eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Jump ahead: Adware. Adware, also known as malvertising , is a type of malware that downloads or displays advertisements to the user interface. Rather than stealing data, adware is more of an irritant forcing users to see unwanted ads. Most users are familiar with adware in the form of unclosable browser pop-ups.

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Malware Adware Spyware Antivirus 105

SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

Attempts to run malware designed to steal money via online access to bank accounts were stopped on the computers of 118,099 users. At the end of last year, the number of users attacked by malware designed to steal money from bank accounts gradually decreased, a trend that continued in Q1 2021. Financial threats. IoT attacks.

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Mobile Adware Ransomware Malware 109

SecureList

JULY 21, 2021

Incidents linked to 2-4 alerts account for 15.3%; they represent the main directions for detection engineering, both in new alert development and improvements to existing alerts. DDOS/DOS with impact. This demonstrates that remediation is fairly efficient. Offensive exercise. Artefacts of APT, targeted attack.

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Social Engineering Engineering Technology Adware 120

SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

With the special technical capabilities of monitoring, deanonymization and seizing of BTC accounts now in place, we should expect cybercriminals to switch to transit cryptocurrencies for charging victims. If not ransomware, then DDoS or possibly both. Cybercriminals also found a host of new tools for amplifying DDoS attacks.

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Cryptocurrency Banking Ransomware Cybercrime 141

Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Threat actors can develop fake mobile apps to install adware, steal PII and financial data, extract cookies and credentials, and download further payloads (such as spyware) from a remote-controlled domain. As you can see in the example below, in 2014 some threat actors preferred internet relay chats (IRCs) to organize DDoS attacks.

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Cyber threats Media Social Engineering Mobile 52

Spinone

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Malware and Ransomware Adware – Software that automatically displays or downloads material when a user is offline. DDoS (denial-of-service attack) – a type of a cyber attack which makes the site user wants to visit unusable by flooding it with malicious traffic.

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Passwords Social Engineering Malware Encryption 40

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks currently will be used more often against internet-exposed resources, but can also be used by an attacker to take down networks and internal servers. Some anti-DDoS software and other resilience capabilities will also be built into routers, firewalls, etc. or network traffic.

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Network Security Firewall Penetration Testing Encryption 98