Malwarebytes

MAY 16, 2022

2021 saw a massive surge in detections of malware, adware, and Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs). Detections of malware on Windows business machines were 143% higher in 2021 than in 2020, and 65% higher on consumer machines. Windows malware detection totals 2019-2021.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Malware, short for “malicious software,” is any unwanted software on your computer that, more often than not, is designed to inflict damage. Since the early days of computing, a wide range of malware types with varying functions have emerged. Jump ahead: Adware. Best Practices to Defend Against Malware.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

Microsoft warns of a spike in malware spreading via pirate streaming services and movie piracy sites during the COVID-19 pandemic. Crooks are attempting to take advantage of COVID-19 pandemic spreading malware via pirate streaming services and movie piracy sites during the COVID-19 outbreak, Microsoft warns. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

Regardless of how familiar you are with Information Security, you’ve probably come across the term ‘malware’ countless times. From accessing your business-critical resources and sensitive information to halting business operations and services, a malware infection can quickly become an organization’s worst nightmare come true.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2021

The iOS vulnerability exploited by checkm8 rattled quite a few cages in late 2019. In the 2020 State of Malware Report, Malwarebytes researchers found that Mac malware—primarily backdoors, data stealers, and cryptominers—had risen by 61 percent over the previous year. No matter the malware.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 26, 2021

allowed hackers to circumvent much of Apple’s built-in malware detection for programs downloaded from the internet. Here, Apple CEO Tim Cook announces the new Mac Pro as he delivers the keynote address during the 2019 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Jose, California. A newly discovered bug, patched in macOS 11.3,

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The apps are infected with the Android/Trojan.HiddenAds.BTGTHB malware, the apps totaled at least one million downloads. The apps were used as part of an adware campaign redirecting victims to websites under the control of the attackers. Below is the list of the apps: Bluetooth App Sender (com.bluetooth.share.app). 1,000+ downloads.

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SecureList

AUGUST 16, 2022

Google deleted it from the Chrome Web Store, but the malware had already infected more than 400 Chrome users, putting their data at huge risk. For instance, when an account of the developer of a popular add-on was hijacked after a phishing attack, millions of users received adware on their devices without their knowledge. Methodology.

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SecureList

AUGUST 23, 2021

Last year’s lockdowns gave a boost to the mobile market, with users downloading thirty percent more mobile games per week in Q1 2021 than in Q4 2019 globally, reaching over one billion weekly downloads. We examined malware and unwanted software disguised as popular PC and mobile games. billion in the first half of 2021.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

” Microleaves has long been classified by antivirus companies as adware or as a “potentially unwanted program” (PUP), the euphemism that antivirus companies use to describe executable files that get installed with ambiguous consent at best, and are often part of a bundle of software tied to some “free” download.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Malware, or code written for malicious purposes, is evolving. To understand the new dangers malicious code poses to developers, it helps to take a brief look back at the history of malware. Malicious code, or malware, is intentionally written to disrupt, damage, or otherwise inflict undesirable effects on a target system.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 9, 2022

Among other things it covers the year’s alarming rebound in malware detections, and a significant shift in the balance of email threats. The “Covid bounce” The 2022 Threat Review detailed the remarkable rebound in detection numbers for malware, adware and Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs) in 2021.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A China-based financially motivated group, tracked as Fangxiao, is behind a large-scale phishing campaign dating back as far as 2019. In some cases, the Fangxiao landing pages were displaying malicious ads that if clicked from an Android device deliver the Triada malware. ” continues the report. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The experts discovered that digital certificates are then used to spread malware, mainly adware. Threat actors sign their malware with legitimate digital certificates to avoid detection. The researchers provided evidence that the threat actors sold the purchased certificates to a cybercrime gang that used them to spread malware.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Regardless of how familiar you are with Information Security, you’ve probably come across the term ‘malware’ countless times. From accessing your business-critical resources and sensitive information to halting business operations and services, a malware infection can quickly become an organization’s worst nightmare come true.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Various cybersecurity firms over the past several years have created vaccines that have targeted particular variants of ransomware or other malware and defend against them in much the same manner as the latest vaccines. Use ‘Harmless’ Parts of Malware. Comorbid malware infections are common with this threat.”.

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

Attempts to run malware designed to steal money via online access to bank accounts were stopped on the computers of 118,099 users. At the end of last year, the number of users attacked by malware designed to steal money from bank accounts gradually decreased, a trend that continued in Q1 2021. Top 10 banking malware families.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The Yanluowang group is linked to "Evil Corp," the Lapsus$ gang (responsible for a recent Uber attack ), and FiveHands malware. Google Play and Apple Store caught in adware scheme. The new ad fraud campaign is named "Scylla" and is the continuation of a malicious campaign that started in 2019. This article has more.

