Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

If you operate a cybercrime business that relies on disseminating malicious software, you probably also spend a good deal of time trying to disguise or “crypt” your malware so that it appears benign to antivirus and security products. biz called VIP Crypt , which Kerens accused of being “shitty” and unreliable.

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2019

Worse, the Internet, the rise of smartphones, and the culture of social media allow us to access these things from anywhere. Fortunately, there are options available to parents when it comes to controlling YouTube and Internet access. Shockingly, 1 in 5 U.S. As a parent, that’s terrifying. The answer to this question isn’t simple.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

A historic records search at Domaintools on that tosaka1027@gmail.com address says it was used to register 24 Internet domain names , including at least seven that have been conclusively tied to the spread of powerful Android mobile malware. com 2016-02-18 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., com and rurimeter[.]com com , buydudu[.]com

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

Launched in 2013, Microleaves is a service that allows customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe. Microleaves works by changing each customer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address every five to ten minutes. Which hints at a possible BOTNET. “Online[.]io

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The above-mentioned AIDS Trojan hailing from the distant pre-Internet era was the progenitor of the trend, but its real-world impact was close to zero. The infamous Locky ransomware was first spotted in the wild in February 2016. The first viable Mac ransomware called KeRanger was spotted in the spring of 2016.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

NEROWOLFE A search on the ICQ number 669316 at Intel 471 shows that in April 2011, a user by the name NeroWolfe joined the Russian cybercrime forum Zloy using the email address d.horoshev@gmail.com , and from an Internet address in Voronezh, RU. NeroWolfe seems to have abandoned all of his forum accounts sometime in 2016.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2022

. “ZLoader is made up of computing devices in businesses, hospitals, schools, and homes around the world and is run by a global internet-based organized crime gang operating malware as a service that is designed to steal and extort money.” banking Trojan and was used to spread Zeus-like banking trojan (i.e.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Leverage antivirus software. Protect yourself from malware by purchasing, updating, and upgrading antivirus software. If you have to connect to the internet using a public network, do so with a virtual private network. (Think of Google Chrome blocking you from visiting a suspicious website.) Browse online using secure networks.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 7, 2021

There has been much discussion of antivirus protection, patching your software, and using VPNs. a consumer watchdog in the UK, recently released its findings about routers issued by UK Internet Service Providers (ISPs). But what if the security flaws aren’t in your phones or laptops, but the router your ISP gave you?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Ax with firmware 1.04b12 and earlier CVE-2016-1555 Netgear WN604 before 3.3.3 CVE-2016-6277 NETGEAR R6250 before 1.0.4.6.Beta, build 001 CVE-2020-9377 D-Link DIR-610 CVE-2016-11021 D-Link DCS-930L devices before 2.12 Ax with firmware 1.04b12 and earlier CVE-2016-1555 Netgear WN604 before 3.3.3 Beta, R6400 before 1.0.1.18.Beta,

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

Experts at Intezer researchers have spotted a strain of the Linux mining that also scans the Internet for Windows RDP servers vulnerable to the Bluekeep. In May, Internet scans found nearly one million systems vu lnerable to the BlueKeep flaw. ” reads a blog post published by Intezer.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2019

However, the operational imperatives in today’s world of internet-centric commerce often boil down to survival math, especially for SMBs. While reporting for USA Today in 2009, I wrote about how fraudsters launched scareware campaigns to lock up computer screens as a means to extract $80 for worthless antivirus protection.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2020

All the affected organizations had hosts with Internet-facing RDP and weak credentials. Dharma, also known as Crysis , has been distributed under a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model at least since 2016. For instance, to disable built-in antivirus software, the attackers used Defender Control and Your Uninstaller.

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SecureList

JUNE 22, 2021

Unfortunately, none of the antivirus products that were available back then were actually able to clean the virus, so the teachers who knew I had some experience with computers asked me if I could write an antivirus for it. And slowly, this turned into a more capable antivirus product. What makes research successful?

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Install an antivirus solution that includes anti-adware capabilities. In 2016, the Mirai botnet attack left most of the eastern U.S. with no internet. If your antivirus software fails to notice a new strain, you can reinstall the browser. How to Defend Against Adware. Examples of Browser Hijacker Malware Attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The analysts noted a report by internet security company ESET that said in the second quarter 2020, STOP was ranked third among ransomware families. Bitdefender has been creating vaccines since at least 2016, when it came out with a vaccine to battle CryptoWall, a fast-moving ransomware that goes beyond encrypting files and asking for money.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 21, 2025

billion Employees count: ~7,500 Appearances on eSecurity Planet s Top Vendors lists: 14 Trend Micro (OTC: TMICY) customers cite high value and ease of use across a portfolio of tools such as antivirus , full disk encryption , cloud workload protection platforms (CWPP), and intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPSs). Visit Zscaler 14.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Usage increased 185% from 2016 to 2017 and 165% from 2017 to 2018. If, for example, a user resides in a country with major Internet restrictions (think: the Great Firewall of China ), he or she may connect to a VPN outside of that country and bypass local laws. Another SMB use for a VPN is to keep resources off the internet.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Hackers may use a keylogger to capture sensitive information, including payment details and login credentials of victims, or they may leverage a screen grabber to capture internet activity. Computer viruses often utilize deception techniques and keep evolving to evade antivirus software. Computer worms.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

