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Report: No ‘Eternal Blue’ Exploit Found in Baltimore City Ransomware

Krebs on Security

But new analysis suggests that while Eternal Blue could have been used to spread the infection, the Robbinhood malware itself contains no traces of it. Stewart said he obtained a sample of the malware that he was able to confirm was connected to the Baltimore incident. National Security Agency (NSA) and leaked online in 2017.

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PRIVATELOG, a new malware that leverages Common Log File System (CLFS) to avoid detection

Security Affairs

Mandiant researchers spotted a new malware family, dubbed PRIVATELOG, that relies on the Common Log File System (CLFS) to evade detection solutions. It was introduced with Windows Server 2003 R2 and included in later Windows operating systems. CLFS can be used for both data logging as well as for event logging.

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Evolution and rise of the Avaddon Ransomware-as-a-Service

Security Affairs

The Avaddon ransomware operators updated their malware after security researchers released a public decryptor in February 2021. In February, the Spanish student Javier Yuste released a free decryption tool for the Avaddon ransomware that can be used by the victims to recover their encrypted files for free. Source ZDNet.

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Lockbit Ransomware targets England Merseyrail

CyberSecurity Insiders

What’s interesting in this file encrypting malware attack is the fact that few of the employees from Merseyrail and some journalists from reputed publications received an email from the company with a subject line ‘Lockbit Ransomware Attack and Data Theft’ and essayed that some sensitive data was stolen in the incident.

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OnionPoison: infected Tor Browser installer distributed through popular YouTube channel

SecureList

Visual Studio 2003 – 7.10 Upon startup, the malicious library creates a mutex with the name GlobalTBrowser that prevents two instances of the malware from running at the same time. In response to the POST request, the C2 server returns a blob containing an encrypted second stage payload. 2021-Sep-25 21:56:47. dll library.

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

After being released in 2003, he uses WiFi to commit attacks, program malware and steal credit card information. 2003 — Operation CyberSweep — The U.S. The hackers use malware to infiltrate banks’ computer systems and gather personal data, stealing £650 million from global banks. billion dollars in damages.

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Nokoyawa ransomware attacks with Windows zero-day

SecureList

CLFS is a log file subsystem that was first introduced in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 / Microsoft Vista and is implemented in the clfs.sys driver. Post exploitation and malware We see that the main purpose of using elevation-of-privilege exploits was to dump the contents of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESAM registry hive. Generic Win64.Agent*