Technical remedies alone will fall to stop the rising proliferation of advanced spyware, members of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee heard today. Once only a handful of companies worldwide specialized in mobile device malware sophisticated enough to get around security protections built by Apple and Google, said John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at The Citizen […]
QNAP Systems is warning about Checkmate, a new piece of ransomware targeting users of its network-attached storage (NAS) appliances. “Preliminary investigation indicates that Checkmate attacks via SMB services exposed to the internet, and employs a dictionary attack to break accounts with weak passwords,” the company says. “Once the attacker successfully logs in to a device, […]
Kaspersky experts conducted an in-depth analysis of the tactics, techniques, and procedures of the eight most common ransomware groups — Conti/Ryuk, Pysa, Clop, Hive, Lockbit2.0, RagnarLocker, BlackByte, and BlackCat. Comparing the methods and tools of attackers at different stages of attacks, they concluded that many groups operate rather similarly. This permits creation of effective universal […]
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