Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Crytox is a ransomware family consisting of several stages of encrypted code that was first observed in 2020. Technical analysis. Once decompressed, a sample usually weighs in around 1.23MB because the whole uTox client is embedded inside the malware. Some parts of the malware look directly written in assembly.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 3, 2022

During our intrusion analysis of DeftTorero’s webshells, such as Caterpillar , we noticed traces that infer the threat actor possibly exploited a file upload form and/or a command injection vulnerability in a functional or staging website hosted on the target web server. Contact us: intelreports@kaspersky.com. cmd.exе /c whoаmi.

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

Attempts to run malware designed to steal money via online access to bank accounts were stopped on the computers of 118,099 users. At the end of last year, the number of users attacked by malware designed to steal money from bank accounts gradually decreased, a trend that continued in Q1 2021. Quarterly figures. Financial threats.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2019

and Tenable, which went public in 2018 with a market capitalization of approximately $4 billion. There’s oil in the state of Maryland – “cyber oil.” With the largest concentration of cybersecurity expertise –– the “oil” — in the world, Maryland is fast changing from the Old Line State into “Cybersecurity Valley.”

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

4 characters. 4 characters. Listen to EP 10: Hunting The Next Heartbleed. Vamosi: Imagine being able to attack a company’s servers without leaving a trace. This isn’t a typical person-in-the middle attack; that would leave too many fingerprints. And the server would send back Hello. And the server would send back Hello.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

4 characters. 4 characters. Listen to EP 10: Hunting The Next Heartbleed. Vamosi: Imagine being able to attack a company’s servers without leaving a trace. This isn’t a typical person-in-the middle attack; that would leave too many fingerprints. And the server would send back Hello. And the server would send back Hello.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

4 characters. 4 characters. Listen to EP 10: Hunting The Next Heartbleed. Vamosi: Imagine being able to attack a company’s servers without leaving a trace. This isn’t a typical person-in-the middle attack; that would leave too many fingerprints. And the server would send back Hello. And the server would send back Hello.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 4, 2022

Disk wipers are one particular type of malware often used against Ukraine. This malware was given the name “HermeticWiper” based on a stolen digital certificate from a company called Hermetica Digital Ltd. We obtained samples and in this post we will take apart this new malware. Behavioral analysis.

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SecureList

MAY 25, 2021

The original version of the malware, as well as some of the subsequent “rebrandings”, e.g., Nemty, were advertised on an underground forum by a poster with the username jsworm. In this post we want to talk about one of those families, named JSWorm. Chronology. Trik botnet. Fake payment websites. Spam campaigns.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This includes inline traffic filtering and management security solutions deployed at access and distribution layers in the network, as well as out of band solutions like NAC, SIEM or User Behavior Analysis to provide identity-based network access and gain more visibility into the user’s access to critical network resources. Description.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The victim was infected by PowerShell malware and we discovered evidence that the actor had already stolen data from the victim and had been surveilling this victim for several months. Based on the findings from the compromised machine, we discovered additional malware. Contact: intelreports@kaspersky.com. Spear-phishing document.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

More and more criminals are identified through open source intelligence (OSINT). Sometimes a negative Yelp review can reveal their true identity. Find out what Daniel looks for and how he does digital forensics using social media and other open source resources. Here’s Attorney General Merrick Garland. They could. And there were.

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Fox IT

MAY 4, 2021

In this post we provide some history, analysis and observations on this most pernicious family of banking malware targeting Oceania, the UK, Germany and Italy. We’ll start with an overview of its origins and current operations before providing a deep dive technical analysis of the RM3 variant. Introduction.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 21, 2023

” But the security community and other technology leaders have started raising the alarm, worried about the program’s potential to write malware and spread mis- and disinformation. Do you think your organization should embrace ChatGPT? As of November 2022, people can no longer ignore the artificial elephant in the room.

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