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Ransomware en masse on the wane: top threats inside web-phishing in H1 2020

Security Affairs

Web-phishing targeting various online services almost doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic , it accounted for 46 percent of the total number of fake web pages. Just as it was the case in the second half of 2019, in the first half of this year, online services like ecommerce websites turned out to be the main target of web-phishers.

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Phishing trap: security awareness through a different lens

BH Consulting

To pick some recent common examples, a phishing message might appear to be from your local health authority to inform you of a close contact with a Covid case, or from your bank to warn that your account is frozen, or an ecommerce provider saying there’s a problem with your payment details. . spyware, ransomware).”.

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NullMixer: oodles of Trojans in a single dropper

SecureList

NullMixer is a dropper that includes more than just specific malware families; it drops a wide variety of malicious binaries to infect the machine with, such as backdoors, bankers, downloaders, spyware and many others. To get more information about a user’s Facebook account, Disbuk queries Facebook Graph API.

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