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. Today, malware is a common threat to the devices and data of anyone who uses the Internet.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Install an antivirus solution that includes anti-adware capabilities. Additional features of botnets include spam, ad and click fraud, and spyware. with no internet. If your antivirus software fails to notice a new strain, you can reinstall the browser. Jump ahead: Adware. Bots and botnets. Browser hijacker. RAM scraper.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Sophos: Noted that 43% of all 2023 malware signature updates are for stealers, spyware, and keyloggers often used to steal credentials from devices. Company instructions to keep hands off internal network traffic leads to internet service provider (ISP) suppression of only 1% of the 100,000 monthly outgoing DDoS attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Some representative examples of free tools: The Czech antivirus and patch management software creator Avast is a large public company. Ransomware researcher Michael Gillespie creates ransomware decryption tools that are distributed for free on antivirus tool websites; he can also be found on GitHub and Twitter.

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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. In both cases, we described new UEFI firmware bootkits that managed to propagate malicious components from the deepest layers of the machine up to Windows’ user-land.

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

The word “covid” in various combinations was typically used in the names of packages hiding spyware and banking Trojans, adware or Trojan droppers. The manufacturer of the mobile device preloads an adware application or a component with the firmware. Pandemic theme in mobile threats. apk and coviddetect.apk.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Networks connect devices to each other so that users can access assets such as applications, data, or even other networks such as the internet. Some applications, cloud infrastructure, networking equipment, or Internet of Things (IoT) devices may require more sophisticated ITAM or additional tools to detect them.

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