Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

Experts at Intezer researchers have spotted a strain of the Linux mining that also scans the Internet for Windows RDP servers vulnerable to the Bluekeep. ” The vulnerability , tracked as CVE-2019-0708, impacts the Windows Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and was addressed by Microsoft with May 2019 Patch Tuesday updates. .

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

19, Apex was alerted that its systems had been infected with a destructive strain of ransomware that encrypts computer files and demands payment for a digital key needed to unscramble the data. “When they encrypt the data, that happens really fast,” he said. Roswell, Ga. on Tuesday, Feb. More than a week later on Jan.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

We met at Black Hat 2019. They’ll take more manual steps to encrypt servers, exfiltrate data – or do both. And then, instead of encrypting one or two or ten machines, they’ll encrypt everything.” Once they were inside, they would turn off your antivirus software and the software responsible for online backups.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Trusted applications will not be stopped by antivirus or anti-malware technologies. PKI is an asymmetric system, using two keys to encrypt communications; public and private keys. A Public key is used to encrypt data, whether that be on the user’s browser, data, or part of a message to be sent. SSL Certificates as an example.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2021

There was no need for a password or login credentials to access the information, and the data was not encrypted. In a sampling of the player profile data, the WizCase security team found that users could spend as much as $907 on the game via in-app microtransactions in the 10,000-player sample from 2019-2020 our team observed.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Although most people think of ransomware as a dodgy application that encrypts data and holds it for ransom, the concept is much more heterogeneous than that. 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. pharma giant ExecuPharm.

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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. All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” Attackers will inform the victim that their data is encrypted. IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!! Screenshot example.

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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. That represents a 340% increase year-over-year, a 415% increase since 2018 and accounted for about 4% of the more than 6.3

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Adiantum will bring encryption on Android devices without cryptographic acceleration. Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for February 2019 fixes IE Zero-Day. Astaroth Trojan relies on legitimate os and antivirus processes to steal data. Russia is going to disconnect from the internet as part of a planned test. 20% discount.

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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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Spinone

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Because relying on one solution like antivirus won’t get you far in case of a full-blown ransomware attack. Device Security: Patch Manager and Antivirus Software Another must-have desktop protection is having an antivirus. How does antivirus help against ransomware, you may ask?

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

Pin was active on Opensc around March 2012, and authored 13 posts that mostly concerned data encryption issues, or how to fix bugs in code. A machine-translated ad for ransomware source code from Putinkrab on the Russian language cybercrime forum UFOlabs in 2019. Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 finds that pin@darktower.ru

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

If you look at the dynamics of attacks on mobile users in 2020, you will see that the average monthly number of attacks decreased by 865,000 compared to 2019. Number of attacks on mobile users in 2019 and 2020 ( download ). Number of adware attacks on mobile users in 2019 and 2020 ( download ). Number of mobile users attacked.

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IT Security Guru

JULY 19, 2021

Our own research report, the State of Encrypted Attacks Report 2020 , found that there had been a 500 per cent rise in ransomware compared to 2019. It’s clear then that ransomware didn’t reach its zenith with WannaCry back in 2017 but remains a disruptive and profitable threat to business operations.

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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 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. http[://link[.kunstsignal[.net/images/W534K5hp8zGWYvpMJkayjGf/FqWxvwp_2F/1_2BEPHtH1r_2FpG5

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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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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. Train your employees about why privacy and security are important generally.

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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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SecureList

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The software, known as stalkerware, is commercially available to everyone with access to the internet. In 2019, we created a special alert that notifies users if stalkerware is installed on their phones. Stalkerware is software that is commercially available to everyone with access to the internet. See photos and videos.

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SecureList

JUNE 5, 2023

Satacom downloader, also known as LegionLoader, is a renowned malware family that emerged in 2019. The encrypted data is stored inside the malicious payload. This allows the threat actors to change the domain URL to a different one in case it’s banned or blocked by antivirus vendors.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Install an antivirus solution that includes anti-adware capabilities. with no internet. If your antivirus software fails to notice a new strain, you can reinstall the browser. During the 2019 holiday season, the Barracuda research team analyzed 4,200 Android apps related to shopping, Santa, and games. Browser Hijacker.

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

If the victim organization is slow to pay up, even though its files are encrypted and some of its confidential data has been stolen, the attackers additionally threaten to carry out a DDoS attack. In South Korea, a suspect in the GandCrab ransomware operation was arrested (this family ceased active distribution back in 2019).

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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. mayors attending the U.S. Talk more soon.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The vulnerability is in MSHTML, the Internet Explorer engine. We started detecting some suspicious backdoored installer packages (including TeamViewer, VLC Media Player and WinRAR); then in the middle of 2019 we found a host that served these installers along with FinSpy Mobile implants for Android. In version 16.80.0

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

” ― Stephane Nappo The amount of compromised data in August 2019 composed 114,686,290 breached records. To protect personal information and feel safe while surfing the internet; 2. Endpoint Protection: Discover how to use antivirus software, learn about malware, encryption and application control.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 25, 2022

Starting in 2019, Gartner consolidated its Magic Quadrants for Unified Threat Management (UTM) and Enterprise Firewalls into a single Magic Quadrant called Network Firewalls. Web antivirus. Secure SD-WAN functionality supporting load-share over as many as 24 internet links is included with every appliance. URL filtering.

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SiteLock

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

First spotted in 2019 , Zeppelin ransomware, or Buran V, primarily targeted large tech and healthcare companies in Europe and the United States. At the time of the first attack, almost 30% of antivirus software couldn't detect this ransomware threat. What does ransomware and Led Zeppelin have in common? Absolutely nothing.

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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. Ransomware programs gain access to a computer’s file system and execute a payload to encrypt all data.

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

For example, before making the first internet connection to its C2s, the Sunburst malware lies dormant for up to two weeks, preventing easy detection of this behaviour in sandboxes. We believe this is a continuation of a campaign last summer, reported by Avast , in which the malware masqueraded as the Malwarebytes antivirus installer.

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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. Ransomware programs gain access to a computer’s file system and execute a payload to encrypt all data.

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Ransomware Grows Smarter As you probably know, ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts user files or files in the corporate network. Ransomcloud, the new type of ransomware, encrypts cloud emails (including Outlook emails). The only reliable way to protect your data is by restoring its pre-encrypted version.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2021

Bitglass secured Series D funding of $70 million in August 2019 bringing its total venture capital funding to $150 million. Cybereason offers endpoint detection and response (EDR), antivirus and managed detection and response services. Founded two years ago in 2019, Orca Security has already received $82 million in funding.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Physical appliances provide functionality for routing wide area networks (WANs), stateful firewalls, SD-WANs, NGFW, antivirus, intrusion prevention services (IPS), and unified threat management (UTM) capabilities for local networks. Microsoft Azure Microsoft Hyper-V 2016/2019 R2/2019 VMware ESXi up to 7.0

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Spinone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In 2019, Trend Micro found a 77% surge in ransomware attacks during the first half of 2019 from the previous year. Whether it is synchronized files from on-premises to cloud environments or the risk of encryption of cloud email, ransomware is a real threat to your data. How much can ransomware cost your business?

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 19, 2021

There is of course a lot of security around these digital releases, for example, there's watermarks, digital certificates, and even keys at the code, the encrypted copies of the films in specific theaters for specific periods of time. Well, one of the recipients released their copy to the internet. Yet, somewhere in China.

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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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