The Parallax

JANUARY 22, 2018

Its success was predicated not on “zero-day” vulnerabilities or new forms of malicious software, but rather on older, known malware delivered via an all-too-familiar method: phishing. The malware included hacked versions of end-to-end encrypted communication apps Signal and WhatsApp. So these installations wouldn’t be blocked.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

French customers are une petite bite angry about their 43% price hike, while German subscribers think their 30% hike is just the wurst, Paul reports. More startup goodies: A chain with a sack of cash at the end of it : Based in New York, Interplay is raising $10 million for a new blockchain fund, Anita reports. too, Frederic reports.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Writer’s note: We’re breaking from our usual formatting this week because there was a once-in-a-generation collapse of one of the biggest banks in the country.

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Tenable

MARCH 1, 2024

And the most prevalent malware in Q4. To gain initial access, cybercriminals associated with ALPHV Blackcat employ advanced social engineering techniques and publicly-available information about a company. Plus, the latest guidance on cyberattack groups APT29 and ALPHV Blackcat. And much more! 1 - NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework 2.0

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Tenable

JANUARY 26, 2024

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) in its new report “ The near-term impact of AI on the cyber threat, ” published this week. That’d be the consequences of suffering a cyber event, according to a report from insurer company Allianz Commercial. So says the U.K.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Modern security challenges Data from the Verizon 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) shows the three primary ways in which attackers access an organization are stolen credentials, phishing and exploitation of vulnerabilities. Customers can review reports on threats blocked via a special portal.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

Let’s parcel out some more newsy goodness: I’ll try a bite, at least : Meatable is a cultivated meat company, and it just showed off its first product — synthetic sausages, reports Paul. I’ll have one of those : Anita reports that crypto startup Blockdaemon is continuing its acquisition spree, this time picking up Sepior.

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Tenable

JANUARY 19, 2024

In addition, the latest on the Androxgh0st malware. That’s according to the “ State of the CISO, 2023–2024 Benchmark Report ” from IANS Research and Artico Search, which was announced this week and is based on a survey of 660 CISOs and on unstructured interviews with 100 CISOs. And much more! The upside?

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MAY 7, 2024

The bots are there to plan strategy, help analyze financials, and report on compliance. Early reports say that these smaller versions are impressive. JRsdr is an AI product that promises to automate all your corporate social media. The malware will then be loaded by software referencing the now-existent package.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Ax Sharma is a security researcher and reporter. His areas of interest include open source software security, malware analysis, data breaches, and scam investigations. Needless to say, the sabotaged versions of node-ipc — now effectively malware — were taken down from the npm registry. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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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. million, though an Accenture report says that figure could be as high as $113 million.

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The Parallax

MAY 7, 2018

Malware and antivirus software usually go together like tacos and pickles. to the journalist Martyn Williams , who specializes in reporting on North Korean technology. They also discovered that it was programmed to ignore a malware programming characteristic that even decade-old Trend Micro code would have flagged as malicious.

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Tenable

MAY 18, 2023

The advisory details the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) and indicators of compromise (IOCs) associated with the group and its corresponding malware. The group claims to have stolen ~4,200 student records containing phone numbers, email addresses, and social security numbers. and Australia.

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Tenable

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Get the latest on the anniversary of the Log4j crisis; OWASP’s top CI/CD risks; a surge of infostealer malware; the fund transfer fraud — business email compromise connection; and more! . 3 - Attackers boost use of infostealer malware. Infostealers Malware Advertisements and Pricing from July to October 2022.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

‘How is Twitter doing?’ : That was one of Alex ’s questions today as he examined the social media giant’s performance and stock prices in light of Elon Musk’s unsolicited bid — can we keep calling it that even though it probably surprised no one? Startups and VC. Lots of movement in mobility (if there wasn’t, would it be called immobility?)

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Tenable

JANUARY 27, 2023

Then scan the latest list of top malware. It’s the first time the same risk has topped this annual report from insurer Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty in consecutive years. It’s also organizations’ most feared cause of business interruption, as well as their main environmental, social and governance (ESG) concern.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

In an interview with author and MIT professor Sinan Aral , Managing Editor Danny Crichton discussed some of the debates currently swirling around the desire in some quarters to regulate social media platforms. CoinMarketCap reports that crypto market values have reached almost $659 billion; that figure was just $140 billion in March 2020.

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Ivanti

JANUARY 19, 2022

According to the Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report, phishing held the top spot as the data breach tactic used most often, jumping from 25% of all data breaches in 2020 to 36% in 2021. Ransomware, on the other hand, was responsible for most data breaches caused by malware. Worse yet, these?types types of attacks?continue

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Infinidat

JANUARY 18, 2024

Cyber resilience, which is provided by primary storage and secondary storage systems, will be ever-increasingly coupled with other cybersecurity products to combat cyberattacks, such as ransomware and malware, much more effectively. The stakes could not be higher. Storage consolidation within large enterprises is like low-hanging fruit.

