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SHARED INTEL: How ransomware evolved from consumer trickery to deep enterprise hacks

The Last Watchdog

Although most people think of ransomware as a dodgy application that encrypts data and holds it for ransom, the concept is much more heterogeneous than that. The above-mentioned AIDS Trojan hailing from the distant pre-Internet era was the progenitor of the trend, but its real-world impact was close to zero. FBI spoofs 2012 – 2013.

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WinDealer dealing on the side

SecureList

In one case we investigated, we noticed that a signed executable qgametool.exe (MD5 f756083b62ba45dcc6a4d2d2727780e4 ), compiled in 2012, deployed WinDealer on a target machine. Layout of the encrypted data. Packets exchanged with the C2 server contain a header (described in the next table) followed by AES-encrypted data.

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StripedFly: Perennially flying under the radar

SecureList

It comes equipped with a built-in TOR network tunnel for communication with command servers, along with update and delivery functionality through trusted services such as GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket, all using custom encrypted archives. The malware executable file is placed in /tmp directory with a random name. 8, 10.0.0.0/8, 8, 100.64.0.0/10,

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hunting The Next Heartbleed

ForAllSecure

A kind of digital smash and grab of sensitive information such as the encryption keys created to protect sensitive transactions on a site like Amazon, or your bank with no way to trace any of it back to you. Such a scenario isn’t fantasy; something like this actually existed between 2012 and 2014. TheHackerMind.com.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hunting The Next Heartbleed

ForAllSecure

A kind of digital smash and grab of sensitive information such as the encryption keys created to protect sensitive transactions on a site like Amazon, or your bank with no way to trace any of it back to you. Such a scenario isn’t fantasy; something like this actually existed between 2012 and 2014. TheHackerMind.com.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hunting The Next Heartbleed

ForAllSecure

A kind of digital smash and grab of sensitive information such as the encryption keys created to protect sensitive transactions on a site like Amazon, or your bank with no way to trace any of it back to you. Such a scenario isn’t fantasy; something like this actually existed between 2012 and 2014. TheHackerMind.com.

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Mobile malware evolution 2020

SecureList

Individuals who generate that many installation packages are obviously not worried about antivirus software. Many members of these families became publicly available, serving as test subjects: for instance, their code was obfuscated to test the antivirus engine’s detection quality. Where did these come from?

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