Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Ransomware accounted for over half of all malicious mailings in H1 2019, Troldesh aka Shade being the most popular tool among cybercriminals. The report’s findings reveal that email remains the main method of delivering ransomware, banking Trojans, and backdoors. The revival of ransomware.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2021

“These techniques include numerous modules that exploit implicit trust, weak passwords, and unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in popular applications, including Secure Shell (SSH), IT administration tools, a variety of cloud-based applications, and databases.” Ransomware, data theft).

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. Ransomware. Mobile attacks.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Palo Alto Network researchers discovered a new malware, tracked as XBash, that combines features from ransomware, cryptocurrency miners, botnets, and worms. The malicious code combines features from different families of malware such as ransomware, cryptocurrency miners, botnets, and worms. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2023

shc executables are typically used as loaders and prepare the system for mining via Diicot’s custom fork of XMRig, along with registering persistence.” This campaign specifically targets SSH servers exposed to the internet with password authentication enabled. ” reads the report published by Cado.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2021

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

” The government alleges the group monetized its illicit access by deploying ransomware and “ cryptojacking ” tools (using compromised systems to mine cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin). When I first scanned Anvisoft at Virustotal.com back in 2012, none of the antivirus products detected it as suspicious or malicious.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2020

Threat actors, especially ransomware operators, intensified their operations attempting to brute-force Windows remote desktop service to access target organizations. ESET researchers also said the attackers also attempt to exploit RDP connections to try to install coin-mining malware or create a backdoor.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The Mozi botnet was spotted by security experts from 360 Netlab, at the time of its discovered it was actively targeting Netgear, D-Link, and Huawei routers by probing for weak Telnet passwords to compromise them. “The discovery of Mozi_ftp, Mozi_ssh gives us clear evidence that the Mozi botnet is also trying to profit from mining.

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2022

One of the threat types that surfaced and thrived since the introduction of cryptocurrency, cryptojackers are mining malware that hijacks and consumes a target’s device resources for the former’s gain and without the latter’s knowledge or consent. Ransomware. Password and info stealers. ClipBanker trojans.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2021

million customers impacted. million customers impacted. million customers impacted.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Often, a scammer will simply target the people in a company and fool them into giving up their personal details, account passwords, and other sensitive information and gain access that way. Given how lucrative and necessary both sectors are to daily life, they make prime targets for ransomware. costing an estimated $18.88

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Microsoft did not set out Storm-0324’s aim in this campaign, but the group is known to have worked with numerous malware groups to distribute malicious payloads including the Trickbot malware, Gootkit and Dridex banking Trojans, and Sage and GandCrab ransomware.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 27, 2021

With the rise in malware and ransomware and a growing reliance on the internet, antivirus solutions are critical for protecting your data and applications. Multi-layer ransomware protection. Ransomware protection. Password manager. What’s the best antivirus software? A network firewall. Privacy protections.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 27, 2021

Both these announcements are being made at a time where Pwned Passwords is seeing unprecedented growth: Getting closer and closer to the 1B requests a month mark for @haveibeenpwned 's Pwned Passwords. Speaking of natural fits, Pwned Passwords is perfect for this model and that's why we're starting here.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2018

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Cyber Info Veritas

AUGUST 9, 2018

These Trojans have the ability to steal your web browser history and inputs even as they use your computing power to mine cryptocurrencies—this type of Trojans are very recent and run covertly in the background; the only thing you will note is your computer lagging. What does a master password do?

