SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In a more recent sample (MD5 a09daf5791d8fd4b5843cd38ae37cf97), the attackers changed the User-Agent field to “HTTP/1.1” passwords and the like) could be parsed, MD5 5aac51312dfd99bf4e88be482f734c79 simply uploads the entire database to the C2; MD5 d1f506b59908e3389c83a3a8e8da3276 has a string encryption algorithm.

Banking 92

Banking Malware Cybercrime Encryption 92

Malwarebytes

JULY 10, 2022

. “The only required argument is a folder path, which Maui will parse and encrypt identified files.” ” Maui also has other unusual features—it doesn’t drop a ransom note, and uses a three-layer encryption methodology reminiscent of Conti and ShiOne. Report ransomware incidents to your local FBI field office.

Healthcare 83

Healthcare Ransomware Encryption Firmware 83

Errata Security

AUGUST 31, 2019

The problem is that without existing templates of how "parsing" should be taught, it's really hard coming up with a structure for describing it from scratch. People assume I mean "parsing programming languages", like in the Dragon book. Instead, I mean parsing all input, such as IP headers, PDF files, X.509 1, or JSON.

DNS 40

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SecureList

JULY 7, 2021

This confirms our previous assumption that there are more last-stagers besides the C++ ones, based a field in the C2 communication protocol that contains the “client” programming language. The Guard class constructor contains initial values, such as an XOR key (enc_key field) to decrypt the configuration.

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SecureList

JUNE 23, 2021

At Kaspersky we have a number of complex ML models based on different file features, including models for static and dynamic detection, for processing sandbox logs and system events, etc. Some papers proposed gradient-driven adversarial methods that use knowledge about model structure and features for malicious file modification [v].

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Carried out by ReRez Research , DigiCert’s poll queried senior officials at organizations in the fields of healthcare, industrial manufacturing, consumer products and transportation ranging in size from 999 to 10,000 employees. Losses include lost productivity, compliance penalties, lost reputation and stock price declines.

IoT 136

IoT Encryption Authentication Penetration Testing 136

Zigrin Security

MARCH 29, 2023

This mechanism blocks all requests that match at least one of the following conditions: An unexpected field is added to the POST request A required POST field has been removed from the request Hidden field value has been modified It is essentially an advanced whitelisting mechanism for POST request body parameters.

Cybersecurity 52

Cybersecurity Penetration Testing Authentication Passwords 52

Security Boulevard

JUNE 13, 2022

PureCrypter is a fully-featured loader being sold since at least March 2021. PureCrypter features provide persistence, injection and defense mechanisms that are configurable in Google’s Protocol Buffer message format. Optional features (mainly defense mechanisms). PureCrypter Features. PureCrypter main features.

Malware 52

Malware Encryption Antivirus Advertising 52

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

PIN pads are equipped with hardware and security features to ensure that security keys are erased if someone tries to tamper with the device. This knowledge has enabled the criminals to upgrade their toolset, allowing them to create their own cards featuring this new technology and keeping them “in the business.”

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Malware Banking Software Encryption 96

Security Boulevard

MARCH 29, 2023

The first login, shown below, is a vanilla login with no MFA and a normal password in an unauthenticated context: # Unauthenticated context $token = Get-AADIntAccessTokenForMSGraph -Credentials $cred Parse-JWTtoken $token aud : [link] iss : [link]. The documentation to disable this feature is located here. access_token.

VPN 61

VPN Authentication Passwords Social Engineering 61

Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Also, there is a shortage of cybersecurity skills in the world, which makes it a plentiful field to make a career. To pursue a career in the cybersecurity field and find a course to get started. Also, they are great for tasting the waters if you are taking the first step in the cybersecurity field, so don’t hesitate!

Social Engineering 40

Social Engineering Accountability Phishing Cybersecurity 40

LRQA Nettitude Labs

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Joe Bialek gave a talk about CastGuard at BHUSA2022 ( slides ) that explains the overall goals of the feature, how it was developed, and how it works at a high level. It’s pretty clear that this field has something to do with CastGuard (the name rather gives it away) but it isn’t clear what the field actually does.

