Penetration Testing

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Cybercriminals are manipulating Google search results and embedding fraudulent advertisements to deceive users attempting to install the legitimate software WinSCP. Securonix is tracking this hacking activity under the name “SEO#LURKER.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2019

Cyber security expert and founder of Yoroi has published a new tool that could be used to spot APTs (A dvanced Persistent Threats) through Malware streams. Today I’d like to share a little bit of my personal experience on spotting APTs through Malware streams. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2019

The popular expert Marco Ramilli provided a follow up to its Malware classification activity by adding a scripting section which would be useful for several purposes. On 2016 I was working hard to find a way to classify Malware families through artificial intelligence (machine learning). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Marco Ramilli, founder and CEO at cyber security firm Yoroi has explained how to use Microsoft Powerpoint as Malware Dropper. Nowadays Microsoft office documents are often used to propagate Malware acting like dynamic droppers. The final payload looks like AzoRult Malware. Security Affairs – Microsoft Powerpoint, malware).

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Penetration Testing

AUGUST 6, 2024

The hacker group APT28 recently launched a new campaign to distribute the HeadLace malware through a fake car sale advertisement. This tactic is... The post Fake Car Ads Conceal APT28’s HeadLace Malware Attack appeared first on Cybersecurity News.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Now REvil ransomware operators have published a post on a cybercrime forum to recruiting new affiliates, preferably hackers with penetration testing capabilities. As part of this recruitment process, REvil is looking for teams of skilled hackers at penetration testing or experienced individuals. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Malware Hunter – One year after its launch, Marco Ramilli shared the results of its project that has analyzed more than 1 Million malware samples. Malware Hunter is a python powered project driven by three main components: collectors, processors and public API. Malware Analyses Distribution. How it works.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

Maintainers of the open-source Metasploit penetration testing framework have added a public exploit module for the BlueKeep Windows flaw. There is a surprise for Metasploit users, maintainers of the open-source penetration testing framework have added a public exploit module for the BlueKeep Windows flaw.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

The Carbanak gang (aka FIN7 , Anunak or Cobalt ) stole over a billion euros from banks across the world, the name “Carbanak” comes with the name of the malware they used to compromise computers at banks, other financial institutions, restaurants, and other industries. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

After 2 years of waiting, MalwareMustDie returns with an excellent page of malware analysis of a new IoT malware: Linux/AirDropBot. The beginning of the story: another IoT malware in the wild? One of them, for example , is the C2 server. The C2 of the botnet was: 147.135.174.119.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Yoroi security firm uncovered a targeted attack against one of the most important companies in the Italian Naval Industry leveraging MartyMcFly Malware. Further details on the MartyMcFly malware are reported in the original analysis published by Marco Ramilli on his blog. Security Affairs – MartyMcFly , malware).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Sustes Malware doesn’t infect victims by itself, but it is spread via brute-force activities with special focus on IoT and Linux servers. Sustes Malware doesn’t infect victims by itself (it’s not a worm) but it is spread over the exploitation and brute-force activities with special focus on IoT and Linux servers.

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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Early February, Marco Ramilli released for free the Malware Hunter tool a simple but interesting catching tool based on static YARA rules. I do have experience in security testing since I have been performing penetration testing on several US electronic voting systems. About the author: Marco Ramilli, Founder of Yoroi.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

The Carbanak gang (aka FIN7 , Anunak or Cobalt ) stole over a billion euros from banks across the world, the name “Carbanak” comes with the name of the malware they used to compromise computers at banks, other financial institutions, restaurants, and other industries. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2020

In the attacks observed by Symantec, the REvil ransomware operators used the Cobalt Strike penetration testing toolkit to deploy their malware. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2020

The main improvement sees the introduction of clustering stereotypes for each tracked malware family in three different behaviors: Domains , Files and Processes. According to shared information, the Cyber Threats Observatory Dashboard is composed by the following sections: Malware Families Trends. Malware Families. Stereotypes.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The malware expert Marco Ramilli collected a small set of VBA Macros widely re-used to “weaponize” Maldoc (Malware Document) in cyber attacks. Here comes the idea to collect a small set of VBA Macros widely re-used to “weaponize” Maldoc (Malware Document) in contemporary cyber attacks.

