2016 Antivirus Penetration Testing 
The Last Watchdog
JUNE 21, 2020
The infamous Locky ransomware was first spotted in the wild in February 2016. CryptXXX, another major family discovered in April 2016 and later rebranded as UltraCrypter, relied on exploit kits that used software vulnerabilities to infiltrate systems. The first viable Mac ransomware called KeRanger was spotted in the spring of 2016.
Security Affairs
JULY 6, 2022
Researchers from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 discovered that a sample uploaded to the VirusTotal database on May 19, 2022 and considered benign by almost all the antivirus, was containing a payload associated with Brute Ratel C4 (BRc4), a new red-teaming and adversarial attack simulation tool. “Over the past 2.5
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Security Affairs
AUGUST 20, 2018
During the analysis time, only really few Antivirus (6 out of 60) were able to “detect” the sample. AntiVirus Coverage. to query WMI in order to retrieve installed AntiVirus and Installed Firewall information. VT shows the first time it captured that hash (sha256): it was in 2016.
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.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Group-IB incident response and intelligence teams detected Silence’s activity in 2016 for the very first time. He has experience in penetration testing, which means he can easily find his way around banking infrastructure. In 2017, Silence began to conduct attacks on ATMs. The second member of the team is an operator.
eSecurity Planet
DECEMBER 3, 2021
Russian software engineer Eugene Kaspersky’s frustration with the malware of the 80s and 90s led to the founding of antivirus and cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky Lab. Graham Cluley started as a videogame developer and antivirus programmer three decades ago before serving in senior roles at Sophos and McAfee. Street @jaysonstreet.
Security Boulevard
MARCH 31, 2021
conduct employee phishing tests. conduct penetration testing. At the start of March 2021, Microsoft rushed out patches for a critical zero-day Vulnerability in Exchange Server (2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019). Microsoft Antivirus Now Automatically Mitigates Exchange Server Vulnerability.
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