Spinone

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

With every new type of crypto or locker , the hash sum is changed, so an antivirus that is effective against one malware family will be ineffective a few months later against another type of ransomware. TRY IT FREE The post G Suite Ransomware Protection 2018 first appeared on SpinOne. How Can I Get Infected by Ransomware?

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

This APT group has conducted broad cyber campaigns in support of MOIS objectives since approximately 2018. Back it up with an effective antivirus solution , EDR and SIEM. Lastly, ensure that emplyees are trained to be alert for suspicious emails or social media posts—they could be the start of a phishing attack.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

RaaS rollout 2015 – 2018. The GandCrab RaaS that appeared in early 2018 was one of the last high-profile threats targeting individuals on a large scale. It vanished from the radar in June 2018, when the ransomware plague took another sharp turn. Targeting enterprises Late 2018 – present day.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The Manipulaters’ core brand in the underground is a shared cybercriminal identity named “ Saim Raza ,” who for the past decade across dozens of cybercrime sites and forums has peddled a popular spamming and phishing service variously called “ Fudtools ,” “ Fudpage ,” “ Fudsender ,” etc.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

It focused on deploying POS malware and launching targeted spear-phishing attacks against organizations worldwide. The DisableAntiSpyware parameter allows disabling the Windows Defender Antivirus in order to deploy another security solution.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2020

The attack described by Microsoft begun with a phishing message that was opened by an internal employee, the malware infected its systems and made lateral movements infected other systems in the same network. The virus halted core services by saturating the CPU usage on Windows devices.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Why we’re in the ‘Golden Age’ of cyber espionageThe fact is cyber criminals are expert at refining and carrying out phishing, malvertising and other tried-and-true ruses that gain them access to a targeted victim’s Internet-connected computing device. Related: Long run damage of 35-day government shutdown.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 4, 2022

Common distribution methods for this type of installer are phishing campaigns, forum spam, YouTube posts and comments, as well as untrustworthy software download sites. Purple Fox is the name given to a malware family that has been in constant development ever since it was discovered in 2018. Purple Fox background.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2019

The crooks responsible for launching phishing campaigns that netted dozens of employees and more than 100 computer systems last month at Wipro , India’s third-largest IT outsourcing firm, also appear to have targeted a number of other competing providers, including Infosys and Cognizant , new evidence suggests. Image: urlscan.io.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

ScamClub is a threat actor who’s been involved in malvertising activities since 2018. While we could not identify precisely which entity served the ad, we have reported the website used to run the fake scanner to Cloudflare which immediately took action and flagged it as phishing.

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Hacker Combat

JANUARY 6, 2022

The first discovery of Purple Fox was in 2018. Some of the ways it spreads include; exploitative kits, phishing emails, and other malicious links. This folder is responsible for several tasks including shutting a wide spectrum of antivirus functions. The stealthy malware can be planted while evading detection.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Antivirus and security giant Avast and virtual private networking (VPN) software provider NordVPN each today disclosed months-long network intrusions that — while otherwise unrelated — shared a common cause: Forgotten or unknown user accounts that granted remote access to internal systems with little more than a password.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Though polite, the Creeper was still an annoyance to some, and in 1971, Ray Tomlinson developed the first antivirus software , called Reaper. One of the first pieces of antivirus software , McAfee’s VirusScan, was released in 1987. It also would actively shut down antivirus processes to evade detection and removal.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2019

Sucuri spotted threat actors abusing the URL redirect function of the.htaccess file to redirect visitors of compromised websites to phishing sites, sites delivering malware, or simply to generate impressions. A warning message from endpoint antivirus software when users try to visit malicious site redirected by Joomla and WordPress sites.

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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. Install and regularly update antivirus and anti-malware software on all hosts. Any attempts to install or run this program and its associated files should be prevented.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2019

Hackers exploit Jenkins flaw CVE-2018-1000861 to Kerberods malware. Vulnerability in UC Browser Apps exposes to phishing attacks. Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability found in Kaspersky Antivirus Engine. Top-Tier Russian Hacking group Fxmsp claims hack of major AntiVirus Companies.

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2020

Evilnum threat actor was first spotted in 2018 while using the homonym malware. Experts observed several variants of the script since May 2018, having different server-side code for the C&C and supporting different commands. Threat actors used a dedicated C2 server for each component that is installed via manual commands.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2019

The Astaroth Trojan was first spotted by security firm Cofense in late 2018 when it was involved in a campaign targeting Europe and Brazil. According to the experts, LOLbins are very effecting in evading antivirus software. . ” reads the analysis published by Andrea Lelli from Microsoft.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

2018 was no exception. In 2018, as businesses raced to mix and match cloud-services delivered by the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, unforeseen gaps in classic network security systems began to turn up. The “Meltdown” and “Spectre” exploits paved the way for so-called “microcode hacks” in early 2018.

