The Last Watchdog

JUNE 3, 2022

I had a chance to discuss the latter with Ravi Srinivasan, CEO of Tel Aviv-based Votiro which launched in 2010 and has grown to . Votiro has established itself as a leading supplier of advanced technology to cleanse weaponized files.

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2021

“My exploit pack is hosted there with 0 problems,” DCReaver2 says of a shady online provider that another member asked about in May 2010. Arrested in 2010, Skorjanc was sentenced to nearly five years in prison for selling and supporting Mariposa, which was used to compromise millions of Microsoft Windows computers.

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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. of GandCrab.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 5, 2022

The Formbook malware is an information stealer that is in use by many threat actors. The embedded object downloaded a remote template that exploits CVE-2017-11882 to download and execute the FormBook malware. The post Beware of malware offering “Warm greetings from Saudi Aramco” appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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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 Google-translated version of the Rusdot spam forum.

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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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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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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 14, 2022

Picus Labs has updated the Picus Threat Library with new attack methods for Flagpro malware of BlackTech. The APT group was first observed in 2010 and they have been active since. Flagpro malware was recently discovered by NTTSecurity and the malware is attributed to BlackTech [1]. BlackTech APT group. Initial Access.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

None of the flaws are known to be currently under active exploitation, but 23 of them could be exploited by malware or malcontents to seize complete control of Windows computers with little or no help from users.

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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. Prosecutors say McCormick also was a reseller of the Mariposa botnet, the ZeuS banking trojan , and a bot malware he allegedly helped create called “Ngrbot.”

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Attackers exploit public-facing applications by targeting known vulnerabilities, including: Fortinet FortiOS (CVE-2018-13379) Adobe ColdFusion (CVE-2010-2861, CVE-2009-3960) Microsoft Exchange (CVE-2021-34473, CVE-2021-34523, CVE-2021-31207) Microsoft SharePoint (CVE-2019-0604) Once inside, Ghost actors deploy Cobalt Strike Beacon malware, steal credentials, (..)

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

According to the Ponemon Institute's 2021 Global Encryption Trends Study, 50% of organizations have an encryption plan consistently applied across their entire environment—up from around 40% in 2015, and 25% in 2010. There are two common approaches to restoring traffic visibility: To read this article in full, please click here

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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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The Hacker News

MARCH 5, 2025

USB drive attacks constitute a significant cybersecurity risk, taking advantage of the everyday use of USB devices to deliver malware and circumvent traditional network security measures. An example is the Stuxnet worm discovered in 2010, a malware designed to

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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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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In 2013, Vrublevsky was convicted of hiring his most-trusted spammer and malware writer to launch a crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against one of his company’s chief competitors.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

RUSdot is the successor forum to Spamdot , a far more secretive and restricted forum where most of the world’s top spammers, virus writers and cybercriminals collaborated for years before the community’s implosion in 2010. A Google-translated version of the Rusdot spam forum. “That’s why they want me.”

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Malwarebytes

JULY 28, 2021

All of a sudden we have infectious email attachments, and compromised third-party sites serving up malware. 2010 Vancouver. All things banking are considered a problem point in Brazil in terms of hacks and malware, so there were plenty of warnings for visitors surrounding that too.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Initially a stealthy trojan horse program delivered via email and used to steal passwords, Trickbot evolved into “a highly modular malware suite that provides the Trickbot Group with the ability to conduct a variety of illegal cyber activities, including ransomware attacks,” the Treasury Department said. .” The Forbes.ru

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

” What follows is a deep dive into the identity of that Chinese vendor, which appears to have a long and storied history of pushing the envelope on mobile malware. com — were implicated in propagating the Triada malware. net 2010-11-22 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., “Yehuo” ( ? ? ) com , buydudu[.]com

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 8, 2025

FortiGuard Labs saw some of the early botnets back between 2007-2010, like Zeus and Conficker, using fast flux to distribute malware and manage their Command and Control (C2) communications. While the technique is older, it can still be effective.

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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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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Microsoft labels flaws critical when they could be exploited by miscreants or malware to seize control over a vulnerable system without any help from the user. Other notable vulnerabilities addressed this month include a pair of critical security holes in Microsoft Excel versions 2010-2019 for Mac and Windows, as well as Office 365.

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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

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

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.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2019

Malware researchers at Trend Micro discovered a new variant of the Asruex Trojan that exploits old Microsoft Office and Adobe vulnerabilities to infect Windows and Mac systems. CVE-2010-2883 is a stack buffer overflow flaw that could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code or trigger a denial of service condition. .

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

RUSdot is the successor forum to Spamdot , a far more secretive and restricted forum where most of the world’s top spammers, virus writers and cybercriminals collaborated for years before the community’s implosion in 2010. Even today, the RUSdot Mailer is advertised for sale at the top of the RUSdot community forum.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 20, 2021

the malware used by the attacker pretends to be the xmlprov Network Provisioning Service. The post New variant of Konni malware used in campaign targetting Russia appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs. Document analysis. We found two lures used by Konni APT. It then executes xwtpui.dll using rundll32.exe Figure 7: check.bat.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

This post examines the activities of Khoroshev’s many alter egos on the cybercrime forums, and tracks the career of a gifted malware author who has written and sold malicious code for the past 14 years. This user said they specialize in developing malware, creating computer worms, and crafting new ways to hijack Web browsers.

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Threatpost

APRIL 8, 2020

Hundreds of thousands of malware files are disguised as well-known social conferencing and collaboration apps.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2021

The payload malware: Sunburst, a heavily-obfuscated backdoor. People tend to focus on the Sunburst malware , the actual backdoor that ended up in the affected update package,” Pericin told me. Out of this comes whitelists and blacklists on which malware filters are based. Granular scrutiny.

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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.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 8, 2021

Information is also out that these unmanned vehicles have sophisticated devices installed in them that can launch cyber attacks such as DDoS and malware after connecting to a wireless network.

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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.” And it has actually served us well for many years.

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