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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Slack). 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

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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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 17, 2021

And information is out that the campaign could have started by a hacking group dubbed Ferocious Kitten that has been active since 2015 and was conducting spying through a highly sophisticated malware named MarkiRAT. . Russian Security Firm Kaspersky has uncovered an espionage campaign that was targeting Persian-speaking people in Iran.

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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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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2019

” But critics say WebMonitor is far more likely to be deployed on “pwned” devices, or those that are surreptitiously hacked. court to computer hacking and to creating, marketing and selling Blackshades , a RAT that was used to compromise and spy on hundreds of thousands of computers.

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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 SecurityAffairs – hacking, BotenaGo). Beta, R6400 before 1.0.1.18.Beta,

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2020

SecurityAffairs – newsletter, hacking). Are Maze operators behind the attack on the IT services giant Cognizant? Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

A former member of the NSA’s Tailored Access Operations hacking team was sentenced to 66 months in prison because he leaked top-secret online documents related to the US government ban on Kaspersky software. The man pleaded guilty in December 2017 to one count of willful retention of classified national defense information.

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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. . SecurityAffairs – hacking, IKEA).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2021

Experts from Kaspersky explained that in February 2019, multiple antivirus companies received a collection of malware samples, some of them cannot be associated with the activity of known APT groups. . Across the years, the researchers found analyzed multiple backdoors and hacking tools composing the arsenal of the cyberespionage group.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2019

“The hacking campaign, known as “ Cloud Hopper ,” was the subject of a U.S. ” The report attributed the cyberespionage campaign to the China-linked APT10 (aka Menupass, and Stone Panda), the same group recently accused of hacking telco operators worldwide. SecurityAffairs – Cloud Hopper, hacking).

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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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Russian defense contractor). The documents were used to deliver a previously undocumented backdoor, tracked as PortDoor.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2019

Twitter account of Scotland Yard hacked and posted bizarre messages. BlackBerry Cylance addresses AI-based antivirus engine bypass. WSJ says Equifax to Pay $700 million settlement for 2017 breach. A new ProFTPD vulnerability exposes servers to hack. Comodo Antivirus is affected by several vulnerabilities.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

The end game for this particular hacking ring is to install crypto currency mining routines on compromised Linux servers. Xbash gets rolling by infecting one device, which then serves as the launch pad for deeper hacking forays limited only by the attacker’s initiative. To be sure, it’s not as if the good guys aren’t also innovating.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2019

Investigators believe the intruders were using the ScreenConnect software on the hacked Wipro systems to connect remotely to Wipro client systems, which were then used to leverage further access into Wipro customer networks. based company in 2016 and 2017. This is remarkably similar to activity that was directed against a U.S.

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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 Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. In the same repository, we have found additional hacking tools collected from several different sources. Background. The original source of the code is yet unknown.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Kobe identified unauthorized access to its network in August 2016 and in June 2017, Pasco had detected the intrusion in May 2018. The attackers have exploited a directory traversal and arbitrary file upload vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-18187, in the Trend Micro OfficeScan antivirus. reported the Nikkei. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 26, 2022

A ransomware attack occurs when somebody hacks a person’s or company’s computer system and demands a ransom payment in return. Some infamous examples of ransomware attacks over the years include: WannaCry: This ransomware attack occurred in May 2017 and had devastating effects worldwide. What Is a Ransomware Attack?

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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

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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ChamelGang). ” reads the analysis published by the experts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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.

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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. Experts from the SBU also observed attackers using hacking tools that were used by the BlackEnergy hackers in previous attacks. ” states the ukrinform.net.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

When I first began writing about Vrublevsky in 2009 as a reporter for The Washington Post , ChronoPay and its sister firm Red & Partners (RNP) were earning millions setting up payment infrastructure for fake antivirus peddlers and spammers pimping male enhancement drugs. The latest document in the hacked archive is dated April 2021.

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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. We have credible reports that the Chinese hacked Gmail around 2010, and there are ongoing concerns about both censorship and surveillance by the Chinese social-networking company TikTok.

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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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Wannacry).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2020

” NEC was informed of the intrusion in July 2017 by a security company contracted by the electronics company to investigate alleged unauthorized accesses to the internal network. The attackers have exploited a directory traversal and arbitrary file upload vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-18187, in the Trend Micro OfficeScan antivirus.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 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 Pierluigi Paganini.

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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.” A few weeks later the malware was involved in attacks in the wild for the first time, threat actors hacked the website of the HandBrake app and poisoned the official app with it.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2019

The malicious code is under continuous enhancement, it is offered for sale on various hacking forums as a keylogger and stealer, it allows to monitor systems and exfiltrate information. New malware campaigns leveraging a new variant of the HawkEye data stealer have been observed by experts at Talos. ” continues the analysis. .”

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2019

A Russian hacking group Fxmsp is offering for sale the access to the networks of at least three antivirus companies in the US and source code of their software. Fxmsp is a high-profile Russian- and English-speaking hacking group focused on breaching high-profile private corporate and government information.

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Vipre

JANUARY 5, 2021

Here’s how it works: the ATP test uses real-life hacking and penetration techniques typically used by hackers to access internal computer systems. This type of threat has been on the rise since 2017, and has proven to be quite successful at attacking. This ATP test focused on: Fileless attacks.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The government says Snatch used a customized ransomware variant notable for rebooting Microsoft Windows devices into Safe Mode — enabling the ransomware to circumvent detection by antivirus or endpoint protection — and then encrypting files when few services are running. ru using the email address tretyakov-files@yandex.ru.

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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. “In June 2017, when many large corporations worldwide were hit by the Diskcoder.C Security Affairs – instant messaging, hacking ). Pierluigi Paganini.

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

To bypass antivirus systems, hackers send out malicious emails in non-working hours with delayed activation. In 2017, password-protected archives accounted for only 0.08% of all malicious objects. More than 80% of all malicious files were disguised as .zip rar archive files. Another trend was disguising malware in emails.

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