The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

This deal reads like to the epilogue to a book titled The First 20 Years of the Supremely Lucrative Antivirus Market. Way back in 1990, Symantec acquired Norton Utilities and made Norton the heart of its antivirus subscription offering. billion in 2016, for instance. Related: The coming of ubiquitous passwordless access.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In October 2016, media outlets reported that data collected by some of the world’s most renowned cybersecurity experts had identified frequent and unexplained communications between an email server used by the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank , one of Russia’s largest financial institutions. trump-email.com). trump-email.com).

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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. biz called VIP Crypt , which Kerens accused of being “shitty” and unreliable.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “ Trickbot ,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia that has enabled countless ransomware attacks and bank account takeovers since its debut in 2016. companies and government entities.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2023

The vulnerability was reported by researchers Jan Vojtěšek, Milánek, and Luigino Camastra from Avast Antivirus firm. Below is a video demonstrating how the exploit works on Windows Server 2016. The issue can be chained with a code execution bug to spread malware. ” reads the analysis published by the experts.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2019

The software is broadly classified as malware by most antivirus companies, likely thanks to an advertised feature list that includes dumping the remote computer’s temporary memory; retrieving passwords from dozens of email programs; snarfing the target’s Wi-Fi credentials; and viewing the target’s Webcam.

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Quick Heal Antivirus

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Cerber is a strain of ransomware that was first identified in early 2016. It is a type of. The post Cerber Ransomware Exposed: A Comprehensive Analysis of Advanced Tactics, Encryption, and Evasion appeared first on Quick Heal Blog.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Following their dramatic arrests in 2016, many news media outlets reported that the men were suspected of having tipped off American intelligence officials about those responsible for Russian hacking activities tied to the 2016 U.S. Both men maintained their innocence throughout the trial. presidential election.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 16, 2019

The indictments unsealed in a Pennsylvania court this week stem from a slew of cyber heists carried out between October 2015 and December 2016. “JekaProf” and “procryptgroup” from Moldova, specialized in “crypting” or obfuscating the GozNym malware to evade detection by antivirus software.

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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. 2016 sales thread on Exploit.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

NeroWolfe seems to have abandoned all of his forum accounts sometime in 2016. In November 2016, an exploit[.]ru One strong possible candidate is Cerber ransomware , the most popular and effective affiliate program operating between early 2016 and mid-2017.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2019

based company in 2016 and 2017. “This was the same tool that was used to effectuate the cyber-attack in Spring 2016. Intersec [the forensic investigator] also determined that the attackers had run searches on the Maritz system for certain words and phrases connected to the Spring 2016 attack.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Japanese defense contractors Pasco and Kobe Steel have disclosed security breaches that they have suffered back in 2016 and 2018. Kobe identified unauthorized access to its network in August 2016 and in June 2017, Pasco had detected the intrusion in May 2018. According to people involved, Chinese hackers Tick may have been involved.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

In July 2017, Russian antivirus vendor Dr.Web published research showing that Triada had been installed by default on at least four low-cost Android models. com 2016-02-18 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., At least another five of the domains registered to tosaka1027@gmail.com — 99youx[.]com com , buydudu[.]com 2333youxi[.]com

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Ax with firmware 1.04b12 and earlier CVE-2016-1555 Netgear WN604 before 3.3.3 CVE-2016-6277 NETGEAR R6250 before 1.0.4.6.Beta, build 001 CVE-2020-9377 D-Link DIR-610 CVE-2016-11021 D-Link DCS-930L devices before 2.12 Ax with firmware 1.04b12 and earlier CVE-2016-1555 Netgear WN604 before 3.3.3 Beta, R6400 before 1.0.1.18.Beta,

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

The Latvian expert Ruslans Bondars (37), who developed and run the counter antivirus service Scan4You has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. Scan4you is a VirusTotal like online multi-engine antivirus scanning service that could be used by vxers to test evasion abilities of their malware against the major antiviruses.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The infamous Locky ransomware was first spotted in the wild in February 2016. CryptXXX, another major family discovered in April 2016 and later rebranded as UltraCrypter, relied on exploit kits that used software vulnerabilities to infiltrate systems. The first viable Mac ransomware called KeRanger was spotted in the spring of 2016.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2022

” Zloader is a banking malware that has been active at least since 2016, it borrows some functions from the notorious Zeus 2.0.8.9 banking Trojan and was used to spread Zeus-like banking trojan (i.e. Zeus OpenSSL). ” reads a post published by Microsoft.

