SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

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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Mobile Malware Adware Banking 131

SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In 2020: The share of spam in email traffic amounted to 50.37%, down by 6.14 The email antivirus was triggered most frequently by email messages containing members of the Trojan.Win32.Agentb The share of spam in global email traffic in 2020 was down by 6.14 Proportion of spam in global email traffic, 2020 ( download ).

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

We're proud to announce that Avast Free Antivirus has been awarded “Top-Rated Product” status for 2020 by AV-Comparatives. The post AV-Comparatives Top Rated Product Of 2020 | Avast appeared first on Security Boulevard. Avast was recognized ahead of many paid-for alternatives.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2020

11’s Patch Tuesday was CVE-2020-1464 , a problem with the way every supported version of Windows validates digital signatures for computer programs. In fact, CVE-2020-1464 was first spotted in attacks used in the wild back in August 2018. One of the 120 security holes Microsoft fixed on Aug. Image: Securityinbits.com.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2020

Chinese hackers have exploited a zero-day vulnerability the Trend Micro OfficeScan antivirus in the recently disclosed hack of Mitsubishi Electric. Now ZDNet has learned from sources close to the investigation that the Chinese hackers have used a zero-day flaw in the Trend Micro OfficeScan antivirus in the attack on Mitsubishi Electric.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

US FTC charged cyber security firm Avast with harvesting consumer web browsing data through its browser extension and antivirus and sold it. The antivirus firm is accused of selling the data to advertising companies without user consent. ” re ads the FTC’s complaint. FTC will also fine Avast $16.5

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

We have tracking Lampion activity from the beginning, and we noticed that since February 12th – 2020, the malware has been presented with a new “visual” but maintaining the same modus operandi. 2020-02-13] #Lampion v2 #portugal #malware #ATA 0998f6473004e0ba54ead5784ba62db8 h}//vrau-x.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.[com/0.zip com/P-14-7.dll

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Malware Banking Antivirus Advertising 78

Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Good article on the evolution of ransomware : Though some researchers say that the scale and severity of ransomware attacks crossed a bright line in 2020, others describe this year as simply the next step in a gradual and, unfortunately, predictable devolution. After years spent honing their techniques, attackers are growing bolder.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 30, 2020

Avast will phase out Jumpshot, a subsidiary that sells user browsing data gleaned from its antivirus and security products. . “I No reasonable person would expect antivirus software to be selling off their private browsing data to the highest bidder,” said a spokesperson for Sanders. . On every site.”

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The state of stalkerware in 2020 (PDF). Kaspersky’s data shows that the scale of the stalkerware issue has not improved much in 2020 compared to the last year: The number of people affected is still high. In total, 53,870 of our mobile users were affected globally by stalkerware in 2020. between 2015 and 2020.

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Mobile Surveillance Software Passwords 80

Adam Levin

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Cyberattacks deploying Emotet had mostly died down between February and June 2020, but have surged again since July 2020 with a 1000% increase detected by security agencies in August. Since then, government agencies in the U.S., Netherlands, Japan, Canada, New Zealand, and Italy have all reported Emotet-related attacks.

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Government Antivirus Phishing Banking 208

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) said in the directive that it expected imminent exploitation of the flaw — CVE-2020-1472 and dubbed “ZeroLogon” — because exploit code which can be used to take advantage of it was circulating online.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 23, 2021

McAfee was arrested in Spain in October 2020 following the Western District of Tennessee's announcement of a 10-count indictment for skipping out on millions in incomes taxes from 2014 to 2018. He was also charged in a Manhattan federal court earlier this year for his alleged involvement in a pump-and-dump cryptocurrency scheme.

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Antivirus Cryptocurrency Software 59

SC Magazine

JUNE 18, 2021

The Blackbaud data breach was the largest health care-related incident of 2020, impacting an estimated two dozen providers and well over 10 million patients. In February 2020, threat actors hacked into its self-hosted environment, stealing data as they proliferated across the network. Photo captured from Alina Lodge website ).

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 23, 2021

McAfee was arrested in Spain in October 2020 following the Western District of Tennessee's announcement of a 10-count indictment for skipping out on millions in incomes taxes from 2014 to 2018. He was also charged in a Manhattan federal court earlier this year for his alleged involvement in a pump-and-dump cryptocurrency scheme.

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Antivirus Cryptocurrency Software 52

Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2021

Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro revealed that a threat actor is actively exploiting a flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-24557, in its antivirus solutions to gain admin rights on Windows systems. The CVE-2020-24557 vulnerability affects the Apex One and OfficeScan XG enterprise security products.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 22, 2021

Following up on our big win at the end of 2020 , we’re now excited to announce that Avast Business Antivirus Pro Plus has received the “Approved Business Product” award for July 2021 by AV-Comparatives. The post Avast Receives AV-Comparatives Approved Business Product Award | Avast appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2020

Antivirus maker Avast has disabled a core component of its antivirus to address a severe vulnerability that would have allowed attackers to control users’ PC. link] — Tavis Ormandy (@taviso) March 11, 2020. Ormandy pointed out that the main Avast antivirus process, AvastSvc.exe, which, runs as SYSTEM.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2021

“While the Windows system is in safe mode antivirus software doesn’t work. The researchers started investigating the threat after they became aware that the malware was disabling and uninstalling its antivirus from infected devices. “It also uses WQL to query all antivirus software installed SELECT * FROM AntiVirusProduct.”

