Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2020

The world of cybercrime is changing, and more and more malware variants have spread every day. There seems to be a new stealer in town called #TroyStealer , targeting Portuguese internet users EXE: [link] Exfil email address: domionhuby@gmail.com Has anyone seen this threat before? /cc Figure 5: TroyStealer malware high flow diagram.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 25, 2022

XorDDoS, a Linux Trojan known for its modularity and stealth, was first discovered in 2014 by the white hat research group, MalwareMustDie (MMD). Based on a case study in 2015 , Akamai strengthened the theory that the malware may be of Asian origin based on its targets. MMD believed the Linux Trojan originated in China.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Malware has infected roughly a third of the world’s computers , costing companies across the globe trillions of dollars each year. Millions of websites across the internet also contain vulnerabilities that make them easy targets. But first we’ll answer a basic question: What is malware? A Brief History of Malware.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

But that story omitted an important historical detail about Pushwoosh: In 2013, one of its developers admitted to authoring the Pincer Trojan , malware designed to surreptitiously intercept and forward text messages from Android mobile devices. ” wherein Shmakov acknowledged writing the malware as a freelance project.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The FBI’s Internal Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released the FBI 2019 Internet Crime Report , a document that outlines cybercrime trends over the past year. Here we are to analyze the annual FBI 2019 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) , one of the most interesting documents on the crime trends observed in the last 12 months.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

According to the report “A resurgence of RAM scraping malware is the most prominent tactical development in 2013,” the same tactic used in the giant Target breach. According to the report “Web applications remain the proverbial punching bag of the Internet.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The Mylobot malware includes more than 1,000 hard-coded and encrypted domain names, any one of which can be registered and used as control networks for the infected hosts. BitSight researchers found significant overlap in the Internet addresses used by those domains and a domain called BHproxies[.]com. million from private investors.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2022

Experts pointed out that the malware is being actively developed. Gafgyt is a popular choice for launching large-scale DDoS attacks, it first appeared in the threat landscape in 2014. The malware can quickly adopt one-day vulnerabilities (within days of a published proof of concept).” LFI CVE-2018-16763 Fuel CMS 1.4.1

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Traditional anti-malware research relies on customer systems but what if a particular malware wasn’t on the same platform as your solution software? éveillé from ESET joins The Hacker Mind podcast to talk about the challenges of building his own internet scanner to scan for elusive malware. That's over 3.7

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2020

Attackers could leverage a compromised identifier to use mobile Internet at the legitimate user’s expense and carry out fraud and impersonation, Attackers can also hijack user session data containing relevant identifiers (e.g., phone number) of a real subscriber and impersonate him to access the Internet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released reports on North Korea-linked HIDDEN COBRA malware. Each report includes a detailed “malware descriptions, suggested response actions, and recommended mitigation techniques.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2020

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT Group has used a new multi-platform malware framework, dubbed MATA, to target entities worldwide. The MATA malware framework could target Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems. The malware framework implements a wide range of features that allow attackers to fully control the infected systems.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2020

An attacker could use $300 worth of off-the-shelf equipment to eavesdrop and intercept signals from satellite internet communications. The academic researcher James Pavur, speaking at Black Hat 2020 hacking conference , explained that satellite internet communications are susceptible to eavesdropping and signal interception.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

US and UK cybersecurity agencies issued a joint advisory about the spread of QSnatch Data-Stealing Malware that already infected over 62,000 QNAP NAS devices. The QSnatch malware implements multiple functionalities, such as: . The experts were alerted about the malware in October and immediately launched an investigation.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2021

A new variant of the Mirai botnet, tracked as Moobot, was spotted scanning the Internet for vulnerable Tenda routers. Researchers from AT&T Alien Lab have spotted a new variant of the Mirai botnet, tracked asu Moobot, which was scanning the Internet for the CVE-2020-10987 remote code-execution (RCE) issue in Tenda routers.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2019

GreyNoise is observing sweeping tests for systems vulnerable to the RDP "BlueKeep" (CVE-2019-0708) vulnerability from several dozen hosts around the Internet. BlueKeep is a wormable flaw that can be exploited by malware authors to create malicious code with WannaCry capabilities. Graham added. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

China-linked hackers carried out cyber espionage campaigns targeting governments, corporations, and think tanks with TAIDOOR malware. “CISA encourages users and administrators to review Malware Analysis Report MAR-10292089-1.v1 “CISA encourages users and administrators to review Malware Analysis Report MAR-10292089-1.v1

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2020

Hackers are conducting a mass-scanning the Internet for vulnerable Salt installs that could allow them to hack the organizations, the last victim is the Ghost blogging platform. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Facebook shared details about a long-running ad-fraud campaign that’s been ongoing since 2016 targeting Facebook users with SilentFade malware. The social network giant revealed that malware has a Chinese origin and allowed hackers to siphon $4 million from users’ advertising accounts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2020

Last week, the popular security researcher MalwareMustDie and the experts at Intezer Labs spotted a new piece of malware dubbed Kaiji, that is targeting IoT devices via SSH brute-force attacks. The malicious code was designed to target Linux-based servers and Internet of Things (IoT) devices and use them as part of a DDoS botnet.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2020

The Taiwanese vendor QNAP urges its users to update the Malware Remover app following the alert on the QSnatch malware. The Taiwanese company QNAP is urging its users to update the Malware Remover app to prevent NAS devices from being infected by the QSnatch malware. Webshell functionality for remote access.

