CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 31, 2023

This blog was jointly written with Alejandro Prada and Ofer Caspi. 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). in March 2023, which is the most current version.

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Webroot

MAY 12, 2021

How can we prevent a replay of the 2017 attacks against Ukraine’s power grid from happening here? Just because the computer in the lobby of corporate HQ can’t crank up the sodium hydroxide in the drinking water doesn’t mean it’s not worthy of an antivirus. infrastructure cybersecurity? Don’t forget to secure corporate networks, too.

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Pentester Academy

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Introduction In May 2017, a worldwide ransomware attack infamously known as WannaCry was set in motion. This ransomware made use of the EternalBlue , an exploit of Microsoft’s implementation of their SMB protocol, released by The Shadow Brokers hacker group in April 2017, to gain access to remote Windows machines in most cases.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2019

Sha256 e2f931207a217983c8608253b137b7874f5b402b15039b3788e5fa2e8fc040da Threat cve-2017-0199 document Brief Description Document Dropper exploiting cve-2017-0199 Ssdeep 96:Hd4+dGCbidUEd9IUfPLIuSdFpMcuGg5mLWStWiWrVMd92c SCedL0m03mbRTiqhrr:C+bcyucyMtWNYk0mqQTnhr5OARQT6. The Broken Doc. Sample information. biz/js/Oj1/smile.doc”.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 30, 2021

LemonDuck has evolved from a Monero cryptominer into LemonCat, a Trojan that specializes in backdoor installation, credential and data theft, and malware delivery, according to the Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team, which explained their findings in a two-part story [ 1 ][ 2 ] on the Microsoft Security blog.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 3, 2020

This compromised extension tries to determine if the person using it is typing content into specific Web forms, such as a blog post editing system like WordPress or Joomla. The malicious link that set off antivirus alarm bells when people tried to visit Blue Shield California downloaded javascript content from a domain called linkojager[.]org.

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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. Google declined to elaborate on its blog post. Shanghai Wildfire did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Using an encrypted payload is quite a common way to evade Antivirus, since the encrypted payload changes depending on the used key. It’s not hard to see what the payload does (CVE-2017-11882 ), but if you run it on a dynamic engine you would probably have more chances to prove it. Stage1: Encrypted Content. But what is the key?

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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. Google declined to elaborate on its blog post. Shanghai Wildfire did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

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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. bitcoin prices. Concrete examples.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2019

The installed payload actually is a Base64 encoded PE32 file, file-lessly stored within the registry hive to avoid antivirus detection. com”, is well known: this email appears in another AdWind/JRat malicious campaign dated back in 2017, suggesting this malicious actor is active for a long time. The Payload. Static payload data.

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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 Attacks blocked by the email antivirus in 2020 ( download ). Equation Editor vulnerability exploits, Exploit.MSOffice.CVE-2017-11882 , dropped to third place with 6.55 Most spam (21.27%) originated in Russia.

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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. bitcoin prices. Concrete examples.

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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. 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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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Krebs wrote for The Washington Post between 1995 and 2009 before launching his current blog KrebsOnSecurity.com. ICYMI, Equifax forced to pull offline a huge database of consumer data guarded only by credentials "admin/admin" [link] — briankrebs (@briankrebs) September 13, 2017. Bruce Schneier | @schneierblog.

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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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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2019

A survey of local media reports by Recorded Future tallied 38 ransomware attacks against cities in 2017, rising to 53 attacks in 2018. While reporting for USA Today in 2009, I wrote about how fraudsters launched scareware campaigns to lock up computer screens as a means to extract $80 for worthless antivirus protection.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

WannaCry 2017 is well-known for the stir and panic it caused in May 2017 by affecting thousands of NHS hospitals, delaying critical medical procedures, and rerouting ambulances. Computer viruses often utilize deception techniques and keep evolving to evade antivirus software. NotPetya shook the entire world in June 2017.

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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. in , where the group recruited many of its distributors. “Our name became a generic term for ransomware in the underground.

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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. The purpose of protecting it with a password is to evade static-signature detection by antivirus solutions.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 18, 2022

iv) Antivirus - Retrieves the Antivirus Program installed on the machine via a WMI query shown below in the screenshot. Fetches Antivirus. LatentBot C2 Communication - 2017 (Pic Credit: link). LatentBot 2017 C2 Communication - ID based Communication (Pic Credit: link). Fetches ComputerName.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Ransomware Examples WannaCry was one of the major headliners in 2017. Petya was a reason behind many attacks during 2016 and 2017. In 2017, every 40 seconds someone got a ransomware infection. Antivirus programs don’t detect 100% of ransomware, and hackers are continually finding new techniques and tactics.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

Web antivirus recognized 675,832,360 unique URLs as malicious. Our file antivirus detected 68,294,298 unique malicious and potentially unwanted objects. In their blog, DarkSide’s creators heaped the blame on third-party operators. Ransomware attacks were defeated on the computers of 97,451 unique users.

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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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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

According to security firm Gemini Advisory, the Fin7 hacker group stole data on more than five million credit and debit cards that had been used at HBC credit card terminals beginning in May 2017. Evolving threats. Multi-factor authentication is also required for remote access.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

Further investigation of the Sunburst backdoor revealed several features that overlap with a previously identified backdoor known as Kazuar , a.NET backdoor first reported in 2017 and tentatively linked to the Turla APT group. In November and December 2020, two public blog posts were published about this campaign.

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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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