Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The second stage installs itself and loads the third stage using an encrypted, hardcoded path. ESET researchers pointed out that the authors have put significant effort into encryption in order to prevent the analysis of the DePriMon malware. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2019

To escalate privileges, Sodin leverages the vulnerability in win32k.sys, then it executes of two shellcode options contained in the Trojan body depending on the processor architecture. The body of each Sodin sample includes an encrypted configuration block that stores the settings and data used by the malware. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2020

Like all security architectures, Intel’s had a weakness: the boot ROM, in this case. An early-stage vulnerability in ROM enables control over reading of the Chipset Key and generation of all other encryption keys.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. x, SPS_E3_05.00.04.027.0.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The new IoT malware borrows code from the Xor.DDoS and Mirai bots, it also implements fresh evasion techniques, for example, the authors have encrypted both the main component and its corresponding Lua script using the ChaCha stream cipher. The IoT malware ran only on systems with an x86 architecture. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

.” According to the experts, the attackers have good knowledge about the internal architecture of the targeted platform. To avoid detection of malicious functionalities, the authors encrypted all suspicious-looking strings with the Corrected Block TEA (XXTEA) cipher and then running Base64 encoding. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2020

The file poc.exe is dropped to C:ProgramDatapoc.exe, and runs the command: cd /D C:ProgramData&star.exe –OutConfig a –TargetPort 445 –Protocol SMB –Architecture x64 –Function RunDLL –DllPayload C:ProgramDatadown64.dll Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

According to experts from Avast, the Torii bot has been active since at least December 2017, it could targets a broad range of architectures, including ARM, MIPS, x86, x64, PowerPC, and SuperH. The Torii IoT botnet stands out for the largest sets of architectures it is able to target. ” reads the analysis published by Avast.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2019

. “Looking for related samples and information elsewhere for comparison, other open sources such as VirusTotal yielded a report of the same hash value from the same URL source, which was an open directory also hosting other samples for other device architectures.” ” continues the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2019

. “MDS may allow a malicious user who can locally execute code on a system to infer the values of protected data otherwise protected by architectural mechanisms.” “Refer to the MDS table in Deep dive: CPUID Enumeration and Architectural MSRs for a list of processors that may be affected by MDS. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The APT group leverage the GreyEnergy malware, a malicious code that implements a modular architecture to extend its capabilities by adding the appropriate modules. “Like many complex threats, the GreyEnergy malware has a modular architecture. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The malware is also able to collect system details (OS version and architecture, language, hardware info, enumerate installed apps). “In addition, the attacker panel has been improved, some UI issues were fixed and the authors added an option to encrypt the builds right from the panel and downloaded it as a DLL.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2020

Experts noticed that modules are stored encrypted on disk at the same location with inoffensive-looking names. Its architecture is highly similar to the original variant, but its code was rewritten from scratch. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” concludes ESET.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2019

The Financial Times reported that according to Facebook, which owns WhatsApp, the vulnerabilities were due to “limitations that can’t be solved due to their structure and architecture.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” Vanunu told the BBC. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2021

ZHtrap prapagates using the following Nday vulnerability: JAWS_DVR_RCE NETGEAR CCTV_DVR_RCE CVE-2014-8361. ZHtrap supports multiple architectures, including x86, ARM, and MIPS.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2019

A variant discovered last year was leveraging an open-source project to target multiple architectures, including ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, and x86. The new malware implements the same encryption scheme characteristic of Mirai, it is also able to scan for vulnerable devices and launch HTTP Flood DDoS attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

release () architectures = platform. architecture ()[0] def main (): try: runsameagain () except Exception as e: print str (e) def runsameagain (): global bitstream3 binstr = bytearray (binascii. The downloaded code has been encrypted through the Rijndael algorithm with a hard-coded key. system () releases = platform.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2019

The entire malware architecture is modular and very difficult to neutralize. It sends information about computer name, user name, volume serial number, Windows version, processor architecture and two additional values: “1.3” The data sent to the C2 are protected by SSL encryption. and “KdfrJKN”. GreyEnergy: Welcome to 2019.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

SD-WAN arose in 2014 as a way to use software to manage traffic moving across large networks, especially to-and-from geographically dispersed branches. Notably, this very helpfully reinforces Zero Trust Network Architectures (ZTNA) and passwordless authentication , both of which have been steadily gaining wider adoption on their own.

