Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The Persistence of Abusive Certificates in Malware. Trusted applications will not be stopped by antivirus or anti-malware technologies. Attackers can create fake websites to steal credentials and/or deliver malware. The aim is to prevent malicious attackers from masquerading malware as legitimate software.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Since end-December 2019 lampion malware has been noted as the most prominent malware targeting Portuguese organizations. Figure 1: Lampion malware email templates. 2020-02-13] #Lampion v2 #portugal #malware #ATA 0998f6473004e0ba54ead5784ba62db8 h}//vrau-x.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.[com/0.zip zip h//oiurx14x.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.}com/P-14-7.dll

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 26, 2022

In November 2021, AT&T Alien Labs™ first published research on our discovery of new malware written in the open-source programming language Golang. The team named this malware “BotenaGo.” Key takeaways: BotenaGo malware source code is now available to any malicious hacker or malware developer.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Malware, or code written for malicious purposes, is evolving. To understand the new dangers malicious code poses to developers, it helps to take a brief look back at the history of malware. Malicious code, or malware, is intentionally written to disrupt, damage, or otherwise inflict undesirable effects on a target system.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 14, 2021

In this post, we'll look at a campaign, that targeted multiple 3D or digital artists using NFT, with malware named RedLine. This malware is a so called "infostealer" or "information stealer" that is capable of extracting sensitive data from your machine (such as wallet information, credentials, and so on). Introduction. Detection. .

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

GandCrab dissolved in July 2019, and is thought to have become “ REvil ,” one of the most ruthless and rapacious Russian ransomware groups of all time. ru, which shows that a user from Yekaterinburg registered in 2019 with the name Semyon Sergeyvich Tretyakov and email address tretyakov-files@ya.ru.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

AT&T Alien Labs™ has found new malware written in the open source programming language Golang. The malware creates a backdoor and waits to either receive a target to attack from a remote operator through port 19412 or from another related module running on the same machine. VirusTotal scanning results of BotenaGo malware.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

Researchers at Intezer have discovered a new variant of WatchBog, a Linux-based cryptocurrency mining botnet, that also includes a module to scan the Internet for Windows RDP servers vulnerable to the Bluekeep vulnerability (CVE-2019-0708). ” reads a blog post published by Intezer. ” continues the analysis. gooobb ” file.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2019

Users that have downloaded the VSDC multimedia editing software between 2019-02-21 and 2019-03-23, may have been infected with malware. Users that have downloaded the VSDC multimedia editing software between 2019-02-21 and 2019-03-23, may have been infected with a banking trojan and an information stealer.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 13, 2023

Talos researcher Chris Neal discussed how the security problem evolved in a blog post. “Without signature enforcement, malicious drivers would be extremely difficult to defend against as they can easily evade anti-malware software and endpoint detection.” “Customers just have to research how they work and enable them.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

New trojan called ‘Lampion’ has spread using template emails from the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax during the last days of 2019. Last days of 2019 were the perfect time to spread phishing campaigns using email templates based on the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax. zip) called: FacturaNovembro-4492154-2019-10_8.zip.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2019

Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. Adobe Patch Tuesday for August 2019 fixed 119 flaws in 8 products. Cerberus, a new banking Trojan available as malware-as-a-service in the underground.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2019

Malware researchers at Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab team uncovered a new Ursnif malware campaign that reached several organizations across Italy. The Ursnif trojan confirms itself as one of the most active malware threats in cyberspace, even during the past days, when new attack attempts reached several organizations across Italy.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2019

Sophos confirmed that the latest set of Windows updates are causing problems with the boot of computers running the popular Antivirus software. Experts believe the problems could be caused by the incompatibility with the KB4499164 and KB4499175 Microsoft Patches released on May 14, 2019. ” continues the note.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

SI-LAB detected hundreds of users that were impacted by this malware between March 18th and 26th of 2019. The last days of March 2019 are making headlines due to a targeted cyber attack involving a new variant of infamous EMOTET malware. CSIRT emite actualización de la Alerta de Ciberseguridad por Malware EMOTET.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 20, 2019

Malware deliveries Upon reviewing Android usage data for all of 2018, Google identified a rise in the number of “potentially harmful apps” that were preinstalled or delivered through over-the-air updates. In a nutshell: lock your device; click judiciously; use antivirus. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2019

SI-LAB captured a piece of the FlawedAmmyy malware that leverages undetected XLM macros as an Infection Vehicle to compromise user’s devices. In February 2019, SI-LAB captured multiple samples of phishing campaigns using an Office Excel document carrying a malicious Excel 4.0

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2019

In the last weeks, the Cybaze-Yoroi ZLAB investigated a new APT28 campaign discovered in January 2019. Here the malware implements recon functionalities, retrieves machine information and grabs screenshot every minute. Blog post reporting the Base64 script, shared by a forum user. The core of Zepakab.

