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Securonix Threat Research: Detecting WastedLocker Ransomware

Securonix Threat Research: Detecting WastedLocker Ransomware

August 17, 2020
The Securonix Threat Research Team is actively investigating the details of the critical targeted Wastedlocker ransomware attacks that has reportedly already exploited more than 31 companies, with 8 of the victims being Fortune 500 companies. Here are the key details regarding the impact of the high-profile WastedLocker ransomware attacks/EviICorp malicious cyber threat actor(s)(MTA) involved: The WastedLocker ransomware is a relatively new malicious payload used by the high-profile EvilCorp MTA, which previously used the Dridex trojan to deploy BitPaymer ransomware in attacks targeting government organisations and enterprises in Europe and the United States. This MTA currently focuses on targeted °big game hunting” (BGH) ransomware attacks with multiple industry victims in recent months, with Garmin as one of the latest high-profile victims attacked (officially confirmed by Garmin on July 27).  The most recent ransom amount demanded was $10 million, and appears to be based on the victim’s financial data. Based on the available details, the ransom was likely paid. To date, this MTA appears ...
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Hackers Exploit Covid-19 Vaccine Interest As Cover For Attacks

Hackers Exploit Covid-19 Vaccine Interest As Cover For Attacks

August 11, 2020
Phishing emails with subject lines related to vaccines now being used to trick recipients into downloading malicious Windows, Word and Excel files designed to steal a person’s credentials  Number of ...
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IoT BotnetsAnd Shifting Ransomware Are Raising The Stakes For Enterprises Worldwide

IoT BotnetsAnd Shifting Ransomware Are Raising The Stakes For Enterprises Worldwide

July 28, 2020
A new report from Nozomi Networks Labs finds cyber threats against Operational Technology (OT) and IoT infrastructure continued to grow in number and impact in the first half of 2020. OT-reliant ...
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Balbix Report Reveals the Major Concerns and Risks Hindering CISOs’ Ability to Strengthen Security Posture

Balbix Report Reveals the Major Concerns and Risks Hindering CISOs’ Ability to Strengthen Security Posture

July 22, 2020
9 out of 10 Security Professionals Cite Phishing and Ransomware as Top Risks, Yet Only Half Report Sufficient Visibility into Such Threats SAN JOSE, Calif. – July 21, 2020 – Balbix Inc., provider ...
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Infoblox Survey Finds That DNS Accelerates Threat Resolution But Is Under-used By Security Teams

Infoblox Survey Finds That DNS Accelerates Threat Resolution But Is Under-used By Security Teams

July 21, 2020
203 senior security and risk professionals reveal a missed opportunity to leverage DNS throughout the threat analysis and response cycle    Infoblox Inc., the leader in Secure Cloud-Managed Network Services, commissioned ...
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Data Protection Officers Foresee DSAR Trouble In Store From Britain’s Post-Covid Jobless

Data Protection Officers Foresee DSAR Trouble In Store From Britain’s Post-Covid Jobless

July 16, 2020
Study finds lockdown’s furloughed and laid off staff set to trigger spike in DSARs for HR Officers  Fall-out from lockdown is already causing difficulty meeting data compliance obligations for 75% ...
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Research Predicts Dramatic Increase In Volume And Value Of Fines For Data Breaches And Poor Data Deletion Practices

Research Predicts Dramatic Increase In Volume And Value Of Fines For Data Breaches And Poor Data Deletion Practices

July 6, 2020
Between now and 2025, 37% of people in work expect the number and value of fines faced by employers for data breaches to increase – with 6% anticipating a dramatic ...
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DNS Security is too Easily Taken for Granted

New Intelligence Reveals that Alina Point-of-Sale Malware is Still Lurking in DNS

July 2, 2020
CenturyLink’s Black Lotus Labs warns organizations of credit card theft DENVER, July 1, 2020 – Point-of-Sale (POS) malware is nothing new, and the Alina malware – which cybercriminals use to ...
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Businesses Incur Greater Losses Year-On-Year Due To Payment Fraud

Businesses Incur Greater Losses Year-On-Year Due To Payment Fraud

June 17, 2020
Bottomline 2020 Business Payments Barometer reveals:  Only 1 in 10 small businesses report recovering more than 50% of losses due to fraud Despite an increase in new payments initiatives and ...
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Teamviewer Malware Package

Research Reveals Dramatic Increase In People Encountering Online Scams Whilst Working From Home During The Coronavirus Crises

June 9, 2020
Some 26% of people claim they have seen an increase in the level of online scams and phishing attacks they face since they started working from home during the Coronavirus ...
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financial data

