SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

These include the placement of relevant keywords throughout your web copy and the acquisition of backlinks from other authoritative websites to yours. This code dumps hundreds of thousands of files filled with malicious backlinks and irrelevant keywords onto infected pages, which can lead to a rapid, significant loss in traffic.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 5, 2022

Port scanning systems frequently used for emergency alerts revealed keywords that were potentially used for the alerts. In 2019, Australia’s early warning system for dangerous weather was compromised. From there, the attacker was able to grab service/default passwords via a splash of social engineering.

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Anton on Security

OCTOBER 17, 2022

search by keywords for IR, IOCs during threat hunts or compliance data retrievals. For example, this is what I said in a 2019 blog post : “ There is no migration of collected log data , in most cases. search by keywords for IR, IOCs during threat hunts or compliance data retrievals. It is just not worth the effort.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The removed apps are Fast-search Lite, Battery Optimizer (Tutorials), VPN Browsers+, Downloader for YouTube Videos, Clean Master+ (Tutorials), FastTube, Findoo Browser 2019, and Findoo Mobile & Desktop Search. “Users may get introduced to these apps through the top free apps lists on the Microsoft Store or through keyword search.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 17, 2022

search by keywords for IR, IOCs during threat hunts or compliance data retrievals. For example, this is what I said in a 2019 blog post : “ There is no migration of collected log data , in most cases. search by keywords for IR, IOCs during threat hunts or compliance data retrievals. Problem statement.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

All SMART/DB users will have their database automatically scanned everyday for malware, spam keywords, and spam links. In our 2019 Annual Security Report, we learned that nearly half of all websites are built using popular CMS sites like WordPress, Drupal, or Joomla! Daily Automatic Scanning. operated by MySQL databases).

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McAfee

APRIL 9, 2020

billion in 2019, according to Gartner, Inc. These policies help to apply comprehensive checks based on keywords, regular expressions, file characteristics, data identifiers, etc. 1 Gartner Press Release: Gartner Forecasts Worldwide Public Cloud Revenue to Grow 17% in 2020, 13 November 2019. billion, up from $227.8

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The real domain was registered in 2014 and we even found a billboard advertisement for it tweeted out on April 26 2019, long before the scammers had registered their copycat domain. Back in June 2019, we had identified an ad campaign targeting recipe keywords. com which belongs to a legitimate business. azurewebsites[.]net/Winhelpxcode161616winHelpSecurity0nlineCH007.

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SecureList

AUGUST 16, 2022

Some of them may even impersonate a popular legitimate extension, their developers going so far as to stuff keywords so that their extension appears near the top of the browser’s extension store. based on the keywords entered in the queries, the user is redirected to a suitable partner site. Search Manager. Search Manager.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2019

“When Google restricted the use of SMS and Call Log permissions in Android apps in March 2019, one of the positive effects was that credential-stealing apps lost the option to abuse these permissions for bypassing SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) mechanisms.” ” wrote the expert.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

The FBI observed a 65% increase in losses suffered between July 2019 and December 2021, which feels like a significant ramp-up. Emails from random addresses containing attachments such as fake invoices should be quarantined, especially when mail security tools detect potential keywords or phrases related to BEC indicators.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

“In September 2019, during the proactive IoT threat-hunting process conducted daily by the Unit 42 (formerly Zingbox security research) team, we discovered an updated Gafgyt variant attempting to infect IoT devices; specifically small office/home wireless routers of known commercial brands like Zyxel, Huawei, and Realtek.”

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 31, 2023

sys” within “Micro-Star’s MSI Afterburner 4.6.2.15658” via CVE-2019-16098. The script then runs a keyword search on the decoded PowerShell script to look for behavioral indicators. Sophos reported a similar attack where Blackbyte exploited the drivers “RTCore64.sys” sys” and “RTCore32.sys”

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 6, 2023

To that end, we refreshed our keywords and search terms related to cybersecurity incidents and data breaches for each of the eight DBIR categories. We found Google did a much better job filtering out spurious results and catching big keywords that were semantically unrelated to the themes but socially/topically very much related e.g. log4j.

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NopSec

APRIL 7, 2019

If we were tasked with the problem of identifying spam, we could start with simple filtering of keywords. We would need to add keywords to identify different types of spam, and as the attack tactics used by spammers are likely to evolve over time, it would be difficult to keep up.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 7, 2019

In this article, we will show you how to recover permanently deleted emails in Outlook 2018, 2019, 2010, Outlook express and other versions. These criteria can be different: you may remember the keywords in the email, or it could be a time frame you have received or sent a particular email. When typing the keywords, do it separately.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

To that end, we refreshed our keywords and search terms related to cybersecurity incidents and breaches for each of the eight DBIR categories. Methodology To perform the searches, we compiled a list of keywords and search terms (like “phishing” or “social engineering”) for each of the eight DBIR cybersecurity incident and breach cause groups.

