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MY TAKE: The back story on the convergence, continuing evolution of endpoint security

The Last Watchdog

No one in cybersecurity refers to “antivirus” protection any more. since the nascent days of the antivirus market, I find in fascinating that the top dozen or so antivirus players have all managed to remain in the game. In the early days, antivirus suites were threat-centric and device-centric.

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Ransomware Revival: Troldesh becomes a leader by the number of attacks

Security Affairs

Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company: ransomware accounted for over half of all malicious mailings in H1 2019 , detected and analyzed by Group-IB’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-GIB), with Troldesh aka Shade being the most popular tool among cybercriminals. Half as much malware was distributed through links in 2018.

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New Linux FASTCash Variant: Threats to Banking Systems

Hacker's King

First discovered in 2018, it has been used to carry out large-scale ATM cash-out operations. Stealth Capabilities : The malware is designed to avoid detection by traditional antivirus solutions, employing techniques such as process masquerading and rootkit-like functionality.

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Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

eSecurity Planet

Company Sector Year Status Vicarius Vulnerability management 2022 Private Dragos ICS and OT security 2021 Private Safeguard Cyber Risk management 2021 Private CyberGRX Risk management 2019 Private Signifyd Fraud protection 2018 Private RedOwl Security analytics 2015 Acquired: Forcepoint. Accel Investments. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

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Fxmsp: the untold story of infamous seller of access to corporate networks who made at least USD 1.5 mln

Security Affairs

Fxmsp gained worldwide fame in May 2019, after it was reported that the networks belonging to leading antivirus software companies had been compromised. On January 17, 2018, the hacker shared exactly how many buyers he had at the time: 18. In late October 2018, Fxmsp and Lampeduza’s activity became threatened. Proxy seller.

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BotenaGo strikes again – malware source code uploaded to GitHub

CyberSecurity Insiders

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. Even more worrisome, the samples continue to have a very low AV detection rate, as shown below in VirusTotal (figure 8). SURICATA IDS SIGNATURES.

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AT&T Alien Labs finds new Golang malware (BotenaGo) targeting millions of routers and IoT devices with more than 30 exploits

CyberSecurity Insiders

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). Some AVs detect these new malware variants using Go as Mirai malware — the payload links do look similar. CVE-2018-10561, CVE-2018-10562. CVE-2018-10088.

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