates.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Millions of websites across the internet also contain vulnerabilities that make them easy targets. In 2018 alone, we saw thousands of data breaches expose more than 446 million records. In fact, according to our research , a single website will experience nearly 60 attacks a day, and every website on the internet is a potential target.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

A 2018 study regarding VPN use worldwide is worth considering. Usage increased 185% from 2016 to 2017 and 165% from 2017 to 2018. If, for example, a user resides in a country with major Internet restrictions (think: the Great Firewall of China ), he or she may connect to a VPN outside of that country and bypass local laws.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2020

Turchin obtained credentials to target networks by launching spear-phishing attacks and brute-forcing the passwords of remote desktop servers exposed online. Once the hacker gained access to the network, the deployed password-stealing malware and remote access trojans (RATs) to harvest credentials and establish persistence in the system.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 1, 2019

Despite billions of dollars spent on the latest, greatest antivirus suites, firewalls and intrusion detection systems, enterprises continue to suffer breaches that can be traced back to the actions of a single, unsuspecting employee. We’re easily distracted and we cling to our bad habits. It’s encouraging to see the good guys keeping pace.

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SecureList

JANUARY 11, 2021

Now Kazuar is equipped with a keylogger and a password stealer which can fetch browser history data, cookies, proxy server credentials and, most importantly, passwords from Internet browsers, Filezilla, Outlook, Git and WinSCP. The Kazuar developers wanted to avoid detection by various antivirus products or EDR solutions.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

Web antivirus recognized 675,832,360 unique URLs as malicious. Our file antivirus detected 68,294,298 unique malicious and potentially unwanted objects. There appeared the new Qlocker family, which packs user files into a password-protected 7zip archive, plus our old friends ech0raix and AgeLocker began to gather steam.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

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. In April 2018, two months after they successfully targeted card processing, the group decided to leverage its previous scheme and stole roughly 150 000 USD through ATMs.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 5, 2021

In 2016, the Mirai IoT botnet shut down part of the internet, yet variations still plague us today. Vamosi: The internet. Vamosi: Dyn was an internet performance management and web application security company that has since been bought by Oracle. The results can be massive enough to bring down parts of the internet.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Vamosi: That's a gray area with the Internet of Things. Vamosi: What about the parents who just want to monitor their children's internet use. In reaction to this in 2018 Aaron Z Lewis, a young designer, wrote in his Twitter feed, in light of the latest Facebook scandal. That's one of the key features of stalkerware.

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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. Verify backup file integrity and backup repositories.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A 2018 deepfaked video of Barack Obama synced to an audio track created by comedian Jordan Peele caused politicians sparked popular demand that technology companies more actively filter out content utilizing the technology, citing concerns about potential election interference. An artificially generated “person.”

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