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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. Since March 2019, Fxmsp announced in cybercrime forums the availability of information stolen from major antivirus companies located in the U.S.

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IT Security Guru

MAY 14, 2021

Worse still, many employees aren’t even aware of their personal responsibility to filter phishing emails. A 2021 phishing report by Proofpoint found that just over half of organisations provide company-wide cyber-security training, and consequently, only 63% of respondents within organisations were able to answer what phishing was correctly.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

It’s often spread through phishing emails or malicious websites, exploiting vulnerabilities and security flaws in outdated operating systems. In fact, Ponemon Institute reported that 73% of small businesses that suffered a ransomware attack in 2018 did not pay the ransom because. What Is Ransomware? they had a full backup.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Researchers at Cofense have uncovered a phishing campaign targeting Brazilian citizens with the Astaroth Trojan that uses Facebook and YouTube in the infection process. The attach chain appears to be very complex and starts with phishing messages that come with an.htm file attached. ” reads the analysis published by Cofense.”

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 8, 2023

Email security consists of the policies, tools, and services deployed to protect against threats specific to email such as spam, phishing attacks, malware-infested attachments, impersonation, and email interception. Multi-factor Authentication Compromised credentials stolen from a phishing campaign can be quite dangerous.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Approximately 30% of phishing web pages were related to Covid-19. In April 2020, Google reported 18 million instances per day of malware and phishing email sent via its Gmail service using Covid-related topics as a lure. Phishing emails were a prevalent mode of attack, and they have been in circulation since at least the mid-1990s.

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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%. In 2018 alone, we saw thousands of data breaches expose more than 446 million records.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 29, 2019

When antivirus (AV) software first arrived in the late 1980s, the science of combating computer viruses was very straightforward. Another way is to test code samples against our backend, to try to fool our antivirus classifiers. The intent is to figure out which parts of the file are being detected by us as being malicious.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Security experts at Cybaze – Yoroi ZLab have analyzed a new sample of the AdvisorsBot malware, a downloader that was first spotted in August 2018. Last DNS activity was in December 2018. As usual, the malware looks like a legitimate e-mail attachment, named as “invoice.doc”. Figure 7 – System information stealed by malware.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Russian software engineer Eugene Kaspersky’s frustration with the malware of the 80s and 90s led to the founding of antivirus and cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky Lab. Graham Cluley started as a videogame developer and antivirus programmer three decades ago before serving in senior roles at Sophos and McAfee. — thaddeus e.

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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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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

Users attacked by adware in 2018 through 2020 ( download ). For example, an attacker could log in to a victim’s Facebook account and post a phishing link or spread spam. variant has been known since 2018, and we have never once had to adjust the process of detecting it in almost three years. Where did these come from?

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Spinone

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Sodinokibi (or REvil) ransomware infects computers by exploiting a vulnerability in Oracle WebLogic and using phishing emails. Ryuk is one of the most common ransomware of 2018-2019. Ransomware spreads by phishing emails (soon we’ll show you an example), infected USB devices, and many other ways you wouldn’t expect it to.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

While these solutions (such as [Microsoft365]) offer a level of protection and capabilities (antivirus, anti-spam, archiving, etc.), The use of deepfake techniques in fraudulent activities… will elevate the sophistication of phishing fraud, making it increasingly challenging for users to distinguish between legitimate services and scams.”

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Spinone

JANUARY 22, 2020

Although at the end of the 2018 ransomware seemed to be slowing its pace on the cyber threat arena, 2019 has shown that this slowdown wasn’t anything but “the calm before the storm” Ransomware statistics for 2019 vividly illustrated the rapid growth of high-profile ransomware attacks and new, more disrupting ransomware examples.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

This is especially true for your existing intrusion detection and prevention system (IDPS), antivirus, and anti-malware. The Ryuk ransomware family spawned in 2018 from a sophisticated Russia-based cybercrime group. Bitdefender : Bitdefender Antivirus Plus. Update Anti-Ransomware Software. Offline Backups. Description.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

Computer Weekly said it had learnt that FatFace paid a £1.5m ($2 million US dollar) ransom to the Conti Ransomware gang , disclosing the gang gained access to FatFace network and their IT systems via a phishing email on 10th January 2021. conduct employee phishing tests. conduct employee phishing tests.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2019

In February 2019, SI-LAB captured multiple samples of phishing campaigns using an Office Excel document carrying a malicious Excel 4.0 This technology is stored in the Workbook OLE stream in Excel 97-2003 format which makes it very difficult to detect and parse by antivirus (AV) engines. File name: patent-2019-02-20T093A283A05-1.xls

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