Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

“Amadey is a relatively new botnet , first noted late in Q1 of 2019. In classic social engineering attack, the phishing message presents a “one time username and password” to the victims and urges the user to click the “Login Right Here” button. ” reads the analysis published by Cofense.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

JULY 7, 2022

Raccoon Stealer has been around since April 2019, and was one of the most prolific information stealers in 2021. It is likely, based on the customer service provided by Raccoon Stealer developers, that antivirus evasion will be built into Raccoon Stealer 2.0 DropBox and social engineering. Category Awareness, News.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

In November 2019, the criminals behind a ransomware species called Maze started a new trend that is currently gaining momentum on the dark web. David Balaban is a computer security researcher with over 17 years of experience in malware analysis and antivirus software evaluation. They added data theft to the classic encryption scenario.

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

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. Number of attacks on mobile users in 2019 and 2020 ( download ). Whereas it was 12.85% in 2019, it reached 14.62% in 2020.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Cleafy, a cybersecurity firm specializing in online fraud, has published new details about banking Trojan BRATA (Brazilian Remote Access Tool, Android), a known malware strain that first became widespread in 2019. BRATA is now being used to perform factory resets on victims’ machines.

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Identity IQ

MAY 7, 2021

It’s one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity threats today, growing a staggering 300% since 2019 and leading to consumer losses of $3.5 Social Engineering: Cybercriminals are increasingly using sophisticated social engineering tools to trick people into revealing their login credentials.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 22, 2021

In 2019, US authorities filed charges against EvilCorp’s alleged leaders, Maksim Yakubets and Igor Turashev, accusing them of using malware to steal millions of dollars from groups, including schools and religious organizations, in over 40 countries. Links to EvilCorp. EvilCorp is the name of a vast, international cybercrime network.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2020

One of the last occurrences was last December 2019, where the Lampion trojan operated in a very similar way, changing only the way the malware was distributed (via AWS S3 buckets and with the first stage encoded in a highly obfuscated VBS file). This is a mechanism that makes C2 persistence and dynamics.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 13, 2025

Case in Point : In 2019, First American Title Insurance Company experienced a significant data exposure incident, revealing sensitive customer documents due to a vulnerability in their document-sharing application. Endpoint Security: Utilize firewalls, antivirus software, and intrusion detection systems to prevent unauthorized access.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The main focus here is the social side of data loss. This blog educates about social engineering attacks and ways to prevent them. The range of topics highlighted is wide: ransomware protection, antivirus software, blockchain technologies in security, and much more.

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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. Final thoughts.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 26, 2022

Whereas older solutions like antivirus, firewalls, and endpoint detection and response (EDR) have long focused on threats at the network perimeter, the intent of NDR is to monitor and act on malicious threats within organization networks using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) analysis.

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SecureList

APRIL 10, 2023

The offers presented in this report were published between 2019 and 2023 and were collected from the nine most popular forums for the purchase and sale of goods and services related to malware and unwanted software. It is also clear of alerts from Google Protect and built-in antivirus on devices from different vendors.

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Spinone

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Sodinokibi Ransomware Analysis Sodinokibi, also referred to as Sodin or REvil, is a ransomware strain that appeared in April of 2019 and became the 4th most distributed ransomware in the world since then. Sodinokibi often successfully bypasses antivirus software. PerCSoft attack , August 2019.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 16, 2019

RobinHood was the ransomware behind the Baltimore attack in May 2019. This ransomware is the suspect behind the Texas ransomware attack in August 2019, where more than 20 local governments were infected. Ryuk is one of the most common ransomware of 2018-2019. billion in 2019 and $8 billion in 2018. Seems suspicious?

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Spinone

OCTOBER 4, 2019

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. In the second quarter of 2019, Ryuk became the prevalent ransomware, hitting a 23.9% billion in 2019.

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Hacker's King

OCTOBER 3, 2024

You may like to read more about Social Media Botnets – Hackers leveraging bots for large-scale attacks What Are Zero-Day Exploits? A zero-day exploit is a type of cyberattack that takes advantage of a security weakness in software that the developer or antivirus programs don’t know about yet.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 28, 2021

Networks can also be easily breached by social engineering, password theft, or tainted USBs, as in the Stuxnet attack. . . This renders the attacks undetectable and able to bypass conventional security solutions such as EDR, antivirus and other traditional security lines of defense. The Dangers of ICS Memory-Based Attacks.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

All of them were ordinary people using our free antivirus solution, seemingly unconnected with any organization of interest to a sophisticated attacker of this kind. The group delivers its malware using social engineering. It also turned out that the motherboards infected in all known cases came from just two manufacturers.

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Hackers apply more sophisticated smart social engineering tactics. Сompared to the previous year, the average ransom demand has almost doubled in 2019 , from $6,733 to $12,762. Antivirus software may not detect new versions of malicious software. The cost of decrypting the affected data is growing.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

” ― Stephane Nappo The amount of compromised data in August 2019 composed 114,686,290 breached records. Here are only seven out of 26 topics: Insider threats Passwords Security of mobile devices Social engineering Viruses Email security Human error To start the course, you need to register and choose the type of account you need.

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SiteLock

OCTOBER 21, 2021

According to the old Akamai 2019 Traffic Report, back then, 83% of HTTP traffic on the Internet was made up of API calls. David Balaban is a computer security researcher with over 17 years of experience in malware analysis and antivirus software evaluation. What Does WAF Protect? David runs MacSecurity.net and Privacy-PC.com.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

For effective remediation, we recommended blocking the identified indicators of compromise (IoCs), isolating and re-imaging the host, conducting a full antivirus scan, rotating the user’s credentials, and revoking any open sessions. The initial ZIP file was proactively deleted from the host to prevent further spread.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

For effective remediation, we recommended blocking the identified indicators of compromise (IoCs), isolating and re-imaging the host, conducting a full antivirus scan, rotating the user’s credentials, and revoking any open sessions. The initial ZIP file was proactively deleted from the host to prevent further spread.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

lazydocker : A simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose : [link] pic.twitter.com/HsK17rzg8m — Binni Shah (@binitamshah) July 1, 2019. Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp [link] — Schneier Blog (@schneierblog) August 1, 2019. — Jason Haddix (@Jhaddix) July 27, 2019. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Install an antivirus solution that includes anti-adware capabilities. 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. Phishing and Social Engineering.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Cybercriminals often leverage social engineering tactics like phishing and spear-phishing to propagate sophisticated malware. Computer viruses often utilize deception techniques and keep evolving to evade antivirus software. It could be hidden in a malicious advertisement, fake email or illegitimate software installation.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

Cybercriminals often leverage social engineering tactics like phishing and spear-phishing to propagate sophisticated malware. Computer viruses often utilize deception techniques and keep evolving to evade antivirus software. It could be hidden in a malicious advertisement, fake email or illegitimate software installation.

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Spinone

JANUARY 20, 2020

That is why hackers use social engineering tricks to pressure victims into paying a ransom. In 2019 the game has changed: general ransomware activity has dropped, but the number of attacks targeting enterprises has increased by 12%. Use antivirus. Most antiviruses don’t protect against ransomware.

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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. Social engineering attacks soon found use in the digital space.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Many of the contact tracing scams of 2020 similarly followed social engineering scripts that have been used in taxpayer identity theft schemes since the 1990s as well. These concerns were apparently validated by a 2019 incident where deepfaked audio technology was used to scam a CEO out of $243,000.

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