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Prilex: the pricey prickle credit card complex

SecureList

Prilex is a Brazilian threat actor that has evolved out of ATM-focused malware into modular point-of-sale malware. Active since 2014, in 2016, the group decided to give up ATM malware and focus all of their attacks on PoS systems, targeting the core of the payment industry. Evolving into PoS malware.

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OnionPoison: infected Tor Browser installer distributed through popular YouTube channel

SecureList

Visual Studio 2010 – 10.10 Upon startup, the malicious library creates a mutex with the name GlobalTBrowser that prevents two instances of the malware from running at the same time. The malware then reflectively loads this DLL and invokes its entry point function. Visual Studio 2010 – 10.10 dll library.

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Protecting Industrial Control Systems Against Cyberattacks – Part 1

Security Boulevard

Networks can also be easily breached by social engineering, password theft, or tainted USBs, as in the Stuxnet attack. . . Industroyer , also called CrashOverride , is believed to be the malware that shut down the power grid in Kiev, Ukraine’s capital, in December 2016. The malware targeted the Siemens Spirotec Digital Relay.

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Mobile security advances to stopping device exploits ? not just detecting malicious apps

The Last Watchdog

The most profound threat to corporate networks isn’t the latest, greatest malware. With our affiliations and preferences put in play by search engines and social media, we’re perfect patsies for social engineering. The vast majority of the mobile malware we see is designed for fraud.

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FBI and DHS CISA issue alerts on e-skimming attacks

Security Affairs

Another attack scenario sees hackers targeting the administrators of the platform with social engineering attacks in an attempt to obtain his credentials and use them to plant the malicious code in the e-store. Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen groups at least since 2010. .

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MY TAKE: Memory hacking arises as a go-to tactic to carry out deep, persistent incursions

The Last Watchdog

One tried-and-true incursion method pivots off social engineering. Allegedly developed by US and Israeli operatives, Stuxnet was discovered circulating through Iranian nuclear energy facilities in 2010. This branch includes families of malware like NotPetya, GLIBC and Shell Shock. Branching attacks. Fast forward to 2017.

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LRQA Nettitude’s Approach to Artificial Intelligence

LRQA Nettitude Labs

This has included AI programs revealing sensitive information, being taken advantage of by malicious users to import malware into code output, or as some university students found out at their cost, taking credit for work it did not complete.