The Last Watchdog

APRIL 18, 2019

And on the other hand, cyber criminals are hustling to take full advantage of the corporate world’s comparatively slow response to a fast-rising threat. Metrics are piling up showing just how pervasive mobile threats have become. I had a lively discussion with Keating at RSA 2019. Here are a few key takeaways.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 21, 2021

Threat detection firm Avanan was the first to notify the users about the phishing campaign taking place worldwide and said that the phishing emails might also be loaded with links that when clicked could inject the device with malware. In the year 2019, Trend Micro detected over 61.2

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2020

Since December 2019, researchers from Qihoo 360 observed two different attack groups that are employing two zero-days exploits to take over DrayTek enterprise routers to eavesdrop on FTP and email traffic inside corporate networks. The attacker is snooping on port 21,25,143,110 (1/2) — 360 Netlab (@360Netlab) December 25, 2019. #0-day

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

CERT-GIB’s report is based on data collected and analyzed by the Threat Detection System (TDS) Polygon as part of operations to prevent and detect threats distributed online in H1 2020. Another 17 percent contained downloaders, while backdoors and banking Trojans came third with a 16- and 15-percent shares, respectively.

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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. The first half of 2019 saw a 10-fold increase in the number of password-protected objects, such as documents and archive files, being used to deliver malware. rar archive files.

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 6, 2021

respondents indicated that digital attacks had become more sophisticated between mid-2019 and July of the following year. By knocking down the barriers of disparate data, threats are quickly detected by combining multiple sources of intelligence from across their entire network.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Google Cloud has proudly announced about a new feature that can detect and report crypto mining in Virtual Machines (VMs). This is possible by the addition of the new feature called Virtual Machine Threat Detection (VMTD) that has the ability to detect 96% of cyber threats hitting the cloud landscape.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 16, 2022

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. Detections of malware, adware, and PUPs on macOS increased almost 220%. Mac malware, adware and PUP detection totals 2019-2021.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

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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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Data breaches exposed over 37 billion records in 2020 alone — a 141% jump from 2019. What use is automatic threat detection without an immediate response? They point out how supply chains rely on software yet lack the security tools to protect them. Simply put, cyberattacks are on the rise. Comprehensive Integration.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2020

CERT-GIB’s report is based on analyses of coronavirus-related phishing traffic by the Threat Detection System (TDS) Polygon as part of operations to prevent threats spread online. Spyware: the most likely COVID-19 payload. Most COVID-19-related phishing emails analyzed had different spyware strains embedded as attachments.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 16, 2021

In fact, 63% of threats detected by Cisco Stealthwatch in 2019 were in encrypted traffic. Extended Detection and Response , part of Cisco SecureX, provides a unified view of enterprise security posture by tying together data from your infrastructure and the Cisco security portfolio.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2020

Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company, observed the growth of the lifespan of phishing attacks in the second half of 2019. H2 2019 has proved the tendency of past several years: mail remains the main method of delivering ransomware, spyware, backdoors and other malware, being used by cyber crooks in 94 percent of cases.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2020

Fxmsp gained worldwide fame in May 2019, after it was reported that the networks belonging to leading antivirus software companies had been compromised. In mid-March 2019, the co-conspirators resumed their activity on forums. Fxmsp’s public activity culminated in April 2019. Geography and victims. The big fish.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2022

Daxin is the most advanced backdoor in the arsenal of China-linked threat actors designed to avoid the detection of sophisticated defense systems. ?Symantec Symantec researchers discovered a highly sophisticated backdoor, named Daxin, which is being used by China-linked threat actors to avoid advanced threat detection capabilities.

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 17, 2023

In 2019, an engineer breached Capital One’s systems and stole 100 million customer records and hundreds of thousands of social security numbers and bank details. Threat detection can also come via peer reports and employee diligence. The key to mitigating risk is a proactive approach and a risk-aware culture.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 1, 2023

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) reported that “Insecure Interfaces and APIs” ranked second among the top threats to cloud computing, as cited in a recent survey of 700 security professionals. This marks a significant rise from its seventh-place position in a similar 2019 survey. Version 3.0

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Anton on Security

MAY 5, 2023

Ultimately, this is where detection and response money is. A few booths actually had “TDIR” on them which stands for Threat Detection, Investigation and Response. In some sense, it was similar to my “RSA 2019: Happily Not Over-AI’d” post. Instead, some notable ex-XDR vendors wisely pivoted to SIEM. Ultimately, it was not.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Protection of customers’ data, together with the safety and integrity of infrastructure is a top priority for Kaspersky Lab, and that is why the file processing relocation comes first and is expected to be fully accomplished by the end of 2019.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

