Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2020

The helicopter maker Kopter was hit by LockBit ransomware, the attackers compromised its internal network and encrypted the company’s files. Kopter Group is Switzerland-based company that was founded in 2007 that was acquired by Leonardo in April 2020.

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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. Most of the APT28s’ campaigns leveraged spear-phishing and malware-based attacks. ” reads the joint advisory. through 12.4

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2020

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT already used at least two macOS malware in previous attacks, now researchers from Malwarebytes have identified a new Mac variant of the Linux-based Dacls RAT. The activity of the Lazarus APT group (aka HIDDEN COBRA ) surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The Russia-linked cyberespionage group APT28 is behind a string of attacks that targeting government bodies with Zebrocy Delphi malware. “In particular, we found a malicious file uploaded to VirusTotal, which ultimately drops a Zebrocy malware and communicates with a C2 in France.” screenshots) to hxxp://194.32.78[.]245/protect/get-upd-id[.]PHP”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

The activity of the Lazarus Group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks and experts that investigated on the crew consider it highly sophisticated. Msadoz<n> dll (detected by Trend Micro as BKDR64_BINLODR.ZNFJ-A) – encrypted backdoor.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2020

The ransomware encrypted files and renamed their filenames by adding the “ easy2lock” extension, this extension was previously associated with recent WastedLocker ransomware infections. This group has been active since at least 2007, in December 2019, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) attributes this campaign with high confidence to ZINC, a DPRK-affiliated and state-sponsored group, based on observed tradecraft, infrastructure, malware patterns, and account affiliations.” Attackers also employed an encrypted Chrome password-stealer hosted on ZINC domain [link]. .

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2020

The Winnti hacking group continues to target gaming industry, recently it used a new malware named PipeMon and a new method to achieve persistence. Winnti hacking group is using a new malware dubbed PipeMon and a novel method to achieve persistence in attacks aimed at video game companies. ” concludes ESET.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 22, 2021

Malware, for example, would specifically target password storage in browsers and plunder everything in sight. Password managers weren’t exactly flying off the shelves back in 2007, your only real options were home grown. Malware files can decrypt your passwords, or wait for you to do it.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2020

Cybersecurity researchers discovered a new version of the ComRAT backdoor, also known as Agent.BTZ , which is a malware that was employed in past campaigns attributed to the Turla APT group. Despite their extensions, the attachments are not Office documents, but rather encrypted blobs of data that include a specific command to be executed.

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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.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2021

The activity of the Lazarus APT group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks. 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.

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Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2019

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. ” concludes Kaspersky.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

As a matter of fact, the most-reported crime in the 2021 Internet Crime Report report was phishing , a social engineering scam wherein the victim receives a deceptive message from someone in an attempt to get the victim to reveal personal information or account credentials or to trick them into downloading malware. since Q3 of 2007.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The PyInstaller module for Windows contains a script named “Guard” Interestingly, this malware was developed for both Windows and macOS operating systems. The malware tries to spread to other hosts on the network by infecting USB drives. After this, they were tricked into downloading previously unknown malware.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 3, 2021

The downside to this long-term trend is that communications online, never mind on public cloud platforms, present vulnerabilities via web attacks and malware. VPNs offer clients an encrypted access channel to remote networks through a tunneling protocol and can obfuscate the client’s IP address. Enter VPN technology.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2018

Malware researchers from ESET have published a detailed report on the latest variant of the Turla backdoor that leverages email PDF attachments as C&C. Malware researchers from ESET have conducted a new analysis of a backdoor used by the Russia-linked APT Turla in targeted espionage operations. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2019

SI-LAB captured a piece of the FlawedAmmyy malware that leverages undetected XLM macros as an Infection Vehicle to compromise user’s devices. The threat is only detected later when an MSI file (Windows installer) drops and execute the first infection stage of the malware. macro) embedded that is not detectable by AV engines.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 7, 2021

In the process of doing so, I encountered a small snag: The FSB’s website said in order to communicate with them securely, I needed to download and install an encryption and virtual private networking (VPN) appliance that is flagged by at least 20 antivirus products as malware. biz, circa 2007. Image: Wikipedia.

