Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

Launched in 2013, Microleaves is a service that allows customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe. The very first discussion thread started by the new user Microleaves on the forum BlackHatWorld in 2013 sought forum members who could help test and grow the proxy network.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Beta, D6220, D6400, D7000 CVE-2018-10561, CVE-2018-10562 GPON home routers CVE-2013-3307 Linksys X3000 1.0.03 d26m CVE-2013-5223 D-Link DSL-2760U Gateway CVE-2020-8958 Guangzhou 1GE ONU V2801RW 1.9.1-181203 “To deliver its exploit, the malware first queries the target with a simple “GET” request. A2pvI042j1.d26m

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The epidemic went truly mainstream with the release of CryptoLocker back in 2013, and it has since transformed into a major dark web economy spawning the likes of Sodinokibi, Ryuk, and Maze lineages that are targeting the enterprise on a huge scale in 2020. FBI spoofs 2012 – 2013. File encryption 2013 – 2015.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2019

The owner of a Swedish company behind a popular remote administration tool (RAT) implicated in thousands of malware attacks shares the same name as a Swedish man who pleaded guilty in 2015 to co-creating the Blackshades RAT , a similar product that was used to infect more than half a million computers with malware, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.

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SC Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

Ulrich noted that hackers could provide a stream of bad information by, say, flooding a target organization with malware designed to refine ML detection away from the techniques they actually plan to use for the main attack. Data poisoning has been involved signature-based antivirus in the past.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 26, 2022

Ransomware is a cyberattack that uses malware – software created to infiltrate a computer system and damage or disrupt it. An AIDS researcher named Joseph Popp put malware on floppy discs and handed them out to over 20,000 people at a conference. The malware demanded over $500 from each person who inserted the floppy disk.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

AT&T Alien Labs™ has found new malware written in the open source programming language Golang. The malware creates a backdoor and waits to either receive a target to attack from a remote operator through port 19412 or from another related module running on the same machine. VirusTotal scanning results of BotenaGo malware.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

” What follows is a deep dive into the identity of that Chinese vendor, which appears to have a long and storied history of pushing the envelope on mobile malware. com — were implicated in propagating the Triada malware. jyhxz.net 2013-07-02 — longmen[.]com com 2013-10-09 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO.,

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Security experts from Russian antivirus firm Dr.Web have discovered a new strain of Linux cryptominer tracked as Linux.BtcMine.174. 174 Linux cryptominer uses one of two privilege escalation exploits CVE-2016-5195 (aka Dirty COW) and CVE-2013-2094 to get root permissions on the infected system. The Linux.BtcMine.174 Linux.BtcMine.174

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 14, 2019

With all the talk of escalating cyber warfare , the spread of counterfeit smartphones and new forms of self-replicating malware , I came away from Black Hat USA 2019 (my 15 th ) marveling, once more, at the panache of modern cyber criminals. Mainstreaming EDR EDR came along to supplement signature-based antivirus.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2019

A new variant of the HawkEye data stealer emerges in the threat landscape as part of ongoing malware distribution campaigns. New malware campaigns leveraging a new variant of the HawkEye data stealer have been observed by experts at Talos. has been under active development since at least 2013. ” continues the analysis. .

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

According to the telemetry logs collected by the Russian firm, the staffer temporary switched off the antivirus protection on the PC, and infected his personal computer with a spyware from a product key generator while trying to use a pirated copy of Office. On September 11, 2014, Kaspersky antivirus detected the Win32.GrayFish.gen

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

In such attacks, malware places a spoofed malicious DLL file in a Windows’ WinSxS directory so that the operating system loads it instead of the legitimate file. The technique was already employed by other Chinese APT groups since 2013, later it was also adopted by other cybercrime gangs in attacks in the wild. .

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Security Boulevard

MAY 17, 2023

It would be easy to chalk up this increase to the development and introduction of new advanced types of malware, but the surprising fact is that many of the same threats and exploits used in data breaches in 2013 are still being successfully employed 10 years later. The malware itself wasn’t particularly sophisticated, either.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

” What follows is a deep dive into the identity of that Chinese vendor, which appears to have a long and storied history of pushing the envelope on mobile malware. com — were implicated in propagating the Triada malware. jyhxz.net 2013-07-02 — longmen[.]com com 2013-10-09 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO.,

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

When I first began writing about Vrublevsky in 2009 as a reporter for The Washington Post , ChronoPay and its sister firm Red & Partners (RNP) were earning millions setting up payment infrastructure for fake antivirus peddlers and spammers pimping male enhancement drugs. In 2013, Vrublevsky was sentenced to 2.5