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Ivanti

JUNE 14, 2023

But considering recent cybersecurity reports, they're no longer enough to reduce your organization’s external attack surface. In a similar report, researchers created a polymorphic keylogging malware that bypassed an industry-leading automated EDR solution. Plex provided a patch for this vulnerability three years ago.

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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. In December 2019, reports of an outbreak of a new virus and disease, dubbed COVID-19 by the World Health Organization (WHO), began to emerge. Coronavirus-themed malware campaigns. Background.

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Tenable

MAY 28, 2020

Malware: This catch-all term encompasses a number of different cybersecurity threats, including everything from viruses and worms to banking trojans, adware, spyware and ransomware. In terms of specific threats, a bank, for example, should probably be most concerned about the various classes of ATM malware (two dozen or more 9 ).

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 19, 2014

As for me, the most important thing the FBI report tells us all is that organizations should take steps now to enhance their defense. Here is what the FBI had to report : Update on Sony Investigation. Sony reported this incident within hours, which is what the FBI hopes all companies will do when facing a cyber attack.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

The Washington Post published a report focused heavily on ThreatConnect contributions to a better understanding of the Anthem hack titled: Security firm finds link between China and Anthem hack. Malicious software used in the Anthem hack conclusively matches malware that was used to target a small U.S.

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The main takeaway: “Should layoffs be necessary, respondents expect bigger cuts in other areas of their businesses, such as HR, finance, operations, marketing and sales, than in cybersecurity,” the report reads. Already, ChatGPT has reportedly been used by malicious actors to create malware and write legit-sounding phishing emails.

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Kaseya

JULY 11, 2019

Over the last couple years, the annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report has consistently shown that user error is one of the most promising avenues of attack for cybercriminals. Plus, blocking productivity drains like social media and gaming sites can help staff members become more efficient. Conclusion. Sources 1 Verizon.

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Praxent

MAY 12, 2021

A 2020 report from World Retail Banking revealed 57% of consumers preferred internet banking in the Covid-19 era. Breaches, phishing, malware, domain infringement, malvertising, ransomware, malicious mobile apps, brand abuse and fake social posts are all currently conspicuously dangerous to traditional banking organizations.

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Tenable

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

For more information, read the CISA/FBI advisory , their official announcement and a malware analysis report. That’s one of the findings from the “ 2022 IBM Security X-Force Cloud Threat Landscape Report, ” which found this problem of “excess privilege” for cloud identities in a whopping 99% of analyzed penetration tests.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It can take notes on meetings in Google Meet, write emails and reports, participate in chats, and more. Security Google, Apple, and Mozilla have reported a severe vulnerability in the WebP image compression library that is actively being exploited. Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware.

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PowerSchool

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Malware or viruses could be shared, infecting entire systems, potentially leading to downtime or unusable systems. Be aware of social engineering. Social engineering is arguably one of the most effective ways for scammers to gain unwanted access. Be wary of social media and confidentiality.

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Altexsoft

JUNE 2, 2020

This can help protect organizations even before vulnerabilities are officially reported and patched. 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. Hackers also use AI —to improve and enhance their malware.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Generative AI will make social engineering and phishing more convincing; it will enable inexperienced actors to create much more dangerous attacks. Like everyone else, malware groups are moving to memory-safe languages like Rust and DLang to develop their payloads. A variant of the Mirai malware is attacking Linux systems.

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Palo Alto Networks

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And, as the Directive states, “cybersecurity is a key enabler for many critical sectors to successfully embrace digital transformation and to fully grasp the economic, social and sustainable benefits of digitalisation.”. Reporting Requirements. NIS2 also expands cyber incident reporting requirements.

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Although 2022 saw a decline in ransomware payment volume, the overall trend line from 2019 to 2023 indicates that ransomware is an escalating problem,” the report reads. That’s a key insight from the “H1 2024 Threat Horizons Report,” published this week by Google's Cybersecurity Action Team.

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Tenable

JULY 20, 2022

While some cases of extortion involve stealing data and “ransoming” it back to organizations, ransomware specifically refers to incidents when data-encrypting malware (ransomware) is deployed and access to those systems is ransomed back to target organizations. Reevaluate help desk policies and social engineering awareness.

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Infinidat

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Among the first deaths directly linked to a ransomware attack was the death of a woman reported in Germany in 2020. Trending #2 – The Onslaught of Ransomware and Malware What’s trending is the expectation that more organizations that are not properly cyber secure will see more cyberattacks in the months and years ahead, not fewer attacks.

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Openxcell

JULY 21, 2023

Start by building an extensive influencer database that users can search based on industry, social channels, location, and more. Furthermore, make sure your productivity software can generate reports and provide performance insights. It’s difficult to track valuable insights about audiences without social media analytics.

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