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Some Fortinet products used hardcoded keys and weak encryption for communications

Security Affairs

Researchers at SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab discovered multiple issues in several security products from Fortinet, including hardcoded key and encryption for communications. “ Fortinet products, including FortiGate and Forticlient regularly send information to Fortinet servers (DNS: guard.fortinet.com) on. Pierluigi Paganini.

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FIN7 Hackers group is back with a new loader and a new RAT

Security Affairs

. “The first of FIN7’s new tools is BOOSTWRITE – an in-memory-only dropper that decrypts embedded payloads using an encryption key retrieved from a remote server at runtime. The messages sent to the victims were also dropping the backdoor DNSbot that primarily operates over DNS traffic. ” concludes the report.

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WinDealer dealing on the side

SecureList

Layout of the encrypted data. Packets exchanged with the C2 server contain a header (described in the next table) followed by AES-encrypted data. Initial connection: the generated AES key and its CRC32, encrypted using RSA-2048 with a hardcoded public key. x33x44”). Description. Sample value (in hex). Unknown static value.

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LimeRAT spreads in the wild

Security Affairs

The installed payload actually is a Base64 encoded PE32 file, file-lessly stored within the registry hive to avoid antivirus detection. Also, the attacker behind this sample leans on the Dynamic DNS service “warzonedns.com”, pointing to the 213.183.58[.10 Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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IT threat evolution Q3 2021

SecureList

In June, more than six months after DarkHalo had gone dark, we observed the DNS hijacking of multiple government zones of a CIS member state that allowed the attacker to redirect traffic from government mail servers to computers under their control – probably achieved by obtaining credentials to the control panel of the victims’ registrar.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. Vamosi: In the fall of 2014, Shellshock was publicly disclosed. Really, never roll your own encryption. And it's a doozy program.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. Vamosi: In the fall of 2014, Shellshock was publicly disclosed. Really, never roll your own encryption. And it's a doozy program.