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HYAS Threat Intel Report May 20 2024

Security Boulevard

BecauseBranch.exe MD5: f1152d572e1722ea2568eff98efc161f Family : Risepro Command & Control (C2) : 37.120.237.196:50500 C2 ISP : M247 LTD Quebec Infrastructure Activity : Recent C2 activity from April indicates the actor logged in locally to the box using the user agent string resembling a common browser configuration: Mozilla/5.0

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Attacks Escalating Against Linux-Based IoT Devices

eSecurity Planet

Incidents of malware targeting Linux-based Internet of Things (IoT) devices jumped by more than a third in 2021, with three malware families the primary drivers behind the increase. There was a 10-fold increase in the number of samples of Mozi found in the wild, Mihai Maganu, a threat researcher at CrowdStrike, wrote in a blog post.

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Cryptominer ELFs Using MSR to Boost Mining Process

Security Affairs

The Uptycs Threat Research Team recently observed Golang-based worm dropping cryptominer binaries which use the MSR (Model Specific Register) driver. The Golang-based worm which targets vulnerable *nix servers exploit known vulnerabilities in the popular web servers in order to spread itself and the embedded miner.

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Okta’s Breach Highlights Risk of Putting Crown Jewels in the Cloud

Security Boulevard

and IaaS (cloud servers, cloud networking systems, cloud databases). and IaaS (cloud servers, cloud networking systems, cloud databases). Nation-state actors will target cloud-based providers of critical services like Okta in the future, and are likely already doing so now. Director Product Management.

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How Cobalt Strike Became a Favorite Tool of Hackers

eSecurity Planet

Indeed, the tool can assess vulnerabilities and run penetration tests , while most tools on the market cannot do both. Vulnerability assessment and pentesting are two different things. The first consists of identifying vulnerabilities that could be used by hackers, not exploiting them. Cobalt Strike Attacks Make Headlines.

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Operation TunnelSnake

SecureList

Usually deployed as drivers, such implants have high privileges in the system, allowing them to intercept and potentially tamper with core I/O operations conducted by the underlying OS, like reading or writing to files or processing incoming and outgoing network packets. For more details contact: intelreports@kaspersky.com.

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Rising volume of email fatigue opens doors for Cybercriminals

CyberSecurity Insiders

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Unfortunately, this is when we are the most vulnerable to hackers. How email-based cyber attacks work. Email-based attacks are not a new problem. Recent email-based attacks. The best way to arm yourself against such attacks is by educating yourself.

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