Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

ransom Dragon Breath APT uses double-dip DLL sideloading strategy International Press Cybercrime San Bernardino County pays $1.1-million ransom Dragon Breath APT uses double-dip DLL sideloading strategy International Press Cybercrime San Bernardino County pays $1.1-million

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2022

The gang was targeting organizations via spam campaigns to spread ransomware, however, the police did not disclose the malware family used by the group in its attacks. The group was also carrying out DDoS attacks to paralyze the networks of the victims and force them to pay the ransom. ” continues the press release.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Researchers from vpnMentor recently published a report that sheds the light on the use of Telegram in the cybercrime ecosystem. vpnMentor researchers joined several cybercrime-focused Telegram groups and discovered a vast network of more 1,000s individuals sharing data leaks and dumps and discussing how to exploit them in illegal activities.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2021

The Avaddon ransomware operators updated their malware after security researchers released a public decryptor in February 2021. In February, the Spanish student Javier Yuste released a free decryption tool for the Avaddon ransomware that can be used by the victims to recover their encrypted files for free. Source ZDNet.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 11, 2021

Both the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have issued warnings about an ongoing cybercrime campaign that is using Avaddon ransomware. In a separate advisory (pdf) , the ACSC says it is also aware of an ongoing ransomware campaign using the Avaddon Ransomware malware.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2023

FortiGuard Labs researchers observed an ongoing hacking campaign targeting Cacti ( CVE-2022-46169 ) and Realtek ( CVE-2021-35394 ) vulnerabilities to spread ShellBot and Moobot malware. The ShellBot , also known as PerlBot, is a Perl-based DDoS bot that uses IRC protocol for C2 communications. <Filename>.”

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 18, 2023

This has projected costs associated with cybercrimes to hit the tens of trillions by 2025, highlighting the vital need for web hosts to implement staunch security. Gainesville, Fla., July 18, 2022 – Around 30,000 websites get hacked every day , with the majority of those cyberattacks due to human error.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The experts noticed that V3G4 also supports a function that makes sure only one instance of this malware is executing on the compromised device. Unlike most Mirai variants, the V3G4 variant uses different XOR encryption keys for string encryption. If a botnet process already exists, the botnet client will and exit.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2023

X Master Password Dumper (CVE-2023-32784) Malware RapperBot DDoS Botnet Expands into Cryptojacking Newly identified RA Group compromises companies in U.S. X Master Password Dumper (CVE-2023-32784) Malware RapperBot DDoS Botnet Expands into Cryptojacking Newly identified RA Group compromises companies in U.S.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2019

Threat actors leverage the vulnerability to install denial of service (DDoS) malware and crypto-currency miners, and to remotely execute code. “In our analysis, we saw that an attacker was able to exploit CVE-2019-3396 to infect machines with the AESDDoS botnet malware.” The malware also connects to 23[.]224[.]59[.]34:48080

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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.” In some cases, the gang also threatened and conducted distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks during negotiations.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In fact, the World Economic Forum (WEF) projects that by 2021: Global cybercrime costs could total approximately $6 trillion in the US. If cybercrime were a country, it would have the third largest economy in the world. Clearly, cybercrime is big business, and it operates like one. How big is the impact of cybercrime?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2022

Kaspersky discovered a flaw in the encryption process of the Yanluowang ransomware that allows victims to recover their files for free. Researchers from Kaspersky discovered a vulnerability in the encryption process of the Yanluowang ransomware that can be exploited to recover the files encrypted by the malware without paying the ransom.

Ransomware 87

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2022

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

ISS reveals malware attack impacted parts of the IT environment. ObliqueRAT, a new malware employed in attacks on government targets in Southeast Asia. FireEye Mandiant M-Trends 2020 report: 500+ new Malware strains in 2019. Lampion malware v2 February 2020. Raccoon Malware, a success case in the cybercrime ecosystem.

Banking 91

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to cause a massive wave of poverty, and that invariably translates into more people resorting to crime, including cybercrime. This ransomware is controlled by command line parameters and can either retrieve an encryption key from the C2 or an argument at launch time. Analysis of forecasts for 2021.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

. “As a variant, MooBot inherits Mirai’s most significant feature – a data section with embedded default login credentials and botnet configuration – but instead of using Mirai’s encryption key, 0xDEADBEEF, MooBot encrypts its data with 0x22.” ” At the time of the analysis, the C2 server was offline.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2021

This is an unprecedented tactic in the cybercrime ecosystem. Recently other gangs started offering to their network of affiliates cold-calls and DDoS attacks to threaten victims. Initially, Maze operators started leaking the stolen data on their leak sites in a double model of extortion.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

gov adds more Chinese Telecom firms to the Covered List Imperva blocked a record DDoS attack with 25.3 gov adds more Chinese Telecom firms to the Covered List Imperva blocked a record DDoS attack with 25.3

