eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

From ransomware attacks locking businesses out of their data until they pay potentially millions of dollars to spyware tracking users’ every move through their infected device, the effects of malware can be devastating. Ransomware. Ransomware is one of the most virulent forms of malware on the modern Internet.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

He argued that security works when it costs €100,000 for spyware to hack into a politician’s iPhone. He analysed ten years of ransomware and found the problem, in terms of volume and frequency, was in 2014. “So So something good is already happening… We’ve already survived peak ransomware in the historical view,” he said.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As the financial threat landscape has been dramatically evolving over the past few years, with the expansion of such activities as ransomware or cryptofraud, we believe it is no longer sufficient to look at the threats to traditional financial institutions (like banks), but rather assess financial threats as a whole.

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The Gardaí and the Irish National Cyber Crime Centre recently alerted small and medium businesses of an increased threat of ransomware attacks. . Social engineering techniques, such as phishing, target not the systems but the people using them. After all, it’s called social engineering for a reason.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 27, 2023

Some highlights include: Stealers are primarily sold on cybercrime forums. Mike Parkin, Senior Technical Engineer at Vulcan Cyber, said: "There's no doubt we're seeing more information stealing malware, but there's been an uptick in cybercriminal activity overall.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

The attackers study their victims carefully and use the information they find to frame social engineering attacks. The following day, Avast Threat Research announced the discovery of new Golang ransomware in Ukraine , which they dubbed HermeticRansom and which we call ElectionsGoRansom. Other malware.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Last year, we foresaw the APT and cybercrime worlds becoming more porous on an operational level. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have claimed that threat actors have been using catfishing to lure Israeli soldiers into installing spyware. One of the most iconic cyber-events of 2021 was the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

On July 7, CISA issued an alert, “ North Korean State-Sponsored Cyber Actors Use Maui Ransomware To Target the Healthcare and Public Health Sector “, based on a Stairwell report about Maui ransomware. The backdoor has been used in a variety of attacks, including ransomware attacks and espionage campaigns.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

Such was related to a worldwide malware operation known as NullMixer, a controversial and widespread malware delivery maneuver based on SEO poisoning and social engineering technique to lure tech-savvy users, including IT personnel.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Historically, Lazarus used MATA to attack various industries for cybercrime-like intentions: stealing customer databases and spreading ransomware. In this campaign, a broad spectrum of industries located in South Korea were targeted with custom ransomware. However, here we saw Lazarus using MATA for cyber-espionage purposes.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The malware posed as ransomware, demanding money from the victims for “decrypting” their data. This politician became the target of a previously undiscovered “zero-day” attack aimed at infecting his phone with spyware. However, instead of encrypting the data, it purposefully destroyed it in the affected systems.

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