Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Info stealers, the type of malware with its purpose in the name, can cripple businesses and everyday users alike. Info stealers, also known as information stealers, are a type of malicious software (malware) designed to covertly collect sensitive and personal information from a victim’s computer or network.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2022

Threat actors compromise WordPress sites to display fake Cloudflare DDoS protection pages to distribute malware. Recently security experts from Sucuri, spotted JavaScript injections targeting WordPress sites to display fake DDoS Protection pages which lead victims to download remote access trojan malware. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. The FBI, the US Cyber Command, and the Department of Homeland Security have published technical details of a new North-Korea linked hacking operation.

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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

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. Enforce a strong password policy.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

And the malware that subsequently gets installed continues to get more stealthy and capable with each advancing iteration. Researchers recently flushed out a new variety of the Xbash family of malware tuned to seek out administrators’ rights and take control of Linux servers. Use a password manager.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 3, 2022

The used lure is in Russian is called “ Information security memo ” which provide security practices for passwords, confidential information, etc. The threat actor has left some debugging information including a pdb path from which we derived and picked a name for this new Rat: Debug Information.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2022

The BlackCat/ALPHV a Ransomware was first discovered in December by malware researchers from Recorded Future and MalwareHunterTeam. The malware is the first professional ransomware strain that was written in the Rust programming language. Regularly back up data, air gap, and password-protect backup copies offline.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The main reasons to rewrite malware in Rust is to have lower AV detection rates, compared to malware written in most common languages, and to target multiple architectures. ” Upon executing the malware, the Rust binary prompts an error requiring a password to be passed as an argument. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2022

The security firm states that the AstraLocker decryptor works for ransomware versions based on the Babuk malware that appends the.Astra or.babyk extensions to the name of the encrypted files. “Be sure to quarantine the malware from your system first, or it may repeatedly lock your system or encrypt files.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2022

“As a result, AvosLocker indicators of compromise (IOCs) vary between indicators specific to AvosLocker malware and indicators specific to the individual affiliate responsible for the intrusion.” Regularly back up data, password protect backup copies offline. Avoid reusing passwords for multiple accounts.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2023

A new variant of the information-stealing malware ViperSoftX implements sophisticated techniques to avoid detection. Trend Micro researchers observed a new ViperSoftX malware campaign that unlike previous attacks relies on DLL sideloading for its arrival and execution technique. c2 arrowlchat[.]com ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2021

Experts defined DirtyMoe as a complex malware that has been designed as a modular system. The operations behind the DirtyMoe botnet rapidly changed since the end of 2020, when the malware authors added a worm module that could increase their activity by spread via the internet to other Windows systems. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2022

Twilio hackers also breached the food delivery firm DoorDash Unprecedented cyber attack hit State Infrastructure of Montenegro Threat actor abuses Genshin Impact Anti-Cheat driver to disable antivirus Critical flaw impacts Atlassian Bitbucket Server and Data Center Iran-linked Mercury APT exploited Log4Shell in SysAid Apps for initial access GoldDragon (..)

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2023

If your friend or colleague is suddenly asking you for money or to change your password, call them on the phone and ask if they really sent the message. Use a strong password and store it correctly: Strong passwords consist of a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and special symbols such as punctuation.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 3, 2022

The used lure is in Russian is called " Information security memo " which provide security practices for passwords, confidential information, etc. The threat actor has left some debugging information including a pdb path from which we derived and picked a name for this new Rat: Debug Information.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2021

The threat actors employed two previosuly undetected piece of malware dubbed Mail-O and Webdav-O. “Webdav-O is another malware that has never been described before. The malware supports two authentication methods: basic (with login and password) and oauth (with using a token).”

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2021

WeSteal is a Python-based malware that uses regular expressions to search for strings related to wallet addresses that victims have copied to their clipboard. “When pursuing cases against malware authors, prosecutors typically need to demonstrate the author’s intent for the malware. There is the name of the malware itself.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

To bypass antivirus systems, hackers send out malicious emails in non-working hours with delayed activation. The first half of 2019 saw a 10-fold increase in the number of password-protected objects, such as documents and archive files, being used to deliver malware. Another trend was disguising malware in emails.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In the middle-August, the malware was employed in fresh COVID19-themed spam campaign. Recent spam campaigns used messages with malicious Word documents, or links to them, pretending to be an invoice, shipping information, COVID-19 information , resumes, financial documents, or scanned documents.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2023

ransomware is a modular malware that is more evasive than its previous versions, its shared similarities with Blackmatter and Blackcat ransomware. ransomware, then a password argument is mandatory during the execution of the ransomware.” It also supports a Safe Mode feature to bypass endpoint antivirus and detection.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2020

