TG Soft Cyber Security Specialist will actively participate in the ECSM European Union campaign held throughout October to promote awareness among citizens of cyber threats and methods to counter them, to change their perception of cyber risks, and to provide up-to-date information on cyber protection and cybersecurity.
The ECSM is organized by the European agency ENISA, with a variety of activities in all EU member countries.
Once again this year, the European Cyber Security Month will be supported in Italy by Clusit together with a variety of organizations, Universities and Research Centers, and in agreement with the Superior Institute of Communications and Information Technology of the Ministry of Economic Development (ISCOM).
October has been crowned Europe-wide as the month of CYBER SECURITY, and throughout Europe there are many events, conferences, conventions, aimed at informing and raising awareness of cybersecurity issues.
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TG Soft will support the European Cyber Security Month ECSM 2020 with various initiatives.
- HAVEiBeenEMOTET... the new Threat-Intelligence portal that lets you know whether an e-mail address or domain has been used in MalSpam campaigns to spread EMOTET...
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TG Soft Cyber Security Specialist, a CLUSIT member, also participates in the ECSM by promoting cyber security, both in terms of awareness and with concrete tools made available to the public .
In order to maintain a constant and updated attention and information on the threats really circulating in our country, our AntiMalware Research Center periodically publishes research on
malspam attacks with
weekly analysis in addition to the monthly
Cyber-Threat report of viruses&malware in Italy. Moreover every month we publish a report on the most common
Phishing attempts and we make available a free protection tool through the distribution of
Vir.IT eXplorer Lite, the AntiVirus-AntiSpyware-AntiMalware for all.
HAVEiBeenEMOTET to know if your e-mail has been used to spread MalSpam with EMOTET...
Since Oct. 1, 2020, TG Soft's C.R.A.M. has developed and launched HAVEiBeenEMOTET a new portal that allows people to tell if an e-mail address or domain has been hacked and/or attacked by EMOTET.
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This portal is progressively increased by TG Soft's Anti-Malware Research Center researchers with e-mail addresses used in MalSpam campaigns to spread EMOTET...
Between August and September 2020,
TG Soft researchers collected more than 2.5 million e-mail addresses which involve, unknowingly, more than 250 thousand domains used by EMOTET in various MalSpam campaigns used to spread this Trojan-Dropper-Downloader and spyware.
Check the News "
HAVEiBeenEMOTET portal to find out wether a mailbox has been used in malware campaigns to spread EMOTET!"
Friday, September 25, 2020 4:30 pm ==> Divulgative/educational webinar on "Vir.IT eXplorer PRO"
Divulgative/educational workshop to be held on Friday, September 25 at 4:30 pm organized by ibabbo 2.0 with the moderation of Eng. Gian Luca Manzi.
We will talk about the ITALIAN Vir.IT eXplorer PRO the AntiVirus, AntiSpyware, AntiMalware and AntiRansomware Crytpo-Malware protection.
Speakers will be the Analysts and Researchers of the AntiMalware Research Center (C.R.A.M.).by TG Soft Cyber Security Specialist. |
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The Vir.IT eXplorer PRO online event is included in the Italian program of information security month events coordinated by CLUSIT.
Don't miss the meeting, more information and registration at
Event site!!
Ransomware attacks with remote desktop access (RDP)... here are some useful tips to protect your PCs/Servers.
Sometimes business needs (and too much haste to achieve goals) can distract from what has become a global and unavoidable issue today:
INFORMATION SECURITY.
More and more users need technologies that allow them to work and access data and programs remotely. In particular, because of the spread of
CLOUD systems and to the Covid-19 health emergency, many working realities have had to reorganize their working ways by introducing SMARTWORKING. These needs expose to cyber attacks by CyberCriminals.
In fact attacks persist with remote desktop access (
RDP) to PCs/Servers to convey
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Ransomware/CryptoMalware suitable for encrypting files for ransom purposes.
RDP protocol (Remote Desktop Protocol) is a remote management protocol developed by Microsoft and found in all Windows® Operating Systems used for remote PC/Server management that, if not configured properly, can be exploited as a point of attack. |
The analysis carried out by TG Soft's C.R.A.M. found that in these types of attacks, gross errors are often made in the configuration of the affected machines that help the success of the attack. We invite you to follow the advice of our technical experts=>
Ransomware attacks with RDP access breaches continue.
Weekly report of Italian malspam campaigns by TG Soft's C.R.A.M.
Our
C.R.A.M. (AntiMalware Research Center) at TG Soft analyzes the malspam campaigns actually circulating in Italy on a weekly basis
Cyber-Threat monthly report of cyber attacks in Italy
C.R.A.M. (Anti-Malware Research Center) publishes monthly statistics of actually circulating viruses/malware that have attacked users'/customers' PCs/SERVERs.TG Soft, because of its Anti-Virus/Anti-Malware Center (C.R.A.M) and special expertise, has been acknowledged by Microsoft and, as such, included as an active member and participant in the program Virus Information Alliance.
The Virus Information Alliance (VIA) is an Anti-Malware collaboration program reserved for security software vendors, security service providers, Anti-Malware testing organizations, and other organizations involved in the fight against cybercrime.
VIA program members collaborate through the exchange of technical information on malicious software with Microsoft, with the goal of improving the protection of customers/users of Microsoft OSs. Therefore, all data processed in numerical and graphical form, follow and are subject to EIA protocol specifications. In this way virus/malware spread data are processed uniformly, according to Microsoft's existing guidelines developed since 2006. |
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