Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The company asks customers to upload an HTTP Archive (HAR) file in order to support them in solving their problems and replicating browser activity. Within the course of normal business, Okta support will ask customers to upload an HTTP Archive (HAR) file, which allows for troubleshooting of issues by replicating browser activity. .

Password Management 111

Password Management Engineering Authentication Data breaches 111

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Threat actors conducted spear-phishing attacks, using files related to current events as bait, such as the Taiwanese presidential election that took place in January 2024. The spear-phishing emails sent by the threat actors include a Google Drive link that hosts a password-protected archive file, which will download DOPLUGS malware.

Malware 121

Malware Phishing Government Passwords 121

Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2022

Experts spotted a malware campaign that is the first one using a technique of hiding a shellcode into Windows event logs. In February 2022 researchers from Kaspersky spotted a malicious campaign using a novel technique that consists of hiding the shellcode in Windows event logs. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Windows event logs).

Malware 94

Malware Encryption Hacking Cybersecurity 94

Security Boulevard

JULY 1, 2022

Logging Purposes group the logged events by use case and reason for recording, e.g. Financial Audit for logging various types of access to bank account details. The Logging Purpose can be used as a filter criteria for archiving rules or reportings. Raw Archive. Archive of the Raw Database. Expanded Archive.

Data privacy 52

Data privacy Data breaches Banking Architecture 52

Schneier on Security

AUGUST 8, 2019

From a news article : At the BSides LV security conference on Tuesday, Pavel Tsakalidis demonstrated a tool he created called BEEMKA , a Python-based tool that allows someone to unpack Electron ASAR archive files and inject new code into Electron's JavaScript libraries and built-in Chrome browser extensions.

Computers and Electronics 206

Computers and Electronics Encryption 206

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Okta asks customers to upload an HTTP Archive (HAR) file in order to support them in solving their problems and replicating browser activity. The threat actor was able to use these session tokens to hijack the legitimate Okta sessions of 5 customers, 3 of whom have shared their own response to this event.”

Data breaches 127

Data breaches Social Engineering Accountability Authentication 127

CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 11, 2022

If we dig the same content from Google Archives, the institute has devised software that measures the party workers’ reactions by gauging their facial expressions and brain waves. As a lot of research has to be done, to confirm the events and conclusion.

Artificial Intelligence 127

Artificial Intelligence Surveillance Technology Software 127

Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Following the recent updates to FileAudit, we discuss how automated responses to file moves, deletions and other access events can help SMBs, and the MSPs that service them, protect sensitive data from theft, alteration and loss.

Risk 52

Risk Network Security 52

SecureList

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

When the receiver gets a message like that, it calls the event handler. A broadcast receiver listens for broadcasts from the system and other applications, such as phone starts charging, text message received, or downloader finishes downloading. They were all in Arabic, which suggests that the developer speaks Arabic as well.

Malware 120

Malware Spyware Mobile VPN 120

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The company recommends the following steps to site owners in the event of accidental exposure: Check server logs for signs of backup file downloads. eCommerce security company Sansec has revealed it's found a number of online stores accidentally leaking highly sensitive data. After studying 2,037 online stores, the company found that 12.3

eCommerce 88

eCommerce Backups Authentication Passwords 88

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Okta asks customers to upload an HTTP Archive (HAR) file in order to support them in solving their problems and replicating browser activity. The threat actor was able to use these session tokens to hijack the legitimate Okta sessions of 5 customers, 3 of whom have shared their own response to this event.”

Social Engineering 113

Social Engineering Authentication Engineering Accountability 113

Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2021

The researchers responsible disclosed to CVS Health which promptly secured the archive the same day. The content of the 204GB-database included a total of 1,148,327,940 records containing aggregate data and event data, production records that exposed visitor ID, session ID, and device information (ie: iPhone, Android, iPad etc.).

