Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2024

The company designs and develops digital imaging products for use in mobile phones, laptops, netbooks and webcams, security and surveillance cameras, entertainment, automotive and medical imaging systems. OmniVision Technologies Inc. In 2023, the imaging sensors manufacturer was the victim of a Cactus ransomware attack.

Data breaches 102

Data breaches Ransomware Manufacturing Encryption 102

Malwarebytes

JULY 22, 2021

Antivirus vendors detect it. When weaponized by authoritarian governments, surveillance chills free speech, scares away dissent, and robs an innocent public of a life lived unwatched, for no crime committed other than speaking truth to power, conducting public health research, or simply loving another person.

Spyware 120

Spyware Surveillance Mobile Government 120

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

They’ll take more manual steps to encrypt servers, exfiltrate data – or do both. And then, instead of encrypting one or two or ten machines, they’ll encrypt everything.” Next, they encrypted servers in the most painful way possible, thus motivating companies to pay tens of thousands of dollars for a decryption key.

Encryption 147

Encryption Malware Ransomware Cyber Attacks 147

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. Activation: The ransomware begins encrypting sensitive files or locking down the system. An August 2022 Statista report counted 2.8 Ransomware.

Malware 75

Malware Adware Spyware Antivirus 75

Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2019

During the last month, our Threat Intelligence surveillance team spotted increasing evidence of an operation intensification against the Banking sector. The malicious executable is substantially an email stealer, in fact, the only purpose is to retrieve all the emails and passwords accounts present inside the victim machine.

Banking 70

Banking Malware Surveillance Retail 70

SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

We believe that the most significant aspect of the Ecipekac malware is that the encrypted shellcodes are inserted into digitally signed DLLs without affecting the validity of the digital signature. Ransomware encrypting virtual hard disks. When this technique is used, some security solutions cannot detect these implants.

Malware 101

Malware Adware Encryption Architecture 101

Notice Bored

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Formal provision of valuable information, for instance when a client discusses a case with a lawyer, accountant, auditor or some other professional. Information security aspects must be assessed and taken fully into account in business relationships involving the exchange of information with third parties.

Information Security 56

Information Security Risk Media Encryption 56