Security Boulevard

JUNE 14, 2021

This blog post is divided into four parts: Introduction : provides an overview of what happened. Good news: The variant discussed in this blog does not appear to persist : in other words, after a reboot, its process will not be active anymore, at least for the variant discussed in this blog post. Detection. .

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Megatraffer explained that malware purveyors need a certificate because many antivirus products will be far more interested in unsigned software, and because signed files downloaded from the Internet don’t tend to get blocked by security features built into modern web browsers. “Antivirus software trusts signed programs more.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2022

The malware was first spotted in 2019 by security experts at Kaspersky, the name BRAT comes from ‘Brazilian RAT Android,’ because at the time it was used to spy on Brazilian users. sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog”). ” concludes the report.

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Webroot

AUGUST 27, 2021

Already in 2020, according to the report: 2,4000 governmental agencies, healthcare facilities and schools had been hit with ransomware $350 million had been paid out ransomware actors, a 311% increase over 2019 It was taking 287 days on average for a business to fully recover from a ransomware attack.

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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

JULY 25, 2019

Researchers at Intezer have discovered a new variant of WatchBog, a Linux-based cryptocurrency mining botnet, that also includes a module to scan the Internet for Windows RDP servers vulnerable to the Bluekeep vulnerability (CVE-2019-0708). ” reads a blog post published by Intezer. ” continues the analysis.

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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. Users that have downloaded the VSDC multimedia editing software between 2019-02-21 and 2019-03-23, may have been infected with a banking trojan and an information stealer.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2019

Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. Adobe Patch Tuesday for August 2019 fixed 119 flaws in 8 products. Microsoft Patch Tuesday for August 2019 patch 93 bugs, including 2 dangerous wormable issues.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 20, 2019

However, the three apps in question — Pro Selfie Beauty Camera, Selfie Beauty Camera Pro, and Pretty Beauty Camera 2019 — were really tools to spread adware and spyware. Forensics conducted by Avast revealed that each app had at least 500,000 installs, with Pretty Beauty Camera 2019 logging over 1 million, mainly by Android users in India.

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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 loader observed by the researchers in the attacks is written in Golang and borrows the Ezuri code published on GitHub by the user guitmz in March 2019. ” reads the post published by AT&T’s Alien Labs.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2019

Sophos confirmed that the latest set of Windows updates are causing problems with the boot of computers running the popular Antivirus software. Experts believe the problems could be caused by the incompatibility with the KB4499164 and KB4499175 Microsoft Patches released on May 14, 2019. ” continues the note.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Trusted applications will not be stopped by antivirus or anti-malware technologies. An example of this is the NotPetya Ransomware Worm , where attackers used fraudulent Microsoft certificates in an attempt to bypass antivirus scanners. Antivirus software can require high processing power, due to the in-depth nature of scanning.

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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. PA Unit 42 found that the average ransom paid by organisations nearly tripled over the past year, from $115,123 in 2019 to $312,493. How not to disclosure a Hack.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2020

” reads the Shitcoin Wallet blog. sniko_) December 31, 2019. At the time of writing, the installers for the desktop app of the Shitcoin Wallet are not detected as malicious by major antivirus solutions. Currently ShitcoinWallet is supported on Chrome.” Bad guys: erc20wallet[.]tk Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Since end-December 2019 lampion malware has been noted as the most prominent malware targeting Portuguese organizations. As observed below, the size of the junk lines presented in these samples is major related to the initial file observed in mid-December 2019. The reason behind that is simple: to evade antivirus detection.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

New trojan called ‘Lampion’ has spread using template emails from the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax during the last days of 2019. Last days of 2019 were the perfect time to spread phishing campaigns using email templates based on the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax. zip) called: FacturaNovembro-4492154-2019-10_8.zip.

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Webroot

MAY 12, 2021

A 2019 attack on a power grid control center responsible for supplying several sites in the Western U.S. Just because the computer in the lobby of corporate HQ can’t crank up the sodium hydroxide in the drinking water doesn’t mean it’s not worthy of an antivirus. was considered a near miss in which the country got off easy.

