2011 Antivirus Hacking 
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. The attackers have exploited a directory traversal and arbitrary file upload vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-18187, in the Trend Micro OfficeScan antivirus. Pierluigi Paganini.
The Last Watchdog
JUNE 21, 2020
Balaban This ransomware was doing the rounds over spam generated by the Gameover ZeuS botnet, which had been originally launched in 2011 as a toolkit for stealing victim’s banking credentials and was repurposed for malware propagation. The big names that pioneered in these targeted attacks are Sodinokibi (aka REvil) and Ryuk.
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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. law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
Krebs on Security
OCTOBER 1, 2019
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. An advertisement for the ButterFly Bot. “TM passed this information on to Brian Krebs.” ” Read more of the FBI’s interview with McCormick here (PDF).
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
Microsoft released a Windows Defender update to fix a problem that caused Defender antivirus to identify Chromium, Electron, as malware. Microsoft released a Windows Defender update to fix a problem that caused Defender antivirus software to identify the app based on the Chromium browser engine or the Electron JavaScript framework as malware.
Krebs on Security
JULY 28, 2022
” Microleaves has long been classified by antivirus companies as adware or as a “potentially unwanted program” (PUP), the euphemism that antivirus companies use to describe executable files that get installed with ambiguous consent at best, and are often part of a bundle of software tied to some “free” download.
Security Affairs
APRIL 29, 2021
Experts from Kaspersky explained that in February 2019, multiple antivirus companies received a collection of malware samples, some of them cannot be associated with the activity of known APT groups. . Across the years, the researchers found analyzed multiple backdoors and hacking tools composing the arsenal of the cyberespionage group.
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