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Antivirus Cryptocurrency Malware Software 109

Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2021

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a security alert related to the discovery of 13 malware samples on compromised Pulse Secure devices, many of which were undetected by antivirus products. Experts pointed out that only one of malware samples analyzed by CISA was uploaded on VirusTotal with a low detection rate.

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SecureBlitz

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Follow me as I show you the BullGuard Premium Protection 2021 Edition review… BullGuard announced its latest suite of security solutions – The BullGuard Premium Protection 2021 Edition on the 30th of September, 2020.

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Antivirus Engineering Cybersecurity 59

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 27, 2021

“It picked up steam in mid-2020, growing the average ransom to $65,000 last year, up from $18,800 in 2019.” The NetWalker ransomware affiliate program kicked off in March 2020, when the administrator of the crimeware project began recruiting people on the dark web. ” Image: Chainalysis. Powershell build.

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Ransomware Cybercrime Antivirus Encryption 282

CSO Magazine

MAY 18, 2022

I've never felt a need for a Linux antivirus program. According to security company Crowdstrike, Linux malware increased by 35% in 2021 compared to 2020. I've been running the Linux desktop since the great desktop debate was between C Shell and Bash. Far from it!

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2021

In April, the security firm revealed that attackers were actively exploiting a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-24557, in its antivirus solutions to gain admin rights on Windows systems. The CVE-2020-24557 vulnerability affects the Apex One and OfficeScan XG enterprise security products. .

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2024

The attackers mostly used Cisco vulnerabilities CVE-2020-3259 and CVE-2023-20269. The government experts observed the use of PowerTool by Akira threat actors to exploit the Zemana AntiMalware driver and terminate antivirus-related processes. Threat actors use FileZilla, WinRAR, WinSCP, and RClone for data exfiltration.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 13, 2021

McAfee released an ‘MVISION’ Cloud User Report on Tuesday stating that the year 2020 witnessed over 3.1 While the ransomware attacks grew by 69 percent from Q3 2020 to Q4 2020, REvil, Thanos, RYUK, Maze and RansomeXX occupied a large share in such attacks. million cyber attacks on cloud user accounts.

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Cyber Attacks Accountability Retail Antivirus 95

Malwarebytes

APRIL 14, 2022

This decrease in stalkerware-type activity never reached the lower levels in 2019 that Malwarebytes recorded before the start of the global coronavirus pandemic, which was recognized in 2020 and which spread quickly across the globe beginning in the months of February, March, and April. This represents a 4.2 What’s at play here?

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Spyware Antivirus Technology Government 131

Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2021

DirtyMoe is a Windows botnet that is rapidly growing, it passed from 10,000 infected systems in 2020 to more than 100,000 in the first half of 2021. Experts pointed out that the number of infected systems could be far greater because data provided by AVAST are only related to systems running their antivirus solution.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

From then, the company has been offering antivirus software, multi-cloud security, extended detection and response and anti-virus and IoT protection. NOTE 2 – Bitdefender has been assisting Europol European Cybercrime Centre in solving cyber crime from the year 2017 and is also assisting Interpol from the year 2020.

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Mobile Antivirus VPN IoT 101

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 12, 2022

For organizations that still rely on signature-based next generation antivirus (NGAV) solutions to protect their endpoints from ransomware and other advanced attacks, this is terrible news. . In 2020, 66% of all ransomware attacks used Cobalt Strike. The platform was also used in last year's SolarWinds attack.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2022

Norton 360 , one of the most popular antivirus products on the market today, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on its customers’ computers. However, many users have reported difficulty removing the mining program. “The older generation simply doesn’t trust the new-fangled ideas of the Bitcoin youth.” ”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Even today, less than half of the known antivirus engines are flagging the infection on VirusTotal , as observed by BleepingComputer: The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide.

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Antivirus Government Malware Advertising 108

SecureList

JULY 1, 2021

In 2020, the number of gamers worldwide surpassed 2.7 They dropped off slightly after reaching the all-time peak in May 2020 mentioned in our last year’s report. The number of web attacks exploiting gaming themes from January 2020 to May 2021. They played, they play, and they’ll keep playing.

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Antivirus Malware Accountability Mobile 120

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2023

billion in 2020, a 43% increase. billion in payment card-related losses occurred in 2020 (over one-third of them in the U.S.). Requirement 5: It is no longer sufficient to just have standard antivirus software. Census Bureau’s latest  Annual Retail Trade Survey  reports e-commerce expenditures rose from $571.2

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Below is the list of exploits used by the bot: Vulnerability Affected devices CVE-2020-8515 DrayTek Vigor2960 1.3.1_Beta, Vigor3900 1.4.4_Beta, and Vigor300B 1.3.3_Beta, 1.4.2.1_Beta, and 1.4.4_Beta devices CVE-2015-2051 D-Link DIR-645 Wired/Wireless Router Rev. CVE-2020-10173 Comtrend VR-3033 DE11-416SSG-C01_R02.A2pvI042j1.d26m

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2020

The first issue, tracked as CVE-2020-8467 , impacts the migration tool component of Apex One and OfficeScan. The second vulnerability exploited in the wild, tracked as CVE-2020-8468 is a content validation escape issue that affects the agents for Worry-Free Business Security, Apex One and OfficeScan. ” reads the advisory.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Megatraffer explained that malware purveyors need a certificate because many antivirus products will be far more interested in unsigned software, and because signed files downloaded from the Internet don’t tend to get blocked by security features built into modern web browsers. “Antivirus software trusts signed programs more.

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