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4 Best Antivirus Software of 2021

eSecurity Planet

What’s the best antivirus software? With the rise in malware and ransomware and a growing reliance on the internet, antivirus solutions are critical for protecting your data and applications. Top 4 antivirus software. Banking, privacy and identity protection. Bitdefender. Other AV contenders. Parental controls.

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IT threat evolution in Q2 2022. Mobile statistics

SecureList

The most common threat to mobile devices was adware: 25.28% of all threats detected. 405,684 malicious installation packages were detected, of which: 55,614 packages were related to mobile banking Trojans; 3,821 packages were mobile ransomware Trojans. Mobile threat statistics. Quarterly highlights.

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IT threat evolution in Q3 2022. Mobile statistics

SecureList

Droppers (Trojan-Dropper), accounting for 26.28% of detections, were the most common threat to mobile devices. 438,035 malicious installation packages were detected, of which: 35,060 packages were related to mobile banking Trojans, 2,310 packages were mobile ransomware Trojans. Quarterly highlights. percentage points.

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Ransomware Revival: Troldesh becomes a leader by the number of attacks

Security Affairs

Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company: ransomware accounted for over half of all malicious mailings in H1 2019 , detected and analyzed by Group-IB’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-GIB), with Troldesh aka Shade being the most popular tool among cybercriminals. More than 80% of all malicious files were disguised as .zip

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IT threat evolution in Q3 2021. Mobile statistics

SecureList

The largest share of all detected mobile threats accrued to RiskTool apps — 65.84%. 676,190 malicious installation packages were detected, of which: 12,097 packages were related to mobile banking Trojans; 6,157 packages were mobile ransomware Trojans. Mobile banking Trojans were progressing, too.

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Fxmsp: the untold story of infamous seller of access to corporate networks who made at least USD 1.5 mln

Security Affairs

Group-IB researchers analyzed Fxmsp’s activity on underground forums for about three years and discovered that the threat actor had compromised networks of more than 130 targets, including SMEs, government organizations, banks, and Fortune 500 companies all around the world. Geography and victims. First falls. The big fish.

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Adaptive protection against invisible threats

SecureList

Detecting an exploit or trojan that explicitly runs on a device is not a problem for an antivirus solution. Antivirus solutions will also recognize these files as “trusted”, so may be unable to quickly “understand” that the piece of office software is executing atypical processes initiated by malicious code.