SecureList

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The group made use of COVID-19 themes in its spear-phishing emails, embellishing them with personal information gathered using publicly available sources. In this attack, spear phishing was used as the initial infection vector. The phishing emails claimed to have urgent updates on today’s hottest topic – COVID-19 infections.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

GLIBC keeps common code in one place, thus making it easier for multiple programs to connect to the company network and to the Internet. Allegedly developed by US and Israeli operatives, Stuxnet was discovered circulating through Iranian nuclear energy facilities in 2010. The first worm of note that accomplished this was Stuxnet.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Most of the tax-related attacks follow a few tried and true methods: A phishing email or scam call from someone purporting to be from the IRS, or an accountant offering to help you get a big refund. ” The internet archive has a first snapshot dating back to October of 2000. They want your hard-earned dollars in their pockets.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 5, 2021

Due to our dependence on the internet for digital transformation, most people suffer from the risks of cyberattacks. According to the Message Anti-Abuse Working Group , about 88–92% of total email messages in 2010 are spam. Article by Shiela Pulido. According to IBM , the cost of cyber hacks in 2020 is about $3.86

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Malwarebytes

JULY 28, 2021

remember Sydney being referred to as “The Internet Olympics”. 2010 Vancouver. The London Olympics—the one where James Bond and the definitely real Queen jumped out of a helicopter —was a massive splash of malicious activity in internet terms. People getting up to mischief? Not so much. 2000 Sydney. You may (or may not!)

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1988 — The Morris Worm — Robert Morris creates what would be known as the first worm on the Internet. 2002 – Internet Attack — By targeting the thirteen Domain Name System (DNS) root servers, a DDoS attack assaults the entire Internet for an hour. An industry expert estimates the attacks resulted in $1.2

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2019

“The bad actor may have gained access via a phishing attack targeting your employees—or through a vulnerable third-party vendor attached to your company’s server.” Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen groups at least since 2010. . ” reads the alert published by the FBI.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 28, 2021

The system developers weren’t overly preoccupied with security because they had no conception of something called the Internet. With no Internet in existence at the time, the systems were “air gapped” – meaning not connected to other systems or the outside world, for years. Who’s Behind ICS Threats? Industroyer.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2024

According to available data, more than 4,600 common IT vulnerabilities were discovered in 2010. VPNs encrypt traffic among devices using the Internet Key Exchange (IKE) protocol over a network-layer security service called Internet Protocol Security, or IPSec. Types of devices using network access have proliferated.

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Jane Frankland

JANUARY 13, 2021

This year’s predominant attack vectors and cybercrime trends Phishing attacks have continued to be the most prevalent attack vector as fraudsters have sought new ways to exploit our lives – both personally and professionally – any way they can. Additionally, how encouraging it was to see that the majority of competition winners were girls!

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Through acquisitions in the 2000s, SAP launched their database platform, HANA, in 2010. As most databases use web servers to connect to the internet, an organization’s data is inherently vulnerable to web-based attacks. SAP HANA offers a database, data processing, and a framework for application development and big data sources.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

As cloud computing upends traditional perimeter models of cybersecurity, new cloud security models have emerged, and CWPP was one of the first to appear back in 2010. Phishing and unpatched software or misconfigurations are common entry points. Insiders can tamper with cloud workload data, jeopardizing operations and integrity.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2019

For at least the past decade, a computer crook variously known as “ Yalishanda ,” “ Downlow ” and “ Stas_vl ” has run one of the most popular “bulletproof” Web hosting services catering to a vast array of phishing sites, cybercrime forums and malware download servers. Image: Intel471.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

Over the past ten years, his contact information has been used to register numerous phishing domains intended to siphon credentials from people trying to transact on various dark web marketplaces. was used to register three domains between 2008 and 2010: ddosis.ru , best-stalker.com , and cs-arena.org. Matveyev , in Abakan, Khakassia.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

However, hacking did not always involve computers or networks, and its history is much older than the internet era. The virus was created by Bob Thomas, a programmer at BBN Technologies, and it spread through the ARPANET, the precursor to the modern internet. In 1971, the first computer virus, known as the Creeper virus , was released.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

Computer Weekly said it had learnt that FatFace paid a £1.5m ($2 million US dollar) ransom to the Conti Ransomware gang , disclosing the gang gained access to FatFace network and their IT systems via a phishing email on 10th January 2021. conduct employee phishing tests. conduct employee phishing tests.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

On the modern Internet, malware is a near-constant presence. Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the precursor of the modern Internet we know, love, and sometimes hate. Worms and the Dawn of the Internet Age: 1987-2000. Going Mobile and Going Global: 2001-2010.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

N etwork Chuck : Let's say I receive an email, a phishing email. Hanslovan: This is using nothing more than built in features in the operating system within Office to load and run malicious payloads downloaded from the internet. They're typically hard to find. What if you hid in plain sight by using the files already on your computer?

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Approximately 30% of phishing web pages were related to Covid-19. In April 2020, Google reported 18 million instances per day of malware and phishing email sent via its Gmail service using Covid-related topics as a lure. Phishing emails were a prevalent mode of attack, and they have been in circulation since at least the mid-1990s.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2018

Nation-state backed hacking collectives have been around at least as long as the Internet. About a month after Symantec’s Dragonfly disclosures, NBC News’ broke a story linking North Korea to spear phishing attempts targeting the control networks of U.S. Related podcast : Obsolescence is creeping into legacy security systems.

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