eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

If you’ve used a computer for more than 5 minutes, you probably know a thing or two about computer viruses and malware. On the modern Internet, malware is a near-constant presence. Though often conflated with one another, malware and computer viruses aren’t necessarily the same thing. Looking to Protect Yourself Against Malware?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 22, 2021

It is learnt that the massive file encrypting malware campaign started on April 19th,2021 when victims took help of the technology forums to know more about the ransomware. Qlocker Ransomware is not only accessing files by encrypting them with a password protected 7Zip archives ending with.7z BTC for each file.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2023

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011 targeting journalists and activists in the Middle East, as well as organizations in the United States, and entities in the U.K., ” reads the report published by Volexity.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Technically speaking, Juice Jacking is an exploited USB port that can pass on malware and sniff data from a victimized device. Threat actors often load malware or infect a connection cable and leave it at the charging station. USB Condom works by blocking connections to all the pins except the charging pin. History of Juice Jacking.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 14, 2022

Zloader or Zbot are common names used to refer to any malware related to the ZeuS family. 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. Legal action. We also saw this method recently used against the Strontium group.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The malware used in the Target breach included the text string “ Rescator ,” which also was the handle chosen by the cybercriminal who was selling all of the cards stolen from Target customers. For starters, the text string “Rescator” was found in some of the malware used in the Target breach.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

NullMixer is a dropper leading to an infection chain of a wide variety of malware families. These websites are often related to crack, keygen and activators for downloading software illegally, and while they may pretend to be legitimate software, they actually contain a malware dropper. Malware execution instructions.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2018

Bilogorskiy: Before 2013 a lot of malware was focused on spam, DDoS and monetizing through malicious advertising and ad fraud. In 2011, total cryptocurrency value was about $10 billion. Bilogorskiy: One other kind of attack that we’ve seen is where companies get hacked and those computers have mining malware put on them.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011. The attackers also used previously undetected malware, including info stealers and keyloggers. “Another IP that appears in US CERT’s list is 91.214.124[.]143.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2020

The source code of the Zeus Trojan is available in the cybercrime underground since 2011 allowing crooks to develop their own release since. Experts found multiple variants in the wild, many of them belonging to the Terdot Zbot/Zloader malware family. The malware is able to infect all operating systems. .”

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1962 — Allan Scherr — MIT sets up the first computer passwords, for student privacy and time limits. Student Allan Scherr makes a punch card to trick the computer into printing off all passwords and uses them to log in as other people after his time runs out. She connects him to any phone number he requests for free.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

February 2011: Ross Ulbricht Creates the Silk Road Marketplace “I created Silk Road because I thought the idea for the website itself had value, and that bringing Silk Road into being was the right thing to do. The hidden service gained traction in 2011 and then hit the mainstream when a Gawker article about the site was published.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The malware was also used by the attackers to browse the web, likely using it as a proxy to mask their IP address. The decryption password is provided as a command-line argument (Base64 encoded string), and the xPack backdoor can run as a standalone application or as a service (xPackSvc variant). ” continues Symantec.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The Archiveus Trojan from 2006 was the first one to use RSA cipher, but it was reminiscent of a proof of concept and used a static 30-digit decryption password that was shortly cracked. David Balaban is a computer security researcher with over 17 years of experience in malware analysis and antivirus software evaluation.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

A technical analysis of NullMixer malware operation revealed Italy and France are the favorite European countries from the attackers’ perspective. Executive Summary Our insights into a recent NullMixer malware operation revealed Italy and France are the favorite European countries from the opportunistic attackers’ perspective.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2019

Microsoft removes Password-Expiration Policy in security baseline for Windows 10. Over 23 million breached accounts were using ‘123456 as password. But it was 2011. Japan will develop its first-ever malware as a defense measure against cyber attacks. Amnesty International Hong Kong Office hit by state-sponsored attack.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011 targeting journalists and activists in the Middle East, as well as organizations in the United States, and entities in the U.K., Israel, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. ” continues the report.”In

