SecureWorld News

APRIL 11, 2023

No charging station is safe, apparently, as the FBI is warning travelers looking to charge their devices in airports, hotels, and coffee shops that "juice jacking" is a thing—as bad actors are using public chargers and even free cables and charging plugs to infect phones and other devices with malware.

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2021

Over the weekend, that estimate has doubled to 60,000 Microsoft Exchange Server customers hacked around the world , with the European Banking Authority now admitting that it’s one of the victims — and it looks like Microsoft may have taken a little too long to realize the severity and patch it. link] — Chris Krebs (@C_C_Krebs) March 5, 2021.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The Yanluowang group is linked to "Evil Corp," the Lapsus$ gang (responsible for a recent Uber attack ), and FiveHands malware. APT28, or "Fancy Bear," is the threat group responsible for deploying the technique for delivering the Graphite malware. Here's one report of the incident. Google Play and Apple Store caught in adware scheme.

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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. The link takes you to a website that looks identical to your bank's website, but is actually a fake.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 16, 2023

The cities of Middleton, Danvers, Wenham, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Essex, Hamilton, and Topsfield formed the North Shore IT Collaborative in 2021 with the goal of their collective power being stronger than what they can manage alone. Those communities also have a legal obligation to protect that data.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

Its purpose is to protect encryption keys, user credentials, and other sensitive data behind a hardware barrier so that malware and attackers can’t access or tamper with that data.”. in just 12 hours pic.twitter.com/9TTHC2c47w — Shen Ye (@shen) June 25, 2021. pic.twitter.com/CrmSGEgARN — Tom Warren (@tomwarren) June 24, 2021.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 2, 2022

Mester , President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Cyber hygiene includes, but is not limited to, good password practices, robust vulnerability patching processes, timely detection, prevention, and remediation , putting protections in place to prevent and block malware, and ensuring robust access protocols.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It serves as a vessel for various strains of malware, including ransomware, and underlies data-stealing campaigns that target large organizations and individuals alike. These details can be weaponized to orchestrate business email compromise (BEC) swindles, industrial espionage plots, and malware attacks. And for good reason.

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Vox

JUNE 29, 2022

For example, if your “bank” calls, you should hang up, find the number of your bank on your debit card (or another official source, like its website), and call that number back. You can lock things down even more by using hardware authenticators and anti-malware software , which you can get for mobile devices too.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

.” Two decades later, that line from the Microsoft co-founder’s Trustworthy Computing memo would seem quaint if the reality weren’t so terrifying: ransomware, software supply chain attacks, privacy breaches, nation-state hacks, malware, worms, and adversarial machine learning are just a few of the looming threats.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

When the malware is deployed there is also information provided on how to contact (the crime gang) to pay the fee that they are looking for and receive the key to unencrypt the data. The world has certainly become more complex and dynamic since I was in the FBI and conducted extortion and bank robbery investigations.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 13, 2023

The chart below shows botnet attacks as a percentage of all DDoS attacks, Q2 2021 – Q2 2023: The initial surge in IoT botnet activity coincided with the Russia-Ukraine conflict. One of the primary concerns highlighted in the report is the prevalence of bot malware that scans for vulnerable devices.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that cybercrime will cost the world $6 trillion annually by the end of 2021. What was compromised: b ank account numbers, bank statements, mortgage and tax records, social security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images. Top 10 most significant data breaches. Records affected: 21.5

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Traditional anti-malware research relies on customer systems but what if a particular malware wasn’t on the same platform as your solution software? éveillé from ESET joins The Hacker Mind podcast to talk about the challenges of building his own internet scanner to scan for elusive malware. Marc-Etienne M.Léveillé

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

On 23rd Feb 2022, it was reported that a wave of DDoS attacks had occurred against Ukrainian government websites and banks. In addition, new data wiping malware was discovered on hundreds of devices on Ukrainian networks. Cyberattacks against Ukraine.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

He died prematurely on April 23 in 2021. I’m Robert Vamosi and in this episode I’m exploring a novel database operating system that promises to be disruptive to how we mitigate malware today. CODEN: From 2016 to 2021. It was on a project that Dan Kaminsky presented at Discourse 2019. The point of this?

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Jonathan Knudsen from Synopsys joins The Hacker Mind to discuss his presentation at SecTor 2021 on fuzzing message brokers such as RabbitMQ and VerneMQ, both written in Erlang, demonstrating that any type of software in any environment can still be vulnerable. In fact, you can just spin up another VM.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

IIain Paterson and Justin Macorin join The Hacker Mind podcast to share insights from their SecTor 2021 talk on hacking behavioral biometrics. So of course when I saw that some researchers were presenting a talk at SecTor 2021 in Toronto on defeating biometrics with artificial intelligence, well I knew I had to talk to them as well.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

These are not groups of individual hackers sitting around the table late at night as it was in teh early days of malware writing. Hypponen: Alright, original sea change for monetizing malware was 2003. That's when we started seeing the cooperation between spammers and malware writers. I remember meeting Mikko in 2006.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 22, 2023

It might be your bank app. And what we found was that almost 20% of all ransomware attacks in 2021 had their access to the organization compromised just 190 days beforehand. To write scripts for malware. Now generative AI can produce malware. It ended up producing keylogging malware. That is your private emails.

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