Cisco Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To explore these scams, we used a dedicated computer, segmented from the rest of the network, and leveraged Cisco Secure Malware Analytics to safely open the emails before clicking on links or opening attachments. According to Cisco Umbrella , many of the sites asking for credit card details are known phishing sites, or worse, host malware.

Scams 141

Scams Phishing Malware Internet 141

Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2019

Locked Shields 2019 – Chapeau, France wins Cyber Defence Exercise. CVE-2019-0803 Windows flaw exploited to deliver PowerShell Backdoor. Analyzing OilRigs malware that uses DNS Tunneling. Avast, Avira, Sophos and other antivirus solutions show problems after.

Computers and Electronics 60

Computers and Electronics Spyware Data breaches Advertising 60

Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2019

Cyber Defense Magazine – July 2019 has arrived. Firefox finally addressed the Antivirus software TLS Errors. Cryptomining Campaign involves Golang malware to target Linux servers. Godlua backdoor, the first malware that abuses the DNS over HTTPS (DoH). A cyberattack took offline websites of the Georgia agency.

Scams 47

Scams Spyware DNS Advertising 47

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The Web site in 2015 for the “Manipulaters Team,” a group of Pakistani hackers behind the dark web identity “Saim Raza,” who sells spam and malware tools and services. But the real icing on the Fud Co cake is that sometime in 2019, The Manipulaters failed to renew their core domain name — manipulaters[.]com

Software 247

Software Phishing Cybercrime Accountability 247

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Physical appliances provide functionality for routing wide area networks (WANs), stateful firewalls, SD-WANs, NGFW, antivirus, intrusion prevention services (IPS), and unified threat management (UTM) capabilities for local networks. Microsoft Azure Microsoft Hyper-V 2016/2019 R2/2019 VMware ESXi up to 7.0

Firewall 98

Firewall Software Antivirus Internet 98

SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

Out of the 18,000 Orion IT customers affected by the malware, it seems that only a handful were of interest to the attackers. For example, before making the first internet connection to its C2s, the Sunburst malware lies dormant for up to two weeks, preventing easy detection of this behaviour in sandboxes.

Malware 102

Malware Adware Encryption Architecture 102

SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

In our initial report on Sunburst , we examined the method used by the malware to communicate with its C2 (command-and-control) server and the protocol used to upgrade victims for further exploitation. This campaign made use of a previously unknown malware family we dubbed FourteenHi.

Malware 142

Malware Spyware Government Social Engineering 142

CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 12, 2021

Staff members downloading malware , providing their sign-in info to strangers on the first request without verifying their legitimacy are typical scenarios in this category. This case exposed a vast list of Microsoft support records at the end of 2019. Unwitting workers are common targets of hackers attacking a company.

Accountability 144

Accountability Scams Risk Software 144

Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2019

Low AV detection of SFX malware. cmd” , which firstly checks for the presence of malware analysis tools. Fake document to divert attention on malware execution. Information about C2 and relative DNS. At first glance, it is possible to notice the PowerPoint icon associated to the file, normally not belonging to.scr files.

Passwords 61

Passwords DNS Engineering Malware 61

SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The PyInstaller module for Windows contains a script named “Guard” Interestingly, this malware was developed for both Windows and macOS operating systems. The malware tries to spread to other hosts on the network by infecting USB drives. After this, they were tricked into downloading previously unknown malware.

Malware 93

Malware Banking Energy and Utilities Accountability 93

SecureList

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The companies that appeared to be of special interest to the malicious actors may have been subjected to deployment of additional persistent malware. Read more about our research on Sunburst malware here. Several publicly available data sets, such as the one from John Bambenek, include DNS requests encoding the victim names.

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Malware Telecommunications DNS Government 61