Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

To prevent Windows Defender Antivirus from blocking the ransomware process, it makes several Windows Registry changes to disable many Windows Defender features (i.e. tamper protection, anti-spyware capabilities, real-time behavioral monitoring, real-time on-access (file) protection, and real-time process scanning).

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Insurance Ransomware Cyber Insurance Malware 81

SecureWorld News

AUGUST 8, 2022

Cybercriminals often use malware to gain access to a computer or mobile device to deploy viruses, worms, Trojans, ransomware, spyware, and rootkits. The top malware strains in 2021 included remote access Trojans (RATs), banking Trojans, information stealers, and ransomware. Remcos installs a backdoor onto a target system.

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Malware Banking Healthcare Penetration Testing 84

Identity IQ

MAY 7, 2021

Spyware can be loaded onto your machine to log all your keystrokes. By changing how you approach passwords, keeping your browser updated, installing the right antivirus, and proactively monitoring your credit and bank accounts for unusual activity, you can massively reduce your vulnerability to this increasingly prevalent form of cybercrime.

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Accountability Data breaches Passwords Social Engineering 105

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. Types of spyware are often classified based on what information they’re gathering. Need More Intel on Rootkits?

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Malware Adware Spyware Antivirus 75

Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2020

Spyware turned out to be the most common malware class hiding in fraudulent COVID-19 emails, with AgentTesla topping the list of phishers’ favorite strains. Spyware: the most likely COVID-19 payload. Most COVID-19-related phishing emails analyzed had different spyware strains embedded as attachments. Source: CERT-GIB.

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Phishing Malware Spyware DDOS 105

Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Further, the term “killware” can confuse antivirus customers seeking reassurance that their own vendor is protecting them from this threat, but antivirus vendors do not stop attacks based on intent, they stop attacks based on method. No surreptitious implantation of spyware to collect admin credentials.

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Ransomware Firewall Antivirus Cybersecurity 145

Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2019

ViceLeaker Android spyware targets users in the Middle East. Firefox finally addressed the Antivirus software TLS Errors. Singapore Government will run its third bug bounty program. A cyberattack took offline websites of the Georgia agency. After 2 years under the radars, Ratsnif emerges in OceanLotus ops.

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Scams Spyware DNS Advertising 47

Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2024

Hackers may have accessed thousands of accounts on the California state welfare platform Brokewell Android malware supports an extensive set of Device Takeover capabilities Experts warn of an ongoing malware campaign targeting WP-Automatic plugin Cryptocurrencies and cybercrime: A critical intermingling Kaiser Permanente data breach may have impacted (..)

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Cybercrime Spyware Data breaches Antivirus 96

SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

During routine monitoring of detections for FinFisher spyware tools, we discovered traces that point to recent FinFly Web deployments. In February 2019, multiple antivirus companies received a collection of malware samples, most of them associated with various known APT groups. Other interesting discoveries.

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Malware Spyware Government Social Engineering 142

SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In 2022, the GReAT team tracked several threat actors leveraging SilentBreak’s toolset as well as a commercial Android spyware we named MagicKarakurt. A recent leak has put it in the hands of cybercrime actors and it is very likely that by the end of the year we will see it involved in APT cases too.

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Firmware Surveillance Mobile Telecommunications 116