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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. h/t @MiguelSantareno – malware submitted on 0xSI_f33d. malware ecosystem.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 21, 2021

In the context of cybercrime though, ZeuS (aka the Zbot Trojan) is a once-prolific malware that could easily be described as one of a handful of information stealers ahead of its time. Collectively, this malware and its variants infected millions of systems and stole billions of dollars worldwide. According to SecureWorks, ZeuS 1.3.4.x,

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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.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

. “During this past year, dozens of digitally signed variants of this once commodity malware started to reappear in the threat landscape, reigniting interest in this old malware family.” Experts observed several samples of the malware that were digitally signed with valid certificates issued by Certum.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 26, 2022

Alongside analytics solutions for cloud, malware, and logs, Cisco acquisition of Lancope in 2015 led to the development of its NDR solution, Cisco Secure Network Analytics. Detection for signature-less, insider, and encrypted malware threats. Malware analysis without decryption for advanced encrypted threats.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

It was found in the wild in 2007 and since then it has been continually maintained and developed. However, there is another infection vector that involves a malicious QakBot payload being transferred to the victim’s machine via other malware on the compromised machine. The data is encrypted with the RC4 algorithm.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Researchers from ESET discovered the attacks in November 2019 when they spotted the ShadowPad launcher malware samples on multiple devices at the two universities. The launchers were discovered two weeks after Winnti malware infections were detected in October 2019. ” reads the analysis p ublished by ESET.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2018

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group leveraged for the first time on a MacOS variant of the Fallchill malware in a cryptocurrency exchange attack. According to Kaspersky, the North Korea-linked Lazarus group used a macOS malware to target a cryptocurrency exchange in a recent attack.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

Today, many reports are describing how infamous attackers are abusing such an emergency time to lure people by sending thematic email campaigns or by using thematic IM within Malware or Phishing links. Hackers taking advantage of COVID-19 to spread malware New COVID-19-themed malspam campaign delivers FormBook Malware.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 15, 2022

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. Imagine the computer you bought in 2007 trying to run the operating system you have now.). The device side.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Using Outdated Software – companies pay about $36 295 to return their data from hacker By “software” we mean using old versions of Office like Office 2007 / 2010 / 2013 and not checking for the system updates and patches in Office 365. Cybercriminals can sell you information or encrypt it with ransomware to demand money.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Vamosi: Back in 2007 the California Secretary of State, Debra Bowen, did the unthinkable: she decertified all the digital voting systems in the state. Things like network encryption, certificate pinning - is this device domain joined or not? Listen to EP 08: Hacking Voting Systems. Apple Podcasts. Google Podcasts. Spotify Podcasts.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Vamosi: Back in 2007 the California Secretary of State, Debra Bowen, did the unthinkable: she decertified all the digital voting systems in the state. Things like network encryption, certificate pinning - is this device domain joined or not? Listen to EP 08: Hacking Voting Systems. Apple Podcasts. Google Podcasts. Spotify Podcasts.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Vamosi: Back in 2007 the California Secretary of State, Debra Bowen, did the unthinkable: she decertified all the digital voting systems in the state. Things like network encryption, certificate pinning - is this device domain joined or not? Listen to EP 08: Hacking Voting Systems. Apple Podcasts. Google Podcasts. Spotify Podcasts.

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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. These are not groups of individual hackers sitting around the table late at night as it was in teh early days of malware writing. I remember meeting Mikko in 2006.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The APT28 group has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. That field post number 74455 is the same for the APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ). It resulted in a fifth of Kyiv losing power for an hour.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2019

This Office password protection could be easily bypassed using the classic malware analysis tools and after the code extraction, it’s possible to analyze the plain-text code as follows. So, the malware checks the current Powershell version: if it is greater or equal than 3, it disables the above mentioned security features.

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