Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2019

The Rubella Macro Builder crimeware kit appeared in the threat landscape on April 2018 and rapidly gained popularity in the cybercriminal underground. It allows crooks to generate a malicious payload for social-engineering spam campaigns, the author was offering it as a service for a three-month license of $120.

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

In their campaigns to infect mobile devices, cybercriminals always resort to social engineering tools, the most common of these passing a malicious application off as another, popular and desirable one. Users attacked by adware in 2018 through 2020 ( download ). Trends of the year. Where did these come from?

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

The group’s operations were exposed in 2018, showing that it was conducting surveillance attacks against individuals in the Middle East. Moreover, the malware mentioned by Google matched ThreatNeedle – malware that we have been tracking since 2018. Domestic Kitten is a threat group mainly known for its mobile backdoors.

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Hacker's King

OCTOBER 3, 2024

You may like to read more about Social Media Botnets – Hackers leveraging bots for large-scale attacks What Are Zero-Day Exploits? A zero-day exploit is a type of cyberattack that takes advantage of a security weakness in software that the developer or antivirus programs don’t know about yet.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Ryuk is one of the most common ransomware of 2018-2019. Ransomcloud is not only a decrypting malware but a complex of social engineering tactics behind it. billion in 2019 and $8 billion in 2018. The average sum that hackers demanded has increased from $6,733 in 2018 to $36,295 in 2019. Seems suspicious?

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Hackers apply more sophisticated smart social engineering tactics. In 2018, there were more than 200 million ransomware attacks. Antivirus software may not detect new versions of malicious software. Antivirus software or firewalls don’t always protect your data from ransomware.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Hackers come up with more sophisticated social engineering tactics. Сompared to 2018, the average sum hackers demanded has almost doubled in the first quarter of 2019, from $6,733 to $12,762. Antivirus programs don’t detect 100% of ransomware, and hackers are constantly finding new methods and tactics.

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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.

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Spinone

JANUARY 20, 2020

That is why hackers use social engineering tricks to pressure victims into paying a ransom. This type of ransomware reached its peak popularity in the years 2013-2018. Ryuk The family that has produced this virus started its way in 2018 and since then has earned around $3,7 million in 52 payments only. Use antivirus.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2022

Antivirus companies like McAfee jumped on the opportunity to provide anti-APT products. Social engineering training. Social Engineering Training and Two-Factor Authentication Two-factor authentication and social engineering training are both are highly effective countermeasures to put in place.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Though polite, the Creeper was still an annoyance to some, and in 1971, Ray Tomlinson developed the first antivirus software , called Reaper. One of the first pieces of antivirus software , McAfee’s VirusScan, was released in 1987. Social engineering attacks soon found use in the digital space.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Eric George, Director, Solution Engineering – Digital Risk & Email Protection at Fortra , notes that “Organizations will continue to migrate to cloud-based email solutions. While these solutions (such as [Microsoft365]) offer a level of protection and capabilities (antivirus, anti-spam, archiving, etc.),

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

I should also say that this when it does happen and again it's extremely, extremely rare when it does happen, It almost always involves some kind of social engineering. In reaction to this in 2018 Aaron Z Lewis, a young designer, wrote in his Twitter feed, in light of the latest Facebook scandal. So, what happens.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The attachments most frequently encountered and blocked by the antivirus in 2021 were Trojans from the Agensla family, which steal login credentials stored in browsers as well as credentials from e-mail and FTP clients. Malware families. Members of this family were found in 8.67% of the malicious files detected, which is 0.97 up on 2020.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Many of the contact tracing scams of 2020 similarly followed social engineering scripts that have been used in taxpayer identity theft schemes since the 1990s as well. Phishing emails were a prevalent mode of attack, and they have been in circulation since at least the mid-1990s. An artificially generated “person.”

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