Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2022

The malware used a function called “DetectAV()” to determine the antivirus solution installed on the system and uninstall it. SecurityAffairs – hacking, NetDooka). The post NetDooka framework distributed via a pay-per-install (PPI) malware service appeared first on Security Affairs. ” concludes the analysis.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2022

Endpoint protection systems and or antivirus can potentially be killed prior to executing malware, but this method cannot as theres nothing to kill the DLL just lives on disk waiting. SecurityAffairs – hacking, DLL hijacking). We do not need to rely on hash signature or third-party product, the malware will do the work for us.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2021

The antivirus company Avast analyzed the case of a simple malware dubbed HackBoss and how it allowed its operators to earn more $560K worth of cryptocurrency since November 2018. The tools were published on a Telegram channel named Hack Boss that was created on November 26, 2018, and has over 2,500 subscribers.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

. “TAG observed a North Korean government-backed attacker group that previously targeted security researchers posing as recruiters at Samsung and sending fake job opportunities to employees at multiple South Korean information security companies that sell anti-malware solutions.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2023

CACTUS essentially encrypts itself, making it harder to detect and helping it evade antivirus and network monitoring tools,” Laurie Iacono, Associate Managing Director for Cyber Risk at Kroll, told Bleeping Computer. The binary is deployed using a specific flag that allows its execution, while the ZIP archive is removed.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Security enthusiast and Linux evangelist Binni Shah consistently offers valuable tutorials, guides, and insights for the cybersecurity community. Dave Kennedy | @hackingdave.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2022

“ZLoader has remained relevant as attackers’ tool of choice by including defense evasion capabilities, like disabling security and antivirus tools, and selling access-as-a-service to other affiliate groups, such as ransomware operators.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, ZLoader malware). To nominate, please visit:?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2022

“Network telemetry can be used to detect anomalous DNS requests, and security tools such as antivirus and endpoint detection and response (EDR) should be statically linked to ensure they are not “infected” by userland rootkits.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, Symbiote backdoor). ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2022

Review antivirus logs for indications they were unexpectedly turned off. Implement a recovery plan to maintain and retain multiple copies of sensitive or proprietary data and servers in a physically separate, segmented, secure location (e.g., Install and regularly update antivirus and anti-malware software on all hosts.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2023

The vulnerability was reported by researchers Jan Vojtěšek, Milánek, and Luigino Camastra from Avast Antivirus firm, a circumstance that suggests it was used as part of an exploit chain to deliver malware. This vulnerability is actively exploited in attacks. The flaw can be chained with a code execution bug to spread malware.

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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2023

ViperSoftX also checks for active antivirus products running on the machine. One of the key steps performed by the malware before downloading a first-stage PowerShell loader is a series of anti-virtual machine, anti-monitoring, and anti-malware checks. If all checks pass, the loader decrypts and executes a second-stage PowerShell script.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2023

After gaining access to victims’ networks, Royal actors disable antivirus software and exfiltrate large amounts of data before ultimately deploying the ransomware and encrypting the systems.” reads the alert. Royal operators have demanded ransom ranging from approximately $1 million to $11 million USD worth of Bitcoin.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2022

Please vote for Security Affairs as the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS Vote for me in the sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog” and others of your choice.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2022

Researchers from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 discovered that a sample uploaded to the VirusTotal database on May 19, 2022 and considered benign by almost all the antivirus, was containing a payload associated with Brute Ratel C4 (BRc4), a new red-teaming and adversarial attack simulation tool. SecurityAffairs – hacking, BRc4).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

The DEV-0569 group carries out malvertising campaigns to spread links to a signed malware downloader posing as software installers or fake updates embedded in spam messages, fake forum pages, and blog comments. SecurityAffairs – hacking, DEV-0569). ” reads the report published by Microsoft. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2022

A China-linked APT group, tracked as Moshen Dragon, is exploiting antivirus products to target the telecom sector in Asia. SecurityAffairs – hacking, APT). The post China-linked Moshen Dragon abuses security software to sideload malware appeared first on Security Affairs. To nominate, please visit:? Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2022

