CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 5, 2022

Microsoft that fixed this security vulnerability in 2012-13 by implementing strict file verification policies is busy urging admins to follow its legacy advisory published in August 2013 in order to fix the issue. Keeping the systems loaded with anti-spyware or antivirus software makes complete sense.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

It's also why the United States has blocked the cybersecurity company Kaspersky from selling its Russian-made antivirus products to US government agencies. That's why there is so much worry about Chinese-made equipment for the new 5G wireless networks. China denied having done so , of course. The United States does it. Our allies do it.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A New Jersey grand jury indicted Kovalev in 2012 after an investigation by the U.S. The 2012 indictment against Kovalev relates to cybercrimes he allegedly perpetrated prior to the creation of Trickbot. A copy of the now-unsealed 2012 indictment of Kovalev is here (PDF). The prosecution of Kovalev is being handled by the U.S.

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Quick Heal Antivirus

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

In development since 2012 and. Cyberpunk 2077 has been one of the most anticipated releases in gaming history. The post Ransomware attacks erupt via Cyberpunk 2077 appeared first on Quick Heal Blog | Latest computer security news, tips, and advice.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 12, 2022

For organizations that still rely on signature-based next generation antivirus (NGAV) solutions to protect their endpoints from ransomware and other advanced attacks, this is terrible news. . With a year-on-year increase of over 161% , malicious usage of cracked versions of Cobalt Strike (a legitimate penetration test tool) is skyrocketing.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

In July 2017, Russian antivirus vendor Dr.Web published research showing that Triada had been installed by default on at least four low-cost Android models. com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., com 2012-12-09 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO.,

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

FBI spoofs 2012 – 2013. It surfaced in November 2012 and was making thousands of victims a day. David Balaban is a computer security researcher with over 17 years of experience in malware analysis and antivirus software evaluation. None of these early threats went pro. About the essayist.

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2021

Lebanese Cedar exploited 1-day publicly known vulnerabilities such as C VE-2012-3152 to install the JSP in vulnerable servers. The Explosive malware appears to have gone through multiple versions, usually updated to avoid antivirus detection. The file was installed in vulnerable Atlassian Jira and Oracle 10g servers.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The hacker group has been targeting Japanese heavy industry, manufacturing and international relations at least since 2012, According to the experts, the group is linked to the People’s Republic of China and is focused on exfiltrating confidential data. According to people involved, Chinese hackers Tick may have been involved.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2021

PoC exploit code was sent to partner cybersecurity firms and antivirus on February 23, prior Redmond giant released the patches. 28, bear similarities to “proof of concept” attack code that Microsoft distributed to antivirus companies and other security partners on Feb. 23, investigators at security companies say.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2021

PKPLUG used a technique known as “ living off the land ” to bypass antivirus detection and target Microsoft Exchange servers. Aro.exe is likely part of the “ ARO 2012 advanced repair and optimization tool,” which is a freely available tool that claims to fix Windows registry errors.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2020

DeathStalker is a hack-for-hire group discovered by Kaspersky, it has been targeting organizations worldwide, mainly law firms and financial entities, since 2012. The cyber mercenaries group known as DeathStalker has been using a new PowerShell backdoor in recent attacks.

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Vipre

MAY 5, 2021

If all you’ve done so far is to rely on antivirus scans and the good sense of your users to not click on suspicious emails, you’re doing the minimum. Since 2012 when police locker ransomware variants first emerged, ransomware variants have become more sophisticated and destructive.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 26, 2022

To cite one example, a very similar case occurred in early 2012, in which two different pieces of malware were discovered using Java vulnerabilities to infect Macs. However, there’s a long history of suspected Chinese government use of malware to track oppressed groups, spanning many years.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 24, 2022

Interestingly, from the year 2012 to 2021, the loss is estimated to be $60 billion in cryptocurrency, and the past 16 months fetched a loss of $44 billion on a combined note…might be true! As BianLian follows the process of dividing the encrypted content in 10 bytes of data, it easily evaded detection by antivirus products.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

Pin was active on Opensc around March 2012, and authored 13 posts that mostly concerned data encryption issues, or how to fix bugs in code. Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 finds that pin@darktower.ru was used by a Russian-speaking member called Pin on the English-language cybercrime forum Opensc.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Isovalent Cloud security 2020 Private Illumio Cloud security 2015 Private SignalFx Monitoring 2015 Acquired: Splunk CipherCloud Cloud security 2012 Acquired: Lookout Lookout Mobile security 2011 Private. Mimecast Email security 2012 Nasdaq: MIME. a16z Investments. Bessemer Venture Partners. Greylock Partners.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

And if you think that simply relying on antivirus software will get you through safely, there’s some more bad news. Some reports have suggested that today’s antivirus software can detect very few of the most dangerous types of malware – the stuff you really want to avoid. And the New York Times can testify to that.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Implement network segmentation , “such that all machines on your network are not accessible from every other machine” Update antivirus software on all hosts and enable real-time detection. or Windows Server (2008 R2 SP1, 2012 Gold) allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted HTTP requests. 7 SP1, 8, 8.1)

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 9, 2023

The following tools provide strong options to support vulnerability scanning and other capabilities and also offer options specifically for service providers: Deployment Options Cloud-based On-Prem Appliance Service Option Carson & SAINT Yes Linux or Windows Yes Yes RapidFire VulScan Hyper-V or VMware Virtual Appliance Hyper-V or VMware Virtual (..)

