Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2023

info The cloned websites were spotted hosting weaponized versions of popular software. “This file’s goal is to load the OLE streams into Microsoft Word, to render an iframe tag responsible for the execution of the next stage of malware.” Real Domain Fake Domain ukrainianworldcongress[.]org org ukrainianworldcongress[.]info

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

RFID Feature: One clue still left (from a hardware security POV) was about the RFID tag. From the opening of the case, it was visibly obvious that the RFID feature advertised by Hideez was not related to the NRF52, but was rather just a standalone re-writable tag. At this point, I will let the good-old Arny express my feelings.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Related: It’s all about ‘ attack surface management ‘ However, today’s perpetrator isn’t standing in front of you brandishing a weapon. The price tag of the ransom is just one of the many costs of these attacks, and remediation can often exceed this fee many times over. But the situation isn’t hopeless.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

This way, even if threat actors intercept your sensitive information during the sketchy internet session, it comes in an unintelligible form and they can't possibly weaponize it. The catch was that the document contained a function to transform these gibberish-looking symbols into hexadecimal values that denoted specific JavaScript tags.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Identifying scams Before we dive headfirst into the cyber safety tips, let’s equip ourselves with the ultimate weapon: knowledge. Limit who can see your posts, tag you in photos, or slide into your DMs without an invitation. So, hoist the sails as we cruise through the seven seas of cyber safety.

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Javvad Malik

OCTOBER 29, 2020

But hold on, Dillon is tagging along. A Predator stalking them from the jungle, camouflaged by some cloaking device and having a full arsenal of weapons. So despite not having access to the latest technology, Arnie crafts weapons out of the jungle. You make a plan, go in, save the data, get out. This was a stroke of genius.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 18, 2022

Back in 2020, some people argued whether it was helpful to tag static images as deepfakes , and whether it was perhaps more useful to flag them as “cheapfakes” as a way to cleanly separate them from video content. In it, he appears to be calling for Ukrainian troops to stop fighting, lay down their weapons, and so on.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2020

In all the attacks hackers used weaponized attachments to deliver the Agent Tesla info-stealer to compromise victims’ systems. ” continues the analysis. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The industry houses valuable patient data in abundance, and cybercriminals have become skilled at using powerful hacking tools to launch more weaponized and severe ransomware attacks against providers. According to a recent IBM report , breaches now come with a record-high price tag of $10.1

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

To weaponize this feature, the adversary spoofs the target server’s IP address so that when the NTP server sends the response, it is sent to the target server instead. Message @SiteLock and use the #AskSecPro tag! Sending a monlist command prompts the third-party server to list the last 600 IP addresses connected to the NTP server.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2018

The malicious code leverages control objects in forms to hide the URL from which It downloads the RAT, the URL is stored in the Tag Property. “By In July, Proofpoint uncovered another massive malspam campaign delivering the FlawedAmmyy RAT that was leveraging emails with weaponized PDF documents containing malicious SettingContent-ms files.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The Smurf DDoS attack uses an ICMP echo request (ping) flood which is amplified by spoofing the address of the target server when contacting another third-party server with the request, prompting the third-party server to deliver the response to the request to the target server, unintentionally becoming a weapon against the target.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2019

“With this in mind I tried inserting a script tag instead of an iframe into an email. Weaponized, this can turn into a very nasty piece of malware.” But if an attacker could gain the ability to run JavaScript in an email, there could be a much more dangerous attack vector.” ” explained the expert.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 20, 2022

User data is one of your best weapons in the battle to retain SaaS customers. Find ways to add exclusivity to your value-add services (think access to an airline’s premium lounge), then put a price tag on the benefit your customers receive. This is certainly possible. Use Data-Based Insights. Information and Communication.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Onapsis Research Labs found that SAP applications are being weaponized within 72 hours of a patch release. Identified issues are tagged with severity, business impact, and steps to remediate. The window for defenders is small and it is clear that cyberattackers have sophisticated knowledge of ERP applications.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In such a case the redirection script pushes to one of the following domains by introducing the HTML meta “refresh” tag, pointing the browser URL to a random choice between 4 different entries belonging to the following two domains: http[://com-kl96.net net http[://com-mk84.net. Possible Link with TA-505. as a dropping websites.

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NopSec

APRIL 7, 2019

For example, we could tag all messages that contain the expression ‘make money’ as spam. We do not see as much spam as the numbers coming from Talos would imply, because the spam detection problem has been successfully tackled with machine learning and nowadays most of these emails never make it all the way to our inboxes!

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SecureList

JUNE 16, 2021

It seems that in the past the attackers delivered executables directly to the victims and only recently introduced weaponized documents as the initial infection vector. In addition to the above documents, we managed to find malicious executables that were used by the attackers and date back to as early as 2015.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

Custom tags. Yomi: The Malware Hunter” is not only a freely available automated analysis tool, it’s designed to engage the community and leverage hunter’s experience, enabling them to tag the submitted samples with names, families and contextual enrichments only a human analyst can afford. Community and Contests.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Experts at Yoroi/Cybaze ZLab spotted a new sophisticated malware implant dubbed JsOutProx that seems to be unrelated to mainstream cyber weapons. During our threat intelligence source monitoring operations, we spotted a new sophisticated malware implant, dubbed JsOutProx, that seems to be unrelated to mainstream cyber weapons.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Looking back at the early days of malware where the goal of the attacker was simply to make life a little more difficult and be an annoyance, "but it's all led now to where we are today… at one point, somebody got the bright idea of let's weaponize and monetize," Maskill said. "So

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Large or small, any additional thinking your WordPress website’s web server has to perform can and will be weaponized against you during a DDoS attack. Message @SiteLock and use the #AskSecPro tag! Every bit of processing tax increases the potential damage of a DDoS attack. Cache where possible.

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SecureList

JUNE 1, 2021

Weapons, explosives, pyrotechnics. In English they searched for “the voice kids”; in German they searched for “hilf mir,” “krass schule” and “berlin tag und nacht”; and in Russian they searched for “??? ?????,” Internet communication. Videogames. News media. Job search.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

You see, no weapons rendered the Dread Pirate Westly sailed ashore toward an entirely new crew and he stayed aboard for wireless first mate for the time calling me Roberts once the crew believed he left the ship and I had been Roberts ever since.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Weapons, explosives, pyrotechnics. Jung, pleite, verzweifelt and Berlin — Tag & Nacht , the Korean drama A Beauty of Revenge and the timeless Mr Bean. The information in this report was obtained from mobile devices running Android and iOS. Alcohol, tobacco, narcotics. Profanity, obscenity. Job search. Anonymizers.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In this series, I’ll be explaining the anatomy of D/DoS attacks and the practical weaponization of regular computers. Message @SiteLock and use the #AskSecPro tag! In many of my own circles I’m often the only security guy in the room so I end up fielding a lot of questions, the most common of which is, “how do they do this stuff?!”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The weaponized documents embedded malicious content that exploited the WinRAR vulnerability. Google TAG experts also observed the Russia-linked ATP28 group exploiting the flaw in attacks against Ukraine users.

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