In less than a year and a half, the number of JS-sniffer families more than doubled: today, Group-IB Threat Intelligence analysts see at least 96 JS-sniffer families, while in March 2019, when Group-IB released its first research into this threat, the figure stood at 38.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Still, insider threats are always possible. billion in losses in 2019. In light of this threat and others like it, here’s how companies can better secure their user authentication protocols. Attackers could then use this method to attain information to form phishing attacks, which caused more than $1.7

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 30, 2021

Researchers found that threat actor use of the security tool increased by 161% from 2019 to 2020 and remains a high-volume threat in 2021. Cobalt Strike is also appealing to threat actors for its inherent obfuscation. Cybersecurity firm Proofpoint just published a report on the increase in the use of Cobalt Strike.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Spinbackup Insider Threats Control can effectively identify and remediate the above-mentioned scenarios. With Insider Threat Detection, Spinbackup employees machine learning to quickly identify anomalies in employee behavior and effectively remediate the resulting security concerns.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In 2019, hackers used AI and deepfake technology to defraud a UK-based company of $243,000 by mimicking the CEOs voice over the phone. ” In addition, you’ll need to implement a security protocol with: Advanced persistent threat detection and response. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. competitors and hackers).”

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 15, 2021

These playbooks are then used to trigger automated responses to known threats, thus relieving a human analyst from having to manually filter vast tiers of threat data. billion on SOAR systems by 2024, up from $868 million in 2019, according to research firm Marketsandmarkets. Companies are projected to spend $1.8

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 23, 2024

Since 2019, FBI and various defense agencies have continued to warn that nation-states, state-sponsored actors, and cybercriminals have taken a hybrid approach to their efforts to destabilize U.S. Anomaly-based detection is best suited to combat these types of threats," Fowler continued.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 1, 2021

To briefly level-set, let’s take a quick step back in time – way back to 2019 before the “work from home (WFH) era” had begun to illustrate the gravity of the paradigm shift that occurred over the past two years and its security implications. Unfortunately, however, not all NDR tools are created equal.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 30, 2021

million attacks reported in the first half of 2020 – an increase of more than 250% compared to the same period in 2019. These capabilities accelerate the process of detecting and responding to DDoS attacks in the cloud. DDoS attacks are on the rise, with over 4.83 Use Logs to Discover and Eliminate Vulnerabilities.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 13, 2021

That ’ s an increase of 25% since 2019 when the average number of passwords was just 70-80. Users have too many passwords to remember on their own. According to Tech.co , a 2021 study found that users now need to track 100 passwords across their various web accounts.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 1, 2021

To briefly level-set, let’s take a quick step back in time – way back to 2019 before the “work from home (WFH) era” had begun to illustrate the gravity of the paradigm shift that occurred over the past two years and its security implications. Unfortunately, however, not all NDR tools are created equal.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2020

The group was first mentioned in Group-IB’s annual report “Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2019/2020.”. Group-IB’s Threat Intelligence system has been named one of the best in class by Gartner, Forrester, and IDC, while its Threat Detection System has been recognized as one of the leaders in Network Detection and Response.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2021

In 2019 NGFW testing, NSS Labs found that Palo Alto scored the highest in security effectiveness, but TCO per protected Mbps was equally high. WatchGuard shares a distinction with Palo Alto Networks: they were the only two vendors to have no observed evasions of the 11 firewalls tested in NSS Labs’ 2019 NGFW tests.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 26, 2022

Celebrating a decade in 2023, Darktrace was one of the fastest growing cybersecurity startups with a more turbulent ride since its listing on the London Stock Exchange in 2019. Started in 2012, Vectra already stands out among the NDR marketplace, offering managed detection and response (MDR) and its threat detection and response platform.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

The campaign, dubbed PerSwaysion due to the extensive abuse of Microsoft Sway, has been active since at least mid-2019 and was attributed to Vietnamese speaking developers and Nigerian operators. ?ybercriminals It stops any automated threat detection efforts to URLs visited by the targets.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

On June 14, 2019, Taylor Swift posted a seemingly random string of text to her social media accounts: gxgjxkhdkdkydkhdkhfjvjfj!!! Tracking file and registry key modifications is a key threat detection strategy. But Swifties knew better. Years later, Twitter users pointed out that typing gxgjxkhdkdkydkhdkhfjvjfj!!!

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In 2020, for instance, Venafi found that attacks involving machine identities increased 400% between 2018 and 2019. OWASP, which pioneered the OWASP Top 10 list of application attacks, recognized the need for a new list focused on API attacks and in 2019, it created the OWASP API Top 10.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 26, 2023

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) issued a top 10 flaws list specifically for APIs from one of its subgroups, the OWASP API Security Project in 2019. However, the Secure Software Standard and PCI-Secure-SLC-Standard-v1_1.pdf pdf from PCI have both begun to recognize the importance of covering them.

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