Vipre

JANUARY 25, 2021

According to the independent institute AV-TEST , the number of total new malware in 2020 increased by 13% compared to the last year, and malware for macOS by 1200% for the same period. Ad blockers, as the name suggests, block advertisements and protects you from phishing scams. Ad Blockers.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Brute-force attacks on services that use SSH, a more advanced protocol that encrypts traffic, can yield similar outcomes. Botnet based on Medusa, working since 2020. User files were encrypted, with the device’s interface displaying a ransom note demanding payment of 0.03 Our advantages: 1. BTC to recover the data.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

VMware Carbon Black threat researchers have recorded a 900% year on year increase in ransomware attacks in the first half of 2020. Or they might move the data out slowly through protocols such as DNS. Shift from spray and pray to cultivate and curate – rise of the hands-on ransomware attack.

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

VPNs encrypt the traffic between you and some endpoint on the internet, which is where your VPN is based. If your VPN includes all DNS requests and traffic then you could be hiding significantly from your ISP. You will eventually be hacked via phishing, social engineering, poisoning a site you already frequent, or some other technique.

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SecureList

MAY 26, 2021

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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SecureList

AUGUST 30, 2023

A DLL with this name was used in recent deployments of a backdoor that we dubbed Gopuram , which we had been tracking since 2020. In April 2020, we uncovered a significant shift in targeting and infection vector. However, when we started hunting for more samples, we found phishing documents that ultimately dropped EarlyRat.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The attackers obtain initial access to a system by sending a spear-phishing email to the victim containing a Dropbox download link. This toolset was in use from as early as July 2020, mainly targeting Southeast Asian entities, including government agencies and telecoms companies. FinSpy: analysis of current capabilities.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 8, 2022

We determined that the initial infection method using an LNK-based dropper inside a ZIP archive, remained similar to previous campaigns using EVILNUM, Powersing, and PowerPepper, but each seems to focus on different phishing themes, as if each malware family is operated by different teams and/or intended for different types of victims.

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SecureList

JANUARY 13, 2022

After sending a beacon to the C2 server, the malware collects general system information, sending it after AES encryption. The persistence backdoor #2 is used to silently run an additional executable payload that is received over an encrypted channel from a remote server. domainhost.dynamic-dns[.]net. PROCESS_ID. #. abiesvc.jp[.]net.

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Fox IT

JUNE 29, 2022

Like the majority of Android banking malware, Flubot abuses Accessibility Permissions and Services in order to steal the victim’s credentials, by detecting when the official banking applicationis open to show a fake web injection, a phishing website similar to the login form of the banking application. in December 2020.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In December 2020, news of the SolarWinds incident took the world by storm. The first malicious update was pushed to SolarWinds users in March 2020, and it contained a malware named Sunburst. Later in May 2021, Microsoft also attributed spear-phishing campaign impersonating a US-based organization to Nobelium. DNS hijacking.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

These malicious encryption attacks that take your data hostage are the most financially harmful attacks for companies. Hackers can target any of your employees with a fraudulent, “ spoofed ” email or several people in a specific department with a phishing campaign. Rampant Ransomware Attacks.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

We have been tracking Roaming Mantis since 2018, and published five blog posts about this campaign: Roaming Mantis uses DNS hijacking to infect Android smartphones. Roaming Mantis dabbles in mining and phishing multilingually. Link from smishing message redirects to Wroba or phishing page. Roaming Mantis, part III.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Attackers often use botnets to send out spam or phishing campaigns to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. With over 600,000 devices, this botnet exposed just how vulnerable IoT devices could be and led to the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020. Phishing and Social Engineering. Jump ahead: Adware.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2020

The backdoor uses multiple tricks to evade detection and leverages DNS over HTTPS (DoH) to communicate with its C2 server, using Cloudflare responders. On top of the DNS C2 communication logic, PowerPepper also signals successful implant startup and execution flow errors to a Python backend, through HTTPS.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2021

Ransomware: Encryption, Exfiltration, and Extortion. Ransomware perpetrators of the past presented a problem of availability through encryption. Detect Focus on encryption Assume exfiltration. Also Read: How to Prevent DNS Attacks. Also Read: Types of Malware | Best Malware Protection Practices for 2021. Old way New way.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In fact, there were 50% more attack attempts per week on corporate networks globally in 2021 than in 2020. DNS filtering. The next technology you need to prevent cyberattacks is a DNS filter. But first, a little bit about what DNS (domain name system) is. The DNS server, in turn, tells the computer where to go.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

