Security Boulevard

JUNE 14, 2021

This blog post is divided into four parts: Introduction : provides an overview of what happened. Good news: The variant discussed in this blog does not appear to persist : in other words, after a reboot, its process will not be active anymore, at least for the variant discussed in this blog post. Detection. .

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Webroot

AUGUST 27, 2021

Already in 2020, according to the report: 2,4000 governmental agencies, healthcare facilities and schools had been hit with ransomware $350 million had been paid out ransomware actors, a 311% increase over 2019 It was taking 287 days on average for a business to fully recover from a ransomware attack.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, March 2021. PA Unit 42 found that the average ransom paid by organisations nearly tripled over the past year, from $115,123 in 2019 to $312,493. How not to disclosure a Hack.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 20, 2019

However, the three apps in question — Pro Selfie Beauty Camera, Selfie Beauty Camera Pro, and Pretty Beauty Camera 2019 — were really tools to spread adware and spyware. Forensics conducted by Avast revealed that each app had at least 500,000 installs, with Pretty Beauty Camera 2019 logging over 1 million, mainly by Android users in India.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

New trojan called ‘Lampion’ has spread using template emails from the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax during the last days of 2019. Last days of 2019 were the perfect time to spread phishing campaigns using email templates based on the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax. zip) called: FacturaNovembro-4492154-2019-10_8.zip.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Most businesses cannot survive without being connected to the internet or the cloud. External attacks on cloud accounts increased by an astounding 630% in 2019. While security solutions leveraging URL categorization, domain reputation, antivirus, and sandboxes can stop 99.5% Yet, the digital connection is also a threat.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Trusted applications will not be stopped by antivirus or anti-malware technologies. Digital Certificates are primarily used to ensure that software is legitimate and not malware, helping non-technical users to easily identify malicious internet properties. It was originally published on July 16, 2019. ) . Related Blogs.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

2, 2019, this blog reported that the company — which had chosen not to pay the ransom and instead restore everything from backups — was still struggling to bring its systems back online. . Disable RDP: Short for Remote Desktop Protocol, this feature of Windows allows a system to be remotely administered over the Internet.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The Morris Worm, ostensibly created to map the internet, ultimately brought down roughly 6000 systems. Early Internet. As the ARPANET evolved into the internet, connecting exponentially more computers throughout the world, malicious code likewise made advances. He was fined over $10,000 and sentenced to three years of probation.

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Webroot

MAY 12, 2021

A 2019 attack on a power grid control center responsible for supplying several sites in the Western U.S. The rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) isn’t limited to the consumer sector. The post Targeted assets: The need for cyber resilient infrastructure appeared first on Webroot Blog. The sorry state of cybersecurity in U.S.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 26, 2022

As of the publishing of this article, antivirus (AV) vendor detection for BotenaGo and its variants remains behind with very low detection coverage from most of AV vendors. Figure 8 shows the low level of antivirus detections for BotenaGo’s new variants. 4001814: AV EXPLOIT TOTOLINK Router PostAuth RCE (CVE-2019-19824).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2019

The VBS code is obfuscated to evade antivirus detection and, in order to confuse the analyst, all the values are manipulated in different steps: using many mathematical operations, very long random variable names and other content encoded in Base64 format. scentasticyoga[.]com, Figure 3: File contained in the Zip file. practicereiki[.com/pagpoftrh54[.php”.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

SI-LAB detected hundreds of users that were impacted by this malware between March 18th and 26th of 2019. The last days of March 2019 are making headlines due to a targeted cyber attack involving a new variant of infamous EMOTET malware. EMOTET spread in Chile targeted financial and banking services. Technical Analysis.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 28, 2021

The system developers weren’t overly preoccupied with security because they had no conception of something called the Internet. With no Internet in existence at the time, the systems were “air gapped” – meaning not connected to other systems or the outside world, for years. Blog post: Overcoming Patching Pitfalls.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

was used to register at least six domains, including a Russian business registered in Khoroshev’s name called tkaner.com , which is a blog about clothing and fabrics. A machine-translated ad for ransomware source code from Putinkrab on the Russian language cybercrime forum UFOlabs in 2019. Image: Ke-la.com.

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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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SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The email antivirus was triggered most frequently by email messages containing members of the Trojan.Win32.Agentb as compared to the year 2019, remaining fifth with 5.97%, while Brazil lost 1.76 Attacks blocked by the email antivirus in 2020 ( download ). That is 32,289,484 fewer attempts than in 2019. France gained 2.97

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McAfee

MAY 26, 2020

The Brave report issued by the Brave Community, a forum where people who care about the internet and their browsing experience come to discuss with each other, typically shows that only five of Europe’s 28 national GDPR enforcers have more than 10 tech specialists. The post The GDPR, Year II appeared first on McAfee Blogs.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

As of the publishing of this article, BotenaGo currently has low antivirus (AV) detection rate with only 6/62 known AVs seen in VirusTotal: (Figure 1). The malware maps each function with a string that represents a potential targeted system — such as a signature, which we’ll explain later in this blog (see figure 3).

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2019

In the first four months of 2019 alone, some 22 attacks have been disclosed. days in Q2 2019, as compared to 7.3 days in Q1 2019. However, the operational imperatives in today’s world of internet-centric commerce often boil down to survival math, especially for SMBs. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.).

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

For many years, Ika held a key position at one of Russia’s largest Internet service providers, and his (mostly glowing) reputation as a reliable provider of web hosting to the Russian cybercrime community gave him an encyclopedic knowledge about nearly every major player in that scene at the time. .”

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SecureList

JANUARY 11, 2021

On December 13, 2020, FireEye published a blog post detailing a supply chain attack leveraging Orion IT, an infrastructure monitoring and management platform by SolarWinds. In a previous blog, we dissected the method used by Sunburst to communicate with its C2 server and the protocol by which victims are upgraded for further exploitation.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Statistics gathered between October and December 2019 by Avast’s Threat Lab experts show that adware was responsible for 72% of all mobile malware, and the remaining 28% consisted of banking trojans, fake apps, lockers, and downloaders. Computer viruses often utilize deception techniques and keep evolving to evade antivirus software.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

One of the suspected FinFly Web servers was active for more than a year between October 2019 and December 2020. We investigated a long-running espionage campaign, dubbed A41APT, targeting multiple industries, including the Japanese manufacturing industry and its overseas bases, which has been active since March 2019.

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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. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.). The wider context?

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Fox IT

MAY 4, 2021

Since September 2019, Fox-IT/NCC Group has intensified its research into known active Gozi variants. But if you would like to understand the rather tortured history of this particular malware a little better, the research and blog posts on the subject by Check Point are a good starting point. Q3 2019 – Q2 2020, Classic fraud era.

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