Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

More recently, it appears Megatraffer has been working with ransomware groups to help improve the stealth of their malware. Intel 471 finds that Himba was an active affiliate program until around May 2019, when it stopping paying its associates. Fitis’s Himba affiliate program, circa February 2014. Image: Archive.org.

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SecureList

MARCH 31, 2021

In 2020, the group tried its hand at the big extortion game with the VHD ransomware family. This report aims to shed a light on more details of financial cyberthreats in 2020. Traditionally, the study covers the common phishing threats encountered by users, along with Windows and Android-based financial malware. Key findings.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Here are some of the most recent statistics related to data breaches (according to IBM’s Cost of Data Breach Report 2020). million, which is 1,5% lower than in 2019 The average cost of a breach for organizations with incident response teams and plans is $3.29 A new ransomware attack occurs, approximately, every 11 seconds.

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Webroot

MARCH 31, 2021

In the past six weeks we have had two clients hit with ransomware. Backups saved us from a ransomware attack. “I was able to use a backup to restore all my client’s data after a ransomware attack. Sources: 1 SonicWall Capture Labs 2 VMware/Carbon Black Global Threat Report June 2020 3 Webroot RTAP.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 7, 2021

The US Department of Homeland Security’s CISA lists some of the serious end-results of failing to make use of the available SAP patches, in an announcement that followed the release of the report: Financial fraud Disruption to business Sensitive data theft Ransomware Halt of operations. Patch early, patch often.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

On July 7, CISA issued an alert, “ North Korean State-Sponsored Cyber Actors Use Maui Ransomware To Target the Healthcare and Public Health Sector “, based on a Stairwell report about Maui ransomware. You can read our public report on Andariel’s use of DTrack and Maui here. The most remarkable findings.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

However, according to CrowdStrike’s new Global Threat Report , the old-fashioned way of hacking – with hands on keyboards – isn’t going out of style anytime soon. This spike indicates “these adversary groups, and methods for defending against their TTPs, deserve a great deal of attention in the coming year,” the report states.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 14, 2021

Prisma Clouds’ 2021 Cloud Threat Report and Verizon’s 2021 DBIR Report show how companies have needed to adapt and expand cloud workloads and how this has affected their cybersecurity. This led to the cloud workloads of organizations growing by 20% from December 2019 to June 2020.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

ransomware). According to the global edition of the Thales 2020 Data Threat Report , 47% of healthcare organizations are either aggressively disrupting their market or are embedding digital capabilities that enable greater agility. For more key findings, download the Thales 2020 Data Threat Report-Global Edition.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

This report aims to offer thorough insights into the financial cyberthreat landscape in 2021. The research in this report is a continuation of our previous annual financial threat reports ( 2018 , 2019 and 2020 ), providing an overview of the latest trends and key events across the threat landscape.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2020

Threat Report Portugal Q1 2020: Phishing and malware by numbers. This makes it a reliable and trustworthy and continuously updated source, focused on the threats targeting Portuguese citizens. This makes it a reliable and trustworthy and continuously updated source, focused on the threats targeting Portuguese citizens.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 2, 2021

2021 Data Threat Report: How Covid Changed Everything. The 2021 Thales Data Threat Report serves exactly this purpose – it is a crucial reflection of 2020. This number has nearly doubled from 21% in 2019, marking a significant shift in the threat posed. Thu, 06/03/2021 - 06:46. Data security.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2023

In the past year, we’ve seen multiple developments in this area – from new attack schemes targeting contactless payments to multiple ransomware groups continuing to emerge and haunt businesses. Some advanced persistent threat (APT) actors also started tapping into the cryptocurrency market.

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McAfee

JANUARY 15, 2020

During a time when ransomware continues to bring governments around the world to a halt , one city has turned the tables, by bringing their government to a halt pre-emptively to prevent ransomware. Emotet infection is a precursor to Ryuk ransomware, so I think they dodged the proverbial bullet.”. An Ounce of Prevention ….

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 27, 2022

In the 2022 Thales Data Threat Report 451 Research found that 39% of US federal agencies use 50 or more SaaS applications, and 83% store more than 30% of all their data in the cloud. The European Union's Cybersecurity Act passed in 2019 gives ENISA, the EU Agency for Network and Information Security, a permanent mandate.

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Government Risk Artificial Intelligence Big data 71

Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2020

gun exchange site on hacking forum Threat Report Portugal: Q2 2020 Emotet malware employed in fresh COVID19-themed spam campaign PoC exploit code for two Apache Struts 2 flaws available online XCSSET Mac spyware spreads via Xcode Projects. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The H1 2021 ICS threat report at a glance. Top 15 countries and territories with the highest percentages of ICS computers on which internet threats were blocked in H1 2021 ( download ). Threats arriving via removable media were blocked on 5.2% which continued a downward trend that began in H2 2019. were blocked.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 25, 2021

At first glance, the report this week from cybersecurity software vendor McAfee showing that the incidence of ransomware dropped by half in the first quarter seems like good news to a world that continues to feel the repercussions of the seemingly ubiquitous malware. Ransomware is the Focus. Leak Sites.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 5, 2020

Local governments and small businesses, meanwhile, continue to get targeted for crippling ransomware extortion attacks and business email compromise campaigns. And he was privy to intelligence reports detailing how North Korea hacks into banks , gambling sites and crypto currency exchanges to fund its regime. “I

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