Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2020

The Ke3chang hacking group added a new malware dubbed Ketrum to its arsenal, it borrows portions of code and features from older backdoors. In May 2016, researchers from Palo Alto found evidence that the threat actors behind the Operation Ke3chang had been active since at least 2010. SecurityAffairs – Ke3chang, hacking).

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

Related: We’re in the midst of ‘cyber Pearl Harbor’ Peel back the layers of just about any sophisticated, multi-staged network breach and you’ll invariably find memory hacking at the core. Here’s what I took away from our discussion: Transient hacks. This quickly gets intricately technical. Branching attacks.

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2020

A new version of the REMnux Linux toolkit for malware analysts is available for download, it includes a huge set of tools for professionals. REMnux is a Linux toolkit for reverse-engineering and dissecting software, it includes a collection of free tools created by the community that allows researchers to investigate malware.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Most of DCReavers’s posts on Darkode appear to have been removed by forum administrators early on (likely at DCReavers’ request), but the handful of posts that survived the purge show that more than a decade ago DCReavers2 was involved in running botnets, or large collections of hacked computers. ” The U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2023

Denis Emelyantsev , a 36-year-old Russian man accused of running a massive botnet called RSOCKS that stitched malware into millions of devices worldwide, pleaded guilty to two counts of computer crime violations in a California courtroom this week. A copy of the passport for Denis Emelyantsev, a.k.a.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Samide and other experts say what’s coming next is very likely to be a series of varied attacks as combatants on all sides leverage footholds gained from ongoing intelligence gathering and malware planting. cyber ops capability is Stuxnet , the self-spreading Windows worm found insinuating itself through Iranian nuclear plants in 2010.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2019

But GandCrab far eclipsed the success of competing ransomware affiliate programs largely because its authors worked assiduously to update the malware so that it could evade antivirus and other security defenses. It remains unclear how many individuals were active in the core GandCrab malware development team.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2020

A 30-year-old Moldovan man pleaded guilty this week for creating the FastPOS malware that infected PoS systems worldwide. The Moldovan citizen Valerian Chiochiu (30), aka Onassis, pleaded guilty on Friday for creating the infamous FastPOS Point-of-Sale (POS) malware. SecurityAffairs – hacking, FastPOS). and infraud.ws.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

New malware compiled on Red Hat Enterprise Linux uses a network data encoding scheme based on XOR, creates a backdoor in systems that gives an attacker near full control over infected machines. ( “Linux password file” by Christiaan Colen is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 ).

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

A dozen of the vulnerabilities Microsoft patched today are rated “critical,” meaning malware or miscreants could exploit them remotely to gain complete control over an affected system with little to no help from the user. It could be used to install malware just by getting a user to browse to a malicious or hacked Web site.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Microsoft has taken control of 42 web domains that a hacking group was using to try to breach its targets. Sadly, any setback to the Chinese hacking group or others will likely be temporary as the hackers will find and build new infrastructure to use in forthcoming attacks. An overview of Chinese hacking groups and their aliases.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2020

Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 revealed that the US CIA has hacked Chinese organizations in various sectors for the last 11 years. Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 is accusing that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of having hacked Chinese organizations for the last 11 years. SecurityAffairs – hacking, CIA).

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Following their dramatic arrests in 2016, many news media outlets reported that the men were suspected of having tipped off American intelligence officials about those responsible for Russian hacking activities tied to the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

A CIA elite hacking unit that developed cyber-weapons failed in protecting its operations, states an internal report on the Vault 7 data leak. In March, Joshua Schulte , a former CIA software engineer that was accused of stealing the agency’s hacking tools and leaking them to WikiLeaks, was convicted of only minor charges.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Microsoft has taken control of 42 web domains that a hacking group was using to try to breach its targets. Sadly, any setback to the Chinese hacking group or others will likely be temporary as the hackers will find and build new infrastructure to use in forthcoming attacks. An overview of Chinese hacking groups and their aliases.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In December 2013, a Slovenian court sentenced Škorjanc to four years and ten months in prison for creating the malware that powered the ‘ Mariposa ‘ botnet. Very soon after its inception, Mariposa was estimated to have infected more than 1 million hacked computers — making it one of the largest botnets ever created.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Belgian newspaper reported that investigators had found proof that the Belgacom hack was the work of the UK GCHQ intelligence agency. Back to September 2013, Belgacom (now Proximus), the largest telecommunications company in Belgium and primarily state-owned, announced its IT infrastructure had suffered a malware-based attack.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2020

depending on the Windows version), SharePoint Enterprise Server 2013 Service Pack 1, SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016 , SharePoint Server 2010 Service Pack 2, SharePoint Server 2019, Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9, SecurityAffairs – hacking, CVE-2020-1147). The CVE-2020-1147 vulnerability impacts.NET Core 2.1,NET NET Framework 2.0

