Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The activity of the Lazarus APT group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks. This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2019

A few days ago, the researchers of ZLab Yoroi-Cybaze dissected another attack wave of the infamous Ursnif malware, also known as Gozi ISFB , an offspring of the original Gozi which source code was leaked in 2014. Ursnif/Gozi is active from over a decade and was one of the most active malware listed in 2017 and 2018.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2019

But GandCrab far eclipsed the success of competing ransomware affiliate programs largely because its authors worked assiduously to update the malware so that it could evade antivirus and other security defenses. It remains unclear how many individuals were active in the core GandCrab malware development team. of GandCrab. of GandCrab.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2020

The BeagleBoyz APT group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks. This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

SpyEye, developed in 2009 and described as a “bank Trojan with a form grabbing capability”, surged from the eighth most common banking malware tool with a 3.4% Emotet (9.3%), described by Europol as “the world’s most dangerous malware”, underwent a drop of five percentage points between 2020 and 2021.This

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

. “Once the malicious document is opened, the malware is dropped and proceeds to the next stage of the deployment process. The ThreatNeedle malware used in this campaign belongs to a malware family known as Manuscrypt, which belongs to the Lazarus group and has previously been seen attacking cryptocurrency businesses.”

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

When I first began writing about Vrublevsky in 2009 as a reporter for The Washington Post , ChronoPay and its sister firm Red & Partners (RNP) were earning millions setting up payment infrastructure for fake antivirus peddlers and spammers pimping male enhancement drugs.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2020

In the past, the APT targeted banks and cryptocurrency exchanges , according to the experts the overall operations allowed the group to earn $2 billion. The threat actors compromised legitimate websites to exfiltrate the stolen credit card data using an e-skimmer. Researchers provided details for each of the campaigns they have analyzed.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2019

The activity of the Lazarus Group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks and experts that investigated on the crew consider it highly sophisticated. Last year, researchers revealed that code reuse links most North Korean malware to Lazarus. ” reported Flashpoint.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2019

The activity of the Lazarus Group (aka BlueNoroff and Hidden Cobra ) surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks and experts that investigated on the crew consider it highly sophisticated. Seven of these files are proxy applications that mask traffic between the malware and the remote operators.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2022

While the first two variants exclusively rely on date strings to generate the domain names, the newer version uses balance information obtained from the cryptocurrency wallet address “ 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa.” ” reads the analysis published by the researchers. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

The groups are behind several hacking operations that resulted in the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars from financial institutions and cryptocurrency exchanges worldwide and destructive cyber-attacks on infrastructure. Lazarus Group is also considered the threat actors behind the 2018 massive WannaCry attack.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 28, 2021

Senate Judiciary Committee, and he explained what he views as the top 3 reasons America is under cyber siege through ransomware attacks: "The swelling profitability of these attacks, in part as a result of the growth of cryptocurrencies as a form of extortion payment,". The lack of adequate defenses on the part of many U.S.-based

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 17, 2022

The estimated value of greater Decentralized Finance and cryptocurrencies surpassed half a trillion dollars in market capitalization in 2018, and then one trillion for the first time in 2021 ( 1 ). Since then, cryptocurrency values reached new records during the pandemic. Cryptocurrencies Are Established Via Blockchain Security.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 3, 2021

The cryptocurrency sector that enables ransomware crime should be more closely regulated. Millions in the UK Targeted by Malware via a DHL Scam Text Message. That link would attempt to install spyware called Flubot, malware designed to steal online banking data from Andriod devices. . Stay safe and secure. Million of the Costs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2021

The activity of the Lazarus APT group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks. This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2018

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group leveraged for the first time on a MacOS variant of the Fallchill malware in a cryptocurrency exchange attack. According to Kaspersky, the North Korea-linked Lazarus group used a macOS malware to target a cryptocurrency exchange in a recent attack.

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