SecureList

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

After taking a closer look, we identified the malware used in those attacks as belonging to a family that we call ThreatNeedle. We have seen Lazarus attack various industries using this malware cluster before. In this attack, spear phishing was used as the initial infection vector. Initial infection.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2021

The payload malware: Sunburst, a heavily-obfuscated backdoor. People tend to focus on the Sunburst malware , the actual backdoor that ended up in the affected update package,” Pericin told me. Out of this comes whitelists and blacklists on which malware filters are based. Granular scrutiny.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

APT15 has been active since at least 2010, it conducted cyber espionage campaigns against targets worldwide in several industries, including defense, high tech, energy, government, aerospace, and manufacturing. “The Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) has disrupted the activities of a China-based hacking group that we call Nickel.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 20, 2021

In late July 2021, we identified an ongoing spear phishing campaign pushing Konni Rat to target Russia. the malware used by the attacker pretends to be the xmlprov Network Provisioning Service. The post New variant of Konni malware used in campaign targetting Russia appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs. Document analysis.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2020

Threat actors used the consoles to deliver malware and ransomware through an IoT botnet that was also used to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. “One particular IP was associated with dozens of activities related to the distribution of malware, phishing emails, ransomware, and DDoS attacks.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2019

The website was used by attackers to redirect traffic to advertising sites that attempted to deliver malware. Sucuri spotted threat actors abusing the URL redirect function of the.htaccess file to redirect visitors of compromised websites to phishing sites, sites delivering malware, or simply to generate impressions.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Microsoft sued Thallium North Korea-linked APT for hacking into its customers’ accounts and networks via spear-phishing attacks. Microsoft sued a North Korea-linked cyber espionage group tracked as Thallium for hacking into its customers’ accounts and networks via spear-phishing attacks. 27 in the U.S.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Back to September 2013, Belgacom (now Proximus), the largest telecommunications company in Belgium and primarily state-owned, announced its IT infrastructure had suffered a malware-based attack. The investigation revealed that the malware-based attack was powered by GCHQ and code-named Operation Socialist. ” wrote The Intercept.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2020

VPN bulletproof services are widely adopted by cybercrime organizations to carry out malicious activities, including ransomware and malware attacks, e-skimming breaches, spear-phishing campaigns, and account takeovers. ” reads the press release published by the Europol. The services were offered for prices ranging from $1.3/day

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 13, 2018

The most profound threat to corporate networks isn’t the latest, greatest malware. Launched in 2010 by a Samsung consultant who saw the handwriting on the wall, Zimperium has grown to 140 employees and attracted $60 million in venture capital from Warburg Pincus, SoftBank, Samsung, Telstra and Sierra Ventures.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Don't forget to enable MFA, use strong, unique passwords, and be suspicious of inbound messages about gaming that could be phishing attempts. Online gambling sites are ripe for the bad actor picking, for sure, including gambling-themed phishing sites that lure victims looking to strike it rich from their couch or home or in-office chair. "

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The Fullz House group was first spotted by security experts at RiskIQ in November 2019, when it was using phishing and web skimming for its attacks. Since August-September of 2019, the group started using a hybrid technique that leverages on MiTM and phishing attacks to target sites using external payment processors.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The campaign was carried out at least from January 2010 to May 2015. The cyberspies used spear phishing, watering hole attacks, and domain hijacking to deliver various malware families, including Sakula and IsSpace, to the target organization.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 5, 2021

Malware developers have different ways of attacking their victims, and they make their attempts as difficult to identify as they can. According to the Message Anti-Abuse Working Group , about 88–92% of total email messages in 2010 are spam. Some of them use spam which is in the form of unsolicited and inappropriate messages.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2023

Most of the victims are Chinese-speaking Windows users engaged in online gambling, the APT group relies on Telegram to distribute the malware. How the user first encountered the site, whether through phishing or SEO poisoning or some other method, is beyond the scope of this investigation.” ” concludes the post.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

Allegedly developed by US and Israeli operatives, Stuxnet was discovered circulating through Iranian nuclear energy facilities in 2010. Another branch of attacks revolve around ransomware, crypto jacking, denial of service attacks and malware spreading activities. The first worm of note that accomplished this was Stuxnet.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2021

The investigation conducted by MyFreeCams revealed that data were stolen in “a security incident that occurred more than ten years ago in June 2010.” In response to the incident, MyFreeCams reset the passwords of impacted users. ” continues CyberNews. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, MyFreeCams).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2019

Even is HPE has been hacked multiple times since 2010, most of the hack occurred between 2015 and 2017. “APT10 often attacked a service provider’s system by “spear-phishing” – sending company employees emails designed to trick them into revealing their passwords or installing malware. . ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The APT group has been active since at least 2010, the crew targeted U.S. The modules also used the Scanline network scanner to find file shares (port 135, Server Message Block, SMB) used to spread malware with administrative passwords, compromised with keyloggers. defense contractors and financial services firms worldwide.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2023

