SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

All this is crucial because the faster you get your new job, the sooner your new income stream will start! I used ChatGPT to figure out how you can get better more quickly at each major step in the job hunting process. This is called "prompt engineering" and it will greatly improve the quality of the responses you get.

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SecureList

JUNE 16, 2021

doc” (translates from Persian as “Romantic Solidarity With Lovers of Freedom2.doc”) doc”) and contains malicious macros that are accompanied by an odd decoy message attempting to convince the victim to enable its content: Decoy content in one of the malicious documents. hxxp://C2/ech/client.php?

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Cisco Security

MAY 27, 2021

With SecureX orchestration remote, you can start to integrate on-premise resources into your orchestration workflows. Ready to get started with SecureX orchestration remote? The best place to start is our SecureX orchestration remote documentation. SecureX orchestration remote.

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SecureList

JUNE 15, 2021

Notably, in addition to the final backdoor, we discovered one victim getting infected with custom ransomware. This research started off with us discovering a suspicious Word document on VirusTotal. With the environment checks done, the main payload gets decrypted using the same XOR key and launched with rundll32.exe. Background.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 28, 2024

Where Compliance Automation Tools Make a Difference Centralized and Visual Repository Manual documentation and auditing processes look something like this: Jennifer sends Luke some docs as attachments via email. You’ll need to do a lot of listening to get stakeholder buy-in. Luke saves them on OneDrive. And Andrew? and PCI DSS v4.0.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 10, 2022

Figure 2: Excel doc. After enabling the macro, the image is replaced with the Jordan government’s the coat of the arms: Figure 3: Excel doc after enabling the macro. It just accepts the start command that puts the machine into the ALIVE state. The Excel attachment contains a macro that performs malicious activities.

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Kali Linux

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To help us address these items, we tracked down Daniel Ruiz de Alegría and started the development of a new theme running on Xfce. As time goes by, we will be making changes to all of the desktop environments we release installs to get them “close” to a similar user experience no matter what DE you run. Like magic!

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Cybereason followed with a “ vaccine ” to disable the Apache Log4j vulnerability until admins get a chance to apply a patch issued by the Apache Software Foundation. This is because the ransomware starts encryption at the 6th byte,” the malware analysts wrote. “So Also read: Top Vulnerability Management Tools for 2021. “So

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Kali Linux

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

For more details, refer to the documentation: kali.org/docs/general-use/openssl-configuration/ Kali-Tools In 2019.4 we moved our documentation over to our updated /docs/ page. Once these sites have settled down from all the changes and matured a bit, we will start to package these both up, allowing for offline reading.

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SecureList

MARCH 9, 2023

In a nutshell, the loader runs a new powershell.exe process and manipulates it to execute numerous PowerShell commands, which instruct it to access a third-party URL in order to get the payload. 114/docs/[RandomChars].txt. The payload is a base64-encoded, AES-encrypted fileless binary. net or blender3d-software[.]org.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Moreover, such activity can sometimes be started by administrators themselves as part of system maintenance. Instead, it gets to the machine, for example, through a phishing email, and then independently downloads the real malicious code onto it. To start with, Adaptive Anomaly Control has training mode activated for about two weeks.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Threat intelligence firm QuoIntelligence uncovered a campaign on Government bodies on August 9, the attacks likely started on August 5. 245/protect/get-upd-id[.]PHP” ”The malware sends POST requests about once per minute without getting a response back. ” reads the report published QuoIntelligence.

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Kali Linux

AUGUST 8, 2022

Kali is on Discord We have started up a new discord server, Kali Linux & Friends. This is our new place for the Kali community to get together and chat in real-time all about Kali Linux (as well as other community projects that OffSec has to offer). It’s simple and straight forward to get going. Why Discord?

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 26, 2022

Due to the evolving and growing impact of cybersecurity incidents there are some questions starting to arise about the way that insurance companies deal with the costs that are the results of such incidents. And, if they get caught, deny who they are working for. Merck suffered US$1.4 What was NotPetya again? An act of war?

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2020

At the time, Malwarebytes observed the Trojan started pumping out spam, spam messages initially targeted users in Germany, Poland and Italy , and also the US. I did get some malspam here but it was all filtered. Either attached a doc or a mallink. TNW and Be safe! link] — Joseph Roosen (@JRoosen) July 18, 2020.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 29, 2021

> <Relationships xmlns="[link] Id="rId1" Type="[link] Target="HtTpS:cloud-documents.com/doc/t.php?action=show_content" getAV: Gets Anti-Virus product info including the AV name, AV status (enabled or disabled) and AV signature stature (outdated or actual). We provide the analysis of this VBA Rat in the next section. <?xml

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We started investigating this situation and were able to identify what may be a similar campaign. A few seconds later, we saw a new device was added (Google Chrome running on Mac OS): While we could not get more information (IP address, geolocation) about this new device, we knew it was not ours.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2021

The malware, only running in memory, cannot be detected by an endpoint protection tool’s scans of the filesystem, as it never gets written to the filesystem. The website has a professional look and instructs the visitors into clicking a button to unsubscribe, then an Office document is provided that once opened starts the infection process.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Once the target opens the malicious doc file, a message in Japanese is displayed (??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? While showing the decoy file to the user, the archive script starts K7SysMon.exe, which loads the malicious DLL from K7SysMn1.dll Simple decoy document content from 1.docx.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 21, 2022

The maldoc’s filename, Nuclear Terrorism A Very Real Threat.rtf , attempts to get victims to open it by preying on their fears that the invasion of Ukraine will escalate into a nuclear conflict. The post Russia’s APT28 uses fear of nuclear war to spread Follina docs in Ukraine appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

“I started to have a look at Libreoffice and discovered a way to achieve remote code execution as soon as a user opens a malicious ODT file and moves his mouse over the document, without triggering any warning dialog.” To get the micropatch applied, just install and register 0patch Agent from [link].

