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Agent Tesla includes new password-stealing capabilities from browsers and VPNs

Security Affairs

Agent Tesla is a spyware that is used to spy on the victims by collecting keystrokes, system clipboard, screenshots, and credentials from the infected system. To do this, the spyware creates different threads and timer functions in the main function. They usually achieve persistence via registry key entry or scheduled task.

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Zero-Click Attacks a Growing Threat

eSecurity Planet

There is no need for social engineering , as the program can implant backdoors directly without forced consent. NSO Group’s Pegasus software has been routinely in the headlines in recent years for using zero-click attacks to install its spyware. Spyware and Zero-Days: A Troubling Market.

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

1903 — Wireless Telegraphy — During John Ambrose Fleming’s first public demonstration of Marconi’s “secure” wireless telegraphy technology, Nevil Maskelyne disrupts it by sending insulting Morse code messages discrediting the invention. Dateline Cybercrime . It is thought to be the first computer virus. .

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Security Awareness Training across an SMB Organization

Spinone

These can include viruses, trojans, worms, spyware and adware. Wireless Networks The networked world we live in today is becoming inherently more “wireless” than ever with connectivity options to various networks presented to end-users and company employees wherever they go.

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Network Protection: How to Secure a Network

eSecurity Planet

Wireless Scanners: Use wireless scanners to detect unexpected wi-fi and cellular (4G, 5G, etc.) Unsecured wireless connections must be identified, and then blocked or protected by network security. Unsecured wireless connections must be identified, and then blocked or protected by network security.

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Don't plug your phone into a free charging station, warns FBI

Malwarebytes

Instead, hackers know that our mobile devices store a lot of PII, which can be sold on the dark web for profit or re-used in social engineering campaigns. There are many categories of malware that cybercriminals could install through juice jacking, including adware, cryptominers, ransomware, spyware, or Trojans.

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