Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

But that story omitted an important historical detail about Pushwoosh: In 2013, one of its developers admitted to authoring the Pincer Trojan , malware designed to surreptitiously intercept and forward text messages from Android mobile devices. ” wherein Shmakov acknowledged writing the malware as a freelance project.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Tyler Technologies has finally decided to paid a ransom to obtain a decryption key and recover files encrypted in a recent ransomware attack. Tyler Technologies, Inc. The ransomware attack took place on September 23, the threat actors breached the network of the company and deployed the malware. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2020

A ransomware attack has impacted the services at the business technology giant Konica Minolta for almost a week, the attack took place at the end of July. Konica Minolta is a Japanese multinational technology company headquartered in Marunouchi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, with offices in 49 countries worldwide. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

Department of Justice (DOJ) says the GRU’s hackers built Cyclops Blink by exploiting previously undocumented security weaknesses in firewalls and routers made by both ASUS and WatchGuard Technologies. In May 2018, the FBI executed a similar strategy to dismantle VPNFilter, which had spread to more than a half-million consumer devices.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Customers of Tyler Technologies are reporting finding suspicious logins and previously unseen remote access tools on their infrastructure. Tyler Technologies, Inc. The ransomware attack took place on September 23, the threat actors breached the network of the company and deployed the malware. ” continues the statement.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The Payment solutions giant Edenred disclosed a malware incident that affected some of its computing systems, it immediately started an investigation. The Payment solutions giant Edenred announced that some of its computing systems have been infected with malware, the company is currently investigating the incident. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2020

The shipping giant Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) was victim of a malware-based attack that caused an outage recently. The shipping giant Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) discloses a malware-based attack that took place on April 10. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 27, 2021

Authorities across Europe on Tuesday said they’d seized control over Emotet , a prolific malware strain and cybercrime-as-service operation. Investigators say the action could help quarantine more than a million Microsoft Windows systems currently compromised with malware tied to Emotet infections.

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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 via Domaintools.com shows the domain was assigned in 2015 to a company called “ Shanghai Blazefire Network Technology Co. “Yehuo” ( ? ? )

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Over the past 10 days, someone has been launching a series of coordinated attacks designed to disrupt Trickbot , an enormous collection of more than two million malware-infected Windows PCs that are constantly being harvested for financial data and are often used as the entry point for deploying ransomware within compromised organizations.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2020

“The county’s technology staff were immediately notified and coordinated recovery efforts with library staff,” reads the official statement. The library did not disclose the family of malware that infected its system, but experts believe that the computers were infected with ransomware. ” Source BleepingComputer. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Multiple members of QQAAZZ multinational cybercriminal gang were charged for providing money-laundering services to high-profile malware operations. According to law enforcement bodies, the gang provides services to multiple malware operations, including Dridex , GozNym , and Trickbot. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2020

Security researchers discovered another malware family delivered through tax software that some businesses operating in China are required to install. Security researchers at Trustwave have discovered another malware family delivered through tax software that Chinese banks require companies operating in the country to install.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2019

Cyber security expert Marco Ramilli, founder of Yoroi ,discovered a way to spread CSV malware via Google Sheets … but Big G says it is an Intended behavior. CSV file could be a malware carrier and if interpreted by Microsoft Excel it could become a malware executor ! Spreading CSV Malware over Google Sheets.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2021

Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky discovered a new strain of malware that is believed to be part of the arsenal of theUS Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has discovered a new malware that experts attribute to the US Central Intelligence Agency. We therefore named this malware Purple Lambert.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Malware Hunter – One year after its launch, Marco Ramilli shared the results of its project that has analyzed more than 1 Million malware samples. Malware Hunter is a python powered project driven by three main components: collectors, processors and public API. Malware Analyses Distribution. How it works.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2019

The activity of the Lazarus Group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks and experts that investigated on the crew consider it highly sophisticated. At the time, North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group leveraged for the first time on a MacOS variant of the Fallchill malware.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Malware researcher Marco Ramilli released for free the Malware Hunter tool a simple but interesting catching tool base on static YARA rules. Malware researcher Marco Ramilli released for free the Malware Hunter tool a simple but interesting catching tool base on static YARA rules. Malware Static Analysis.

