Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2019

The owner of a Swedish company behind a popular remote administration tool (RAT) implicated in thousands of malware attacks shares the same name as a Swedish man who pleaded guilty in 2015 to co-creating the Blackshades RAT , a similar product that was used to infect more than half a million computers with malware, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

AT&T Alien Labs™ has found new malware written in the open source programming language Golang. The malware creates a backdoor and waits to either receive a target to attack from a remote operator through port 19412 or from another related module running on the same machine. VirusTotal scanning results of BotenaGo malware.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Yoroi security firm uncovered a targeted attack against one of the most important companies in the Italian Naval Industry leveraging MartyMcFly Malware. Using an encrypted payload is quite a common way to evade Antivirus, since the encrypted payload changes depending on the used key. Stage1: Encrypted Content. But what is the key?

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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. The malware also sends the name of the pirated software that the user was hoping to obtain to a website that delivers a secondary payload. At least some of the malware was hosted on the game chat service Discord.

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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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eSecurity Planet

JULY 13, 2023

Talos researcher Chris Neal discussed how the security problem evolved in a blog post. “Without signature enforcement, malicious drivers would be extremely difficult to defend against as they can easily evade anti-malware software and endpoint detection.” “Customers just have to research how they work and enable them.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2023

The Lemon Group cybercrime ring has reportedly pre-installed malware known as Guerilla on almost 9 million Android devices. A cybercrime group tracked has Lemon Group has reportedly pre-installed malware known as Guerilla on almost 9 million Android devices. 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. AV kept close track of known malicious files, and then quarantined or deleted any known malware that had managed to embed itself on the protected computing device. As a consumer, what’s my larger concern?

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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. The new WatchBog variant, actively distributed since June.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

” What follows is a deep dive into the identity of that Chinese vendor, which appears to have a long and storied history of pushing the envelope on mobile malware. com — were implicated in propagating the Triada malware. Google declined to elaborate on its blog post. “Yehuo” ( ? ? ) com and rurimeter[.]com

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2019

Users that have downloaded the VSDC multimedia editing software between 2019-02-21 and 2019-03-23, may have been infected with malware. The hackers already compromised the official website of VSDC in the past, in previous attacks they hijacked the download links to deliver malware to the victims. 2, and the Trojan. ” The Win32.Bolik.2

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

SI-LAB detected hundreds of users that were impacted by this malware between March 18th and 26th of 2019. The last days of March 2019 are making headlines due to a targeted cyber attack involving a new variant of infamous EMOTET malware. With that, criminals achieved an important rule of thumb in the malware landscape: no detection.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

” What follows is a deep dive into the identity of that Chinese vendor, which appears to have a long and storied history of pushing the envelope on mobile malware. com — were implicated in propagating the Triada malware. Google declined to elaborate on its blog post. “Yehuo” ( ? ? ) com and rurimeter[.]com

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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

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. The malware was named ‘Lampion’ as this is the name used as part of its internal name. dll) was sent to the VirusTotal by SI-LAB, and 12 from 71 engines classified it as malware. Lampion trojan (P-19-2.dll)

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

Apple has removed one of the most popular anti-malware app called Adware Doctor:Anti Malware &Ad from the official macOS App Store. PoC: [link] #malware #virus #MacOS #Apple #MacBook #MacBookPro #CyberSecurity #privacy #GDPR #Hacking #hackers #cyberpunk #Alert. — Privacy 1st (@privacyis1st) August 20, 2018.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Extracting the macro code, shows the malware, in the first instance, checks the victim country using the Application.International MS Office property. As shown in the above figure, the malware tries to download an image from at least one of two embedded URLs: [link] [link]. Registry keys set by the malware. Conclusions.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2019

SI-LAB captured a piece of the FlawedAmmyy malware that leverages undetected XLM macros as an Infection Vehicle to compromise user’s devices. 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.

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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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SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The email antivirus was triggered most frequently by email messages containing members of the Trojan.Win32.Agentb Agentb malware family. Theft of work accounts and infecting of office computers with malware in targeted attacks are the main risk that companies have faced this year. Malware families. per cent).

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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. In 2014, nearly 1 million new pieces of malware were released every day, but most hackers relied on old techniques to create new threats. But first we’ll answer a basic question: What is malware?

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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 More recently, we have also seen this technique deliver the banking Trojan Mekotio, as well as AsyncRAT/NJRAT and Trickbot, malware that attackers utilize to gain control of affected devices and deliver ransomware payloads and other threats.

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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. It remains unclear how many individuals were active in the core GandCrab malware development team.

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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

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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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. KrebsOnSecurity began revisiting the research into Rescator’s real-life identity in 2018, after the U.S.

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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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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 4, 2022

This makes the malware harder to detect and makes it easier for the malware authors to replace parts that have a high detection rate. The malware checks specifically for the presence of 360 AV software and will shut it down and block initiation. Purple Fox background. Malwarebytes blocks Purple Fox. Files: Telegram Desktop.exe.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. Krebs wrote for The Washington Post between 1995 and 2009 before launching his current blog KrebsOnSecurity.com. — Jack Daniel (@jack_daniel) October 10, 2018.

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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. It’s imperative to keep legacy anti-malware , firewall and intrusion prevention systems updated.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

Web antivirus recognized 675,832,360 unique URLs as malicious. Attempts to run malware for stealing money from online bank accounts were stopped on the computers of 119,252 unique users. Our file antivirus detected 68,294,298 unique malicious and potentially unwanted objects. Geography of financial malware attacks.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

In our initial report on Sunburst , we examined the method used by the malware to communicate with its C2 (command-and-control) server and the protocol used to upgrade victims for further exploitation. This campaign made use of a previously unknown malware family we dubbed FourteenHi.

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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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Spinone

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Ransomware is a special malware that blocks access to your data or device until you pay a ransom, hence the name. Ryuk is one of the most common ransomware of 2018-2019. Malware can infect files stored: In the cloud (including cloud-based SaaS like Office 365); On a computer; On mobile devices; On servers.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Ransome is a special malware that threatens to perpetually block access to your data unless you pay a ransom. Ransomcloud is a special ransom malware, designed to encrypt cloud emails and attachments. Сompared to 2018, the average sum hackers demanded has almost doubled in the first quarter of 2019, from $6,733 to $12,762.

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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. Cutting-edge malware. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.).

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