Malwarebytes

JUNE 5, 2023

This article is based on research by Marcelo Rivero, Malwarebytes' ransomware specialist, who monitors information published by ransomware gangs on their Dark Web sites. This provides the best overall picture of ransomware activity, but the true number of attacks is far higher. million in 2022.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, January 2021. Emotet is one of the most popular forms of malware used by ransomware cybercriminals to initially gain access into their victim's networks. Bye Bye Flash.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 2, 2020

Now we must add another type of high stakes negotiation to the list of items organizations should prepare for: negotiating with hackers who are demanding millions of dollars following a ransomware attack. The University of California vs. Netwalker ransomware operators. The ransomware negotiation and conversation.

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Anton on Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

This blog / mini-paper is written jointly with Oliver Rochford. There have been attempts in the past to use more sophisticated detection approaches such as Bayesian analysis for virus, malware, or spam detection and even to enable basic automatic response. This brings us to a quick detour to Interpretability vs Explainability.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Throughout the last year, we’ve seen huge spikes in phishing, malicious domains, malware and more, and we don’t expect that to slow down. Recent trends in ransomware back up these insights. Thought to be pioneered by the Maze ransomware group , a new tactic emerged in 2020 in which ransomware authors changed their business model.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2021

Ransomware and fileless malware breaches will rapidly continue to destabilize businesses in 2021. This also means that attackers can save a lot of time needed for malware generation, thus making unwanted access relatively easy to accomplish. Additional authentication is also needed in case potential complications are indicated.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

They rely on a predefined database of known malware signatures to identify and block threats. However, this approach falters when confronted with stealthy threats like polymorphic malware. Polymorphic malware is a chameleon in the digital realm. EDR, on the other hand, doesn’t rely solely on file-based signatures.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 11, 2021

Black Hat Featured Session: Rock ‘Em, SOC ‘Em – Intel Director vs. CISO Battling for Better Incident Response. Most importantly, if backups are online, they have a higher chance of being susceptible to malware and other cyber-attacks. Check out these other Black Hat sessions exploring ransomware, threat intelligence and more.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 28, 2023

The frequency and scope of cyberattacks like ransomware and supply-chain attacks is skyrocketing, as are the costs for organizations of all kinds. Another Day, Another Attack… Even just five years ago, ransomware was a concern, but many of us thought of it as a nuisance, not a cataclysmic crisis. I'm glad you asked.

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NopSec

MAY 4, 2022

Security teams need to get ahead of potential threats such as ransomware attacks , privacy invasions, exploitations of common vulnerabilities, and the like. We’ll look at that in detail in our next blog. The post Vulnerability Management vs. Risk Management: Defining the Fundamentals appeared first on NopSec.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 16, 2021

In a blog post , researchers with the Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team outlined how the cybercriminals changed tactics to evade detection, going so far as to change their obfuscation and encryption mechanisms an average of every 37 days – including using older encryption methods like Morse code. Whitelisting vs. Blacklisting.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The ransomware attacks that make headlines and steer conversations among cybersecurity professionals usually involve major ransoms, huge corporations and notorious hacking groups. Kia Motors, Accenture, Acer, JBS…these companies were some of the largest to be compromised by ransomware in 2021.

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NopSec

APRIL 7, 2019

Many security companies are adopting it as well, to solve security problems such as intrusion detection, malware analysis, and vulnerability prioritization. In our l ast week’s blog post , we outlined the first part of that webinar, without going into the three specific applications and the challenges.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 25, 2022

Dancho Danchev’s “Cyber Jihad vs Cyberterrorim – Separating Hype from Reality” Presentation – [PDF]. Dancho Danchev’s “Cyber Jihad vs Cyberterrorism – Separating Hype from Reality – A Photos Compilation. Dancho Danchev’s Blog – Full Offline Copy Available – Volume – [PDF].

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Ransomware activity decreased in the third quarter of 2022 (Q3 2022), as actors regrouped and refocused after a busy start to the year. Despite this, attacks on high-profile targets—as well as potentially politically motivated attacks—kept our eyes on ransomware this quarter. from the previous quarter. of all victims.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Vamosi: You’ve undoubtedly seen Kim Crawly’s work; her byline appears on a number of blogs from a number of different outlets. Vamosi: WannaCry and NotPetya were ransomware campaigns in 2017. Unlike other malware, ransom not only infected machines, it encrypted all the data, then asked for a ransom to decrypt them.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Vamosi: You’ve undoubtedly seen Kim Crawly’s work; her byline appears on a number of blogs from a number of different outlets. Vamosi: WannaCry and NotPetya were ransomware campaigns in 2017. Unlike other malware, ransom not only infected machines, it encrypted all the data, then asked for a ransom to decrypt them.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Stealing information is fundamental to cybercriminals today to scope and gain access to systems, profile organizations, and execute bigger payday schemes like ransomware. Information stealer malware families including Prynt Stealer are often configured through a builder to facilitate the process for less sophisticated threat actors.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Malware can be used by attackers to leak data outside the organization by running malicious code on an end user system and compromising data locally or housed on the network. The lack of direct control in the cloud vs. the control that organizations are able to maintain on-premises can be a challenge.

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Fox IT

JUNE 30, 2020

In this blog post we will revisit CVE-2019-19781, a Remote Code Execution vulnerability affecting Citrix NetScaler / ADC. As an example, the following webshell was observed being dropped as part of a group of backdoors which we refer to as the “Iran Network Team” backdoors, first described in our Reddit live blog on January 13th 2020.

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