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SHARED INTEL: How ransomware evolved from consumer trickery to deep enterprise hacks

The Last Watchdog

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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Ransomware Revival: Troldesh becomes a leader by the number of attacks

Security Affairs

To bypass antivirus systems, hackers send out malicious emails in non-working hours with delayed activation. The second half of 2018 saw a drop in the number of malicious programs downloaded via browsers reaching its minimum at less than 5%, while in the first half of 2019 only every 19 th download was initiated via means other than email.

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Dutch police arrested the author of Dryad and Rubella Macro Builders

Security Affairs

The Rubella Macro Builder crimeware kit appeared in the threat landscape on April 2018 and rapidly gained popularity in the cybercriminal underground. It allows crooks to generate a malicious payload for social-engineering spam campaigns, the author was offering it as a service for a three-month license of $120.

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BEST PRACTICES: Mock phishing attacks prep employees to avoid being socially engineered

The Last Watchdog

Social engineering, especially phishing, continues to trigger the vast majority of breach attempts. 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.

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The return of the AdvisorsBot malware

Security Affairs

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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Mobile malware evolution 2020

SecureList

In their campaigns to infect mobile devices, cybercriminals always resort to social engineering tools, the most common of these passing a malicious application off as another, popular and desirable one. Users attacked by adware in 2018 through 2020 ( download ). Trends of the year. Where did these come from?

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MY TAKE: The back story on the convergence, continuing evolution of endpoint security

The Last Watchdog

No one in cybersecurity refers to “antivirus” protection any more. since the nascent days of the antivirus market, I find in fascinating that the top dozen or so antivirus players have all managed to remain in the game. In the early days, antivirus suites were threat-centric and device-centric.

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