Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2020

The source code of the Xerxes malware was leaked online around May 2019. ” The malicious code supports multiple commands, it could launch overlay attacks, log keystrokes, send spam the victims’ contact lists with SMS messages, and prevent victims from using antivirus software.

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Malware Banking Mobile Advertising 136

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Install an antivirus solution that includes anti-adware capabilities. Additional features of botnets include spam, ad and click fraud, and spyware. If your antivirus software fails to notice a new strain, you can reinstall the browser. Jump ahead: Adware. Bots and botnets. Browser hijacker. Malicious mobile app. RAM scraper.

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Malware Adware Spyware Antivirus 105

Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2019

Locked Shields 2019 – Chapeau, France wins Cyber Defence Exercise. CVE-2019-0803 Windows flaw exploited to deliver PowerShell Backdoor. Scranos – A Cross Platform, Rootkit-Enabled Spyware rapidly spreading. Avast, Avira, Sophos and other antivirus solutions show problems after. Code execution – Evernote.

Computers and Electronics 99

Computers and Electronics Data breaches Advertising Spyware 99

The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

It is not unusual to have your system or network infected with malware, such as spyware, that often lingers secretly with no apparent symptoms. Malware can be categorized based on how it behaves (adware, spyware and ransomware), and how it propagates from one victim to another (viruses, worms and trojans). Don’t worry though.

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Cyber threats Computers and Electronics Adware Spyware 113

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

It is not unusual to have your system or network infected with malware, such as spyware, that often lingers secretly with no apparent symptoms. Malware can be categorized based on how it behaves (adware, spyware and ransomware), and how it propagates from one victim to another (viruses, worms and trojans). Don’t worry though.

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Malware Computers and Electronics Adware Spyware 107

Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2019

ViceLeaker Android spyware targets users in the Middle East. Cyber Defense Magazine – July 2019 has arrived. Firefox finally addressed the Antivirus software TLS Errors. Singapore Government will run its third bug bounty program. A cyberattack took offline websites of the Georgia agency.

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Scams Spyware Advertising DNS 77

eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Some representative examples of free tools: The Czech antivirus and patch management software creator Avast is a large public company. Ransomware researcher Michael Gillespie creates ransomware decryption tools that are distributed for free on antivirus tool websites; he can also be found on GitHub and Twitter.

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Ransomware Encryption Insurance Backups 141

Malwarebytes

MARCH 1, 2023

In fact, Zimperium found the number of phishing sites that target mobile devices specifically has seen 50 percent growth from 2019-2021. Examples of recent Android malware Phishing on iOS and Android Phishing has always worked wonders for attackers, and if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it—including on mobile devices.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 10, 2023

Or even scarier—a backdoor could be placed or a nefarious piece of spyware. ” The number of phishing sites targeting mobile has shot up by 50 percent from 2019 to 2021. This could be any other type of malware, such as HiddenAds or Adware to generate money by ads-per-click.

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Mobile Malware Phishing Spyware 89

SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The email antivirus was triggered most frequently by email messages containing members of the Trojan.Win32.Agentb In most cases, scammers, as before, claimed to have used spyware to film the blackmail victim watching adult videos. as compared to the year 2019, remaining fifth with 5.97%, while Brazil lost 1.76 Malware families.

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Phishing Malware Accountability Scams 145

Hacker's King

OCTOBER 3, 2024

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. A related threat is zero-day malware , which is a virus that antivirus software can’t detect yet because it doesn’t have the necessary signatures to block it.

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Media Spyware Accountability Marketing 52

Identity IQ

MAY 7, 2021

It’s one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity threats today, growing a staggering 300% since 2019 and leading to consumer losses of $3.5 Spyware can be loaded onto your machine to log all your keystrokes. One of the primary reasons behind this massive rise in account takeover is the relative ease with which it can be done.

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Accountability Data breaches Passwords Social Engineering 105

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Trojans/Spyware. As new forms of malicious code appeared, an antivirus (AV) industry arose to tackle the challenge of detecting and responding to cyber threats. In 2019 attacks on cloud services doubled , demonstrating a significant shift in the focus of APT groups. Ransomware. Logic bombs.

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Malware Software Ransomware Adware 96

SecureList

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

All of them were ordinary people using our free antivirus solution, seemingly unconnected with any organization of interest to a sophisticated attacker of this kind. Prilex has previously sold various versions of its malware on the dark web , for example, in 2019 a German bank lost more than €1.5

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Malware Computers and Electronics Adware Cryptocurrency 133

Malwarebytes

JULY 22, 2021

Pegasus is spyware, and spyware is not made to respect privacy. Pegasus is spyware, and spyware is not made to respect privacy. Antivirus vendors detect it. On Sunday and in the days following, The Pegasus Project revealed the broad cast of victims it believes have been targeted with Pegasus spyware.

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

The word “covid” in various combinations was typically used in the names of packages hiding spyware and banking Trojans, adware or Trojan droppers. If you look at the dynamics of attacks on mobile users in 2020, you will see that the average monthly number of attacks decreased by 865,000 compared to 2019. Country*. %**.

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Mobile Malware Adware Banking 145

SecureList

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Speaking of mobile threats, we cannot fail to mention the high-profile investigation of the Pegasus spyware. Because protection against such programs is quite a live issue, we drew up some recommendations on how to guard against advanced spyware (or, at any rate, greatly complicate the intruder’s task). Statistics. against 2020.

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Mobile Malware Adware Banking 139

SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

During routine monitoring of detections for FinFisher spyware tools, we discovered traces that point to recent FinFly Web deployments. One of the suspected FinFly Web servers was active for more than a year between October 2019 and December 2020. This server was disabled a day after our discovery last December.

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Malware Government Spyware Social Engineering 145