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Lumma/Amadey: fake CAPTCHAs want to know if you’re human

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Our recent research into the adware landscape revealed that this malicious CAPTCHA is spreading through a variety of online resources that have nothing to do with games: adult sites, file-sharing services, betting platforms, anime resources, and web apps monetizing through traffic.

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IT threat evolution in Q3 2024. Non-mobile statistics

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This type of cyberextortion predated Trojans, which encrypt the victim’s files. Furthermore, an independent security researcher released an analysis of a new version of BeaverTail , another type of information stealer designed to exfiltrate data from web browsers and cryptocurrency wallets. million in damage. 2 Peru 11.86

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Los Angeles offers security app to safeguard public WiFi users

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LA Secure app will also assist consumers in protecting them from phishing links and other malicious threats such as cryptocurrency mining malware. Public hotspots might help in malware distribution such as viruses, worms, espionage related tools, file encrypting malware and adware.

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New variant for Mac Malware XCSSET compiled for M1 Chips

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The malware also implements ransomware behavior, it is able to encrypt files and display a ransom note. This behavior allows the malicious code to replace cryptocurrency addresses, and steal credentials for online services (amoCRM, Apple ID, Google, Paypal, SIPMarket, and Yandex) and payment card information from the Apple Store.

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Mobile malware evolution 2020

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The word “covid” in various combinations was typically used in the names of packages hiding spyware and banking Trojans, adware or Trojan droppers. Last year was notable for both malware and adware, the two very close in terms of capabilities. Number of adware attacks on mobile users in 2019 and 2020 ( download ).

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IT threat evolution Q1 2021. Non-mobile statistics

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If the victim organization is slow to pay up, even though its files are encrypted and some of its confidential data has been stolen, the attackers additionally threaten to carry out a DDoS attack. In addition, we detected an interesting adware program written in the Rust language, and assigned it the verdict AdWare.OSX.Convuster.a. .

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Crimeware and financial cyberthreats in 2023

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Cryptocurrency targeted attacks. The cryptocurrency business continues to grow, and people continue to invest their money in this market because it’s a digital asset and all transactions occur online. More cryptocurrency-related threats: fake hardware wallets, smart contract attacks, DeFi hacks, and more.