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Microsoft’s case study: Emotet took down an entire network in just 8 days

Security Affairs

The attack described by Microsoft begun with a phishing message that was opened by an internal employee, the malware infected its systems and made lateral movements infected other systems in the same network. The incident also affected the surveillance camera network of the company along with the finance department.

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Tips to protect your data, security, and privacy from a hands-on expert

Malwarebytes

There are rootkits, Trojans, worms, viruses, ransomware, phishing, identity theft, and social engineering to worry about. Content blockers help reduce ads, Trojans, phishing, and other undesirable content that an antivirus product alone may not stop. That risk still exists, but we all face many other threats today too.

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Mozilla removed 4 Avast and AVG extensions for spying on Firefox users

Security Affairs

Both Avast and AVG Online Security extension alert users to phishing, scam, and malicious sites when a user visits malicious sites. These browser extensions are installed when users install Avast or AVG antivirus solutions on their computers on their PCs. For some reason this one wasn’t set for me when Avast Antivirus was installed.

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Top 10 Malware Strains of 2021

SecureWorld News

Remcos, short for Remote Control and Surveillance, was leveraged by malicious cyber actors conducting mass phishing campaigns during the COVID-19 pandemic to steal personal data and credentials. Remcos installs a backdoor onto a target system.

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Russian hackers exfiltrated data from Capita over a week before outage

DoublePulsar

So in this piece we shall dig into the details using open source intelligence, and prove Capita was penetrated by Black Basta ransomware group using Qakbot phishing to deliver hands on keyboard access for weeks — and question if the playbooks organisations are using to handle ransomware groups are fit for purpose in 2023.

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FBI shuts down malware on hundreds of Exchange servers, opens Pandora’s box

Malwarebytes

They may give tip-offs, or send files over, and most commonly, do some work in anti-phishing. For example, a popular past time is filling up phish pages with bogus data. It’ll be like the bad old days of fake antivirus pop-ups, except now the law enforcement mentioned is offering to help instead of send you to jail.

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Unknown APT group has targeted Russia repeatedly since Ukraine invasion

Malwarebytes

An unknown Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group has targeted Russian government entities with at least four separate spear phishing campaigns since late February, 2022. A spear phishing email from an unknown APT group claims to have “urgent vulnerability fixes” The PDF attachment— ? ?????????????????

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