The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The logic of the raid mainly comes down to using unsecured RDP ports or spear-phishing to infiltrate networks and gain a foothold in them. In November 2019, the criminals behind a ransomware species called Maze started a new trend that is currently gaining momentum on the dark web. What does the future hold? Time will tell.

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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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Spinone

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Many of these attacks prey upon human nature by using social engineering tactics to trick a user into inadvertently allowing ransomware onto their system, under the guise of something legitimate. Let’s take a phishing email that one of our colleagues got some time ago as an example to illustrate the most common signs: 1.

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Spinone

MAY 8, 2020

Below are figures from the IBM 2019 Cost of a Data Breach Report : The average time to identify a breach in 2019 was 206 days The average time to contain a breach was 73 days , for a total of 279 days The potential damage, stealing of data, and widespread compromise that can happen in the meantime can be enormous and catastrophic to your business.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Attackers often use botnets to send out spam or phishing campaigns to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. During the 2019 holiday season, the Barracuda research team analyzed 4,200 Android apps related to shopping, Santa, and games. Phishing and Social Engineering. Phishing Type.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 16, 2019

RobinHood was the ransomware behind the Baltimore attack in May 2019. Sodinokibi (or REvil) ransomware infects computers by exploiting a vulnerability in Oracle WebLogic and using phishing emails. This ransomware is the suspect behind the Texas ransomware attack in August 2019, where more than 20 local governments were infected.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Usually, the links are contained in phishing emails (we have shown you an example). 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. billion in 2019. million dollars.

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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. Making things worse, Sodin may infect on-site backups as well. PerCSoft attack , August 2019.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The unknown intruders gained access to internal Mailchimp tools and customer data by social engineering employees at the company, and then started sending targeted phishing attacks to owners of Trezor hardware cryptocurrency wallets. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked.

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Spinone

AUGUST 12, 2020

He dubbed the new variant of ransomware, “ Ransomcloud ” In the initial demonstration of the attack , it was shown how with a simple social engineering email received by an unsuspecting user, a hacker could take control of a cloud email account and encrypt all the emails in their account. How Does Ransomware 2.0

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Hackers apply more sophisticated smart social engineering tactics. A usual way to get a ransomware infection is to click a phishing link and give permission to a risky app. Сompared to the previous year, the average ransom demand has almost doubled in 2019 , from $6,733 to $12,762. Ransomware is well-disguised.

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Veracode Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The FBI first began tracking TrickBot modules in early 2019 as it was used by cyberattackers to go after large corporations. BazarLoader malware usually comes from phishing emails, the advisory says, with a link to a Google Drive document or another file hosting service housing what looks like a PDF file but is really an executable.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2021

Prevent Rely solely on offline backups Disallow unnecessary file sharing. Significant gateway vulnerabilities include MS Exchange’s ProxyLogon, SonicWall’s Pulse VPN flaw in 2019, and an SQL injection vulnerability in early 2021. Old way New way. Detect Focus on encryption Assume exfiltration. Malicious Cloud Applications.

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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%. In fact, only 25% of home users have automatic weekly backups.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2022

In late 2021, we encountered a malicious DXE driver incorporated into several UEFI firmware images that were flagged by our firmware scanner (integrated into Kaspersky products at the start of 2019). Based on our telemetry, the actor initiated the attack by sending a spear-phishing email containing a macro-embedded Word document.

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