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The Security Ledger

OCTOBER 15, 2018

For those that were compromised, the attackers modified a proxy service on the routers to inject crypto mining code onto the computers of anyone who used the infected router to connect to the Web. You might also be interested in: Kaspersky Deems Crypto-jacking the New Ransomware as Crypto-miners up Their Game.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. Penchukov was arrested after leaving Ukraine to meet up with his wife in Switzerland. ” SEPTEMBER.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Rather than dropping ransomware on victims’ machines and hoping they would pay to regain access to their files, cyber criminals were increasingly cutting out the middle man and infecting victims’ machines with software that used their spare processing power to mine for cryptocurrency. Users were encouraged to change their passwords.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Phishing attacks: Deceptive techniques, such as fraudulent emails or websites, trick individuals into revealing sensitive information like credit card and payment information, passwords, or login credentials. Cryptojacking : Unauthorized use of a computer’s processing power to mine cryptocurrencies.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Ransomware. Ransomware. Costa Rica’s Junta De Proteccion Social hit by ransomware (unknown) Former students and staff at Savannah College of Art and Design affected by security incident (unknown) Ransomware attack takes down L.A. Cyber attacks. Data breaches. Malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents. Cyber attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Instead of arguing about MFA strength, VPN vendor, or nation-state treat actors, let’s finish our conversation about using dedicated administrator accounts and unique passwords. Ransomware is more advanced and prevalent, even reaching “as-a-service” availability on the Dark Web. Reish Supply-chain attacks have become paramount.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The arsenal of attackers includes data stealers, cryptocurrency miners, and ransomware, that literally hit victims from all sides. “ Cybereason is following an active campaign to deliver an arsenal of malware that is able to steal data, mine for cryptocurrency , and deliver ransomware to victims all over the world.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 11, 2022

They sneak around the fringes of the enterprise, seeking a way inside, which they might accomplish by tricking a user into clicking on a malicious link, opening an infected attachment or providing credentials and passwords, or perhaps by hacking an unpatched or zero-day vulnerability. It can find signs of ransomware, even in encrypted files.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 29, 2019

Internet hosting provider Hostinger resets users’ passwords after security breach (14 million). French police ‘neutralize’ Monero mining virus as it spreads worldwide (850,000). French police ‘neutralize’ Monero mining virus as it spreads worldwide (850,000). Ransomware. Virginia’s New Kent Co.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Fortunately, vendor surveys identify five key cybersecurity threats to watch for in 2024: compromised credentials, attacks on infrastructure, organized and advanced adversaries, ransomware, and uncontrolled devices. 583% increase in Kerberoasting [password hash cracking] attacks. 23% use identical passwords or follow a similar pattern.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2019

Emsisoft released a free decryptor for the Ims00rry ransomware. DoppelPaymer, a fork of BitPaymer Ransomware, appeared in the threat landscape. Israel surveillance firm NSO group can mine data from major social media. Slack resetting passwords for roughly 1% of its users.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 10, 2021

Robert Leale, the driving force behind the Car Hacking village at DEF CON, joins The Hacker Mind to talk about CANBus basics, and whether we’ll see cars subjected to ransomware attacks. Nothing was the same that the way the servers connected with the password, all of that stuff was completely different.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Botnets ransomware well, you get the. So perhaps Bitcoin mining Well, cryptocurrency mining was in their mind. Léveillé: So in the case of Kobalos, there was a password that was required to authenticate. But so we don't try to authenticate with default passwords. You're using any sort of credentials.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

So this is sometimes used to figure out passwords and credit card details as they're going through any point of sale. And so depending on how it checks the password and the code, it's writing, maybe it checks each letter your sending to see if that letter matches or not. It's mine. It's pretty cool stuff. You can figure it out.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Ransomware will continue to thrive. As long as humans are well……human, phishing attacks will lead to ransomware infecting more and more networks, and businesses, municipalities and other organizations will continue to pay whatever they must in order to regain control of their data and systems. The cloud will leak.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

And importantly, teaching them how to use secure passwords with @1Password ?? Admin rights grant them ability to install near anything they'd like (that includes malware, ransomware and remote access trojans ), make configuration changes and for all intents and purposes, play "god" with the machine.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 22, 2023

VAMOSI: Let’s start with the definition of the dark web as opposed to the web we use everyday, either password-protected or open. You need some form of authentication to access it that might be through a login and password or through a paywall or other sorts of authentication methods. That is your private emails.

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