SecureList

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The web antivirus reacted to 113.5 The file antivirus blocked over 27 million malicious and unwanted objects. Ransomware Quarterly trends and highlights Law enforcement successes In April 2024, a criminal who developed a packer that was allegedly used by the Conti and Lockbit groups to evade antivirus detection was arrested in Kyiv.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 16, 2023

But after the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, the focus of hackers has shifted more towards the smart phones with more phishing and social engineering attacks recorded in a 2nd quarter of 2022. Agility, awareness and alertness are the only mantra to mitigate risks.

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Cybercrime Social Engineering Mobile Spyware 94

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Also read: Best Antivirus Software of 2022. The 2022 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report found that all types of cyberattacks increased in 2021. million per incident, according to the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2022 report, while IBM reports that the number is now $4.24 Crimeware and spyware.

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Backups Ransomware Malware Firewall 145

CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 19, 2023

By the end of 2022, the education sector had seen increased ransomware attacks. Between November and December 2022, there were 24 disclosed and confirmed ransomware attacks, five against K-12 universities and schools. Hive Ransomware added new additions to their VMware ESXi Linux encryptor in March of 2022.

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Ransomware Encryption Healthcare Education 124

Hackology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The emergence of Kamran spyware, targeting users of a regional news website, has raised concerns among cybersecurity experts. Distributed through a possible watering-hole attack on the Hunza News website , the spyware prompts users to grant permissions, allowing access to sensitive data.

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Spyware Malware Risk Mobile 45

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

And a recent Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) study notes that cybersecurity is likely to be the top area for increased IT spending for 2022. According to ESG, 69% of organizations plan to spend more on cybersecurity in 2022. The rest – 2% – intend to pay less for cybersecurity in 2022 compared to 2021. AT&T MSSP dashboard.

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Backups Firewall DDOS Antivirus 140

Malwarebytes

MARCH 1, 2023

It’s easy to see why, considering that almost half of organizations said they suffered a mobile-related compromise in 2022. Just check out the following stats from last year: 18 percent of clicked phishing emails in 2022 came from a mobile device.

Mobile 93

Mobile Phishing Malware Adware 93

Malwarebytes

MAY 10, 2023

Just check out the following stats from last year: 18 percent of clicked phishing emails in 2022 came from a mobile device. Verizon Mobile Security Index 2022) 46 percent of organizations that had suffered a mobile-related security breach in 2022 said that app threats were a contributing factor.

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Mobile Malware Phishing Spyware 82

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Google's reCAPTCHA is not only useless, it's also basically spyware Techspot This study demonstrates Google's reCAPTCHA v2 and v3 are flawed and don't actually keep out bots. The research also shows that reCAPTCHA relies on fingerprinting (collecting "user agent data and other identifying information") and shares this data with advertisers.

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Surveillance Data breaches VPN Malware 52

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The HardBit ransomware group first appeared on the threat landscape in October 2022, but unlike other ransomware operations, it doesn’t use a double extortion model at this time. tamper protection, anti-spyware capabilities, real-time behavioral monitoring, real-time on-access (file) protection, and real-time process scanning).

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Insurance Ransomware Cyber Insurance Malware 98

IT Security Guru

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

study tested the security of 13 of the UK’s most popular online banking sites between September and November 2022. Malware Cybercriminals can use malware like spyware to break into your phone or computer and potentially steal your banking details. A recent Which?

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Banking Cybersecurity Antivirus Phishing 81

SecureWorld News

MARCH 29, 2024

This ends up executing sketchy code that installs viruses, ransomware, spyware, or adware behind the victim's back. In November 2022, cybercriminals somehow acquired the right to run ads on Google for the popular open-source graphics editor GIMP. Here's some evidence for those who consider the risk far-fetched.

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Cybercrime Advertising Engineering Antivirus 107

SecureWorld News

AUGUST 8, 2022

Cybercriminals often use malware to gain access to a computer or mobile device to deploy viruses, worms, Trojans, ransomware, spyware, and rootkits. Based on information from trusted third parties, TrickBot's infrastructure is still active in July 2022. Remcos installs a backdoor onto a target system.

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Malware Banking Penetration Testing Healthcare 98

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. million users.

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Media Spyware Accountability Marketing 52

eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Sophos: Noted that 43% of all 2023 malware signature updates are for stealers, spyware, and keyloggers often used to steal credentials from devices. 60% of all mobile and browser zero-days are exploited by spyware vendors. 20% increase accesses of specific organizations advertised. and software libraries to attack the supply chain.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Common TTPs in attacks on industrial organizations In 2022, we investigated a series of attacks against industrial organizations in Eastern Europe. However, they included an additional module that constantly monitored the messenger and sent data to the spyware creator’s C2 server. Inject.aokvy.

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Malware Ransomware Encryption Energy and Utilities 138

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Endpoint security : protects endpoints with antivirus, endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools, etc. For example, malware, spyware, adware, computer worms, botnets, trojan horses and similar malware do not normally impact network equipment (routers, firewalls, etc.) or network traffic. DNS security (IP address redirection, etc.),

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Network Security Firewall Penetration Testing Encryption 98

Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2022

The spyware developed by Israeli surveillance firm Candiru exploited recently fixed CVE-2022-2294 Chrome zero-day in attacks on journalists. Other infections were observed in Turkey, Yemen, and Palestine since March 2022. ” reads the analysis published by Avast. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Spyware Surveillance Antivirus Malware 98

Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2024

Hackers may have accessed thousands of accounts on the California state welfare platform Brokewell Android malware supports an extensive set of Device Takeover capabilities Experts warn of an ongoing malware campaign targeting WP-Automatic plugin Cryptocurrencies and cybercrime: A critical intermingling Kaiser Permanente data breach may have impacted (..)

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Cybercrime Spyware Data breaches Antivirus 123

eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

From ransomware attacks locking businesses out of their data until they pay potentially millions of dollars to spyware tracking users’ every move through their infected device, the effects of malware can be devastating. An August 2022 Statista report counted 2.8 billion malware attacks worldwide in the first half of 2022 alone.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

But first, let’s examine how they fared with the predictions for 2022. What we predicted in 2022. Although 2022 did not feature any mobile intrusion story on the scale of the Pegasus scandal, a number of 0-days have still been exploited in the wild by threat actors. Mobile devices exposed to wide attacks. Source: Meta.

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