Data And Financial Loss Biggest Cyber Fear For Locked Down UK Householders

June 5, 2020
60% of people working from home due to COVID-19 believe they are more susceptible to cyber attack as they are online more  Amsterdam – UK householders confined to their home and ...
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What businesses can learn from the Holborn outage

Expert On Research: One Third Of Businesses Axe IT Staff Due To Covid-19 Cost Concerns

May 11, 2020
New global poll from Leonne International of over 1,000 business decision-makers reveals that over one third of companies have axed IT staff and half have cut IT Budgets due to ...
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(IoT) will Fail if Security has no Context

Financial Services Organisations Increasingly Prone To Authentication And DDoS Attacks

May 5, 2020
F5 Labs assesses three years of Security Incident Response Team data Financial services organisations have experienced a significant increase in the number of authentication and distributed denial of service (DDoS) ...
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NHS Contact Tracing App Can Be A Success If Linked To Testing, Study Finds

NHS Contact Tracing App Can Be A Success If Linked To Testing, Study Finds

May 1, 2020
Study recommends NHS in charge of app, with priority access to testing for those alerted and/or with symptoms It is possible to implement a privacy-respecting contact tracing app that can ...
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Ransomware Goes Mobile – New Android Ransomware Fabricates Notes From FBI

Ransomware Goes Mobile – New Android Ransomware Fabricates Notes From FBI

April 30, 2020
A new variant of Russian malware tricks mobile users into encrypting their files, then impersonates the FBI to force ransom payments, accusing the user of downloading illegal pornographic content Malware is downloaded and installed via social ...
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Security of your Android Devices

Ransomware Goes Mobile – New Android Ransomware Fabricates Notes From FBI

April 28, 2020
A new variant of Russian malware tricks mobile users into encrypting their files, then impersonates the FBI to force ransom payments, accusing the user of downloading illegal pornographic content Malware is downloaded and installed via social ...
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Imperva Releases Seventh Annual Bad Bot Report; Uncovers Nearly A Quarter Of Overall Website Traffic Driven By Bad Bots

Imperva Releases Seventh Annual Bad Bot Report; Uncovers Nearly A Quarter Of Overall Website Traffic Driven By Bad Bots

April 21, 2020
Financial services industry hit hardest by bad bots, making up almost half of overall website traffic; Russia origin of most blocked attacks Imperva, Inc., today released its annual report titled: ...
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Apple Is Most Imitated Brand For Phishing: Check Point Research’s Q1 2020 Brand Phishing Report

Apple Is Most Imitated Brand For Phishing: Check Point Research’s Q1 2020 Brand Phishing Report

April 14, 2020
Check Point’s researchers highlight Yahoo! as most imitated brand for email-based phishing, and Netflix as the most imitated for mobile-based phishing attempts  Check Point Research has published its new Brand ...
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UK And Netherlands Most At Risk In Europe When Mitigating Critical Vulnerabilities

UK And Netherlands Most At Risk In Europe When Mitigating Critical Vulnerabilities

March 12, 2020
New vulnerability research by Outpost24 has revealed interesting data trends in vulnerability management across different regions and sectors. When analysed, the number of high, medium and low-risk security vulnerabilities based ...
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Closing The Gender Gap In Cybersecurity Could Boost UK Economy By £12.6bn

Closing The Gender Gap In Cybersecurity Could Boost UK Economy By £12.6bn

March 11, 2020
New Tessian report reveals that perceptions around cybersecurity industry need to change to encourage more diversity Increasing the number of women working in cybersecurity could boost the UK economy by ...
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2020 Webroot Threat Report:  Phishing Attempts Grew By 640% Last Year

2020 Webroot Threat Report: Phishing Attempts Grew By 640% Last Year

February 19, 2020
Webroot Also Observed a 125% Increase in Malware Targeting Windows 7®   OpenText™ (NASDAQ: OTEX) (TSX: OTEX) today issued the 2020 Webroot Threat Report, highlighting not only the agility and innovation of cybercriminals who ...
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Data Love

52% Say Loneliness Around Valentine’s Day Makes Them Vulnerable To Catfishers, Research Reveals

February 14, 2020
ESET urges people to be vigilant when online dating, or risk falling for catfishers 41% of consumers believe that they face more cyber security risks when online dating around Valentine’s ...
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Security Professionals Anticipate Automation Will Reduce IT Security Headcount, But Not Replace Human Expertise

Security Professionals Anticipate Automation Will Reduce IT Security Headcount, But Not Replace Human Expertise

