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2020 Oscar Nominees Used to Spread Malware

Adam Levin

Online scammers are using the 2020 Oscars to spread malware. A recent study released by Kaspersky Labs uncovered several hacking and phishing campaigns promising their targets free and early access to Best Picture nominees for this year’s Academy Awards.

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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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Gaming-related cyberthreats in 2020 and 2021

SecureList

billion USD in 2021, which is slightly less than the total revenue in 2020 but still significantly above the pre-pandemic figures. In this report, we cover PC and mobile threats as well as various phishing schemes that capitalize on popular games. Pandemic-related statistics cover the period of January 2020 through June 2021.

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Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2020-2021. EU statistics

SecureList

The statistics in this report cover the period from May 2020 to April 2021, inclusive. 40% users of Kaspersky solutions in the EU encountered at least one phishing attack. 86,584,675 phishing attempts were blocked by Kaspersky solutions in the EU. Main figures. In the EU, Kaspersky solutions blocked 115,452,157 web attacks.

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Malware on the Google Play store leads to harmful phishing sites

Malwarebytes

This follows on the heels of adware that was found on Google Play just a couple months ago from a rogue PDF reader. After the initial delay, the malicious app opens phishing sites in Chrome. The users browser history will also be a long list of nasty phishing sites. Date of release 2020-12-??: Delayed ungratification.

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Threat in your browser: what dangers innocent-looking extensions hold for users

SecureList

In 2020, Google removed 106 browser extensions from its Chrome Web Store. For instance, when an account of the developer of a popular add-on was hijacked after a phishing attack, millions of users received adware on their devices without their knowledge. From January 2020 to June 2022, more than 4.3 Methodology.

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Why blocking ads is good for your digital health

Malwarebytes

Disney and Amazon had a total of 40bn impressions between them in the first quarter of 2020, and Google is pretty much powered by advertising : Google is an attention merchant that – in 2022 – generated over $224 billion (almost 80% of revenues) from ads (Google Search, YouTube Ads, and Network sites. So what can we do about it?

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