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The Original APT: Advanced Persistent Teenagers

Krebs on Security

Many organizations are already struggling to combat cybersecurity threats from ransomware purveyors and state-sponsored hacking groups, both of which tend to take days or weeks to pivot from an opportunistic malware infection to a full blown data breach. “voice phishing” a.k.a. “vishing”).

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Ransomware world in 2021: who, how and why

SecureList

Well-known malware families are involved in the biggest and most wide-reaching campaigns. Hackers who are on the lookout for publicly disclosed vulnerabilities (1-days) in internet facing software, such as VPN appliances or email gateways. Instead, access sellers go after the low-hanging fruit. Access sellers. Technical details.

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Ransomware by the numbers: Reassessing the threat’s global impact

SecureList

Was ransomware, in fact, a dying species of malware? In 2019, the share of users targeted with ransomware among the overall number of users that encountered malware was 3.31%; this declined slightly in 2020 to 2.67%. The share of ransomware detections among the overall number of malware detections was 1.49% in 2019 and 1.08% in 2020.