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

This post examines the activities of Khoroshev’s many alter egos on the cybercrime forums, and tracks the career of a gifted malware author who has written and sold malicious code for the past 14 years. was used by a Russian-speaking member called Pin on the English-language cybercrime forum Opensc. Image: treasury.gov.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2019

The popular expert unixfreaxjp analyzed a new China ELF DDoS’er malware tracked as “Linux/DDoSMan” that evolves from the Elknot malware to deliver new ELF bot. The code seems inspired from multiple source code of China basis DDoS client, like Elknot. But what kind of malware is this Elknot Trojan?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2023

The malware also contains a function that ensures only one instance of this malware runs on the same device. ” The researchers pointed out that the Mirai variant like IZ1H9 and V3G4 will first initialize an encrypted string table and then retrieve the strings through an index. .”

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 22, 2023

If you are already familiar with the evolving cyber threat landscape in your home country, you’ll know that humans are often the most exploited attack vector for cybercrime, and how frequently small businesses are breached. This secure information should be safeguarded in impenetrable servers with valid encryption protocols enabled.

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SecureList

APRIL 13, 2023

In this blog post, we provide excerpts from the recent reports that focus on uncommon infection methods and describe the associated malware. The downloading of the actual malware is done via a variety of possible commands (for example, wget, curl, tftp and ftpget). Has encrypted communication with the C2. Evades EDR/AV.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2020

The actors behind FONIX RaaS advertised several products on various cybercrime forums. “Notably, FONIX varies somewhat from many other current RaaS offerings in that it employs four methods of encryption for each file and has an overly-complex post-infection engagement cycle.” ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Apple Mail stores parts of encrypted emails in plaintext DB. Experts warn of spike in TCP DDoS reflection attacks targeting Amazon, SoftLayer and telco infrastructure. TA505 Cybercrime targets system integrator companies. DDoS-for-Hire Services operator sentenced to 13 months in prison.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Over time, we predict a decrease in “noisy” attacks such as SEO spam and redirects: As malware scanners and website developers advance their techniques, these types of attacks are easier to detect and remove. This makes stealthy attacks incredibly popular in the cybercrime community. Distributed denial of service. Ransomware.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

” The attackers attempted to deploy the HelloKitty ransomware, whose source code was leaked on a cybercrime forum in early October CVE-2023-46604 is a remote code execution vulnerability that impacts Apache ActiveMQ. ” Post-exploitation, the attackers attempted to load remote binaries named M2.png png and M4.png png using MSIExec.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

First, however, let's look at the top 15 cyber threats organizations face right now, according to the report: Malware. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). Trends in Malware attacks. We can't look at all of these categories, but let's talk about the number one cyber attack threat of malware. Web-based Attacks.

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BH Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Digital takeup drives accelerated cybercrime activity: IOCTA. Growing use of digital technologies, accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, has led to a sharp increase in cybercrime. IOCTA also warned of evolving mobile malware that’s allowing criminals to try to get around additional security measures such as two-factor authentication.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The analysis of the samples collected by the experts revealed that the Yanluowang ransomware uses the Windows API for encryption. Upon deploying the Yanluowang ransomware, it will stop hypervisor virtual machines, end all processes logged by the above tool (including SQL and back-up solution Veeam), then it will encrypt files.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This is especially true today considering the fact that cybercrime continues to be a serious threat for businesses and users. When cybercrime happens to your company website, you can lose money, credibility, and customers. It’s critical that you regularly check your website for malware and vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2018

Ramnit is one of the most popular banking malware families in existence today, it was first spotted in 2010 as a worm, in 2011, its authors improved it starting from the leaked Zeus source code turning the malware into a banking Trojan. DDoS attacks, ransomware-based campaigns, cryptocurrency mining campaigns).

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2021

For example, April saw the active distribution of a new DDoS botnet called Simps — the name under which it introduced itself to owners of infected devices. The malware creators promoted their brainchild on a specially set-up YouTube channel and Discord server, where they discussed DDoS attacks.

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IT Security Guru

JULY 19, 2021

Although cybercrime as a whole has seen a rise during the pandemic, arguably ransomware has been one of the more successful and lucrative attack types. Our own research report, the State of Encrypted Attacks Report 2020 , found that there had been a 500 per cent rise in ransomware compared to 2019.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Its policy forbids to encrypt systems of organizations where damage could lead to the death of individuals. According to local media, threat actors demand a $10 million ransom to provide the decryption key to restore encrypted data. The group is known to have a role for its affiliated that prohibits attacking healthcare organizations.

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SecureList

MAY 10, 2021

News broke in January of the FreakOut malware, which attacks Linux devices. Botnet operators use infected devices to carry out DDoS attacks or mine cryptocurrency. This loophole was previously exploited by ADB.Miner, Ares, IPStorm, Fbot, Trinity, and other malware. Q1 2021 saw the appearance of two new botnets.

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