Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2019

On June 26, 2019, experts at eSentire Threat Intelligence discovered a C2 infrastructure pointing to a similar Dridex variant that was undetected by most of the antivirus listed in VirusTotal service. At the time of discovery, using data from VirusTotal, only six antivirus solutions of about 60 detected suspicious behavior [ 2 ].

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2021

Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro revealed that a threat actor is actively exploiting a flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-24557, in its antivirus solutions to gain admin rights on Windows systems. Please refer to the information provided by Trend Micro.” ” reads the advisory published by JPCert.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2025

The dual Russian-Israeli national was arrested in Israel in 2024 and faces charges related to his role in the ransomware operation The man is accused of being a LockBit ransomware developer from 2019 through at least February 2024. Panev received over $230,000 in laundered cryptocurrency from Khoroshev between 2022 and 2024.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2021

Chinese military unit PLA Unit 61419 is suspected to be involved in cyber-espionage campaigns against multiple antivirus companies. In the summer of 2019, a China-linked APT called Tick Group exploited two zero-days impacting Trend Micro’s Apex One and OfficeScan XG enterprise security products. .

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2019

In the first four months of 2019 alone, some 22 attacks have been disclosed. days in Q2 2019, as compared to 7.3 days in Q1 2019. 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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Universal Health Services (UHS) is an American Fortune 500 company that provides hospital and healthcare services, in 2019, its annual revenues were $11.37 billion in 2019. “When the attack happened multiple antivirus programs were disabled by the attack and hard drives just lit up with activity.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Kaspersky has fixed several flaws affecting the web protection features implemented in some of its security products. The vulnerabilities were found by the security researcher Wladimir Palant that reported them to Kaspersky in December 2018. “Kaspersky reported these issues to be resolved as of July 2019.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2020

Recently another Japanese multinational electronics giant disclosed a data breach, last week Mitsubishi Electric disclosed a security breach that might have exposed personal and confidential corporate data. According to the company, attackers did not obtain sensitive information about defense contracts.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2020

The virus avoided detection by antivirus solutions through regular updates from an attacker-controlled command-and-control (C2) infrastructure, and spread through the company’s systems, causing network outages and shutting down essential services for nearly a week.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2019

” 2019-08-24: #Nemty #Ransomware version '1.0' ' Mutex "hate" | "fuckav" Link to Putin Photo Backup & Shadow Copy Removal | Extension Blacklist | File/Folder Blacklist | 'isRu' check | Stats Git -> [link] pic.twitter.com/fMmAWIfvWv — Vitali Kremez (@VK_Intel) August 24, 2019.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Ransomware accounted for over half of all malicious mailings in H1 2019, Troldesh aka Shade being the most popular tool among cybercriminals. To bypass antivirus systems, hackers send out malicious emails in non-working hours with delayed activation. More than 80% of all malicious files were disguised as .zip rar archive files.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2020

The authors of the GandCrab RaaS also offers technical support and updates to its members, they also published a video tutorial that shows how the ransomware is able to avoid antivirus detection. The GandCrab Ransomware-as-a-Service shut down operations in June 2019 and told affiliates to stop distributing the ransomware.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2021

Russian national Oleg Koshkin was convicted for operating a “crypting” service used to obfuscate the Kelihos bot from antivirus software. ”The websites promised to render malicious software fully undetectable by nearly every major provider of antivirus software. . ” reads the press release published by DoJ.”The

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Flaws in Avast, AVG, and Avira Antivirus could be exploited by an attacker to load a malicious DLL file to bypass defenses and escalate privileges. The Antivirus implements a self-defense mechanism that prevents malicious code to write and implant a DLL to its folders. ” continues the experts.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2023

Antivirus firm Bitdefender released a decryptor for the MegaCortex ransomware allowing its victims to restore their data for free. Antivirus firm Bitdefender released a decryptor for the MegaCortex ransomware , which can allow victims of the group to restore their data for free. The group typically asked ransoms between $20,000 to $5.8

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2021

“A Russian national was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for operating a “crypting” service used to conceal the Kelihos malware from antivirus software, which enabled hackers to systematically infect approximately hundreds of thousands of victim computers around the world with malicious software, including ransomware.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

Researchers at Intezer have discovered a new variant of WatchBog, a Linux-based cryptocurrency mining botnet, that also includes a module to scan the Internet for Windows RDP servers vulnerable to the Bluekeep vulnerability (CVE-2019-0708). ” reads a blog post published by Intezer. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2021

“The lack of timely antivirus database updates for the security solution used on attacked systems also played a key role, preventing the solution from detecting and blocking the threat. It should also be noted that some components of the antivirus solution were disabled, further reducing the quality of protection.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2022

. – to its list of communications equipment and services that have been deemed a threat to national security, consistent with requirements in the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019.” ” reads the FCC’s press release.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2021

