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Expect attackers to continue refining their tactics for maximizing profits via a grab bag of the same strategies, including forcibly encrypting systems and charging for a decryptor, stealing data and threatening to dump it, creating scary public personae, or a combination of the above. LockBit, which was disrupted this week by law enforcement, is one […]

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The novel variant of the banking Trojan Mispadu is targeting Latin American countries, especially Mexico, by exploiting a flaw in Windows SmartScreen. Researchers at Unit42 found the updated Trojan now exploits a Windows SmartScreen bypass vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-36025 that Microsoft patched in November 2023. Eset first uncovered the Mispadu Stealer in 2019 and detailed […]

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After slightly dipping on the list of the biggest cybersecurity threats for 2023, ransomware rose back to the top, a report from cybersecurity researchers Cisco Talos has claimed. The company’s findings say ransomware rose significantly in Q4 2023, with the education sector now one of the biggest targets. As per the Quarterly Trends report, ransomware […]

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