Malwarebytes

JULY 26, 2022

Let’s start a ping to Google’s DNS server. Below, you’ll see the dashboard for Malwarebytes Nebula , our cloud-hosted security operations platform that allows you to manage control of any malware or ransomware incident. Just keep in mind that right now we can effectively communicate out to the internet.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Or they can package malware that can be directly installed on your machine or come through an email attachment disguised as something trustworthy , like a document or link from your boss. Tracking recent trends in malware code and technique updates. Applying predictive analysis and modeling to look for anomalies in traffic data.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Malware, short for “malicious software,” is any unwanted software on your computer that, more often than not, is designed to inflict damage. Since the early days of computing, a wide range of malware types with varying functions have emerged. Best Practices to Defend Against Malware. Jump ahead: Adware. RAM scraper.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

For example, the 2016 DDoS attack on the Dyn managed domain name service (DNS) caused the DNS service to fail to respond to legitimate DNS inquiries and effectively shut down major sites such as PayPal, Spotify, Twitter, Yelp, and many others. Also read: How to Secure DNS. Types of DDoS Attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Server: Provides powerful computing and storage in local, cloud, and data center networks to run services (Active Directory, DNS, email, databases, apps). Next-generation firewalls (NGFWs): Improve the general security of a firewall with advanced packet analysis capabilities to block malware and known-malicious sites.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

The tools also depend upon physical controls that should also be implemented against malicious physical access to destroy or compromise networking equipment such as routers, cables, switches, firewalls, and other networking appliances. These physical controls do not rely upon IT technology and will be assumed to be in place.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2023

This article will focus on the widespread and highly persistent malware injector campaign “Balada,” which has reportedly infected over 1 million individual websites by exploiting weaknesses in Elementor Pro, WooCommerce, and several other WordPress plugins. Balada is not an overly shy malware campaign. Windows NT 10.0; wc-ajax=1”.

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Webroot

JUNE 21, 2021

It may be as simple as the deployment of antivirus plus backup and recovery applications for your end users, or a more complex approach with security operations center (SOC) tools or managed response solutions coupled with network security tools such as DNS and Web filtering, network and endpoint firewalls, VPNs, backup and recovery and others.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Recent research by Positive Technologies looked at the cyber threat landscape during Q2 2021 and found that ransomware attacks reached “stratospheric” levels, accounting for 69% of all malware attacks, a huge jump from 39% in Q2 2020. Detect compromised accounts, insider threats, and malware. Best Ransomware Removal Tools.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 8, 2023

Because of the HTTPS connection and the port the data exchange takes place on (QUIC on port 7844), it is unlikely to be picked up by protection software like firewalls unless specifically instructed to do so. Use endpoint security software that can prevent exploits and malware used to deliver ransomware. Prevent intrusions.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

Besides using the Cobalt Strike beacon, the adversary also searches for VPN and firewall configs, possibly to function as a backup access into the network. We observed the use of Cobalt Strike’s C2 protocol encapsulated in DNS by the adversary in 2017 and 2018. The DNS-responses weren’t logged.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2021

Malware detection has long been a game of signature detection. With ML and artificial intelligence (AI) using thousands of strains to train algorithms, one would surmise that the ability to detect malware is only improving. Hackers are using the same ML and AI technology to avoid using recognized malware. Old way New way.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

With lateral movement across a victim’s IT infrastructure, threat actors can escalate privileges, spread malware , extract data , and disrupt IT services as with ransomware attacks. SamSam Ransomware: Malware Specializing in RDP. As long as actors go undetected, the timing of attacks is on the perpetrator’s terms.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

The vendor reports show that most attackers want credentials, most malware development is in credential-stealing software, and the market for stolen credentials is booming: Cisco: Found 54% of organizations experienced a cybersecurity incident; and of those incidents, 54% involved phishing and 37% involved credentials stuffing.

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SecureList

JUNE 15, 2022

I will buy accounts for access to corporate VPNs or firewalls (FortiGate, SonicWall, PulseSecure, etc.) In contrast, less experienced cybercriminals are not always able to see an attack through to the end (malware execution, data theft, etc.), Malware log offers on a dark web forum. Malware logs (different). more in pm!

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Fox IT

JUNE 23, 2020

Evil Corp were previously associated to the Dridex malware and BitPaymer ransomware, the latter came to prominence in the first half of 2017. Evil Corp has been operating the Dridex malware since July 2014 and provided access to several groups and individual threat actors.

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Cisco Security

MAY 24, 2021

million ransom and spending a long week restoring backups, Colonial was able to resume operations. Here are a few measures that industrial organizations should implement to start converging their IT and OT security practices: Protect computer systems against malware. Enforce security at the DNS layer. After paying a $4.4

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

EdgeConnect Enterprise critically comes with firewall , segmentation , and application control capabilities. The first traditional cybersecurity vendor featured is Barracuda Networks, with consistent recognition for its email security , next-generation firewalls ( NGFW ), web application security , and backups.

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