Engineering 91

Engineering 91

Security Boulevard

MAY 19, 2022

The URL marker instructs Vdiar to parse the second stage URL from the social media profiles located at the dead drop resolver URL. For these samples, the URL1 field in the static configuration is a real C2, and a social media profile is used as a backup URL. The botnet can be identified by its profile ID. dat:*wallet*.*:*2fa*.

Media 61

Media Social Engineering Backups Passwords 61

SecureList

MAY 6, 2021

Except for its covert channel communication feature, Moriya is capable of establishing a reverse shell session using an overt channel. Termite provides additional features to download and upload files between the compromised hosts, as well as a way to spawn a remote shell to control the targeted machine. Earthworm help message.

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Anton on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

This hurts properly parsing out relevant pieces of new relevant intel that should go further down the pipeline — focus on a few relevant related news article, on a single report of small series of report, and dedicate at least half a day to fully integrate all the new input before calling shots of what should be pushed further down the process.

Engineering 100

Engineering Threat Detection Accountability Ransomware 100

SecureList

AUGUST 25, 2023

In addition to these features, Lockbit has offered a searchable portal to query leaked information from companies targeted by this ransomware family, and even offered payment to those who get tattooed with a Lockbit logo on their body. Other fields are stored with Base64 and ROR13. Other fields are stored with Base64 and ROR13.

Encryption 75

Encryption Ransomware Engineering Passwords 75

SecureList

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The LNK file has an embedded “Command Line Arguments” field that aims at extracting and executing an encoded VBScript loader (1.VBE). One of the distinctive features of Deathstalker is its use of DDRs/web services to host an encoded string that is later deciphered by the malware implant. Referenced by Runner.py

Malware 104

Malware DNS Engineering Internet 104

SecureWorld News

APRIL 3, 2023

This article will delve into the concept of Security Data Lake, highlighting its unique features compared to conventional cloud storage and discussing the key vendors operating in this field. SDL simplifies such processes as automated data retrieval through APIs or other means, data parsing, and information accumulation.

Unstructured Data 74

Unstructured Data Data collection Information Security Backups 74

Spinone

DECEMBER 23, 2018

Due to the sheer enormity of the data being parsed and analyzed, it is simply impossible for human beings to filter through, analyze, and make operational decisions based on all of the information taken in by these infrastructure systems. What is the difference in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI)?

Artificial Intelligence 66

Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity Firewall Technology 66

Spinone

AUGUST 25, 2020

Humans are simply not as effective and efficient at parsing logs and manually correlating metrics and activities as “machines” or computers are. Start a fully-featured trial of SpinOne here ! Notifications are proactively sent to administrators, notifying them of the event.

Energy and Utilities 52

Energy and Utilities Risk Accountability Technology 52

Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2019

This technology is stored in the Workbook OLE stream in Excel 97-2003 format which makes it very difficult to detect and parse by antivirus (AV) engines. The RAT is based on a leaked source code of the Ammyy Admin remote desktop software , and its features include remote desktop control, file system manager, proxy support and audio chat.

Malware 92

Malware Antivirus Technology Phishing 92

SecureList

JUNE 21, 2022

For example, Ninja has a feature like Cobalt Strike pivot listeners, which can limit the number of direct connections from the targeted network to the remote C2 and control systems without internet access. This feature provides functionality that reminds us of the Cobalt Strike Malleable C2 profile. 0x12345678. mwr;MALDIR=C:Maldir.

Encryption 141

Encryption Malware Technology Internet 141

Malwarebytes

MARCH 4, 2022

This wiper is remarkable for its ability to bypass Windows security features and gain write access to many low-level data-structures on the disk. By using FsContext2 field saved by a CreateFile operation performed from usermode, this driver could be seen as a proxy driver where IRPs are handled by underlying devices. Execution flow.

Malware 92

Malware Data collection Backups Ransomware 92

SecureList

MAY 25, 2021

Some of the fields of interest in this structure: isRU : specifies whether the country of the victim determined by their external IP address is one of the following: Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Ukraine. Upon launch, Milihpen parses the configuration data hardcoded in the Trojan’s body. June 2020: Telegram.

