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Cybercrime Year in Review: 2013

SiteLock

In its annual Data Breach Investigations Report , published at the beginning of 2013, Verizon revealed that businesses with fewer than 100 employees made up the single largest group of victims of data breaches. And if you think that simply relying on antivirus software will get you through safely, there’s some more bad news.

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What Program, Released In 2013, Is an Example of Ransomware?

Hacker Combat

What Program, Released In 2013, Is an Example of Ransomware? Generally taking on the appearance of antivirus programming, scareware utilizes pop-flies to notify the casualty about the supposed issues located on the PC. What Program, Released In 2013, Is an Example of Ransomware, Final Thought. The answer is a crypto locker.

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An Interview With the Target & Home Depot Hacker

Krebs on Security

In December 2023, KrebsOnSecurity revealed the real-life identity of Rescator , the nickname used by a Russian cybercriminal who sold more than 100 million payment cards stolen from Target and Home Depot between 2013 and 2014. “Helkern was my friend, I [set up a] meeting with Golubov and him in 2013,” Shefel said.

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Was 2013’s Target Security Breach Really Just The Work Of A Teenager?

SiteLock

This attack demonstrates what most experts worry about – the well-designed malware, the stuff you really want to avoid, usually can’t be detected by antivirus software. In lots of environments, antivirus is the primary line of defense. If it fails, the intruder is in and you are left defenseless.

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BrandPost: Slow EDR Rollout Requires a NG-IDS Compensating Control

CSO Magazine

When Anton Chuvakin, then a Gartner Analyst, first coined the term endpoint detection and response (EDR) in 2013, most enterprises raced to replace antivirus (AV) with EDR.

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Hackers exploit old Microsoft Vulnerability to drop Zloader Malware

CyberSecurity Insiders

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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CosmicStrand malware targets old Asus and Gigabyte motherboards

CyberSecurity Insiders

The only good news is that the malware has so far infected Intel H81 Chipsets that were induced into the market in 2013 and has capabilities to give full control to remote hackers. But somehow the said malicious software hid for several years and was dug out and revealed to the world by Kaspersky.

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