Malwarebytes

MARCH 10, 2022

In this February 2022 ransomware review, we go over some the most successful ransomware incidents based on both open source and dark web intelligence. Observed since: February 2022 Ransomware note: read_me.html Ransomware extension: <original file name> [vote2024forjb@protonmail[.]com].encryptedJB SFile (Escal).

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Ransomware Phishing Accountability Technology 71

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

According to the analytical agency Newzoo, in 2022, the global gaming market will exceed $ 200 billion , with 3 billion players globally. The gaming industry went into full gear during the pandemic, as many people took up online gaming as their new hobby to escape the socially-distanced reality. Top game titles by number of related threats.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

IT threat evolution in Q3 2022. IT threat evolution in Q3 2022. IT threat evolution in Q3 2022. Nevertheless, in our APT predictions for 2022 , we noted that more attackers would reach the sophistication level required to develop such tools. Non-mobile statistics. Mobile statistics. Targeted attacks. Other malware.

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Malware Computers and Electronics Adware Cryptocurrency 105

Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Code-signing certificates are supposed to help authenticate the identity of software publishers, and provide cryptographic assurance that a signed piece of software has not been altered or tampered with. “Antivirus software trusts signed programs more. “Why do I need a certificate?” 2016 sales thread on Exploit.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Thanks to your readership and support, I was able to spend more time in 2022 on some deep, meaty investigative stories — the really satisfying kind with the potential to affect positive change. Some of that work is highlighted in the 2022 Year in Review review below. million users.

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Cryptocurrency Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Scams 239

Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2022

The alert includes indicators of compromise (IoCs) associated with BlackCat/ALPHV, as of mid-February 2022. Regularly back up data, air gap, and password-protect backup copies offline. Review antivirus logs for indications they were unexpectedly turned off. Use multifactor authentication where possible.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

Centralize secrets and set storage to private: Keep API keys and passwords in a centralized, secure management system. Verizon’s 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) also reveals that inside actors were responsible for 83% of 2022 data breaches. billion malware infections worldwide in 2022. Malware There were 5.5

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Vicarius Vulnerability management 2022 Private Dragos ICS and OT security 2021 Private Safeguard Cyber Risk management 2021 Private CyberGRX Risk management 2019 Private Signifyd Fraud protection 2018 Private RedOwl Security analytics 2015 Acquired: Forcepoint. Accel Investments. AllegisCyber Investments.

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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. 583% increase in Kerberoasting [password hash cracking] attacks. 64% of managers and higher admit to poor password practices.

Cybersecurity 119

Cybersecurity DDOS Penetration Testing Passwords 119

Security Boulevard

MAY 9, 2022

On April 19th of 2022, the FBI Cyber Division released a flash bulletin regarding the Blackcat ransomware-for-hire. It targets Active Directory to spread via GPO, primarily working with Windows administrative tools for spread, outside connection, and disabling security features like antivirus. Blackcat Ransomware.

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Ransomware Antivirus Backups Passwords 98

IT Security Guru

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

study tested the security of 13 of the UK’s most popular online banking sites between September and November 2022. The most secure password you can create will be at least ten characters long, containing a minimum of one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter, one number, and one symbol. A recent Which?

Banking 63

Banking Cybersecurity Antivirus Phishing 63

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 19, 2023

Portnox is a private company that specializes in network access security with nearly 1,000 customers and closed a Series A fundraising with Elsewhere Partners for $22 million in 2022. authentication to gather endpoint information for reporting and enforcement. Agents Portnox does not require an agent.

IoT 98

IoT Authentication VPN Backups 98

Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In an August 2022 bulletin , Lloyd’s instructed its underwriters to exclude from all cyber insurance policies not just losses arising from war but also “losses arising from state backed cyber-attacks that (a) significantly impair the ability of a state to function or (b) that significantly impair the security capabilities of a state.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2022

One of the zero-day exploits used in Knotweed attacks was triggering the recently patched CVE-2022-22047 issue. ” Below is the list of recommendations published by Microsoft for its customers to prevent Subzero infections: All customers should prioritize patching of CVE-2022-22047. or later to detect the related indicators.

Surveillance 85

Surveillance Malware Authentication DNS 85

Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2022

RedLine Password Theft Malware. The RedLine password theft malware is a hot topic this month with Microsoft’s employee compromise. Passwords: An Easy Target. Let’s not mince words: passwords are difficult for most organizations to manage. Let’s not mince words: passwords are difficult for most organizations to manage.

Cybersecurity 98

Cybersecurity Social Engineering Passwords Malware 98

SecureList

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2023, for instance, there was a significant rise in posts offering login credentials and passwords for various personal and work accounts. To be more specific, in 2023, the volume of malware log files containing compromised user data and posted for free on the dark web surged by almost 30% compared to 2022.

Marketing 111

Marketing Cryptocurrency Malware Ransomware 111

Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Ransomware woes doubled by reinfection after improper remediation In November 2022, a small trades contractor in Alberta, Canada, received an alert for an elevated account running unauthorized commands and dumping credentials. The business followed most of the recommendations for password resets but failed to implement 2FA.

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Ransomware Small Business Passwords Malware 94

SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In February 2022, the actors exploited a Log4j vulnerability (likely CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046, and/or CVE-2021-45105) in a VMware Horizon application to gain access to the network of a U.S. Implement Multifactor Authentication. Use Strong Passwords. Use Antivirus Programs. aerospace company. Secure User Accounts.

