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Ransomware en masse on the wane: top threats inside web-phishing in H1 2020

Security Affairs

Web-phishing targeting various online services almost doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic , it accounted for 46 percent of the total number of fake web pages. Downloaders , intended for the installation of additional malware,and backdoors , granting cybercriminals remote access to victims’ computers, also made it to top-3.

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Threat landscape for industrial automation systems. H2 2023

SecureList

By percentage of ICS computers on which spyware was blocked. Regions ranked by percentage of ICS computers on which spyware was blocked, H2 2023 By percentage of ICS computers on which worms were blocked. One of the two regions where the percentage of ICS computers on which spyware was blocked rose in the six-month period.

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AI likely to boost ransomware, warns government body

Malwarebytes

The British National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) says it expects Artificial Intelligence (AI) to heighten the global ransomware threat. The impact is expected to grow for several reasons: AI already helps cybercriminals to compose more effective phishing emails. But that availability will undoubtedly grow.

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Government Employees at High Risk for Mobile Phishing

SecureWorld News

government threat report , released this morning and titled "Rise in Mobile Phishing Credential Theft Targeting Public Sector," includes these key findings: Nearly 50% of state and local government employees are running outdated Android operating systems, exposing them to hundreds of device vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 462 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

Judge ordered NSO Group to hand over the Pegasus spyware code to WhatsApp Cybercrime BlackCat Ransomware Affiliate TTPs American Express credit cards EXPOSED in third-party vendor data breach – account numbers and names among details accessed in hack LockBit 3.0’S

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Spam and phishing in 2022

SecureList

Short-lived phishing sites often offered to see the premieres before the eagerly awaited movie or television show was scheduled to hit the screen. At the beginning of that year, we still observed phishing attacks that used the themes of infection and prevention as the bait.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 468 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

carmaker with phishing attacks Law enforcement operation dismantled phishing-as-a-service platform LabHost Previously unknown Kapeka backdoor linked to Russian Sandworm APT Cisco warns of a command injection escalation flaw in its IMC. Automotive Industry Chinese Organized Crime’s Latest U.S.