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Threat in your browser: what dangers innocent-looking extensions hold for users

SecureList

Overall, more than 100 networks were abused, giving threat actors a foothold on financial service firms, oil and gas companies, the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, government and other organizations. Sometimes developers sell a browser extension after it has gained a huge following. Methodology.

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IT threat evolution Q1 2021. Non-mobile statistics

SecureList

Attempts to run malware designed to steal money via online access to bank accounts were stopped on the computers of 118,099 users. At the end of last year, the number of users attacked by malware designed to steal money from bank accounts gradually decreased, a trend that continued in Q1 2021. Financial threats. IoT attacks.

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Extortion, precision malware, and ruthless scams. Read the State of Malware 2021 report

Malwarebytes

of all Mac detections in 2020—the rest can be attributed to Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs) and Adware ThiefQuest tricked many researchers into believing it was the first example of ransomware on macOS since 2017, but the malware was hiding its real activity of massive data exfiltration.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 232

Security Affairs

A bug in Instagram exposed user accounts and phone numbers. United States government files civil lawsuit against Edward Snowden. Crooks hacked other celebrity Instagram accounts to push scams. Two selfie Android adware apps with 1.5M+ downloads removed from Play Store. Once again thank you!

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3 Companies that Help SMBs to Improve Their Cybersecurity

Hacker Combat

For the past few months, the restrictions imposed by governments to combat pandemic concerns have encouraged employees to practice the “work from home” scheme. They are misrepresenting official tracing accounts via emails. Prevents Adware – A computer virus-like adware fills your computer with various promotions or ads.

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Managed Detection and Response in Q4 2020

SecureList

Incidents linked to 2-4 alerts account for 15.3%; they represent the main directions for detection engineering, both in new alert development and improvements to existing alerts. IT, Government and Industrial are the TOP 3. This demonstrates that remediation is fairly efficient. Offensive exercise. Artefacts of APT, targeted attack.

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Australia Recorded the Highest Rate of iOS & Android App Threats

Appknox

Anti-virus giant, Kaspersky, blocked 6,463,414 mobile malware, adware, and risk-ware attacks. Each attack usually targets government agencies, business enterprise executives, etc. Apple iOS users often fall prey to mobile scams; around 30.1% of the total mobile app threats make up the real threats so far.