Hackers may use a keylogger to capture sensitive information, including payment details and login credentials of victims, or they may leverage a screen grabber to capture internet activity. Computer viruses often utilize deception techniques and keep evolving to evade antivirus software. Computer Worms.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 23, 2021

Antivirus protection isn’t enough to protect against today’s advanced threats. Malware isn’t going away and even advanced monitoring and antivirus software can’t always catch what a malicious program will do when executed. Antivirus software is notable for its ability to scan programs being transferred, downloaded, and stored.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Verodin Cybersecurity analytics 2018 Acquired by FireEye Kenna Security Risk management 2018 Acquired by Cisco PhishMe Incident response 2016 Acquired: P.E. Named after the infamous string of nation-state cyber attacks during the late 2000s, NightDragon was established in 2016 by former McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Physical appliances provide functionality for routing wide area networks (WANs), stateful firewalls, SD-WANs, NGFW, antivirus, intrusion prevention services (IPS), and unified threat management (UTM) capabilities for local networks. Microsoft Azure Microsoft Hyper-V 2016/2019 R2/2019 VMware ESXi up to 7.0 Ubuntu 18.04, and Ubuntu 20.04

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. This is especially true for your existing intrusion detection and prevention system (IDPS), antivirus, and anti-malware. A ransomware attack is about as bad as a cyber attack can get.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 26, 2022

As of the publishing of this article, antivirus (AV) vendor detection for BotenaGo and its variants remains behind with very low detection coverage from most of AV vendors. Figure 8 shows the low level of antivirus detections for BotenaGo’s new variants. 4000456: AV EXPLOIT Netgear Device RCE (CVE-2016-1555). Background.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The extraordinarily high volume of threats is forcing vendors to include AI-based detection even in consumer antivirus products. With nearly 200 million websites active today, according to an August 2022 survey conducted by NetCraft, and more being added daily, the Internet is the primary vector for malware to creep into an organization.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

As of the publishing of this article, BotenaGo currently has low antivirus (AV) detection rate with only 6/62 known AVs seen in VirusTotal: (Figure 1). CVE-2016-1555. CVE-2016-6277. CVE-2016-11021. Ensure minimal exposure to the Internet on Linux servers and IoT devices and use a properly configured firewall.

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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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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Trusted applications will not be stopped by antivirus or anti-malware technologies. Digital Certificates are primarily used to ensure that software is legitimate and not malware, helping non-technical users to easily identify malicious internet properties. Why are certificates important? The stolen certificates were from Foxconn.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

It’s worth noting that web browser support for credential harvesting extends beyond well-known browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer, and includes such lesser-known browsers as Nichrome, Xpom, RockMelt, Vivaldi, SaMonkey, Epic Privacy, and Brave. August 2016: Initial leak by the Shadow Brokers group.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Group-IB incident response and intelligence teams detected Silence’s activity in 2016 for the very first time. They carefully study the attacks conducted by other cybercriminal groups, and analyse antivirus and Threat Intelligence reports. In 2017, Silence began to conduct attacks on ATMs.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 5, 2021

In 2016, the Mirai IoT botnet shut down part of the internet, yet variations still plague us today. Vamosi: The internet. Vamosi: Dyn was an internet performance management and web application security company that has since been bought by Oracle. The results can be massive enough to bring down parts of the internet.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

2000 Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA): Requires K–12 schools to restrict children’s exposure to obscene digital content, monitor the online activity of minors, and educate students about appropriate behavior on the internet. Install, regularly update, and enable real-time detection for antivirus software.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

SpiderSilk offers an impressive proprietary internet scanner that maps out a company’s assets and network attack surface to detect vulnerabilities. Also read: Antivirus vs. EPP vs. EDR: How to Secure Your Endpoints. Series D OneTrust 2016 Atlanta, GA 2,000 $926.4 SpiderSilk. Series C Bitglass 2013 Campbell, CA 170 $150.1

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Going forward, we can expect the trend of ransomware attacks to continue, more malware designed to attack smartphones and mobile devices, a growing number of Internet of Things devices, all with their own security concerns, and increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks. A major attack already took place in November 2016, when £2.5

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SecureList

JANUARY 11, 2021

The listed code is used in multiple versions of the backdoor, including samples with MD5 150D0ADDF65B6524EB92B9762DB6F074 (2016) and 1F70BEF5D79EFBDAC63C9935AA353955 (2019+). The listed code is used in multiple versions of the backdoor, including MD5 150D0ADDF65B6524EB92B9762DB6F074 (2016) and 1F70BEF5D79EFBDAC63C9935AA353955 (2019+).

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