The first campaigns of malware were distributed through fake antivirus or other common apps, while during the campaigns the malware is taking the turn of an APT attack against the customer of a specific Italian bank.” Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini in every category that includes them (e.g.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2023

. “To avoid malware infection and subsequent financial loss, we recommend to be cautious with apps, even those coming from Google Play, avoid giving permissions they should not have, and install an antivirus product capable of detecting this type of Trojans.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2023

antivirus products), deleting shadow copies, and finally encrypting the files on the targeted systems. The bleeds of the new software will be made for some time by several of our experienced negotiators. We apologize for the inconvenience!” reads the screenshot. ” continues the report.

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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.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

The group is considered responsible for the massive WannaCry ransomware attack, a string of SWIFT attacks in 2016, and the Sony Pictures hack. In mid-2020, ZINC hackers created Twitter profiles for fake security researchers that were used to retweet security content and posting about vulnerability research. .

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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 Affairs

APRIL 19, 2022

BotenaGo was written in Golang (Go) and at the time of the report published by the experts, it had a low antivirus (AV) detection rate (6/62). SecurityAffairs – hacking, BotenaGo botnet). The post New BotenaGo variant specifically targets Lilin security camera DVR devices appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Some antivirus solutions specifically analyze this section look for malicious VBA code in the Excel docs. “As stated in our VBA Purging blog post, Office documents can also lack compiled VBA code when they are created with tools that are totally independent from Microsoft Office. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Norway).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2022

Researchers from antivirus firm Avast spotted a new Linux rootkit, dubbed ‘Syslogk,’ that uses specially crafted “magic packets” to activate a dormant backdoor on the device. Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini in every category that includes them (e.g. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Syslogk).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

“As with just about every piece of malware, InnfiRAT is designed to access and steal personal information on a user’s computer.” ” states a blog post published by Zscaler. “Among other things, InnfiRAT is written to look for cryptocurrency wallet information, such as Bitcoin and Litecoin.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2020

New blog: The threat actor BISMUTH, which has been running increasingly complex targeted attacks, deployed coin miners in campaigns from July to August 2020. Learn how the group tried to stay under the radar using threats perceived to be less alarming: [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) November 30, 2020.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2020

. “Your wallet is 100% secure and you don’t need to worry about assets loss due to any hacker attack to ShitcoinWallet servers. ” reads the Shitcoin Wallet blog. At the time of writing, the installers for the desktop app of the Shitcoin Wallet are not detected as malicious by major antivirus solutions.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2019

The file looks like a common XLS file within low Antivirus detection rate as shown in the following image (6/63). Antivirus Detection Rate. It looks like a romantic Emotet according to many Antivirus so I wont invest timing into this well-known Malware. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The reason behind that is simple: to evade antivirus detection. With this new trick, antivirus detection will be harder, and its analysis a little bit confused. He is also a founding member and Pentester at CSIRT.UBI and founder of the security computer blog seguranca–informatica.pt. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. Boffins hacked Siemens Simatic S7, most secure controllers in the industry. A flaw in Kaspersky Antivirus allowed tracking its users online.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2019

Meanwhile, the advanced hacking collectives invest in innovation and press forward. 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. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Here’s how the malware execution sequence would appear to a Windows user: The “Windows NT is not supported” message shown in the screenshot, however, is a false error thrown by the malware in an attempt to fool both antivirus products and the end-user. SecurityAffairs – hacking, CursedGrabber malware). The malware dropped by lib2.exe

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2022

Organizations should start by analyzing the security controls they have in place to ensure adherence to guidelines developed by agencies like CISA, FBI, and ENISA, including multifactor authentication, employing antivirus and anti-malware scanning, enabling strong spam filters, updating software, and segmenting networks.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The emergent URSA trojan is impacting many countries using a sophisticated loader and avoiding antivirus detection. Pedro Tavares is a professional in the field of information security, working as an Ethical Hacker, Malware Analyst, Cybersecurity Analyst and also a Security Evangelist. Malware by Numbers.

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