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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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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2020

The modus operandi of this piece of malware is not new in Portugal. One of the last occurrences was last December 2019, where the Lampion trojan operated in a very similar way, changing only the way the malware was distributed (via AWS S3 buckets and with the first stage encoded in a highly obfuscated VBS file).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2019

The French police force, National Gendarmerie, announced to have neutralized the Retadup malware on over 850,000 computers taking over its C2 server. The operation allowed the France law enforcement agency to remotely disinfect more than 850,000 computers worldwide with the help of Avast malware researchers. Une #PremièreMondiale !

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, March 2021. PA Unit 42 found that the average ransom paid by organisations nearly tripled over the past year, from $115,123 in 2019 to $312,493. How not to disclosure a Hack.

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Fox IT

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Throughout 2019, TA505 changed tactics and adopted a proven simple, although effective, attack strategy: encrypt a corporate network with ransomware, more specifically the Clop ransomware strain, and demand a ransom in Bitcoin to obtain the decryption key. We unpacked the captured samples and organized them within their related campaign.

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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 Agentb malware family. Theft of work accounts and infecting of office computers with malware in targeted attacks are the main risk that companies have faced this year. Malware families. France gained 2.97

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

This post examines the activities of Khoroshev’s many alter egos on the cybercrime forums, and tracks the career of a gifted malware author who has written and sold malicious code for the past 14 years. This user said they specialize in developing malware, creating computer worms, and crafting new ways to hijack Web browsers.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 29, 2020

External attacks on cloud accounts increased by an astounding 630% in 2019. of malicious and suspicious activity by filtering known bad files and sites, as well as using sophisticated anti-malware scanning and behavioral analytics. Yet, the digital connection is also a threat. Security is a lot of work. Want to know more?

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 28, 2021

This renders the attacks undetectable and able to bypass conventional security solutions such as EDR, antivirus and other traditional security lines of defense. Industroyer , also called CrashOverride , is believed to be the malware that shut down the power grid in Kiev, Ukraine’s capital, in December 2016.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Extracting the macro code, shows the malware, in the first instance, checks the victim country using the Application.International MS Office property. As shown in the above figure, the malware tries to download an image from at least one of two embedded URLs: [link] [link]. Registry keys set by the malware. Conclusions.

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Pentester Academy

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The damages for 2018 were predicted to reach $8 billion; for 2019, the figure was $11.5 Lab Link: [link] The user is going to get access to a Kali GUI instance and Windows Server 2019. However, it also made use of DoublePulsar backdoor to spread itself from the infected machines. billion, and in 2021 it was $20 billion.

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SecureList

APRIL 24, 2023

In this blog post, we’re excited to share what we now know of Tomiris with the broader community, and discuss further evidence of a possible connection to Turla. We hypothesize that the general aim is to provide operators with “full-spectrum malware” in order to evade security products.

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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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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In our Malwarebytes 2019 Privacy Survey we found that younger generations of Internet users are actually quite privacy-conscious. If you don’t know where to start, Pieter Arntz, Malware Intelligence Researcher and regular contributor to the Malwarebytes Labs blog, has shared the six brilliant Chrome extensions he personally uses.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

lazydocker : A simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose : [link] pic.twitter.com/HsK17rzg8m — Binni Shah (@binitamshah) July 1, 2019. Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2019

The crooks behind an affiliate program that paid cybercriminals to install the destructive and wildly successful GandCrab ransomware strain announced on May 31, 2019 they were terminating the program after allegedly having earned more than $2 billion in extortion payouts from victims. in , where the group recruited many of its distributors.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2019

LockerGoga ransomware is a crypto-malware that loads the malicious file on the system from an infected email attachment. Altran cible d’une attaque informatique de grande ampleur — Pas au top en carving (@LaurentTanger) January 25, 2019. At a first glance this ransomware seems to be a FUD malware. Let’s look.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2019

In the first four months of 2019 alone, some 22 attacks have been disclosed. days in Q2 2019, as compared to 7.3 days in Q1 2019. 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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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2019

A few days ago, Cybaze -Yoroi ZLAB researchers spotted a suspicious JavaScript file needing further attention: it leveraged several techniques in order to evade all AV detection and no one of the fifty-eight antivirus solution hosted on the notorious VirusTotal platform detected it. Figure 1: Javascript dropper AV detection at 2019-03-01.

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