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. Suffice to say, a lot has been happening at once. Ransomware.

Cybercrime 105

Cybercrime Phishing Ransomware Cryptocurrency 105

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Social engineering: Phishing remains a popular technique but we see new forms of phishing arising such as spear-phishing, whaling, smishing and vishing. Supply chain targeting : Third-party incidents account for 17% of the intrusions in 2021 compared to less than 1% in 2020. Cybercrime actors. social nature.

Cyber threats 121

Cyber threats Phishing Social Engineering Ransomware 121

SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

Subsequently, DDoS attacks hit several government websites. In 2020, we published private reports featuring LODEINFO, a sophisticated fileless malware first mentioned in a blogpost from JPCERT/CC3. ToddyCat, a relatively new APT actor, is responsible for multiple attacks detected since December 2020. in June 2021.

Malware 130

Malware Firmware Government Phishing 130

SecureList

JULY 27, 2023

Killnet, led by a person nicknamed “KillMilk”, is one of the leaders of the hacktivist movement that uses DDoS as a means of disruption. GoldenJackal, an APT group we discovered in 2020, primarily targets high-profile entities in the Middle East and South Asia. ScoutEngine has several numbered versions from 2.1

Malware 84

Malware Government Phishing Social Engineering 84

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Group-IB , a global threat hunting and intelligence company, has presented its annual Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2020/2021 report. In the report, the company examines key shifts in the cybercrime world internationally between H2 2019 and H1 2020 and gives forecasts for the coming year.

Banking 132

Banking Ransomware Phishing Marketing 132

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

We can learn a lot from the cybercrime of the past…the history of cybercrime is a glimpse into what we can expect in the future. In the past 18 months, we’ve experienced the beginning of an era that has seen cybersecurity and cybercrime at the center of it all. Dateline Cybercrime . Robert Herjavec.

Cybercrime 135

Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135

SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Tensions were heightened when Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF) Commander Qassem Soleimani was assassinated in January 2020. In the digital world, bad actors are using social engineering methods to hack on behalf of the Iranian government, even threatening the 2020 U.S. The DDoS nation-state hackers.

Social Engineering 85

Social Engineering Government DDOS Engineering 85

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

Malware 138

Malware Ransomware Antivirus Internet 138

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 first reported DeathStalker’s VileRAT campaign in August 2020. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, various cybercriminal groups (e.g.,

Malware 130

Malware Firmware Phishing Cryptocurrency 130

Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2021

2020 is a case in point. And there are even more specialized products such as DDoS attacks, email databases, and malware. Hacked social media accounts’ prices are decreasing across all platforms. DDoS Attacks. It was one of the worst years (if not the worst) for cyber attacks.

Accountability 114

Accountability Marketing Hacking Cryptocurrency 114

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Labor Department’s inspector general said this week that roughly $100 million in fraudulent unemployment insurance claims were paid in 2020 to criminals who are already in jail. A new report (PDF) from the Labor Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that from March through October of 2020, some $3.5

Scams 313

Scams Insurance DDOS Authentication 313

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). First, they can carry out actual cyberattacks, including DDoS attacks , data theft or destruction, website defacement, and so on.

Hacking 102

Hacking Energy and Utilities Media Malware 102