Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2020

The United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) has uploaded five new North Korean malware samples to VirusTotal. The United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) has shared five new malware samples attributed to the North Korea-linked Lazarus APT , it has uploaded the malicious code to VirusTotal. ” reads the DHS CISA’s advisory.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

billion worth of cryptocurrency and other virtual assets in the past five years. billion) in cryptocurrency and other virtual assets in the past five years. economic sanctions were toughened in 2017 in response to its nuclear and missile tests.” million in cryptocurrency through this program. trillion won ($1.2

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2018

Group-IB researchers have investigated user data leaks from cryptocurrency exchanges and has analyzed the nature of these incidents. In 2017, when cryptocurrencies were gaining momentum, their record-breaking capitalization and a spike in Bitcoin’s exchange rate led to dozens of attacks on cryptocurrency services.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2021

Russian national Oleg Koshkin was convicted for charges related to the operation of a malware crypting service used by the Kelihos botnet to obfuscate malware and evade detection. “Levashov provided the Kelihos malware to Crypt4U personnel for crypting before distributing it to his victims.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2022

The gang focuses on infecting cloud hosts to deploy cryptocurrency miners by exploiting known vulnerabilities and conducting brute-force attacks. ” The infection script is the core component of bot, below is the list of actions it carries out: Victim host preparation and cleanup, including the removal of common cloud security tools.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2021

The Rocke group is using a new piece of cryptojacking malware dubbed Pro-Ocean to target Apache ActiveMQ, Oracle WebLogic, and Redis installs. The cybercrime group Rocke is using a new piece of cryptojacking malware called Pro-Ocean to target vulnerable Apache ActiveMQ, Oracle WebLogic, and Redis intalls.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2021

Experts defined DirtyMoe as a complex malware that has been designed as a modular system. 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. “Both PurpleFox and DirtyMoe are still active malware and gaining strength.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2021

Researchers noticed that malware authors have added multiple exploits for over 10 different web applications and the SMB protocol. Talos experts noticed that a version released on May 18 included Python versions of EternalBlue ( CVE-2017-0144 ) and EternalRomance ( CVE-2017-0147 ) exploits with a Windows download command line as the payload.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The man, along with other individuals of a gang known as “ thedarkoverlord ,” trafficked in stolen social security numbers. Kaye laundered cryptocurrency obtained from the illegal The Real Deal operation through the mixing service Bitmixer.io. ’s National Crime Agency (NCA) in February 2017. government agencies,” said U.S.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2022

The North Korea-linked APT group BlueNoroff has been spotted targeting cryptocurrency startups with fake MetaMask browser extensions. The North Korea-linked APT group BlueNoroff has been spotted targeting cryptocurrency startups with fake MetaMask browser extensions. The researchers are not aware of the compromise of these companies.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2020

The US DoJ has filed a civil forfeiture complaint with the intent to seize control over 280 Bitcoin and Ethereum accounts that are believed to be holding funds which are the proceeds of hacking campaigns conducted by North Korea-linked APT groups against two cryptocurrency exchanges. In the second attack, threat actors stole $2.5

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2022

Experts defined DirtyMoe as a complex malware that has been designed as a modular system. 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. The malware implements six methods to generate IPs with the help of a pseudo-random generator.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

billion of money and cryptocurrency from financial institutions and companies, to create and deploy multiple malicious cryptocurrency applications, and to develop and fraudulently market a blockchain platform.” ransomware in May 2017, and carried out extortion and attempted extortion from 2017 through 2020.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In 2017, Greek Police arrested the Russian national Alexander Vinnik and they accused the man of running the BTC-e Bitcoin exchange to launder more than US$4bn worth of the cryptocurrency. Alexander Vinnik allegedly headed the Bitcoin exchange BTC-e, he is charged with different hacking crimes in Russia, France, and the United States.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2021

million customers impacted. million customers impacted. million customers impacted. million customers impacted.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

PaloAlto Network warns of the WatchDog botnet that uses exploits to take over Windows and Linux servers and mine cryptocurrency. Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks uncovered a cryptojacking botnet, tracked as WatchDog, that is targeting Windows and Linux systems. Oracle WebLogic Server CVE-2017-10271 – versions 10.3.6.0.0,

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In 2017, Greek Police arrested the Russian national Alexander Vinnik and they accused the man of running the BTC-e Bitcoin exchange to launder more than US$4bn worth of the cryptocurrency. The post Russian Alexander Vinnik sentenced in Paris to five years in prison for money laundering appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2021

