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What commercial spyware is, and what different types there are | Kaspersky official blog

March 21, 2024 admin Business, cyberattacks, enterprise, Exploits, Pegasus, spyware, SURVEILLANCE, Threats, vulnerabilities, zero-click

Credit to Author: Alanna Titterington| Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 19:43:39 +0000

We discuss commercial spyware — particularly the capabilities of the most well-known instances: Pegasus, DevilsTongue, Predator, Subzero, Heliconia, and Reign.

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What is a zero-click exploit? | Kaspersky official blog

November 15, 2023 admin Business, cyberattacks, enterprise, Exploits, Security, spyware, Threats, tracking, Updates, vulnerabilities, zero-click

Credit to Author: Alanna Titterington| Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 16:33:32 +0000

Zero-click exploits are attacks that don’t require any active user actions. We explain why they’re dangerous and how to defend against them.

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Recent Teams, Office outages were caused by cyberattacks: Microsoft

June 19, 2023 admin cyberattacks, ddos, microsoft

Microsoft has confirmed that recent outages to its popular services, including Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, and cloud computing platform Azure, were caused by a DDoS attack by a threat actor that the company tracks as Storm-1359.

Also known as Anonymous Sudan, Storm-1359 was first detected in January, targeting organizations and government agencies with DDoS attacks and efforts to exfiltrate data. The threat actor was initially assumed to be a “hacktivist” group protesting a controversial outfit at the Melbourne Fashion Week but has since been linked to the Russian state, according to several media reports.

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The Active Adversary Playbook 2022

June 7, 2022 admin active adversary, artifacts, attack tools, cobalt strike, cryptomining, cyberattacks, cyberthreats, dwell time, exploit, Featured, initial access broker, malware delivery system, MITRE, proxylogon, proxyshell, ransomware, Ransomware as a Service, security operations, sophos rapid response, Vulnerability

Credit to Author: Tilly Travers| Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2022 11:02:43 +0000

Cyberattacker behaviors, tactics and tools seen on the frontline of incident response during 2021

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How Russia’s invasion of Ukraine affected the cyber threat landscape

March 30, 2022 admin cyberattacks

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last month and consequential sanctions against the Kremlin, the threat of cyberattacks in the U.S. and abroad has been looming. While the threat of attacks on critical infrastructure has increased, it hasn’t escalated to the all-out cyberwar that some were expecting. CSO Online senior writer Lucian Constantin joins Juliet to discuss how the cyber threat landscape has evolved as a result of the war in Ukraine and what organizations can do to increase their cyber incident defenses. For more on this topic, check out this article from CSO Online: Conti gang says it's ready to hit critical infrastructure in support of Russian government: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3651498/conti-gang-says-its-ready-to-hit-critical-infrastructure-in-support-of-russian-government.html

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Dispelling the Myths Surrounding Operations Technology (OT) Network Cybersecurity

February 20, 2020 admin Cyber Security, cyberattacks, cybersecurity, IT Management, operational technology, ot network

Credit to Author: Michael Pyle| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 13:00:41 +0000

According to Microsoft, the annual damage caused by cybercrime is expected to reach $6 trillion by 2021, up from $3 trillion in 2015. This number includes significant increases in attacks… Read more »

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Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 125

January 16, 2020 admin cryptographic, cyberattacks, news, podcast, vulnerabilities, windows

Credit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 09:56:34 +0000

On this podcast, Dave and Jeff discuss Windows 7’s end of life, a bug in the Windows CryptoAPI revealed by the NSA, Las Vegas hit with a cyberattack, and more.

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