Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2021

Russian national Oleg Koshkin was convicted for operating a “crypting” service used to obfuscate the Kelihos bot from antivirus software. ”The websites promised to render malicious software fully undetectable by nearly every major provider of antivirus software. . ” reads the press release published by DoJ.”The

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

From then, the company has been offering antivirus software, multi-cloud security, extended detection and response and anti-virus and IoT protection. NOTE 2 – Bitdefender has been assisting Europol European Cybercrime Centre in solving cyber crime from the year 2017 and is also assisting Interpol from the year 2020.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

These two software are currently unknown to most if not all antivirus companies.” “FUD” in the ad above refers to software and download links that are “Fully UnDetectable” as suspicious or malicious by all antivirus software. The Exe Clean service made malware look like goodware to antivirus products.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2021

“A Russian national was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for operating a “crypting” service used to conceal the Kelihos malware from antivirus software, which enabled hackers to systematically infect approximately hundreds of thousands of victim computers around the world with malicious software, including ransomware.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2022

The company states that the bug affected all users who created or revoked shared invitation links between 17 April 2017 and 17 July 2022. This issue was reported by an independent security researcher and disclosed to Slack on 17 July 2022. ” reads the advisory published by Slack. .

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2022

The emails used weaponized Microsoft Word documents exploiting the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability. The CVE-2017-11882 flaw is a memory-corruption issue that affects all versions of Microsoft Office released between 2000 and 2017. The vulnerability affects the MS Office component EQNEDT32.EXE

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2022

Norton 360 , one of the most popular antivirus products on the market today, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on its customers’ computers. In 2017, the identity theft protection company LifeLock was acquired by Symantec Corp. ” Norton 360 is owned by Tempe, Ariz.-based based NortonLifeLock Inc.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 17, 2021

Note- Usage of Kaspersky solutions has been banned in all US federal departments since 2017 as the company is believed to be funded by Russian intelligence who assigned it the task of passing on critical information to remote servers located in the Russian Federation via Kaspersky Antivirus software.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Implement network segmentation , “such that all machines on your network are not accessible from every other machine” Update antivirus software on all hosts and enable real-time detection. CVE-2017-0144 : Similar to CVE-2017-0145.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

McAfee had gone private in 2017 when it was spun off from Intel, then went public again last year – and is now going private again. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2022, but first there’s a 45-day “go shop” period during which McAfee has the right to consider other offers.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

CVE-2017-6077 NETGEAR DGN2200 devices with firmware through 10.0.0.50 Affected models that are end-of-support: NSA210, NSA220, NSA220+, NSA221, NSA310, NSA310S, NSA320, NSA320S, NSA325 and NSA325v2 CVE-2017-18368 ZyXEL P660HN-T1A v1 TCLinux Fw $7.3.15.0 Ax with firmware 1.04b12 and earlier CVE-2016-1555 Netgear WN604 before 3.3.3

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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Subsequent analysis revealed earlier instances of suspicious code dating back to 2017. Importantly, our investigation, which considered binary timestamps, indicated that this exploit was created prior to April 2017. It is worth noting that the EternalBlue exploit was publicly disclosed by the Shadow Brokers group on April 14, 2017.

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2021

The Windows botnet has been active since late 2017, it was mainly used to mine cryptocurrency, but it was also involved in DDoS attacks in 2018. Experts pointed out that the number of infected systems could be far greater because data provided by AVAST are only related to systems running their antivirus solution.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 26, 2022

As of the publishing of this article, antivirus (AV) vendor detection for BotenaGo and its variants remains behind with very low detection coverage from most of AV vendors. Figure 8 shows the low level of antivirus detections for BotenaGo’s new variants. 2027093: ET EXPLOIT Possible Netgear DGN2200 RCE (CVE-2017-6077).