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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. 4001814: AV EXPLOIT TOTOLINK Router PostAuth RCE (CVE-2019-19824).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2019

In the last weeks, the Cybaze-Yoroi ZLAB investigated a new APT28 campaign discovered in January 2019. Blog post reporting the Base64 script, shared by a forum user. Further details, including Yara rules and Indicators of compromise (IoCs), are reported in the analysis published on the Yoroi blog. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. EMOTET spread in Chile targeted financial and banking services. Technical Analysis.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2019

In February 2019, SI-LAB captured multiple samples of phishing campaigns using an Office Excel document carrying a malicious Excel 4.0 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. File name: patent-2019-02-20T093A283A05-1.xls

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McAfee

OCTOBER 29, 2020

External attacks on cloud accounts increased by an astounding 630% in 2019. While security solutions leveraging URL categorization, domain reputation, antivirus, and sandboxes can stop 99.5% The post Catch the Most Sophisticated Attacks Without Slowing Down Your Users appeared first on McAfee Blogs. Want to know more?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2019

The VBS code is obfuscated to evade antivirus detection and, in order to confuse the analyst, all the values are manipulated in different steps: using many mathematical operations, very long random variable names and other content encoded in Base64 format. scentasticyoga[.]com, Figure 3: File contained in the Zip file. practicereiki[.com/pagpoftrh54[.php”.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

was used to register at least six domains, including a Russian business registered in Khoroshev’s name called tkaner.com , which is a blog about clothing and fabrics. A machine-translated ad for ransomware source code from Putinkrab on the Russian language cybercrime forum UFOlabs in 2019. Image: Ke-la.com.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

As new forms of malicious code appeared, an antivirus (AV) industry arose to tackle the challenge of detecting and responding to cyber threats. In 2019 attacks on cloud services doubled , demonstrating a significant shift in the focus of APT groups. Ransomware. Trojans/Spyware. Logic bombs.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

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. . On Christmas Eve 2018, cloud data hosting firm Dataresolution.net was hit with the Ryuk strain of ransomware.

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Fox IT

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Throughout 2019, TA505 changed tactics and adopted a proven simple, although effective, attack strategy: encrypt a corporate network with ransomware, more specifically the Clop ransomware strain, and demand a ransom in Bitcoin to obtain the decryption key. Week 42, 14-20 of October 2019. TA505 Weekly Schedule, week 42 2019.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 30, 2021

LemonDuck has evolved from a Monero cryptominer into LemonCat, a Trojan that specializes in backdoor installation, credential and data theft, and malware delivery, according to the Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team, which explained their findings in a two-part story [ 1 ][ 2 ] on the Microsoft Security 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 as compared to the year 2019, remaining fifth with 5.97%, while Brazil lost 1.76 Attacks blocked by the email antivirus in 2020 ( download ). That is 32,289,484 fewer attempts than in 2019. France gained 2.97

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McAfee

MAY 26, 2020

EU Exit) Regulations 2019 amends the DPA 2018 and merges it with the requirements of the EU GDPR to form a data protection regime that will work in a UK context after Brexit, and with insignificant differences between the EU GDPR and the proposed UK GDPR. The post The GDPR, Year II appeared first on McAfee Blogs.

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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

AUGUST 28, 2019

— Gendarmerie nationale (@Gendarmerie) August 28, 2019. Earlier this year, malware researchers from Avast antivirus firm discovered a design flaw in the C&C protocol of the botnet that could have been exploited to remove the malware from infected computers. ” reads a blog post published by Avast.

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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 Lab Link: [link] The user is going to get access to a Kali GUI instance and Windows Server 2019. However, it also made use of DoublePulsar backdoor to spread itself from the infected machines. billion, and in 2021 it was $20 billion.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 2, 2021

This blog post was authored by Hossein Jazi and the Threat Intelligence Team. In this blog post we are providing additional details about SideCopy that have not been published before. Last week, Facebook announced that back in August it had taken action against a Pakistani APT group known as SideCopy. Newly observed lures.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 28, 2021

This renders the attacks undetectable and able to bypass conventional security solutions such as EDR, antivirus and other traditional security lines of defense. A new vulnerability, CVE-2019-19279 , has emerged that also allows for a DDoS attack. Stay tuned to our blog for our next installment in this series. .

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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

MAY 7, 2020

One of the last occurrences was last December 2019, where the Lampion trojan operated in a very similar way, changing only the way the malware was distributed (via AWS S3 buckets and with the first stage encoded in a highly obfuscated VBS file). One of the files was a DLL that exported functions to capture home banking credentials.

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