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Orcus RAT Author Charged in Malware Scheme

Krebs on Security

An advertisement for Orcus RAT. The accused, 36-year-old John “Armada” Revesz , has maintained that Orcus is a legitimate “ R emote A dministration T ool” aimed at helping system administrators remotely manage their computers, and that he’s not responsible for how licensed customers use his product.

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Stealth Falcon’s undocumented backdoor uses Windows BITS to exfiltrate data

Security Affairs

In 2016, researchers from non-profit organization CitizenLab published a report that describes a campaign of targeted spyware attacks carried by the Stealth Falcon. The Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) service is a built-in component of the Microsoft Windows operating system. ” concludes the report.

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Advanced threat predictions for 2023

SecureList

In 2022, the GReAT team tracked several threat actors leveraging SilentBreak’s toolset as well as a commercial Android spyware we named MagicKarakurt. One of these, Manjusaka , is advertised as an imitation of the Cobalt Strike framework. 2023 will very likely be a year of 0-days for all major email software. The next WannaCry.

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Updates from the MaaS: new threats delivered through NullMixer

Security Affairs

The Originating Malvertising Campaign According to CTI investigation on the adversary infrastructure, we were able to identify an ongoing campaign luring system administrators to install the malicious code into their machines.

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Canadian Police Raid ‘Orcus RAT’ Author

Krebs on Security

An advertisement for Orcus RAT. Rezvesz maintains his software was designed for legitimate use only and for system administrators seeking more powerful, full-featured ways to remotely manage multiple PCs around the globe. Meanwhile on Hackforums[.]net