ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2023

Common Types of Cyber Attacks Common techniques that criminal hackers use to penetrate systems include social engineering, password attacks, malware, and exploitation of software vulnerabilities. Malware can be delivered through email attachments, malicious websites, or compromised software.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

These types of attacks targeting organizations with time-sensitive financial events began picking up traction in early 2020, when a threat actor known as "Unknown" posted on a Russian hacking forum, encouraging others to use the NASDAQ stock exchange to influence the extortion process, according to the FBI.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 2, 2022

The report explains in more detail: "Since the Twitter API provides direct access to a Twitter account, there must be some form of authentication involved. Along with OAuth, Twitter API also uses controls such as app-based authentication and user-based authentication. Hence, OAuth tokens are used by the Twitter API.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 28, 2020

But the bank left out a critical detail about the software: it included malware.". Now, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is jumping on the concerns surrounding this Chinese malware whack-a-mole. Trustwave called the backdoor GoldenSpy, issuing a warning about the threat. The companies received an uninstaller for the backdoor.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The indictment, which can be read in full below, alleges that Ivanov-Tolpintsev talked about controlling a botnet, which is essentially a group of computers whose users don’t know they are infected with malware. He was originally caught by Polish authorities in late 2020, and was extradited to the US.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The FBI, CISA, and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) recently revealed that the number of ransomware incidents against K-12 districts increased dramatically at the beginning of fall 2020 classes. Specific ransomware and malware strains affecting schools. Use multi-factor authentication where possible.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2021

According to Google’s TAG blog, APT35 have been active since at least 2017, including attacks on the 2020 U.S. This [APT35] is the one of the groups we disrupted during the 2020 US election cycle for its targeting of campaign staffers. APT35 compromised a website affiliated with a UK university to host a phishing kit.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 22, 2021

"We have discovered four issues, the bulk of which involve three vulnerabilities that were patched in 2019 and 2020: Security Advisory SA44101 (CVE-2019-11510), Security Advisory SA44588 (CVE-2020-8243) and Security Advisory SA44601 (CVE-2020-8260). Who is taking advantage of the Pulse Connect Secure vulnerabilities?

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SecureWorld News

JULY 16, 2020

Throughout 2020, APT29 has targeted various organisations involved in COVID-19 vaccine development in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, highly likely with the intention of stealing information and intellectual property relating to the development and testing of COVID-19 vaccines.". What TTPs does APT29 use?

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Vox

JUNE 18, 2022

Call it “cosmic malware.”. According to the piece, which cited the head of an extraterrestrial civilization search team that was launched in China in 2020, narrowband electromagnetic signals detected by the telescope differed from previous signals, and were in the process of being investigated. Cosmic malware. Phoning ET.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 21, 2020

The world's most costly and destructive botnet, Emotet, reemerged last week, bringing with it a rain of emails that install ransomware, bank fraud trojans, and other nasty malware strains. The last time Emotet blew up was in February 2020, when it sent out 1.8 million messages over five days. But that's not all.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

From there, the hackers can change passwords and add security keys or two-factor authentication, and usually, they proceed to commit a crime. Jane Lee, who worked at Facebook on the trust and safety team in 2020, told Vox she saw similar cases out of Southeast Asia during her time at the company.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

billion in adjusted losses in 2020 and noted an increase in complaints, most likely tied to the work-from-home environment as a result of the pandemic. It's not scary like ransomware and isn't making headlines, but BEC losses are larger than ransomware losses and in 2020 were 40% of all the losses tracked by the IC3.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 21, 2017

By 2020 major international cities will have car-free downtowns. Adoption of IoT devices will exceed predictions, reaching 50 billion devices by 2020. Despite continued advances in security like AES encryption and multi-factor authentication, we don’t seem to be winning the war on cybercrime. Trend #2—Internet of Things (IoT).

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Vox

JUNE 16, 2021

Ransomware is malware that locks up access to its victim’s systems and then demands a ransom, usually in cryptocurrency, to unlock them. How the malware gets in the systems depends on the type used, but email phishing attacks are one of the most common ways. It’s believed that ransomware gangs pulled in at least $350 million in 2020.

