SecureList

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Figures of the year In 2022, Kaspersky mobile products and technology detected: 1,661,743 malicious installers 196,476 new mobile banking Trojans 10,543 new mobile ransomware Trojans Trends of the year Mobile attacks leveled off after decreasing in the second half of 2021 and remained around the same level throughout 2022.

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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. The joint alert also states that attackers scanning also enumerated devices for the CVE-2020-12812 and CVE-2019-5591 flaws. Disable hyperlinks in received emails.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Trusted applications will not be stopped by antivirus or anti-malware technologies. Bypassing these technologies can save a cybercriminal organization considerable development time and money. Antivirus software can require high processing power, due to the in-depth nature of scanning. Why are certificates important?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 26, 2022

In 2019, this type of cyberattack cost companies about $7.5 Here are some of the ways companies can protect themselves from ransomware attacks: Update software: One of the best defenses against ransomware is regularly updating software, especially antivirus software installed on the computer. What Companies Have Suffered These Attacks?

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 10, 2022

Observed since: September 2019 Ransomware note: Restore-My-Files.txt Ransomware extension: lockbit Kill Chain: Brute force attack on a web server containing an outdated VPN service > LockBit Sample hash: 9feed0c7fa8c1d32390e1c168051267df61f11b048ec62aa5b8e66f60e8083af. LockBit 2.0.

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

In 2020, Kaspersky mobile products and technologies detected: 5,683,694 malicious installation packages, 156,710 new mobile banking Trojans, 20,708 new mobile ransomware Trojans. 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.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Technology has made us more productive and connected, but it also puts us at risk of exploitation. billion more than in 2019. Some 34% of those who filed a report lost money, another figure up significantly since 2019. Some 34% of those who filed a report lost money, another figure up significantly since 2019.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2021

The fight to the Joker malware (aka Bread) begun in September 2019 when security experts at Google removed from the official Play Store 24 apps because they were infected with a new spyware tracked as “ the Joker. ”. Experts from antivirus firm Doctor Web discovered ten apps in AppGallery that were containing the malicious code.

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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2021

According to the experts, the first infections were observed in late 2019, victims reported their files were encrypted by a strain of malware. Operators behind the Pysa malware, also employed a version of the PowerShell Empire penetration-testing tool, they were able to stop antivirus products. newversion file extension instead of.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Cybersecurity, which started with antivirus suites, spam filters and firewalls, has mushroomed into a $103 billion industry. At the same time, a tectonic shift to smarter technologies and strategies is rapidly taking shape. Much has changed; much has remained the same.

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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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Hacker Combat

AUGUST 6, 2021

It mainly focuses on agencies connected with foreign and domestic, economic policy, and government information technology. The Group-IB analysis focused on the WebDAV sample that was uploaded on VirusTotal in 2019 and overlapped with the model by Solar JSOC. The hackers download gigabytes of data with no trace for years.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 29, 2020

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% The technology will also prevent pages from using unprotected cookies to try and gain access to protected web services and sites.

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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 macro technology. 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. A deeper dive.

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SecureList

JULY 1, 2021

This year’s report looked at the period from December 2019 to May 2021, which shows that not only were work computers connected to Steam, but they also remained connected. Based on the statistics from our web antivirus, cybercriminals are still mainly placing their bets on exploiting Minecraft as a decoy.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

ZonaAlarm , the popular security software firm owned by Check Point Technologies, has suffered a data breach. The ZoneAlarm suite includes antivirus software and firewall solutions to and users and small organizations, it has nearly 100 million downloads. ” reads the post published by The Hacker News. .”

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Spinone

OCTOBER 10, 2019

HackingVision has a great focus on technology and modern cybersecurity trends. The range of topics highlighted is wide: ransomware protection, antivirus software, blockchain technologies in security, and much more. Antivirus Software 2019 The primary focus of this blog is antivirus software.

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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. Better operational practices, rather than technology, is really the key issue for a lot of businesses affected by ransomware. Security hygiene is the best defence.

