Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2019

BlackBerry Cylance has addressed a bypass vulnerability recently discovered in its AI-based antivirus engine CylancePROTECT product. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

” Only one of the men sanctioned today is known to have been criminally charged in connection with hacking activity. Secret Service determined that he ran a massive “money mule” scheme, which used phony job offers to trick people into laundering money stolen from hacked small to mid-sized businesses in the United States.

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Hacking Cybercrime Ransomware Government 186

Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2019

A vulnerability in Kaspersky Antivirus had exposed a unique identifier associated with users to every website they have visited in the past 4 years. A vulnerability in the Kaspersky Antivirus software, tracked as CVE-2019-8286, had exposed a unique identifier associated with its users to every website they have visited in the past 4 years.

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Antivirus Advertising Software Internet 92

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

Researchers at Cybereason’s Nocturnus team have uncovered a new Astaroth Trojan campaign that is currently exploiting the Avast antivirus and security software developed by GAS Tecnologia to steal information and drop malicious modules. According to the experts, LOLbins are very effecting in evading antivirus software.

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2019

Firefox finally addressed the issues with antivirus apps crashing HTTPS websites starting with the release of Firefox 68. Mozilla announced that it will resolve the issues that caused antivirus apps crashing HTTPs websites with the release of Firefox 68 version. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Since antivirus and anti-malware tools run with the highest level of privileges to scan all parts of a computer for malicious code, it has become a desired target for attackers. This is probably the first case of a sandbox mechanism implemented for an antivirus solution that aims at protecting the Windows systems if it is compromised.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2019

A few hours ago, a new email hacking tool dubbed Jason and associated with the OilRig APT group was leaked through the same Telegram channel used to leak other tools. The Lab Dookhtegan hackers used a Telegram channel to dump information about the OilRig infrastructure, revealing details about its hacking tools, members, and operations.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

If you operate a cybercrime business that relies on disseminating malicious software, you probably also spend a good deal of time trying to disguise or “crypt” your malware so that it appears benign to antivirus and security products. ” Meanwhile, the Jabber address masscrypt@exploit.im The WHOIS records for autodoska[.]biz

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2020

Antivirus maker Avast has disabled a core component of its antivirus to address a severe vulnerability that would have allowed attackers to control users’ PC. Ormandy pointed out that the main Avast antivirus process, AvastSvc.exe, which, runs as SYSTEM. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Avast). Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The CryptoLocker wave went into a decline in June 2014 as a result of the so-called Operation Tovar , an initiative orchestrated by law enforcement agencies from multiple countries. The newsmaking emergence of CTB-Locker in 2014 and the CryptoWall ransomware in 2015 fully demonstrated this multi-pronged shift.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

“Two Romanian suspects have been arrested yesterday for allegedly running the CyberSeal and Dataprotector crypting services to evade antivirus software detection.” The pair also operated the Cyberscan service which allowed their clients to test their malware against antivirus tools. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2019

Your IP address represents your digital identity online, hacking it not only allows attackers to access your device or your accounts, but it may cause even bigger damage. Cybercriminals are interested in hacking your IP address for various reasons. The hacked and stolen IPs are often used for carrying out illegal activities.

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Hacking VPN Internet Internet 94

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Security researchers from SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab discovered that multiple Fortinet products use a weak encryption cipher (“XOR” with a static key) and cryptographic keys to communicate with the FortiGuard Web Filter, AntiSpam and AntiVirus cloud services. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Megatraffer explained that malware purveyors need a certificate because many antivirus products will be far more interested in unsigned software, and because signed files downloaded from the Internet don’t tend to get blocked by security features built into modern web browsers. “Antivirus software trusts signed programs more.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2019

Unfortunately this isn’t the first time that the VSDC site has been hacked. Users that had downloaded the software in the above between have to scan their system for malware using an up-to-date of the antivirus software. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The ZoneAlarm suite includes antivirus software and firewall solutions to and users and small organizations, it has nearly 100 million downloads. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2021

