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.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2024

Vultur was first spotted in late March 2021, it gains full visibility on victims’ devices via VNC (Virtual Network Computing) implementation taken from AlphaVNC. In July 2021, ThreatFabric researchers discovered the Android version of Vultur, which uses screen recording and keylogging to capture login credentials.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2022

Experts warn of a new variant of the RedLine malware that is distributed via emails as fake COVID-19 Omicron stat counter app as a lure. The malicious code can also act as a first-stage malware. 2021-11-26 04:34:54 2021-11-26 10:05:15 149.154.167.91 2021-12-05 12:06:03 2021-12-05 13:19:35 149.154.167.91

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

HAEICHI-II: Interpol arrested 1,003 individuals charged for several cybercrimes, including romance scams, investment frauds, and online money laundering. of), Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Philippines, Romania, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Thailand, and Vietnam) between June and September 2021. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2021

The fire at the OVH datacenter in Strasbourg also impacted the command and control infrastructure used by several nation-state APT groups and cybercrime gangs. The servers were used by cybercrime gangs and APT groups, including Iran-linked Charming Kitten and APT39 groups, the Bahamut cybercrime group, and the Vietnam-linked OceanLotus APT.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Evidence collected by the experts suggests that the campaign began on July 25, 2021, threat actors used a large set of open-source tools in the attacks. The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 and that targets Docker installs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2021

INTERPOL published the African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2021, a report that analyzes evolution of cybercrime in Africa. A new report published by INTERPOL, titled the African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2021 , sheds the light on cybercrime in Africa. of the overall number.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2024

The Russian national malware developer Vladimir Dunaev was sentenced to more than 5 years in prison for his role in the TrickBot operation. The Russian national Vladimir Dunaev (40) has been sentenced in the US to 64 months in prison for his role in the development and distribution of the TrickBot malware. in October 2021.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Info stealers, the type of malware with its purpose in the name, can cripple businesses and everyday users alike. Info stealers, also known as information stealers, are a type of malicious software (malware) designed to covertly collect sensitive and personal information from a victim’s computer or network.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2021

UNC2465 cybercrime group that is affiliated with the Darkside ransomware gang has infected with malware the website of a CCTV camera vendor. “Sometime in May 2021 or earlier, UNC2465 likely Trojanized two software install packages on a CCTV security camera provider website.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Malware researchers from Recorded Future and MalwareHunterTeam discovered ALPHV (aka BlackCat), the first professional ransomware strain that was written in the Rust programming language. demonslay335 @VK_Intel pic.twitter.com/YttzWWUD3c — MalwareHunterTeam (@malwrhunterteam) December 8, 2021. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2022

Which are the cyber attacks of 2021 that had the major impact on organizations worldwide in terms of financial losses and disruption of the operations? The systems at the company were infected with the Phoenix Locker, a variant of ransomware tracked as Hades that was part of the arsenal of the cybercrime group known as Evil Corp.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2022

The researchers attribute the botnet to the cybercrime group Keksec which focuses on DDoS-based extortion. Experts pointed out that the malware is being actively developed. 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

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 12, 2021

Cisco Secure returned as a supporting partner of the Black Hat USA 2021 Network Operations Center (NOC) for the 5 th year ; joining conference producer Informa Tech and its other security partners. Threat hunting is a core mission of the Cisco Secure team, while monitoring the DNS activity for potentially malicious activity.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 25, 2021

I've decided to make my Cybercrime Forum Data Set for 2019 and 2021 exclusively available online for free in order for me to speed the dissemination process and to possibly empower security researchers and vendors with the necessary information to help them stay on the top of their game in terms of current and emerging cyber threats including U.S

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

A new Linux malware dubbed Shikitega leverages a multi-stage infection chain to target endpoints and IoT devices. Researchers from AT&T Alien Labs discovered a new piece of stealthy Linux malware, dubbed Shikitega, that targets endpoints and IoT devices. ” reads the analysis published by AT&T Alien Labs.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The Biden administration announced it will work with 30 countries, including NATO allies and G7 partners, to curb global cybercrime. President Joe Biden announced that the US will work with 30 countries to curb cybercrime and dismantle ransomware gangs that are targeting organizations worldwide. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The Have I Been Pwned data breach notification service now includes credentials for 441K accounts that were stolen by RedLine malware. The Have I Been Pwned data breach notification service now allows victims of the RedLine malware to check if their credentials have been stolen. The malicious code can also act as a first-stage malware.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2022

“We found samples of the Raspberry Robin malware spreading in telecommunications and government office systems beginning September.” “The main payload itself is packed with more than 10 layers for obfuscation and is capable of delivering a fake payload once it detects sandboxing and security analytics tools.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Organizations have paid more than $600 million in cryptocurrency during 2021, nearly one-third to the Conti ransomware gang. and Australia have published a joint advisory warning of an increased globalised threat of ransomware worldwide in 2021. Last week, cybersecurity agencies from the U.K., added the company. .”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2022

