Schneier on Security

JULY 27, 2021

Meanwhile, since the structure of the neural network models remains unchanged, they can pass the security scan of antivirus engines. With the widespread application of artificial intelligence, utilizing neural networks becomes a forwarding trend of malware.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2020

Antivirus maker Avast has disabled a core component of its antivirus to address a severe vulnerability that would have allowed attackers to control users’ PC. The Avast’s JavaScript engine is used to analyze JavaScript code to detect malicious code before it is executed in the users’ browsers or email clients.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

However, the same also goes for antivirus software and other anti-malware solutions. As long as you need employees, you will get spear-phishing campaigns and other social engineering attacks. The post Threat Group Continuously Updates Malware to Evade Antivirus Software appeared first on eSecurityPlanet.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

According to the latest ISACA State of Security 2021 report , social engineering is the leading cause of compromises experienced by organizations. Findings from the Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report also point to social engineering as the most common data breach attack method. What does social engineering look like?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2020

. “The new malware tricks victims into bypassing Apple’s built-in macOS security protections, and it uses sneaky tactics in an effort to evade antivirus detection.” “As of Friday, the new malware installer and its payload had a 0/60 detection rate among all antivirus engines on VirusTotal.”

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Spinone

JANUARY 13, 2020

Installing antivirus software (or AV) is often considered an important ransomware protection measure. It’s better to buy a subscription to antivirus software than to pay, on average, $36,295 to hackers or face significant financial and reputational damages. Antivirus users often experience ransomware attacks.

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Penetration Testing

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

A proof-of-concept (PoC) for CVE-2024-20328, a critical vulnerability in ClamAV, a popular open-source antivirus engine, that allows arbitrary code execution, was published. The vulnerability exploits the unsuspecting nature of ClamAV’s VirusEvent feature.

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Penetration Testing

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Recently, Cisco revealed critical vulnerabilities lurking within ClamAV, a widely used open-source antivirus engine.

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The Hacker News

JANUARY 14, 2023

The CI/CD service CircleCI said the "sophisticated attack" took place on December 16, 2022, and that the malware went undetected by its antivirus

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

Researchers at Cybereason’s Nocturnus team have uncovered a new Astaroth Trojan campaign that is currently exploiting the Avast antivirus and security software developed by GAS Tecnologia to steal information and drop malicious modules. According to the experts, LOLbins are very effecting in evading antivirus software.

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Bleeping Computer

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Security researchers discovered a cryptomining operation targeting macOS with a malicious version of Final Cut Pro that remains largely undetected by antivirus engines. [.]

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Penetration Testing

JANUARY 9, 2020

Quark Engine An Obfuscation-Neglect Android Malware Scoring System Android malware analysis engine is not a new story. Every antivirus company has its own secrets to build it. With curiosity, we develop a malware scoring... The post Quark Engine v23.11.1

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Microsoft released a Windows Defender update to fix a problem that caused Defender antivirus to identify Chromium, Electron, as malware. Microsoft released a Windows Defender update to fix a problem that caused Defender antivirus software to identify the app based on the Chromium browser engine or the Electron JavaScript framework as malware.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

This is a new thing : The Pentagon has suddenly started uploading malware samples from APTs and other nation-state sources to the website VirusTotal, which is essentially a malware zoo that's used by security pros and antivirus/malware detection engines to gain a better understanding of the threat landscape.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Emerging from traditional antivirus and endpoint protection platforms, EDR rose to the fore in the mid-2010s to improve upon the continuous monitoring of servers, desktops, laptops and mobile devices and put security teams in a better position to mitigate advanced threats, such as APTs and zero-day vulnerabilities.

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Bleeping Computer

APRIL 19, 2022

The Emotet malware is having a burst in distribution and is likely to soon switch to new payloads that are currently detected by fewer antivirus engines. [.].

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Schneier on Security

MAY 8, 2019

The VBA stomping is the most powerful feature, because it gets around antivirus programs: VBA stomping abuses a feature which is not officially documented: the undocumented PerformanceCache part of each module stream contains compiled pseudo-code (p-code) for the VBA engine. It runs on Linux, OSX and Windows.

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2021

Tests conducted by the experts demonstrated how to embed 36.9MB of malware into a 178MB-AlexNet model within 1% accuracy loss, this means that the threat is completely transparent to antivirus engines. 58 antivirus engines were involved in the detection works, and no suspicious was detected. ” states the paper.

