Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2019

IDF hit Hamas, it is the first time a state launched an immediate physical attack in response to a cyber attack. Google May 2019 Patches address 4 RCE flaws in Android. Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability found in Kaspersky Antivirus Engine. Microsoft SharePoint CVE-2019-0604 flaw exploited in the wild.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 20, 2019

In a related development, OneSpan, a Chicago-based supplier of authentication technology to 2,000 banks worldwide, reports seeing a rise in cyber attacks targeting mobile banking patrons. In a nutshell: lock your device; click judiciously; use antivirus. And the handful of positive reviews were most likely faked. Talk more soon.

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Mobile Spyware Banking Manufacturing 138

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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Malware Ransomware Antivirus Internet 140

SC Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

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. billion attacks tracked by the company across different countries. People are more invested in their games because so much of their social lives were restricted.”.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2021

Experts from Kaspersky explained that in February 2019, multiple antivirus companies received a collection of malware samples, some of them cannot be associated with the activity of known APT groups. . Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has discovered a new malware that experts attribute to the US Central Intelligence Agency.

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Malware Hacking Government Telecommunications 104

Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2019

This means that the machine could be exposed to cyber attacks that leverage the vulnerabilities addressed by Microsoft, including a Windows zero-day flaw and an RDS vulnerability that can be exploited to carry out WannaCry -like attack. The experts suggest to remove Windows update by booting the system in Safe mode.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for February 2019 fixes IE Zero-Day. Bank of Valletta shut down its operations after a cyber attack. Astaroth Trojan relies on legitimate os and antivirus processes to steal data. Hacker deleted all data from VFEmail Servers, including backups. Malicious PDF Analysis.

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Advertising Antivirus Malware Backups 67

Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2019

Locked Shields 2019 – Chapeau, France wins Cyber Defence Exercise. CVE-2019-0803 Windows flaw exploited to deliver PowerShell Backdoor. CVE-2019-0803 Windows flaw exploited to deliver PowerShell Backdoor. Ecuador suffered 40 Million Cyber attacks after the Julian Assange arrest. Code execution – Evernote.

Computers and Electronics 60

Computers and Electronics Spyware Data breaches Advertising 60

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The same holds true for the cyber underground. Related: Leveraging botnets to scale attacks For a long while now, criminal hackers have relied on leveraging low-cost botnet services to blast out cyber attacks as far and wide as they could, indiscriminately. We met at Black Hat 2019.

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Encryption Malware Ransomware Cyber Attacks 147

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Series B Apiiro Security 2019 Tel Aviv, Israel 65 $35.0 Series A BluBracket 2019 Palo Alto, CA 27 $18.5 Series A Cycode 2019 Tel Aviv, Israel 56 $81.0 Series B Open Raven 2019 Los Angeles, CA 45 $19.1 Most traditional tools used for investigating cyber attacks cannot assess potential impacts on these environments.

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Cybersecurity Threat Detection Artificial Intelligence Risk 142

Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2019

The exploitation of the flaw in the wild is worrisome because the WinRAR software doesn’t have an auto-update feature, leaving millions of users potentially exposed to cyber attacks. The file associated with the fake Ariana Grande’s hit album is currently detected by a limited number of antivirus solutions.

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Advertising Malware Antivirus Software 82

Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2019

The first public mention related to Altran cyber attack was seen in a tweet on January 25th, which received a reply from a computer security researcher who hinted that a malware sample that was uploaded to VirusTotal was behind the attack.ù. This means that any company within the attacker’s scope could be compromised by crooks.

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Ransomware Encryption Antivirus Malware 89

Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 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. Between 2015 and 2019, the largest-known individual ransom demand was $15 million. UK School Cyber-Attack affects 40,000 Pupils’ Email. High-end ransoms have gone up significantly too.

Energy and Utilities 122

Energy and Utilities Ransomware Banking Hacking 122

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Vicarius Vulnerability management 2022 Private Dragos ICS and OT security 2021 Private Safeguard Cyber Risk management 2021 Private CyberGRX Risk management 2019 Private Signifyd Fraud protection 2018 Private RedOwl Security analytics 2015 Acquired: Forcepoint. Accel Investments. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

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Cybersecurity Technology Marketing Healthcare 126

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2021

As attack methodologies evolve due to AI, machine learning and nation-state hackers , security startups are receiving a lot of funding to develop products that can secure application access for remote workers , provide real-time visibility into cyber attacks and protect data as it travels from the cloud to IoT devices.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 16, 2019

Related: AI one-upsmanship prevails in antivirus field. Model N’s 2019 State of Revenue Report surveyed CEOs, CMOs and senior sales executives from leading pharmaceutical, medical devices, high-tech manufacturing and semiconductor companies.

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Digital transformation Manufacturing Antivirus Internet 133

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. SI-LAB detected that this attack started some days before the alerts were published.

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Banking Malware Antivirus Cyber threats 58

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

As new forms of malicious code appeared, an antivirus (AV) industry arose to tackle the challenge of detecting and responding to cyber threats. These early companies innovated various strategies to identify and stop attacks. In 2019 attacks on cloud services doubled , demonstrating a significant shift in the focus of APT groups.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The main reason why these campaigns exploded so dramatically was that they used previously leaked NSA exploits called EternalBlue and DoublePulsar, which made the attacks absolutely inconspicuous and therefore almost impossible to prevent. WannaCry and NotPetya cyber-attacks have since been attributed to state-funded threat actors.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Usually, cyber-attackers decrypt your files after they receive the payment. The Most Dangerous Ransomware in 2019 Even though the year is not over yet, several notable ransomware attacks had already happened. Let’s take a closer look at the most dangerous ransomware in 2019. share of all ransomware attacks.

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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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Cyber threats Computers and Electronics Adware Spyware 113

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

A ransomware attack is about as bad as a cyber attack can get. It can shut down your business – in the case of healthcare organizations that can be life-threatening for patients – damage your reputation with customers and employees, and invite further attacks as cybercriminals view your organization as an easy mark.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 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.

Malware 107

Malware Computers and Electronics Adware Spyware 107

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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Security Boulevard

APRIL 28, 2021

This renders the attacks undetectable and able to bypass conventional security solutions such as EDR, antivirus and other traditional security lines of defense. A new vulnerability, CVE-2019-19279 , has emerged that also allows for a DDoS attack.

Energy and Utilities 72

Energy and Utilities Malware DDOS Internet 72

Spinone

JANUARY 20, 2020

In 2019 the game has changed: general ransomware activity has dropped, but the number of attacks targeting enterprises has increased by 12%. The Petya cyber attack happened in 2017 and was mostly targeted against Ukraine, but later got around as usual ransomware. Use antivirus. Use ransomware prevention services.

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Ransomware Encryption Antivirus Backups 59

Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

“Cyber Security is so much more than a matter of IT.” ” ― Stephane Nappo The amount of compromised data in August 2019 composed 114,686,290 breached records. Here are the four courses you can take: Introduction to Cyber Attacks: You will learn a fundamental understanding of all the threats in www.

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Social Engineering Accountability Phishing Cybersecurity 40

SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

In South Korea, a suspect in the GandCrab ransomware operation was arrested (this family ceased active distribution back in 2019). Excluded are countries with relatively few users of Kaspersky products (under 50,000). ** Unique users attacked by miners as a percentage of all unique users of Kaspersky products in the country.

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Mobile Adware Ransomware Malware 91