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011. . The hackers initially breached into the victim’s secondary email inbox associated with their Microsoft account, then used them to reset the password.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Often, a scammer will simply target the people in a company and fool them into giving up their personal details, account passwords, and other sensitive information and gain access that way. However, the technological side of cybersecurity is no longer the weakest link in a company’s proverbial chain. Social Tactics.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2023

Figure.NET flags (left) and obfuscation pattern (right) The tool is designed for two main purposes: generating comb lists of local windows user names and potential passwords, and testing them locally. The tool is able to automatically retrieve local users from groups, filter for administration, and then test the password.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2021

the attacker does not need to know the user’s password). The vulnerability was introduced in July 2011 ( commit 8255ed69 ), and affects all versions from 1.8.2 The privilege escalation issue is a heap-based buffer overflow that was discovered by security researchers from Qualys. to 1.8.31p2 and all stable versions from 1.9.0

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The feds allege Aqua led an elite cybercrime ring with at least 16 others who used advanced, custom-made strains of malware known as “ JabberZeus ” and “ Bugat ” (a.k.a. ” Messages to and from a money mule working for Aqua’s crew, circa May 2011. aqua: f**k, we need to find more socks for spam.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 21, 2023

” But the security community and other technology leaders have started raising the alarm, worried about the program’s potential to write malware and spread mis- and disinformation. It's currently easier for an expert threat actor to create malware from scratch than to spend time correcting what ChatGPT has produced.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2020

Malware delivery: what’s on the menu? H2 2019 has proved the tendency of past several years: mail remains the main method of delivering ransomware, spyware, backdoors and other malware, being used by cyber crooks in 94 percent of cases.

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Spinone

JANUARY 25, 2017

We also (hopefully everyone) make sure that we change our password every 2-3 months. CryptoLocker was a malware (Trojan or a virus, in simple words) that targeted files on your computer, blocked them and offered you to pay to get the access back to your own files. For example, in 2011 Amazon had a Cloud Crash and lost customer data.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

With the EDB PostgreSQL Advanced Server, clients gain features like password profiles, enhanced audit logging, and data redaction. In 2011, McAfee added to their database security lineup with the acquisition of Sentrigo, which approached database security with an emphasis on privileged user activity and access. Microsoft Azure.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 2, 2018

It is a more secure way of authenticating users compared to the legacy username and password mechanism. Malware can be injected, man-in-the-middle attacks carried out , and personal information stolen of those who visit a site hosted by an attacker posing as the legitimate owner.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 28, 2023

XDR (eXtended Detection and Response) Integrations At Black Hat USA 2023, Cisco Secure was the official Mobile Device Management, DNS (Domain Name Service) and Malware Analysis Provider. When file was convicted as malicious, we would investigate the context: Is it from a classroom, where the topic is related to the behavior of the malware?

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Fox IT

JUNE 23, 2020

Evil Corp were previously associated to the Dridex malware and BitPaymer ransomware, the latter came to prominence in the first half of 2017. Evil Corp has been operating the Dridex malware since July 2014 and provided access to several groups and individual threat actors. Attribution and Actor Background. Actor Tracking.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

So on December 31, 2011, at almost midnight, a developer with direct access to OpenSSL, Robin Seggelmann, committed the change that changed the heartbeat function. And those four hundred and ninety six characters probably included recently used encryption keys, passwords, social security numbers, and other PII.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

So on December 31, 2011, at almost midnight, a developer with direct access to OpenSSL, Robin Seggelmann, committed the change that changed the heartbeat function. And those four hundred and ninety six characters probably included recently used encryption keys, passwords, social security numbers, and other PII.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

So on December 31, 2011, at almost midnight, a developer with direct access to OpenSSL, Robin Seggelmann, committed the change that changed the heartbeat function. And those four hundred and ninety six characters probably included recently used encryption keys, passwords, social security numbers, and other PII.

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