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2021

After the unsigned driver is loaded, the agent registers a special keyword that is used as a magic value, which will be sought in the first bytes of every incoming packet passed on the covert channel. This allows the rootkit to filter marked packets and block them for any application on the system other than the user mode agent.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In our 2019 report covering website security , we analyzed the current online threat landscape to discern how it might change in the future. This is a type of attack in which cybercriminals flood your site with hundreds of thousands of files containing irrelevant keywords and malicious backlinks. The Changing Cyberthreat Landscape.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

To that end, we compiled keywords and search terms related to cybersecurity incidents and breaches for each of the eight DBIR categories. Our Methodology To perform the searches, we compiled a list of keywords and search terms (like “phishing” or “social engineering”) for each of the eight DBIR cybersecurity incident and breach cause groups.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 7, 2023

To that end, we refreshed our keywords and search terms related to cybersecurity incidents and data breaches for each of the eight DBIR categories. We found Google did a much better job filtering out spurious results and catching big keywords that were semantically unrelated to the themes but socially/topically very much related e.g. log4j.

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Threatpost

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The bug allows users to bypass privilege restrictions to execute commands as root.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

To that end, we refreshed our keywords and search terms related to cybersecurity incidents and breaches for each of the eight DBIR categories. Counting Google Trends Results We first entered the keywords and terms into Google Trends, but ended up getting more relevant results by using Google Trends’ Topics feature.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 7, 2021

But how did we get here and what has changed about the ransomware landscape since it was first our story of the year in 2019? Arguably, it all started at the end of 2019, when Maze became a “pioneer” of the modern ransomware landscape. This ransomware group first appeared in 2019 and was quite prolific in 2020.

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SecureList

APRIL 24, 2023

Nevertheless, we had been tracking QUIETCANARY since 2019 under the name “TunnusSched” (not “Tunnus” as Mandiant’s reporting indicates), and decided to take a closer look at samples collected during the same period. While publicly available data indeed shows that anam0rph[.]su So Tomiris uses KopiLuwak!

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SecureList

AUGUST 23, 2021

Last year’s lockdowns gave a boost to the mobile market, with users downloading thirty percent more mobile games per week in Q1 2021 than in Q4 2019 globally, reaching over one billion weekly downloads. Analysts predict that mobile gaming will account for $90.7 Global consumer spending on mobile games reached $44.7 League of Legends.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The error notification and the ‘Impacket’ keyword tipped us off and, after digging around, we found more. In the 2019/2020 case we also observed the use of a malware sample that we would classify as part of the Winnti malware family. we discovered a very strong overlap with a campaign observed in 2019/2020. Operation 2019/2020.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

The first message sent to the C2 starts with the “CONFIG|” keyword and contains check-in information among with the campaign Id passed to the module via its PowerShell loader. He is a former member of the ANeSeC CTF team, one of the firsts Italian cyber wargame teams born back in 2011.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

During the 2019 holiday season, the Barracuda research team analyzed 4,200 Android apps related to shopping, Santa, and games. By following the most popular keywords on the internet through public records like Google Trends, attackers use malicious scripts to generate websites that appear legitimate.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

19, 2019 and currently serves over 50 paying customers, according to the company. Making assumptions based on banner output or keyword searches are common techniques that have a higher tendency to produce false positives. The company employs around 100 people globally. The CyCognito Platform was launched Nov.

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The Falcon's View

JANUARY 28, 2019

While I am still in the midst of a job search (one that's a year old at this point), I find I need to speak out on the recent TechCrunch OpEd piece "Too few cybersecurity professionals is a gigantic problem for 2019" in order to address some of the nonsensical statements made that really have no business being taken seriously.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 28, 2023

One such example was an AsyncRat -compromised system found with NetWitness XDR, based on a specific keyword located in the SSL certificate. As seen in the screenshot below, the tool allows for powerful deep-packet-inspection analysis. AsyncRAT traffic record. Take away those two high volume categories, and the numbers track much better.

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Fox IT

MAY 4, 2021

Since September 2019, Fox-IT/NCC Group has intensified its research into known active Gozi variants. Looking back, 2019 seems to have been a golden age (at least from the malware operators’ perspective), with five operators active at the same time. Q3 2019 – Q2 2020, Classic fraud era.

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