SecureList

AUGUST 23, 2021

billion USD in 2021, which is slightly less than the total revenue in 2020 but still significantly above the pre-pandemic figures. This rapid growth owes a lot to the surge in mobile gaming and focus on social interaction during the pandemic. Pandemic-related statistics cover the period of January 2020 through June 2021.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Cryptocurrency targeted attacks. The cryptocurrency business continues to grow, and people continue to invest their money in this market because it’s a digital asset and all transactions occur online. These are attractive aspects that cybercrime groups will be unable to resist. It also offers anonymity to users.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other. billion in reported losses, up from 2020’s 791,790 complaints and $4.2 In 2020 alone, 79 ransomware attacks were conducted against government entities in the U.S., One particularly potent emergent technology for scammers is blockchain and the related cryptocurrency and NFTs.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

For the uninitiated, NFTs are unique tokens that accompany original and collectible digital artwork or videos that can be sold or traded as a form of cryptocurrency, with transactions registered on the blockchain. billion in 2020. “We For instance, a collage created by digital artist Mike Winkelmann, aka Beeple, recently earned $69.4

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

We can therefore expect that cybercrime groups from either block will feel safe to attack companies from the opposing side. In 2023, we might see a slight decline in ransomware attacks, reflecting the slowdown of the cryptocurrency markets. I believe cybercrime is the biggest threat to end-users, but mainly in an indirect fashion.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As we mentioned in a previous blog , hackers come in many forms, but their methods can generally be classified into three distinct types of cybercriminals: The Impersonator – Hackers that pretend to be others, often using social engineering and human psychology to trick users. Let’s look at a few primary examples.

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Webroot

JANUARY 7, 2022

2020 may have been the year of establishing remote connectivity and addressing the cybersecurity skills gap, but 2021 presented security experts, government officials and businesses with a series of unpresented challenges. Cryptocurrency. There was no shortage of discussion surrounding cryptocurrency and its security flaws.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

Voku’s cooperation with authorities led them to bust up a conspiracy involving at least nine individuals who stole millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency and other items of value from their targets. The script would replace the term with “I do not condone illegal activities.” ” “Are you still swimping?”

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2021

As most of us know, 2020 was a year of polar opposites in the business world. billion in cryptocurrency. Chainalysis, which tracks this kind of spending, shared new research breaking down darknet markets and their geographic distinctions in 2020. Click here to continue reading. New Record: Darknet Markets Are Booming.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

The supporting infrastructure for this operation overlaps with an operation described in a report published by Cisco Talos in September 2021, which discusses a campaign targeting government personnel in India using Netwire and Warzone (aka AveMaria RAT) dating back to the end of 2020. in June 2021. Final thoughts.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security told reporters on Wednesday the trio’s activities involved extortion, phishing, direct attacks on financial institutions and ATM networks, as well as malicious applications that masqueraded as software tools to help people manage their cryptocurrency holdings.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Cyberattacks targeting cryptocurrency exchanges were on a roll in 2021 and have continued into 2022. The panel also said one cybersecurity firm anonymously reported that North Korean "cyber-actors stole a total of $400 million worth of cryptocurrency through seven intrusions into cryptocurrency exchanges and investment firms.".

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SecureList

JULY 29, 2021

There are indications of previous activity from this threat actor dating back to at least October 2020, based on other Cobalt Strike payloads and loaders bearing similar toolmarks. Previous activity also connected with this group relied heavily on spear-phishing and Cobalt Strike throughout 2020. Chinese-speaking activity.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The cybersecurity industry faced a challenging combination of new and familiar challenges in 2020. In 2020, hackers actively exploited the Covid-19 pandemic as well as the resulting unemployment. 2020 saw a record number of ransomware attacks, and we can expect more of the same in 2021. At the beginning of 2020, U.S.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2022

Our investigation of this activity led us to discover other related campaigns targeting a wide range of entities located in Central Asia, Europe and the Americas since at least May 2020. We discovered a highly active campaign, starting in March 2022, targeting stock and cryptocurrency investors in South Korea. Final thoughts.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2021

2020 is a case in point. Cryptocurrencies are represented in hacked accounts to trading sites. Monero is the cryptocurrency of choice, instead, and all communications must be PGP encrypted. Cryptocurrency trading accounts. Other cryptocurrencies have increased in value as well.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

A 2020 study of pentesting projects from Positive Technologies revealed that external attackers could breach 93% of company networks , with 71% being vulnerable even to novice-level hackers. Social engineering attacks soon found use in the digital space. According to a recent Statista report, there have been 2.8

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The threat actor used news about the Russo-Ukrainian conflict to trick targets into opening harmful emails that exploited the vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-35730, CVE-2020-12641 and CVE-2021-44026). They advertise on dark web platforms and employ various techniques, including malware, phishing, and other social engineering methods.

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