Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

North Korea-linked threat actors posed as Samsung recruiters in a spear-phishing campaign aimed at employees at South Korean security firms. North Korea-linked APT group posed as Samsung recruiters is a spear-phishing campaign that targeted South Korean security companies that sell anti-malware solutions, Google TAG researchers reported.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 29, 2023

During the attack, the cybercriminals may have had access to names, addresses, and Social Security Numbers (SSNs) of current and former OHC employees (from 2009 to 2023). Some forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) can be phished just as easily as a password. 2FA that relies on a FIDO2 device can’t be phished.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2020

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

JUNE 18, 2020

Researchers uncovered an ongoing campaign delivering the Qbot malware to steal credentials from customers of dozens of US financial institutions. Security researchers at F5 Labs have spotted ongoing attacks using Qbot malware payloads to steal credentials from customers of dozens of US financial institutions. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 20, 2021

A federal judge in Connecticut today handed down a sentence of time served to spam kingpin Peter “Severa” Levashov , a prolific purveyor of malicious and junk email, and the creator of malware strains that infected millions of Microsoft computers globally. Severa was a moderator on the Russian spam community Spamdot[.]biz.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2022

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group uses Windows Update client to deliver malware on Windows systems. The activity of the Lazarus APT group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks. The use of Github as a C2 aims at evading detection.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The attack chain starts with COVID19-themed spear-phishing messages that contain either a malicious Word attachment or a link to one hosted on company servers. . “Once the malicious document is opened, the malware is dropped and proceeds to the next stage of the deployment process.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 14, 2022

Securing that many endpoints can get really complex, really fast, especially when you consider that the common wisdom that Macs don’t get malware simply isn’t true: in fact, the number of malware detections on Mac jumped 200% year-on-year in 2021. And it’s not just malware you have to worry about with your Mac endpoints.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Using LOLBINS, common legitimate pentesting tools, and fileless malware; misleading security researchers by placing false flags—these and other anti-forensic tricks often make threat attribution a matter of luck. The malware spreads through spear-phishing emails with a malicious Microsoft Office document as attachment.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In 2017, a hacker group known as the Shadow Brokers stolen malware and hacking tools from the arsenal of the NSA-Linked Equation Group , then it published online the data dump called “ Lost in Translation.” The DarkUniverse has been active at least from 2009 until 2017. dll malware module provides keylogging functionality.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Experts noticed the group since around mid-2016 when it was using PlugX, ChChes, Quasar and RedLeaves malware in targeted attacks. In July 2018, FireEye observed a series of new attacks of the group leveraging spear-phishing emails using weaponized Word documents that attempt to deliver the UPPERCUT backdoor, also tracked as ANEL.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2020

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. Researchers provided details for each of the campaigns they have analyzed.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2021

BMP) image files in a recent spear-phishing campaign targeting entities in South Korea. . Experts from Malwarebytes have uncovered a spear-phishing attack conducted by a North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group that obfuscated a malicious code within a bitmap (.BMP) North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group is abusing bitmap (.BMP)

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The group has been active at least since 2009, in April 2017 experts from PwC UK and BAE Systems uncovered a widespread hacking campaign, tracked as Operation Cloud Hopper , targeting managed service providers (MSPs) in multiple countries worldwide.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2019

The APT10 group has added two new malware loaders to its arsenal and used in attacks aimed at government and private organizations in Southeast Asia. The recent attacks were uncovered by experts at enSilo, they also noticed that the APT group used modified versions of known malware. ” reads the analysis published by enSilo.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2021

Founded in 2009, FBS is an international online forex broker with more than 400,000 partners and 16 million traders spanning over 190 countries. Scams, Phishing and Malware. Leaked contact information may be used to launch scam, phishing and malware attacks against FBS users. Who is FBS.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Number of data leaks from medical organizations, 2009–2020. With the active development of telehealth, medicine will only become a more commonly used bait, just as the digitalization of banks has turned banking phishing into one of the most popularly used types of phishing. Source: HIPAA Journal.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 3, 2021

Millions in the UK Targeted by Malware via a DHL Scam Text Message. That link would attempt to install spyware called Flubot, malware designed to steal online banking data from Andriod devices. . That link would attempt to install spyware called Flubot, malware designed to steal online banking data from Andriod devices. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 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. Experts believe APT threat actors carried out spear-phishing attacks against the bank, malicious messages used Windows executable.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2019

The group has been active at least since 2009, in April 2017 experts from PwC UK and BAE Systems uncovered a widespread hacking campaign, tracked as Operation Cloud Hopper , targeting managed service providers (MSPs) in multiple countries worldwide. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2018

” Experts noticed the group since around mid-2016 when it was using PlugX, ChChes, Quasar and RedLeaves malware in targeted attacks. In July 2018, FireEye observed a series of new attacks of the group leveraging spear-phishing emails using weaponized Word documents that attempt to deliver the UPPERCUT backdoor, also tracked as ANEL.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

According to Microsoft, the Platinum has been active since at least 2009, it was responsible for spear phishing attacks on ISPs, government organizations, intelligence agencies, and defense institutes. “The malware hides at every step by mimicking common software (protection related, sound software , DVD video creation tools).”