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Galido

APRIL 11, 2019

Statistics anticipate that the number of online gamers will grow over 57 million in 2020. Attackers use malware to redirect users on bogus web pages. Always verify the authenticity of downloaded files and the new software. Although the market keeps growing, data breaches in digital gaming are more than the companies admit.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

As the internet rapidly expanded, so did viruses, malware and a plethora of attacks targeting end users and even their networks. This called for a standard that not only maintained privacy through encryption but also prevented malware all while affording users the ability to connect to their sensitive data from anywhere in the world.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 13, 2023

Endpoint Security: Securing endpoints, such as laptops, desktops, and mobile devices, is crucial in preventing unauthorized access and malware infections. According to a study by AV-TEST, organizations using comprehensive endpoint security solutions experienced a 100% detection rate for known malware.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Summary: This data breach was unique in the sense that there was not a breach in the company's servers, but an authentication error, meaning no authentication was required to view documents. They then gained access to a customer service database and uploaded malware to capture sensitive information. Who attacked: no attacker.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Summary: This data breach was unique in the sense that there was not a breach in the company's servers, but an authentication error, meaning no authentication was required to view documents. They then gained access to a customer service database and uploaded malware to capture sensitive information. Who attacked: no attacker.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Volexity has also reported publicly that they observed the APT using a secret key that the APT previously stole in order to generate a cookie to bypass the Duo multi-factor authentication protecting access to Outlook Web App (OWA). What if the SolarWinds and SUNBURST malware part of the attack was just the outside of the onion here?

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 29, 2021

Much like shaping metal, each click of information is used by a hacker to sharpen the effect and appearance of authenticity of this email. Malware released into the recipient’s system. In order to provide some context, tax fraud is so prevalent that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released a list of "Dirty Dozen" tax scams for 2020.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

However, if somewhere along the supply chain, a bad actor has access to the package and can inject their malware into the system, then some huge problems can can occur. Vamosi: This is bad. Supply chain compromises have been talked about for a few years now. Something similar happened with SolarWinds updates for its Orion system.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

However, if somewhere along the supply chain, a bad actor has access to the package and can inject their malware into the system, then some huge problems can can occur. Vamosi: This is bad. Supply chain compromises have been talked about for a few years now. Something similar happened with SolarWinds updates for its Orion system.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 29, 2020

We released an advisory with the @FBI & @HHSgov about this #ransomware threat that uses #Trickbot and #Ryuk malware. October 29, 2020. Use multi-factor authentication where possible. Set antivirus and anti-malware solutions to automatically update; conduct regular scans. Ryuk attacks on hospitals: 'unprecedented'.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Vamosi: Bowen’s public inquiry revealed findings of multiple buffer overflows, software updates without authentication, and inadequate randomization of the ballots so that valid secrecy can be compromised -- among other vulnerabilities. In 2020, we’re stuck in the middle of these two extremes right now.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Vamosi: Bowen’s public inquiry revealed findings of multiple buffer overflows, software updates without authentication, and inadequate randomization of the ballots so that valid secrecy can be compromised -- among other vulnerabilities. In 2020, we’re stuck in the middle of these two extremes right now.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Vamosi: Bowen’s public inquiry revealed findings of multiple buffer overflows, software updates without authentication, and inadequate randomization of the ballots so that valid secrecy can be compromised -- among other vulnerabilities. In 2020, we’re stuck in the middle of these two extremes right now.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

He also talks about his infosec journey hacking cryptocurrencies, joining the Digital Defense Service and CISA, and helping secure the 2020 presidential election… all before the age of 22. And he's right Ransomware is malware that blocks access to the data on a computer until a sum of money is paid.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

He also talks about his infosec journey hacking cryptocurrencies, joining the Digital Defense Service and CISA, and helping secure the 2020 presidential election… all before the age of 22. And he's right Ransomware is malware that blocks access to the data on a computer until a sum of money is paid.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 22, 2023

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. And then in my final year, I did an internship with the International Institute of Counterterrorism here in Israel, and I began in 2020. To write scripts for malware.

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