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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. ” The employees who kept things running for RSOCKS, circa 2016. In 2016, while the U.S.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2022

The loader is also designed to gather system information, retrieve a list of installed antivirus solutions, cryptocurrency wallets, banking, and mail apps, and exfiltrate the information to a remote server. ” reads the post published by Zscaler. That’s not all. ” concludes the report.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 30, 2018

In 2016, WikiLeaks published a series of classified documents listing "target selectors": phone numbers the NSA searches for and records. Insecurities in the phone network itself are so easily exploited that 60 Minutes eavesdropped on a US congressman's phone live on camera in 2016. Both approaches have their benefits and drawbacks.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2022

Researchers from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 discovered that a sample uploaded to the VirusTotal database on May 19, 2022 and considered benign by almost all the antivirus, was containing a payload associated with Brute Ratel C4 (BRc4), a new red-teaming and adversarial attack simulation tool.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

In July 2017, Russian antivirus vendor Dr.Web published research showing that Triada had been installed by default on at least four low-cost Android models. com 2016-02-18 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., At least another five of the domains registered to tosaka1027@gmail.com — 99youx[.]com com , buydudu[.]com 2333youxi[.]com

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Even today, less than half of the known antivirus engines are flagging the infection on VirusTotal , as observed by BleepingComputer: The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 3, 2021

In the weeks ahead, we’ll be using the results as we re-examine our top endpoint detection and response (EDR) and antivirus product lists. That said, the raw numbers alone contain some interesting insights. MITRE results analyzed.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 19, 2022

Jigsaw made its first appearance in 2016. The complaint alleged Zagala bragged that Thanos was “nearly undetected” by antivirus software. If you profit from ransomware, we will find you and disrupt your malicious operations.” ” Jigsaw v2 and Thanos are Zagala’s creations.

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SecureList

JUNE 22, 2021

Unfortunately, none of the antivirus products that were available back then were actually able to clean the virus, so the teachers who knew I had some experience with computers asked me if I could write an antivirus for it. And slowly, this turned into a more capable antivirus product. What makes research successful?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Security experts from Russian antivirus firm Dr.Web have discovered a new strain of Linux cryptominer tracked as Linux.BtcMine.174. 174 Linux cryptominer uses one of two privilege escalation exploits CVE-2016-5195 (aka Dirty COW) and CVE-2013-2094 to get root permissions on the infected system. The Linux.BtcMine.174

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2018

The malware was uploaded to VirusTotal way back in 2016, most likely the same year it was created. But for two whole years, until May 2018, Calisto remained off the radar of antivirus solutions, with the first detections on VT appearing only recently.” Use antivirus software. ” researchers explained.

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NopSec

MARCH 1, 2023

ClamAV, a popular open-source antivirus engine, was found to be prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability that could result in unauthenticated remote command execution (RCE). Systems Impacted: Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016, 2019 Read more : [link] [link] [link] [link] 2. Severity Complexity CVSS Score High Low 8.8

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 23, 2021

Antivirus protection isn’t enough to protect against today’s advanced threats. Malware isn’t going away and even advanced monitoring and antivirus software can’t always catch what a malicious program will do when executed. Antivirus software is notable for its ability to scan programs being transferred, downloaded, and stored.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2018

In June 2017, researchers at antivirus firm ESET discovered a new strain of malware, dubbed Industroyer, that was designed to target power grids. Industroyer was involved in the December 2016 attack aimed at an electrical substation in Ukraine that caused significant power outages. ” reads the analysis published by ESET.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Trusted applications will not be stopped by antivirus or anti-malware technologies. An example of this is the NotPetya Ransomware Worm , where attackers used fraudulent Microsoft certificates in an attempt to bypass antivirus scanners. The Nation state malware in 2016 that infiltrated security firm Kaspersky is a good example of this.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

The group is considered responsible for the massive WannaCry ransomware attack, a string of SWIFT attacks in 2016, and the Sony Pictures hack. 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 15, 2019

The malicious code is used by the hackers to deliver a Moner (XMR) crypto miner that is not detected by almost any antivirus solution. In addition to the C2 change, functionality was also added to their LSD malware to exploit ActiveMQ servers vulnerable to CVE-2016-3088.”

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Schneier on Security

MAY 10, 2018

In 2014, China reportedly banned antivirus products from both Kaspersky and the US company Symantec, based on similar fears. In 2016, researchers discovered that many different models of cheap Android phones were sending information back to China. Nor is the United States the only country worried about these threats.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Though polite, the Creeper was still an annoyance to some, and in 1971, Ray Tomlinson developed the first antivirus software , called Reaper. One of the first pieces of antivirus software , McAfee’s VirusScan, was released in 1987. It also would actively shut down antivirus processes to evade detection and removal.

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