This can be done through a variety of attacks, such as spear phishing , and may require the attacker to steal multiple sets of credentials before they reach the information they need. Process Injection When threat actors inject malicious code into a standard computing process while it runs, they disguise the malware.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Researchers at Malwarebytes found a link between a scheme associated with the Magecart group and Dridex phishing campaigns and the activities of the Carbanak group. . Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen groups at least since 2010. . Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

After being released in 2003, he uses WiFi to commit attacks, program malware and steal credit card information. Justice Department announces more than 70 indictments and 125 convictions or arrests for phishing, hacking, spamming and other Internet fraud as part of Operation CyberSweep. . billion dollars in damages.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 28, 2021

In later rounds, the Trojan spread through spear-phishing emails with malicious Excel or Word files. Industroyer , also called CrashOverride , is believed to be the malware that shut down the power grid in Kiev, Ukraine’s capital, in December 2016. The malware targeted the Siemens Spirotec Digital Relay. Industroyer.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2019

“The bad actor may have gained access via a phishing attack targeting your employees—or through a vulnerable third-party vendor attached to your company’s server.” Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen groups at least since 2010. . Anti-virus and anti-malware need to be up-to-date and firewalls strong.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

As cloud computing upends traditional perimeter models of cybersecurity, new cloud security models have emerged, and CWPP was one of the first to appear back in 2010. IDPS recognizes and blocks common threats such as specific malware or intrusion attempts by utilizing a database of known attack patterns (signatures).

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Google Security

AUGUST 8, 2023

Attackers exploit this in a number of ways, ranging from traffic interception and malware sideloading, to sophisticated dragnet surveillance. Moreover, since 2010, security researchers have demonstrated trivial over-the-air interception and decryption of 2G traffic.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2024

According to available data, more than 4,600 common IT vulnerabilities were discovered in 2010. It does not scan for malware. It does not block phishing scams, hacking attempts, viruses, or malware. Kill Phishing This may be the easiest and hardest user behavior to control. A VPN can establish a perimeter.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Their cyber methods include such things as malware insertions, such as MUD-ing, wiper attacks, like the Shamoon virus. We believe that Iran started heavily investing in its cyber operations program following the discovery of Stuxnet in 2010, and we can track the evolution from there.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

But constant breaches of organizations large and small, and a trail of victims to ransomware and phishing opened a massive opportunity. Over the years, it has built up a wide range of security products, including firewalls, intrusion prevention systems (IPS), UTM, malware protection and cloud protection. Founded: 2010.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Through acquisitions in the 2000s, SAP launched their database platform, HANA, in 2010. While malware is a top concern for most clients, any data center or organization hosting a server room needs a proactive physical security policy. Also Read: With So Many Eyeballs, Is Open Source Security Better?

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Spinone

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Your employee’s password to Office 365 might get cracked or stolen during a phishing attack. How to secure your data from malware: One of the best practices for Office 365 security monitoring is to get the latest security updates. However, don’t forget that even an updated antivirus may not detect advanced malware strains.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2023

Stealers" are a kind of malware designed to run on an endpoint post-compromise, while their primary features center on the theft of user data. Together with our colleagues at InQuest, we present a deep dive technical analysis of the malware. The same way you do in the real world – the market becomes flooded.

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

JULY 5, 2023

This has included AI programs revealing sensitive information, being taken advantage of by malicious users to import malware into code output, or as some university students found out at their cost, taking credit for work it did not complete.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The JabberZeus crew’s name is derived from the malware they used, which was configured to send them a Jabber instant message each time a new victim entered a one-time password code into a phishing page mimicking their bank. Tank, a.k.a. “The Americans were unhappy, and a little surprised.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2019

For at least the past decade, a computer crook variously known as “ Yalishanda ,” “ Downlow ” and “ Stas_vl ” has run one of the most popular “bulletproof” Web hosting services catering to a vast array of phishing sites, cybercrime forums and malware download servers.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 20, 2021

A federal judge in Connecticut today handed down a sentence of time served to spam kingpin Peter “Severa” Levashov , a prolific purveyor of malicious and junk email, and the creator of malware strains that infected millions of Microsoft computers globally. Severa was a moderator on the Russian spam community Spamdot[.]biz.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The feds allege Aqua led an elite cybercrime ring with at least 16 others who used advanced, custom-made strains of malware known as “ JabberZeus ” and “ Bugat ” (a.k.a. Yakubets , who the government says went by the nicknames “ aqua ,” and “ aquamo ,” among others. jim_rogers: [link].

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