eSecurity Planet

JULY 13, 2023

Talos researcher Chris Neal discussed how the security problem evolved in a blog post. The tools are FuckCertVerifyTimeValidity, which was launched in 2018; and HookSignTool, available since 2019. “Microsoft, in response to our notification, has blocked all certificates discussed in this blog post,” he noted. .”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The experts initially detected the specially-crafted PDF files in December 2018. “Since late December 2018, EdgeSpot has detected multiple PDF samples in the wild which exploit a Google Chrome zero-day flaw.” Chrome team were informed about this blog post release 2019.02.26 Blog post released.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

ScamClub is a threat actor who’s been involved in malvertising activities since 2018. ScamClub’s malicious JavaScript Malvertising and mobile users On this blog, we have covered a number of malvertising campaigns targeting Desktop, both consumer and enterprise. That affiliate was previously reported but continues unabated.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2019

The discovery was made by experts at Kaspersky Lab, the campaign has been ongoing since at least November 2018, Kaspersky Lab reports. In 2018, the Lazarus APT group targeted several cryptocurrency exchanges , including the campaign tracked as Operation AppleJeus discovered in August 2018. ” Kaspersky says. .

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2021

“The loader decrypts the malicious malware and executes it using memfd create (as described in this blog in 2018). “The authors use the open source tool Ezuri, to load its previously seen payloads and avoid antivirus detections on the file.” ” reads the post published by AT&T’s Alien Labs. .

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SC Magazine

JUNE 18, 2021

Discord booth at the 2018 PAX West at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Washington. Security teams should also have antivirus in place to help prevent malicious downloads. “If Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 link] , via Wikimedia Commons).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 26, 2022

As of the publishing of this article, antivirus (AV) vendor detection for BotenaGo and its variants remains behind with very low detection coverage from most of AV vendors. Figure 8 shows the low level of antivirus detections for BotenaGo’s new variants. 2830690: ETPRO EXPLOIT GPON Authentication Bypass Attempt (CVE-2018-10561).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Once deployed on a compromised website, the exploit kit leverages the CVE-2018-4878 Adobe Flash Player and the CVE-2018-8174 Windows VBScript engine vulnerabilities to deliver a malware on the visitors’ machines. “At the end of August 2018, we observed a new Exploit Kit. That code is distinctive and interesting.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

“We have discovered a new version of WatchBog—a cryptocurrency-mining botnet operational since late 2018—that we suspect has compromised more than 4,500 Linux machines in newer campaigns taking place since early June.” ” reads a blog post published by Intezer. ” continues the analysis.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 20, 2019

Malware deliveries Upon reviewing Android usage data for all of 2018, Google identified a rise in the number of “potentially harmful apps” that were preinstalled or delivered through over-the-air updates. In a nutshell: lock your device; click judiciously; use antivirus. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.).

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2023

In March 2018, security researchers at Antivirus firm Dr. Web discovered that 42 models of low-cost Android smartphones are shipped with the Android.Triada.231 Please nominate Security Affairs as your favorite blog. The only way to remove the threat is to wipe the smartphone and reinstall the OS. 231 banking malware.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 29, 2019

When antivirus (AV) software first arrived in the late 1980s, the science of combating computer viruses was very straightforward. Another way is to test code samples against our backend, to try to fool our antivirus classifiers. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

As of the publishing of this article, BotenaGo currently has low antivirus (AV) detection rate with only 6/62 known AVs seen in VirusTotal: (Figure 1). The malware maps each function with a string that represents a potential targeted system — such as a signature, which we’ll explain later in this blog (see figure 3).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Using an encrypted payload is quite a common way to evade Antivirus, since the encrypted payload changes depending on the used key. That object was crafted on 2018-10-09 but it was seen only on 2018-10-12. According to VirusTotal the software was “seen in the Wild” in 2010 but submitted only on 2018-10-12!

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2019

” reads the blog post published by Dr. Web. In July 2018, experts from Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 Total Security discovered that attackers hijacked the download links of the VSDC website. “Doctor Web researchers discovered that the official website of a well-known video editing software, VSDC, was compromised.”

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McAfee

MAY 26, 2020

Though terrifying for many people, Brexit was handled relatively easily through a transition period, which goes until 31 st December 2020, during which UK organisations are bound by two laws: the EU GDPR and the UK DPA (Data Protection Act 2018 ). The post The GDPR, Year II appeared first on McAfee Blogs.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

In July 2017, Russian antivirus vendor Dr.Web published research showing that Triada had been installed by default on at least four low-cost Android models. In 2018, Dr.Web expanded its research when it discovered the Triada malware installed on 40 different models of Android devices. Google declined to elaborate on its blog post.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, March 2021. Also, see the blog post - The Ransomware Group Tactics which Maximise their Profitability. Microsoft Antivirus Now Automatically Mitigates Exchange Server Vulnerability.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

On Christmas Eve 2018, cloud data hosting firm Dataresolution.net was hit with the Ryuk strain of ransomware. 2, 2019, this blog reported that the company — which had chosen not to pay the ransom and instead restore everything from backups — was still struggling to bring its systems back online. .

