The Last Watchdog

APRIL 6, 2020

This can make them particularly susceptible to social engineering trickery, the trigger for online extortion and fraud campaigns, Bastable told me. Social engineering trigger While no fancy malware is needed to pull off a BEC scam, technology does come into play. These are soft targets,” he says. It’s simple fraud.”

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2023

In 2019, the company was ordered to pay a record-breaking $5 billion penalty by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for violating consumers’ privacy rights. The fine was the largest ever imposed on a social media company for privacy violations.

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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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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Source: Verizon DBIR [1] In last year’s DBIR report [2], Social Engineering and Basic Web Application Attacks accounted for over 50% of all cybersecurity data breach events, with Denial of Service being the number one cybersecurity incident covering almost 50% of all events. For example, DDoS attacks and unauthorized encryption (e.g.

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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. One of the most concerning aspects of these recent attacks is the way in which they are being conducted.

Penetration Testing 85

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Hot for Security

MARCH 29, 2021

That’s why email-validation services are an attractive target for cybercriminals looking for a fresh batch of email addresses for their next wave of social engineering attacks. If cybercriminals had stumbled upon it, they could have used the information in targeted phishing attacks to gather additional information from victims.

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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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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. ” SEPTEMBER.

Cryptocurrency 239

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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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In the report, the company examines key shifts in the cybercrime world internationally between H2 2019 and H1 2020 and gives forecasts for the coming year. Late 2019 and all of 2020 were marked by an unprecedented surge in ransomware attacks. Ransomware operators buy access and then encrypt devices on the network.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

lazydocker : A simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose : [link] pic.twitter.com/HsK17rzg8m — Binni Shah (@binitamshah) July 1, 2019. Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp [link] — Schneier Blog (@schneierblog) August 1, 2019. — Jason Haddix (@Jhaddix) July 27, 2019. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Crypto ransomware encrypts the data on your computer or in the cloud. However, you can not use encrypted data. Encrypting ransomware is much harder to deal with, as you can not get access to your data simply by switching devices or finding a way to pass a screen lock. Ryuk is one of the most common ransomware of 2018-2019.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The phishing campaigns delivering malicious attachments were observed since the end of October. ” Between October and November 2019, the TA2101 threat actor carried out a malspam campaign against targets in Germany that impersonates the German Federal Ministry of Finance (“Bundeszentralamt fur Steuern”). .

Government 75

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Ransomware has a public/private key encryption to make your data unreadable. Usually, the links are contained in phishing emails (we have shown you an example). In theory, ransomware may encrypt a file of any type. However, some files on your computer are encrypted more often than others. How Does Ransomware Work?

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Cybercriminals often leverage social engineering tactics like phishing and spear-phishing to propagate sophisticated malware. Ransomware programs gain access to a computer’s file system and execute a payload to encrypt all data. Unfortunately, most of the data it encrypted was lost for good due to faulty code.

Cyber threats 113

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Since at least 2019, the Mustang Panda threat actor group has targeted government and public sector organizations across Asia and Europe [3] with long-term cyberespionage campaigns in line with strategic interests of the Chinese government. Figure 8 – Decompiled PlugX loader contains decryption function.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In addition, telemedicine has generated a larger pool for potential phishing scams as well as other socially-engineered, and technically based, attacks (e.g., These tools include smart technology-oriented solutions like encryption and tokenization. ransomware).

Healthcare 62

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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. This ransomware strain encrypts files and appends a random extension to encrypted files. PerCSoft attack , August 2019.

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McAfee

AUGUST 26, 2020

B with a 500% increase in attacks in 2019 according to Forrester Research. Early variants of ransomware merely locked individual computers, sometimes even without encryption, thus preventing single user access. Ransomware Evolution to Most Promising Victim (MPV) Attacks. Ransomware cost businesses over $11.5

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

In May 2017, the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) rolled out its Cyber Security Framework mandating detailed data security rules, including a requirement to encrypt and containerize business data in all computing formats. organizations between January 2013 and July 2019. Ransomware hacking groups extorted at least $144.35

Computers and Electronics 113

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SecureList

MAY 9, 2024

The payloads were distinctively served, veiled as font files, in compressed and encrypted fashion. Recent threat hunting enabled us to gain an insight into campaigns run by Careto in 2024, 2022 and 2019. Most of the attacks start with a spear-phishing email containing a Microsoft Word document or a ZIP archive with an LNK file inside.