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2020

Hackers have been scanning the Internet for SAP systems affected by RECON vulnerability, researchers from Bad Packets warn. Researchers from Bad Packets reported that threat actors have been scanning the Internet for SAP systems affected by RECON vulnerability , , tracked as CVE-2020-6287. Pierluigi Paganini. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

After 2 years of waiting, MalwareMustDie returns with an excellent page of malware analysis of a new IoT malware: Linux/AirDropBot. The beginning of the story: another IoT malware in the wild? One of them, for example , is the C2 server. The C2 of the botnet was: 147.135.174.119.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Raccoon Malware is a recently discovered infostealer that can extract sensitive data from about 60 applications on a targeted system. Racoon malware , Legion, Mohazo, and Racealer, is an infostealer that recently appeared in the threat landscape that is advertised in hacking forums. ” reads the report published by CyberArk.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The malware used in the Target breach included the text string “ Rescator ,” which also was the handle chosen by the cybercriminal who was selling all of the cards stolen from Target customers. Rescator, advertising a new batch of cards stolen in a 2014 breach at P.F. 18, 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that U.S.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2019

A still ongoing spam campaign that has been active during the last months has been distributing the Redaman banking malware. Experts at Palo Alto Networks continue to monitor an ongoing spam campaign that has been distributing the Redaman banking malware. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2023

Denis Emelyantsev , a 36-year-old Russian man accused of running a massive botnet called RSOCKS that stitched malware into millions of devices worldwide, pleaded guilty to two counts of computer crime violations in a California courtroom this week. A copy of the passport for Denis Emelyantsev, a.k.a. Image: archive.org.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2024

A new variant of TheMoon malware infected thousands of outdated small office and home office (SOHO) routers and IoT devices worldwide. The activity of the TheMoon botnet was first spotted in 2014, and since 2017 its operators added to the code of the bot at least 6 IoT device exploits.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Over the past 10 days, someone has been launching a series of coordinated attacks designed to disrupt Trickbot , an enormous collection of more than two million malware-infected Windows PCs that are constantly being harvested for financial data and are often used as the entry point for deploying ransomware within compromised organizations.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Security experts recently found notable malware activity affecting devices running Linux that is associated with the Momentum Botnet. Malware researchers from Trend Micro recently observed notable malware activity affecting devices running Linux that is associated with the Momentum Botnet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2019

Cloud Atlas threat actors used a new piece of polymorphic malware in recent attacks against government organizations. The Cloud Atlas cyberespionage group, aka Inception, continues to carry out attacks against government organizations and was observed using a new piece of polymorphic malware dubbed VBShower. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

A new threat actor tracked as TA2101 is conducting malware campaigns using email to impersonate government agencies in the United States, Germany, and Italy. Another campaign observed by ProofPoint aimed at German users impersonating the German internet service provider 1&1 Internet AG. ” concludes Proofpoint.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

The Fbot malware was first discovered by 360Netlab researchers, according to the experts, the root problem might be a specific OEM application running on top of the HiSilicon devices. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning of a notable increase in the use of LokiBot malware by threat actors since July 2020. The Agency’s EINSTEIN Intrusion Detection System has detected persistent malicious activity associated with the LokiBot malware. ” reads the CISA’s advisory. .”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2019

British malware researcher Marcus Hutchins has pleaded guilty to developing and sharing the banking malware between July 2014 and July 2015. The popular British cybersecurity expert Marcus Hutchins has pleaded guilty to developing and sharing the Kronos banking malware between July 2014 and July 2015.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2019

Avast spotted a new strain of Clipsa malware that is used to mine and steal cryptocurrencies along with carrying out brute-force attacks on WordPress sites. Clipsa is a malware that is well known to cyber security community is able to steal cryptocurrency via clipoard hijacking and mine cryptocurrency after installing a miner. .

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Malwarebytes

JULY 28, 2021

remember Sydney being referred to as “The Internet Olympics”. All of a sudden we have infectious email attachments, and compromised third-party sites serving up malware. The London Olympics—the one where James Bond and the definitely real Queen jumped out of a helicopter —was a massive splash of malicious activity in internet terms.

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