Schneier on Security

APRIL 2, 2021

News article : Most troublingly, Activision says that the “cheat” tool has been advertised multiple times on a popular cheating forum under the title “new COD hack.” “Guides for cheats will typically ask users to disable or uninstall antivirus software and host firewalls, disable kernel code signing, etc.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2020

Shlayer Mac malware is back, the Mac threat is now spreading through new black SEO operations. Researchers spotted a new version of the Shlayer Mac malware that is spreading via poisoned Google search results. The malware can be used to download other malicious payloads, including malware or adware. up to 10.14.3.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2019

Experts discovered several flaws in Comodo Antivirus, including a vulnerability that could allow to escape the sandbox and escalate privileges. The Tenable expert David Wells discovered five flaws in the Comodo Antivirus and Comodo Antivirus Advanced. We recommend to keep updated on future Comodo Antivirus releases.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2019

A vulnerability in Kaspersky Antivirus had exposed a unique identifier associated with users to every website they have visited in the past 4 years. A vulnerability in the Kaspersky Antivirus software, tracked as CVE-2019-8286, had exposed a unique identifier associated with its users to every website they have visited in the past 4 years.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 17, 2022

” The card reader Mark bought was sold by a company called Saicoo , whose sponsored Amazon listing advertises a “DOD Military USB Common Access Card (CAC) Reader” and has more than 11,700 mostly positive ratings. He said Saicoo did not address his concern that the driver package on its website was bundled with malware.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

Researchers at Cybereason’s Nocturnus team have uncovered a new Astaroth Trojan campaign that is currently exploiting the Avast antivirus and security software developed by GAS Tecnologia to steal information and drop malicious modules. According to the experts, LOLbins are very effecting in evading antivirus software.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2019

BlackBerry Cylance has addressed a bypass vulnerability recently discovered in its AI-based antivirus engine CylancePROTECT product. “We verified the issue was not a universal bypass as reported, but rather a technique that allowed for one of the anti-malware components of the product to be bypassed in certain circumstances.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 1, 2021

The attackers used a new cryptor to obfuscate the malware code they hid in seemingly legitimate files and evade detection from antivirus software. First, it provides a plausible excuse to urge users to disable their antivirus software, since that is often the first step to installing a cheating mod.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Windows Defender, the Windows built-in anti-malware tool, implemented the ability to run in a secure sandbox mode. Since antivirus and anti-malware tools run with the highest level of privileges to scan all parts of a computer for malicious code, it has become a desired target for attackers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

This is evident by the apparent scale of the infrastructure behind a relatively new company based in Montenegro called PushWelcome , which advertises the ability for site owners to monetize traffic from their visitors. One notification was an ad for Norton antivirus; the other was for McAfee.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Kaspersky mobile cyberthreat detection dynamics in 2020–2022 ( download ) Cybercriminals continued to use legitimate channels to spread malware. The spread of malware through Google Play continued as well. Harly malware programs were downloaded a total of 2.6 These secretly signed users up for paid services. percentage points.

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

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. After the application ran, it could follow one of several scenarios, depending on its creator’s greed and the advertising module’s capabilities. apk and coviddetect.apk.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released reports on North Korea-linked HIDDEN COBRA malware. Each report includes a detailed “malware descriptions, suggested response actions, and recommended mitigation techniques.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Heimadal Security

MAY 11, 2023

The Aurora information-stealing malware was delivered through an in-browser Windows update simulation in a recent malvertising campaign. For more than a year, Aurora has been advertised on various hacker forums as an info stealer with extensive capabilities and low antivirus detection rates.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

The Latvian expert Ruslans Bondars (37), who developed and run the counter antivirus service Scan4You has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. Scan4you is a VirusTotal like online multi-engine antivirus scanning service that could be used by vxers to test evasion abilities of their malware against the major antiviruses.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 30, 2022

Malware-as-a-service has contributed substantially to the growth of ransomware and phishing attacks (among other attack types) in the past year, as they lower the technical barrier to entry for criminals to carry out attacks. Blackguard is currently being sold as malware-as-a-service with a lifetime price of $700 and a monthly price of $200.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

Experts spotted a new mysterious malware that was used to collect a huge amount of data, including sensitive files, credentials, and cookies. Threat actors used custom malware to steal data from 3.2 NordLocker experts speculate the malware campaign leveraged tainted Adobe Photoshop versions, pirated games, and Windows cracking tools.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 3, 2024

Manipulaters advertisement for “Office 365 Private Page with Antibot” phishing kit sold on the domain heartsender,com. The term “FUD” in those names stands for “ F ully U n- D etectable,” and it refers to cybercrime resources that will evade detection by security tools like antivirus software or anti-spam appliances.