— Dave Kennedy (@HackingDave) July 15, 2020. link] pic.twitter.com/cVIyB44o6q — Eugene Kaspersky (@e_kaspersky) June 22, 2020. If the US government dictating iPhone encryption design sounds ok to you, ask yourself how you'll feel when China demands the same. — Parisa Tabriz (@laparisa) January 26, 2020.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Recent research by Positive Technologies looked at the cyber threat landscape during Q2 2021 and found that ransomware attacks reached “stratospheric” levels, accounting for 69% of all malware attacks, a huge jump from 39% in Q2 2020. Bank-grade encryption to help keep information like passwords and personal details secure.

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

While investigating attacks on the defense industry in mid-2020, we were able to observe the complete life-cycle of an attack, uncovering more technical details and links to the group’s other campaigns. Ransomware encrypting virtual hard disks. Ecipekac: sophisticated multi-layered loader discovered in A41APT campaign.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

In the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers, Broadcom was a Challenger in 2020. In the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers, Forcepoint was a Niche Player in 2018 and 2019 before becoming a Visionary in 2020. In the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateways, iboss was a Visionary in 2020.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The infection chain of recent QakBot releases (2020-2021 variants) is as follows: The user receives a phishing email with a ZIP attachment containing an Office document with embedded macros, the document itself or a link to download malicious document. The data is encrypted with the RC4 algorithm. QakBot infection chain.

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Veracode Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Researchers found that TrickBot developers created a tool called anchor_dns which uses a single-byte X0R cipher to obfuscate communications and, once de-obfuscated, is discoverable in DNS request traffic. as phishing attempts often do to gain trust. C:WindowsSysWOW64. BazarLoader and Ryuk ransomware. s simply too long. ???Blended

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SecureList

JUNE 15, 2022

Complex attacks almost invariably feature several phases, such as reconnaissance, initial access to the infrastructure, gaining access to target systems and/or privileges, and the actual malicious acts (data theft, destruction or encryption, etc.). Phishing attacks on employees. Obtaining legitimate corporate credentials. more in pm!

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches. 50,000 DDoS attacks on public domain name service (DNS) resolvers. 553% increase in DNS Flood attacks from 1H 2020 to 2H 2023.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Downloaded modules are encrypted, and can be decrypted with the Python script below. EMBEDDED MODULE PE timestamp:2020-09-17 InternalName:<payload32.dll> It retrieves the DNS names of all the directory trees in the local computer’s forest. This module contains the encrypted embedded module RwDrv.sys.

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Banking Passwords VPN Internet 135

eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

Already a leading SD-WAN pick, the HPE subsidiary boosted its market position with acquisitions of security vendor Cape Networks in 2018 and WAN specialist Silver Peak Systems in 2020. Barracuda Networks. Administrators can quickly connect and establish an SD-WAN overlay fabric with the Cisco vManage console. Features: Cisco SD-WAN.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

2002 – Internet Attack — By targeting the thirteen Domain Name System (DNS) root servers, a DDoS attack assaults the entire Internet for an hour. Justice Department announces more than 70 indictments and 125 convictions or arrests for phishing, hacking, spamming and other Internet fraud as part of Operation CyberSweep. .

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

SmokeLoader (aka Smoke) is a modular malware that has been known since 2011, distributed via phishing emails and drive-by downloads. RedLine Stealer has been known since early 2020 and developed through 2021. The malware is known to be sold on online forums, and distributed via phishing emails. SmokeLoader. RedLine Stealer.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 20, 2022

Overlap of Passive DNS resolution of domain observed on current attack infrastructure with the IP used by Molerats APT group in the past. The main function of the binary is the standard ConfuserEx function which is responsible for loading the runtime module "koi'' that is stored in encrypted form using a byte array. Attack flow.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

One example: too many are in the dark about website encryption — 61% of world politicians’ websites aren’t HTTPS-secured. With the 2020 presidential election approaching, cybersecurity deserves to be a core issue for candidates. Cybersecurity platform: Does the candidate have a proactive cybersecurity stance in their 2020 platform?

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