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2020

The group has been active at least since 2009, in April 2017 experts from PwC UK and BAE Systems uncovered a widespread hacking campaign, tracked as Operation Cloud Hopper , targeting managed service providers (MSPs) in multiple countries worldwide.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

According to Microsoft, the Platinum has been active since at least 2009, it was responsible for spear phishing attacks on ISPs, government organizations, intelligence agencies, and defense institutes. The APT group was discovered by Microsoft in 2016, it targeted organizations in South and Southeast.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Even small details like using financial hooks as part of a phishing awareness campaign can come across as poor taste at a time of rising consumer prices, she said. It’s a message that organisers Irisscert have promoted since the very first IRISSCON back in 2009. Avast’s CISO – Jaya Baloo.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The JabberZeus crew’s name is derived from the malware they used, which was configured to send them a Jabber instant message each time a new victim entered a one-time password code into a phishing page mimicking their bank. Tank, a.k.a. In the chat below, “lucky12345” is the Zeus author Bogachev: tank: Are you there?

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The feds allege Aqua led an elite cybercrime ring with at least 16 others who used advanced, custom-made strains of malware known as “ JabberZeus ” and “ Bugat ” (a.k.a. “ Dridex “) to steal banking credentials from employees at hundreds of small- to mid-sized companies in the United States and Europe.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

Over the past ten years, his contact information has been used to register numerous phishing domains intended to siphon credentials from people trying to transact on various dark web marketplaces. That last domain was originally registered in 2009 to a Mikhail P. DomainTools.com [an advertiser on this site] reports mixfb@yandex.ru

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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. The FSB headquarters at Lubyanka Square, Moscow.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 27, 2022

Lazarus Group is one of the most sophisticated North Korean APTs that has been active since 2009. In this campaign, Lazarus conducted spear phishing attacks weaponized with malicious documents that use their known job opportunities theme. The malware performs a series of injections and achieves startup persistence in the target system.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 12, 2023

The Guardian, which operates one of the most visited websites in the world, described the incident as a “highly sophisticated cyberattack involving unauthorised third-party access to parts of our network”, most likely triggered by a successful phishing attempt. In 2022, LockBit was used in 31% of known attacks globally, 3.5

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In tandem with the physical strikes against Ukraine, a piece of wiper malware first detected by researchers at Symantec and ESET had already begun targeting organizations in Ukraine. Current analyses of HermeticWiper reveal that the malware is being delivered in highly-targeted attacks in Ukraine, Latvia, and Lithuania.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 19, 2021

Lazarus APT is one of the most sophisticated North Korean Threat Actors that has been active since at least 2009. In one of their most recent campaigns Lazarus used a complex targeted phishing attack against security researchers. This attack likely started by distributing phishing emails that were weaponized with a malicious document.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 5, 2021

I'm Robert Vamosi and in this episode I'm digging deeper into those IoT botnets, and I'm going to talk to two researchers who are looking at creative ways to defend against IoT malware, and a key piece of that puzzle is finding and stopping what's known as command and control server, or the CnCS behind those botnets. We still have malware.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. Krebs wrote for The Washington Post between 1995 and 2009 before launching his current blog KrebsOnSecurity.com. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs. — Dave Kennedy (@HackingDave) July 15, 2020.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Vendors continue to develop new features to address an existing number of security risks for databases: Data corruption or loss Inappropriate access Malware, phishing, and other cyberattacks Security vulnerabilities or configuration problems Denial of service attacks. Also Read: With So Many Eyeballs, Is Open Source Security Better?

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Security Boulevard

JULY 21, 2021

New Year's Postcard Malware) ". I was reminded of 2009 and told "The Russians are protecting him.". 17APR2013 - " Boston Marathon explosion spam leads to Malware " . 16AUG2016 - " Kelihos botnet sending geo-targeted Desjardins Phish to Canadians ". ". 22JUL2008 - " Amero to Replace Dollar? Could Storm Worm Be Right? ".

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