Researchers uncovered a high stealth Linux malware, dubbed Symbiote, that could be used to backdoor infected systems. Joint research conducted by security firms Intezer and BlackBerry uncovered a new Linux threat dubbed Symbiote. “Symbiote is a malware that is highly evasive. appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2024

In December 2021, experts at Check Point Research observed the resurgence of the Phorpiex botnet. Endpoint Security : Install endpoint security solutions to fortify defenses against malware attacks. System Updates : Keep systems updated and apply patches promptly after thorough testing to address vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2022

A malware campaign spreads ZLoader malware by exploiting a Windows vulnerability that was fixed in 2013 but in 2014 Microsoft revised the fix. Experts from Check Point Research uncovered a new ZLoader malware campaign in early November 2021. banking Trojan and was used to spread Zeus-like banking trojan (i.e.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The FBI collected millions of email addresses used by Emotet operators in their malware campaigns as part of the cleanup operation. Now researchers from multiple cybersecurity firms ([Cryptolaemus], [GData], and [Advanced Intel]) reported that threat actors are using the TrickBot malware to drop an Emoted loader on infected devices.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2023

The AVRecon botnet relies on compromised small office/home office (SOHO) routers since at least May 2021. The AVrecon malware was written in C to ensure portability and designed to target ARM-embedded devices. Based on information associated with their x.509 continues the report. “We “ SocksEscort[.]com

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Threat actors are actively exploiting the recently disclosed CVE-2021-26084 RCE vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence deployments. At the end of August, Atlassian released security patches to address the critical CVE-2021-26084 flaw that affects the Confluence enterprise collaboration product. link] — U.S.

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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. FatFace CEO Liz Evans released a statement which said “ On 17th January 2021 FatFace identified some suspicious activity within its IT systems.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Microsoft revealed that multiple threat actors are exploiting the recently patched Windows MSHTML remote code execution security flaw (CVE-2021-40444 ). The campaigns observed August 2021 likely employed emails impersonating contracts and legal agreements, the messages used documents that were hosted on file-sharing sites. .

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2022

Security researchers from Cleafy reported that the SOVA Android banking malware is back and is rapidly evolving. The malware has been active since 2021 and evolves over time. “Starting from SOVA v4, TAs can obtain screenshots of the infected devices, to retrieve more information from the victims.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2022

A former Canadian government IT worker admitted to being a high-level member of the Russian cybercrime group NetWalker. to charges related to his involvement with the Russian cybercrime group NetWalker. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Ex-Canadian government employee admits to be a member of the Russian cybercrime gang NetWalkerNetWalker).

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2022

Microsoft linked the recently discovered Raspberry Robin Windows malware to the notorious Evil Corp operation. On July 26, 2022, Microsoft researchers discovered that the FakeUpdates malware was being distributed via Raspberry Robin malware. The malware uses TOR exit nodes as a backup C2 infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2021

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released five malware analysis reports (MARs) related to samples found on compromised Pulse Secure devices. CISA published five malware analysis reports (MARs) related to samples found on compromised Pulse Secure devices. ” reads CISA’s advisory.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The Mirai -based Moobot botnet is rapidly spreading by exploiting a critical command injection flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-36260 , in the webserver of several Hikvision products. The Moobot was first documented by Palo Alto Unit 42 researchers in February 2021, the recent attacks demonstrated that its authors are enhancing their malware.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The botnet has been active since at least 2016, but in August the criminal organization behind the Phorpiex botnet have shut down their operations and put the source code of the bot for sale on a cybercrime forum in on a dark web. We managed to find 60 unique Bitcoin wallets and 37 Ethereum wallets used by the Phorpiex crypto-clipper.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Researchers reported that threat actors used 2 PoS malware variants to steal information about more than 167,000 credit cards. Cybersecurity firm Group-IB discovered two PoS malware to steal data associated with more than 167,000 credit cards from point-of-sale payment terminals. MajikPOS is written using the “.NET

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The Glupteba botnet is back, researchers reported a surge in infection worldwide after Google disrupted its operation in 2021. In December 2021, Google announced it has taken down the infrastructure operated by the Glupteba botnet, it also sued Russian nationals Dmitry Starovikov and Alexander Filippov for creating and operating the botnet.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

FireEye experts linked a series of attacks targeting Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) servers to the cybercrime group UNC2546, aka FIN11. Security experts from FireEye linked a series of cyber attacks against organizations running Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) servers to the cybercrime group UNC2546, aka FIN11.

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