Russian national Oleg Koshkin was convicted for operating a “crypting” service used to obfuscate the Kelihos bot from antivirus software. ”The websites promised to render malicious software fully undetectable by nearly every major provider of antivirus software. . SecurityAffairs – hacking, Kelihos). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2020

. “The new malware tricks victims into bypassing Apple’s built-in macOS security protections, and it uses sneaky tactics in an effort to evade antivirus detection.” “As of Friday, the new malware installer and its payload had a 0/60 detection rate among all antivirus engines on VirusTotal.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

A former member of the NSA’s Tailored Access Operations hacking team was sentenced to 66 months in prison because he leaked top-secret online documents related to the US government ban on Kaspersky software. On September 11, 2014, Kaspersky antivirus detected the Win32.GrayFish.gen Equestre.*”.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2019

The malicious code uses a hacking algorithm for most of its functions, the algorithm is similar to the one implemented for previous ShellTea version. “ ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2021

One of the fathers of antivirus software, the entrepreneur John McAfee has been found dead in a Barcelona prison cell while he was waiting for extradition to the US. The authorities claim that the McAfee failed to file tax returns for incomes related to a period between 2014 and 2018. SecurityAffairs – hacking, McAfee).

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Cryptocurrency Banking Accountability Antivirus 135

Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2020

“Account accesses for antivirus programs garner the second-highest prices: around $21.67. The cost for antivirus accounts is just over $20, while other types of accounts (cable, social media, VPN, streaming, adult, music, file sharing, and video game accounts) typically go for less than $10. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Cybercrime Antivirus Marketing Accountability 123

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The operators behind the infamous RobbinHood ransomware are exploiting a vulnerable GIGABYTE driver to kill antivirus products. Ransomware operators leverage a custom antivirus killing p ackage that is delivered to workstations to disable security solution before starting encryption. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

ESET noticed that KryptoCibule contains a feature that checks for the presence of antivirus software on a victim’s computer. The malware only checks for the presence of ESET, Avast, and AVG antivirus software, which are popular solutions in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. SecurityAffairs – hacking, KryptoCibule).

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2019

The Dridex banking Trojan that has been around since 2014, it was involved in numerous campaigns against financial institutions over the years and crooks have continuously improved it. At the time of discovery, using data from VirusTotal, only six antivirus solutions of about 60 detected suspicious behavior [ 2 ]. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Banking Antivirus Advertising Encryption 77

Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2021

Experts from Kaspersky explained that in February 2019, multiple antivirus companies received a collection of malware samples, some of them cannot be associated with the activity of known APT groups. . A deeper analysis of some of these samples revealed that they were compiled in 2014 and used in the wild between 2014 and 2015.

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Malware Hacking Government Telecommunications 108

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

McAfee a vulnerability in its antivirus software that could allow an attacker to escalate privileges and execute code with SYSTEM privileges. Experts explained that it is possible to bypass the self-defense mechanism of the antivirus because the antivirus doesn’t validate digital signature of the DLL file.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – hacking, education institutions). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2020

Jeff Bezos phone was hacked by Saudi crown prince. Chinese hackers exploited a Trend Micro antivirus zero-day used in Mitsubishi Electric hack. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. .

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The Emotet banking trojan has been active at least since 2014, the botnet is operated by a threat actor tracked as TA542. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – hacking, CISA).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

“When the attack happened multiple antivirus programs were disabled by the attack and hard drives just lit up with activity. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Ryuk ransomware).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

” Let’s go to our case study: I received a scan request for a PDF file that was reported to support an antivirus vendor, and it replied that the file was not malicious. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2020

In January, Chinese hackers have exploited another zero-day vulnerability in the Trend Micro OfficeScan antivirus in an attack that hit Mitsubishi Electric. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The user ianch99 in the QNAP NAS community forum reported that the antivirus ClamAV was failing to update due to 0.0.0.0 “Since recent firmware updates, the ClamAV Antivirus fails to update due to 700+ clamav.net entries in /etc/hosts, all set to 0.0.0.0 Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The Emotet banking trojan has been active at least since 2014, the botnet is operated by a threat actor tracked as TA542. Generally speaking, removal/cleaning by antivirus is not a sufficient guarantee. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – hacking, botnet).

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