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The Hacker News

JANUARY 2, 2022

The problem relates to a date check failure with the change of the new year and it [is] not a failure of the [antivirus] engine itself," the company said in a blog post.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

This deal reads like to the epilogue to a book titled The First 20 Years of the Supremely Lucrative Antivirus Market. Way back in 1990, Symantec acquired Norton Utilities and made Norton the heart of its antivirus subscription offering. Also, one of the top ways attackers can target individuals is via social engineering or phishing.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 17, 2023

However, the detection rate of mainstream antivirus engines on this file was close to zero, which aroused our curiosity. After further […] The post xorbot: A Stealthy Botnet Family That Defies Detection appeared first on NSFOCUS, Inc.,

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SecureBlitz

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Compared with the conventional offline antivirus engine, online virus removers are cloud-based. Malware remains the most significant online threat that poses enormous threats to computers, especially when connected to the internet. This has led to the development of several anti-malware tools, including online virus scanners.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2023

. “Care should be taken to determine if any hosts running ICS are present in networks that have grown over time and steps taken to either disable the service if not required or patch as soon as possible if ICS is required,” Immersive Labs principal cyber security engineer Rob Reeves advised by email.

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NopSec

AUGUST 2, 2017

Antivirus software is one of the oldest and the most ever present security control against malware and various types of malicious software. I have antivirus so I’m covered” used have some legitimate weight to it. Hope for the best that the target does not have an antivirus or an end point security tool! <For

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

New research has uncovered a significant increase in QuickBooks file data theft using social engineering tricks to deliver malware and exploit the accounting software. "A

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Heimadal Security

JANUARY 16, 2023

CI/CD service CircleCI said the “sophisticated attack” occurred on December 16, 2022, and its antivirus software could not detect the malware. The post CircleCI Security Incident: How a Malware Attack on An Engineer’s Laptop Led to Chaos appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

Vendors sometimes use packing to prevent basic reverse engineering or illegal redistribution. Attackers can use compression to hide malware inside seemingly harmless and legitimate files, which can fool signature-based detection and even advanced artificial intelligence (AI)-based antivirus solutions.

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Adam Levin

JULY 10, 2020

A recent article released by cybersecurity and antivirus firm Bitdefender shows that 8.4 Phishing scams skyrocketed as citizens self-isolated during the lockdown, and social-engineering schemes defrauded Internet users of millions.”. billion records have already been exposed, and that’s only accounting for the first quarter of 2020.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2023

With 85% of campaigns targeting victims with phishing emails containing malicious links, another form of a social engineering attack, education and cyber vigiliance remain a high priority. The MGM attacks were almost identical to the social engineering attacks on Caesars, which targeted a third-party IT help desk.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Antivirus programs and firewalls are pretty good at catching malware before it can infect devices, but occasionally malware can slip through defenses, endangering personal and financial information. Your Antivirus is Randomly Disabled Malware often disables antivirus software, leaving your device open to further infection.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 29, 2024

At its core, this tactic revolves around gaming the trust users put in reputable internet services, including search engines, and the familiarity they have with online advertising per se. One way or another, the fact persists that search engine abuse can amplify the problem.

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SecureBlitz

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The new security suite features an antivirus engine with Dynamic Machine Learning abilities and enhanced protection capabilities to meet its users’ The post Full BullGuard Premium Protection 2021 Edition Review appeared first on SecureBlitz Cybersecurity.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 17, 2023

CircleCI revealed an engineer's laptop was successfully infected with a yet-to-be-named information-stealing Trojan, which was used to steal an engineer's session cookie. The malware was not detected by our antivirus software. The company didn't provide information on how the malware got onto the laptop.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 20, 2021

Severa created and then leased out to others some of the nastiest cybercrime engines in history — including the Storm worm , and the Waledac and Kelihos spam botnets. Severa ran several affiliate programs that paid cybercriminals to trick people into installing fake antivirus software.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2018

Today I’d like to share the following reverse engineering path since it ended up to be more complex respect what I thought. During the analysis time, only really few Antivirus (6 out of 60) were able to “detect” the sample. AntiVirus Coverage. Significative the choice to use a .reg

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The response is often to throw scanning engines and antivirus products at workstations, but all that does is delay boot up times and logging into the network. Instead of a somewhat nice and tidy domain tucked behind a series of firewalls and defenses, it is now connected to the same network as Alexa devices.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 10, 2023

.” In December, SafeBreach Labs researcher Or Yair discovered zero-day vulnerabilities in several EDR and antivirus tools, while in October, the BlackByte ransomware group was found to be actively exploiting a known driver vulnerability to bypass EDR protections.

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