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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. Antivirus software can require high processing power, due to the in-depth nature of scanning.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

This remote access Trojan (RAT) was first discovered in infected Windows computers in 2017 by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN), but it has been active since at least 2015. Lastly, if you use an antivirus for your Android device , always make sure you are using the latest version. The history of GravityRAT.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The man pleaded guilty in December 2017 to one count of willful retention of classified national defense information. On September 11, 2014, Kaspersky antivirus detected the Win32.GrayFish.gen On September 11, 2014, Kaspersky antivirus detected the Win32.GrayFish.gen Equestre.*”.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2021

The weaponized RTF documents generated with the exploit builder are able to trigger the CVE-2017-11882 , CVE-2018-0798 , CVE-2018-0802 vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Equation Editor. This tool was widely adopted by several China-linked threat actors, including Tick , Tonto Team and TA428.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 26, 2022

Some infamous examples of ransomware attacks over the years include: WannaCry: This ransomware attack occurred in May 2017 and had devastating effects worldwide. In 2019, this type of cyberattack cost companies about $7.5 Hackers took advantage of people using the Microsoft Windows operating system.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 28, 2021

DanderSpritz made the headlines on April 14, 2017, when it was leaked by the Shadow Broker hacking group along with other tools and exploits belonging to NSA’s arsenal. The tool also includes features to bypass Antivirus engines and perform other malicious activities. .

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2019

based company in 2016 and 2017. For example, in April 2017, someone using a Cognizant account utilized the “fiddler” hacking program to circumvent cyber protections that Maritz had installed several weeks earlier.” This is remarkably similar to activity that was directed against a U.S. In May 2018, Maritz Holdings Inc. ,

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The March attack was spotted after the experts noticed that the antivirus software installed on the systems of a Russia-based energy company repeatedly reported the presence of the Cobalt Strike Beacon in RAM. Positive Technologies experts investigated two attacks conducted by APT that took place in March and August respectively.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2019

The last time security experts documented the FIN8’s activities was in 2016 and 2017. FireEye documented obfuscation techniques used by the group in June 2017 and the involvement of PUNCHTRACK POS-scraping malware. At the time, FireEye and root9B published detailed reports about a series of attacks targeting the retail sector.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Worldwide spending on information security products and services rose to $114 billion in 2018, up from $102 billion in 2017, an increase of 12.4 Here are three fundaments to get you, and others over whom you have influence, on the right path: Use antivirus. To be sure, it’s not as if the good guys aren’t also innovating.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2019

BlackBerry Cylance addresses AI-based antivirus engine bypass. WSJ says Equifax to Pay $700 million settlement for 2017 breach. Comodo Antivirus is affected by several vulnerabilities. Hackers published a list of allegedly phished Discord login credentials. New APT34 campaign uses LinkedIn to deliver fresh malware.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2020

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

As of the publishing of this article, BotenaGo currently has low antivirus (AV) detection rate with only 6/62 known AVs seen in VirusTotal: (Figure 1). CVE-2017-6077. CVE-2017-18368. CVE-2017-6334. 4000898: AV EXPLOIT Netgear DGN2200 ping.cgi – Possible Command Injection ( CVE-2017-6077 ). CVE-2016-1555.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2018

SBU along with experts from a well-known antivirus company determined that the malware involved in the attack are updated versions of the Industroyer backdoor. BlackEnergy made the headlines as the responsible for the massive power outage that occurred in Ukraine in December 2015.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

It's also why the United States has blocked the cybersecurity company Kaspersky from selling its Russian-made antivirus products to US government agencies. That's why there is so much worry about Chinese-made equipment for the new 5G wireless networks. China denied having done so , of course. The United States does it. Our allies do it.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

” Microleaves has long been classified by antivirus companies as adware or as a “potentially unwanted program” (PUP), the euphemism that antivirus companies use to describe executable files that get installed with ambiguous consent at best, and are often part of a bundle of software tied to some “free” download.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2018

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.” In October 2017 attackers distributed the Proton RAT poisoning legitimate applications, such as the popular Elmedia Player and download manager Folx developed by the Elmedia Player.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 31, 2023

It has been historically associated with malicious activity performed by threat actors, APT groups (like in this Mandiant report from 2017), or government attacks (in this report by Unit42 in 2017). Due to its relatively large size, certain antivirus may choose not to analyze it, potentially bypassing detection.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware. About the author: Salvatore Lombardo.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2020

Fxmsp gained worldwide fame in May 2019, after it was reported that the networks belonging to leading antivirus software companies had been compromised. In early 2017, he created accounts on several other Russian-speaking forums, including on the infamous exploit[.]in, Geography and victims. Proxy seller. The big fish.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2019

The malicious code also comes with a Terms of Service agreement that provides some additional insight, for example, the author specifies that HawkEye Reborn should only be used on systems with permission and forbid scanning the malware executables with antivirus software. ” reads the analysis published by Talos.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

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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