The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Here are five notable historical events that influenced cybersecurity assessment and transformed it into what it is today: The Battle of Midway (1942). It’s clear that when technology develops, people find creative ways to cause mass disruption, increasing the need for antivirus protection and firewalls.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

This deal reads like to the epilogue to a book titled The First 20 Years of the Supremely Lucrative Antivirus Market. Way back in 1990, Symantec acquired Norton Utilities and made Norton the heart of its antivirus subscription offering. Related: The coming of ubiquitous passwordless access.

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Penetration Testing

JULY 21, 2024

In a recent series of events that disrupted major operations, the KADOKAWA Corporation experienced service outages that extended to multiple websites.

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Webroot

MARCH 3, 2025

The event is sponsored by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and other participating agencies include the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), AARP , and the Better Business Bureau (BBB). Antivirus protection Software that protects against viruses and malware.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 27, 2025

Run a full antivirus/malware scan. Familiarize yourself with the normal procedure, so uncommon events will be red flags. If you’ve clicked a link like this: Clear your browser cache and cookies. Check your account login history. Enable 2FA if you haven’t already. Remember: the absence of obvious malware doesn’t mean the attempt failed.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 17, 2018

No one in cybersecurity refers to “antivirus” protection any more. since the nascent days of the antivirus market, I find in fascinating that the top dozen or so antivirus players have all managed to remain in the game. In the early days, antivirus suites were threat-centric and device-centric. Looming consolidation.

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The Hacker News

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In yet another indicator of how hacking groups are quick to capitalize on world events and improvise their attack campaigns for maximum impact, threat actors have been discovered impersonating Amnesty International to distribute malware that purports to be security software designed to safeguard against NSO Group's Pegasus surveillanceware.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2022

SafeBreach Labs researcher Or Yair has uncovered zero-day vulnerabilities in several leading endpoint detection and response ( EDR ) and antivirus ( AV ) solutions that enabled him to turn the tools into potentially devastating next-generation wipers. ” To do so, he focused on the two key events that occur when an EDR deletes a file.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

ISO 22317: Focuses on Business Impact Analysis (BIA), detailing the processes for identifying and evaluating the impact of different events on business operations. Collect and safeguard critical artifacts such as event logs, system logs, and authentication records from corporate systems.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 28, 2021

Oddly, none of the several dozen antivirus tools available to scan the file at Virustotal.com currently detect it as malicious. Here are a few of the more notable examples , although all of those events are almost a decade old. That same list today would be pages long. Further reading: A Basic Timeline of the Exchange Mass-Hack.

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The Hacker News

APRIL 14, 2025

This weeks events show a hard truth: its not enough to react after an attack. Attackers arent waiting for patches anymore they are breaking in before defenses are ready. Trusted security tools are being hijacked to deliver malware. Even after a breach is detected and patched, some attackers stay hidden. In a world

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Even events like the World Cup are being used by cyber criminals to target unsuspecting victims through things like fake streaming sites designed to steal private information. This includes antivirus software, operating systems, and individual apps. Sometimes, they will even ask the victim to buy gift cards, which they then redeem.

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SecureList

APRIL 7, 2025

The resulting tool’s capabilities include modifying operating system kernel structures to disable notification routines, for example, about a process creation event in the system or a load event. Lists of such drivers can be found on the loldrivers project website, for example.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 21, 2025

Victims are invited, seemingly by a legitimate European foreign affairs ministry, to a fake diplomatic event. According to Check Point, it also employs a sneaky method to dodge antivirus scans by temporarily making malicious memory pages inaccessible. This time, their targets are embassies and foreign ministries, mostly in Europe.

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SecureList

APRIL 8, 2025

If not, the script checks for processes associated with antivirus software, security solutions, virtual environments, and research tools. The message contains system information, the infected device’s external IP address and country, CPU name, operating system, installed antivirus, username, and computer name.

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SecureList

MARCH 5, 2025

This technique is used to hinder automatic analysis by antivirus solutions and sandboxes. The loader creates a service named DrvSvc and sets its description to that of the legitimate Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) service: svc_name = "DrvSvc" svc_desc = "Launches applications associated with still image acquisition events."

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2022

SharkBot banking malware was able to evade Google Play Store security checks masqueraded as an antivirus app. Researchers pointed out that this technique allows the malware to receive a list of events to be simulated, allowing attackers to automate and scale up their operations. ” reads the report published by NCC Group.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

It had no documented cyber incident response runbooks or IT recovery plans (apart from documented AD recovery plans) for recovering from a wide-scale ransomware event. Antivirus software triggered numerous alerts after detecting Cobalt Strike activity but these were not escalated.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 17, 2019

Wipro has so far ignored specific questions about the supposed zero-day, other than to say “based on our interim investigation, we have shared the relevant information of the zero-day with our AV [antivirus] provider and they have released the necessary signatures for us.”

