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Learn about today’s top cybersecurity threats. These security threats have been identified and analyzed by our threat research team as the most impactful threats today. These include threats to network security, information security, and more. Click on a specific threat to learn about how to best protect your business.
The bitcoin-stealing phishing campaign targets bitcoin users and global financial organizations with malicious documents that pretend to be for job recruitment.
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This campaign targets a wide range of sectors across the globe to steal sensitive information. The operation uses trojanized Android apps as the primary attack vector.
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Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3, Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2, Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1, and Microsoft Office 2016 allow an attacker to run arbitrary code in the context of the current user by failing to properly handle objects in memory, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability.”
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This ever-evolving ransomware targets Windows users and does not infect computers using the Russian language. The malware encrypts files located in multiple locations including local and remote drives, removable drives, mapped drives, and unmapped network shares.
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RIG is spread via suspicious advertisements that have been inserted into legitimate websites. The VIP version of the exploit kit, RIG-v, appeared in 2016 and uses new URL patterns.
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