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

That file was delivered via malscam campaigns around the world and its source-code is obfuscated in order to evade antivirus detection and complicate its analysis. The latter leverages the WinRar/Ace vulnerability ( CVE-2018-20250 ) dropping the malware itself into the Windows startup folder.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

In July 2017, Russian antivirus vendor Dr.Web published research showing that Triada had been installed by default on at least four low-cost Android models. In 2018, Dr.Web expanded its research when it discovered the Triada malware installed on 40 different models of Android devices. Google declined to elaborate on its blog post.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

— Privacy 1st (@privacyis1st) August 20, 2018. Antivirus”, and ‘Dr. ” Wardle states in his blog post. PoC: [link] #malware #virus #MacOS #Apple #MacBook #MacBookPro #CyberSecurity #privacy #GDPR #Hacking #hackers #cyberpunk #Alert. “Open Any Files: RAR Support”, “Dr. Cleaner”).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

As stated first by us in the previous Ursnif analysis in December 2018 and after by Cisco Talos Intelligence in January 2019, also this new Ursnif sample uses the same APC injection technique to instill its final binary into explorer.exe process, along with obfuscation and steganography in order to hide its malicious behaviour. Conclusions.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

SI-LAB noted that Portuguese users were targeted with malscam messages that reported issues related to a debt of the year 2018. This is a clear signal that most of the antivirus engines don’t detect yet the malware signature. The file is extremely large (32 MB), with a lot of junk allowing, thus, to evade antivirus engines as a result.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2019

This technology is stored in the Workbook OLE stream in Excel 97-2003 format which makes it very difficult to detect and parse by antivirus (AV) engines. doc and.xlm) to evade antivirus detection and bypass spam filters as well. That malware is known as FlawedAmmyy RAT and was discovered by Proofpoint researchers in March 2018.

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Pentester Academy

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The damages for 2018 were predicted to reach $8 billion; for 2019, the figure was $11.5 Also, some important actions could save you from this type of advanced attack: Take a backup of all your data Install Antivirus Software & Firewalls Keep All Systems And Software Updated References 1. billion, and in 2021 it was $20 billion.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2019

But GandCrab far eclipsed the success of competing ransomware affiliate programs largely because its authors worked assiduously to update the malware so that it could evade antivirus and other security defenses. In November 2018, a GandCrab affiliate posted a screenshot on the Exploit[.]in The GandCrab identity on Exploit[.]in

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Antivirus and security giant Avast and virtual private networking (VPN) software provider NordVPN each today disclosed months-long network intrusions that — while otherwise unrelated — shared a common cause: Forgotten or unknown user accounts that granted remote access to internal systems with little more than a password.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2022

But new information confirms this pledge was always a lie, and that Conti has launched more than 200 attacks against hospitals and other healthcare facilities since first surfacing in 2018 under its earlier name, “ Ryuk.” Conti shames victims who refuse to pay a ransom by posting their internal data on their darkweb blog.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The email antivirus was triggered most frequently by email messages containing members of the Trojan.Win32.Agentb Attacks blocked by the email antivirus in 2020 ( download ). In 2020: The share of spam in email traffic amounted to 50.37%, down by 6.14 Most spam (21.27%) originated in Russia. Agentb malware family. and Portugal, 5.9

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Elie

MAY 30, 2018

This blog post survey the attacks techniques that target AI (artificial intelligence) systems and how to protect against them. Adversarial inputs include malicious documents designed to evade antivirus, and emails attempting to evade spam filters. This series of posts is modeled after the talk I gave at RSA 2018. second post.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Krebs wrote for The Washington Post between 1995 and 2009 before launching his current blog KrebsOnSecurity.com. Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp [link] — Schneier Blog (@schneierblog) August 1, 2019. — Jack Daniel (@jack_daniel) October 10, 2018. jaysonstreet) March 3, 2018. Dave Kennedy | @hackingdave.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

KrebsOnSecurity began revisiting the research into Rescator’s real-life identity in 2018, after the U.S. ChronoPay used the MegaPlan service to help manage the sprawling projects that Vrublevsky referred to internally as their “black” payment processing operations, including pirated pills, porn, Mp3s, and fake antivirus products.

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Elie

MAY 30, 2018

This blog post survey the attacks techniques that target AI (artificial intelligence) systems and how to protect against them. Adversarial inputs include malicious documents designed to evade antivirus, and emails attempting to evade spam filters. This series of posts is modeled after the talk I gave at RSA 2018. second post.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2019

Related: ‘Cyber Pearl Harbor’ happens every day Some 15 months earlier, in March 2018, Atlanta was hit by a similar assault, and likewise refused to pay a $51,000 ransom, eating $17 million in damage. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.). mayors attending the U.S. A poll of IT pros in the U.S.,

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 4, 2022

Then User Account Control (UAC) is disabled, specific antivirus initiations are blocked, and information about security tools on the affected system are gathered and sent to a hardcoded command and control (C2) address. Purple Fox is the name given to a malware family that has been in constant development ever since it was discovered in 2018.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2022

The analysis of the attack revealed that approximately 80% of the observed victims were using Fortinet appliances, a circumstance that suggests the attackers may have compromised their network by exploiting the CVE-2018-13379 vulnerability. Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini in every category that includes them (e.g.

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