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

One of the alleged hackers was first profiled here in 2012 as the owner of a Chinese antivirus firm. One of the men indicted as part of APT41 — now 35-year-old Tan DaiLin — was the subject of a 2012 KrebsOnSecurity story that sought to shed light on a Chinese antivirus product marketed as Anvisoft. Image: FBI.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2019

This technology is stored in the Workbook OLE stream in Excel 97-2003 format which makes it very difficult to detect and parse by antivirus (AV) engines. doc and.xlm) to evade antivirus detection and bypass spam filters as well. This leads to XLM macros not being well known to the public.

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SecureList

JUNE 2, 2022

In one case we investigated, we noticed that a signed executable qgametool.exe (MD5 f756083b62ba45dcc6a4d2d2727780e4 ), compiled in 2012, deployed WinDealer on a target machine. In 2020, we discovered a whole new distribution method for the WinDealer malware that leverages the automatic update mechanism of select legitimate applications.

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NopSec

MARCH 1, 2023

ClamAV, a popular open-source antivirus engine, was found to be prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability that could result in unauthenticated remote command execution (RCE). ClamAV Heap Buffer Overflow CVE-2023-20032 ClamAV is a popular open source antivirus engine used on a variety of platforms.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 26, 2022

Whereas older solutions like antivirus, firewalls, and endpoint detection and response (EDR) have long focused on threats at the network perimeter, the intent of NDR is to monitor and act on malicious threats within organization networks using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) analysis.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Founded in 2012, Versa Networks seeks to deploy a single software operating system, called VOS, to converge and integrate cloud and on-premises security, networking, and analytics. Who is Versa Networks? Using VOS, Versa enables customers and service providers to deploy SASE and software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solutions.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Compare that to 2012 when the UAE ranked fifth in the Global Cybersecurity Index. The email directs victims to download antivirus software. The download link does install an antivirus, but its an old version that wont catch Dharma. Even so, the UAE saw 166,667 victims of cybercrime who lost a combined US$746 million.

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Identity IQ

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Giving Tuesday originated in the United States in 2012 to contrast the commercialism of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. It is meant to encourage people to give back to their communities through charitable donations, volunteering, or simply sharing kindness with others. It has since spread worldwide to more than 150 countries.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Supported Windows versions include Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, and Windows 10 up to build 14392. SMBv1 and SSH infectors There are two modules dedicated to the penetration capabilities of the malware, which make up the core worming functionality. 8, 15.0.0.0/8, 8, 16.0.0.0/8, 8, 56.0.0.0/8

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

McAfee is widely known for bringing the first antivirus software to market. At an extra cost, organizations can also add on redaction, external key management system (KMS) support, and compartment security. Also Read: Top 9 Network Access Control (NAC) Solutions for 2021. Also Read: Lack of Monitoring Weakens Database Security.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Don Duncan, security engineer at NuData Security, told eSecurity Planet by email that POS systems are often dangerously easy to penetrate with malware , including the following (among many others): Dexter was discovered by Seculert (now Radware) researchers in 2012. vSkimmer malware, a successor to Dexter, dates back to 2013.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The Hacker had discovered Zuckerberg’s password in a 2012 LinkedIn data breach and he had used the same password across several accounts. In June 2016, the Twitter and Pinterest accounts of Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, were vandalized. Data leak of sensitive information can be devastating for a business of any size.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Such a scenario isn’t fantasy; something like this actually existed between 2012 and 2014. Then there came all this antivirus, antimalware products, there was a need to report which ones were better at solving the problem. They provided objective analysis of how well say Norton Antivirus worked vs Trend Micro Antivirus.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Such a scenario isn’t fantasy; something like this actually existed between 2012 and 2014. Then there came all this antivirus, antimalware products, there was a need to report which ones were better at solving the problem. They provided objective analysis of how well say Norton Antivirus worked vs Trend Micro Antivirus.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

These two software are currently unknown to most if not all antivirus companies.” The website’s copyright suggests the ExE Bucks affiliate program dates back to 2012. “Our technology ensures the maximum security from reverse engineering and antivirus detections,” ExEClean promised.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Such a scenario isn’t fantasy; something like this actually existed between 2012 and 2014. Then there came all this antivirus, antimalware products, there was a need to report which ones were better at solving the problem. They provided objective analysis of how well say Norton Antivirus worked vs Trend Micro Antivirus.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. Years ago, I was the lead security software reviewer at ZDNet and then at CNET. It seems at times that not much has happened after that.

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