Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2024

A China-linked APT, tracked as StormBamboo, compromised an internet service provider (ISP) to poison software update mechanisms with malware. The threat actors targeted insecure software update mechanisms to install malware on macOS and Windows victim machines. The company linked the attacks to StormBamboo APT group.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Two Romanians arrested for running three malware services. Two Romanians have been arrested for running two malware crypter services called CyberSeal and DataProtector, and the CyberScan malware testing service. DataProtector was launched in 2015, while CyberScan was launched in 2019. ” continues the press release.

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Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2021

The Joker malware is back, experts spotted multiple malicious apps on the official Google Play store that were able to evade scanners. The spyware is able to steal SMS messages, contact lists, and device information and to sign victims up for premium service subscriptions. ” states a post published by the experts. explained. “If

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DECEMBER 13, 2021

The TinyNuke malware is back and now was used in attacks aimed at French users working in manufacturing, technology, construction, and business services. Proofpoint researchers uncovered a campaign exclusively targeting French entities and organizations with operations in France with the banking malware TinyNuke. Pierluigi Paganini.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Meta announced the disruption of a malware campaign via WhatsApp that targeted journalists with the Paragon spyware. Meta announced that discovered and dismantled a malware campaign via WhatsApp that targeted journalists and civil society members with the Paragon spyware (aka Graphite).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A Cookie Theft malware was employed in phishing attacks against YouTube creators, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns. Financially motivated threat actors are using Cookie Theft malware in phishing attacks against YouTube creators since late 2019. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2021

Apple addresses a zero-day in macOS exploited by Shlayer malware to bypass Apple’s security features and deliver second-stage malicious payloads. The developers behind the Shlayer malware have successfully managed to get their malicious payloads approved by Apple through its automated notarizing process in order to run on macOS.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

Security experts from ESET uncovered an ongoing surveillance campaign, dubbed Operation Spalax , against Colombian government institutions and private companies. Malware researchers from ESET uncovered an ongoing surveillance campaign, dubbed Operation Spalax , against Colombian entities exclusively. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2021

Multiple threat actors have recently started using the Ezuri memory loader as a loader to executes malware directly into the victims’ memory. According to researchers from AT&T’s Alien Labs, malware authors are choosing the Ezuri memory loader for their malicious codes.

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APRIL 11, 2021

More than 500,000 Huawei users have been infected with the Joker malware after downloading apps from the company’s official Android store. More than 500,000 Huawei users were infected with the Joker malware after they have downloaded tainted apps from the company’s official Android store. ” reads the post published by Dr. Web.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

CostaRicto APT is targeting South Asian financial institutions and global entertainment companies with undocumented malware. “The campaign, dubbed CostaRicto by BlackBerry, appears to be operated by “hackers-for-hire”, a group of APT mercenaries who possess bespoke malware tooling and complex VPN proxy and SSH tunnelling capabilities.”

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APRIL 21, 2025

. “In some systems, initial access was gained through exploiting the RDP vulnerability (BlueKeep, CVE-2019-0708). “The threat actor also used other means to distribute the malware, such as attaching the same file to emails and exploiting the Microsoft Office Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882) [1].”

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 24, 2019

stated that the company’s information security team had discovered malware on their payment processing servers about a week earlier. In an announcement released December 19, Wawa CEO Chris Gheysens.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

China-linked threat actor Earth Lusca used a new Linux malware dubbed SprySOCKS in a recent cyber espionage campaign. The experts noticed that the threat actors have rewritten many functions of the malware to run on Linux systems. Additional analysis led to the discovery of a previously unknown Linux backdoor tracked as SprySOCKS.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Cybersecurity researchers spotted a new modular PoS malware, dubbed ModPipe, that targets PoS restaurant management software from Oracle. ESET has been aware of the existence of modules since the end of 2019 when its experts first spotted the “basic” components of the malware. SecurityAffairs – hacking, PoS malware).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The Russian national Dariy Pankov (28), aka dpxaker, is the author of the NLBrute malware. The NLBrute malware allows operators to compromise protected computers by decrypting login credentials. The powerful malware was capable of compromising protected computers by decrypting login credentials, such as passwords.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2022

The developers behind the BRATA Android malware have implemented additional features to avoid detection. The operators behind the BRATA Android malware have implemented more features to make their attacks stealthy. “TAs are modifying their code in order to tailor their malware on specific banking institutions.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2023

Denis Emelyantsev , a 36-year-old Russian man accused of running a massive botnet called RSOCKS that stitched malware into millions of devices worldwide, pleaded guilty to two counts of computer crime violations in a California courtroom this week. Denis Kloster, as posted to his Vkontakte page in 2019. Kloster’s blog enthused. “We

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Ptitsyn and his conspirators used a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model to distribute their malware to a network of affiliates. Phobos operation uses a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model, it has been active since May 2019.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2022