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Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2020

Researchers spotted a new Android banking trojan dubbed BlackRock malware that steals credentials and credit card data from hundreds of apps. The BlackRock malware borrows the code from the Xerxes banking malware, which is a strain of the popular LokiBot Android trojan.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 29, 2024

The concept of the term "malvertising" (a portmanteau of "malicious advertising") suggests an overlap with ads, albeit dodgy ones, and therefore fuels the fallacy that its impact hardly goes beyond frustration. Malvertising acts as a vessel for malware propagation. How does a malvertising attack unfold?

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

re network uses at least two free VPN services to lure its users to install a malware-like software that achieves persistence on the user’s computer,” the researchers wrote. These two software are currently unknown to most if not all antivirus companies.” “The 911[.]re ” A depiction of the Proxygate service.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2019

A new ransomware, called Nemty ransomware, has been discovered over the weekend by malware researchers. The popular malware researcher Vitali Kremez discovered that the Nemty ransomware uses an unusual name for the mutex object, “hate.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 8, 2022

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) providing details on the top malware strains of 2021. The top malware strains in 2021 included remote access Trojans (RATs), banking Trojans, information stealers, and ransomware.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

China-linked hackers carried out cyber espionage campaigns targeting governments, corporations, and think tanks with TAIDOOR malware. “CISA encourages users and administrators to review Malware Analysis Report MAR-10292089-1.v1 “CISA encourages users and administrators to review Malware Analysis Report MAR-10292089-1.v1

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2020

Experts pointed out that Google Chrome appears to implicitly trust any file downloaded from Google Drive, even if they are flagged and “malicious” by antivirus software as malicious. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Google Drive).

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 11, 2021

As users have increasingly moved from desktop operating systems to mobile devices as their primary form of computing, cyber attackers have taken notice and malware has followed. Mobile malware statistics. More than 3 million of those attacks represented new types of malware. Types of mobile malware. ransomware?

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning of a notable increase in the use of LokiBot malware by threat actors since July 2020. The Agency’s EINSTEIN Intrusion Detection System has detected persistent malicious activity associated with the LokiBot malware. ” reads the CISA’s advisory. .”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2018

ESET researchers have spotted a new strain of malware tracked as Exaramel that links the dreaded not Petya wiper to the Industroyer ICS malware. A few months ago, researchers from ESET discovered a new piece of malware that further demonstrates the existence of a link between Industroyer and the NotPetya wiper.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Experts warn of the KryptoCibule Windows malware that has been active since late 2018 and has targeted users in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Security researchers from ESET have shared technical detailts of a new piece of Windows malware tracked as KryptoCibule. ” reads the report. ” concludes ESET.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2023

The Uptycs Threat Research team discovered the QwixxRAT (aka Telegram RAT) in early August 2023 while it was advertised through Telegram and Discord platforms. “To avoid detection by antivirus software, the RAT employs command and control functionality through a Telegram bot. .

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2019

The activity of the Lazarus Group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks and experts that investigated on the crew consider it highly sophisticated. At the time, North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group leveraged for the first time on a MacOS variant of the Fallchill malware.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2019

The owner of a Swedish company behind a popular remote administration tool (RAT) implicated in thousands of malware attacks shares the same name as a Swedish man who pleaded guilty in 2015 to co-creating the Blackshades RAT , a similar product that was used to infect more than half a million computers with malware, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The malware being used in this campaign is BatLoader, a type of loader that is very good at evading detection. Note that Webex has not been compromised, this is a malicious campaign where threat actors are impersonating well-known brands to distribute malware. The threat actor is exploiting a loophole known as the tracking template.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2023

AvosLocker operators already advertised in the past a Linux variant, dubbed AvosLinux, of their malware claiming it was able to support Linux and ESXi servers. bat) scripts [T1059.003] for lateral movement, privilege escalation, and disabling antivirus software.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

The DEV-0569 group carries out malvertising campaigns to spread links to a signed malware downloader posing as software installers or fake updates embedded in spam messages, fake forum pages, and blog comments. The downloader, tracked as BATLOADER , shares similarities with another malware called ZLoader.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 20, 2021

A federal judge in Connecticut today handed down a sentence of time served to spam kingpin Peter “Severa” Levashov , a prolific purveyor of malicious and junk email, and the creator of malware strains that infected millions of Microsoft computers globally.

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