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IBM X-Force researchers report an increase in HawkEye v9 keylogger infection campaigns targeting businesses around the world.
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Per X-Force IRIS, at least 22 percent of reported campaigns in April 2019 delivered macro malware. What methods can defenders leverage to help detect malicious macro activity?
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X-Force researchers observed attackers targeting multinational corporations in various sectors using malicious scripts to automate attacks on misconfigured servers.
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IBM X-Force researchers observed cybercriminals engaging in three tax-themed malware campaigns likely aimed at businesses but with the potential to spread to consumers as well.
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IBM X-Force found a zero-day buffer overflow vulnerability in one of the most common routers on the market that could let malicious third parties take control of the device from a remote location.
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X-Force data revealed that while browser-based cryptojacking was increasingly popular through most of 2018, cryptomining malware made a resurgence at the end of 2018 and into Q1 2019.
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IBM X-Force analyzed modifications made to IcedID that help the banking Trojan act more stealthily on infected devices.
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In 2018, IBM X-Force researchers observed organized cybercrime groups collaborating, rather than competing over turf or even attacking each other, for the first time.
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According to IBM X-Force IRIS research, threat actors will continue to search for ways to leverage Spectre, Meltdown and other hardware vulnerabilities to steal data in the coming years.
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Cybercriminals made a lot of noise in 2017 with ransomware attacks like WannaCry and NotPetya, using an in-your-face approach to cyberattacks that netted them millions of dollars from victims. But new research from IBM X-Force, the threat intelligence, research and incident response arm of IBM Security, revealed that 2018 saw a rapid decline in ransomware […]
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