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Kali Linux

JULY 5, 2023

See /usr/share/doc/python3.11/README.venv Users get burnt and they learn from it, but it’s no fun. What’s changing Now, back to the upcoming change: in Kali Linux, starting with Python 3.12, pip will refuse to perform system-wide installs ( sudo pip install ) as well as user home directory installs ( pip install --user ).

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 3, 2022

Ready to get started? Get BloodHound 4.2 We are starting with Virtual Machines, but will soon be adding collection capabilities for several other Azure objects as well. Thank you very much, Dirk-jan for publishing this research and for helping us get this into BloodHound as a new edge! Important note: BloodHound 4.2

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Kali Linux

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Before the year is over, we thought it was best to get the final 2022 release out. So if you are self-hosting OpenStack, this is a great way of getting Kali loaded up! Have you ever dreamt of porting Kali NetHunter to your device but didn’t know where to start? This video has it all so get cracking.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Two days, Ukraine’s government started asking for volunteers from the hacker underground to provide their support in protecting critical infrastructure and carry out offensive operations against Russian state-sponsored hackers, reported Reuters which cited two e experts involved in the project. Ukrainian cybercommunity!

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

“I started to have a look at Libreoffice and discovered a way to achieve remote code execution as soon as a user opens a malicious ODT file and moves his mouse over the document, without triggering any warning dialog.” To get the micropatch applied, just install and register 0patch Agent from [link].

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

With that an attacker couldn't necessarily intercept the data, but they could query the peloton API to get user data that they weren't supposed to. Here's Eric Wilde and his guests, Francoise Lascelles on Getting API's to Work podcast discussing the Peloton vulnerability. Okay, that's starting to get very personal.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

With that an attacker couldn't necessarily intercept the data, but they could query the peloton API to get user data that they weren't supposed to. Here's Eric Wilde and his guests, Francoise Lascelles on Getting API's to Work podcast discussing the Peloton vulnerability. Okay, that's starting to get very personal.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 13, 2021

There are a number of routes to carrying out document fraud that are important to underline before we start talking about measures designed to prevent them: . Even with the introduction of highly sophisticated biometrics onto documentation, the promise of tamper-proof official documents remains a holy grail amongst criminal gangs. .

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Hacker Combat

JANUARY 13, 2022

Planning for a big event but don’t know where to get started to gather participants? Users love it for being available to be used alongside Dropbox and Google Docs. The answer is simple: optimized registration forms. Choose a solution that can also be tailored to your specific business needs and gather more accurate data.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2019

The group behind Emotet malware is getting smarter and smarter in the way the y deliver such a Malware. doc ( 6125489453c1824da3e28a54708e7c77875e500dd82a59c96c1d1e5ee88dcad7 ) is the delivered file sent on Oct 11, 2019, 11:06:09 PM from grecia@ambientehomedecor.com. Introduction. SOC report 10 12 2019.doc Obfuscated Macro.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 1, 2022

The attack starts with malicious documents sent as attachment to a phishing email. The downloader is responsible for getting the implant and the client; the URL paths for the payloads are stored in encoded form in the binary. It also gets the IP address of the machine by making a request to “[link]. Attack process.

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Google Security

MAY 11, 2022

Posted by Daniel Margolis, Software Engineer, Google Account Security Team Every year, security technologies improve: browsers get better , encryption becomes ubiquitous on the Web , authentication becomes stronger. But phishing persistently remains a threat (as shown by a recent phishing attack on the U.S.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Now, to make sure this doesn't sounds like an incentivised Lenovo pitch, firstly, refer back to my stance on what I'll endorse and my history with buying Lenovos and secondly, there's nothing in this one for me, it's someone else who's going to get something cool! The winner of that gets the ThinkPad.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In addition, we detail how this threat actor had started to use new initial infection vectors for its operations which include Microsoft Publisher documents and Trojanized applications. After dropping the required files onto the victim, it starts the “credwiz.exe” process. Figure 14: Commands.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 17, 2021

According to Microsoft Security Intelligence , attackers have started using PDF files full of keywords that have a high SEO ranking, so that their links show up prominently in search results. Instead of getting the coveted document they are redirected to through multiple sites to end up at a page where they download the Polazert Trojan.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The group started its activities in December 2020 and has been responsible for multiple sets of attacks against high-profile entities in Europe and Asia. Most of the malicious code resides in the DllMain , but the next stage is invoked with the exported function Start. dll and it is usually loaded with the legitimate rundll32.exe

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