Malwarebytes

AUGUST 17, 2021

Since then, they have been behind campaigns involving the harvesting of banking credentials in over 40 countries using sophisticated Trojan malware known as Dridex. “We wanted to have that, but we believe after conducting extensive research we came as close as possible to proving it based on the information/evidence available today.”

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 3, 2018

One key bit of intelligence Bitdefender shares in a whitepaper is a breakdown of how EternalBlue has come into play, once again. Threats and malware have a way of being reused, improved upon and repackaged with other threats. Arsene: With EternalBlue it was only a matter of time until it would have been used to deploy crypto miners.

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SecureList

JUNE 23, 2021

Nowadays, cybersecurity companies implement a variety of methods to discover new, previously unknown malware files. In this article we attempt to attack our product anti-malware neural network models and check existing defense methods. A collection of these malware files with inserted random benign file parts was formed.

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Cisco Security

JANUARY 22, 2021

Its magic is zero trust, least privilege access that can contain a cyber breach , stopping the spread of malware and infections. Check out our detailed whitepaper that maps all of our solutions to ATT&CK Enterprise, posted to our Cyber Frameworks page. And the best part? Learn more.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2018

In early 2013, researchers at Rapid7 published an interesting whitepaper entitled “Security Flaws in Universal Plug and Play” that evaluated the global exposure of UPnP-enabled network devices. “For home users, these attacks can lead to a number of complications, such as degraded service, malware infections, ransomware, and fraud.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 9, 2023

AI-Generated Malware Is Here. Download the BlackMamba Whitepaper below The post Stopping Abuse in the Digital Age With The Anti-Human Trafficking Intelligence Initiative appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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NopSec

JUNE 16, 2014

The attacker uploaded a Trojan horse containing malware that found the passwords for some IT managers. At Iowa State, systems were infected with bitcoin-mining malware. And employ anti-malware, intrusion detection, and perimeter security. The data itself is not always the primary target. So what were the lessons learned?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 22, 2021

This move to the virtual brings a variety of new security risks including, danger of cross-contamination, data leakage and the spread of malware – all of which we can bet malicious actors will be waiting to take advantage of. The post Six existential threats posed by the future of 5G (Part One) appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The problem of malware, specifically its ever-shifting flavors, has been plaguing us for decades. Apparently, an employee at Company X used an LLM to help them finish a whitepaper. We saw during the pandemic that digital transformation of all kinds can happen faster than we ever thought possible.

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Cisco Security

APRIL 8, 2021

We are making it easier and easier to control access, shrink the attack surface, continually enforce policy, and contain malware. I encourage you to reach out to your Cisco representative to take a tour of Cisco Identity Services Engine 3.0 and learn more today with the links below.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 10, 2022

We published a whitepaper about Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and also tools utilized by the DarkSide threat actors. . It was mostly exploited by crypto-mining malware. Most notably, US-based Colonial Pipeline Company paid 4.4 million USD after its operations were brought to a halt by this ransomware campaign in May 2021.

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Centraleyes

JULY 8, 2024

Graham Cluley Blog Graham Cluley’s blog is a trusted source for cybersecurity insights, covering a wide range of topics including data breaches, malware threats, and compliance issues. From whitepapers to webcasts, SANS Institute’s research helps compliance professionals stay ahead of evolving threats and regulatory requirements.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Rather than deploying new malware, these attacks rely on exploiting tools that are already present in the breached network. By exploiting existing system tools like PowerShell and WMI and not using malware, Volt Typhoon seeks to evade traditional defenses. The group targeted critical infrastructure organizations in the U.S.,

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McAfee

DECEMBER 9, 2020

As outlined in one of the supporting charts in the whitepaper, CNAPP has capabilities that effectively address all the risk elements described in the NIST special publication guidance. Additionally, the platform scans cloud native object and file stores to assess presence of any sensitive data or malware.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Invoices infected with malware could cause huge losses for the clients if they were attacked by ransomware gangs,” Vareikis explained. Thomson Reuters security principles laid down in a whitepaper published last year claim the company’s secure configuration is created and deployed according to best practices. Exposed in the past?

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Learn more in this whitepaper: Defending Against Ransomware with Zscaler Workload Segmentation. A layered security defense means starting from the viewpoint that the company will execute its best efforts at implementing preventative security controls, An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 20, 2021

The wiper malware spread to the pharmaceutical giant’s headquarters, rendered years of research inaccessible, affected various production facilities and caused $1.3 Several digital attacks against pharmaceutical companies have made news in the past few years. Back in 2017, for instance, Merck fell victim to NotPetya.

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

JULY 5, 2023

This has included AI programs revealing sensitive information, being taken advantage of by malicious users to import malware into code output, or as some university students found out at their cost, taking credit for work it did not complete.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 4, 2025

This is demonstrated in a recent CloudSEK report , which revealed that a trojanized version of a remote access Trojan (RAT) malware builder infected 18,459 devices, mostly belonging to cybersecurity students and hobbyists. OSCP-certified professionals generally agree that PEN-200 does not emphasize stealth.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 10, 2022

And it's interesting when you look at this pyramid in a CWPP Whitepaper because those most important items at the bottom, are those foundational items, as I mentioned. Now, no tool is perfect and a hacker may release new malware that somehow escapes the detection of our anti-malware tool, or your EDR, all the things you might have in place.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The first blog, published last February, covers the initial observations of the group’s malware. The posting in figure 5 is also shedding some light on the start of the Groove Gang, their relationship to Babuk and, subsequently, BlackMatter. Observed Behavior. The ATR team has covered Babuk multiple times.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 16, 2022

Whitepaper: Power to the People - Democratizing Automation & AI-Driven Security. An organization with EDR or NDR in place may be protected against up to 90% of classic threats, such as commodity malware. Endpoint malware reveals outdated EDR alerting the endpoint security team. Further defining XDR.

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SecureList

JUNE 20, 2022

Such ‘objects’, as referred to here, point to things such as malware and hijacked servers, which, when put together and ‘manipulated’, inform the technical attribution process. Instead, the objects crucial to the process of technical attribution are threat actors and attack campaigns. Tool-based attribution (i.e.,

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Lenny Zeltser

JUNE 7, 2017

In the case of Minerva, the company developed a unique way of combating evasive malware. How are we related to baseline anti-malware tools? Ditto for external-facing collateral, such as the company’s website contents, brochures, whitepapers, etc. What about the “next-gen” players?

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 5, 2022

Their project README has some information on the background of the project in their own words, and the following resources give some more information on this awesome project: blog post , whitepaper , Black Hat USA slides , BlackHat USA presentation. Revoke-Obfuscation and this post stick purely to the obfuscation detection problem.

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McAfee

APRIL 20, 2020

Adversaries continue to take advantage of this industry predicament as depicted by the 4 billion records lost through data breaches and malware attacks in 2019 (Source: Verizon ). This blog is a continuation of the CIS whitepaper published here where we introduce CIS Controls and McAfee product capabilities.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 31, 2018

There is always a risk , even if remote, that data can be accidentally or intentionally deleted or even corrupted by a malware infection. This can be due to accidental end user or G Suite administrator actions, or intentional actions perhaps by an attacker or malware. Also, we recommend to find out more about G Suite add-ons risk.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

There are many other types of attacks that organizations should be aware of, but the end result of these types of schemes is typically the installation of malware through malicious software viruses, data theft , and ransomware attacks that limit access to your organization’s valuable data.

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