Bleeping Computer

MAY 27, 2021

Security researchers found a new BazarCall email phishing campaign that manages to bypass automated threat detection systems to deliver the BazarLoader malware used by the TrickBot gang. [.].

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Bleeping Computer

APRIL 26, 2021

Microsoft today announced that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, the enterprise version of its Windows 10 Defender antivirus, now comes with support for blocking cryptojacking malware using Intel's silicon-based Threat Detection Technology (TDT). [.].

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

These bundles are typically delivered via phishing emails or malware web sites that include misinformation targeting fears and uncertainty. As COVID-19 has continued, threat intelligence researchers have seen an evolution in ransomware attacks targeting those most impacted, such as hospitals and healthcare providers.

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Bleeping Computer

MAY 27, 2021

Security researchers found a new BazarCall email phishing campaign that manages to bypass automated threat detection systems to deliver the BazarLoader malware used by the TrickBot gang. [.].

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Dark Reading

JUNE 24, 2021

Attackers have improved on tweaking old malware to continue sneaking it past traditional threat detection controls, researchers report.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 19, 2023

MixMode Sales Engineer, Josh Snow, explores a real-time threat detection use case involving The MixMode Platform and its ability to identify PowerDrop, a malicious Powershell script that has been specifically targeting the aerospace industry and shows how MixMode's Third Wave AI detects PowerDrop and gain insights into what this threat entails.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 6, 2023

There is a worrying rise in multipurpose malware, which can perform a variety of malicious actions and is adept at evasion, lateral movement and data encryption. The post Adaptable ‘Swiss Army Knife’ Malware a Growing Threat appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2019

Enterprises have dumped small fortunes into stocking their SOCs (security operations centers) with the best firewalls, anti-malware suites, intrusion detection, data loss prevention and sandbox detonators money can buy. Related: Why we’re in the Golden Age of cyber espionage. But this hasn’t done the trick.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 28, 2023

The malware is primarily used to steal sensitive information, such as login credentials and financial information, from victims. Dridex is known for its ability to evade detection by using dynamic configuration files and hiding its servers behind proxy layers.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2021

Microsoft announced an improvement of its Defender antivirus that will leverage Intel’s Threat Detection Technology (TDT) to detect processes associated with crypto-miners. Cryptojacking malware allows threat actors to secretly mine for cryptocurrency abusing computational resources of the infected devices.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 24, 2021

Stories from the SOC is a blog series that describes recent real-world security incident investigations conducted and reported by the AT&T SOC analyst team for AT&T Managed Threat Detection and Response customers. The post Stories from the SOC – Propagating malware appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 1, 2023

Attackers are increasingly using OneNote documents to distribute malware, due to the heightened security measures against macro-based attacks and the widespread adoption and popularity of the platform. Key Takeaways: Threat actors are increasingly using Microsoft OneNote documents to deliver malware via phishing emails.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Sophos and ReversingLabs released SoReL-20M, a database containing 20 million Windows Portable Executable files, including 10M malware samples. Sophos and ReversingLabs announced the release of SoReL-20M , a database containing 20 million Windows Portable Executable files, including 10 million malware samples. ” continues Sophos.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 16, 2022

2021 saw a massive surge in detections of malware, adware, and Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs). It didn’t matter what the computers were used for or what operating system they ran—across business and home computers, on Windows and on Mac, detections went up, enormously. Windows malware detection totals 2019-2021.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Email security and threat detection company Vade has found that phishing emails in the third quarter this year increased by more than 31% quarter on quarter, with the number of emails containing malware in the first three quarters surpassing the 2021 level by 55.8 Malware email volume peaked in July, reaching 19.2

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 11, 2023

Intro In February 2022, Microsoft disabled VBA macros on documents due to their frequent use as a malware distribution method. This move prompted malware authors to seek out new ways to distribute their payloads, resulting in an increase in the use of other infection vectors, such as password-encrypted zip files and ISO files.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 14, 2021

The research associated with this peak resulted in the discovery of a malware hosting domain, providing several different Mirai variants, like Moobot and Satori. The Cyberium malware hosting domain has been serving Mirai variants for several known, but different botnets over the past year. Read full post.

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Anton on Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

But as we increasingly move towards more elaborate detection approaches like detection-as-code using languages like the Sigma language , or Python, it is becoming more difficult to deduce in detail how certain threat detections work. the cornerstone of all effective cyber threat detection systems is accurate detection.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 5, 2023

MITRE Engenuity released its 2023 ATT&CK Evaluation results, with Malwarebytes blocking initial malware executions and earning high marks for detection. The evaluation tested 30 vendor solutions against Turla, a sophisticated Russia-based advanced persistent threat (APT) group with victims in over 45 countries.

