Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In 2022, tech publication TechCrunch discovered that TheTruthSpy and other spyware apps share a common Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) vulnerability, CVE-2022-0732. The publications described the bug as “extremely easy to exploit, and grants unfettered remote access to all of the data collected from a victim’s Android device.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Ransomware , the headliner of the previous half-year, walked off stage: only 1 percent of emails analyzed by Group-IB’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-GIB) contained this kind of malware. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransomware).

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Data collected by the Internet Storm Center dug into “Survival Time History”, which is “calculated as the average time between reports for an average target IP address. The pop up blocker in particular was a big help with the proliferation of adware and spyware plugging into advertising networks.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2019

We dubbed this JS Sniffer family GMO because the malware uses gmo[.]li 1 The screenshot shows a one-line code (line # 771) that downloads a JS Sniffer designed to steal customers’ data once a user lands on a checkout page. JS Sniffers is a type of malware that remains poorly researched. li host.”. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

As a result, the person gets an automated reply from an official address of a legitimate organization, containing unsolicited advertisements or a scam link. For example, spammers actively advertised services of a company transporting people to Russia. Most scam messages offer a compensation or prize to the recipient.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2019

Experts spotted a rare Linux Desktop spyware dubbed EvilGnome. Israel surveillance firm NSO group can mine data from major social media. Poland and Lithuania fear that data collected via FaceApp could be misused. Former NSA contractor sentenced to 9 years for stealing classified data. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The rise of destructive attacks In December of last year, shortly after we released our predictions for 2023, Russian government agencies were reported to have been targeted by a data wiper called CryWiper. The malware posed as ransomware, demanding money from the victims for “decrypting” their data.

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