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IT threat evolution Q2 2021

SecureList

The leap of a Cycldek-related threat actor. It is quite common for Chinese-speaking threat actors to share tools and methodologies: one such example is the infamous “DLL side-loading triad”: a legitimate executable, a malicious DLL to be side-loaded by it and an encoded payload, generally dropped from a self-extracting archive.

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What is Ransomware? Everything You Should Know

eSecurity Planet

Ransomware is the most feared cybersecurity threat and with good reason: Its ability to cripple organizations by locking their data is a threat like no other. Whether deployed by ransomware groups or individuals via ransomware as a service (RaaS) , the most common method of ransomware deployment is a phishing email.

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Internet scans found nearly one million systems vulnerable to BlueKeep

Security Affairs

Roughly one million devices are vulnerable to attacks exploiting the BlueKeep Windows vulnerability and hackers are ready to hit them. The scans were first detected on May 25, 2019, experts explained that a single threat actor launched them from the Tor network to hide their identities. million machines have been patched and 1.2