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. To be clear, AP, ESPN, CBS and other sites were not hacked, but rather showed malicious ads. Chances are you probably ran into one of their online scams on your mobile device. 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. The group is considered responsible for the massive WannaCry ransomware attack, a string of SWIFT attacks in 2016, and the Sony Pictures hack. ” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky Lab.

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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.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, Golang). Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. How not to disclosure a Hack. UK fashion retailer FatFace angered customers in its handling of a customer data theft hack. UK Gov to Ramp up Cyber Offenses and Defences.

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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. In the same repository, we have found additional hacking tools collected from several different sources. Background. The original source of the code is yet unknown.

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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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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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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

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

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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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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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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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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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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

KrebsOnSecurity began revisiting the research into Rescator’s real-life identity in 2018, after the U.S. Unbeknownst to Ika at the time, his Pustota forum also had been completely hacked that week, and a copy of its database shared with this author. Archive.org shows that Hot Spot’s website — myhotspot[.]ru

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Shah provides her expertise in hacking, software development, and kernel development and advocates for open source initiatives. Krebs wrote for The Washington Post between 1995 and 2009 before launching his current blog KrebsOnSecurity.com. Dave Kennedy | @hackingdave. — Dave Kennedy (@HackingDave) July 15, 2020. .

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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. Meanwhile, the advanced hacking collectives invest in innovation and press forward. mayors attending the U.S.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2022

Microsoft blocked an attack activity aimed at Israeli organizations attributed to a previously unknown Lebanon-based hacking group tracked as POLONIUM. Microsoft announced to have blocked a series of attacks targeting Israeli organizations that have been conducted by a previously unknown Lebanon-based hacking group tracked as POLONIUM.

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SecureList

JANUARY 11, 2021

On December 13, 2020, FireEye published a blog post detailing a supply chain attack leveraging Orion IT, an infrastructure monitoring and management platform by SolarWinds. In a previous blog, we dissected the method used by Sunburst to communicate with its C2 server and the protocol by which victims are upgraded for further exploitation.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

It was first publicly documented in 2014, in the aftermath of the Gamma Group hacking incident. In November and December 2020, two public blog posts were published about this campaign. The group’s operations were exposed in 2018, showing that it was conducting surveillance attacks against individuals in the Middle East.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

Web antivirus recognized 675,832,360 unique URLs as malicious. Our file antivirus detected 68,294,298 unique malicious and potentially unwanted objects. In their blog, DarkSide’s creators heaped the blame on third-party operators. Ransomware attacks were defeated on the computers of 97,451 unique users.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

2018 was no exception. In 2018, as businesses raced to mix and match cloud-services delivered by the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, unforeseen gaps in classic network security systems began to turn up. The “Meltdown” and “Spectre” exploits paved the way for so-called “microcode hacks” in early 2018.

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