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IT Security Guru

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Operational technology (OT) used to be the specialist networks nobody in IT bothered with, or perhaps thought they didn’t need to. Armis’ own white paper on the topic mentions these for starters: July 2019: URGENT/11 affects billions of industrial and medical devices. OT devices don’t run antivirus. Nobody listens to OT people.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

invest in better endpoint detection and response (EDR) technology, apparently recommending Cylance or VMware Carbon Black. 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. Microsoft Antivirus Now Automatically Mitigates Exchange Server Vulnerability.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The vaccine has been tested against versions of the STOP ransomware that have arisen between August 2019 and this month – but that’s no guarantee that it will protect against future strains or other malware packaged with it. Also read: Top Vulnerability Management Tools for 2021. Vaccines Target Variants.

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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. The technology is accelerating in its sophistication.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

” Microleaves has long been classified by antivirus companies as adware or as a “potentially unwanted program” (PUP), the euphemism that antivirus companies use to describe executable files that get installed with ambiguous consent at best, and are often part of a bundle of software tied to some “free” download.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

We met at Black Hat 2019. Once they were inside, they would turn off your antivirus software and the software responsible for online backups. British antimalware and network security vendor Sophos refers to this new tactic as “automated, active attacks.” Sophos Senior Security Advisor John Shier broke it down for me.

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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.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Files comprise only part of the data processed by Kaspersky Lab technologies, yet the most important one. The scope of the assessment includes regular automatic updates of antivirus records, created and distributed by Kaspersky Lab for its products operating on Windows and Unix Servers. Learn more at www.kaspersky.com. [1]

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Once your micro-perimeters surround your most sensitive segments, there’s a need for ongoing monitoring and adaptive technology. This is especially true for your existing intrusion detection and prevention system (IDPS), antivirus, and anti-malware. Without external backups or rollback technology, recovery is impossible.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Technology has enabled people to connect more than ever before. In 2019, we created a special alert that notifies users if stalkerware is installed on their phones. of domestic violence practitioners have clients experiencing technology-facilitated abuse and that the use of video cameras increased by 183.2%

Mobile 80

Mobile Surveillance Software Passwords 80

Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

To ensure the prompt and stable supply of content, online pirates rely on content delivery networks (CDNs) – an optimized technology for the distributed delivery of videos, TV series, and sports streams. The shutdown of two major CDNs — Moonwalk and HDGO— in 2019, and the subsequent drop of the Russian piracy market from $87 million to $63.5

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Pentester Academy

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The damages for 2018 were predicted to reach $8 billion; for 2019, the figure was $11.5 Lab Link: [link] The user is going to get access to a Kali GUI instance and Windows Server 2019. However, it also made use of DoublePulsar backdoor to spread itself from the infected machines. billion, and in 2021 it was $20 billion.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 12, 2021

This case exposed a vast list of Microsoft support records at the end of 2019. Simply put, tangible assets are physical things like human resources and buildings, while intangible assets are non-physical, for example, data of your clients, technology data, software, etc. Insider threat cases . MICROSOFT DATABASE GOES PUBLIC .

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 17, 2023

When asked specifically about the tools and methods that people use to protect themselves online, we found, disappointingly, that: Just 35 percent of people use antivirus software. Use antivirus Ask a cybersecurity writer (me) how it feels to learn that just 35 percent of people use antivirus and you’ll hear an answer: “Not great.”

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2021

The iOS vulnerability exploited by checkm8 rattled quite a few cages in late 2019. In fact, they should be commended for developing many beneficial technologies that help Mac (and iPhone) users stay more secure. There was KeRanger ransomware in 2016. Several effective Mac-facing miners joined the crypto-rush in 2018.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2019

But in June 2019, the DOJ unsealed an updated indictment (PDF) naming Škorjanc, the original two other defendants, and a fourth man (from the United States) in a conspiracy to make and market Mariposa and to run the Darkode crime forum. “TM passed this information on to Brian Krebs.”

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SecureList

JUNE 23, 2021

We implement different machine learning techniques, including deep neural networks, one of the most promising technologies that make it possible to work with large amounts of data, incorporate different types of features, and boast a high accuracy rate. ” arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.09064 (2019). [v] PMLR, 2019.

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