Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

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SecureWorld News

JULY 1, 2020

Just as though it was trying to curb the spread of a disease like COVID-19, the university moved quickly to control the malware's reach: "We quarantined several IT systems within the School of Medicine as a safety measure, and we successfully isolated the incident from the core UCSF network.

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Webroot

JANUARY 25, 2021

in the month since the first COVID-19 vaccine became publicly available. As with malicious COVID-related domains registered since March of last year, cybercriminals are taking advantage of the pandemic’s hold over the public’s consciousness in order to turn a profit.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Reid was joined by HSE Chief Operating Officer Anne O’Connor, Chief Clinical Officer Dr. Colm Henry, Chief Information Officer Fran Thompson, and Clinical Lead of the COVID-19 Vaccination Programme Damien McCallion, shedding light on the ransomware attack that has driven much of the country’s health system offline.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 6, 2020

That price tag has tripled in only 12 months. But it's even more startling compared to what Microsoft has rewarded security researchers in the past. For the previous year, Microsoft awarded $4.4 million for bug bounties.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2020

The experts continue to observe a spike in the number of attacks against oil & gas, as the global COVID-19 pandemic lowered oil demand. Experts pointed out that this is the first time that Agent Tesla has been employed in attacks targeting the oil and gas vertical. ” reads the analysis published by Bitdefender.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 20, 2021

Phishing attacks have been growing dramatically in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting massive increase in employees working from home. GreatHorn Reporter enables easy tagging by users. SOLUTION OVERVIEW. How does GreatHorn address these security risks? The solution.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 16, 2021

While we’re still in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, travelling is another big passion of mine that I plan to resume as soon as it is safe to do so. . What are your hobbies or passions outside of Delphix? I like sports, especially handball and biking. 5 songs that make your personal soundtrack: La vuelta al mundo - Calle 13.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 23, 2020

As the COVID-19 crisis grinds on, some threat actors are trying to speed up vaccine development by any means available. We have found evidence that actors, such as the Lazarus group, are going after intelligence that could help these efforts by attacking entities related to COVID-19 research. Bookcode malware cluster.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 3, 2022

The advice: Posts made on Facebook with no location tag are trying to fly under the radar. Sending people who may potentially be vulnerable to COVID-19 outdoors in the hope of selling products when they may otherwise have remained indoors, is quite something else. Craft fairs: look before you leap.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Ensuring that employees – both those in the office and those working from home (a more common scenario since the COVID-19 pandemic) – are educated about how such attacks work and the mitigation procedures available, as well keeping security devices up-to-date or upgrading them, are key to protecting a company, Ngo said.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 18, 2021

As COVID-19 soldiers on, small and medium-size businesses now feel as ripe for malware attacks as deep-pocketed multinationals. Naturally, the price tag for analyzing malware (free) is appealing to SMBs on a limited budget. And the simplicity appeals to teams with limited resources and technical staff.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

The COVID-19 epidemic has brought a wave of email phishing attacks that try to trick work-at-home employees into giving away credentials needed to remotely access their employers’ networks. Nixon said many companies will likely balk at the price tag associated with equipping each employee with a physical security key.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

For many critical infrastructure facilities, COVID-19 forced an abrupt shift to employees working from home. Protect processes by monitoring the actual industrial process tags and values to look for anomalies within. Monitor for anomalies in processes and controls.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

For many critical infrastructure facilities, COVID-19 forced an abrupt shift to employees working from home. Protect processes by monitoring the actual industrial process tags and values to look for anomalies within. Monitor for anomalies in processes and controls.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Google TAG has recently published a post about a campaign by Lazarus targeting security researchers. The group made use of COVID-19 themes in its spear-phishing emails, embellishing them with personal information gathered using publicly available sources. We named Lazarus the most active group of 2020.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to cause a massive wave of poverty, and that invariably translates into more people resorting to crime, including cybercrime. The most significant event in Q1 was the COVID-19 vaccination program. Then we will go through the key events of 2021 relating to attacks on financial organizations.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 25, 2020

And in at least one state, we know residents have now had their COVID-19 status hacked and exposed. The group also claimed it stole data on individuals and COVID-19. COVID-19 data on individuals hacked and stolen. Many of them now include a database of which residents have tested positive for COVID-19.

