Webroot

MAY 6, 2024

Keep all devices updated with the latest security patches, and use reputable antivirus solutions that can block suspicious downloads and identify malicious software. What was once a clear distinction between mass phishing emails and more targeted spear-phishing attempts is now blurring, making it harder to distinguish between the two.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The email antivirus was triggered most frequently by email messages containing members of the Trojan.Win32.Agentb The Kaspersky Anti-Phishing component blocked 434,898,635 attempts at accessing scam sites. The most frequent targets of phishing attacks were online stores (18.12 Agentb malware family. Trends of the year.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

A recently reported phishing and vishing campaign was designed to impersonate Geek Squad. A new blog post report has shone a light on the malicious practice known as voice phishing or vishing – a social engineering tactic that some cyber experts say has only grown in prominence since COVID-19 forced employees to work from home.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Unfortunately for us, Doug freaked out after deciding he’d been tricked — backing up his important documents, changing his passwords, and then reinstalling macOS on his computer. MacOS computers include X-Protect , Apple’s built-in antivirus technology. Image: SlowMist.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Now, let’s take a quick tour through the terrain of common cyber scams: Phishing scams Ah, phishing scams, the bane of our digital existence. They’ll try to sweet-talk you into clicking on suspicious links or divulging sensitive information like passwords or credit card details. ’ Get creative!

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 10, 2023

.” In December, SafeBreach Labs researcher Or Yair discovered zero-day vulnerabilities in several EDR and antivirus tools, while in October, the BlackByte ransomware group was found to be actively exploiting a known driver vulnerability to bypass EDR protections. Read next: AI Coding: A Security Problem?

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Use strong and unique passwords Passwords are your first line of defense to protecting your online accounts from hackers. That’s why your passwords should be strong : at least eight characters long with a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols. Password management to keep your credentials safe.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Use strong passwords, 2FA. The security of your Bitcoin wallet is mostly dependent on the strength of your passwords. Use uppercase, lowercase, digits, special characters, and a combination of them to create strong, one-of-a-kind passwords. Keep your name and birthday away from utilizing information that might be easily guessed.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Phishing continues to be key for these campaigns and it’s typically the first step in compromising a business for the nastiest malware. The post The 6 Nastiest Malware of 2021 appeared first on Webroot Blog. Strategies for individuals. Discover more about 2021’s Nastiest Malware on the Webroot Community.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

AMOS was first advertised in April 2023 as a stealer for Mac OS with a strong focus on crypto assets, capable of harvesting passwords from browsers and Apple's keychain, as well as featuring a file grabber. In this blog post, we will provide details on one campaign targeting TradingView, a popular platform and app to track financial markets.

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Webroot

JUNE 2, 2022

Phishing and social engineering. Use a strong, unique password for every account that you have. Watch for phishing and social engineering. The best way to stay safe is to be aware of the threat—and learn how to spot phishing and social engineering attacks when you encounter them. Account takeovers. Avoid pirated games.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The respected technology blog TechRadar has even referred to 2021 as “the year of the Chromebook.”. Even strong security can’t prevent an account from being hacked if account credentials are stolen in a phishing attack, one of the most common causes of identity theft. Web-borne malware remains widespread.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Some malicious actors might trick you into giving your password or financial information away. According to the latest IDG report, phishing attacks are on the rise. Delete any requests to provide financial information or passwords and report them as spam. What does social engineering look like?

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 30, 2022

Malware-as-a-service has contributed substantially to the growth of ransomware and phishing attacks (among other attack types) in the past year, as they lower the technical barrier to entry for criminals to carry out attacks. BlackGuard detects antivirus processes. This allows it to bypass antivirus and string-based detection.

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Zigrin Security

OCTOBER 11, 2023

For a detailed threat actor description do not forget to check out our blog article about selecting between black-box, white-box, and grey-box penetration tests and also you would know which pentest you need against a specific threat actor. Phishing Attacks Phishing attacks are one of the most common and successful methods used by hackers.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Underground services are cropping up that are designed to enable bad actors to intercept one-time passwords (OTPs), which are widely used in two-factor authentication programs whose purpose is to better protect customers’ online accounts. Phishing, Social Engineering are Still Problems. OTP Interception Services Emerge.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 12, 2023

In this blog, we cover the top-seven data security practices every workplace should implement to help protect valuable information and more. Common Data Threats in the Workplace Many of the most common data threats involve an employee being careless or making a simple mistake: Phishing and smishing. Password theft.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The archive file we recently discovered contained a password-protected decoy document and a shortcut file named “ Password.txt.lnk “ This is a classic BlueNoroff strategy to persuade the victim to execute the malicious shortcut file to acquire the decoy document’s password. slideLayouts/slideLayout1.xml"/></Relationships>

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Security Through Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

This blog will delve into the various types of impersonation scams, shed light on their insidious nature, and provide practical tips on how to protect yourself from falling prey to them. How to Spot Them: Phishing emails could contain spelling and grammatical errors. Here are some common types: 1.

