TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Dragos was founded in 2016 to detect and respond to threats facing industrial control systems (ICS), the devices critical to the continued operations of power plants, water and energy supplies, and other critical infrastructure. .”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2016, a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service attack launched by the Mirai botnet on internet infrastructure giant Dyn knocked some of the biggest websites — Shopify, SoundCloud, Spotify, Twitter — offline for hours. Mirai had ensnared thousands of IoT devices into its network at the time of the attack.

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The Parallax

MAY 7, 2018

Malware and antivirus software usually go together like tacos and pickles. Pretty much any software can be targeted to be ripped off,” says Mark Lechtik, a security researcher on the Check Point Malware Research Team who led the investigation into SiliVaccine. Leave it to North Korea to combine them like peanut butter and jelly.

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taos

OCTOBER 14, 2019

In the first case, significant new attack surface, we need to look no further than CVE-2016–2207 through CVE-2016–2211, where an anti-virus product had remote arbitrary code execution flaws. It isn’t just one vendor’s products that are flawed.

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Tenable

JANUARY 27, 2023

Background On January 27, ESET Research has published a thread on Twitter discussing its analysis of a new wiper malware used in a cyberattack in Ukraine. This new malware, dubbed "SwiftSlicer", was deployed in the target environment using Active Directory (AD) Group Policy. The #SwiftSlicer wiper is written in Go programing language.

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Jeremiah Grossman

JUNE 6, 2016

In this case, malware and ransomware. The FBI recently published that ransomware victims paid out $209 million in Q1 2016 compared to $24 million for ALL of 2015. SentinelOne is right smack in the middle of the malware/ransomware war, for which Gartner calls next-generation endpoint protection (NG EPP).

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The Parallax

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

While there’s no ransomware-specific cost estimate to the health care business, Verizon’s annual Data Breach Report for 2018 estimates that ransomware is included in 85 percent of the successful malware attacks against hospitals. Cybersecurity researchers at Cylance estimated that the number of ransomware attacks tripled in 2017.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

” Kumar founded Fortanix alongside Anand Kashyap in 2016. Several recent, severe malware attacks have happened at the in-use state, including the Triton attack and the Ukraine power grid attack. Kumar was previously a hardware design lead at Nvidia and the chief architect at Rambus’ cryptography division.

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Tenable

APRIL 8, 2021

When self-propagating malware enters any part of your system, it immediately begins searching for conduits through which it can spread to other systems. Say a malware strain entered an industrial control system (ICS) while it wasn't connected to the company's overall network.

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Tenable

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Plus, the QakBot botnet got torn down, but the malware threat remains – what CISA suggests you do. The disruption of QakBot infrastructure does not mitigate other previously installed malware or ransomware on victim computers. As OpenAI released ChatGPT Enterprise, the U.K.’s And much more!

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Tenable

APRIL 27, 2021

Founded in 2016 by Emmanuel Gras and Luc Delsalle, former incident responders from the French National Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI), Alsid represents the finest of French innovation: a pioneering technology solution which aims to resolve a critical cybersecurity challenge that has been top-of-mind for CISOs and IT leaders for over two decades.

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Kaseya

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

This particularly malicious type of malware affected and encrypted data across the globe with no way to reverse it. Law enforcement began warning about targeted attacks in 2016 when criminals were casing their victims and tailoring their attacks and ransoms accordingly. Attack Severity. Was the victim rich or poor?

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AlienVault

JULY 17, 2019

Alien Labs has identified an unreported and ongoing malware campaign, which we attribute with high confidence to the adversary publicly reported as “StrongPity” Based on compilation times, infrastructure, and public distribution of samples - we assess the campaign operated from the second half of 2018 into today (July 2019).

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AlienVault

JULY 17, 2019

Alien Labs has identified an unreported and ongoing malware campaign, which we attribute with high confidence to the adversary publicly reported as “StrongPity” Based on compilation times, infrastructure, and public distribution of samples - we assess the campaign operated from the second half of 2018 into today (July 2019).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The attack began with cyberattacks that targeted Ukrainian government departments with floods of internet traffic and data-wiping malware, followed by a ground, sea and air incursion. Uber, which has operated in Ukraine since 2016 and is present in nine cities, paused operations within the country.

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Tenable

MARCH 12, 2020

Malware and phishing campaigns use global interest in the novel coronavirus to capitalize on fear and uncertainty around the pandemic. Coronavirus-themed malware campaigns. Emotet is part of a chain of three malware strains dubbed the Triple Threat by researchers at Cybereason. Background. Emotet campaign.

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The actors have also used trojan versions of X-Popup, a messenger application used in several smaller hospitals in South Korea and have spread malware using 2 malicious domains, xpopup.pe[.]kr A week after that CSA was released, Microsoft attributed the use of H0lyGh0st ransomware to the same actor. kr and xpopup[.]com.

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The Parallax

JANUARY 26, 2021

Once the victim reaches the malicious website, the hacker controlling it can spread malware, carry out cyberespionage, or phish for personal or business information from the victim. It’s even possible to force bit flips under rare circumstances, according to a 2016 report.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

This article increases awareness for organizations seeking to enhance their digital risk posture against the increasing threat of ransomware (a type of malware) deployed by threat actors to prevent or limit users from accessing their system until a ransom is paid. million in 2015 to 638 million in 2016. Crystal Lister.

