Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2019

Scranos – A Cross Platform, Rootkit-Enabled Spyware rapidly spreading. Avast, Avira, Sophos and other antivirus solutions show problems after. Hacker broke into super secure French Governments Messaging App Tchap hours after release. Ecuador suffered 40 Million Cyber attacks after the Julian Assange arrest.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Also read: Best Antivirus Software of 2022. These new attacks affect everything from private citizens and businesses to government systems; healthcare organizations; public services; and food, water, and fuel supply chains. Crimeware and spyware. Cyberattack Statistics. billion malware attacks were identified by the report.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2019

Singapore Government will run its third bug bounty program. ViceLeaker Android spyware targets users in the Middle East. Firefox finally addressed the Antivirus software TLS Errors. A cyberattack took offline websites of the Georgia agency. After 2 years under the radars, Ratsnif emerges in OceanLotus ops.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 29, 2024

This ends up executing sketchy code that installs viruses, ransomware, spyware, or adware behind the victim's back. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published an advisory encouraging all government agencies to leverage ad blocking solutions in their day-to-day work. Consider using an ad blocking extension.

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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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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. 60% of all breaches come from the USA.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As it would turn out, a wide range of group security activities would follow hot on its heels the year after, not just through the public but also in professional security, legal, and government circles too. The pop up blocker in particular was a big help with the proliferation of adware and spyware plugging into advertising networks.

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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. Many governments did their best to help citizens during the pandemic. Agentb malware family.

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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. They also provide cover for malicious actions from governments and organizations by introducing a layer of separation between the attackers and the attack source.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The targets included government, military, critical infrastructure and IT organizations in Ukraine, Romania, Poland, Jordan, Turkey, Italy and Slovakia. However, they included an additional module that constantly monitored the messenger and sent data to the spyware creator’s C2 server.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 22, 2021

Pegasus is spyware, and spyware is not made to respect privacy. Antivirus vendors detect it. According to NSO Group, its main spyware program is a beneficial tool for investigating and preventing terrorist attacks and maintaining the safety of the public. Digital forensics labs know how to catch it. They have no shame.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

While SurfShark is headquartered in the Netherlands, a Nine Eyes member (potentially required to pass personal data to the government), it has a strict no-logging privacy policy for customers. Surfshark One adds breach alerts, including identity and credit card threats and antivirus and webcam protection.

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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. The attacks, which took place earlier this year, affected industrial plants, design bureaus and research institutes, government agencies, ministries and departments.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In particular, we detected notifications about compensation allocated by the government to employees of certain companies. The attachments most frequently encountered and blocked by the antivirus in 2021 were Trojans from the Agensla family, which steal login credentials stored in browsers as well as credentials from e-mail and FTP clients.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Some of those who bought the spyware were allegedly able to see live locations of the devices, view the targets emails, photos, web browsing history, text messages, video calls, etc. I am a coordinator, the Coalition Against Spyware. Just like uninstalling the spyware app can escalate abuse. And in that situation.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2024

Companies and Government Agencies ArcaneDoor – New espionage-focused campaign found targeting perimeter network devices Israel Tried to Keep Sensitive Spy Tech Under Wraps.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

This resulted in the deployment of a custom backdoor, named Sunburst, on the networks of more than 18,000 SolarWinds customers, including many large corporations and government bodies, in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. One of those Fobushell samples was identical to another we previously identified on a Zebrocy C2 server.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

government. Initial NCSAM efforts included urging people connected to the internet to update their antivirus software regularly. In addition, antivirus software detects and removes malware, spyware and any other malicious software that could potentially impact your business.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In 2022, the GReAT team tracked several threat actors leveraging SilentBreak’s toolset as well as a commercial Android spyware we named MagicKarakurt. Specifically, we foresee that a record number of disruptive and destructive cyberattacks will be observed next year, affecting both the government sector and key industries.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Russia’s FSB used spyware against a Russian programmer after detaining him for allegedly donating to Ukraine earlier this year. The Federal Security Service (FSB) used spyware to monitor a Russian programmer, Kirill Parubets, after he was detained earlier this year for allegedly donating to Ukraine. ” continues the report.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

All or nothing: multipurpose phishing Victims of phishing frequently included bank clients and users of government service portals. Since April 2024, we have been recording similar distributions of files with the double extension.PDF.RAR, targeting employees of Russian companies in the government, financial, manufacturing, and energy sectors.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

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