The alert remarks that Russian nation-state actors have demonstrated sophisticated tradecraft and cyber capabilities by compromising third-party infrastructure, compromising third-party software, or developing custom malware. Some of the hacking campaigns that were publicly attributed to Russian state-sponsored APT actors by U.S.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2022

Experts pointed out that the malware is being actively developed. RCE CVE-2020-5902 F5 BigIP RCE No CVE (vulnerability published on 2019) ThinkPHP 5.X The malware can quickly adopt one-day vulnerabilities (within days of a published proof of concept).” LFI CVE-2018-16763 Fuel CMS 1.4.1 ” concludes the report.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

A copy of the passport for Denis Kloster, as posted to his Vkontakte page in 2019. 2019, he obtained a visa from the American Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand. “Thanks to you, we are now developing in the field of information security and anonymity!,” info , allproxy[.]info It shows that in Oct.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Ukrainian national Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov has pleaded guilty to his key roles in the Zeus and IcedID malware operations. Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov was a leader of two prolific malware groups that infected thousands of computers with malicious software. Since May 2019, Penchukov had a prominent role in the Zeus operation.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2021

WildPressure APT is targeting industrial organizations in the Middle East since 2019 and was spotted using now a new malware that targets both Windows and macOS. Researchers from Kaspersky have spotted a new malware used by the WildPressure APT group to targets both Windows and macOS systems.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Security researchers spotted a new malware that uses Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to evade detection in attacks against Windows machines. Security researchers from Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs have discovered several malicious Linux binaries developed to target the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

At a court hearing in Bulgaria this month, the accused hacker requested and was granted extradition to the United States, reportedly telling the judge, “America is looking for me because I have enormous information and they need it.” ” A copy of the passport for Denis Kloster, as posted to his Vkontakte page in 2019.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2024

In October 2019, WhatsApp sued the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group accusing it of carrying out malicious attacks against its users. In May 2019, Facebook patched a critical zero-day vulnerability in WhatsApp, tracked as CVE-2019-3568 , that has been exploited to remotely install spyware on phones by calling the targeted device.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The US Department of Justice sentenced the Ukrainian national Mark Sokolovsky (28) for his role in the distribution of the Raccoon Infostealer malware. The Raccoon stealer was first spotted in April 2019, it was designed to steal victims credit card data, email credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive data.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Dariy Pankov, a Russian VXer behind the NLBrute malware, has been extradited to the United States from Georgia. The Russian national Dariy Pankov, aka dpxaker, is suspected to be the author of the NLBrute malware. The malware allows operators of compromising protected computers by decrypting login credentials.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2025

infrastructure International Press Newsletter Cybercrime Pixel-Perfect Trap: The Surge of SVG-Borne Phishing Attacks Threat actors misuse Node.js infrastructure International Press Newsletter Cybercrime Pixel-Perfect Trap: The Surge of SVG-Borne Phishing Attacks Threat actors misuse Node.js

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2021

Threat Report Portugal Q4 2020: Data related to Phishing and malware attacks based on the Portuguese Abuse Open Feed 0xSI_f33d. The submissions were classified as either phishing or malware. Phishing and Malware Q4 2020. A new piece of malware was also tracked and analyzed during Q3 and active in Q4 – trojan URSA/mispadu.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2024

According to the Gazeta Wyborcza daily, the spyware was used to spy on the phone of Jacek Karnowski, mayor of the city of Sopot, in 2018-2019. The PiS government admitted having used the spyware, but pointed out the Pegasus was never used against political opponents.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The group was also observed exploiting vulnerabilities in Telerik UI such as CVE-2017-9248 and CVE-2019-18935. CVE-2024-57968 allows remote authenticated users to upload files to unintended folders, while CVE-2025-25181 is an SQL injection flaw enabling remote SQL execution (no patch available).

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2020

In mid-November 2019, Wisconsin-based Virtual Care Provider Inc. ” Security news site Bleeping Computer reported on the T-Systems Ryuk ransomware attack on Dec. Holden said it appears the intruders laid the groundwork for the VPCI using Emotet , a powerful malware tool typically disseminated via spam. In our Dec.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

The NCSC, NSA, CISA, and CSE have previously issued a joint report regarding the group’s campaigns aimed at organizations involved in COVID-19 vaccine development throughout 2020 using WellMess and WellMail malware. The news joint repost, speculate the SVR has reacted to the report by changing their TTPs. ” states the report.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2024

Ukraine CERT-UA warned of cyber attacks targeting defense forces with SPECTR malware as part of a cyber espionage campaign dubbed SickSync. The Ukrainian CERT attributes the attack to the threat actor UAC-0020 which employed a malware called SPECTR as part of the campaign tracked as SickSync.

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MARCH 14, 2025

The dual Russian-Israeli national was arrested in Israel in 2024 and faces charges related to his role in the ransomware operation The man is accused of being a LockBit ransomware developer from 2019 through at least February 2024. reads the press release published by DoJ.

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