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Penetration Testing

MARCH 26, 2024

Researchers at Lumen Technologies’ Black Lotus Labs have uncovered a newly updated version of the “TheMoon” malware, dating back to 2014.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2019

Cyber security expert and founder of Yoroi has published a new tool that could be used to spot APTs (A dvanced Persistent Threats) through Malware streams. Today I’d like to share a little bit of my personal experience on spotting APTs through Malware streams.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2019

Croatia government agencies have been targeted by unknown hackers with a new piece of malware tracked as SilentTrinity. A mysterious group of hackers carried out a series of cyber attacks against Croatian government agencies, infecting employees with a new piece of malware tracked as SilentTrinity. ” reads one of the alerts.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

A series of cyber attacks hit the defense contractors Rheinmetall AG and Defence Construction Canada (DCC) causing the disruption of their information technology systems. This month a series of cyber attack hit defense contractors Rheinmetall AG and Defence Construction Canada (DCC) disrupting their information technology systems.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

Decades of adversarial coevolution with the Anti-Virus industry led the malware threats to develop the ability to evade detection, bypassing security boundaries and staying silent until the proper time. This battle, against malware, is huge. Yomi: The Malware Hunter” main interface. The Malware Hunter. For fun and profit.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Microsoft researchers observed a campaign delivering malware, dubbed Nodersok, relying on advanced techniques and elusive network infrastructure. Microsoft experts observed a malware campaign, tracked as Nodersok, relying on advanced techniques and elusive network infrastructure. ” Microsoft concludes. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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 via Domaintools.com shows the domain was assigned in 2015 to a company called “ Shanghai Blazefire Network Technology Co. “Yehuo” ( ? ? )

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 22, 2018

A powerful, easy-to-use password stealing program known as Agent Tesla has been infecting computers since 2014, but recently this malware strain has seen a surge in popularity — attracting more than 6,300 customers who pay monthly fees to license the software. MALWARE OR BENIGN REMOTE ACCESS TOOL?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The figures revealed by Google are awesome, the company declared that its malware scanner processes more than 300 billion attachments each week. “Gmail protects your incoming mail against spam, phishing attempts, and malware. “Our technology is especially helpful at detecting adversarial, bursty attacks.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

.” While CLOP as a money making collective is a fairly young organization, security experts say CLOP members hail from a group of Threat Actors (TA) known as “TA505,” which MITRE’s ATT&CK database says is a financially motivated cybercrime group that has been active since at least 2014. ”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Since August, FIN11 started targeting organizations in many industries, including defense, energy, finance, healthcare, legal, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, technology, and transportation. Researchers from FireEye’s Mandiant observed FIN11 hackers using spear-phishing messages distributing a malware downloader dubbed FRIENDSPEAK.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

“On July 28, 2020, Mattel discovered that it was the victim of a ransomware attack on its information technology systems that caused data on a number of systems to be encrypted. 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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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Malware has infected roughly a third of the world’s computers , costing companies across the globe trillions of dollars each year. In 2014, nearly 1 million new pieces of malware were released every day, but most hackers relied on old techniques to create new threats. But first we’ll answer a basic question: What is malware?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

According to IBM, OT attacks increased by over 2000 percent in 2019, most of them involved the Echobot IoT malware. According to IBM X-Force, attacks targeting operational technology (OT) infrastructure increased by over 2000 p ercent in 2019 compared to 2018, and most of them involved the Echobot malware. ” concludes IBM.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The attackers aimed at stealing confidential documents from government systems after having infected them with malware. The attackers exploit the CVE-2014-6352 and CVE-2017-0199 Office vulnerabilities to drop and execute the malware on the victim’s computer. ” reads the alert issued by MyCERT. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2020

Google wants to halt the use of ads for technology that could allow monitoring a person’s online activity (i.e. “In August 2020, the Google Ads Enabling Dishonest Behavior policy will be updated to clarify restrictions on advertising for spyware and surveillance technology.”reads ”reads the post published by Google.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Facebook has suspended some accounts linked to APT32 that were involved in cyber espionage campaigns to spread malware. Facebook has suspended several accounts linked to the APT32 cyberespionage that abused the platform to spread malware. APT32 also carried out watering hole attacks through compromised websites or their own sites.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2020

EWA Technologies Inc., A few days ago, security experts from MalwareHunterTeam have discovered a new version of the Ryuk Stealer malware that has been enhanced to allow its operators to steal a greater amount of confidential files related to the military, government, financial statements, and banking. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2020

A new malware dubbed GoldenSpy is being distributed embedded in tax payment software that some businesses operating in China are required to install. In October 2016, Chenkuo Technology announced a partnership with Aisino for “big data cooperation. ” The backdoor is digitally signed by a company named Chenkuo Network Technology.

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