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The government says Snatch used a customized ransomware variant notable for rebooting Microsoft Windows devices into Safe Mode — enabling the ransomware to circumvent detection by antivirus or endpoint protection — and then encrypting files when few services are running.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The OceanLotus APT group is a state-sponsored group that has been active since at least 2013. ” According to Microsoft, the APT group started using the crypto-mining malware to trick the defense staff of the targets into believing their attacks are not highly targeted intrusions. ” continues the report.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In December 2013, a Slovenian court sentenced Škorjanc to four years and ten months in prison for creating the malware that powered the ‘ Mariposa ‘ botnet. The “sellers” page on the Darkode cybercrime forum, circa 2013. 5, 2013, federal investigators visited McCormick at his University of Massachusetts dorm room.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2021

It was founded in 2013 and operates worldwide but mainly in Ukraine and Russia. Scams, Phishing, and Malware: It is common for unethical hackers and criminals on the Internet to use personal data to create trustworthy phishing emails. A good antivirus program can also aid in protection from malware, trojans, and other dangers.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

To exfiltrate data and deliver next-stage malware, the attackers abuse cloud-based data storage, such as Dropbox or Yandex Disk, as well as a temporary file sharing service. The postinst script contains comments in Russian and Ukrainian, including information about improvements made to the malware, as well as statements by activists.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In its annual Data Breach Investigations Report , published at the beginning of 2013, Verizon revealed that businesses with fewer than 100 employees made up the single largest group of victims of data breaches. Perhaps the single biggest and most dangerous change in threats came in the world of malware delivery.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 17, 2023

OPSWAT makes a variety of other products beyond NAC for application security, industrial cybersecurity, email security, malware analysis, zero trust access, and more. The Windows client adds capabilities to protect against malware, key-loggers, screen capture, and malicious removable media.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The Web site in 2015 for the “Manipulaters Team,” a group of Pakistani hackers behind the dark web identity “Saim Raza,” who sells spam and malware tools and services. ” The IT network of The Manipulaters, circa 2013. One of several current Fudtools sites run by The Manipulaters. Image: Facebook.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

” Ransomware is pretty simple: malware is installed covertly on a system and executes a cryptovirology attack that locks or encrypts valuable files on the network. This is especially true for your existing intrusion detection and prevention system (IDPS), antivirus, and anti-malware. Update Anti-Ransomware Software.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 8, 2023

The large language models (LLMs) made by ChatGPT parent OpenAI or Google or Microsoft all have various safety measures designed to prevent people from abusing them for nefarious purposes — such as creating malware or hate speech. “In 2015, my love for coding started, learning c# and more.net programming languages. .”

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Malwarebytes

MAY 12, 2021

In this post, we take a look at the malware and the criminal gang, who many believe are based in Eastern Europe, behind the Colonial Pipeline attack. Since being active in 2013, Carbon Spider has targeted institutions in the Middle East, Europe, and eventually, the United States. Threat profile: DarkSide ransomware.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

At the start of March 2021, Microsoft rushed out patches for a critical zero-day Vulnerability in Exchange Server (2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019). Microsoft Antivirus Now Automatically Mitigates Exchange Server Vulnerability. CopperStealer Malware infected up to 5,000 hosts per day over the First Three Months of 2021.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

18, 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that U.S. 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. At the time, Ika also was the administrator of Pustota[.]pw

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

Regardless of how familiar you are with Information Security, you’ve probably come across the term ‘malware’ countless times. From accessing your business-critical resources and sensitive information to halting business operations and services, a malware infection can quickly become an organization’s worst nightmare come true.

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SecureList

JANUARY 11, 2021

For a summary of this analysis and FAQs, feel free to scroll down to “ Conclusions “ We believe it’s important that other researchers around the world investigate these similarities and attempt to discover more facts about Kazuar and the origin of Sunburst , the malware used in the SolarWinds breach.

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SecureList

MARCH 28, 2023

Although we have written about a similar malware attack in 2017 in one of our blogposts , the technique is still very relevant today as it doesn’t have any perfect solution from the perspective of operating system design. They were replicated and reused in other malware too. bank SWIFT code, branch name, etc).

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Regardless of how familiar you are with Information Security, you’ve probably come across the term ‘malware’ countless times. From accessing your business-critical resources and sensitive information to halting business operations and services, a malware infection can quickly become an organization’s worst nightmare come true.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Don Duncan, security engineer at NuData Security, told eSecurity Planet by email that POS systems are often dangerously easy to penetrate with malware , including the following (among many others): Dexter was discovered by Seculert (now Radware) researchers in 2012. vSkimmer malware, a successor to Dexter, dates back to 2013.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Ransomware is a type of malicious program, or malware, that encrypts files, documents and images on a computer or server so that users cannot access the data. The victim is sent an email with an attachment, and once they click on the link, the malware file downloads. The developer has fewer risks, and the buyer does all of the work.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 26, 2022

Whereas older solutions like antivirus, firewalls, and endpoint detection and response (EDR) have long focused on threats at the network perimeter, the intent of NDR is to monitor and act on malicious threats within organization networks using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) analysis. Darktrace DETECT Features.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. Russian software engineer Eugene Kaspersky’s frustration with the malware of the 80s and 90s led to the founding of antivirus and cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky Lab.

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