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Why Small and Medium Sized Businesses Need More Than Just an AntiVirus Solution

Security Boulevard

Basic solutions like antivirus deployments are certainly still important, but they are reactionary measures. Thankfully, nearly all malware depends on DNS at some point in their kill chain, making the protocol a critical vector for shutting down these threats. In this new environment, the bare minimum is no longer good enough.

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Cybercriminal greeners from Iran attack companies worldwide for financial gain

Security Affairs

Interestingly, the threat actors likely didn’t have a clear plan on what to do with the compromised networks. For instance, to disable built-in antivirus software, the attackers used Defender Control and Your Uninstaller. Once they established the RDP connection, they decide on which tools to deploy to move laterally.

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Introducing AT&T Managed Extended Detection and Response (XDR)

CyberSecurity Insiders

In today’s dynamic threat landscape, having different tools to meet unique security requirements helps keep data protected. However, businesses today have 10 to 50+ security tools and consequently spend too much time managing them instead of protecting against cybercrime. Technology that finds more threats faster.

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Ransomware Revival: Troldesh becomes a leader by the number of attacks

Security Affairs

Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company: ransomware accounted for over half of all malicious mailings in H1 2019 , detected and analyzed by Group-IB’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-GIB), with Troldesh aka Shade being the most popular tool among cybercriminals. More than 80% of all malicious files were disguised as .zip

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Phishers prefer Tesla, top 3 malware strains in Coronavirus phishing campaigns

Security Affairs

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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Fxmsp: the untold story of infamous seller of access to corporate networks who made at least USD 1.5 mln

Security Affairs

Fxmsp gained worldwide fame in May 2019, after it was reported that the networks belonging to leading antivirus software companies had been compromised. Fxmsp took his first steps in the cybercrime scene in September 2016 when he registered on an underground forum, fuckav[.]ru. Geography and victims. First steps. The big fish.

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Phishing scheme shows CEOs may be ‘most valuable asset,’ and ‘greatest vulnerability’

SC Magazine

Brandi Moore, chief operating officer at Cofense, said her company’s customers “are very engaged with their c-suite, who often play a critical role in promoting the organization’s phishing threat detection program. ” Additionally, the phishing kit can detect bot scans and web crawlers.

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