Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2024

Ticketmaster confirms data breach impacting 560 million customers Critical Apache Log4j2 flaw still threatens global finance Crooks stole more than $300M worth of Bitcoin from the exchange DMM Bitcoin ShinyHunters is selling data of 30 million Santander customers Over 600,000 SOHO routers were destroyed by Chalubo malware in 72 hours LilacSquid APT (..)

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2022

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VPN 110

VPN Ransomware Spyware Hacking 110

Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2024

Admin of the BreachForums hacking forum sentenced to 20 years supervised release Russia-linked Midnight Blizzard APT hacked Microsoft corporate emails VF Corp December data breach impacts 35 million customers China-linked APT UNC3886 exploits VMware zero-day since 2021 Ransomware attacks break records in 2023: the number of victims rose by 128% U.S.

Artificial Intelligence 128

Artificial Intelligence Hacking VPN Firewall 128

SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

For instance, we see a new trend emerging in the criminal ecosystem of spyware-based authentication data theft, with each individual attack being directed at a very small number of targets (from single digits to several dozen). Update firewalls and SSL VPN gateways in good time. Don’t forget about cyberhooligans and hacktivists.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Google fixed the ninth actively exploited Chrome zeroday this year A new Linux flaw can be chained with other two bugs to gain full root privileges Attack of drones: airborne cybersecurity nightmare Cuba Ransomware received over $60M in Ransom payments as of August 2022 Android Keyboard Apps with 2 Million downloads can remotely hack your device New (..)

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2021

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Spyware Ransomware Hacking VPN 105

CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 19, 2023

By Aaron Sandeen, CEO and co-founder at Securin Since June 2021, Hive Ransomware has been dominating the ransomware scene. Since June 2021, Hive has targeted an average of three companies per day. Bad actors like Hive may also use CVE-2021-33558, the newly discovered Boa vulnerability, to access a victim’s network.

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Ransomware Encryption Healthcare Education 124

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. Integrated one-on-one Spyware HelpDesk support. Kaspersky’s Key Features.

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Ransomware VPN Backups Malware 109

SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

We can confirm a Maui ransomware incident in 2022, but we would expand their “first seen” date from the reported May 2021 to April 15, 2021, and the geolocation of the target to Japan and India. At the beginning of 2021, Kaspersky published a private report about the A41APT campaign. Russian-speaking activity.

Malware 145

Malware Ransomware Spyware Encryption 145

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Hundreds of thousands of fake warnings of cyberattacks sent from a hacked FBI email server GravityRAT returns disguised as an end-to-end encrypted chat app Intel and AMD address high severity vulnerabilities in products and drivers New evolving Abcbot DDoS botnet targets Linux systems Retail giant Costco discloses data breach, payment card data exposed (..)

Spyware 55

Spyware Data breaches Ransomware Hacking 55

Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2021

The threat actors leverage VPN services (primarily ProtonVPN) to fly under the radar when accessing public facing applications of the targets. . “Agrius actors also dropped a novel wiper named ‘Apostle’ and a custom.NET backdoor called ‘IPsec Helper’.” ” concludes the report.

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Ransomware Malware VPN Hacking 132

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 27, 2023

That’s fewer than the 81 zero-days exploited in 2021, but far more than those exploited in any previous year. “A number of factors may have contributed to the zero-day count in 2020 dipping, then quadrupling in 2021,” researchers James Sadowski and Casey Charrier wrote.

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Firewall Internet Internet Ransomware 104

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Another 29% say cybersecurity spending will be approximately the same as in 2021. The rest – 2% – intend to pay less for cybersecurity in 2022 compared to 2021. This service also allows remote users to connect to the network safely through VPN. It unites spyware, malware, and virus protection with a policy and reporting engine.

Backups 140

Backups Firewall DDOS Antivirus 140

SecureList

JUNE 3, 2024

Sample artifacts suggest that this version (V10, according to the attackers’ versioning system) may have started operating in 2022, although the first known Linux variant (V7), which has still not been publicly described, dates back to 2021. DinodasRAT is a multi-platform backdoor written in C++ that offers a range of capabilities.

Banking 117

Banking Malware Computers and Electronics Mobile 117

SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In another publication , Google also followed up on the activities of a similar vendor named Cytrox that had leveraged four 0-day vulnerabilities in a 2021 campaign. In 2022, the GReAT team tracked several threat actors leveraging SilentBreak’s toolset as well as a commercial Android spyware we named MagicKarakurt.

Firmware 127

Firmware Surveillance Mobile Telecommunications 127

Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

Crack.exe, likely a “PseudoManuscrypt” loader, a particular kind of threat known since June 2021 that Kaspersky attributes to the Chinese threat landscape, but, at the moment, the speculation of the Lazarus (APT38) authorship of this piece of code does not benefit enough confidence ( link , link ).

Malware 98

Malware Social Engineering Encryption Marketing 98

SecureList

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

In 2021, Kaspersky mobile products and technologies detected: 3,464,756 malicious installation packages. In 2021, we observed a downward trend in the number of attacks on mobile users. Banking Trojans acquired new capabilities in 2021. Figures of the year. 97,661 new mobile banking Trojans. 17,372 new mobile ransomware Trojans.

Mobile 145

Mobile Malware Adware Banking 145

SecureList

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This is our latest installment, focusing on activities that we observed during Q3 2021. This activity seems to have continued and stretched into 2021, when we spotted a set of recent attacks using the same techniques and malware to gain a foothold in diplomatic organizations based in Central Asia. It was fixed as CVE-2021-26605.

Malware 145

Malware Government Surveillance Spyware 145

SecureList

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Let’s start by looking at the predictions we made for 2021. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have claimed that threat actors have been using catfishing to lure Israeli soldiers into installing spyware. We nevertheless observed some threat actors, such as APT10, who were exploiting these vulnerabilities to hijack VPN sessions.

Mobile 145

Mobile Surveillance Ransomware Government 145