One of the fathers of antivirus software, the entrepreneur John McAfee has been found dead in a Barcelona prison cell while he was waiting for extradition to the US. The DoJ announced the charges after the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) also charged McAfee with fraudulently touting ICOs.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2021

According to the experts, the first infections were observed in late 2019, victims reported their files were encrypted by a strain of malware. New #Mespinoza #Ransomware [link] Ext: locked R/n: Readme.README Affected users, contact the support forum of @BleepinComputer pic.twitter.com/SbKxVEIXUd — Amigo-A (@Amigo_A_) October 25, 2019.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Symantec addressed a local privilege escalation flaw, tracked as CVE-2019-12758 , that affects all Symantec Endpoint Protection client versions prior to 14.2 The flaws could allow attackers to bypass the self-defense mechanism of the antivirus solutions and deliver persisten t malicious payloads. RU2 on October 22, 2019.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2021

The threat actors are actively exploiting the following vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiOS: CVE-2018-13379 ; CVE-2020-12812 ; CVE-2019-5591. The joint alert also states that attackers scanning also enumerated devices for the CVE-2020-12812 and CVE-2019-5591 flaws. Disable hyperlinks in received emails.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

” According to the experts, the first infections were observed in late 2019, victims reported their files were encrypted by a strain of malware. Operators behind the Pysa ransomware, also employed a version of the PowerShell Empire penetration-testing tool, they were able to stop antivirus products. This new version used the.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2023

“The attack is similar to the one in the summer of 2019, when four other hospitals in Romania were targeted. “We have already notified the National Directorate of Cyber Security and DIICOT. In 2019 other four hospitals in Romania suffered ransomware attacks that were attributed to the PHOBOS extortion group.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2020

The name Fxmsp refers a high-profile Russian- and English-speaking hacking group focused on breaching high-profile private corporate and government information. Since March 2019, Fxmsp announced in cybercrime forums the availability of information stolen from major antivirus companies located in the U.S.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

ISO 22301:2019 is a leading framework here. Antivirus solutions, monitoring systems, and endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools play a critical role in combating these threats. Are there internal employees with the necessary expertise, or will external specialists need to be engaged?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2019

The recently released Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for June 2019 failed to address a flaw in SymCrypt , a core cryptographic function library currently used by Windows. Ormandy privately reported the flaw to Microsoft in March 2019, but the tech giant failed into fixing it after 90 days.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2020

Citrix releases permanent fixes for CVE-2019-19781 flaw in ADC 11.1 Chinese hackers exploited a Trend Micro antivirus zero-day used in Mitsubishi Electric hack. Bot list with Telnet credentials for more than 500,000 servers and IoT devices leaked online. Hackers patch Citrix servers to deploy their own backdoor. Govn Agency.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Since end-December 2019 lampion malware has been noted as the most prominent malware targeting Portuguese organizations. As observed below, the size of the junk lines presented in these samples is major related to the initial file observed in mid-December 2019. The reason behind that is simple: to evade antivirus detection.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2020

In mid-November 2019, Wisconsin-based Virtual Care Provider Inc. ” Security news site Bleeping Computer reported on the T-Systems Ryuk ransomware attack on Dec. VCPI) was hit by the Ryuk ransomware strain. VCPI manages the IT systems for some 110 clients that serve approximately 2,400 nursing homes in 45 U.S. In our Dec.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2023

billion in 2019 to $815.4 Test security of systems and networks regularly. Support information security within organizational policies and programs. Requirement 5: It is no longer sufficient to just have standard antivirus software. In fact, the U.S. billion in 2020, a 43% increase. Changes in PCI DSS 4.0.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2021

Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has published the Industrial Control System Threat Landscape report for H2 2020 which is based on statistical data collected by the distributed antivirus Kaspersky Security Network (KSN). . The same percentage was 7% in 2019, and H1 2020 compared to H2 2019. than in 2019).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2019

The first public mention related to Altran cyber attack was seen in a tweet on January 25th, which received a reply from a computer security researcher who hinted that a malware sample that was uploaded to VirusTotal was behind the attack.ù. In addition, the ransomware has also not been detected by Microsoft Windows Defender. Let’s look.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2019

Sophos confirmed that the latest set of Windows updates are causing problems with the boot of computers running the popular Antivirus software. Experts believe the problems could be caused by the incompatibility with the KB4499164 and KB4499175 Microsoft Patches released on May 14, 2019. ” continues the note.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

The samples of BIOLOAD loader analyzed by the experts were compiled in March and July 2019, while the samples of BOOSTWRITE were compiled in May. Experts pointed out that the BIOLOAD’s WinBio.dll is still detected by a limited number of antivirus on VirusTotal scanning platform despite it was compiled nine months ago.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2019

See how #MicrosoftDefenderATP next-gen protection defeated the #fileless attack: [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) July 8, 2019. The malware is able to log the users’ keystrokes, collect information through hooking, access clipboard content, and monitor the keystate.

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