eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Krebs wrote for The Washington Post between 1995 and 2009 before launching his current blog KrebsOnSecurity.com. Bruce Schneier | @schneierblog. Dave Kennedy | @hackingdave.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

An online search for the term “yehuo” reveals an account on the Chinese Software Developer Network which uses that same nickname and references the domain blazefire[.]com. 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.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The email antivirus was triggered most frequently by email messages containing members of the Trojan.Win32.Agentb Contact us to lose your money or account! Theft of work accounts and infecting of office computers with malware in targeted attacks are the main risk that companies have faced this year. Agentb malware family.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Latin American Javali trojan weaponizing Avira antivirus legitimate injector to implant malware. Javali trojan is active since November 2017 and targets users of financial and banking organizations geolocated in Brazil and Mexico. Background of Latin American Trojans.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

was used to register at least six domains, including a Russian business registered in Khoroshev’s name called tkaner.com , which is a blog about clothing and fabrics. NeroWolfe seems to have abandoned all of his forum accounts sometime in 2016. According to DomainTools.com , the address sitedev5@yandex.ru Image: Shutterstock.

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Elie

MAY 30, 2018

This blog post survey the attacks techniques that target AI (artificial intelligence) systems and how to protect against them. Adversarial inputs include malicious documents designed to evade antivirus, and emails attempting to evade spam filters. Data poisoning attacks. active blackmarket. bitcoin prices.

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Elie

MAY 30, 2018

This blog post survey the attacks techniques that target AI (artificial intelligence) systems and how to protect against them. Adversarial inputs include malicious documents designed to evade antivirus, and emails attempting to evade spam filters. Data poisoning attacks. active blackmarket. bitcoin prices.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2019

Then, depending on the returned value, it runs a couple of privilege escalation exploits able to bypass the UAC (User Account Control) feature, a well known security mechanism introduced since Vista to avoid unauthorized system configuration changes. The first one targets the Windows versions lower than 8.1, The Payload. Static payload data.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2019

But GandCrab far eclipsed the success of competing ransomware affiliate programs largely because its authors worked assiduously to update the malware so that it could evade antivirus and other security defenses. Those records show this individual routinely re-used the same password across multiple accounts: 16061991. HEAVY METALL.

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SecureList

JANUARY 11, 2021

On December 13, 2020, FireEye published a blog post detailing a supply chain attack leveraging Orion IT, an infrastructure monitoring and management platform by SolarWinds. In a previous blog, we dissected the method used by Sunburst to communicate with its C2 server and the protocol by which victims are upgraded for further exploitation.

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SecureList

MARCH 28, 2023

Although we have written about a similar malware attack in 2017 in one of our blogposts , the technique is still very relevant today as it doesn’t have any perfect solution from the perspective of operating system design. It all started from banking trojans focused on specific banks and replacing bank account numbers in the clipboard.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

Web antivirus recognized 675,832,360 unique URLs as malicious. Attempts to run malware for stealing money from online bank accounts were stopped on the computers of 119,252 unique users. Our file antivirus detected 68,294,298 unique malicious and potentially unwanted objects. Geography of threats for macOS. Local threats.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

AV-Comparatives quickly tested several known anti-malware and antivirus products against HermeticWiper and its variants and found that Malwarebytes, among others, detected the malware.). In June 2017, Russia— as concluded by the CIA just months later —unleashed a cyberattack on Ukraine that spilled out into the world.

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Fox IT

MAY 4, 2021

In 2017, yet another new version was detected in the wild with a number of major modifications compared to the previous main variant: Rebranded RM loader (called RM3 ) Used exotic PE file format exclusively designed for this banking malware Modular architecture Network communication reworked New modules. Module list.

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