Social Engineering 136

Social Engineering Healthcare Engineering Authentication 136

SecureList

MARCH 21, 2023

The victims navigated to a URL pointing to a ZIP archive hosted on a malicious web server. The archive, in turn, contained two files: A decoy document (we discovered PDF, XLSX and DOCX versions) A malicious LNK file with a double extension (e.g.,pdf.lnk) pdf.lnk” ( Ministry of Finance Decree No. online and webservice-srv1[.]online

Encryption 95

Encryption Architecture Malware Phishing 95

Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

He had been working on the Edward Snowden archive for a couple of months, and had a pile of more technical documents that he wanted help interpreting. You read so much classified information about the world’s geopolitical events that you start seeing the world differently. Your family is ignorant.

Surveillance 293

Surveillance Computers and Electronics Encryption Government 293

Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2020

The downloaded file, as previously mentioned, is a Self Extracting Archive (SFX/SEA). In the archive, five files with different extensions are stored. Once executed, the first file that runs is “ Dwsil23j.vbs” , as described in the archive configuration on the right of the following figure. The “plugin.rar” archive content.

Passwords 135

Passwords Malware Advertising Engineering 135

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Insufficient payment According to the attackers’ version of events, Dolly.com did pay the ransom, but it was not enough to satisfy them. This was later presented as the main motivation to publicize the hack and announce a data auction along with sample files and free-downloadable archive dumps,” our researchers said.

Ransomware 121

Ransomware Hacking Backups Accountability 121

Malwarebytes

AUGUST 3, 2022

This advanced custom Rat is mainly the work of a threat actor that targets Russian entities by using lures in archive file format and more recently Office documents leveraging the Follina vulnerability. The earliest versions of this Rat was typically archived into a zip file pretending to be a document specific to a Russian group.

Malware 107

Malware Encryption Antivirus Architecture 107

Daniel Miessler

DECEMBER 26, 2020

I think we’ll see a number of cybersecurity events that will change our behavior, and I wanted to answer the question of how we’d know this had happened. Amd the more ridiculous these events sound to you, the further away we are from security being a priority. Hence, it’s acceptable. Pretty far. —.

Software 148

Software Security Awareness Cybersecurity Ransomware 148

Security Boulevard

AUGUST 19, 2022

This ensures your valuable data is securely backed up and readily available for recovery in the event the data is compromised, lost or stolen. Some of the data protection techniques are data backup and recovery, archiving and replication, to name a few. Data archiving. Data protection is VERY different from archival.

Backups 52

Backups Data breaches Small Business Phishing 52

SecureList

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

MDR telemetry event type used. T1546.003: Windows Management Instrumentation Event Subscription. Windows event. WMI active script event consumer created remotely. MDR telemetry event type used. MDR telemetry event type used. MDR telemetry event type used. Case detection. MITRE ATT&CK Technique.

Engineering 113

Engineering Malware Passwords Data collection 113

Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2020

Threat actors distributed the LNK file bundled in an archive via spear-phishing messages. Experts identified two variants of the attack between May 12 and May 31, using the “Project link and New copyright policy.rar” and “CV_Colliers.rar” archive files, respectively. .” reads the analysis published by MalwareBytes.

Advertising 66

Advertising Phishing Hacking Government 66

SecureList

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The PseudoManuscrypt loader makes its way onto user systems via a MaaS platform that distributes malware in pirated software installer archives. We dubbed the newly-identified malware PseudoManuscrypt. Essentially, the functionality of PseudoManuscrypt provides the attackers with virtually full control of the infected system.

Spyware 92

Spyware Energy and Utilities Malware VPN 92

Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2022

We believe the screenshots shared online are connected to this January event. The gang leaked an archive containing 37GB of source code allegedly belonging to Microsoft. Based on our investigation to date, there is no evidence of ongoing malicious activity beyond the activity detected in January. (2

Telecommunications 92

Telecommunications Data breaches VPN Hacking 92

Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2023

The binary is deployed using a specific flag that allows its execution, while the ZIP archive is removed. The ransomware identifies user accounts by viewing successful logins in Windows Event Viewer, it also uses a modified variant of the open-source PSnmap Tool. This technique allows the encryptor to avoid detection.

Ransomware 85

Ransomware VPN Antivirus Encryption 85

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The PseudoManuscrypt loader is delivered via a Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform that distributes the malicious code in pirated software installer archives. Experts also observed the spyware distributed via the Glupteba botnet.

