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Hackers hijacked the eScan Antivirus update mechanism in malware campaign

Security Affairs

A malware campaign has been exploiting the updating mechanism of the eScan antivirus to distribute backdoors and cryptocurrency miners. Avast researchers discovered and analyzed a malware campaign that exploited the update mechanism of the eScan antivirus to distribute backdoors and crypto miners.

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Who’s In Your Online Shopping Cart?

Krebs on Security

Zoobashop is also a presently hacked e-commerce site. It also currently includes a spicy bit of card-skimming code that is hosted on the domain zoobashop-dot-com. In this case, it is easy to miss the malicious code when reviewing the HTML source, as it fits neatly into a single, brief line of code.

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Ad blocker with miner included

SecureList

Back then, cybercriminals distributed malware under the guise of the Malwarebytes antivirus installer. After substituting the DNS servers, the malware starts updating itself by running update.exe with the argument self-upgrade (“C:Program Files (x86)AdShieldupdater.exe” -self-upgrade). Distributed under the name adshield[.]pro,

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2024 State of Cybersecurity: Reports of More Threats & Prioritization Issues

eSecurity Planet

50,000 DDoS attacks on public domain name service (DNS) resolvers. 553% increase in DNS Flood attacks from 1H 2020 to 2H 2023. DDoS attacks on single networks or websites render them unavailable, but DDoS attacks on DNS resolvers bring down all networks and websites using that DNS resource.

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StripedFly: Perennially flying under the radar

SecureList

If the PowerShell is not present, the malware generates a hidden file with MZ-PE loader with a randomized name located in % APPDATA % directory. If administrative rights are present, its ether executes a PowerShell script that creates two task scheduler entries with GUID-like names and with different triggers.

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How to Improve Email Security for Enterprises & Businesses

eSecurity Planet

We will present these options in two categories: a priority tier and an advanced capability tier. It can be time consuming to establish these protocols on an organization’s DNS servers, but doing so will provide two key benefits. Critical features provide the base requirements of email security.

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Explorations in the spam folder–Holiday Edition

Cisco Security

The problems cover all sorts of services, including streaming platforms, email providers, antivirus subscriptions, and even public records. If the links are clicked, the recipient is presented with landing pages that mimic the respective services. Image 14 – Emails indicating problems with an account.

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