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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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.”

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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

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.” ” reads a post published by Microsoft. To nominate, please visit:?

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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

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.” Since the malware operates as a userland level rootkit, detecting an infection may be difficult.”

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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 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

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

MAY 3, 2022

A China-linked APT group, tracked as Moshen Dragon, is exploiting antivirus products to target the telecom sector in Asia. A China-linked APT group, tracked as Moshen Dragon, has been observed targeting the telecommunication sector in Central Asia with ShadowPad and PlugX malware, SentinelOne warns. To nominate, please visit:?

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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. ” reads the report published by Microsoft.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2021

In mid-2020, ZINC hackers created Twitter profiles for fake security researchers that were used to retweet security content and posting about vulnerability research. . Attackers used Twitter profiles for sharing links to a blog under their control ( br0vvnn[.]io “If you visited the referenced ZINC-owned blog (br0vvnn[.]io),

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The tool was specifically designed to avoid detection by security solutions such as endpoint detection and response (EDR) and antivirus (AV). blog incoming pic.twitter.com/3NpUh2lOYF — Chetan Nayak (Author of Brute Ratel C4) (@NinjaParanoid) September 28, 2022. I am tracking it over the past few weeks.

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Notice Bored

OCTOBER 14, 2021

"Information transfer" is another ambiguous, potentially misleading title for a policy, even if it includes "information security". Transmission of information through broadcasting, training and awareness activities, reporting, policies, documentation, seminars, publications, blogs etc.,

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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 attackers also managed a blog (cranhan.blogspot[.]com)

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Latin American Javali trojan weaponizing Avira antivirus legitimate injector to implant malware. After that, the following files are extracted, namely: Avira.exe : Legitimate injector from Avira Antivirus. In the last few years, many banking trojans developed by Latin American criminals have increased in volume and sophistication.

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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.” ” reads the post published by AT&T’s Alien Labs. .

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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.

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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

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

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 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. Stay safe and secure. VULNERABILITIES AND SECURITY UPDATES.

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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

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

AUGUST 18, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. 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. Once again thank you!

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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. One user commenting on a blog p o st published by Sophos wrote the following statement: “We had to roll back some 300+ machines for clients around the US.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

” reads a blog post published by Intezer. The new variant of the malware is currently undetected by most of the antivirus firms, the incorporation of the BlueKeep scanner suggests that operators would explore financial opportunities on Windows platforms too.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2022

At this moment, the infection chain is able to bypass the antivirus detection, with the latter EXE ( WpfApp14.exe About the author Pedro Tavares : Pedro Tavares is a professional in the field of information security working as an Ethical Hacker, Malware Analyst and also a Security Evangelist.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 3, 2022

This blog post was authored by Ankur Saini and Hossein Jazi. In this blog post, we will analyze Woody Rat’s distribution methods, capabilities as well as communication protocol. The threat actor has left some debugging information including a pdb path from which we derived and picked a name for this new Rat: Debug Information.

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Notice Bored

MAY 25, 2022

The controls I am talking about in point 2 are process controls rather than typical information security controls. If I make any headway, I'll pick up this loose end in a future blog piece.] It is not even straightforward to define 'adverse incidents': adverse to whom, in what sense? And what are 'incidents', in fact?

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2019

For the sake of correctness, as Chronicle Security states, Virustotal is not a “ comparative metrics between different antivirus products ”, so this result does not imply anything about the overall antivirus solutions quality. Even Symantec AV didn’t detect the sample as malicious!

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2020

. “As many IT-security researchers, I’m heavily using public available information (OSINT) for hunting down new cyber threats. However, I often get confronted with a simple but severe problem: malware samples referenced in blog posts, whitepaper or mentioned on social media like Twitter are usually not easily available.”

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2022

3 ] The emails redirected victims to a website delivering fake antivirus updates that eventually downloaded Cobalt Strike beacons, or two custom Go malware variants named GraphSteel and GrimPlant. The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) issued a warning about the use of Kaspersky products. [ link] (accessed Mar.

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