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Palo Alto Networks

MARCH 17, 2021

That’s a staggering increase from 2016, when the majority of transactions were between $200 and $500. government warned hospitals, which were already struggling due to COVID, that they were being targeted by Ryuk , one of the pieces of malware covered in our report. How the Ransomware Threat Grew. What happened? In October, the U.S.

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The Parallax

JANUARY 26, 2021

Once the victim reaches the malicious website, the hacker controlling it can spread malware, carry out cyberespionage, or phish for personal or business information from the victim. It’s even possible to force bit flips under rare circumstances, according to a 2016 report.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Malvertising is increasingly being deployed by threat actors to spread malware, including ransomware and scams, and redirect users from legitimate websites to phishing and exploit kit–hosting sites. Notable Examples: In December 2016, ESET researchers identified the ‘ Stegano ’ campaign (which dates back to 2014).

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Altexsoft

JUNE 2, 2020

Google reported a 15 percent reduction in power consumption, and 40 percent reduction in cooling costs in their data centers, after implementing AI technology back in 2016. Zimperium and MobileIron announced a collaboration to help organizations adopt mobile anti-malware solutions incorporating artificial intelligence. by 80% by 2050.

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AlienVault

AUGUST 1, 2018

These spear phishing emails use a mix of different openly available malware and document exploits for delivery. Although the document is dated on December 2017, we’ve seen related malware dating back to June 2017. As we’ve seen previously , the usage of openly available malware makes attribution difficult.

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Palo Alto Networks

MAY 19, 2020

Consider the following IoT examples: Modern IoT malware and attacks, such as botnet scanning, drain the CPU and memory of the IoT devices under attack, causing substantial service response delay for time-sensitive applications, lower device stability and increased device reboot risks. For example, Mirai malware gained notoriety in 2016.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 12, 2021

According to the researchers, the vulnerability is a patch bypass for CVE-2016-3309 , a separate EoP vulnerability in the Windows Kernel. EoP vulnerabilities, especially zero-days, are often linked to malware campaigns such as MysterySnail, and they are primarily associated with targeted attacks.

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Palo Alto Networks

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

This, coupled with a thorough analysis of all malware leveraged throughout the campaign and the similarities seen in previous attack campaigns culminate in a thorough body of evidence leading to the attribution of OilRig. For more information, read about our Unit 42 backstory and our research on OilRig ).

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Netskope

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In this case, the chatbot itself was not exploited, but the platform was used to distribute malware, and while it wasn’t a particularly complicated attack, it serves as an important warning to all major organisations. In most cases the platforms have been compromised to inject malware that steals data from customers.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 19, 2020

Install Anti Malware. A 2016 data breach investigation identified that 30% of employees opened phishing emails. Phishing scams involve malware being placed on a computer when a link is clicked. installing anti-malware can help remove and/or block this before it gets any information or causes any damage.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Date : Thursday, February 25, 2016. Beware of malware attack (grahamcluley.com). 2016: RSA Conference and The DomainTools Report (domaintools.com). Katie Kennedy. Join Verisign for their webinar on the " Framework for Resilient Cybersecurity ". Time : 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time. Duration : 1 hour. Register Here. .

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Kaseya

JUNE 24, 2019

In 2017, 50,000 cyber-attacks were targeted at IoT devices, an increase of 600 percent from 2016 and the number of IoT-driven malware attacks surpassed 121,000 in 2018. Common antivirus and anti-malware (AV/AM) tools usually won’t be effective against these threats. Insider threats require specialized tools.

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CTOvision

JUNE 28, 2016

Analysts believe that most malware goes undetected from 100-250+ days. What if machines could detect malware early in the kill chain? Analysts estimate up to 40% of machines on our networks are infected with malware. Malware is a big problem for analysts. A Recipe for Teaching Computers to Identify Malware.

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Tenable

MARCH 8, 2021

Tenable released version check plugins for Exchange Server 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019, which can be used to determine which Exchange Server systems are vulnerable in your environment. Identify vulnerable Exchange Server 2013, 2016 and 2019 systems. If you get a hit on that search, you’re now in incident response mode. Version Check.

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Kaseya

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The critical bugs in this month’s Patch Tuesday release are: ID Affected Product(s) Impact Rating CVE-2021-31985 Microsoft Defender Malware Protection Engine Remote Code Execution Critical CVE-2021-31959 Windows RT 8.1, Windows 7, Windows 10, Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, 2016, 2019 Remote Code Execution Critical.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 29, 2021

At the 2021 Aspen Cyber Summit, Mandiant chief operating officer Kevin Mandia said it well : “Somewhere around 2016 or 2017[…] I noticed that whoever’s breaking in and whoever is doing the crime aren’t even the same people anymore [.] Specifically, CISA has warned of the TrickBot malware and BlackMatter ransomware abusing SMB.

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

As an example of what can happen, the Mirai malware set loose in late 2016 created a botnet of IoT devices that included ordinary consumer devices such as security cameras, routers, and other home use IoT devices purposely designed to take websites and entire networks offline. This set the stage for other copycat attacks.

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ProtectWise

MAY 10, 2016

It has grown up to primarily serve as a downloader that delivers various types of separate malware. Some malware filenames have been following patterns of Microsoft Office-type [dot] exe. Once the malware was downloaded, it began reaching out to various destinations attempting to successfully check-in with its owner. ytugctbfm[.]com.

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