Spyware 118

Spyware Energy and Utilities Malware Engineering 118

Malwarebytes

MARCH 5, 2021

The executable has been written in Visual Studio and it seems the attacker archived the whole Visual Studio project. Due the geopolitical events happening between Azerbaijan and Armenia, digital attacks against these countries have increased in the past year. Figure 10: Fairfax directory. Figure 11: Execute runner.bat.

Encryption 120

Encryption Phishing Security Defenses Government 120

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Researchers at Kaspersky will disclose technical details of the attacks on Thursday at Kaspersky’s second SAS@Home event. The loader allows to deliver the main payload, experts noticed that it is hidden inside a self-extracting RAR archive. ” reads a post published by Kaspersky.

Malware 104

Malware Encryption Advertising Hacking 104

SecureList

JULY 14, 2021

The link leads to a RAR archive that masquerades as a Word document by setting the “file_subpath” parameter to point to a filename with a.DOCX extension. The archive contains two malicious DLL libraries as well as two legitimate executables that sideload the DLL files. Path to the utility used to archive exfiltrated files.

Malware 144

Malware Phishing Technology Encryption 144

eSecurity Planet

JULY 12, 2021

Being so close to the storage also lets RackTop preserve an “immutable backup” so data can be rolled back quickly in event of a ransomware attack. BrickStor works with primary storage systems, online archives in the cloud, at the edge, or in the data center. Affordability and performance.

Small Business 120

Small Business Technology Ransomware Backups 120

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

RAR archives can also be split into multi-volume archives, in the attacks observed by Talos, the filename creates files with the RAR extension named “r00” and later with the.chm file extension. This trick was implemented to bypass security programs that check for the file extension of the attachment.

Malware 78

Malware Hacking Information Security 78

Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2021

In an ironic turn of events, a lapsed domain registration tied to WeLeakInfo let someone plunder and publish account data on 24,000 customers who paid to access the service with a credit card. And the profile link on the auto forum leads to another now-defunct but still-archived personal site for Sergey.

Passwords 279

Passwords Accountability Hacking Data breaches 279

SecureWorld News

MARCH 31, 2022

The Lapsus$ group has made a huge splash in 2022 with some of the most eventful cyberattacks we've seen in recent memory. The new cybercrime gang on the block turned out to also be the new kids on the block—literally. Their first notable attack occurred in December 2021, when they hacked Brazil's Ministry of Health.

Cybercrime 84

Cybercrime Passwords Hacking Malware 84

Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2020

The initial JavaScript loads the skimming code included in the EXIF metadata of the favicon.ico using an <img> tag, and specifically via the onerror event. xyz (archive here ). The attackers loaded the e-skimmer from the ‘Copyright’ field in the metadata of this image. ” concludes the analysis.

Advertising 96

Advertising Hacking Software Information Security 96

Malwarebytes

AUGUST 3, 2022

This advanced custom Rat is mainly the work of a threat actor that targets Russian entities by using lures in archive file format and more recently Office documents leveraging the Follina vulnerability. The earliest versions of this Rat was typically archived into a zip file pretending to be a document specific to a Russian group.

Malware 61

Malware Encryption Antivirus Architecture 61

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

At last week’s Black Hat USA, NYC-based financial technology firm Two Sigma Investments took the virtual stage to outline why their existing solution didn’t cut it, the work needed to create an in-house security information and event management (SIEM) system, and the project’s implications. Schedule Query Execution.

Engineering 138

Engineering Technology Banking Internet 138

Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Zscaler ThreatLabz is always on the lookout for threat actors trying to take advantage of major world news and events. Below is an overview of the traffic trends and cyber attack campaigns observed around the upcoming FIFA World Cup event. Key Points. Figure 2: Screenshots showing fake streaming site and related link posted on OpenSea.

Scams 98

Scams Malware Cyber Attacks Engineering 98

Daniel Miessler

APRIL 9, 2020

So we’re in the middle of the biggest event in most people’s memory—an event that has isolated us from others—and one company had a product that made connection easier for millions of people. This was a miss by their competitors, not a win by Zoom. Because they’re nowhere near as intuitive.

Manufacturing 246

Manufacturing Risk Marketing Media 246