Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The Turla APT group (aka Snake , Uroburos , Waterbug , Venomous Bear and KRYPTON ) has been active since at least 2007 targeting diplomatic and government organizations and private businesses in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, North and South America, and former Soviet bloc nations.

Government 93

Government Hacking Advertising Encryption 93

Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2020

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. The Mac version uses the same AES key and IV as the Linux variant to encrypt and decrypt the config file.

Malware 87

Malware Advertising Encryption Hacking 87

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. Dacls Bot include command execution, file management, process management, test network access, C2 connection agent, and network scanning.

Malware 73

Malware Advertising Encryption Hacking 73

Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. SNMP v2 doesn’t support encryption and so all data, including community strings, is sent unencrypted.” through 12.4

Malware 85

Malware Firmware Government Education 85

Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. Attackers also employed an encrypted Chrome password-stealer hosted on ZINC domain [link]. .

Malware 115

Malware Antivirus Hacking Accountability 115

Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2020

The Winnti group was first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, but according to the researchers the gang has been active since 2007. Experts noticed that modules are stored encrypted on disk at the same location with inoffensive-looking names.

Malware 105

Malware Hacking Advertising Architecture 105

Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2021

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. The activity of the Lazarus APT group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks.

Phishing 69

Phishing Hacking Cryptocurrency Encryption 69

Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2020

The Turla APT group (aka Snake , Uroburos , Waterbug , Venomous Bear and KRYPTON ) has been active since at least 2007 targeting diplomatic and government organizations and private businesses in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, North and South America, and former Soviet bloc nations.

Advertising 98

Advertising Malware Encryption Authentication 98

Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2019

Security experts at Kaspersky revealed that the Russia-linked APT group Turla used new variants of the KopiLuwak Trojan in targeted attacks since early 2019. The list of previously known victims is long and includes also the Swiss defense firm RUAG , US Department of State, and the US Central Command. . ” concludes Kaspersky.

Advertising 71

Advertising Encryption Malware Government 71

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

out of 5 stars on Chrome web store, 9 out of 10 pairs of participants failed to complete the assigned task of exchanging encrypted emails, i.e. 90% failure rate. The most common mistake that repeatedly occurred in all of these studies [13,14,15] was to encrypt a message with the sender’s public key. This type of scheme (e.g., [8,9])

Encryption 91

Encryption Government Authentication Accountability 91

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The APT41 group (aka Winnti , Axiom, Barium , Blackfly, HOODOO) is a China-linked cyberespionage group that has been active since at least 2007. Attackers also a Packerloader tool to load and execute shellcode, which is stored in a file in an encrypted form. The attack is the latest in a series of intrusions against CNI targets.

Encryption 113

Encryption Malware Hacking Government 113

Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2021

A taste of the latest release of QakBot – one of the most popular and mediatic trojan bankers active since 2007. The malware QakBot , also known as Qbot , Pinkslipbot , and Quakbot is a banking trojan that has been made headlines since 2007. Figure 15: Identification of Delphi forms and unknown resources (encrypted QakBot DLL).

Malware 101

Malware Encryption Banking Software 101

Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2019

In this file, the Workbook stream is interesting as it contains all the information related to that workbook such as the included sheets. The structure of this stream is fully specified in Microsoft Office Excel 97-2007 – Binary File Format Specification. The full list of programs it is seeking is the following.

Malware 84

Malware Antivirus Technology Phishing 84

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Upon opening the archive, malicious macros are downloaded, which subsequently proceeds to drop and execute a second-stage PowerShell script encrypted inside the original Word document. . “Certified documents.docx”) delivered inside a ZIP file.

Energy and Utilities 119

Energy and Utilities Malware Government Healthcare 119

Cisco Security

JUNE 15, 2022

That doesn’t mean the risk is zero, noted Christos Sarris , a longtime information security analyst. He shared an anecdote in Cisco Secure’s recent e-book, “ Building Security Resilience ,” about finding malware on an intensive care unit device that compromised a pump used to deliver precise doses of medicine.

Internet 128

Internet Internet Manufacturing Healthcare 128

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

” The Winnti group was first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, but according to the researchers the gang has been active since 2007. . “The Winnti malware was also found at these universities a few weeks p rior to ShadowPad.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

Malware 62

Malware Advertising Encryption Hacking 62

Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

The following VBScript is run through cscript.exe, It’s an obfuscated and xor-encrypted payload. The encryption is performed by a simple xor having as key the single byte 0 while the encoding procedure is a multi conversion routine which could be summarized as follows: chr(asc(chr(“&h”&mid(x,y,2)))).

Computers and Electronics 98

Computers and Electronics Penetration Testing Malware Cyber Attacks 98

ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

Centre for Defence: In 2007, a struggle over a divisive Soviet statutes set the standard for a new form of Russian interference in the affairs of foreign states. Vamosi: The slogan of the RSA Conference is “Where the World Talks Security,” and, in general. Instead we have these faceless ransomware groups. Here's the BBC.

Cybercrime 40

Cybercrime Government Ransomware Hacking 40