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A Show of (Brute) Force: Crysis Ransomware Found Targeting Australian and New Zealand Businesses

  • Posted on:September 19, 2016 at 4:17 am
  • Posted in:Ransomware
  • Author:
    Jon Oliver (Senior Architect)
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Crysis (detected by Trend Micro as RANSOM_CRYSIS.A), a ransomware family first detected in February this year, has been spotted targeting businesses in Australia in New Zealand through remote desktop protocol (RDP) brute force attacks.

Crysis has been reported in early June this year to have set its sights into carving a market share left by TeslaCrypt when the latter’s developers decided to shut down their operations, and rivaling Locky’s prevalence in the ransomware threat landscape.

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Tags: brute force attacksCrysisRDPremote desktop protocol

Joomla and WordPress Sites Under Constant Attack From Botnets

  • Posted on:September 5, 2013 at 12:58 pm
  • Posted in:Bad Sites
  • Author:
    Philippe Lin (Senior Threat Researcher)
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Compromised websites are part of many attacks online. They can be used to host a variety of threats, ranging from simple spam pages, to redirection pages, to actual malicious files. We recently came across a case that highlighted the scale of this threat. A backdoor (detected as BKDR_FIDOBOT.A), was being used to brute-force many WordPress…

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Tags: brute force attacksjoomlaWordpress

Brute-Force WordPress Attacks Affect Thousands of Sites

  • Posted on:April 22, 2013 at 3:08 pm
  • Posted in:Bad Sites
  • Author:
    Karla Agregado (Fraud Analyst)
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In the past few weeks, many WordPress blogs have been under a large-scale brute force attack. These attacks use brute-force techniques to log into WordPress dashboards and plant malicious code onto compromised blogs and websites. It’s important to note what these attacks aren’t. They are not compromising WordPress blogs using known vulnerabilities in unpatched versions; if…

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Tags: blogbrute force attackscompromised websitessecurityWordpress

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  • Our security predictions for 2019 are based on our experts’ analysis of the progress of current and emerging technologies, user behavior, and market trends, and their impact on the threat landscape. We have categorized them according to the main areas that are likely to be affected, given the sprawling nature of the technological and sociopolitical changes under consideration.
    Read our security predictions for 2019.

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