Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Spur.us , a startup that tracks proxy services, told KrebsOnSecurity that the Internet addresses Lumen tagged as the AVrecon botnet’s “Command and Control” (C2) servers all tie back to a long-running proxy service called SocksEscort.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 14, 2021

price tag, and it has been performing remarkably well. We are talking about a period when Amazon, Google and Facebook surged from startups to corporate behemoths, smartphones and tablets became ubiquitous and the web moved from 1 to 2.0 There is a lot of money on this business, but it is spread thin and unevenly. . It came with a $2.5B

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The tag-team campaign serves up ransomware known as Mortal Kombat, which borrows the name made famous by the video game, and Laplas Clipper malware, a clipboard stealer. Applications and folders are removed from Windows startup, and indicators of infection are discreetly tidied up and removed.

Ransomware 82

Ransomware Malware Cryptocurrency Encryption 82

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

It is openly available on underground hacker forums for just a few hundred dollars, a relatively small price tag for malware. The third executable file copies itself to the %APPDATA%MicrosoftWindowsStart MenuProgramsStartup directory, which ensures automatic startup and runs the first of the batch files.

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SecureList

JULY 25, 2022

This code, executed during system startup, triggers a long execution chain which results in the download and deployment of a malicious component inside Windows. Finding a way to pass down malicious code all the way through the various startup phases is the main task that the rootkit accomplishes.

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Javvad Malik

OCTOBER 29, 2020

But hold on, Dillon is tagging along. But one of the execs plays golf with someone on the weekend, and their son has a startup and their software would be perfect for the security team. Yes, it’s all very macho military – but it’s no different than running an incident recovery. The kind of stuff the SAS excel at.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 14, 2021

While presenting her findings this week at the HotSOS security conference hosted by the National Security Agency, Mason said finding a way to extract signals from and uniquely tag these devices could serve a number of cybersecurity purposes, such as guarding against impersonation attacks.

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IoT Manufacturing Internet Internet 74

eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2021

Restrict the ability for specific containers to write new files, run new programs after startup, read cloud metadata, have multiple users running, make outbound network connections, or spawn shells. Search for images that have high-severity vulnerabilities, unapproved packages, and older or test release tags.

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SecureList

MARCH 23, 2023

Next, we want to investigate what is going on within the incident (whether the adversary persists using scheduled tasks or startup scripts) and execute containment measures to mitigate risks and reduce the damage caused by the attack. If the incident data and rule/policy logic mismatch, the incident may be tagged as a false positive.

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Architect Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

A startup called Clearview AI, first reported by The New York Times, claims to have obtained more than three billion faces and their respective identities from public profiles on YouTube, Facebook, and other large platforms. And law enforcement’s access to photos is growing.

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Technology Artificial Intelligence Media Engineering 49

SecureList

JUNE 16, 2021

The internal name of the implant, as becomes apparent from PDB paths in the executable binaries, is ‘mklg’ This name perhaps stands for ‘Mark KeyLogGer’, where ‘Mark’ is an internal HTML tag used by the implant.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2019

A search on the Joshua Powder and tthack email addresses at Hyas , a startup that specializes in combining data from a number of sources to provide attribution of cybercrime activity , further associates those to mafiacloud@gmail.com and to the phone number 868-360-9983 , which is a mobile number assigned by Digicel Trinidad and Tobago Ltd. .”

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SecureList

MARCH 31, 2022

Write connections with unknown/unexpected msgID (request type) data to a log file, entries are tagged with ‘xxxxxxxx’ Attribution. Boot or Logon Autostart Execution: Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder. Deliver log file after base64 encoding and then delete it. the others. User Execution: Malicious File. Persistence.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 6, 2021

The main sample is copied into the Startup directory under a name impersonating one of the legitimate executables found in the infected system: The scripts from the “AppData/Local/z_[user]” are used to deploy the main sample. Sample result: API calls tagged with TinyTracer.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

Administrators can group traffic by container , team, or office and filter data by tag, device, or host. Also read: Top Cybersecurity Startups to Watch in 2022. On Gartner Peer Insights, Datadog holds an average score of 4.5 / 5 stars with 211 reviews for the IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools market.

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Daniel Miessler

MARCH 20, 2022

Some teams will tag activity with various labels (OFFSEC, CHAOSOPS, UNKNOWN, ATTACKER22301 etc.) to help with that attribution, but part of operations will sometimes be having regular operators not know the difference. I can easily see AWS being broken out relatively soon.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 19, 2021

’) to domains from the list, and setting the URL path to ‘/owa’ After that it makes a POST request to the crafted URL, and checks the response for strings, tags or headers that are specific to an OWA service. The module then reports back to the C2 about the OWA URLs it finds.

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Banking Passwords VPN Internet 140

SecureList

AUGUST 10, 2022

sources: the DLL version is tagged as “heads/3.7-dirty” dirty” [1] (instead of “tags/v3.7.4” It should be noted that the identified organizations range from recent startups to established industry leaders, including dubious cryptocurrency exchange platforms. adsoftpic[.]com. azcloudazure[.]com.

Cryptocurrency 93

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SecureList

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It is worth noting that Tistory is a South Korean blog posting service, which means the malware author is familiar with the South Korean internet environment: plugin course property tistory tag vacon slide parent manual themes product notice portal articles category doc entry isbn tb idx tab maincode level bbs method thesis content blogdata tname .

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Google TAG has recently published a post about a campaign by Lazarus targeting security researchers. Boot or Logon Autostart Execution: Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder. We named Lazarus the most active group of 2020. We’ve observed numerous activities by this notorious APT group targeting various industries. Persistence.

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Fox IT

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

exe and itself to the Startup folder, this is significant for detection, as it means that these operations are done by the process DllHost.exe , not the rundll32.exe com /safebrowsing/7IAMO/Jwee0NMJNKn9sDD8sUEem4g8jcB2v44UINpCIj 1580103824 bookmark-tag[.]com It mostly uses IFileOperation COM interface to copy rundll32.exe

Computers and Electronics 92

Computers and Electronics Encryption DNS Ransomware 92

ForAllSecure

AUGUST 14, 2019

BGR says the price tag for Pegasus is in the range of millions of dollars. Dave Bittner: [00:19:21] The CyberWire podcast is proudly produced in Maryland out of the startup studios of DataTribe, where they're co-building the next generation of cybersecurity teams and technology. Pegasus is pricey. Learn more at observeit.com.

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Energy and Utilities Penetration Testing Government Education 52

ForAllSecure

AUGUST 14, 2019

BGR says the price tag for Pegasus is in the range of millions of dollars. Dave Bittner: [00:19:21] The CyberWire podcast is proudly produced in Maryland out of the startup studios of DataTribe, where they're co-building the next generation of cybersecurity teams and technology. Pegasus is pricey. Learn more at observeit.com.

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Energy and Utilities Penetration Testing Government Education 40

ForAllSecure

AUGUST 14, 2019

BGR says the price tag for Pegasus is in the range of millions of dollars. Dave Bittner: [00:19:21] The CyberWire podcast is proudly produced in Maryland out of the startup studios of DataTribe, where they're co-building the next generation of cybersecurity teams and technology. Pegasus is pricey. Learn more at observeit.com.

Energy and Utilities 40

Energy and Utilities Penetration Testing Government Education 40