Browsing the "malware" Tag

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Hacker

Hackers attacked businesses 22m times in the last seven days globally

22 Apr Malware attacks comprised 63% of hacking attempts

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Cybercriminal group mails malicious USB dongles to targeted companies

30 Mar Recent attack is the first known use of the BadUSB exploit in the wild

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Malware

How to prevent scripting attacks in Microsoft Office

26 Feb Rise in phishing attempts requires another look at your Microsoft Office settings to minimise the risk of a user executing a malicious script

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Shield

Ireland most cybersecure country in Europe – report

25 Feb Machines in the Netherlands are most likely to encounter cybercrimes

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Hacker

Hackers target industrial sector with free tools in new APT campaign

18 Dec Attackers seek to make attribution harder and use sophisticated, realistic spear-phishing emails

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WatchGuard: Equifax breach vulnerability surfaces as top network attack

12 Dec New research highlights an increase in malware and network attacks as zero-day malware accounts for 50% of all detections

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Python

Malicious Python libraries discovered in repository

6 Dec Malware purporting to be Python libraries now routinely shows up on PyPI

Life

Web payment card skimmers add anti-forensics capabilities

15 Nov The newly discovered Pipka script can delete itself from a website after execution, making it very difficult to detect

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Hacker

How much does it cost to launch a cyber-attack?

13 Nov What CISOs needs to know about cyber-crime markets

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Palo Alto Networks discovers first-of-its-kind cryptojacking worm on Docker

16 Oct 2,000 Docker engines were insecurely exposed

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Cobalt criminal group suspected of Magecart skimming attacks

7 Oct Researchers link Magecart-based skimming attacks to Cobalt (aka Carbanak), whose cyber attacks have netted millions of dollars

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Malware

Triton intrusion discovered at second industrial facility

11 Apr The attack targets controllers that perform critical safety functions within industrial plants

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Cryptocurrency

Cyber criminals increasingly favouring ‘low and slow’ stealth attacks

20 Mar A new generation of malware sits quietly to steal resources for cryptomining, warns Darktrace

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Slack

Hackers use Slack to hide malware communications

12 Mar Watering hole attack used to avoid network and endpoint detection

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Cyber security

Fujitsu’s cyber threat intel service

9 Aug Identification and mitigation service leverages Cylance tech

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Computer network breach or botnet

Recent cyberattacks show worrying trends

8 Mar From virtual bank heists to semi-open attacks from nation-states, the last couple of years has been rough in IT security

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Inteligence

How to spot vendor AI-washing

28 Feb Some vendors claim AI or ML tech in offerings are really using rules-based engines, experts warn

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Spectre Meltdown

Malware exploiting Meltdown and Spectre found

9 Feb AV testing firm AV-TEST has found 139 malware samples exploiting the vulnerabilities — most are not really functional

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Cisco ETA solves key cybersecurity issue

11 Jan Encrypted Traffic Analysis addresses one of the biggest pain points in the cybersecurity industry — finding malware in encrypted traffic

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Mobile threat defence moves to threat detection

27 Nov It is time to add MTD to the Enterprise Mobile Management toolkit