SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

All it takes is one weak password, one click on a phishing email, or one re-used password that has already been compromised, for an attacker to gain unauthorized access to your site. In SiteLock’s 2019 Website Security Report , we analyzed 6 million websites in our sample data to determine the most prevalent cyber threats websites face today.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2019

It typically spreads through two different vectors: perimeter breach, for instance compromising company’s websites; spear-phishing emails and malicious attachments. The data sent to the C2 are protected by SSL encryption. GreyEnergy: Welcome to 2019. The post GreyEnergy: Welcome to 2019 appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2020

DeathRansom was considered fake ransomware due to the fact that it did not implement an effective encryption process, but now things are changing. DeathRansom is a ransomware family that was initially classified as a joke because it did not implement an effective encryption scheme. ” continues the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Webroot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The number of ransomware attacks has increased by 18% , while the worldwide volume of phishing attacks doubled to 500 million in 2022. Email threat protection and email continuity Email is one of the most common entry points for attacks, from phishing links to ransomware and business email compromise (BEC) to malicious attachments.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 24, 2023

“Fortunately, TGH’s monitoring systems and experienced technology professionals effectively prevented encryption, which would have significantly interrupted the hospital’s ability to provide care for patients.” Some forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) can be phished just as easily as a password.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A Cookie Theft malware was employed in phishing attacks against YouTube creators, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns. Financially motivated threat actors are using Cookie Theft malware in phishing attacks against YouTube creators since late 2019. ” reads the analysis published by Google TAG.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2021

According to researchers at INKY, in the last few months, there’s been a sharp rise in these work-related phishing lures. A short period of time is plenty to get access to sensitive data, exfiltrate it, cover tracks, delete or encrypt valuable data, and potentially increase persistence in the environment for future usage.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2021

According to Varonis and RiskBased, over 4 billion records were illegally accessed through data breaches in 2019. Among many other benefits, a VPN encrypts these files and keeps the online activity private by masking a user’s real IP address. Here are the different ways in which a VPN elevates cybersecurity: Encryption.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2020

Experts at cyber security firm Cypher conducted a study on Portuguese domains during 2019 and concluded that Emotet and Ryuk were the most active threats. This is the conclusion of a study by Cipher Portugal, which studied Portuguese domains during 2019. This enhancement appeared in the middle of September 2019.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

According to a report from Protenus and DataBreaches.net, over 41 million patient records were breached in 2019, almost tripling healthcare industry breaches from the prior year. The largest privacy incident was reported in 2019 at American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), a third-party billing and collections company.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2020

“Two of the most common vulnerabilities exploited by actors using Netwalker are Pulse Secure VPN (CVE-2019-11510) and Telerik UI (CVE-2019-18935).” In order to encrypt the user files on a victim network, the actors typically launch a malicious PowerShell script embedded with the Netwalker ransomware executable.”

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Additionally, the political season gave rise to phishing campaigns, a phenomenon that is likely to continue through the end of the year. The incidence of ransomware attacks has continued to climb, over 700% by some estimates in 2020 in comparison to 2019, with phishing emails being the primary vector.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Cybersecurity Insiders has learnt that Olympus was targeted by the file encrypting malware on September 8th, 2021 and BlackMatter Ransomware group posted a message that the network has been encrypted and the ransom related negotiations should further take place only through TOR Browser.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2022

The Zeppelin ransomware first appeared on the threat landscape in November 2019 when experts from BlackBerry Cylance found a new variant of the Vega RaaS, dubbed Zeppelin. The group uses multiple attack vectors to gain access to victim networks, including RDP exploitation, SonicWall firewall vulnerabilities exploitation, and phishing attacks.

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Hacker Combat

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Google has reported that it disrupted the phishing attacks where threat actors had tried to hijack various YouTube accounts using cookie theft malware. The crypto-currency scams, which started in 2019, saw hackers recruit their targets on one Russian-speaking platform. million messages the scammers had sent other potential victims.

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Identity IQ

JULY 19, 2021

Ransomware attacks in the United States more than doubled from 2019 to 2020. Some attacks happen when hackers find a vulnerability in a company’s software and use that to get into their system. Ransomware criminals infiltrate networks with malware that cripples companies by scrambling all their data. The costs of such attacks add up.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

times against 2019. In 2021, HIPAA noted 642 data leaks from medical organizations versus 512 in 2019. Authentication for data transfer using this port is completely optional, and even when authentication is present, there is no encryption; in other words, the authentication data is sent as readable text. Source: HIPAA Journal.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2021

According to the experts, the first infections were observed in late 2019, victims reported their files were encrypted by a strain of malware. locked to the filename of the encrypted files. The attackers implement a double extortion model using the PYSA ransomware to exfiltrate data from victims prior to encrypting their files.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2021

PYSA, aka Mespinoza, is a malware capable of exfiltrating data and encrypting users’ critical files and data stored on their systems. PYSA, also known as Mespinoza, was first spotted in the wild in October 2019 where it was initially used against large corporate networks. Phishing campaigns and domain typosquatting also come into play.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