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Ransomware Government Encryption Antivirus 85

Security Boulevard

MARCH 25, 2022

In late January 2022, ThreatLabz identified an updated version of Conti ransomware as part of the global ransomware tracking efforts. This update was released prior to the massive leak of Conti source code and chat logs on Februrary 27, 2022. Log in to Windows Safe Mode as the user with the corresponding password.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2022

RUSSO-UKRAINIAN WAR 2022: Cyberattacks Reported At High Frequency. 2 ] The threat actor leveraged a set of misconfigured Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) accounts that enabled it to enroll a new device for MFA and to access the victim network. The UA-Cert attributes the activity to UAC-0056. link] (accessed Mar. link] (accessed Mar.

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Ransomware Malware Government Antivirus 59

SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Modern secure email gateways (SEGs) prevent the vast majority of dodgy messages from ever ending up in users' inboxes, and most antivirus tools can identify and block content that matches known phishing templates, as well. To view it, the unsuspecting person has to go through a rabbit hole of authentication steps.

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Phishing Scams Passwords Wireless 97

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

How can a hospital protect an MRI machine with an unchangeable password and still connect it to the network? Many of these critical devices require obsolete operating systems, have hard-coded passwords, or other equally dangerous security weaknesses. 57% of ICS sites do not run automatically updating antivirus protection.

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Risk Healthcare IoT Firewall 130

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. Cyberattack Statistics.

Backups 145

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Also read: Top Vulnerability Management Tools for 2022. The agencies offered some sound cybersecurity advice for BlackByte that applies pretty generally: Conduct regular backups and store them as air-gapped, password-protected copies offline. Federal organizations will only have until February 24, 2022 to patch this vulnerability.

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Ransomware Encryption Backups Accountability 126

Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2022

BotenaGo was written in Golang (Go) and at the time of the report published by the experts, it had a low antivirus (AV) detection rate (6/62). The experts noticed that the Lillin scanner, unlike the BotenaGo malware, contains 11 pairs of user-password credentials in its code. When the server response contains the string HTTP/1.1

Malware 85

Malware IoT Antivirus Architecture 85

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That story about the Flashback author was possible because a source had obtained a Web browser authentication cookie for a founding member of a Russian cybercrime forum called BlackSEO. When ChronoPay’s internal emails were leaked in 2010, the username and password for its MegaPlan subscription were still working and valid.

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Cybercrime Accountability Advertising Computers and Electronics 232

Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2023

The malware targets more than 70 web browser extensions for cryptocurrency theft and uses the same functionality to target two-factor authentication (2FA) applications. As a result, this technique may bypass static antivirus signatures and complicate malware reverse engineering. NET (2022-07-19) BHANDARAPOLICE[.]ORG

Cryptocurrency 52

Cryptocurrency Password Management Malware DNS 52

Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2023

But while consenting adults can and increasingly do agree to share passwords, locations, and devices with their romantic partners, another statistic deserves scrutiny: 41 percent of the people who admitted to monitoring their partners said they did so without permission. Starting in March of 2022, that incident rate dropped to below 0.2

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Surveillance Passwords Software Technology 111

SecureList

JUNE 26, 2023

According to the Kaspersky cyber-resilience report , in 2022, four in ten employers admitted that a cybersecurity incident would be a major crisis for their business, superseded only by a slump in sales or a natural disaster. Fake e-mails were thoroughly crafted, so that the employees would not question their authenticity.

Cybercrime 90

Cybercrime Phishing Banking Malware 90

SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

But first, let’s examine how they fared with the predictions for 2022. What we predicted in 2022. Although 2022 did not feature any mobile intrusion story on the scale of the Pegasus scandal, a number of 0-days have still been exploited in the wild by threat actors. Mobile devices exposed to wide attacks. Source: Meta.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 12, 2023

Use Strong Passwords and Consider Multi-Factor Authentication Utilize a strong password that includes various numbers, symbols, and upper- and lower-case letters, especially using tax preparation software. Also, consider multi-factor authentication to provide extra protection. billion in tax fraud in 2022.

Identity Theft 59

Identity Theft Computers and Electronics Accountability Phishing 59

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

In this simple environment network security followed a simple protocol: Authenticate the user : using a computer login (username + password) Check the user’s permissions: using Active Directory or a similar Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Enable communication with authorized network resources (servers, printers, etc.)

Network Security 98

Network Security Firewall Penetration Testing Encryption 98

Security Boulevard

MAY 3, 2022

A more recent Go-based variant was introduced around February 2022. BlackByte also terminates the following services that are associated with antivirus products, backup software, and business applications including financial software, email clients, and databases as shown below in Table 3. Avast Antivirus. Avast Antivirus.

Encryption 75

Encryption Ransomware Antivirus Backups 75

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

While these solutions (such as [Microsoft365]) offer a level of protection and capabilities (antivirus, anti-spam, archiving, etc.), In response, adversaries will increasingly target obtaining complex variables from the device’s environment, which they will use to bypass new authentication methods.”

Cybersecurity 140

Cybersecurity CISO Government Technology 140

Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

According to the 2022 State of EdTech Leadership Report , only one in five school districts (21 percent) have a dedicated cybersecurity professional on staff. Technicians are often dwarfed by the number of students, teachers, and devices under their charge, with IT to student ratios of 1:100+ or even 1:1,000+.

Education 63

Education Ransomware Cybersecurity Risk 63

SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

How it started In 2022, we came across two unexpected detections within the WININIT.EXE process of an older code which was earlier observed in Equation malware. In particular, the system.img file serves as the authentic payload archive used for initial Windows system infections.

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Malware DNS Encryption Cryptocurrency 114

CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

AT&T Alien Labs™ is writing this report about recently created ransomware malware dubbed BlackCat which was used in a January 2022 campaign against two international oil companies headquartered in Germany, Oiltanking and Mabanaft. Campaigns remain active, with 16 known incidents in February 2022 as of the publishing of this report.

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Ransomware Encryption Malware Backups 119