Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2023

The new ransomware strain outstands for the use of encryption to protect the ransomware binary. CACTUS essentially encrypts itself, making it harder to detect and helping it evade antivirus and network monitoring tools,” Laurie Iacono, Associate Managing Director for Cyber Risk at Kroll, told Bleeping Computer.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2022

The security researcher John Page aka ( hyp3rlinx ) discovered that malware from multiple ransomware operations, including Conti , REvil , LockBit , AvosLocker , and Black Basta, are affected by flaws that could be exploited block file encryption. “Conti looks for and executes DLLs in its current directory.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

According to a new study, phishing attacks rose 61 percent in 2022, with cryptocurrency fraud increasing 257 percent year-over-year. Because the address comes across as an internal team member, people trust them, ultimately exposing themselves to cybercrime. Encrypt all sensitive information and documentation.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The AvosLocker ransomware-as-a-service emerged in the threat landscape in September 2021, since January the group expanded its targets by implementing support for encrypting Linux systems, specifically VMware ESXi servers. This joint CSA updates the advisory published by the US Government on March 17, 2022.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

billion malware attacks worldwide in just the first half of 2022. Read Top Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) Solutions in 2022. Though polite, the Creeper was still an annoyance to some, and in 1971, Ray Tomlinson developed the first antivirus software , called Reaper. Looking to Protect Yourself Against Malware?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2023

The hospital is not able to report the services performed in December 2022 and for this reason, it cannot receive payment for the medical services provided. “The hackers entered the system and encrypted the December database. The threat actors demanded a ransom of 3 Bitcoin to decrypt the data on the infected systems. .

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2023

The human-operated Royal ransomware first appeared on the threat landscape in September 2022, it has demanded ransoms up to millions of dollars. FBI and CISA believe this variant, which uses its own custom-made file encryption program, evolved from earlier iterations that used “Zeon” as a loader.” reads the alert.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 11, 2022

Within the last week, there have been some significant victories in combatting Russian cybercrime, as the country continues its brutal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. GB of data encrypted, which includes 900,000 emails and 4,000 files. March 25, 2022. Along with the source code, over 170,000 internal messages were exposed.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 5, 2023

Cybercrime risk is rising, security vulnerabilities are increasing, and the cybersecurity industry is rapidly developing. It’s more frequent within the older part of the population, who find even straightforward tasks, like running an antivirus scan, quite tedious. Therefore, even minor mistakes can have critical consequences.

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SecureList

MAY 11, 2023

In 2022, Kaspersky solutions detected over 74.2M On the eve of the global Anti-Ransomware Day, Kaspersky looks back on the events that shaped the ransomware landscape in 2022, reviews the trends that were predicted last year, discusses emerging trends, and makes a forecast for the immediate future.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Since 2008, antivirus and cybersecurity software testers AV-TEST have kept track of the number of newly-developed malware worldwide, totaling at nearly 1 billion as of September 2022. An August 2022 Statista report counted 2.8 billion malware attacks worldwide in the first half of 2022 alone. Ransomware.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The actors used their access to move laterally within the network, encrypt network devices with BitLocker, and hold the decryption keys for ransom.". "In The actors used their access to move laterally within the network, encrypt network devices with BitLocker, and hold the decryption keys for ransom. Use Antivirus Programs.

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SecureList

JANUARY 17, 2024

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. In 2022, these blogs, found on both public platforms and the dark web, averaged 386 posts per month. The dark market is already replete with such services.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 30, 2023

1 ) Cybercriminals also seem to see the potential in ChatGPT; some security researchers reported seeing evidence that cybercriminals are abusing the tool to create or improve malware or create offensive tools to support cybercrime. ( In other fields, ChatGPT is being met with some concern.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2022

At the time of publication, this particular file is undetected by all antivirus vendors according to VirusTotal” The Base64 encoded payload, once decrypted, is a Windows 64-bit executable (1.7MB) called “msdllupdate.exe.”. “This technique works by sending an encrypted string appended to the DNS query set as a subdomain.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2023

ransomware (aka LockBit Black ) was launched in June 2022 and is a continuation of previous versions of the ransomware, LockBit 2.0 ” By protecting the code with encryption, the latest LockBit version can avoid the detection of signature-based anti-malware solutions. The LockBit 3.0 released in mid-2021), and LockBit.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2023

The researchers discovered that the samples contain a self-delete mechanism which is invoked once the victim’s device is encrypted. antivirus products), deleting shadow copies, and finally encrypting the files on the targeted systems. The group threatens to ban every affiliate who does leak samples. reads the screenshot.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The HardBit ransomware group first appeared on the threat landscape in October 2022, but unlike other ransomware operations, it doesn’t use a double extortion model at this time. The researchers noticed that the malware encrypts many files, potentially causing errors when Windows is restarted.

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SecureList

APRIL 10, 2023

In 2022, Kaspersky security solutions detected 1,661,743 malware or unwanted software installers, targeting mobile users. Our binder’s main ADVANTAGES: Runtime/scantime FUD Runtime cleanness is achieved by encrypting the Android bot with our cryptor BEFORE binding. Contacts admin panel every 10 seconds. Blocked in CIS.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2022

A new variant of a Brazilian trojan has impacted Internet end users in Portugal since last month (February 2022). The victims’ data is encrypted and sent to the C2 server geolocated in Russia. At this moment, the infection chain is able to bypass the antivirus detection, with the latter EXE ( WpfApp14.exe Introduction.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 17, 2022

Zagala often bragged, even on public forums, that Thanos was nearly undetectable by antivirus programs, and that "once encryption is done," the ransomware would "delete itself," making detection and recovery "almost impossible" for the victim. Almost" being the key word here.

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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. If that's a no-go for whatever reason, a Wi-Fi VPN can do the heavy lifting in terms of traffic encryption.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 8, 2022

Also known as Gozi, Ursnif has evolved over the years to include a persistence mechanism, methods to avoid sandboxes and virtual machines, and search capability for disk encryption software to attempt key extraction for unencrypting files. Based on information from trusted third parties, TrickBot's infrastructure is still active in July 2022.

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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+.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 4, 2022

The leaked chats show that the Conti group — which fluctuated in size from 65 to more than 100 employees — budgeted several thousand dollars each month to pay for a slew of security and antivirus tools. “Hello [victim company redacted],” the gang wrote in January 2022. “We are Conti Group.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Hanslovan: So we noticed it was a trend like all things cat and mouse base and hackers were really getting ticked off that their malicious payloads were getting caught by the antivirus. Why don't I use the trusted ones that I'll get by antivirus. So good tactic it can be deployed both ways cybercrime and more traditional espionage.

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