In Edition No. 135 of Internet Security Week , Cyberrsecurity Scenario Report in Brazilian companies, Brazil is the main origin of the longest attack of history, 80% of piracy sites display malicious ads and much more.
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80% of piracy sites display dangerous ads to visitors
Access to piracy websites is often cited by experts as a risk to users, and now research has quantified this risk. According to a survey by Digital Citizens Alliance (digital citizens), 80% of such domains exhibit dangerous advertisements to visitors, with one in six visits exposing users to download malware.
By Felipe Demartini in Canaltech
Lazarus Group hacked power companies around the world
A malicious campaign led by the North Korean group Lazarus affected energy suppliers around the world between February and July this year. The campaign was partially released by Symantec and Ahnlab in April and May, respectively, but Cisco Talos is now providing more details about the attack.
In Ciso Advisor
A vulnerability of zoom and the war between hackers and developers
In March 2020, when the whole world was just beginning to deal with remote work, a vulnerability was discovered in the Zoom installation package - one of the world's leading remote communication tools - allowing arbitrary code execution on Apple computers. Zoom has corrected vulnerability… more or less.
By Enoch Root in Kaspersky Daily
Report presents current scenario of cybersecurity in Brazilian companies
Eset Security Report presents information about the current digital security scenario in the corporate world, such as increasing phishing attacks, increasingly targeted ransomware cases and growth in threat detections aimed at Android devices.
By Francisco suede in We Live Security
Financial technology company suffered data leakage from 50 thousand users
Founded in 2015, Revolution is a rapidly growing financial technology company, now offering banking, money management and investment to customers worldwide.
By Bill Toulas in Bleeping Computer
Data theft spyware disguised as a bank reward application on Android
Malware, which can be remotely controlled by evildoers after infecting a device. According to reports, an updated version of Android software was first discovered in 2021.
By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle in The Register
Brazil is the main origin of one of the longest attacks in history
One of the longest denial attacks in history was recorded last June, when a Chinese telephone operator was the target of a very high volume of requests for more than four hours. Brazil even had a negative participation in this record, being the third country with the largest number of contaminated devices, behind the US and Indonesia.
By Felipe Demartini in Canaltech
VMware and Microsoft warn of new Chromeloader attacks
VMware and Microsoft are warning of the emergence of a continuous and widespread campaign of Chromeloader malware that has evolved into a more dangerous threat, now viewing malicious browser extensions, Node-Webkit malware and even ransomware in some cases.
In Ciso Advisor
Leaving the oven: a new study on “the nature of cybercidents”
Most of the time, by 2021, invaders tried to attack the infrastructure of companies by exploring vulnerabilities in widely available applications (in 53.6% of cases). In 17.9% of cases, they used previously committed credentials, and at 14.3%-malicious emails.
In Kaspersky Daily
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