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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.

Healthcare 52

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

Cybercriminals often leverage social engineering tactics like phishing and spear-phishing to propagate sophisticated malware. Ransomware programs gain access to a computer’s file system and execute a payload to encrypt all data. Unfortunately, most of the data it encrypted was lost for good due to faulty code.

Malware 107

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

For ransomware attacks where network data gets encrypted , backups are the definitive method for restoring network infrastructure. Coveware reported earlier this year the average downtime for ransomware victims jumped from 15 days in 2019 to 21 days in 2020. Beyond Encryption: Exfiltration and Extortion. Data Exfiltration.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

Communication with the server can take place either over raw TCP sockets encrypted with RC4, or via HTTPS. All of these documents were blank, suggesting the existence of precursor documents – possibly delivered by means of spear-phishing or a previous infection – that trigger the download of the RTF files. Black Kingdom ransomware.

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

In their campaigns to infect mobile devices, cybercriminals always resort to social engineering tools, the most common of these passing a malicious application off as another, popular and desirable one. Number of attacks on mobile users in 2019 and 2020 ( download ). Whereas it was 12.85% in 2019, it reached 14.62% in 2020.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2022

We identified a Windows variant of this sample using the same string encryption algorithm, internal modules, and functionalities. 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).

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Spinone

MAY 8, 2020

Data can be altered, deleted, encrypted, or stolen based on the intentions and directives of attackers. This leads to a situation where employees are even more likely to fall victim to phishing attacks or malicious websites that lure employees with relevant COVID-19 headlines or subject lines. In essence, it holds your data hostage.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The victims are targeted with spear-phishing emails that trick them into mounting a malicious ISO file and double-clicking an LNK, which starts the infection chain. KeyPlug is a modular backdoor with the capability of communicating to its server via several network communication protocols set in its XOR-encrypted embedded configuration block.

Malware 141

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 1, 2021

The data that has been stolen or encrypted is essential to operations and without it, even for a short time, the organization could fail. Research has highlighted that both human (social engineering) and technical vulnerabilities are exploited in ransomware attacks, and that this creates difficulties in establishing effective countermeasures.

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Spinone

JANUARY 20, 2020

In this article, we will take a detailed look at how ransomware works, how your data can be corrupted and encrypted by it, and what you can do to decrease this probability as much as possible! Its main goal is to encrypt files on it and get money for their decryption, not to actually harm the device or data.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2023

Middle East We have identified ongoing spear-phishing campaigns targeting Middle Eastern countries dating back to July 2021. The actor was first publicly disclosed by Checkpoint in July 2019 and is known to use politically themed Facebook pages to trick victims into downloading and executing malware.

Energy and Utilities 137

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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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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2021

Ransomware: Encryption, Exfiltration, and Extortion. Ransomware perpetrators of the past presented a problem of availability through encryption. Detect Focus on encryption Assume exfiltration. In a call to action, Schneier emphasized AI needs to be controlled now to avoid seeing its destructive abilities down the road.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1970-1995 — Kevin Mitnick — Beginning in 1970, Kevin Mitnick penetrates some of the most highly-guarded networks in the world, including Nokia and Motorola, using elaborate social engineering schemes, tricking insiders into handing over codes and passwords, and using the codes to access internal computer systems.

Cybercrime 135

Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135

SecureList

APRIL 10, 2023

The offers presented in this report were published between 2019 and 2023 and were collected from the nine most popular forums for the purchase and sale of goods and services related to malware and unwanted software. The main condition for enabling binding is the possibility to decompile a legitimate app and then compile it back using apktool.

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