CSO Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2021

Learn how recent ransomware attacks define the malware's new age and 5 reasons why the cost of ransomware attacks is rising. | Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ] To read this article in full, please click here

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Sonatype’s deep dive research allowed to identify a new family of Discord malware called CursedGrabber. This follows on the heels of last week’s news when Sonatype’s Nexus Intelligence engine and it’s release integrity algorithm discovered discord.dll : the successor to “ fallguys ” malware and 3 other components. and ac-addon.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 15, 2021

Learn how recent ransomware attacks define the malware's new age and 5 reasons why the cost of ransomware attacks is rising. | Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ] To read this article in full, please click here

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

This week: Former Uber CSO is convicted for his attempted cover-up of a 2016 hack of the company. Also: A software supply chain attack has pushed out malware to at least 250 media sites. .

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CSO Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

According to researchers from security firm Armis, who found and reported the vulnerability, attackers with network access to impacted controllers could exploit the issue to install malware that alters the operation of the controllers and hides those malicious changes from the workstations and operators managing them.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 15, 2021

Learn how to identify, block and remove malware from Windows PCs. | Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ]. Many of those changes will allow you to improve your security posture and offer more security choices. You no longer have to wait for a new operating system to deploy new security features. Windows 10 21H1.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Some of the attacks deploy cryptocurrency mining malware, but Atlassian products have also been targeted in the past by cyberespionage groups. Hackers have started exploiting a critical remote code execution vulnerability that was patched recently in Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center.

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CSO Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

Learn how recent ransomware attacks define the malware's new age and 5 reasons why the cost of ransomware attacks is rising. | Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ] To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2021

How well do you know these 9 types of malware and how to recognize them. Sign up for CSO newsletters ! ] Despite the security industry's efforts to disrupt the TrickBot botnet , its operators are trying to revive it with new infection campaigns. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Learn how recent ransomware attacks define the malware's new age and 5 reasons why the cost of ransomware attacks is rising. | Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ] To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2021

The research also discovered a novel use of Houdini malware to spoof devices and exfiltrate data within the user agent field, a method often undetected by legacy security systems. Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ] Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ]

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Learn how recent ransomware attacks define the malware's new age and 5 reasons why the cost of ransomware attacks is rising. | Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ] What were they thinking? What were they protecting? To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

How well do you know these 9 types of malware and how to recognize them. Sign up for CSO newsletters ! ]. In a new report , Microsoft attributes the malware program called FoggyWeb to a group the company tracks as NOBELIUM, but which is also known in the security industry as APT29 or Cozy Bear.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

The human mind loves to categorize things, and malware is no exception.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ]. The attack campaigns targeted IT companies, defense contractors and diplomatic entities. Discover Windows 11's best security features. |

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 27, 2021

Whether you are a sysadmin, a threat intel analyst, a malware researcher, forensics expert, or even a software developer looking to build secure software, these 15 free tools from GitHub or GitLab can easily fit into your day-to-day work activities and provide added advantages. Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ].

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Learn how recent ransomware attacks define the malware's new age and 5 reasons why the cost of ransomware attacks is rising. | Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ] To read this article in full, please click here

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 5, 2023

Attackers can abuse the UEFI firmware to inject executable malware code into the Windows kernel, compromising systems. Read More > The post CSO: Gigabyte firmware component can be abused as a backdoor appeared first on Eclypsium | Supply Chain Security for the Modern Enterprise.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 7, 2023

Bitdefender has uncovered a hidden malware campaign living undetected on mobile devices worldwide for more than six months. The campaign is designed to push adware to Android devices with the purpose of driving revenue.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2022

There are the malware developers, the access brokers, the spammers, the private information sellers, the botnet operators, the malvertizers and more. One service that is often overlooked but still plays an important role in malware delivery are so-called traffic direction systems (TDS).

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Sign up for CSO newsletters. ]. The premise is that malware programs, regardless of how they're delivered, often come with their own TLS libraries or TLS configuration and their HTTPS handshakes would be identifiable in traffic logs when compared to TLS client hashes of pre-approved applications.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2021

How well do you know these 9 types of malware and how to recognize them. Sign up for CSO newsletters ! ] Whether this disruption to the botnet will be permanent remains to be seen, but it's a promising development according to security experts. [ To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

. | Sign up for CSO newsletters. ]. One recent example comes from McAfee, which used ATT&CK in a case that initially started as an investigation into a suspected malware infection but ended up as a surprise discovery of a long-term cyberattack by two Chinese threat groups, APT27 and APT4.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

How well do you know these 9 types of malware and how to recognize them. Sign up for CSO newsletters ! ] The goal of the attacks is the theft of information about the victims' infrastructure, technology and critical assets. [ To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Although descriptions of the malware vary from security firm to security firm, the consensus is that Egregor is a variant of the Sekhmet ransomware family. Sign up for CSO newsletters. ]. Learn 12 tips for effectively presenting cybersecurity to the board and 6 steps for building a robust incident response plan.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Without proper inspection, encrypted data can be a significant security threat as the volume of malware in encrypted traffic grows. That’s the takeaway from two sets of new research into the threat malware hidden in encrypted traffic poses to organizations. To read this article in full, please click here (Insider Story)

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CSO Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

Over the next few days, over 30,000 organizations in the US were attacked as hackers used several Exchange vulnerabilities to gain access to email accounts and install web shell malware , giving the cybercriminals ongoing administrative access to the victims' servers.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 1, 2023

At this year's RSA Conference, information security experts appeared on a panel entitled "Misinformation Is the New Malware" to hammer out the distinctions. As both types of threats escalate and frequently appear simultaneously in threat actors' campaigns, the lines between the two are getting fuzzy.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

The group behind the malware is known for using manual hacking techniques and open-source tools to move laterally through private networks and gain administrative access to as many systems as possible before initiating the file encryption. Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ]

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 6, 2022

Malware authors are keeping with the times and when it comes to server-oriented malware. Specifically, attackers will adopt the same technologies their target organizations are using. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 18, 2023

Security researchers warn of a new malware loader that's used as part of the infection chain for the Aurora information stealer. The Aurora infostealer is written in Go and is operated as a malware-as-a-service platform that's advertised on Russian-language cybercrime forums.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 30, 2022

Linux malware has been massively overlooked," says Giovanni Vigna, senior director of threat intelligence at VMware. It is the host operating system for numerous application backends and servers and powers a wide variety of internet of things (IoT) devices. Still, not enough is done to protect the machines running it.

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CSO Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

If it is, the malware simply fails to install. Groups like REvil or DarkSide put kill switches inside their malicious code, checking if the language on the machine it lands on is Russian, Ukrainian, Georgian, Armenian, or Romanian. To read this article in full, please click here (Insider Story)

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 14, 2023

During every quarter last year, between 10% and 16% of organizations had DNS traffic originating on their networks towards command-and-control (C2) servers associated with known botnets and various other malware threats, according to a report from cloud and content delivery network provider Akamai.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Learn how recent ransomware attacks define the malware's new age and 5 reasons why the cost of ransomware attacks is rising. | Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ] Present were ministers and representatives from more than 30 countries and the European Union. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

JULY 8, 2022

The addition of Hatching—whose specialty is malware sandboxing and analysis—broadens the company's portfolio substantially. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 13, 2023

The Polish government warns that a cyberespionage group linked to Russia's intelligence services is targeting diplomatic and foreign ministries from NATO and EU member states in an ongoing campaign that uses previously undocumented malware payloads.

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