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The COVID-19 pandemic changed many aspects of how businesses operate, remote work being one of the most significant. At the outbreak’s peak, 71% of American workers telecommuted at least part-time, 62% of whom rarely worked remotely before. This shift has impacted many industries, but the legal sector faces more disruption than most. Legal work rarely happened over telecommunication services before the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, more than 80% of law firms have transitioned to working remotely…

The malware landscape is growing more complex by the minute, which means that no device under your family’s roof—be it Android, iPhone, PC, or Mac—is immune to an outside attack. This reality makes it possible that one or more of your devices may have already been infected. But would you know it?  Ho Ho Ho, Merry Hackmas  According to 2021 statistics from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), the number of data breaches reported has soared by 17 percent…

The malware landscape is growing more complex by the minute, which means that no device under your family’s roof—be it Android, iPhone, PC, or Mac—is immune to an outside attack. This reality makes it possible that one or more of your devices may have already been infected. But would you know it?  Ho Ho Ho, Merry Hackmas  According to 2021 statistics from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), the number of data breaches reported has soared by 17 percent…

Security researchers analyzed 700 incidents to understand the economics of these threats as well as what bargaining tactics work. Image: Rzt_Moster/Shutterstock Be polite during negotiations, ask for more time and always request a test file for decryption. Those are a few of the best practices for dealing with a ransomware attack, according to a new analysis of 700 incidents.  Pepijn Hack, cybersecurity analyst, Fox-IT, NCC Group and Zong-Yu Wu, threat analyst, Fox-IT,  NCC Group wrote…

Cybersecurity professionals are unsurprised by the apparent return of Emotet malware.  First discovered as a banking trojan in 2014, the malware evolved into a powerful tool deployed by cyber-criminals around the world to illegally access computer systems.  The malware’s creators — APT group TA542 — hired Emotet out to other cyber-criminals, who used it to install malware, such as banking trojans or ransomware, onto victims’ computers. Emotet’s botnet infrastructure was dismantled in January as part of a…

Ethical hackers have prevented $27bn worth of cybercrime during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research by California crowdsourced cybersecurity platform Bugcrowd. The finding was part of Bugcrowd’s latest annual Inside the Mind of a Hacker report, which was published today. The research is based on the analysis of survey responses and security research conducted on the platform from May 1, 2020, to August 31, 2021, in addition to millions of proprietary data points collected on vulnerabilities…

The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: APT, Data breach, Data leak, Malspam, Phishing, and Vulnerabilities. The IOCs related to these stories are attached to Anomali Cyber Watch and can be used to check your logs for potential malicious activity. Figure 1 – IOC Summary Charts. These charts summarize the IOCs attached to this magazine and provide a glimpse of the threats discussed. Trending Cyber…