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SecureList

JANUARY 30, 2023

Key outcomes Our analysis of the dark web job market found: The greatest number of ads were posted in March 2020, which was likely related to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing changes in the structure of the job market.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2020

Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has published today its first TAG quarterly report that analyzes rising trends in nation-state and financially motivated attacks. The Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is a group inside the Google’s security team that tracks operations conducted by nation-state actors and cybercrime groups.

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Threatpost

MAY 29, 2020

Google TAG report reveals that "hack for hire" firms are tapping into the coronavirus pandemic via WHO phishing lures.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

The company closed a healthy $20 million Series A just at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic for a total of $30 million. Automated tagging is innovative and useful. Most of all, we see that tags are broadly used in the product (and to good effect). The automatically-applied tags are of particular interest.

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2020

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. NetWalker ransomware gang threatens to release Michigan State University files. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

With the adoption of cloud-based applications and services growing exponentially, especially as a result of the dramatic growth in remote work in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, more than ever organizations need to protect their data and IT systems from cloud-based threats. Recognition for Lookout. Securing Your Cloud Exposure.

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SecureList

JUNE 1, 2021

For over a year we’ve been living in a world gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic. In English they searched for “the voice kids”; in German they searched for “hilf mir,” “krass schule” and “berlin tag und nacht”; and in Russian they searched for “??? ?????,”

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

Lazarus made use of COVID-19 themes in its spear-phishing emails, embellishing them with personal information gathered using publicly available sources. We saw a fall in numbers in 2020, the drop-off coinciding with the worldwide lockdowns that came in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 6, 2022

These are hyped up through ads, hashtags, or mass tagging of users in posts, comments, or on photos. Scam site demands urgent payment of “COVID-19-related expenses” for delivery of a parcel. Instagram account “giving away” free smartphones. Marketplaces. An appeal to pity. Lucrative offers.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

On November 19, 2020, Shadow Chaser Group tweeted about a suspected MuddyWater APT malicious document potentially targeting a university in the United Arab Emirates. Kimsuky also delivered its malware by utilizing a malicious Hangul (HWP) document containing COVID-19-related bait that discusses a government relief fund.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

Vamosi: It's a confusing time for high school students with COVID-19 disrupting years of their critical education. Tennisha: My goal, especially as an alumna of Carnegie Mellon is to one day CB GH at the top of CTF time replacing the PPP, so like, Watch out guys, I'm on my way. I'll see you in a couple years just know that I'm coming.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

Vamosi: It's a confusing time for high school students with COVID-19 disrupting years of their critical education. Tennisha: My goal, especially as an alumna of Carnegie Mellon is to one day CB GH at the top of CTF time replacing the PPP, so like, Watch out guys, I'm on my way. I'll see you in a couple years just know that I'm coming.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 2, 2021

Note- IPAC was formed in the year 2020 after China launched a kind of bio war on the world by developing the deadly Covid-19 virus to kill people. Chinese state media has reported the IPAC alliance as ‘Nuisance Creators’ and sarcastically tagged them as a threat to the integrity of the nation; specifically to Chinese Communist Party.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Last June, Google’s TAG team released a blog post documenting attacks on Italian and Kazakh users that they attribute to RCS Lab, an Italian offensive software vendor. Although 2022 did not feature any mobile intrusion story on the scale of the Pegasus scandal, a number of 0-days have still been exploited in the wild by threat actors.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 5, 2021

Wang Wenbin, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, stated the above stated lines and tagged United States as a super-threat to global Cybersecurity. Note- Relationship between Washington and Beijing deteriorated when ex president Donald Trump banned Chinese company Huawei from doing trade in his country.

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