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2018

Address Verification allows you to be sure you are securely communicating with the right person, while PGP support adds encrypted email interoperability. When ProtonMail first launched in 2014, our goal was to make email encryption ubiquitous by making it easy enough for anybody to use. Address Verification.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 1, 2022

It swaps legitimate connections with encrypted channels to bypass firewall rules and evade most detection tools like EDR. While the latest sample was discovered in November 2021, Symantec believes the malware contains blocks of instructions that recall Regin, an advanced espionage tool discovered by Symantec threat researchers in 2014.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2019

” Scranos implements a modular architecture, with many components in the early stage of development. Browsing History Stealer Payload — This payload collects Chrome’s browsing history and sends it to the C&C in an encrypted form. The data sent to the C2 is encrypted with AES. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

Based on our findings, there are some similarities in both techniques and architectures with another cybercrime group, which appeared in the wild around 2012, most probably Romanian. 14 ) performs a first check on CPU architecture and a second one on the number of processors. Technical Analysis. Figure 14: Content of “run” script file.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2018

computer name, username, volume serial number, Windows version, processor architecture and so on). The traffic to the C2 is encrypted with AES and converted into Base64. Data sent over the network is encrypted and arranged in a custom structure. Data sent over the network is encrypted and arranged in a custom structure.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2019

2014), as described on the MMD blog when MMD detected 5 variants active under almost 15 panels scattered in China network. They are not aiming servers with x32 or x64 architecture but the router devices that runs on Linux too.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. On the MMD blog.

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Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2018

The Parasite HTTP RAT has a modular architecture that allows authors to easily add new features. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. The author claims it has a small size (49kb) and has he no dependencies.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I held this position from 2000 through 2014, during which time Windows emerged as a prime target for both precocious script kiddies and emerging criminal hacking rings. What drew you to this field? Byron: I was initially drawn to cybersecurity as a USA TODAY technology reporter assigned to cover Microsoft.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 26, 2022

Today, both outsiders with the right social engineering skills and disgruntled personnel pose risks to sensitive data when network architectures fail to implement microsegmentation and advanced network traffic analysis (NTA). Detection for signature-less, insider, and encrypted malware threats. Cisco Secure Network Analytics Features.

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SecureList

JULY 7, 2021

In this sample, it is set to decimal 110 and the C2 message type (answer_type_value field) to “Check” The code that initializes class members for encryption and network communications is OS independent, but persistence methods aren’t. Beacon data for the C2 contains the hostname, machine architecture, OS release name.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 5, 2021

Kubernetes was developed by engineers at Google as a way to run applications in the cloud, which it then contributed to the open-source community in 2014. “Supply chain risks are often challenging to mitigate and can arise in the container build cycle or infrastructure acquisition,” the authors wrote.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The malware tries to connect to the remote host 149.154.157.104 (EDIS-IT IT) through an encrypted SSL channel, then it downloads other components and deletes itself from the filesystem. exe process according to the architecture of the compromised host. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

This vulnerability is critical and is based on an encryption flaw, and allows changing the account machine password to empty. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Figure 10: Zerologon flaw ([link].

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2023

Cloud Security Posture Management services (CSPM) began to appear in 2014 to manage cloud service configurations as cloud service providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud grew more prevalent. Secures server workloads across a range of public cloud settings and hybrid data center architectures.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

The information is AES encrypted with a pre-generated API key inside a configuration file. “Moreover, the architecture is evolving in the direction of distributing the malicious landing pages via mirrored versions of legitimate websites under domain names similar to the originals’.” ” states Trend Micro.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2019

For this reason, we decided to dig into this piece of malware and figure out its inner secrets, uncovering a modular architecture with advanced offensive capabilities, such as the presence of functionalities able to deal with multi-factor authentication (MFA). Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Trickbot (aka TrickLoader or Trickster), is a successor of the Dyre banking Trojan that was active from 2014 to 2016 and performed man-in-the-browser attacks in order to steal banking credentials. Downloaded modules are encrypted, and can be decrypted with the Python script below. Trickbot was first discovered in October 2016.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 22, 2025

DanaBot implements a custom binary protocol that is encrypted using 1,024-bit RSA and 256-bit AES in CBC mode. From 2011 to 2014, Gameover Zeus (aka the Business Club) had also set up special instances that were used to collect intelligence related to countries located in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. hexdigest().upper()

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

AES-256 encryption for data at rest and TLS v1.2 Founded in 2010 by veteran SaaS and DevOps industry leaders, Datadog specializes in optimizing the service-oriented architecture, helping organizations monitor user journeys and explore service relationships. Auvik Features. LogicMonitor.

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