Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2025

The campaign has been active since at least 2019, it targets Japanese technology and national security, evolving methods to steal advanced tech and intelligence. Between 2019 and 2024, the MirrorFace group launched three cyber campaigns targeting Japanese think tanks, government, academia, and key industries.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

2011 said he was a system administrator and C++ coder. The indictment against Khoroshev says he used the hacker nickname Putinkrab , and Intel 471 says this corresponds to a username that was first registered across three major Russian cybercrime forums in early 2019. ” Putinkrab’s final post came on August 23, 2019.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

GandCrab dissolved in July 2019, and is thought to have become “ REvil ,” one of the most ruthless and rapacious Russian ransomware groups of all time. “The command requires Windows system administrators,” Truniger’s ads explained. “Experience in backup, increase privileges, mikicatz, network.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

I had a revelatory discussion about this with Aviv Grafi, CEO of Votiro, at RSA 2019 in San Francisco last week. Granted, a high percentage of malicious software circulating in the wild is successfully filtered by advanced antivirus suites or gets detonated in sandboxes before they can do harm. Effective attacks.

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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. In 2019 attacks on cloud services doubled , demonstrating a significant shift in the focus of APT groups. Ransomware. Trojans/Spyware. Logic bombs. a trusted vendor.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

A common practice for MSP software vendors is to advise users of directories that should be “whitelisted” against antivirus software, so that their software can work without interference from cybersecurity tools. Early the next morning, Northshore systems administrator Ski Kacoroski arrived on scene.

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Spinone

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

These are words that no system administrator or business leader wants to hear from anyone using a computer on their network. However, this year in 2019, many IT professionals and business leaders alike have had to deal with the very real and alarming scenario of a ransomware attack. billion in 2019 worldwide.

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