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Threat hunting is the practice of actively seeking out dangers to cyber security by detecting and eliminating new and emerging threats that are able to evade preventative controls such as firewalls and antivirus software. One of the most commonly used tools for threat hunting, however is security information and event management (SIEM).

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

SlowMist says the North Korean phishing scams used the “Add Custom Link” feature of the Calendly meeting scheduling system on event pages to insert malicious links and initiate phishing attacks. MacOS computers include X-Protect , Apple’s built-in antivirus technology. ” Image: SlowMist.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2019

KrebsOnSecurity has reached out to all of these companies for comment, and will update this story in the event any of them respond with relevant information. WHAT ARE THEY AFTER?

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 3, 2020

The malicious link that set off antivirus alarm bells when people tried to visit Blue Shield California downloaded javascript content from a domain called linkojager[.]org. Finally, in the event you do wish to install something, make sure you’re getting it directly from the entity that produced the software.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2024

The ransomware identifies user accounts by viewing successful logins in Windows Event Viewer, it also uses a modified variant of the open-source PSnmap Tool. Once the malware has escalated the privileges on a machine, the threat actors use a batch script to uninstall popular antivirus solutions installed on the machine.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The ransomware identifies user accounts by viewing successful logins in Windows Event Viewer, it also uses a modified variant of the open-source PSnmap Tool. Once the malware has escalated the privileges on a machine, the threat actors use a batch script to uninstall popular antivirus solutions installed on the machine.

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Webroot

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

While computer antivirus is effective, sometimes malware still wins. Analysis of 50 popular “free-to-view” sites during several major sporting events uncovered that every single site contained malicious content, while over 40 percent of sites did not have the necessary security certificate. Click here to learn more.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The user ianch99 in the QNAP NAS community forum reported that the antivirus ClamAV was failing to update due to 0.0.0.0 “Since recent firmware updates, the ClamAV Antivirus fails to update due to 700+ clamav.net entries in /etc/hosts, all set to 0.0.0.0 clamav.net host file entries. e.g.” wrote the user ianch99.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2022

Italy’s data privacy watchdog launched an investigation into the “potential risks” associated with the use of Russian antivirus software Kaspersky. Italy’s data privacy watchdog has launched an investigation into potential risks associated with the use of the Kaspersky antivirus.

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Webroot

MAY 6, 2024

For businesses, this means implementing a comprehensive incident response plan that includes secure, immutable backups and regular testing to ensure rapid recovery in the event of an attack. For businesses, this means implementing strong antivirus software, endpoint protection solutions, and regular software updates.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

It is usually combined with endpoint protection platforms, called EPP , which are something like enterprise-class antivirus tools. CrowdStrike Falcon Prevent combines antivirus with other prevention technologies such as EDR (Falcon Insight) for endpoint visibility and Falcon Discover to identify and eliminate malicious activity.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 17, 2023

However, as manual track down of threats is impossible, due to sheer volumes of data, analysts use an automated form of software that assists them in collecting, analyzing and sharing information with the teams to ensure identity and prevention of harm from attacks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2024

The ransomware identifies user accounts by viewing successful logins in Windows Event Viewer, it also uses a modified variant of the open-source PSnmap Tool. Once the malware has escalated the privileges on a machine, the threat actors use a batch script to uninstall popular antivirus solutions installed on the machine.

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Webroot

JUNE 27, 2024

Factors to consider when evaluating antivirus software After events like this, you may wonder how much it matters where your cyber security solutions are developed and headquartered. So how do you go about evaluating and selecting antivirus software? Webroot, for example, was founded in 1997 in Boulder, CO.

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Webroot

AUGUST 27, 2021

When paired with the strong recommendation to use antivirus software at all times, NIST’s recommended prevention measures already cover two key areas of focus in a cyber resilience strategy: endpoint security and network protection.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

One such piece is Windows Event 5447 which identifies when a WFP filter has been changed. EDRSandBlast Adding WFP Filters This will create very similar logs as EDRSilencer in Windows Event 5447 but on a larger scale since it will do it for every subprocess of the EDR. Likely targets for this are EDR and AntiVirus products.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Incident Response & Forensic Analysis EDR provides critical tools for event management and forensic investigation, supporting teams in comprehending and addressing security vulnerabilities. EDR vs Other Security Solutions EDR works smoothly with various security tools, including EPP, antivirus, SIEM, and MDR.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2022

. “Organizations should increase vigilance and evaluate their capabilities encompassing planning, preparation, detection, and response for such an event.” ” Below is the list of actions recommended to the organizations: • Set antivirus and antimalware programs to conduct regular scans. Filter network traffic.

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