Cyber crime has skyrocketed by more than 400%.

Bitdefender reveals cyber crimes soared more than 400% from Iranian wartime opportunism

The war has always brought turmoil and opportunism, and this time with the Iranian war, it can be called opportunism - politics, prices, cyber security.

According to a report by the B2B website, Cyber Security has discussed the situation of the famous antivirus software developer Bitdefender in the Gulf Counties, a Muslim group that has had a strong relationship with Iran, with an average of 130% more attacks than before the war, and during the peak of the war, it showed a 400% spike in attacks. But Bitdefender said that the attack, when verified, predicted that it might not have come directly from the Iranian authorities, but rather from the opportunistic hackers. Hackers) during the war, because the attacks are primarily focused on the business part, such as the use of phishing scams through e-mail, claiming to be loan contracts, and financial agreements to trick victims into getting caught up in malware.

In addition, on the part of malware, Bitdefender found that hackers are headed to use every weapon available - RAT or Remote Access Trojan malware, Fileless with Multi-Stage embedded malware via PowerShell. These malware are embedded in fake files claimed to come from partners or financial institutions as mentioned above. There is also a scam to download fake applications disguised as harmless applications to be used as intermediaries for malware release by certain malware when Log in to the victim's machine, it will create a task schedule that will be re-run every 30 minutes to guarantee that the malware will be persistent on the victim's machine at all times (even with a reboot, allowing it to be embedded on the system for a long time).

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