Malware

2022 Social Engineering Report

Social engineering is the preeminent component of the overwhelming majority of cyberattacks today. Whether the goal of a threat actor is to directly perpetrate fraud, harvest credentials, or install malware, at some point a human being must be coerced into taking an action on the actors’ behalf. This fact is the basis for Proofpoint’s People-Centric […]

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Threat Report T1 2022

Welcome to the T1 2022 issue of the ESET Threat Report! After more than two years of shielding from a global pandemic, we get a reward: war! Several conflicts are raging in different parts of the world, but for us, this one is different. Right across Slovakia’s eastern borders, where ESET has its HQ and

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2022 Thales Data Threat Report

Two years on, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to dramatically impact IT teams worldwide. The 2022 Thales Global Data Threat Report looked at many aspects of those impacts, with insights found from topics such as ransomware, zero-trust security strategies and cloud data security trends. This report covers respondents based in the APAC region, which we define

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Cloud and Threat Report: Global Cloud and Malware Trends

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In this edition of the Cloud Threat Report, we examine the past twelve months of malware downloads from the cloud and web. Trojans accounted for the overwhelming majority of malware downloads, with attackers using a variety of different Trojan families and social engineering techniques to target their victims. The majority of malware downloads

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Fake e-shops on the prowl for banking credentials using android malware

ESET researchers analyzed three malicious applications targeting customers of eight Malaysian banks The popularity of online shopping has been growing during the past few years, a trend accelerated by the pandemic. To make this already convenient way of never having to leave the couch to buy new things even more convenient, people are increasingly using

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2022 BrightCloud Threat Report

In 2021, many cybersecurity incidents caused experts to shake their heads and left businesses, law enforcement agents and government officials in a state of constant catch-up. Attacks on the supply chain? You bet. The takedown and resurrection of the Emotet botnet? Check. Enhancement of malware techniques to reduce the level of detection on devices? Absolutely.

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PseudoManuscrypt: a mass scale spyware attack campaign

In June 2021, Kaspersky ICS CERT experts identified malware whose loader has some similarities to the Manuscrypt malware, which is part of the Lazarus APT group’s arsenal. In 2020, the group used Manuscrypt in attacks on defense enterprises in different countries. These attacks are described in the report “Lazarus targets defense industry with ThreatNeedle”. Curiously,

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