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Experts link the Black Basta ransomware operation to FIN7 cybercrime gang

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On the other end, FIN7 is a Russian financially motivated group that has been active since at least 2015. In order to weaken the security defenses installed on the target machine, Black Basta targets installed security solutions with specific batch scripts downloaded into the Windows directory. bat WindowsILUg69ql2.bat

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Experts found DLL Hijacking issues in Avast, AVG, and Avira solutions

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Flaws in Avast, AVG, and Avira Antivirus could be exploited by an attacker to load a malicious DLL file to bypass defenses and escalate privileges. “this vulnerability could have been used in order to achieve self-defense bypass, defense evasion, persistence and privilege escalation.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Dutch police arrested the author of Dryad and Rubella Macro Builders

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The macro might also purposely attempt to bypass endpoint security defenses. . The Rubella Macro Builder is cheap, fast and easy to use, the malware it generated can evade antivirus detection. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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