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Orcus RAT Author Charged in Malware Scheme

Krebs on Security

In July 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published a story identifying a Toronto man as the author of the Orcus RAT , a software product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. net, the forum where Revesz principally advertised his software. An advertisement for Orcus RAT.

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Canadian Police Raid ‘Orcus RAT’ Author

Krebs on Security

Canadian police last week raided the residence of a Toronto software developer behind “ Orcus RAT ,” a product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. “Please move away from this software without delay. In 2014, the U.S. Stay safe, don’t do stupid s**t.”.

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Malware Evolves to Present New Threats to Developers

Security Boulevard

Software developers face new threats from malicious code as their tools and processes have proven to be an effective and lucrative threat vector. Traditionally, software developers have protected themselves from malicious code like everyone else?—?by Trojans/Spyware. Malware, or code written for malicious purposes, is evolving.

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How to Prevent Zero Day Attacks?

Spinone

Computer software is often prone to attacks. These include infiltrating malware, spyware or allowing unwanted ассеѕѕ to user information. Browsers are another common software prone to zero day exploits. Use the up to date antivirus software for known threats.

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Weekly Vulnerability Recap – Sept. 11, 2023 – Android Update Fixes 33 Vulnerabilities

eSecurity Planet

The fix: Users should follow SEL’s security updates and latest software versions pages for fixes. Patch and Update: Keeping software, operating systems, and apps up to date will limit vulnerabilities that threat actors may try to exploit. The fix: Those Issues and others have been fixed in the just-released 2.1.1

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Updates from the MaaS: new threats delivered through NullMixer

Security Affairs

The Originating Malvertising Campaign According to CTI investigation on the adversary infrastructure, we were able to identify an ongoing campaign luring system administrators to install the malicious code into their machines.

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Advanced threat predictions for 2023

SecureList

Last June, Google’s TAG team released a blog post documenting attacks on Italian and Kazakh users that they attribute to RCS Lab, an Italian offensive software vendor. In 2022, the GReAT team tracked several threat actors leveraging SilentBreak’s toolset as well as a commercial Android spyware we named MagicKarakurt.

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