CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 16, 2021

SonicWall that offers next generation firewalls and various Cybersecurity solutions has announced that its customers using certain products are at a risk of being cyber attacked with ransomware. Otherwise, they can be targeted by a ransomware campaign that could spread the malware to the entire network.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

November’s patch batch includes fixes for a whopping six zero-day security vulnerabilities that miscreants and malware are already exploiting in the wild. Microsoft credits Google with reporting the vulnerability, which earned a CVSS score of 8.8.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2022

Researchers spotted three campaigns delivering multiple malware, including ModernLoader, RedLine Stealer, and cryptocurrency miners. Threat actors use PowerShell,NET assemblies, and HTA and VBS files to perform lateral movements across a targeted network and eventually drop other pieces of malware, such as the SystemBC trojan and DCRAT.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 11, 2024

Security has often been an afterthought in the design of IoT devices, if a thought at all, and connected devices introduce new vulnerabilities and vectors for attack by the day, if not minute. Generative AI makes it even easier for threat actors to identify and exploit these vulnerabilities.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Our annual analysis of the most notorious malware has arrived. As always, it covers the trends, malware groups, and tips for how to protect yourself and your organization. Their tactics have evolved significantly over the years, with ransomware now the malware of choice for cybercriminals. Who made this year’s malware list?

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 25, 2024

The British National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) says it expects Artificial Intelligence (AI) to heighten the global ransomware threat. In a report, the NCSC makes the assessment that AI will almost certainly increase the volume and heighten the impact of cyberattacks over the next two years.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Earlier this year, a software vendor was compromised by the Lazarus malware delivered through unpatched legitimate software. Infection timeline The adversary demonstrated a high level of sophistication, employing advanced evasion techniques and introducing SIGNBT malware for victim control.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2024

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Patch it now!

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 8, 2023

Based on an analysis of more than 14 million cyber attacks simulated by The Picus Platform*, the report highlights four “impossible trade-offs” limiting modern security teams’ ability to manage their organization’s threat exposure. For instance, organizations can prevent 73% of malware downloads but only 18% of data exfiltration attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 20, 2023

Over the years, the traditional firewall has transformed to meet the demands of the modern workplace and adapt to an evolving threat landscape. Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs), free from legacy technology constraints, take advantage of significant advancements in computational power, memory, and storage.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2023

Roaming Mantis threat actors were observed using a new variant of their mobile malware Wroba to hijack DNS settings of Wi-Fi routers. Researchers from Kaspersky observed Roaming Mantis threat actors using an updated variant of their mobile malware Wroba to compromise Wi-Fi routers and hijack DNS settings.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 13, 2023

ChatGPT and other generative AI tools have been used by cybercriminals to create convincing spoofing emails, resulting in a dramatic rise in business email compromise (BEC) attacks. In one experiment, they asked WormGPT “to generate an email intended to pressure an unsuspecting account manager into paying a fraudulent invoice.”

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 15, 2023

Funso Richard , Information Security Officer at Ensemble , highlighted the gravity of these threats. These include ransomware targeting backend servers, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, destructive malware, and even weaponizing charging stations to deploy malware. In terms of regulations, Fridman highlighted WP.29

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

Many of this week’s disclosures involve new aspects of old vulnerabilities. An old Microsoft Windows spooler flaw is added to the CISA KEV list, and the Cactus Ransomware gang currently pursues unfixed Qlik Sense servers with a vulnerability patched in September 2023. The problem: The CVSS 10.0/10.0

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2023

The directive comes amid a surge in attacks targeting previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used security and networking appliances. government agency in charge of improving the nation’s cybersecurity posture is ordering all federal agencies to take new measures to restrict access to Internet-exposed networking equipment.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Anti-Malware Small Business Edition (2008 – 2012) Malwarebytes for Business began its journey in the late 2000s, offering corporate licensing for its consumer anti-malware product. Tailored for businesses, governments, and educational institutions, MEE provided comprehensive threat protection and malware remediation.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Since I started Malwarebytes 15 years ago the threat landscape has changed. And now the next chapter of our journey begins today. It did what no other product could, find malware and remove every trace. Organizations today must protect against more than malware. Our offerings have evolved. How did we get here?