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Scams Social Engineering Education Identity Theft 52

Identity IQ

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Phishing emails and links: Phishing emails and links are designed to trick you into revealing personal information or clicking on malicious links that can install malware on your device. Common phishing red flags to look for include typos or low-resolution images. This is a form of phishing scam.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Show them these tips: Never use the same password twice. And if your child uses the same password across multiple accounts, when one gets breached they are all vulnerable. And if your child uses the same password across multiple accounts, when one gets breached they are all vulnerable. This is where a password manager comes in.

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Fox IT

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

After we discovered in February 2022 the SharkBotDropper in Google Play posing as a fake Android antivirus and cleaner, now we have detected a new version of this dropper active in the Google Play and dropping a new version of Sharkbot. Authored by Alberto Segura (main author) and Mike Stokkel (co-author). Introduction. Conclusion.

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ZoneAlarm

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In our increasingly interconnected world, the threat of cyberattacks looms larger than … The post 7 Ways to Make the Most of Cybersecurity Awareness Month appeared first on ZoneAlarm Security Blog.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 2, 2021

This blog post was authored by Hossein Jazi and the Threat Intelligence Team. In this blog post we are providing additional details about SideCopy that have not been published before. They also exfiltrated documents that are password protected. Conclusion. Domain/IP Description afrepublic.xyz C2 newsroom247.xyz

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, March 2021. conduct employee phishing tests. review Active Directory password policy. conduct employee phishing tests. review Active Directory password policy.

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Energy and Utilities Ransomware Banking Hacking 122

Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

A blog post published earlier this year posed the question "Is Grammarly a keylogger?" There's a tongue-in-cheek saying about a common piece of advice for avoiding phishing attacks: you can't tell the user to stop clicking things on the thing-clicking machine. The answer has always been, "no." How do I protect myself from keyloggers?

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Malwarebytes

JULY 30, 2021

LemonDuck has evolved from a Monero cryptominer into LemonCat, a Trojan that specializes in backdoor installation, credential and data theft, and malware delivery, according to the Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team, which explained their findings in a two-part story [ 1 ][ 2 ] on the Microsoft Security blog.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 31, 2023

This blog was jointly written with Alejandro Prada and Ofer Caspi. Due to its relatively large size, certain antivirus may choose not to analyze it, potentially bypassing detection. Antivirus / EDR evasion: The rootkit uses several evasion techniques: AMSI bypass: PowerShell inline script patches “amsi.dll!AmsiScanBuffer”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Latin American Javali trojan weaponizing Avira antivirus legitimate injector to implant malware. The malicious activity starts with a phishing email sent to the target victims in Latin American – Brazil, Mexico, Chile, and Peru – and Europe – Spain and Portugal. In short, the phishing email is received by victims.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 17, 2024

This blog post describes methods that SpecterOps consultants have researched to successfully circumvent this technology during offensive assessments. Antivirus Inspection Not all RBI products will prioritize this time factor. Other RBI solutions are set to a fail-closed state that blocks the download of a file if it cannot scan it.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 28, 2021

Networks can also be easily breached by social engineering, password theft, or tainted USBs, as in the Stuxnet attack. . . This renders the attacks undetectable and able to bypass conventional security solutions such as EDR, antivirus and other traditional security lines of defense. Blog post: Overcoming Patching Pitfalls.

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Energy and Utilities Malware DDOS Internet 72

Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2019

The intercepted attack starts with a spear-phishing email embedding a spreadsheet. The “-p” parameter, indeed, specify the password of the archive to be extracted. After the reconstruction of the full infection chain, we noticed strong similarities with a recent spear-phishing attack campaign against an unspecified US retail company.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Last days of 2019 were the perfect time to spread phishing campaigns using email templates based on the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax. This is a clear signal that most of the antivirus engines don’t detect yet the malware signature. But the file is protected with a password. Figure 29: Password of 0.zip

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 3, 2022

This blog post was authored by Ankur Saini and Hossein Jazi. In this blog post, we will analyze Woody Rat’s distribution methods, capabilities as well as communication protocol. We believe that these archive files have been distributed using spear phishing emails. We will dive into all these commands below in the blog.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 3, 2023

For instance, phishing, one of the most common, is a social engineering attack used to steal user data. 2021 saw a massive increase in phishing attacks , and that trend has continued into 2022. With the rise in social media, criminals have more platforms with which to target potential phishing victims.

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2019

Firstly, we noticed this secondary component was well protected against antivirus detection, in fact, the PE file was signed by Sectigo in the first half of May, one of the major Russian Certification Authority. Technical details, including IoCs and Yara Rules, are available in the analysis published on the Yoroi blog. Conclusion.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2022

On March 12th, Ukraine's Computer Emergency Response Team (UA-Cert) warned about phishing emails impersonating Ukrainian government entities. [ 3 ] The emails redirected victims to a website delivering fake antivirus updates that eventually downloaded Cobalt Strike beacons, or two custom Go malware variants named GraphSteel and GrimPlant.

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