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. ” reads the report from the CERT-UA.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 25, 2023

However, can you imagine that chatbot assistance is also being used to create malware and its various mutations? Tim West, the head of WestSecure, believes that the creation of malware through artificial intelligence will increase challenges for defenders. Initially, Vietnam threat actors were suspected to be behind the incident.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Figures of the year In 2022, Kaspersky mobile products and technology detected: 1,661,743 malicious installers 196,476 new mobile banking Trojans 10,543 new mobile ransomware Trojans Trends of the year Mobile attacks leveled off after decreasing in the second half of 2021 and remained around the same level throughout 2022. percentage points.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

But that story omitted an important historical detail about Pushwoosh: In 2013, one of its developers admitted to authoring the Pincer Trojan , malware designed to surreptitiously intercept and forward text messages from Android mobile devices. ” wherein Shmakov acknowledged writing the malware as a freelance project.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 17, 2022

The consensus seems to be that the ZIP file currently harbors a malware threat known as Ramnit , a fairly common but dangerous trojan horse that spreads by appending itself to other files. He said Saicoo did not address his concern that the driver package on its website was bundled with malware. Image: Virustotal.com.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

LinkedIn knows it has a problem with bots and fake accounts, and has acknowledged this on more than one occasion. For years, it has been aware of spam, fake job offers, phishing, fraudulent investments, and (at times) malware, and has been trying to combat those issues. What's new? The "About this profile" feature.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 2, 2024

The London-based supplier of email security technology, surveyed 1,100 information technology and cybersecurity professionals worldwide and found: •Human risk remains a massive exposure. BEC = big losses attackers finagle their way into corporate communications, mimicking or outright hijacking legitimate email accounts.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 13, 2021

million cyber attacks on cloud user accounts. And most of them were malware related followed by account hijackings and targeted attacks against vulnerabilities. As per the report, the industries that were majorly targeted include retail, technology, financial, public and healthcare sector along with education and energy.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 21, 2024

Then they switch to the best practices to prevent social media account takeovers, highlighting […] The post The World of Scambaiting, Preventing Social Media Account Takeovers, Network Wrenches Hacked appeared first on Shared Security Podcast.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 1, 2023

Google has obtained a temporary court order to disrupt the distribution of CryptBot, a Windows-based information-stealing malware that has infected more than 670,000 computers in 2022. The harvested data is then sold to other attackers for use in data breach campaigns. Follow SecureWorld News for more stories related to cybersecurity.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Attackers compromise Microsoft Teams accounts to attach malicious executables to chat and spread them to participants in the conversation. Starting in January 2022, security researchers from Avanan observed attackers compromising Microsoft Teams accounts attach malicious executables to chat and infect participants in the conversation.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 5, 2022

We are often asked how targets are infected with malware. Last month, we focused on infection methods used in various malware campaigns: methods that we do not see used very often. It now has a second optional command line parameter: “-bomb” When that parameter is used, the malware does the following: ?onnect

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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

JANUARY 31, 2024

Researchers from cybersecurity firm Synacktiv published a technical analysis of a Rust malware, named KrustyLoader, that was delivered by threat actors exploiting the above vulnerabilities. The flaw CVE-2023-46805 (CVSS score 8.2) is an Authentication Bypass issue that resides in the web component of Ivanti ICS 9.x,

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2024

The National Police Agency in South Korea warns that North Korea-linked threat actors are targeting defense industry entities to steal defense technology information. The state-sponsored hackers hacked into the subcontractors of defense companies by exploiting vulnerabilities in the targeted systems and deployed malware.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2023

DMARC builds upon the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and the DomainKeys Identified Message (DKIM) technologies to add security and instructions for a specific domain. This will enable email servers to reject most spoofed phishing emails and lower the risk of having one’s brand associated with malware or hackers. How Does DMARC Work?

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 18, 2023

One of the oldest malware tricks in the book — hacked websites claiming visitors need to update their Web browser before they can view any content — has roared back to life in the past few months. “The team is committed to ongoing monitoring of addresses that are involved in spreading malware scripts on the BSC. .

