Penetration Testing

MARCH 4, 2024

When the Babuk ransomware group disbanded in 2021, it seemed like a minor victory in the ongoing battle against cybercrime. However, the leak of Babuk’s source code has become a breeding ground for new... The post RA World Ransomware: A Babuk Successor Targets Healthcare appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Penetration Testing

MARCH 26, 2024

A newly discovered malware loader is making waves in the cybercrime world, helping the notorious Agent Tesla infostealer expand its reach.

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Penetration Testing

MARCH 17, 2024

A recent report by Cofense, an industry leader in email security, has uncovered two new alarming campaigns showcasing the rising threat of SVG files in the cybercrime world. SVG, which stands for Scalable Vector... The post SVG Files: The Emerging Vector of Cyber Threats appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Penetration Testing

JANUARY 31, 2024

As the tax season rolls in, so does the threat of cybercrime, and leading the charge in 2024 is the infamous TA576 threat actor. Researchers at Proofpoint have unveiled the resurgence of this cybercriminal... The post Proofpoint Exposes TA576’s Tax Season Email Scams appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2024

Subsequently, other malware integrated the exploit, including Rhadamanthys, Risepro, Meduza , Stealc Stealer and recently the White Snake. The researchers discovered that the malware targets Chrome’s token_service table of WebData to extract tokens and account IDs of chrome profiles logged in. ” continues the report.

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Penetration Testing

JANUARY 9, 2024

In a significant breakthrough in the fight against cybercrime, Cisco Talos, in cooperation with Dutch Police and Avast, has recovered a crucial decryptor for systems affected by the Babuk ransomware variant known as Tortilla....

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Ethical hackers proved their worth over the 14 months that the pandemic ravaged economies and organizations were at their most vulnerable, preventing $27 billion in cybercrime during the time when flaws threatened to overwhelm security teams worldwide. During the period from May 1, 2020 to August 31, 2021, eight in 10 ethical hackers found a.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 and that targets Docker installs. In January 2021, the cybercrime gang launched a new campaign targeting Kubernetes environments with the Hildegard malware. ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Penetration Testing

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In the shadowy world of cybercrime, alliances are formed not in boardrooms, but in the encrypted corners of the dark web.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Malware loaders on the underground market: True. The prediction anticipated that malware loaders would become a major commodity in the cybercriminal underground market. Increase in red team penetration testing frameworks: False. This trend aligns with the growing interest in malicious loaders, making this prediction true.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Having been in the field for so long, we have witnessed some major changes in the cybercrime world’s modus operandi. This report shares our insights into the Russian-speaking cybercrime world and the changes in how it operates that have happened in the past five years. Malware developers — no longer hiring.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The selection of affiliates is a crucial process in the success of the cybercrime scheme, for this reason, REvil operators personally select each people they want to include in their program. As part of this recruitment process, REvil is looking for teams of skilled hackers at penetration testing or experienced individuals.

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Hot for Security

APRIL 19, 2021

Notorious FIN7 gang stole payment card details from retailers around the world Cybercrime gang posed as penetration testing firm to recruit hackers. More details on how the malware operated can be read about in this technical paper by Bitdefender Labs. Gorman of the Western District of Washington. ”

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 8, 2022

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) providing details on the top malware strains of 2021. The top malware strains in 2021 included remote access Trojans (RATs), banking Trojans, information stealers, and ransomware.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2021

CISA has published an analysis of the FiveHands ransomware, the same malware that was analyzed a few days ago by researchers from FireEye’s Mandiant experts. The UNC2447 gang targeted organizations in Europe and North America using a broad range of malware over the past months. For more information, refer to Analysis Report AR21-126A.”

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Potential risks span from malware infections to denial-of-service attacks to theft of sensitive data. RELATED: Hacking the Olympics: 'Nearly Infinite Attack Surfaces' ] DHS cyber experts have conducted extensive vulnerability probes, penetration tests, and emergency planning to harden defenses at the big game.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 19, 2022

setting the foundations for successful targeted malware and exploits serving campaigns. Sample uses of these stolen and compromised databases includes: - setting the foundation for a successful spear-phishing campaigns. setting the foundations for successful widespread spam and botnet propagation campaigns.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The analysis of a malicious email revealed a possible raising interest of the TA505 cybercrime gang in system integrator companies. The two Macros decoded a Javascript payload acting as a drop and execute by using a well-known strategy as described in: “ Frequent VBA Macros used in Office Malware ”. Introduction. 66.133.129.5)

