Heimadal Security

MAY 31, 2022

Many people think that because of how it handles user permissions, Linux is built to be safer than Windows. That’s starting to change as more and more Linux systems make things easier by recognizing file extensions, so users now depend on the security of every application. What Happened?

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 3, 2021

Most recently, the PyPI group sent out fixes for three vulnerabilities that were discovered by security researcher RyotaK and published on his blog. The vulnerabilities described in this article had a significant impact on the Python ecosystem,” RyotaK wrote in the blog post. “As Python Security Under Scrutiny.

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Webroot

JANUARY 7, 2022

The cybercrime marketplace also continued to get more robust while the barrier to entry for malicious actors continued to drop. Malware made leaps and bounds in 2021. Since mid-October 2021, there have been more than 25 active strains of ransomware circulating. In particular, six key threats made our list. Ransomware.

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Cybercrime Phishing Ransomware Cryptocurrency 105

SecureList

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This gives companies more reason to pay up. This is the era of big game hunting: high-profile B2B targets, big ransom demands, sophisticated attacks, highly sensitive data being stolen, and major fallout from a successful attack. Avaddon was using the malware to gain an initial foothold in users’ systems.

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Ransomware B2B B2C Government 121

Google Security

JULY 27, 2023

Although a 40% drop might seem like a clear-cut win for improving security, the reality is more complicated. 0-clicks usually target components other than the browser. More than 20% are variants of previous in-the-wild 0-days from 2021 and 2020. 0-click exploits and new browser mitigations drive down browser 0-days.

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Spyware Manufacturing Internet Internet 93

Cisco Security

AUGUST 10, 2023

We began looking at all the prevalent sources of threat intelligence on ransomware activities and analysis from sources like our own Talos Intelligence, CISA ransomware [1] guide, Splunk SURGe, our internal Cisco IT, and others. Microsoft Windows is the predominate operating system used for ransomware operations.

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