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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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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2024

And by most accounts, the threat from bad ads leading to backdoored software has subsided significantly compared to a year ago. But cybercrooks are constantly figuring out ingenious ways to fly beneath Google’s anti-abuse radar, and new examples of bad ads leading to malware are still too common. million advertiser accounts.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 28, 2024

Department of the Treasury today unveiled sanctions against three Chinese nationals for allegedly operating 911 S5 , an online anonymity service that for many years was the easiest and cheapest way to route one’s Web traffic through malware-infected computers around the globe.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

A large portion of growth in TLS use by malware operators is attributed to increased use of legitimate web and cloud services protected by TLS, including Discord, Pastebin, Github and Google’s cloud services. Setting up TLS for any application – including malware – has become very easy,” Jones said. Photo by Stephen Lam/Getty Images).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 4, 2022

million as royalty from sales for infringing malware patent laws of Columbia University willfully. The lawsuit stressed the fact that two professors of the University were actually the inventors of an intrusion detection technology that offers bait to viruses, that now is being used by Norton.

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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.” ” Raspberry Robin is a Windows worm discovered by cybersecurity researchers from Red Canary, the malware propagates through removable USB devices. .” exe, and rundll32.exe.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 11, 2022

Security researchers at Cado Security, a cybersecurity forensics company, recently discovered the first publicly-known malware targeting Lambda , the serverless computing platform of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Because of this, security measures for such a technology is often overlooked. Use a strong AWS root account password. (

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 3, 2023

A new macOS malware—called MacStealer—that is capable of stealing various files, cryptocurrency wallets, and details stored in specific browsers like Firefox, Chrome, and Brave, was discovered by security researchers from Uptycs, a cybersecurity company specializing in cloud security. Users of macOS Catalina (10.5)

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2021

A new supply chain attack made the headlines, threat actors compromised at least one update server of smartphone maker Gigaset to deliver malware. The German device maker Gigaset was the victim of supply chain attack, threat actors compromised at least one server of the company to deliver malware. Gigaset manufactures DECT telephones.

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

A significant share of scam, phishing and malware attacks is about money. With trillions of dollars of digital payments made every year, it is no wonder that attackers target electronic wallets, online shopping accounts and other financial assets, inventing new techniques and reusing good old ones. million detections compared to 5.04

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Multiple members of QQAAZZ multinational cybercriminal gang were charged for providing money-laundering services to high-profile malware operations. According to law enforcement bodies, the gang provides services to multiple malware operations, including Dridex , GozNym , and Trickbot. ” states the DoJ.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2022

Malware based attacks are targeting charities and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) providing support in Ukraine. Charities and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that in these weeks are providing support in Ukraine are targeted by malware attacks aiming to disrupt their operations. ” reads the post published by Amazon.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 31, 2023

Seceon will again be participating with AGC Partners in its 14th Annual Boston Technology Growth Conference to be held on Thursday, November 9th. The AGC Partner Conference is a premier showcase for fast growing, predominantly private technology companies.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 31, 2023

Seceon will again be participating with AGC Partners in its 14th Annual Boston Technology Growth Conference to be held on Thursday, November 9th. The AGC Partner Conference is a premier showcase for fast growing, predominantly private technology companies.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 29, 2023

government today announced a coordinated crackdown against QakBot , a complex malware family used by multiple cybercrime groups to lay the groundwork for ransomware infections. “This is the most significant technological and financial operation ever led by the Department of Justice against a botnet,” said Martin Estrada , the U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 4, 2021

percent of all malware detected on networks of WatchGuard Technologies customers in the second quarter came over encrypted connections, raising the security risk for the 80 percent of such organizations that lack processes for decrypting and scanning HTTPS traffic for threats. Malware in Encrypted Traffic. A surprising 91.5

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Krebs on Security

JULY 30, 2020

Chip-based credit and debit cards are designed to make it infeasible for skimming devices or malware to clone your card when you pay for something by dipping the chip instead of swiping the stripe. But a recent series of malware attacks on U.S.-based

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2023

The eFile.com online service, which is authorized by the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS), was spotted serving malicious malware to visitors. eFile.com , the personal online tax preparation and e-file service authorized by the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS), was spotted serving malware to visitors. ” added the expert.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2023

Malware researchers analyzed the application of Large Language Models (LLM) to malware automation investigating future abuse in autonomous threats. We explored a potential architecture of an autonomous malware threat based on four main steps: an AI-empowered reconnaissances, reasoning and planning phase, and the AI-assisted execution.

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

In 2020, Kaspersky mobile products and technologies detected: 5,683,694 malicious installation packages, 156,710 new mobile banking Trojans, 20,708 new mobile ransomware Trojans. The mobile malware Trojan-Ransom.AndroidOS.Agent.aq Last year was notable for both malware and adware, the two very close in terms of capabilities.

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