Security Affairs
JANUARY 25, 2020
Chinese hackers have exploited a zero-day vulnerability the Trend Micro OfficeScan antivirus in the recently disclosed hack of Mitsubishi Electric. Now ZDNet has learned from sources close to the investigation that the Chinese hackers have used a zero-day flaw in the Trend Micro OfficeScan antivirus in the attack on Mitsubishi Electric.
Krebs on Security
JUNE 21, 2023
If you operate a cybercrime business that relies on disseminating malicious software, you probably also spend a good deal of time trying to disguise or “crypt” your malware so that it appears benign to antivirus and security products. ” Meanwhile, the Jabber address masscrypt@exploit.im
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Krebs on Security
JULY 20, 2021
Severa ran several affiliate programs that paid cybercriminals to trick people into installing fake antivirus software. In 2011, KrebsOnSecurity dissected “SevAntivir” — Severa’s eponymous fake antivirus affiliate program — showing it was used to deploy new copies of the Kelihos spam botnet.
Security Affairs
JUNE 23, 2021
One of the fathers of antivirus software, the entrepreneur John McAfee has been found dead in a Barcelona prison cell while he was waiting for extradition to the US. The company was purchased by Intel in 2011 for more than $7.6bn.
Malwarebytes
APRIL 14, 2022
There are a lot of those because the ZeuS banking Trojan source code was leaked in 2011, and so there’s been plenty of time for several new variants to emerge. The primary goal of Zloader was originally financial theft, stealing account login IDs, passwords and other information to take money from people’s accounts.
Krebs on Security
JULY 28, 2022
The service, which accepts PayPal, Bitcoin and all major credit cards, is aimed primarily at enterprises engaged in repetitive, automated activity that often results in an IP address being temporarily blocked — such as data scraping, or mass-creating new accounts at some service online. Which hints at a possible BOTNET.
SecureList
MARCH 1, 2021
In particular, advertisers can display targeted offerings, and attackers can access accounts with various services, such as online banking. For example, an attacker could log in to a victim’s Facebook account and post a phishing link or spread spam. Attacks on personal data. The best part of it is that the AdWare.AndroidOS.Ewind.kp
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