Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2022

The botnet targets multiple architectures, including arm, bsd, x64, and x86. Then the script downloads the actual Enemybot binary which is compiled for the target device’s architecture. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Enemybot). Upon installing the threat, the bot drops a file in /tmp/.pwned To nominate, please visit:?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

A China-linked threat actor used UEFI malware based on code from Hacking Team in attacks aimed at organizations with an interest in North Korea. The experts were investigating several suspicious UEFI firmware images when discovered four components, some of which were borrowing the source code a Hacking Team spyware. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Information Technology research and advisory company, Gartner, presented its top predictions for the cybersecurity industry for 2017 earlier this year. Adoption of Adaptive Security Architecture It’s no longer sufficient to install a firewall and the latest antivirus software and hope for the best.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Kinsing actors often exploited the PHPUnit vulnerability ( CVE-2017-9841 ) and it engaged in fully automated attacks as part of mining cryptocurrency. .” The discovery demonstrates that Kinsing actors are rapidly adding new exploits to their arsenal, expanding the potential targets. The script is accessible for review here.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2022

CloudMensis was developed in Objective-C, the samples analyzed by ESET are compiled for both Intel and Apple architectures. The exploit chain uses four flaws that were disclosed in 2017, a circumstance that suggests that CloudMensis may has been active since at least 2017 evading the detection. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2022

The botnet targets multiple architectures, including arm, bsd, x64, and x86. SecurityAffairs – hacking, EnemyBot). The botnet was first discovered by Fortinet in March, the DDoS botnet targeted several routers and web servers by exploiting known vulnerabilities. Upon installing the threat, the bot drops a file in /tmp/.pwned

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

According to a report published by Symantec in 2017, Longhorn is a North American hacking group that has been active since at least 2011. In 2017, Symantec speculated that at least 40 targets in 16 countries have been compromised by the threat actors. The targets were all located in the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and Africa.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The group is also the author of the NotPetya ransomware that hit hundreds of companies worldwide in June 2017, causing billions worth of damage. “The actor has so far primarily deployed Cyclops Blink to WatchGuard devices, but it is likely that Sandworm would be capable of compiling the malware for other architectures and firmware.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2022

According to the advisory that was issued with the help of leading cybersecurity firms (Dragos, Mandiant, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and Schneider Electric), nation-state hacking groups were able to hack multiple industrial systems using a new ICS-focused malware toolkit dubbed PIPEDREAM that was discovered in early 2022.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2019

The Meltdown attack (CVE-2017-5754) could allow attackers to read the entire physical memory of the target machines stealing credentials, personal information, and more. The Spectre attack (CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715) allows user-mode applications to extract information from other processes running on the same system.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The Netlogon service is an Authentication Mechanism used in the Windows Client Authentication Architecture which verifies logon requests, and it registers, authenticates, and locates Domain Controllers. The first MuddyWater campaign was observed in late 2017 when targeted entities in the Middle East. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 23, 2021

LastPass disadvantages: history of hacking. One of the biggest risks with using LastPass is its track record with preventing hacks. Reports of less severe vulnerabilities surfaced in 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2021. Those issues have created an opening for competitors who claim to have an impenetrable security architecture.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 27, 2021

Significantly, improper use incidents—which result from a violation of an organization's acceptable use policies, such as installing unapproved software or viewing inappropriate material—increased the most, from 249 in 2017 to 1,103 in 2020, a 343 percent growth. Further, improper use continued to be the top attack vector type in 2020.".

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

. “Our analysis of this particular sample indicates the file executes on microprocessor without interlocked pipelined stages (MIPS) architecture. This is an extension understood by machines running reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architecture, which is prevalent on many IoT devices.” ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2023

While the Soul framework has been in use since at least 2017, the threat actors behind it have been constantly updating and refining its architecture and capabilities. . “The later stages of the infection chain in the described campaign are based on Soul, a previously unattributed modular malware framework.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 26, 2022

In September 2016, source code of one of the most popular botnets named Mirai was leaked and uploaded to one of the hacking community forums, and later uploaded to GitHub with detailed information on the botnet, its infrastructure, configuration and how to build it. 2027093: ET EXPLOIT Possible Netgear DGN2200 RCE (CVE-2017-6077).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2022

The group is also the author of the NotPetya ransomware that hit hundreds of companies worldwide in June 2017, causing billions worth of damage. ” Cyclops Blink is nation-state botnet with a modular architecture, it is written in the C language. . SecurityAffairs – hacking, Cyclops Blink). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

According to experts from Avast, the Torii bot has been active since at least December 2017, it could targets a broad range of architectures, including ARM, MIPS, x86, x64, PowerPC, and SuperH. The Torii IoT botnet stands out for the largest sets of architectures it is able to target. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The bot includes exploits for Oracle WebLogic Server vulnerabilities CVE-2019-2725 and CVE-2017-10271 , and the Drupal RCE flaw tracked as CVE-2018-7600. The payload is named “pty” followed by a number used to map the architecture. SecurityAffairs – hacking, botnet). Below some download URL examples: hxxp://159.89.156.190/.y/pty2

