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REMnux: The Linux Toolkit for Reverse Engineering and Malware Analysis

eSecurity Planet

REMnux is a free community distribution that ethical hackers, security researchers, and many other security pros can leverage to build their own labs and speed up malware analysis. As the founder and primary maintainer of REMnux, Lenny Zeltser likes to say: REMnux is for malware analysis as Kali is for penetration testing.

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How You Can Start Learning Malware Analysis

Lenny Zeltser

Malware analysis sits at the intersection of incident response, forensics, system and network administration, security monitoring, and software engineering. You can get into this field by building upon your existing skills in any of these disciplines. Understand Where You Currently Fit Into the Malware Analysis Process.

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New 'CryWiper' Looks Like Ransomware, Targets Russian Courts

SecureWorld News

Analysis of the wiper's code shows that this was not a mistake but the developer's original intent. The malware was developed in C++ and compiled using the MinGW-w64 toolkit and the GCC compiler. The malware was developed in C++ and compiled using the MinGW-w64 toolkit and the GCC compiler.

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SHARED INTEL: How ransomware evolved from consumer trickery to deep enterprise hacks

The Last Watchdog

Balaban This ransomware was doing the rounds over spam generated by the Gameover ZeuS botnet, which had been originally launched in 2011 as a toolkit for stealing victim’s banking credentials and was repurposed for malware propagation. These included PClock, CryptoLocker 2.0, Crypt0L0cker, and TorrentLocker.

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How to catch a wild triangle

SecureList

In the beginning of 2023, thanks to our Kaspersky Unified Monitoring and Analysis Platform (KUMA) SIEM system, we noticed suspicious network activity that turned out to be an ongoing attack targeting the iPhones and iPads of our colleagues. We also searched it for malware executables, which we were also unable to find.

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Cloud-based dev teams: shift security left to avoid being the next SolarWinds

SC Magazine

And when those services are used to actually build your app, those risks are multiplied. Penetration testing toolkits are starting to include reconnaissance capabilities that help testers detect weaknesses and exposures in these managed services, the report states.

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GhostEmperor: From ProxyLogon to kernel mode

SecureList

This cluster stood out for its usage of a formerly unknown Windows kernel mode rootkit that we dubbed Demodex, and a sophisticated multi-stage malware framework aimed at providing remote control over the attacked servers. We identified multiple attack vectors that triggered an infection chain leading to the execution of malware in memory.

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