Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2020

Once encrypted files with the ransomware, threat actors were also infected by banking Trojans like Dridex trojan, a circumstance that suggests this malware was used as the initial attack vector. In many cases, some machines run without standard safeguards, like security updates and cloud-delivered antivirus protection.”

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The ransomware encrypts files on compromised Windows host systems, including physical and virtual servers, the advisory noted, and the executable leaves a ransom note in all directories where encryption occurs, including ransom payment instructions for obtaining a decryption key. 7 SP1, 8, 8.1)

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 31, 2023

It was first released in July 2014 as “xRAT” and renamed to “Quasar” in August 2015. Due to its relatively large size, certain antivirus may choose not to analyze it, potentially bypassing detection. Antivirus / EDR evasion: The rootkit uses several evasion techniques: AMSI bypass: PowerShell inline script patches “amsi.dll!AmsiScanBuffer”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

According to the experts, LOLbins are very effecting in evading antivirus software. . The C2 data are encoded in base64 format as well as custom encrypted, attackers inserted them within posts on Facebook or the profile information about user accounts on YouTube. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2019

The Scranos rootkit malware was first discovered late last year when experts at Bitdefender were analyzing a new password- and data-stealing operation leveraging around a rootkit driver digitally signed with a stolen certificate. . The data sent to the C2 is encrypted with AES. ” reads the report published by Bitdefender.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

The activity of the Zinc APT group, aka Lazarus, surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks. In one case, attackers attempted to exploit, without success, the CVE-2017-16238 vulnerability in a vulnerable driver for the antivirus product called Vir.IT

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

At a first sight, the office document had an encrypted content available on OleObj.1 Those objects are real Encrypted Ole Objects where the Encrypted payload sits on “EncryptedPackage” section and information on how to decrypt it are available on “EncryptionInfo” xml descriptor. Stage1: Encrypted Content.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2019

su”, using an SSL encrypted communication, and stores them in “C:UsersPublic” path: “ rtegre.exe ” and “ wprgxyeqd79.exe The “-p” parameter, indeed, specify the password of the archive to be extracted. Only a small portion of this code is actually used to start the infection, the rest is just junk code. Conclusion.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

There have been some very high profile data breaches in the last couple of years, all of which have cost thousands of dollars of damage and a severe blow to the reputation of the company involved: In late 2014, hackers stole the account information of over 500 million Yahoo email accounts.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In this episode I talk about how Heartbleed (CVE 2014-0160) was found and also interview Rauli Kaksonen, someone who was at Codenomicon at the time of its discovery and is now a senior security specialist at the University of Oulu in Finland, about how new security tools are still needed to find the next big zero day. TheHackerMind.com.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In this episode I talk about how Heartbleed (CVE 2014-0160) was found and also interview Rauli Kaksonen, someone who was at Codenomicon at the time of its discovery and is now a senior security specialist at the University of Oulu in Finland, about how new security tools are still needed to find the next big zero day. TheHackerMind.com.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. ” SEPTEMBER. In 2016, while the U.S.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Most of the infection attempts started with a particular email attachment: a compressed archive containing stealthy JavaScript code, most of the times able to avoid antivirus detection during the initial stages of the attack campaigns. Figure 3: Encrypted communication with driverconnectsearch[.]info Stage 1 – The Attached Javascript.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2019

The installed payload actually is a Base64 encoded PE32 file, file-lessly stored within the registry hive to avoid antivirus detection. Stealer and CryptoStealer module to steal cryptocurrency wallets and saved passwords. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. The Payload. C2 retrieval.

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2019

In fact, many independent researchers pointed to a particular email attack wave probably related to the known TA505 hacking group , active since 2014 and focusing on Retail and Banking companies. Figure 3: Malware Signature by SLON LTD.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In this episode I talk about how Heartbleed (CVE 2014-0160) was found and also interview Rauli Kaksonen, someone who was at Codenomicon at the time of its discovery and is now a senior security specialist at the University of Oulu in Finland, about how new security tools are still needed to find the next big zero day. TheHackerMind.com.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

According to the Data Quality Campaign , 45 states and Washington, DC, enacted new student privacy laws between 2014 and 2020. Most states require strong data privacy controls, which typically include encrypting any sensitive personal information of staff and students. Secure data storage is also a requirement of FERPA.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

While the MBR infection has been known since at least 2014, details on the UEFI bootkit were publicly revealed for the first time in our private report on FinSpy. The attack is estimated to have resulted in the encryption of files belonging to around 60 Kaseya customers using the on-premises version of the platform. Gamers beware.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

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. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys. This was a software flaw.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

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. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys. This was a software flaw.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

All of them were ordinary people using our free antivirus solution, seemingly unconnected with any organization of interest to a sophisticated attacker of this kind. The attackers compress stolen files into encrypted and password-protected ZIP archives. Other malware. Prilex: the pricey prickle credit card complex.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 19, 2021

There is of course a lot of security around these digital releases, for example, there's watermarks, digital certificates, and even keys at the code, the encrypted copies of the films in specific theaters for specific periods of time. Yet, somewhere in China. When digital production servers slipped through the cracks.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

PagerDuty Operations performance 2014 NYSE: PD Auth0 Identity management 2014 Acquired: Okta. Notable cybersecurity exits for the company include Forescout, Imperva, Webroot, Tenable, and Crowdstrike; and Accel’s other successful investments include Atlassian, Cloudera, Etsy, and Meta. Accel Investments. ForgePoint Capital.

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