Malwarebytes

JANUARY 22, 2024

These targets are approached in spear phishing attacks. The group uses social engineering techniques to persuade their targets to open documents or download malware. Once a relationship has been established, the target will receive a phishing link or a document containing such a link.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2022

A large-scale phishing campaign leveraging the Anubis Network is targeting Brazil and Portugal since March 2022. A large-scale phishing campaign is targeting Internet-end users in Brazil and Portugal since March 2022. Figure 1: High-level diagram of the ANUBIS phishing network and its components (2020). The Phishing template.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2023

The group often uses spear-phishing emails and messages (Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal) as an initial attack vector. Distribution of malicious files using the Signal messenger The messages use social engineering to trick victims into opening malicious attachments (i.e. . ” states the alert published by CART-UA.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 29, 2023

Executive summary Credential harvesting is a technique that hackers use to gain unauthorized access to legitimate credentials using a variety of strategies, tactics, and techniques such as phishing and DNS poisoning. According to recent research , phishing assaults targeted credential harvesting in 71.5% of cases in 2020.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Security experts at Cybaze – Yoroi ZLab have analyzed a new sample of the AdvisorsBot malware, a downloader that was first spotted in August 2018. As usual, the malware looks like a legitimate e-mail attachment, named as “invoice.doc”. Figure 3 – Piece of VBS script that starts malware infection. DLL Analysis.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

Trend Micro researchers spotted an elusive threat actor, called Earth Lusca, that targets organizations worldwide via spear-phishing and watering hole attacks. . The first cluster was set up using rented virtual private servers (VPS), it was employed in watering hole and spear-phishing attacks. Both clusters served as a C&C server.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Phishing Threats Are Increasing in Scale and Sophistication Phishing remains one of the most dangerous and widespread cybersecurity threats. Phishing is now the most common initial attack vector, overtaking stolen or compromised credentials. Phishing attacks are becoming more difficult to detect. billion USD globally.

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Do you feel confident that everyone in your organization could identify a phishing email that contained ransomware? In today’s post, we share information with the goal that it will help everyone in your organization protect themselves from phishing attacks.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 13, 2022

A report published by CSC today revealed a spike in fake domain registrations from entities attempting to leverage the ongoing shortages of baby formula and semiconductors to conduct phishing attacks and perpetrate fraud. The post CSC Reports Spike in Fake Baby Formula, Semiconductor Domains appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 26, 2022

In 2021, the main attack vector used by this threat actor was credential phishing attacks through emails, posing as Naver, the popular South Korean search engine and web portal. We identified three unique attack chains used by the threat actor to distribute the malware in emails: Figure 1: Attack flow. Passive DNS data.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 17, 2024

Figure 1 — Cloudflare RBI Diagram The primary focus of RBI is to prevent user interactions with web-based malware such as cross-site scripting (XSS), drive-by downloads, and various forms of malicious JavaScript. In this function, it does an excellent job. During these demonstrations, we are using the Mythic framework with the Apollo agent.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Malware, short for “malicious software,” is any unwanted software on your computer that, more often than not, is designed to inflict damage. Since the early days of computing, a wide range of malware types with varying functions have emerged. Best Practices to Defend Against Malware. Jump ahead: Adware. RAM scraper.

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SecureList

JANUARY 13, 2022

The group seems to work more like a unit within a larger formation of Lazarus attackers, with the ability to tap into its vast resources: be it malware implants, exploits, or infrastructure. This lets them mount high-quality social engineering attacks that look like totally normal interactions. Malware infection.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 26, 2022

Note: This OSINT analysis has been originally published at my current employer's Web site - [link] where I'm currently acting as a DNS Threat Researcher since January, 2021. . We’ve decided to take a closer look at the U.S

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

According to Martynas Vareikis, Information Security Researcher at Cybernews, threat actors could use the email addresses exposed in the dataset to carry out phishing attacks. Invoices infected with malware could cause huge losses for the clients if they were attacked by ransomware gangs,” Vareikis explained. Media giant with $6.35

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SecureList

JUNE 7, 2023

However, recently the group has adopted new methods to deliver its malware. The threat actor also seems to be experimenting with new file types to deliver its malware. Android malware, used by Roaming Mantis, and discovered a DNS changer function that was implemented to target specific Wi-Fi routers used mainly in South Korea.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Over the last few days, a phishing campaign from DHL and entitled “ DHL Shipment Notification ” has been targeted users worldwide distribution the Muncy malware. Now, the malware is targeting user’s worldwide and has been spread via phishing campaigns. The process flow diagram below shown how the malware works.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

Our analysis of the rogue firmware, and other malicious artefacts from the target’s network, revealed that the threat actor behind it had tampered with the firmware to embed malware that we call MoonBounce. The attackers study their victims carefully and use the information they find to frame social engineering attacks.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

Disclaimer: when referring to APT groups as Russian-speaking, Chinese-speaking or other-“speaking” languages, we refer to various artefacts used by the groups (such as malware debugging strings, comments found in scripts, etc.) On February 23, ESET published a tweet announcing new wiper malware targeting Ukraine.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Hackers can target any of your employees with a fraudulent, “ spoofed ” email or several people in a specific department with a phishing campaign. The malware can spread to the entire system in hours and to your customers and partners, impersonating your identity. How DMARC Works to Stop Ransomware. DMARC Policy.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2021

Malware detection has long been a game of signature detection. With ML and artificial intelligence (AI) using thousands of strains to train algorithms, one would surmise that the ability to detect malware is only improving. Hackers are using the same ML and AI technology to avoid using recognized malware. Supply Chain Attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. Russian software engineer Eugene Kaspersky’s frustration with the malware of the 80s and 90s led to the founding of antivirus and cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky Lab.

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Veracode Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

In the report, the agencies found that threat actors are targeting the HPH Sector using TrickBot and BazarLoader malware efforts, which can result in the disruption of healthcare services, the initiation of ransomware attacks, and the theft of sensitive data. Every 15 minutes, the malware runs scheduled tasks on the victim???s

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2018

The campaign was first spotted in January by experts from PaloAlto Networks when the researchers discovered a new piece of malware tracked VERMIN RAT targeting Ukraine organizations. These attackers use three different.NET malware strains in their attacks – Quasar RAT, Sobaken (a RAT derived from Quasar) and a custom-made RAT called Vermin.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Better network security monitors for authorized, but inappropriate activities or unusual behavior that may indicate compromise, malware activity, or insider threat. Similarly, spoofed domain name system (DNS) and IP addresses can redirect users from legitimate connections to dangerous and malicious websites.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2020

Bonupdater, Helminth, Quadangent and PowRuner are some of the most sophisticated Malware attributed to OilRig and analyzed over the past few years. For example by using: user credential leaks, social engineering toolkits, targeted phishing, and so on and so forth or is more on there to be discovered ? CopyKittens.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Determine which employees are vulnerable to social engineering attacks. Phishing tools like Knowbe4 and Cofense/Phishme are great training tools, but nothing substitutes for an actual concerted set of social engineering attacks, followed by illustrative technical exploits.

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Lenny Zeltser

MAY 3, 2019

Modern applications support features that attackers can abuse to install malware on your system. Use modern, reputable anti-malware software. Campaign attackers have been highly effective at fooling victims into revealing their logon credentials to copycat websites (phishing). Lock down domain registrar and DNS settings.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1970-1995 — Kevin Mitnick — Beginning in 1970, Kevin Mitnick penetrates some of the most highly-guarded networks in the world, including Nokia and Motorola, using elaborate social engineering schemes, tricking insiders into handing over codes and passwords, and using the codes to access internal computer systems.

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