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Mobile malware evolution 2020

SecureList

In 2020, Kaspersky mobile products and technologies detected: 5,683,694 malicious installation packages, 156,710 new mobile banking Trojans, 20,708 new mobile ransomware Trojans. It just so happened that the year 2020 gave hackers a large number of powerful news topics, with the COVID-19 pandemic as the biggest of these.

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Convuster: macOS adware now in Rust

SecureList

Traditionally, most malicious objects detected on the macOS platform are adware: besides the already familiar Shlayer family , the TOP 10 includes Bnodlero, Cimpli, Adload and Pirrit adware. — gorelics (@gorelics) August 16, 2020. The payload of the executable was encrypted: XOR encryption. Introduction.

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Mobile Malware: Threats and Solutions

eSecurity Planet

As users have increasingly moved from desktop operating systems to mobile devices as their primary form of computing, cyber attackers have taken notice and malware has followed. Mobile malware statistics. More than 3 million of those attacks represented new types of malware. Types of mobile malware. ransomware?

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Extortion, precision malware, and ruthless scams. Read the State of Malware 2021 report

Malwarebytes

In short, in 2020, cyberthreats evolved. Today, we are showing readers just what that evolution looked like, in our State of Malware 2021 report. This report provides our most comprehensive analysis of last year’s malware trends, with breakdowns by malware category, malware type, operating system, region, industry, and more.

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New variant for Mac Malware XCSSET compiled for M1 Chips

Security Affairs

Kaspersky researchers spotted a new variant of the XCSSET Mac malware that compiled for devices running on Apple M1 chips. The malware also allows attackers to capture screenshots and exfiltrate stolen documents to the attackers’ server. Recently experts spotted other malware specifically designed to infect Mac running on M1 chips.

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Cybersecurity ‘Vaccines’ Emerge as Ransomware, Vulnerability Defense

eSecurity Planet

Germany-based G Data CyberDefense released software designed to trick the STOP ransomware variant into believing that a targeted system has already been compromised and keeping it from encrypting files after the device has been infected. Use ‘Harmless’ Parts of Malware. They also come with the same limitations.

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IT threat evolution Q1 2021. Non-mobile statistics

SecureList

Attempts to run malware designed to steal money via online access to bank accounts were stopped on the computers of 118,099 users. At the end of last year, the number of users attacked by malware designed to steal money from bank accounts gradually decreased, a trend that continued in Q1 2021. Top 10 banking malware families.

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