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I/O 2024: What’s new in Android security and privacy

Google Security

Google Play Protect live threat detection Google Play Protect now scans 200 billion Android apps daily, helping keep more than 3 billion users safe from malware. The detection of suspicious behavior is done on device in a privacy preserving way through Private Compute Core, which allows us to protect users without collecting data.

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Google offers additional security features for its cloud users

CyberSecurity Insiders

Google Cloud IDS was also unveiled by the web search giant that solely depends on the Palo Alto Networks threat detection technology that helps detect malware, spyware, command-and-control software attacks, and other network based threats hitting the cloud platform.

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Stories from the SOC – Propagating malware

CyberSecurity Insiders

Stories from the SOC is a blog series that describes recent real-world security incident investigations conducted and reported by the AT&T SOC analyst team for AT&T Managed Threat Detection and Response customers. Executive Summary. While freeware does not have monetary cost, it may come at a price.

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

Security Affairs

Every third email, meanwhile, contained spyware , which is used by threat actors to steal payment data or other sensitive info to then put it on sale in the darknet or blackmail its owner. The precise elaboration of these separate attacks affected the ransomware share in the top threats distributed via email en masse.

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Experts warn of a new malvertising campaign spreading the ChromeLoader

Security Affairs

If applied to a higher-impact threat—such as a credential harvester or spyware—this PowerShell behavior could help malware gain an initial foothold and go undetected before performing more overtly malicious activity, like exfiltrating data from a user’s browser sessions.” ” reads the analysis published by the experts.

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How COVID-19 fuelled a surge in malware

Malwarebytes

In 2021, the detection numbers for business threats were 85% higher than in 2019, and consumer threat detections were 47% higher. Cryptocurrency values soared in 2021 and, to nobody’s surprise, detections of malware that mines cryptocurrencies increased more than 300 precent.

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Which is the Threat landscape for the ICS sector in 2020?

Security Affairs

European ICS engineering organizations were mainly targeted by phishing campaigns attempting to deliver spyware and cryptominers. To achieve this, consider using modern threat detection technologies – both at the network perimeter and on all endpoints inside and outside the perimeter.