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2022

The report paints a picture of ransomware gangs arriving on the scene typically after crypto miners, botnet builders, malware embedders and initial access brokers may have already profited from earlier intrusions. Related: How ‘IABs’ foster ransomware. In short, overlapping cyber attacks have become the norm.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 11, 2022

Next-generation firewalls from Palo Alto Networks with AT&T Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) solutions are designed to help protect enterprises while optimizing security performance for these new use cases. Digital transformation realized through new 5G-enabled IoT, Operational Technologies (OT) and IT use cases are no exception.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

The 2022 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report found that all types of cyberattacks increased in 2021. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 billion malware attacks were identified by the report. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 Cyberattack Statistics.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 4, 2021

percent of all malware detected on networks of WatchGuard Technologies customers in the second quarter came over encrypted connections, raising the security risk for the 80 percent of such organizations that lack processes for decrypting and scanning HTTPS traffic for threats. Malware in Encrypted Traffic. A surprising 91.5

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

What does Chinese tech giant Huawei have in common with the precocious kid next door who knows how to hack his favorite video game? However, the threat actors on the leading edge are innovating at deeper layers. The latter knows how to carry out a DLL injection hack — to cheat the game score. The Chinese are all over this.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 14, 2022

Critical infrastructure , industrial control (ICS) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems are under increasing threat of cyber attacks, according to a number of recent warnings from government agencies and private security researchers. cybersecurity agencies yesterday encouraged U.S. and European facilities.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) have emerged as critical tools for dealing with the ever-growing volume and complexity of cybersecurity threats. Machines can recognize patterns to detect malware and unusual activity better than humans and classic software. AI is the most generic term, including all other fields.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 20, 2023

Information stealing malware is commonly observed in the landscape of cyber attacks today. Zscaler ThreatLabz team has discovered many new types of stealer malware families across different attack campaigns. This blog will walk through the malware distribution campaigns and technical details of Album Stealer. xyz/Main/Album.zip?random=13131.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 3, 2023

The creator of FraudGPT, and potentially also WormGPT , is actively developing the next generation of cybercrime chatbots with much more advanced capabilities. New AI-powered cybercrime tools suggest that the capability of AI hacking tools may be evolving rapidly.

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Jane Frankland

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

As technology advances at speed, it enables just as many opportunities as it introduces threats. Gains come but so do threats and losses. Cyber-attacks have risen from last year with the most common forms of attack being credential theft, phishing, misconfigured cloud, and vulnerabilities in third-party software.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Targeted attack attribution is always a tricky thing, and in general, we believe that attribution is best left to law enforcement agencies. The malware spreads through spear-phishing emails with a malicious Microsoft Office document as attachment. DarkUniverse. PuzzleMaker.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Cybersecurity threat actors are no different. Through malware, phishing, and other exploitive activities, these villains take advantage of vulnerabilities and seek to cause harm. And it’s no secret that the shift to hybrid work has emboldened and provided new opportunities for these cybersecurity threat actors.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 4, 2022

APIs have emerged as a go-to tool used by threat actors in the early phases of sophisticated, multi-stage network attacks. APIs have emerged as a go-to tool used by threat actors in the early phases of sophisticated, multi-stage network attacks. Related: ‘SASE’ framework extends security to the network edge.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Targeted attacks Unknown threat actor targets power generator with DroxiDat and Cobalt Strike Earlier this year, we reported on a new variant of SystemBC called DroxiDat that was deployed against a critical infrastructure target in South Africa. This feature bypass vulnerability (CVE-2023-29324) was itself patched in May.

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SecureList

AUGUST 16, 2022

Then that one-liner script downloads the next-stage script from [link] and executes it. The next stage is a downloader obfuscated with a publicly available tool named Hyperion. The malicious packages were intended to steal developers’ personal data and credentials. Timestamp (UTC). 2022-07-30 10:11:47.000. ultrarequests.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In other words, not having endpoint security is akin to recklessly using connected devices exposed to various cyber threats. Back then, endpoint security focused on computers, which meant the installation of antivirus, malware protection, firewall, and (sometimes) VPN in every computer. If you ask security managers, not that much.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Vulnerability scanning should be a first step in proactively helping defend against security breaches. Whether your business has 20 or thousands of employees, vulnerability scanning is a fundamental necessity to help drive out risk. Protect against malware and ransomware. Here are 5 endpoint security items to consider: 1.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Experts discovered a malspam campaign that is distributing a malicious RAR archive that could exploit the WinRAR flaw to install deliver malware on a computer. An attacker leveraging the path traversal vulnerability could extract compressed files to a folder of their choice rather than the folder chosen by the user.

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Malware Advertising Software Hacking 87

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In this report, “known attacks” are those where the victim did not pay a ransom. This provides the best overall picture of ransomware activity, but the true number of attacks is far higher. In January, we recorded a total of 261 ransomware victims, the lowest number of attacks since February 2023.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 24, 2022

An unknown Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group has targeted Russian government entities with at least four separate spear phishing campaigns since late February, 2022. Although our analysis and attribution efforts are ongoing, we have discovered some indicators that suggest the threat actor may be a Chinese group. The campaigns.

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