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

The Carbanak gang (aka FIN7 , Anunak or Cobalt ) stole over a billion euros from banks across the world, the name “Carbanak” comes with the name of the malware they used to compromise computers at banks, other financial institutions, restaurants, and other industries. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Hot for Security

JUNE 25, 2021

If the recipient opened the included attachment, their computer would be infected by a version of the Carbanak malware. ” Unusually, FIN7 presented itself as a company called Combi Security, which claimed to offer penetration testing services for businesses. In truth, however, the firm had no legitimate customers.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2023

Cobalt Strike is a paid penetration testing product that allows an attacker to deploy an agent named ‘Beacon’ on the victim machine. In essence, Defendants are able to leverage cracked versions of Cobalt Strike to brutally force their way into victim machines and deploy malware.” ” reads the court order.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2023

The recent Hive infrastructure takedown as well as other major gangs dissolution such as Conti in 2022, is making room in the cybercrime business The Lockbit locker leaked a few months ago in the underground, is increasing its popularity and adoption among micro-criminal actors.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2021

The Carbanak gang (aka FIN7 , Anunak or Cobalt ) stole over a billion euros from banks across the world, the name “Carbanak” comes with the name of the malware they used to compromise computers at banks, other financial institutions, restaurants, and other industries. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

The Carbanak gang (aka FIN7 , Anunak or Cobalt ) stole over a billion euros from banks across the world, the name “Carbanak” comes with the name of the malware they used to compromise computers at banks, other financial institutions, restaurants, and other industries. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

Today’s columnist, Andrew Patel of F-Secure, writes how he’s optimistic that bad actors injecting AI-powered malware could be stopped by red teams and security audits. The notion that AI-powered malware may one day pose a threat has become valid. However, we need not fear AI-powered malware.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Sustes Malware doesn’t infect victims by itself, but it is spread via brute-force activities with special focus on IoT and Linux servers. Sustes Malware doesn’t infect victims by itself (it’s not a worm) but it is spread over the exploitation and brute-force activities with special focus on IoT and Linux servers.

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Herjavec Group

MAY 19, 2022

Segment your internal corporate networks to isolate any malware infections that may arise. Conduct regular social engineering tests on your employees to actively demonstrate where improvements need to be made. Conduct regular network penetration tests to identify flaws and vulnerabilities in your corporate networks.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 13, 2023

The new Beep malware is top of mind for organizations and individuals. We are continuing to observe an unyielding surge in the volume of cyberthreats, including advanced malware, botnets, ransomware, cryptojacking, and more," said Callie Guenther, Senior Manager of Cyber Threat Research at Critical Start, in a press release.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Unlike common stealers, this malware gathered data that can be used to identify the victims, such as browsing histories, social networking account IDs and Wi-Fi networks. These are attractive aspects that cybercrime groups will be unable to resist. Mobile malware techniques haven’t changed much in the course of 2022.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Cobalt Strike is a paid penetration testing product that allows an attacker to deploy an agent named ‘Beacon’ on the victim machine. Researchers at Google Cloud identified 34 different hacked release versions of the Cobalt Strike tool in the wild.

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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. So, how exactly are these challenges exacerbated when moving your operations beyond borders?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

Cybercriminals are offering over a million dollars per year to skilled professionals like vxers and penetration testers to help them in extortion campaigns. According to a new report published by the security firm Digital Shadows cybercriminal organizations are willing to pay millions to skilled hackers and malware developers.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 20, 2021

In 2018 three high-ranking members of a sophisticated international cybercrime group operating out of Eastern Europe were arrested and taken into custody by US authorities. The Carbanak campaign first made international headlines in 2015 as one of the first malware campaigns that specialized in remote ATM robberies. The malware.

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Hot for Security

JUNE 25, 2021

If the recipient opened the included attachment, their computer would be infected by a version of the Carbanak malware. ” Unusually, FIN7 presented itself as a company called Combi Security, which claimed to offer penetration testing services for businesses. In truth, however, the firm had no legitimate customers.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Cobalt Strike is a legitimate penetration testing tool designed as an attack framework for red teams (groups of security professionals who act as attackers on their own org’s infrastructure to discover security gaps and vulnerabilities.). ” continues the analysis.

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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. ” By protecting the code with encryption, the latest LockBit version can avoid the detection of signature-based anti-malware solutions. The LockBit 3.0 The LockBit 3.0

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

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. Forward outlook Ransomware is a dynamic and increasingly hybrid segment of cybercrime.

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