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Penetration Testing

MARCH 18, 2024

Security researchers at SonicWall Capture Labs have uncovered a disturbing trend: malicious Android apps are disguising themselves as beloved gaming titles to sneak onto your device and unleash a torrent of intrusive advertisements.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

” According to the experts, the first infections were observed in late 2019, victims reported their files were encrypted by a strain of malware. Operators behind the Pysa ransomware, also employed a version of the PowerShell Empire penetration-testing tool, they were able to stop antivirus products. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2019

The experts developed proof-of-concept (PoC) malware that uses a machine learning technique known as generative adversarial network (GAN) to alter 3D images generated during a Computer Tomography (CT) scan. The experts conducted a penetration test in a radiology department of a hospital. ” reads the research paper.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2019

osum0x0 has developed a module for the popular Metasploit penetration testing framework to exploit the critical BlueKeep flaw. BlueKeep is a wormable flaw that can be exploited by malware authors to create malicious code with WannaCry capabilities. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2019

“This malware is a lure Excel document with name ‘???????.xlsm’. The final stage malware is a backdoor written in C#. According to the analysis made by malware researchers from Palo Alto Networks, the text file includes parts of a Windows Script Component (.SCT) The final stage malware is a backdoor written in C#.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2020

An exploit module for the open-source Metasploit penetration testing framework was also available, it works on SharePoint 2019 on Windows Server 2016. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2019

BlueKeep is a wormable flaw that can be exploited by malware authors to create malicious code with WannaCry capabilities. osum0x0 announced to have has developed a module for the popular Metasploit penetration testing framework to exploit the critical BlueKeep flaw. A few hours ago, th e esecurity researcher Z??osum0x0

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2019

Using compromised accounts, the threat actors send spearphishing emails with malicious Excel attachments to deliver the DanBot malware, which subsequently deploys post-intrusion tools.” The threat actors carried out spearphishing attacks using weaponized Excel attachments to deliver the DanBot malware. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

Cybercriminals are offering over a million dollars per year to skilled professionals like vxers and penetration testers to help them in extortion campaigns. According to a new report published by the security firm Digital Shadows cybercriminal organizations are willing to pay millions to skilled hackers and malware developers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Cybercrime gang behind the Emotet malware is targeting organization with external SOC with emails claiming to deliver a SOC “weekly report.”. The group behind Emotet malware is getting smarter and smarter in the way the y deliver such a Malware. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2019

Malware researcher and founder of Yoroi Marco Ramill described a step-by-step procedure that shows how to dissect an Office dropper. Both of those tricks are quite well-known in the malware industry. In the first case (HTTP GET) the Malware communicates to server through cookies, using a 6 digit numeric variable.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 12, 2018

But in a marketing email sent to FICO members on Tuesday advertising its new benchmarking feature, FICO accidentally exposed the FICO Cyber Risk Score of energy giant ExxonMobil. The company-specific scores are supposed to be made available only to vetted people at the organization who go through FICO’s signup process.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

BlueKeep is a wormable flaw that can be exploited by malware authors to create malicious code with WannaCry capabilities. osum0x0 announced to have has developed a module for the popular Metasploit penetration testing framework to exploit the critical BlueKeep flaw. The researcher Z??osum0x0 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2019

Today I’d like to share an interesting and heavily obfuscated Malware which made me thinking about the meaning of ‘Targeted Attack’ Nowadays a Targeted Attack is mostly used to address state assets or business areas. It looks like a romantic Emotet according to many Antivirus so I wont invest timing into this well-known Malware.

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2019

During my PhD program I worked for US Government (@ National Institute of Standards and Technology, Security Division) where I did intensive researches in Malware evasion techniques and penetration testing of electronic voting systems. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2018

The popular malware researchers Marco Ramilli has analyzed a malware that remained under the radar for more than two years. The first thought that you might have as an experienced malware reverse engineer would be: “Ok, another bytecode reversing night, easy. Resource (a.k.a package in where it will be contextualized).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2018

The tool was developed to gather intelligence from social networks during penetration tests and are aimed at facilitating social engineering attacks. Trustwave, which provides ethical hacking services, has successfully used the tool in a number of penetration tests and red teaming engagements on behalf of clients.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Marco Ramilli explained MBR works and how is it possible to write a bootloader program, this skill will help you to analyze next BootLoader Malware. From time to time we might observe special Malware storing themselves into a MBR and run during the booting process. SecurityAffairs – malware, bootloader ). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Experts at Yoroi’s Cyber Security Defence Center along with Fincantieri’s security team investigated the recently discovered Martymcfly malware attacks. command and control services of info stealers malware). I’ve also been encharged of testing uVote voting system from the Italian Minister of homeland security. Background.

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