Ransomware 103

Ransomware Encryption Malware Energy and Utilities 103

Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

The source is written in an classic style ECMAScript without any fancy or new operators/features introduced in ECMAScript6 and ECMAScript7. If the parsed request is a HTTP POST the ICAPHandler tries to extract credentials through special function called: extract_login_password. performs the same tasks performed by dnsd.py ICAP script.

DNS 84

DNS Computers and Electronics Penetration Testing Government 84

Security Boulevard

JUNE 28, 2022

This command will check if it’s running as high integrity, query the WMI class for the DPAPI blobs, parse the blobs, retrieve the system’s DPAPI masterkeys, and decrypt the blobs with the appropriate key. this feature isn’t necessary. Figure 2?—?SharpDPAPI SharpDPAPI Retrieval and Decryption of NAA Credentials. there’s a simple fix.

Accountability 57

Accountability Social Engineering Encryption Engineering 57

SecureList

AUGUST 10, 2022

Another notable feature is that the DOTM-embedded macro signals progression or errors during the execution by sending HTTP GET requests to fixed C2 URLs. Then it parses the command line arguments. Leveraging Office object properties as hidden data sources is also something we have previously seen with PowerPepper. Target identifier.

Cryptocurrency 87

Cryptocurrency Encryption Social Engineering Passwords 87

Spinone

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Machine learning and artificial intelligence are both extremely powerful technology buzzwords these days when it comes to parsing through the enormous amount of data that is readily available to today’s systems. In the previous post , we looked at Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in general terms.

Cyber threats 68

Cyber threats Artificial Intelligence Computers and Electronics Ransomware 68

ForAllSecure

JUNE 30, 2021

Vamosi: So right here, Harrison is perhaps a good person to start to explain how having a computer science degree can start to map, other fields. I mean, even if you're not going to specialize in information security might someone really benefit from having those skills in their other fields.

Hacking 52

Hacking Engineering Information Security Artificial Intelligence 52

SecureList

MAY 23, 2023

JackalSteal starts its execution by parsing the arguments. Despite the fact that they began their activities years ago, this group is generally unknown and, as far as we know, has not been publicly described. We started monitoring the group in mid-2020 and have observed a constant level of activity that indicates a capable and stealthy actor.

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Malware Encryption Government Technology 117

Spinone

MAY 8, 2020

CROSS-SITE SCRIPTING When not protected properly, online forms and other input fields on websites may be subject to what is known as a cross-site scripting attack. There are many tools available that allow attackers to easily parse system memory, looking for hashed passwords that are stored there.

Cyber Attacks 78

Cyber Attacks Phishing Backups Ransomware 78

Malwarebytes

MAY 9, 2023

Furthermore, the attack has some unique features that make it stand out as one of the most interesting ones. Its main purpose is to execute one of the binaries hidden inside ntuser.dat, after some parsing. The object field was also revealing. This thread contains all the functionality.

Surveillance 68

Surveillance Accountability DNS Encryption 68

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 11, 2023

VAMOSI: There’s a perception in information security that if you are serious about working in the field that you must have a computer science degree. Or you can focus on one area and just become a subject matter expert in that particular field. You don’t. So I'll make a note of that.

DNS 40

DNS Hacking Penetration Testing Education 40

Schneier on Security

APRIL 26, 2023

This could work much like public option health care plans, which increase access to health services while also providing more transparency into operations in the sector and putting productive pressure on the pricing and features of private products. Even with these approaches, building and fielding a democratic A.I.

Technology 218

Technology Government Education Marketing 218

Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

For many API services, the API client applications do not have the ability to pick and choose which data fields are returned in an API call. For instance, GraphQL APIs allow you to specify the exact object fields you need in an API request. But how could this feature cause security vulnerabilities? API #6: Mass Assignment.

Authentication 61

Authentication Accountability Passwords Engineering 61

Fox IT

MAY 4, 2021

In some cases, they have shut down completely in one field and started doing something else. Updates to RM3 were observed to be ongoing , and more fields have appeared since the 3009XX builds (e.g: Decrypted strings from the.bss section being parsed by IDA. For RM3 TAs, as for all of us, these are indeed interesting times.

Banking 98

Banking Malware Encryption Architecture 98