SecureList

APRIL 13, 2023

RapperBot: “intelligent brute forcing” RapperBot, based on Mirai (but with a different C2 command protocol), is a worm infecting IoT devices with the ultimate goal to launch DDoS attacks against non-HTTP targets. This suggests some form of human interaction and social engineering.

Malware 99

Malware Engineering Advertising Phishing 99

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 22, 2022

According to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) report from October of 2021, the cybersecurity insurance market, including both U.S. jump from the prior year and it is expected to increase by a large amount once 2021 totals are verified. was worth roughly $4.1 billion in direct written premiums in 2020.

Cyber Insurance 101

Cyber Insurance Insurance Marketing Small Business 101

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Earlier this year, we covered the threats related to gaming , and looked at the changes from 2020 and the first half of 2021 in mobile and PC games as well as various phishing schemes that capitalize on video games. We also explore the kind of game-related data that ends up on the black market and the prices. Background. me/4/654/login.php.

Accountability 96

Accountability Marketing Phishing Malware 96

Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2022

Microsoft and identity management platform Okta both this week disclosed breaches involving LAPSUS$ , a relatively new cybercrime group that specializes in stealing data from big companies and threatening to publish it unless a ransom demand is paid. ” LAPSUS$ leader Oklaqq a.k.a.

Social Engineering 288

Social Engineering Accountability Mobile Passwords 288

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. Threats abound in 2021. Malware made leaps and bounds in 2021. Ransomware.

Cybercrime 105

Cybercrime Phishing Ransomware Cryptocurrency 105

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Introduction Knowledge is our best weapon in the fight against cybercrime. The gang infamously uses complex tactics and techniques to penetrate victim networks, such as exploitation of software vulnerabilities and social engineering. The model became widespread after the LockBit gang got DDoS’ed , possibly by a victim.

Ransomware 132

Ransomware Encryption Malware DDOS 132

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

This is the 10 th edition of the annual report and analyzes events that took place between July 2021 and July 2022. Malware: 66 disclosures of zero-day vulnerabilities observed in 2021. Supply chain targeting : Third-party incidents account for 17% of the intrusions in 2021 compared to less than 1% in 2020. Cybercrime actors.

Cyber threats 119

Cyber threats Phishing Social Engineering Ransomware 119

SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

Subsequently, DDoS attacks hit several government websites. We also identified two samples developed in December 2021 containing test strings and preceding revisions of the ransom note observed in Microsoft’s shared samples. … ?????? ??????!!! zip” (translation: “Virus… extremely dangerous!!! zip”).

Malware 132

Malware Firmware Government Phishing 132

SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

The attackers study their victims carefully and use the information they find to frame social engineering attacks. In the second half of 2021, the most affected countries were France, Japan, India, China, Germany and South Korea. Subsequently, DDoS attacks hit some government websites. Lapsus$ group hacks Okta.

Phishing 104

Phishing Spyware Firmware Malware 104

eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

A report from IBM claims that 21% of all cyber attacks the company remediated in 2021 were ransomware, making it the most common type of attack in the report. Ransomware is one of the most virulent forms of malware on the modern Internet. It’s one of the most infectious forms of malware out there.

Malware 69

Malware Adware Spyware Antivirus 69

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. The operations date back to at least May 2022, and malicious infrastructure analysis indicates possible operations starting in 2021.

Malware 85

Malware Government Phishing Social Engineering 85

Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2021

PrivacyAffairs released the Dark Web Index 2021, the document provides the prices for illegal services/products available in the black marketplaces. 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.

Accountability 112

Accountability Marketing Hacking Cryptocurrency 112

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. Tb per second and 809 million packets per second.

Banking 130

Banking Ransomware Phishing Marketing 130

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

eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Social engineering attacks soon found use in the digital space. In July 2001, the Code Red Worm attempted to subject the entire Internet to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The group also claimed responsibility for a DDoS attack on Swiss email provider ProtonMail. Welcome to [link] Hacked By Chinese!”.

Malware 138

Malware Ransomware Antivirus Internet 138

SecureList

JULY 28, 2022

In late 2021, we encountered a malicious DXE driver incorporated into several UEFI firmware images that were flagged by our firmware scanner (integrated into Kaspersky products at the start of 2019). Pangolin is private malware we discovered in 2021, exclusively used by ZexCone, the threat actor behind ExCone and DexCone. Middle East.

Malware 132

Malware Firmware Phishing Cryptocurrency 132

Malwarebytes

MAY 21, 2023

ChatGPT can be trained to identify and mitigate network security threats like DDoS attacks when used in conjunction with other technologies. ChatGPT can only pull from what’s already in its public database, and it has only been trained on data up until 2021.

Cybersecurity 77

Cybersecurity Artificial Intelligence Social Engineering Engineering 77

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 103

Hacking Energy and Utilities Media Malware 103