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. Pin was active on Opensc around March 2012, and authored 13 posts that mostly concerned data encryption issues, or how to fix bugs in code. Image: Ke-la.com.

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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. Then, all the information is encoded in Base64 and sent to the C2 through the “ connect ” function, using a SSL encrypted HTTP channel. Blog post reporting the Base64 script, shared by a forum user. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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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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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

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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

The server responds to this request sending encrypted data, as show in the following figure. Part of network traffic containing some encrypted data. Further information, including IoCs and Yara rules are reported in the analysis published on the Yoroi Blog. exe and then execute it. Ursnif loader detection rate. Conclusions.

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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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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2019

Altran cible d’une attaque informatique de grande ampleur — Pas au top en carving (@LaurentTanger) January 25, 2019. During the SI-LAB analysis, this ransomware bypass AV signature-based detection — a sample with a score of 0/69 was submitted to VirusTotal on March 8th, 2019 and nothing was detected. locker ” is appended.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

lazydocker : A simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose : [link] pic.twitter.com/HsK17rzg8m — Binni Shah (@binitamshah) July 1, 2019. Krebs wrote for The Washington Post between 1995 and 2009 before launching his current blog KrebsOnSecurity.com. — Jason Haddix (@Jhaddix) July 27, 2019.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2019

In the first four months of 2019 alone, some 22 attacks have been disclosed. days in Q2 2019, as compared to 7.3 days in Q1 2019. While reporting for USA Today in 2009, I wrote about how fraudsters launched scareware campaigns to lock up computer screens as a means to extract $80 for worthless antivirus protection.

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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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Spinone

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Ransomware has a public/private key encryption to make your data unreadable. In theory, ransomware may encrypt a file of any type. However, some files on your computer are encrypted more often than others. Ransomcloud is a special ransom malware, designed to encrypt cloud emails and attachments. How Does Ransomware Work?

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SecureList

APRIL 24, 2023

In this blog post, we’re excited to share what we now know of Tomiris with the broader community, and discuss further evidence of a possible connection to Turla. The following table lists all Tomiris malware families we are aware of: Name Type Language Comments Tomiris Downloader Downloader C Mentioned in our original blog post.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Crypto ransomware encrypts the data on your computer or in the cloud. However, you can not use encrypted data. Encrypting ransomware is much harder to deal with, as you can not get access to your data simply by switching devices or finding a way to pass a screen lock. Ryuk is one of the most common ransomware of 2018-2019.

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Spinone

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Sodinokibi Ransomware Analysis Sodinokibi, also referred to as Sodin or REvil, is a ransomware strain that appeared in April of 2019 and became the 4th most distributed ransomware in the world since then. Sodinokibi often successfully bypasses antivirus software. PerCSoft attack , August 2019.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Statistics gathered between October and December 2019 by Avast’s Threat Lab experts show that adware was responsible for 72% of all mobile malware, and the remaining 28% consisted of banking trojans, fake apps, lockers, and downloaders. Ransomware programs gain access to a computer’s file system and execute a payload to encrypt all data.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

One of the suspected FinFly Web servers was active for more than a year between October 2019 and December 2020. We investigated a long-running espionage campaign, dubbed A41APT, targeting multiple industries, including the Japanese manufacturing industry and its overseas bases, which has been active since March 2019.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Meanwhile, after presumably enjoying a restful holiday, the best and brightest malicious hackers are diving into 2019 with renewed verve. There is not much that an end user can currently do to protect themselves against this type of attack, except to not run any software from a shady source, even if it does not raise any antivirus flag.”

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Fox IT

MAY 4, 2021

Since September 2019, Fox-IT/NCC Group has intensified its research into known active Gozi variants. But if you would like to understand the rather tortured history of this particular malware a little better, the research and blog posts on the subject by Check Point are a good starting point. Q3 2019 – Q2 2020, Classic fraud era.

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