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Ransomware: Cybercriminals are becoming more professional
Ransomware: Cybercriminals are becoming more professional

Cybercriminals act profit-oriented, as we know from companies, and continue to professionalize and rationalize their attack methods. That's why 2024 will be another year of ransomware. In 2024, we can expect the ransomware industry to become more opportunistic, said Martin Zugec, Technical Solutions Director at Bitdefender. This trend culminated in the CitrixBleed attack in 2023. The security experts at Bitdefender Labs believe that the following trends will dominate ransomware activity this year: 1. Accelerated exploitation of zero-day exploits Cybercriminals who rationally and efficiently use automated scans...

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Free online AI tool identifies social engineering  
Free AI online tool identifies social engineering - AI MS

Social engineering also threatens many employees in companies. The new Bitdefender chatbot service Scamio uses a powerful AI service to detect and verify online fraud attempts across email, text messages, messaging apps and social media. Bitdefender has introduced Scamio, a free service to detect attempted scams. The service is intended to help users verify fraudulent online offers via email, embedded links, text and instant messaging by working with a chatbot based on artificial intelligence. Detecting Social Engineering with Scamio The extent of online fraud continues to increase every year. A report from the Federal Trade Commission…

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Cyberattacks: These four industries are the main targets
Cyberattacks: These four industries are the main targets

Healthcare, financial services, manufacturing companies, software-as-a-service and software providers are the industries that are most often the involuntary recipients of current malware campaigns. All areas of the economy and society are undergoing fundamental change. The long-term mission of digital transformation is accompanied by current challenges such as the pandemic and its consequences as well as the war in Ukraine. Politicians are responding to increased risk situations with new and stricter IT guidelines for an expanded circle of those affected. Even though companies of all sizes and industries are currently experiencing a sharp increase in hacker attacks, cybercriminals have different intentions behind these incidents. For all target groups…

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Hunters International – the new Hive on the ransomware stage
Hunters International - the new Hive on the ransomware stage

The new group “Hunters International” describes itself as the successor to the HIVE ransomware gangsters. An analysis of the ransomware code confirms this and shows how the criminals have improved their malware attacks. Hunters International is at the beginning of its activities with first victims in Germany, Great Britain, the United States of America and Namibia. The Hive group was exposed in January 2023 as the result of a concerted effort by the FBI, the BKA, the Reutlingen police headquarters and Dutch authorities. Hive's victims included 1.500 hospitals, school boards, financial services and other organizations whose information the attackers exposed. Hive…

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MDR services including penetration testing and red teaming
MDR services including penetration testing and red teaming

Bitdefender today introduced its new Bitdefender Offensive Services. The new offering is aimed at identifying, proactively assessing and resolving security gaps in a company's IT through penetration testing and simulated red team attacks. The offering addresses both on-premises, cloud and hybrid cloud environments. Bitdefender Offensive Services complement Bitdefender's Managed Detection and Response (MDR) portfolio, providing organizations with proactive services and means to strengthen their IT environments, reduce risk while meeting regulatory or compliance requirements such as SOC 2 , HIPAA, GLBA, FISMA, PCI-DSS, NIS2 and ISO 27001 - and all this with...

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Darknet server of drug shop Piilopuoti seized
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In a concerted action with other international authorities, Finnish customs confiscated the server of the Finnish darknet drug marketplace “Piilopuoti” and is starting data and “customer” evaluation. Finnish customs, in cooperation with foreign authorities, confiscated the “Piilopuoti” web server and seized the contents of the server. The web server had been operating on the Tor network since 2022. The Finnish-language website where vendors sold narcotics went live on May 18, 2022. It operated as a hidden service in the encrypted Tor network. The site was used for anonymous criminal activities and as a platform for…

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Hospitality industry: Attacks on booking platform
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Cybercriminals stole the credit card details, personal information and passwords of customers of the restaurant booking platform IRM-NG. Bitdefender has published the latest research results from a cyber criminal campaign currently underway on the IRM-NG booking platform used in the hotel and hospitality industry. The attackers use vulnerabilities in the platform in combination with backdoors and techniques to bypass password validation on the end device and thus steal credit card data, passwords and customers' personal data. Security gap still exists Bitdefender has not received any response from the manufacturer Resort Data Processing (RDP) to its information for months. The vulnerability still exists and…

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Even Apple hardware isn't secure per se
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Bitdefender Labs has evaluated global data on the threat level for macOS systems: Apple hardware is also a target for hackers. The results of the 2022 global telemetry numbers show that Apple hardware is targeted by cybercriminals, although to a lesser extent than Windows devices. The more widely used Windows or Android devices are more attractive to hackers. The results show: macOS hardware is not inherently secure. Top risks included Trojans at 51,8%, Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUA) at 25,3% and adware at 22,6%. 18 percent of all attacks...

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Hackers promote fake websites on search engines 
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Since May 2023, security experts have been monitoring a campaign by hackers who use online ads to lure their victims to fake websites. The Bitdefender Labs experts are aware of references to supposed websites of well-known services such as AnyDeks, WinSCP, Cisco AnyConnect, Slack and TreeSize. In recent years, hackers have increasingly targeted customers and businesses with infected software promoted via advertisements. The recipe is simple: cybercriminal groups set up fake websites for highly interesting software and promote them through advertisements at the top of the results page. It only takes one search and one click to…

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Security: mood among IT managers in medium-sized companies

When it comes to cybersecurity, the mood among IT managers in upper German medium-sized companies is cautiously optimistic. 69 percent plan to spend more money on IT security. 98 percent are confident they have tools, strategies and money for IT security. The 2023 Cybersecurity Assessment Report presented by Bitdefender not only paints a global picture of the cybersecurity situation. The survey of 400 IT and cybersecurity experts from IT manager to CISO in companies with 1.000 or more employees in the USA, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain shows: Even in a European comparison, decision-makers in…

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