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Malvertising Is a Cybercrime Heavyweight, Not an Underdog

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Malvertising acts as a vessel for malware propagation. Just to illustrate the scope of the issue, the Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence team spotted more than 800 malvertising campaigns in only the first six months of 2023, noting that the number of attacks that flew under researchers' radar was likely much higher.

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How to Choose the Best Vulnerability Scanning Tool for Your Business

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To be noted is the fact that a vulnerability scanner is as important as a malware scanner today. While a malware scanner helps check for malware and clear them, the vulnerability scanning tool could help prevent malware threats and attacks. Researching vulnerability scanners.

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Browser Isolation: The Missing Piece in Your Security Puzzle

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Cyberattacks such as malware infiltration and vulnerability exploitation continue to make headlines, attacking companies of various sizes. However, conventional solutions such as antivirus, firewalls, and other detection and blocking tools can only offer a limited level of security.

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Why endpoint security will be a renewed priority for businesses of all sizes in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

They achieve this via several means, but one of the most common is via phishing, which typically involves convincing someone to download a piece of malware from a legitimate-looking email that will then gather login data and other sensitive info that can give the criminals access to much more within the organisation.

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IoT Adoption in Healthcare Brings Security Opportunities

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, according to research from Unit 42, 75% of infusion pumps have unpatched vulnerabilities. 3 Unit 42 research also found that 83% of ultrasound, MRI, and CT scanners run on an end-of-life operating system. 4 Those operating systems have known vulnerabilities that can potentially be exploited.

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North Korean Threat Actors Targeting Healthcare Sector with Maui Ransomware

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The Stairwell research team says that Maui "stood out" because it lacked some basic components commonly seen in other ransomware strains. It is because of this that researchers think Maui is manually operated, meaning the threat actor(s) is specifically choosing what files to encrypt and then exfiltrating the results.

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Data Security and its Importance on the Internet

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Juniper research predicted that the rapid rise of digital devices will increase the cost of data breaches to $2.1 Stop Malware Attacks and Online Identity Theft. Keep Systems Updated. A common way for malware to attack is for it to find exploits and vulnerabilities in a system. was approximately $100 billion.