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2021

Gafgyt also uses some of the existing exploits (CVE-2017-17215, CVE-2018-10561) to download the next stage payloads, which we will discuss further on. Figure 6: Huawei Exploit inside binary (CVE-2017-17215). SecurityAffairs – hacking, Mirai). Some of the recent Gafgyt variants (e.g., Click to see larger version.).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2021

Port 37215: Huawei Home routers RCE Vulnerability (CVE-2017-17215). Then the script attempts to download a list of filenames (associated with different CPU architectures), executes each one of them, achieves persistence through a crontab, and deletes itself. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransomware). Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2023

DNS Server Hardening DNS server hardening can be very complex and specific to the surrounding architecture. Design robust server architecture to improve redundancy and capacity for resilience against failure or DDoS attacks. Anti-DDoS configurations can enhance server architecture DDoS to protect DNS.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The expert devised two attacks dubbed Meltdown (CVE-2017-5754) and Spectre (CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715) , which could be conducted to sensitive data processed by the CPU. to encode out-of-bounds secrets that are never architecturally visible. Security Affairs – Meltdown, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Security Ledger

JULY 26, 2018

In this Spotlight Podcast, sponsored by Trusted Computing Group*, Dennis Mattoon of Microsoft Research gives us the low-down on DICE: the Device Identifier Composition Engine Architectures, which provides a means of solving a range of security and identity problems on low cost, low power IoT endpoints. Among them: establishing strong device.

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Internet Internet IoT Architecture 40

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 10, 2019

Loucaides One type of common firmware vulnerability isn’t so much a coding flaw as it is an architectural soft spot, if you will. Launched in 2017, the company is led by CEO and co–founder, Yuriy Bulygin, who formerly led senior-level security teams at Intel, and CTO and co-founder Alex Bazhaniuk, also an Intel security alumn.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2019

Bulgaria has extradited a Russian hacker that was indicted by a US court for mounting a sophisticated hacking scheme to the United States. The name 3ve is derived from a set of three distinct sub-operations using unique measures to avoid detection, and each of them was built around different architectures with different components.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2018

The FELIXROOT backdoor was first spotted by FireEye in September 2017, when attackers used it in attacks targeting Ukrainians. The documents include code to exploit known Microsoft Office vulnerabilities CVE-2017-0199 and CVE-2017-11882 to drop and execute the backdoor binary. ” reads the analysis published by FireEye.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2021

MSR registers in processor architecture are used to toggle certain CPU features and computer performance monitoring. The worm scans and exploits existing server based vulnerabilities like CVE-2020-14882 and CVE-2017-11610 from the victim machine. SecurityAffairs – hacking, MSR). Miners Using MSR to Disable Hardware Prefetcher.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2019

Silex is not the first IoT malware with this behavior, back in 2017 BrickerBot bricked millions of devices worldwide. The IoT malware is targeting any Unix-like system with default login credentials, according to Cashdollar it leverages a Bash shell version to target any architecture running a Unix like OS. ” reported ZDnet.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

So while you may be particularly skilled in security architecture and engineering. Vamosi: Welcome to the hacker mind, and original podcast from for all secure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. And so people with really creative backgrounds tend to do well because they think differently.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Usage increased 185% from 2016 to 2017 and 165% from 2017 to 2018. With the growth of personal VPN use, many enterprises are phasing them out in favor of more advanced cloud-based solutions, including zero-trust architecture , software-defined perimeters , and micro-segmentation.

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Cisco Security

APRIL 19, 2022

It’s no surprise that both hacking groups have made their presence felt. In 2017, Sandworm infiltrated Ukrainian accounting software MeDoc and hijacked the company’s update mechanism which resulted in malicious software being introduced to copies of the MeDoc software used by its customers.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2018

“Unlike last year’s Apache Struts exploit ( CVE-2017-5638 ), which was at the center of the Equifax breach , this vulnerability appears easier to exploit because it does not require the Apache Struts installation to have any additional plugins running in order to successfully exploit it.”. ” states the report published by Volexity.

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Architecture Cryptocurrency Wireless Advertising 47

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Experts observed working exploits for the CVE-2018-7600 in Drupal (aka Drupalgeddon2 ) and the CVE-2017-10271 in Oracle WebLogic, and CVE-2018-1273 in Spring Data Commons. SecurityAffairs – Elasticsearch, hacking). ” This behavior has been seen in elastic search error logs going back several years. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2019

The main commands implemented by Mozi bot allow it to: • Launch DDoS attacks (this module reuses Gafgyt’s attack code, supports HTTP, TCP, UDP, and other attacks) • Collect and exfiltrate bot info (Bot ID, IP, PORT, filename (full path), gateway, CPU architecture) • Execute payload from URL • Update from the specified URL • Execute system or (..)

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Herjavec Group

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Dr. Richard Thaler, 2017 Nobel Economics laureate for his work with the “Nudge Theory”, argues that in general, humans do not make economic decisions based on rational thinking, even for very important decisions like taking measures to secure sensitive information stored on a corporate or personal device.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

From this page the targeted individual is redirected to the final destination, the actual phishing site disguised as a 2017 version of the Microsoft Single Sign-On page. This group has been conducting various activities ranging from online shopping scams to phishing attacks since 2017. SecurityAffairs – Facebook, hacking).

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