February 11, 2020
Today the Ponemon Institute, in partnership with DomainTools, announced the results of its annual "Staffing the IT Security Function in the Age of Automation" report. The survey of more than ...
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Zoom Updates Security As Eavesdrop Hack Discovered By Check Point Research

Zoom Updates Security As Eavesdrop Hack Discovered By Check Point Research

January 28, 2020
Hackers could eavesdrop on scores of Zoom Meetings by generating and verifying Zoom Meeting IDs; Zoom rolls out a series of security changes to fix flaws  Check Point Research identified ...
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Bitglass 2019 Financial Breach Report: More Than 60% Of All Leaked Records In Past Year Exposed By Financial Services Firms

Bitglass 2019 Financial Breach Report: More Than 60% Of All Leaked Records In Past Year Exposed By Financial Services Firms

December 17, 2019
Hacking and Malware Cause 75% of all Data Breaches in the Financial Services Industry  Bitglass, the Next-Gen Cloud Security company, today released its 2019 Financial Breach Report: The Financial Matrix. Each ...
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Malware Variety Grows By 13.7% In 2019 Due To Web Skimmers

Malware Variety Grows By 13.7% In 2019 Due To Web Skimmers

December 13, 2019
In 2019, the number of unique malicious objects detected by Kaspersky’s web antivirus solution rose by an eighth, compared to last year — reaching 24,610,126. This growth was mainly influenced ...
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Kevin Mandia, CEO, FireEye

"This is a positive, welcome step towards adding more friction to Russian operations. "

Experts On Russia Being Held Accountable For SolarWinds

Tony Cole, CTO , Attivo Networks

"The impact from all the actions taken by the US government? It’s undetermined at this point in time. "

Experts On Russia Being Held Accountable For SolarWinds

Joseph Carson, Chief Security Scientist & Advisory CISO, Thycotic

"The good news in the statement fact sheet is the part where the US government support a Global Cybersecurity Approach. "

Experts On Russia Being Held Accountable For SolarWinds

Jayant Shukla, CTO and co-founder, K2 Cyber Security

"Virtual patching is a feature of runtime application security solutions like RASP. "

Security Expert Re: NSA Urges Organizations To Patch Top Vulnerabilities Exploited By Russia

Saryu Nayyar, CEO, Gurucul

"The best defense is a full-stack offense which again includes cyber defenses powered by machine learning like security analytics. "

Expert Insights: Dir Nat’l Intelligence Releases Annual Threat Assessment Thursday

Garret F. Grajek, CEO, YouAttest

"My fear as an identity professional for 30 years is that more regulation will occur because of the threat. "

Expert Insights: Dir Nat’l Intelligence Releases Annual Threat Assessment Thursday

Craig Sanderson, VP of Security Products, Infoblox

"These incidents give us an opportunity to take a look at potential prevention steps. "

Expert Advice Developers to Improve Software Security After NAME:WRECK Disclosure

John Smith, Solution Architects EMEA and APAC, Veracode

"The potential impact of exploiting the NAME:WRECK vulnerabilities are substantial, but software flaws are not a new threat for businesses. "

Expert Advice Developers to Improve Software Security After NAME:WRECK Disclosure

Stephen Bradford, SVP EMEA, SailPoint

"When speed trumps security, we’re increasingly exposed to cyber fraud. "

Expert Reaction on Research that Coronavirus Triggering Surge in Cyber Fraud

Chris Strand, Chief Compliance Officer, IntSights

"The DPC was instrumental in enforcing a fine on Twitter when 32.8 million credentials ended up online last year. "

Expert Comment On DPC Facebook Investigation

Jake Moore, Cybersecurity Specialist, ESET

"Apple are likely to have suspected a threat to the hardware if this had got out, hence why it was kept under wraps. "

Apple Quietly Updated Some Of Its Top Hardware Due To Security Risks

Satnam Narang, Senior Research Engineer, Tenable

"We strongly encourage users and organizations alike to ensure they are patching their browsers like Chrome and Edge as soon as possible. "

Security Researcher “Chrome 0day” Tweet – Expert Insight

Steve Forbes, Government Cyber Security Expert, Nominet States

"It is vital that governments pay close attention to the resilience of their critical infrastructures. "

Iran Nuclear Facility Potential Cyber Attack – What Expert Says

Saryu Nayyar, CEO, Gurucul

"The good news is that it appears the only damage is financial, and likely temporary. "

Industry Leaders On Android.Joker Malware

Eddie Glenn, Senior Product Manager, Venafi

"These timestamps indicate that the code signing certificate was valid at the time it was used to sign the code. "

Expert Reaction On Pulse Secure VPN Users Can’t Login Due To Certificate Related Outage

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