CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 13, 2023

Be Skeptical of Phishing Attempts: Phishing is a prevalent cybercrime technique that involves tricking individuals into divulging their sensitive information. In the event of a cyber attack or data breach, having up-to-date backups ensures that you can restore your information and minimize potential losses.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2023

Antivirus firm Bitdefender released a decryptor for the MegaCortex ransomware allowing its victims to restore their data for free. Antivirus firm Bitdefender released a decryptor for the MegaCortex ransomware , which can allow victims of the group to restore their data for free. The group typically asked ransoms between $20,000 to $5.8

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Vipre

JANUARY 25, 2021

Cyber-attacks are on the rise and are becoming more potent with each day. Whether you use your computer for personal or professional purposes, cyber-attacks are an imminent threat to your privacy and personal or professional information. Identity Theft Protection Tools.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

From ransomware attacks locking businesses out of their data until they pay potentially millions of dollars to spyware tracking users’ every move through their infected device, the effects of malware can be devastating. billion malware attacks worldwide in the first half of 2022 alone. An August 2022 Statista report counted 2.8

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Though polite, the Creeper was still an annoyance to some, and in 1971, Ray Tomlinson developed the first antivirus software , called Reaper. One of the first pieces of antivirus software , McAfee’s VirusScan, was released in 1987. It also would actively shut down antivirus processes to evade detection and removal.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 30, 2023

1 ) Cybercriminals also seem to see the potential in ChatGPT; some security researchers reported seeing evidence that cybercriminals are abusing the tool to create or improve malware or create offensive tools to support cybercrime. ( In other fields, ChatGPT is being met with some concern.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We each need to consider how these trends may affect our organizations and allocate our budgets and resources accordingly: AI will turbo-charge cybersecurity and cyberthreats: Artificial intelligence (AI) will boost both attackers and defenders while causing governance issues and learning pains.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 19, 2021

However, businesses today have 10 to 50+ security tools and consequently spend too much time managing them instead of protecting against cybercrime. AT&T Managed XDR can help consolidate telemetry from across your attack surface and automate and orchestrate workflows and processes to speed up response and recovery.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2019

Ecuador suffered 40 Million Cyber attacks after the Julian Assange arrest. Operator of Codeshop Cybercrime Marketplace Sentenced to 90 months in prison. Ransomware attack knocks Weather Channel off the Air. Avast, Avira, Sophos and other antivirus solutions show problems after.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

Cybercrime to cost over $10 Trillion by 2025. UK School Cyber-Attack affects 40,000 Pupils’ Email. Birmingham College falls victim to 'Major Ransomware Attack'. Banks and Insurers to Face Tough Cyber Stress Tests under Bank of England Plan. Australia Cyber Attacks hit Television Channel and Parliament.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The spread of this ransomware was considered to be the worst cyber attack in terms of contamination rate and scope, putting public offices and companies (especially healthcare facilities) out of operation. Only the registration of this domain subsequently created the condition (kill swich) for the malware to stop spreading.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The main reason why these campaigns exploded so dramatically was that they used previously leaked NSA exploits called EternalBlue and DoublePulsar, which made the attacks absolutely inconspicuous and therefore almost impossible to prevent. WannaCry and NotPetya cyber-attacks have since been attributed to state-funded threat actors.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Bank of Valletta shut down its operations after a cyber attack. Astaroth Trojan relies on legitimate os and antivirus processes to steal data. Ubuntu snapd flaw allows getting root access to the system. 0patch released micropatch for code execution flaw in OpenOffice. Experts spotted a new strain of Shlayer macOS Malware.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Below are 10 best practices organizations should be employing to better position themselves and their customers for cyber safety. Endpoint security – mobile device management (MDM) policies, antivirus (AV) solutions, URL filtering and blocking are all considered good cyber hygiene to block the most basic cyber threats.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 17, 2023

The threat actor’s methodology wasn’t unique — they used a six-step approach that can be mapped directly to cyber attack frameworks. With cybercrime at record levels, businesses are on guard against a constantly growing number and variety of threats. Most of these steps could’ve been blocked with the aid of DNS protection.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

A ransomware attack is about as bad as a cyber attack can get. It can shut down your business – in the case of healthcare organizations that can be life-threatening for patients – damage your reputation with customers and employees, and invite further attacks as cybercriminals view your organization as an easy mark.

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Herjavec Group

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Enterprises and organizations are not the only ones at risk when it comes to cyber-attacks, and that’s a mentality we need to emphasize. If there’s a choice between a company with a resilient cyber-defence program and one without, who do you think the customer is going to go with? A lot of people say, “Why me?

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2021

Overall cybercrime costs are expected to reach $10.5 Most traditional tools used for investigating cyber-attacks cannot assess potential impacts on these environments. Cybereason offers endpoint detection and response (EDR), antivirus and managed detection and response services. billion in funding in 2020. Cato Networks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Since last October, we have seen enterprises such as SolarWinds, Colonial Pipeline, JBS USA Holdings, Kesaya, Olympus and more become victims of large-scale cyber attacks, causing ripple effects for the companies and their customers. digital infrastructure against frequent and sophisticated attacks.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

The last days of March 2019 are making headlines due to a targeted cyber attack involving a new variant of infamous EMOTET malware. That file was delivered via malscam campaigns around the world and its source-code is obfuscated in order to evade antivirus detection and complicate its analysis.

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