eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Malware, short for “malicious software,” is any unwanted software on your computer that, more often than not, is designed to inflict damage. Since the early days of computing, a wide range of malware types with varying functions have emerged. Best Practices to Defend Against Malware. Jump ahead: Adware. RAM scraper.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Security firm of Cisco says the malware also can steal cryptocurrency, thanks to its add-on of Laplas, that has the ability to replace the crypto address on the Windows Clipboard and substitute it with the one dictated by the threat actor. The post Meet the new Mortal Kombat Ransomware appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Facebook shared details about a long-running ad-fraud campaign that’s been ongoing since 2016 targeting Facebook users with SilentFade malware. The social network giant revealed that malware has a Chinese origin and allowed hackers to siphon $4 million from users’ advertising accounts.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

Regardless of how familiar you are with Information Security, you’ve probably come across the term ‘malware’ countless times. From accessing your business-critical resources and sensitive information to halting business operations and services, a malware infection can quickly become an organization’s worst nightmare come true.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

Apparently now that includes emailing employees directly and asking them to unleash the malware inside their employer’s network in exchange for a percentage of any ransom amount paid by the victim company. Image: Abnormal Security. billion in 2020. Image: FBI. For example, the Lockbit 2.0

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The Persistence of Abusive Certificates in Malware. Trusted applications will not be stopped by antivirus or anti-malware technologies. PKI is an asymmetric system, using two keys to encrypt communications; public and private keys. Attackers can create fake websites to steal credentials and/or deliver malware.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2020

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT Group has used a new multi-platform malware framework, dubbed MATA, to target entities worldwide. The MATA malware framework could target Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems. The malware framework implements a wide range of features that allow attackers to fully control the infected systems.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Germany-based G Data CyberDefense released software designed to trick the STOP ransomware variant into believing that a targeted system has already been compromised and keeping it from encrypting files after the device has been infected. Use ‘Harmless’ Parts of Malware. They also come with the same limitations.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Although most people think of ransomware as a dodgy application that encrypts data and holds it for ransom, the concept is much more heterogeneous than that. The above-mentioned AIDS Trojan hailing from the distant pre-Internet era was the progenitor of the trend, but its real-world impact was close to zero.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 6, 2023

It can often be found on internet-facing servers. The problem is that the vulnerability also affects ColdFusion 2016 and ColdFusion 11 installations, which have reached end-of-life (EOL) and are no longer supported with security patches. Prioritize remediation of vulnerabilities on internet-facing systems. Prevent intrusions.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2021

It’s nice when ransomware gangs have their bitcoin stolen, malware servers shut down, or are otherwise forced to disband. After acknowledging someone had also seized their Internet servers, DarkSide announced it was folding. Indeed, some of the most destructive and costly ransomware groups are now in their third incarnation.

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SecureList

MAY 19, 2023

Some of these APTs have long been forgotten in the past – such as Prikormka ( Operation Groundbait ), discovered by ESET in 2016. While there have been no updates about Prikormka or Operation Groundbait for a few years now, we discovered multiple similarities between the malware used in that campaign, CommonMagic and CloudWizard.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Introduction It’s just another cryptocurrency miner… Nobody would even suspect the mining malware was merely a mask, masquerading behind an intricate modular framework that supports both Linux and Windows. This malware employed a custom EternalBlue SMBv1 exploit to infiltrate its victims’ systems.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2019

The owner of a Swedish company behind a popular remote administration tool (RAT) implicated in thousands of malware attacks shares the same name as a Swedish man who pleaded guilty in 2015 to co-creating the Blackshades RAT , a similar product that was used to infect more than half a million computers with malware, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2020

The Dharma ransomware first appeared on the threat landscape in February 2016, at the time experts dubbed it Crysis. The CrySis ransomware was first spotted in by experts at ESET, the malware has infected systems, mostly in Russia, Japan, South and North Korea, and Brazil. SecurityAffairs – Dharma ransomware, malware).

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SecureList

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The malware also sends a message with this information via Telegram. After encryption, the contents of the folders look as follows: the cybercriminals’ e-mail address and the victim’s ID are added to the beginning of each file, followed by the original name and extension, and then the extension added by the ransomware.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2019

Ave Maria Malware – Phishing attempts spreading in the last days of the past year against an Italian organization operating in the Oil&Gas sector. Similar packing of AutoIT code have been observed even by Juniper back in 2016, where SFX files were abused this way to deliver scripts used as first stage of the malware.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The number of sensors and smart devices connected to the internet is exponentially rising, which are the 5 Major Vulnerabilities for IoT devices. Before we dive into the specific cybersecurity concerns, let us remind you about the attack that took place in October 2016. This type of malware attack is called a botnet attack.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Regardless of how familiar you are with Information Security, you’ve probably come across the term ‘malware’ countless times. From accessing your business-critical resources and sensitive information to halting business operations and services, a malware infection can quickly become an organization’s worst nightmare come true.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2022