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

Out of the 18,000 Orion IT customers affected by the malware, it seems that only a handful were of interest to the attackers. For example, before making the first internet connection to its C2s, the Sunburst malware lies dormant for up to two weeks, preventing easy detection of this behaviour in sandboxes.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Step 3 Once the malware has found a vulnerability, the exploit kit will inject a malicious code there and download ransomware on your system. And those security updates are vital because they respond to the newly appeared variants of malware and exploits they can use. 5 Main Sources in 2019 first appeared on SpinOne.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 10, 2023

(Verizon Mobile Security Index 2022) 9 percent of organizations suffered a mobile malware attack in 2022. In this post, we’ll delve into mobile malware trends, gather critical insights, and anticipate future scenarios to prepare MSPs for the complex landscape of mobile malware.

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Threatpost

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Telemetry for the first half of the year shows that Apple's ecosystem is firmly in cybercriminals' sights.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 20, 2019

Malware deliveries Upon reviewing Android usage data for all of 2018, Google identified a rise in the number of “potentially harmful apps” that were preinstalled or delivered through over-the-air updates. Here are a few key developments everyone should know about. And the handful of positive reviews were most likely faked.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

MobiHok RAT, a new Android malware based on old SpyNote RAT. Commodity Malware Reborn: The AgentTesla Total Oil themed Campaign. Two selfie Android adware apps with 1.5M+ downloads removed from Play Store. MMD-0063-2019 – Summarize report of three years MalwareMustDie research (Sept 2016-Sept 2019).

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

We discovered the malware as part of an attack against a high-profile organization in Vietnam. We found the loader for this file so interesting that we decided to base one of the tracks of our Targeted Malware Reverse Engineering course on it. The exploit-chain attempts to install malware in the system through a dropper.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Rootkits are malware implants that are installed deep in the operating system. However, on one of the infected machines, we found malware that we think is probably related to CosmicStrand. This malware creates a user named “aaaabbbb” in the operating system with local administrator rights. Other malware.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 1, 2023

Malware and phishing are two particular mobile threats that you need to defend against in 2023. Verizon Mobile Security Index 2022) 9 percent of organizations suffered a mobile malware attack in 2022. In this post, we’ll talk about the threat that phishing and malware pose to mobile endpoint security and how to crush them.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The first statistic was released in 2019, when Microsoft’s Group Program Manager for Identity Security and Protection Alex Weinert said: “Based on our studies, your account is more than 99.9 In rare circumstances, some malware avoids detonation based solely on IP addresses, but that is an exception for the average user.)

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

Malware authors and distributors are following the ebbs and flow of the threat landscape. The initial executable consists of a loader which retrieves a piece of Adware detected as BrowserAssistant. The malvertising infrastructure is essentially the same one that was used in numerous drive-by campaigns with exploit kits since late 2019.

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SecureList

APRIL 10, 2023

In 2022, Kaspersky security solutions detected 1,661,743 malware or unwanted software installers, targeting mobile users. With many examples of malicious and unwanted apps on Google Play being discovered after complaints from users, we decided to take a look at what the supply and demand of such malware on the dark web looks like.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Currently, at a value of approximately $60,000, cybercriminals have adapted their malware to monitor the operating system’s clipboard and redirect funds to addresses under their control. News broke in January of the FreakOut malware that attacks Linux devices. Definitely yes. 2021 saw the appearance of two new botnets.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 23, 2019

And yet, an antivirus program is a necessary line of defense that secures your devices from viruses, adware, worms, trojans, and others. It’s simple: since ransomware is often spread as downloadable malware, there is a chance that antivirus will detect and block it before it encrypted any files.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

But it is too early to celebrate: attacks are becoming more sophisticated in terms of both malware functionality and vectors. Experts also continued to find malware in apps on Google Play, despite Google’s efforts to keep threats off the platform. Number of attacks on mobile users, 2019–2021 ( download ). Country*. %**.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Threat actors can develop fake mobile apps to install adware, steal PII and financial data, extract cookies and credentials, and download further payloads (such as spyware) from a remote-controlled domain. In 2019, the FBI dubbed this tactic as the “ $26 Billion scam ”, given the high losses associated with this social engineering method.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Attempts to run malware for stealing money from online bank accounts were stopped on the computers of 104,257 unique users. In Q3 2021, Kaspersky solutions blocked the launch of at least one piece of banking malware on the computers of 104,257 unique users. Number of unique users attacked by financial malware, Q3 2021 ( download ).

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

With millions of new users on streaming platforms, cyberattackers have recognized this heightened demand and seek to take advantage of it by distributing streaming phishing scams and spreading malware under the guise of users’ favorite shows. Malware and riskware instead of streaming. Methodology. Amazon Prime Video.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 10, 2020

According to our telemetry, cybercriminals were actively trying to masquerade their malware as popular messengers and online conference applications that were used by remote workers to replace offline communications. Within the same eleven-month period in 2019, Kaspersky detected 969 million such attacks worldwide.

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