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

last week said they dismantled the “ RSOCKS ” botnet, a collection of millions of hacked devices that were sold as “proxies” to cybercriminals looking for ways to route their malicious traffic through someone else’s computer. Authorities in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Denis Emelyantsev , as the apparent owner of RSOCKS, a collection of millions of hacked devices that were sold as “proxies” to cybercriminals looking for ways to route their malicious traffic through someone else’s computer. ” Kloster’s blog even included a group photo of RSOCKS employees.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2020

has been active since at least 2010 most of the victims of the group are organizations in the energy and industrial sectors. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Energetic Bear). The post FBI and CISA joint alert blames Russia’s Energetic Bear APT for US government networks hack appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

As detailed in my 2014 book, Spam Nation , Spamdot was home to crooks controlling some of the world’s nastiest botnets, global malware contagions that went by exotic names like Rustock , Cutwail , Mega-D , Festi , Waledac , and Grum. And there were many good reasons to support this conclusion.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Department of Justice, the Chinese intelligence officers recruited hackers and insiders to hack aerospace and tech firms. The campaign was carried out at least from January 2010 to May 2015. A JSSD officer provided malware to insiders, two of which is Tian Xi and Gu Gen, to plant the malicious code in the organization.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2021

According to the experts, the Gozi Banking Malware infected more than 1 million computers worldwide, causing tens of millions of dollars in losses. Prosecutors claim that the malware has infected systems in at least eight countries, including the United States, Germany, Finland and the United Kingdom. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Gozi ).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Yoroi security firm uncovered a targeted attack against one of the most important companies in the Italian Naval Industry leveraging MartyMcFly Malware. According to VirusTotal the software was “seen in the Wild” in 2010 but submitted only on 2018-10-12! Security Affairs – MartyMcFly , malware).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2020

Several US universities and colleges were targeted in phishing attacks aimed at delivering malware previously used by China-linked APT groups. Hupigon is a remote access Trojan (RAT) that has been active since at least 2006, it was first detected by FireEye in 2010. Faculty and students at several U.S. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen groups at least since 2010. SecurityAffairs – hacking, e-skimmer). The post Fullz House hacked the website of Boom! Hacker groups under the Magecart umbrella continue to target to steal payment card data with so-called software skimmers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2020

A security expert uncovered an old APT operation, tracked Nazar, by analyzing the NSA hacking tools included in the dump leaked by Shadow Brokers in 2017. Guerrero-Saade discovered that the SIG37 campaign references hacking activities dated back as far as 2008 that was carried out by an unknown threat actor, the expert tracked it as Nazar.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2021

The APT group has been active since 2010, targeted organizations worldwide, including U.S. The cyber espionage group leverage both readily available tools and custom malware in their operations, many tools are available for years, but in recent attacks, their code was updated. They also uncovered the ASPXSpy webshell.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

APT15 has been active since at least 2010, it conducted cyber espionage campaigns against targets worldwide in several industries, including defense, high tech, energy, government, aerospace, and manufacturing. “The Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) has disrupted the activities of a China-based hacking group that we call Nickel.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2022

The attack against Iran’s national railway system involved a wiper malware dubbed Meteor and not ransomware as initially thought. Meteor was a previously undetected strain of malware, but experts were not able to link it to specific advanced persistent threat actors. SecurityAffairs – hacking, SolarMarker). Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureList

JUNE 8, 2022

Routers are forever being hacked and infected, and used to infiltrate local networks. Number of router vulnerabilities according to cve.mitre.org, 2010–2022 ( download ). Number of router vulnerabilities according to nvd.nist.gov, 2010–2022 ( download ). Router-targeting malware. Verdict. %*. Backdoor.Linux.Mirai.b.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

According to the cyber intelligence company Intel 471 , a user named Acidut with the email address iulyan87_4u@gmail.com had an active presence on almost a dozen shadowy money-making and cybercrime forums from 2010 to 2017, including BlackHatWorld , Carder[.]pro 1, 2021: 15-Year-Old Malware Proxy Network VIP72 Goes Dark.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2020

Security researchers from ESET revealed that the infamous Russian hacker group known as Energetic Bear is behind the hack of two San Francisco International Airport (SFO) websites. The Energetic Bear APT group has been active since at least 2010 most of the victims of the group are organizations in the energy and industrial sectors.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 9, 2021

Microsoft is now offering the same patch for the no-longer-supported Exchange Server 2010. Following widespread hacking from the Hafnium group and, perhaps, other groups , Microsoft is now offering the same patch for the no-longer-supported Exchange Server 2010 that it introduced last week for all newer editions. Microsoft).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2021

.” Reports claim that the attack was launched by Israel-linked hackers, the same state is suspected to have had a main role in the Stuxnet attack that hit the same nuclear plant back in 2010. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Iran). If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2020

. “My thought is that the existing Strategic Concept, which we agreed in 2010, has served NATO well. Having said that, I think we all have to realise that since we agreed the Strategic Concept back in 2010, the world has fundamentally changed.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, K-Electric). Pierluigi Paganini.

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