The malware has been active at least since August 2019, over the months the NetWalker ransomware was made available through a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model attracting criminal affiliates. “Since 2019, NetWalker ransomware has reached a vast number of different targets, mostly based in western European countries and the US.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Because QR codes can open links automatically, hackers can use them to redirect users to forged websites and thus improve the success rate of their phishing campaigns , for example. In 2020, Omer Shafiq explained how he spoofed an encrypted QR code containing COVID test reports that was supposed to be digitally signed and unforgeable.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2021

There was no need for a password or login credentials to access the information, and the data was not encrypted. In a sampling of the player profile data, the WizCase security team found that users could spend as much as $907 on the game via in-app microtransactions in the 10,000-player sample from 2019-2020 our team observed.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2020

In September, systems at the University Hospital New Jersey (UHNJ) were encrypted with the SunCrypt ransomware , threat actors also stolen documents from the institution and leaked a small portion of them online. The UHNJ is a New Jersey state-owned teaching hospital with over 3,500 employees that was established in 1994.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 7, 2023

Europol discussed the gang in a recent statement: "This ransomware appeared in 2019, when cybercriminals started using it to launch attacks against organisations and critical infrastructure and industries. In the US, victims payed at least 40 million euros between May 2019 and March 2021."

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Malwarebytes

MAY 28, 2021

(The first is Ransom.Sodinokibi , which Malwarebytes has already profiled and has been detecting since 2019.). In the case of phishing campaigns, Wizard Spider and its affiliates have been known to use legitimate Google document URLs in the email body. Earlier versions appended the.CONTI extension to encrypted files.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 9, 2022

From 2019 to 2021, the healthcare industry saw an increase in breaches and leaks of more than 50% , according to the Healthcare Cybersecurity Report by the Herjavec Group. They deploy Cobalt Strike for persistence, harvest credentials, and move laterally through the network until encrypting the files.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

The malware has been active at least since August 2019, over the months the NetWalker ransomware was made available through a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model attracting criminal affiliates. “Since 2019, NetWalker ransomware has reached a vast number of different targets, mostly based in western European countries and the US.

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Spinone

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The average ransomware demand continues to grow (up to $41,198 in Q3 2019, compared to $5,973 in the same period last year). This ransomware encrypts cloud data, damaging the whole network of an organization. Ryuk targets large organizations, using advanced encryption algorithms that are extremely hard to decrypt. in Bitcoin.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2020

The expert Bob Diachenko has discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch install belonging to a UK security firm that contained 5 billion records of data leaked in previous incidents that took place between 2012 and 2019. Most of the data come from previously known source s, it could expose affected people to scams and phishing campaigns.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Even though many consider spam and phishing outdated techniques, they are still employed by cybercriminals today. In August 2021, a Revere Health employee was hacked through a phishing email attack which exposed approximately 12,000 patient medical records. In some cases, you can immediately tell that phishing emails are inauthentic.

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IT Security Guru

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Very few people outside of the tech community had heard of SolarWinds before late 2019 when cyber criminals gained access to the SolarWinds’ network. In December 2019, the Travelex foreign exchange company was targeted by the REvil ransomware group. SolarWinds. In total, the hackers stole the personal information of 147.7

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 4, 2022

Leakware is a potent, dangerous form of ransomware that emerged in 2019. It's slightly different from a standard ransomware attack—encrypting a user's files is a secondary concern. Email phishing attacks are a common method hackers use to execute leakware. What is leakware? Prioritize employee cybersecurity training.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

According to Unitrends’ 2019 cloud storage research, 62% of respondents had successfully recovered data from the cloud. Cybercriminals use various ways to acquire illegal access and exfiltrate sensitive data, such as exploiting software flaws, phishing assaults, or using compromised credentials.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 30, 2021

PYSA, which stands for “Protect Your System Amigo”, was first named in open source documents in December 2019, two months after Mespinoza was spotted in the wild. Mespinoza originally used the.locked extension on encrypted files, and then shifted to using.pysa. Don’t try to use backups because it were encrypted too.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Although most people think of ransomware as a dodgy application that encrypts data and holds it for ransom, the concept is much more heterogeneous than that. File encryption 2013 – 2015. It emerged in September 2013 and paved the way for hundreds of file-encrypting menaces that have splashed onto the scene ever since.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2023

The LockBit Locker group is known for using a combination of advanced techniques, even phishing, and also social engineering, to gain initial access to a company’s network. Despite not being the true LockBit Locker group, these micro criminals were still able to cause significant damage by encrypting a large number of internal files.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2019

GCHQ implements World War II cipher machines in encryption app CyberChef. phishing ads. Slack Launched Encryption Key Addon For Businesses. Pwn2Own 2019 Day 1 – participants hacked Apple, Oracle, VMware products. Pwn2Own 2019 Day 2 – Hackers earned $270,000 for Firefox, Edge hacks. Google took down 2.3

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