Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Ransomware accounted for over half of all malicious mailings in H1 2019, Troldesh aka Shade being the most popular tool among cybercriminals. To bypass antivirus systems, hackers send out malicious emails in non-working hours with delayed activation. More than 80% of all malicious files were disguised as .zip rar archive files.

Ransomware 98

Ransomware Antivirus Malware Banking 98

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.”

Password Management 141

Password Management Passwords Antivirus Accountability 141

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. IPsec and SSL virtual private networking ( VPN ). However, the UTM market has been evolving over the past few years. URL filtering.

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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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Advertising Software Computers and Electronics Internet 284

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 Affairs

JUNE 17, 2021

” The SMOKEDHAM backdoor was associated by FireEye to the activity of the UNC2465 group that dates back to at least April 2019 and is considered a DARKSIDE RaaS affiliate. Figure 2 shows an image of the download page used for SmartPSS software.” ” concludes the report.

Cybercrime 111

Cybercrime Ransomware Antivirus Software 111

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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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. A firewall or a VPN Gateway, for example, may provide information, which could be used to identify potential attack vectors. Consider Zero Trust.

Ransomware 107

Ransomware Digital transformation Antivirus DDOS 107

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.

Ransomware 88

Ransomware Phishing Accountability Technology 88

IT Security Guru

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Armis’ own white paper on the topic mentions these for starters: July 2019: URGENT/11 affects billions of industrial and medical devices. If someone compromised a VPN, they could basically go anywhere on that network.”. OT devices don’t run antivirus. June 2020: Ripple20 TCP/IP vulnerabilities affect more industrial devices.

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Cybersecurity Wireless Cyber Risk Risk 145

Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In our Malwarebytes 2019 Privacy Survey we found that younger generations of Internet users are actually quite privacy-conscious. If connecting to a public Wi-Fi can’t be avoided, advise them to use a virtual public network (VPN). Install an antivirus (AV) you trust. Respect your privacy. And we mean, anyone—including friends.

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Internet Internet Passwords Password Management 129

McAfee

MAY 26, 2020

EU Exit) Regulations 2019 amends the DPA 2018 and merges it with the requirements of the EU GDPR to form a data protection regime that will work in a UK context after Brexit, and with insignificant differences between the EU GDPR and the proposed UK GDPR. The EU GDPR will no longer apply directly in the UK at the end of the transition period.

Antivirus 52

Antivirus VPN Risk Software 52

Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Keep your software up to date with security fixes, and install a modern antivirus solution , a password manager, and a securiity plugin for your browser, like BrowserGuard. In June 2019, Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence discovered exactly this kind of attack on the official Washington Wizards page of the NBA.com website.

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Passwords Software Internet Internet 132

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.

Malware 145

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

No need for complex infrastructure or VPN requirements. On the security side, it includes automated software patch management and vulnerability management, access control via 2-factor authentication, management of backups, and antivirus/anti-malware from a single interface. Value Proposition: IBM sold BigFix to HCL in 2019.

Software 88

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2021

As a relatively new market, zero trust tools serve as alternatives to VPN and DMZ architecture, or a granular approach to network access control (NAC), identity access management (IAM), and privilege access management (PAM). . As Mr. Kindervag stated emphatically at a 2019 conference , “What is trust?

Firewall 88

Firewall Network Security Architecture IoT 88

SiteLock

OCTOBER 21, 2021

NGFWs complement the capabilities of traditional firewalls by integrating the functions of a VPN gateway, intrusion detection and prevention (IDS/IPS) based on signatures, traffic inspection, and proxying application layer protocols with basic verification of their correctness and compliance with standards. What Does WAF Protect?

Firewall 52

Firewall Information Security Penetration Testing Banking 52

SecureList

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The most common way to sneak malware onto Google Play is for a Trojan to mimic a legitimate app already published on the site (for example, a photo editor or a VPN service) with the addition of a small piece of code to decrypt and launch a payload from the Trojan’s body or download it from the attackers’ server. against 2020.

Mobile 145

Mobile Malware Adware Banking 145

SecureList

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Within the same eleven-month period in 2019, Kaspersky detected 969 million such attacks worldwide. RDP attacks dynamics, January – November 2019 and 2020 ( download ). A virtual private network (VPN) allows for much more secure connections, but only 53% of workers are using one to access their corporate networks.

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