They continuously send and receive data via the internet and can be the easiest way for a hacker to access your home network. Out-of-date software or hardware or a supply network attack can allow malware onto a server. Never connect IoT devices and equipment directly to the internet.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Summary: Marriott purchased Starwood in 2016, but did not integrate the Starwood platform to the Marriott reservation system. Adult FriendFinder Networks data breach (2016). A majority of the passwords were protected by the weak SHA-1 hashing algorithm, which resulted in 99% of the credentials being posted by LeakSource.com in 2016.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2023

The malware also contains a function that ensures only one instance of this malware runs on the same device. ” The researchers pointed out that the Mirai variant like IZ1H9 and V3G4 will first initialize an encrypted string table and then retrieve the strings through an index. .” ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

“Once the malicious document is opened, the malware is dropped and proceeds to the next stage of the deployment process. The ThreatNeedle malware used in this campaign belongs to a malware family known as Manuscrypt, which belongs to the Lazarus group and has previously been seen attacking cryptocurrency businesses.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The Russian Cobalt crime gang was particularly active in the last month, a new report confirms a massive use of the CobInt malware in recent attacks. Security researchers from Proofpoint reported the massive use of the CobInt malware by the Cobalt group in recent attacks. ” reads the analysis published by Proofpoint.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2023

A deeper analysis revealed that the threat actor CloudWizard has been linked to an activity cluster that dates back to May 2016 that was tracked by ESET researchers as Operation Groundbait. The threat actor likely used the PowerMagic backdoor to deliver the modular CommonMagic framework.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

However, hacking did not always involve computers or networks, and its history is much older than the internet era. The virus was created by Bob Thomas, a programmer at BBN Technologies, and it spread through the ARPANET, the precursor to the modern internet. In 1971, the first computer virus, known as the Creeper virus , was released.

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SiteLock

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In 2020, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that ransomware losses totaled $29.1 Cerber ransomware was first produced in 2016, making it one of the oldest and most refined hacking tactics around. Malware developers sell their creations to hackers, who pay them commission for use. Let’s dive in.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2020

In a few days back, the MalwareMustDie team’s security researcher unixfreaxjp has published a new Linux malware analysis of Fbot that has focused on the decryption of the last encryption logic used by its bot client. This wave is a significant timeline as a technology step-up for DDoS botnet and IoT malware development.

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SecureList

JUNE 8, 2022

A router is a gateway from the internet to a home or office — despite being conceived quite the opposite. In early 2022, for instance, a security researcher effectively cut off the whole North Korea from the internet by exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities in critical routers and other network equipment. Router-targeting malware.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2023

Sophos X-Ops is currently tracking a campaign by threat actors targeting unpatched Citrix NetScaler systems exposed to the internet. The attackers obtained encrypted passwords from NetScaler ADC configuration files, and the decryption key was stored on the ADC appliance. 189) for malware staging and a second C2 IP (85.239.53[.]49)

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

Experts at Intezer researchers have spotted a strain of the Linux mining that also scans the Internet for Windows RDP servers vulnerable to the Bluekeep. In May, Internet scans found nearly one million systems vu lnerable to the BlueKeep flaw. ” reads a blog post published by Intezer. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

Palo Alto Networks researchers discovered a new variant of the Mirai malware that is targeting more processor architectures than previous ones. Mirai botnet continues to be one of the most dangerous malware in the threat landscape, experts at Palo Alto Networks discovered a new variant that targets more processor architectures than before.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Simply defined, the internet of things (IoT) is a network of Internet-connected objects able to collect and exchange data. VPNs are the baseline cybersecurity tool to safeguard internet-enabled devices and a home network. The consequences of which are not only born by companies who are the primary targets of cybercrime.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Protect yourself from malware by purchasing, updating, and upgrading antivirus software. Malware is malicious software designed to harm devices or glean data to commit identity-related crimes. If you have to connect to the internet using a public network, do so with a virtual private network. SSLs ensure all data is encrypted.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The exploit had numerous debug strings from an older, publicly known exploit for vulnerability CVE-2016-3309 , but closer analysis revealed that it was a zero-day. Microsoft Windows Server 2016 (build 14393). The malware itself is not very sophisticated and has functionality similar to many other remote shells. Description.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Summary: Marriott purchased Starwood in 2016, but did not integrate the Starwood platform to the Marriott reservation system. Adult FriendFinder Networks data breach (2016). A majority of the passwords were protected by the weak SHA-1 hashing algorithm, which resulted in 99% of the credentials being posted by LeakSource.com in 2016.

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SecureList

APRIL 23, 2021

In the past, we’ve published yearly reports on the subject: PC ransomware in 2014-2016 , Ransomware in 2016-2017 , and Ransomware and malicious crypto miners in 2016-2018. Was ransomware, in fact, a dying species of malware? Kaspersky has been following the ransomware landscape for years. What was happening?

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