Though some of the functionalities were similar to the malware discussed by the security firm Intezer last year, the newer variants of this malware had a bunch of activities up its sleeve. In this blog, we will detail the usage of MSR to disable the hardware prefetcher in the cryptomining malwares. Conclusion.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 27, 2021

A new security audit reveals that cyber bad actors hit the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with more than 6,000 attacks during the last four years. And the audit found that attackers did successfully introduce malware into agency systems. 6 key areas where NASA's information security is failing.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

The groups are behind several hacking operations that resulted in the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars from financial institutions and cryptocurrency exchanges worldwide and destructive cyber-attacks on infrastructure. Lazarus Group is also considered the threat actors behind the 2018 massive WannaCry attack.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The primary purpose of the KashmirBlack botnet is to abuse resources of compromised systems for cryptocurrency mining and redirecting a site’s legitimate traffic to spam pages. .” reads the first part of two reports published by the experts detailing the DevOps implementation behind the botnet.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2020

” “They develop and deploy a wide range of malware tools around the world to enable these activities and have grown increasingly sophisticated.” ” According to the experts, the state-sponsored hackers have attempted to steal as much as $2 billion through these cyber activities. ” concludes the advisory.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2020

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

“The seizure represents the largest seizure of cryptocurrency in the history of the Department of Justice.” filed a civil complaint to forfeit the funds, this is the largest seizure of cryptocurrency funds the Department of Justice has ever made. .” reads the press release published by the DoJ.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In February 2018, researchers from Proofpoint discovered a huge botnet dubbed ‘Smominru’ that was using the EternalBlue exploit to infect Windows computers and recruit them in Monero cryptocurrency mining activities.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Once hijacked a SIM, the attackers can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts. In 2017, hackers stole some personal information belonging to T-Mobile customers by exploiting a well-known vulnerability.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The first half of 2019 saw a 10-fold increase in the number of password-protected objects, such as documents and archive files, being used to deliver malware. In 2017, password-protected archives accounted for only 0.08% of all malicious objects. Another trend was disguising malware in emails. Financial departments at high risk.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Object-3 exploiting CVE-2017-11882. If you are familiar with CVE-2017-11882, you might notice it immediately, but if you aren’t you might take a look to HERE (for the exploit generation) to HERE (for an example) and HERE (for CVE original disclosure). Everything looks like real except for the third object included into the Excel file.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2019

A tainted version of the Tor Browser is targeting dark web market shoppers to steal their cryptocurrency and gather information on their browsing activity. Between 2017 and early 2018, crooks promoted the webpages of the trojanized Tor Browser using spam messages on multiple Russian forums. org torproect[.]org

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

Regardless of how familiar you are with Information Security, you’ve probably come across the term ‘malware’ countless times. From accessing your business-critical resources and sensitive information to halting business operations and services, a malware infection can quickly become an organization’s worst nightmare come true.

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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. From here, the malware executes a new thread when specific and hardcoded web-browsers are opened.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2023

According to Proofpoint the group is targeting cryptocurrencies since at least 2017. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week confirmed that in June 2022 the North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group and APT38 stole $100 million worth of cryptocurrency assets from the Blockchain company Harmony Horizon Bridge.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Regardless of how familiar you are with Information Security, you’ve probably come across the term ‘malware’ countless times. From accessing your business-critical resources and sensitive information to halting business operations and services, a malware infection can quickly become an organization’s worst nightmare come true.

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

Finally, negotiations with the victims may be handled by yet another team and when the ransom is paid out, a whole new set of skills is needed to launder the cryptocurrency obtained. They interact with each other through internet handles, paying for services with cryptocurrency. Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency is used for payment.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The website of Brian Krebs , a well-known journalist in the field of information security, was also subjected to a brief, but powerful, M?ris Another information security media, Infosecurity magazine , hit by a DDoS attack , decided to switch to a more robust hosting provider. ris attack.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2024

Hackers may have accessed thousands of accounts on the California state welfare platform Brokewell Android malware supports an extensive set of Device Takeover capabilities Experts warn of an ongoing malware campaign targeting WP-Automatic plugin Cryptocurrencies and cybercrime: A critical intermingling Kaiser Permanente data breach may have impacted (..)

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Lenny Zeltser

JULY 25, 2018

” A variation of this technique was documented by Stu Sjouwerman at KnowBe4 in 2017. I actually setup malware on porn video clips (adult porn) & guess what, you visited same adult website to experience fun (you get my drift). The scammer demands payment in exchange for suppressing the “compromising evidence.”

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