More than 15 billion username and passwords are available on cybercrime marketplaces, including over 5 billion unique credentials, states the experts. According to the company, most of the username and password combinations are available for free, and 5 billion of the above credentials are “unique.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2022

The Portdoor backdoor implements multiple functionalities, including the ability to do reconnaissance, target profiling, delivery of additional payloads, privilege escalation, process manipulation static detection antivirus evasion, one-byte XOR encryption, AES-encrypted data exfiltration.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2023

The Lemon Group cybercrime ring has reportedly pre-installed malware known as Guerilla on almost 9 million Android devices. A cybercrime group tracked has Lemon Group has reportedly pre-installed malware known as Guerilla on almost 9 million Android devices. 231 banking malware.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2021

According to the experts, the first infections were observed in late 2019, victims reported their files were encrypted by a strain of malware. Once compromised the target network, attackers attempt to exfiltrate the company’s accounts and passwords database. The malicious code appended the extension.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

Researchers at Z s caler have spotted a new malware dubbed InnfiRAT that infects victims’ systems to steal cryptocurrency wallet data. . “As with just about every piece of malware, InnfiRAT is designed to access and steal personal information on a user’s computer.” ” concludes the researchers.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2023

Common Types of Cyber Attacks Common techniques that criminal hackers use to penetrate systems include social engineering, password attacks, malware, and exploitation of software vulnerabilities. Password Attacks Password attacks involve guessing or cracking passwords to gain access to systems.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2021

According to the experts, the first infections were observed in late 2019, victims reported their files were encrypted by a strain of malware. Once compromised the target network, attackers attempt to exfiltrate the company’s accounts and passwords database. The malicious code appended the extension .

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Latin American Javali trojan weaponizing Avira antivirus legitimate injector to implant malware. Latin American trojans share the same modus operandi and even modules and blocks of code observed during the analysis of several malware samples. Background of Latin American Trojans.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Cofense researchers spotted a phishing campaign that is targeting taxpayers in the United States to infect them with the Amadey malware. Security experts at Cofense uncovered a phishing campaign that is targeting taxpayers in the United States attempting to infect them with a new piece of malware named Amadey.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2021

Regularly back up data, air gap, and password protect backup copies offline. Implement a recovery plan to restore sensitive or proprietary data from a physically separate, segmented, secure location (e.g., Regularly change passwords to network systems and accounts, and avoid reusing passwords for different accounts. .

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2022

Our investigation showed that the samples had leaked accounts, customer passwords, and unique company IDs used as extensions of encrypted files.” Experts noticed that Agenda changes the default user’s password and enables automatic login with the new login credentials to evade detection.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

The malware was named ‘Lampion’ as this is the name used as part of its internal name. In brief, when the victim clicks on the links available in the email body the malware is downloaded from the online server. dll) was sent to the VirusTotal by SI-LAB, and 12 from 71 engines classified it as malware. Lampion trojan (P-19-2.dll)

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) attributes this campaign with high confidence to ZINC, a DPRK-affiliated and state-sponsored group, based on observed tradecraft, infrastructure, malware patterns, and account affiliations.” Attackers also employed an encrypted Chrome password-stealer hosted on ZINC domain [link]. .

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2021

UNC2465 cybercrime group that is affiliated with the Darkside ransomware gang has infected with malware the website of a CCTV camera vendor. “A well-rounded security program is essential to mitigate risk from sophisticated groups such as UNC2465 as they continue to adapt to a changing security landscape.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Below are the recommended mitigations included in the alert: Implement regular backups of all data to be stored as air gapped, password protected copies offline. Install and regularly update antivirus software on all hosts, and enable real time detection.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Security expert Tolijan Trajanovski analyzed an SSH-backdoor Botnet that implements an interesting ‘Research’ infection technique. In a recent tweet , the malware researcher @ 0xrb shared a list containing URLs of recently captured IoT botnet samples. This botnet malware backdoors Linux devices with SSH access by adding users.

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