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Russia’s SVR WellMess Malware Is Seemingly Still in the Game

Heimadal Security

AUGUST 2, 2021

Its target was the stealing of COVID-19 vaccine investigations at that time, using malware tagged as “WellMess” or “WellMail” Then, the U.S. The post Russia’s SVR WellMess Malware Is Seemingly Still in the Game appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. Presidency accused Russian […].

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Phishing Actors Are Already Exploiting the Omicron COVID-19 Variant

Heimadal Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

As you might already know a new covid variant called Omicron has recently started spreading. 1.1.529 a variant of concern, named Omicron, on the advice of WHO’s Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution (TAG-VE). The post Phishing Actors Are Already Exploiting the Omicron COVID-19 Variant appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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Remote Working One Year On: What the Future Holds for Cybersecurity

Security Boulevard

MARCH 19, 2021

<a href='/blog?tag=Inbound tag=Inbound Threats'>Inbound Threats</a> <a href='/blog?tag=File tag=File Transfers'>File Transfers</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Email As with many elements of life, COVID-19 served to accelerate trends that were already taking place.

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Google Threat Analysis Group took down ten influence operations in Q2 2020

Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2020

Google published its second Threat Analysis Group (TAG) report which reveals the company has taken down ten coordinated operations in Q2 2020. Google has published its second Threat Analysis Group (TAG) report , a bulletin that includes coordinated influence operation campaigns tracked in Q2 of 2020. response to COVID-19.

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Public Sector Cybersecurity Priorities in 2021

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

<a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> <a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> <a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> 2020 was a year of unprecedented challenge for anyone working in public sector cybersecurity. Featured: .

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Cyber News Rundown: Cryptomining Malware Resurgent

Webroot

JANUARY 25, 2021

in the month since the first COVID-19 vaccine became publicly available. As with malicious COVID-related domains registered since March of last year, cybercriminals are taking advantage of the pandemic’s hold over the public’s consciousness in order to turn a profit.

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Costs from ransomware attack against Ireland health system reach $600M

SC Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Reid was joined by HSE Chief Operating Officer Anne O’Connor, Chief Clinical Officer Dr. Colm Henry, Chief Information Officer Fran Thompson, and Clinical Lead of the COVID-19 Vaccination Programme Damien McCallion, shedding light on the ransomware attack that has driven much of the country’s health system offline.

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HTML Smuggling Techniques on the Rise: Microsoft

eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

HTML smuggling uses both the HTML5 “download” attribute and a JavaScript Blog to pull together the payload after it is downloaded into the victim’s device. Everyone is scrambling to update their tools to identify and eliminate the threats. It’s a never-ending cat-and-mouse race.”. Leveraging HTML5 and JavaScript. Trickbot Attacks.

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Lazarus covets COVID-19-related intelligence

SecureList

DECEMBER 23, 2020

As the COVID-19 crisis grinds on, some threat actors are trying to speed up vaccine development by any means available. We have found evidence that actors, such as the Lazarus group, are going after intelligence that could help these efforts by attacking entities related to COVID-19 research. Bookcode malware cluster.

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Lazarus targets defense industry with ThreatNeedle

SecureList

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Google TAG has recently published a post about a campaign by Lazarus targeting security researchers. The group made use of COVID-19 themes in its spear-phishing emails, embellishing them with personal information gathered using publicly available sources. We named Lazarus the most active group of 2020. Same tunneling tool.

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APT trends report Q1 2021

SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

In November and December 2020, two public blog posts were published about this campaign. On November 19, 2020, Shadow Chaser Group tweeted about a suspected MuddyWater APT malicious document potentially targeting a university in the United Arab Emirates. Both infection vectors ultimately deliver the Quasar RAT.

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Advanced threat predictions for 2023

SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Last June, Google’s TAG team released a blog post documenting attacks on Italian and Kazakh users that they attribute to RCS Lab, an Italian offensive software vendor. In line with our predictions, we released two blog posts in 2022 introducing sophisticated low-level bootkits. Continued exploitation of remote work.

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Cyber Security Informer

Russia’s SVR WellMess Malware Is Seemingly Still in the Game

Phishing Actors Are Already Exploiting the Omicron COVID-19 Variant

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Remote Working One Year On: What the Future Holds for Cybersecurity

Google Threat Analysis Group took down ten influence operations in Q2 2020

Public Sector Cybersecurity Priorities in 2021

Cyber News Rundown: Cryptomining Malware Resurgent

Costs from ransomware attack against Ireland health system reach $600M

HTML Smuggling Techniques on the Rise: Microsoft

Lazarus covets COVID-19-related intelligence

Lazarus targets defense industry with ThreatNeedle

APT trends report Q1 2021

Advanced threat predictions for 2023

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