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. “this vulnerability could have been used in order to achieve self-defense bypass, defense evasion, persistence and privilege escalation.”

Antivirus 75

Antivirus Advertising Security Defenses Hacking 75

Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2019

The crooks behind an affiliate program that paid cybercriminals to install the destructive and wildly successful GandCrab ransomware strain announced on May 31, 2019 they were terminating the program after allegedly having earned more than $2 billion in extortion payouts from victims. in , where the group recruited many of its distributors.

Ransomware 277

Ransomware Accountability Cybercrime Passwords 277

The Last Watchdog

MAY 17, 2021

In pulling off that milestone hack, Paige Thompson took advantage of CapOne’s lack of focus on cloud security as the banking giant rushed headlong into leveraging Amazon Web Services. Luckily, Thompson left an easy trail for the FBI to follow and affect her arrest in August 2019. Here are the key takeaways: Cloud migration risks.

Cloud Migration 164

Cloud Migration Banking Firewall Software 164

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

While some devices may connect directly to Versa secure gateway functions, some organizations will prefer to use the traditional hub and spoke network models and use Versa CSG appliances as the gateway between secured networks. Microsoft Azure Microsoft Hyper-V 2016/2019 R2/2019 VMware ESXi up to 7.0

Firewall 98

Firewall Software Internet Internet 98

SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

One of the suspected FinFly Web servers was active for more than a year between October 2019 and December 2020. We investigated a long-running espionage campaign, dubbed A41APT, targeting multiple industries, including the Japanese manufacturing industry and its overseas bases, which has been active since March 2019.

Malware 145

Malware Government Spyware Social Engineering 145