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Jane Frankland

JANUARY 23, 2024

I wove in many data points, including some from Managed Threat Detection and Response firm, e2e-assure, who I’m partnering with, and their latest report, Rejuvenating Cyber Defence Strategies. Having begun by discussing the first core feature, technology, I then focused on the second core feature, contract terms. Core Feature #3.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2020

Last week, the popular security researcher MalwareMustDie and the experts at Intezer Labs spotted a new piece of malware dubbed Kaiji, that is targeting IoT devices via SSH brute-force attacks. Guys, another new #China ( #PRC ) made #DDoS #ELF #malware , I called it: " #Linux /Kaiji", coded in #Go lang, packed, VT low detection=1.

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Google Security

MAY 15, 2024

Google Play Protect live threat detection Google Play Protect now scans 200 billion Android apps daily, helping keep more than 3 billion users safe from malware. Google Pixel, Honor, Lenovo, Nothing, OnePlus, Oppo, Sharp, Transsion, and other manufacturers are deploying live threat detection later this year.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 9, 2022

Earlier this year Malwarebytes released its 2022 Threat Review , a review of the most important threats and cybersecurity trends of 2021, and what they could mean for 2022. Among other things it covers the year’s alarming rebound in malware detections, and a significant shift in the balance of email threats.

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Bleeping Computer

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Google has announced the public preview of a new Virtual Machine Threat Detection (VMTD) system that can detect cryptocurrency miners and other malware without the need for software agents. [.].

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Heimadal Security

JANUARY 27, 2022

Heimdal™ Security’s threat hunting journal continues to bring you the latest in threat detection and malware prevalence. Just in case you’ve missed it, last month’s uncrowned malware king was the trojan with over 28,000 positive detections, spread across six strains.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2021

AT&T has launched a cloud-based, managed XDR (extended detection and response) offering designed to provide automated and orchestrated malware prevention, threat detection and continuous security monitoring of endpoint, network and cloud assets to help organizations detect and recover from security threats at scale.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 26, 2022

In November 2021, AT&T Alien Labs™ first published research on our discovery of new malware written in the open-source programming language Golang. The team named this malware “BotenaGo.” Key takeaways: BotenaGo malware source code is now available to any malicious hacker or malware developer.

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

New research has uncovered a significant increase in QuickBooks file data theft using social engineering tricks to deliver malware and exploit the accounting software. "A

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2018

New Malware Takes Commands From Memes Posted On Twitter. Security researchers at Trend Micro have spotted a new strain of malware that retrieved commands from memes posted on a Twitter account controlled by the attackers. The images were used to deliver the “/print” commands to the malware. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2020

Microsoft warns of threat actors targeting organizations with malware-laced ISO and IMG files aimed at delivering a remote access trojan. Microsoft advanced machine learning threat detection models detected multiple malspam campaigns distributing malware-laced ISO. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Security Guru

APRIL 5, 2024

The risks might not be new, but they’re enhanced: Malware Attacks: Generative AI can create more sophisticated malware attacks. It then creates malware that escapes the conventional detection methods and targets specific weaknesses. Proactive threat detection is one of GenAI’s primary benefits.

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Adam Levin

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Microsoft has stepped up its efforts to disrupt the Trickbot malware botnet after receiving permission to take on its network infrastructure. Based on the data we see through Microsoft Office 365 Advanced Threat Detection, Trickbot has been the most prolific malware operation using COVID-19 themed lures,” said Burt. .

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2024

The malware installs itself to the now-infected laptop, and the attack is underway. In most cases, determining how the malware gets onto one of your machines takes a back seat to remediating, or cleaning up, that infected machine. Or how about a USB stick left at some other plausible location like a hotel or your local print shop?

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 23, 2021

Antivirus protection isn’t enough to protect against today’s advanced threats. To fill this gap and aid in the analysis, detection, and testing of malware, sandboxing is widely used to give organizations the setting, isolation, and security tools needed to preserve the integrity of the host network. Time to detection.

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Trend Micro

JULY 25, 2022

This post relays the latest threat detection tool innovation of AWS - Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection. This tool works closely with Trend Micro cloud solutions, providing another valuable layer of defense in our fight against a shared adversary.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Thankfully, nearly all malware depends on DNS at some point in their kill chain, making the protocol a critical vector for shutting down these threats. DNS hijacking: A threat actor gains control of a DNS server and redirects traffic to malicious sites. This is where HYAS Protect comes in to fill this critical gap.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Cybersecurity is moving from conventional threat detection to a strategy that emphasizes context and preempts user behavior to detect anomalies. The post Data Security: Beyond Threat Hunting to Monitoring Data Flow and User Behavior appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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