Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

These two software are currently unknown to most if not all antivirus companies.” The website’s copyright suggests the ExE Bucks affiliate program dates back to 2012. “Our technology ensures the maximum security from reverse engineering and antivirus detections,” ExEClean promised.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Megatraffer explained that malware purveyors need a certificate because many antivirus products will be far more interested in unsigned software, and because signed files downloaded from the Internet don’t tend to get blocked by security features built into modern web browsers. “Antivirus software trusts signed programs more.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

It's also why the United States has blocked the cybersecurity company Kaspersky from selling its Russian-made antivirus products to US government agencies. We have credible reports that the Chinese hacked Gmail around 2010, and there are ongoing concerns about both censorship and surveillance by the Chinese social-networking company TikTok.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The hacker group has been targeting Japanese heavy industry, manufacturing and international relations at least since 2012, According to the experts, the group is linked to the People’s Republic of China and is focused on exfiltrating confidential data. SecurityAffairs – Pasco and Kobe Steel, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2020

DeathStalker is a hack-for-hire group discovered by Kaspersky, it has been targeting organizations worldwide, mainly law firms and financial entities, since 2012. SecurityAffairs – hacking, backdoor). The cyber mercenaries group known as DeathStalker has been using a new PowerShell backdoor in recent attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2021

Many more companies and organizations have been hacked and that valuable information was stolen over periods of months and years, ClearSky researchers wrote in a blog posted. Lebanese Cedar exploited 1-day publicly known vulnerabilities such as C VE-2012-3152 to install the JSP in vulnerable servers.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2021

PoC exploit code was sent to partner cybersecurity firms and antivirus on February 23, prior Redmond giant released the patches. 28, bear similarities to “proof of concept” attack code that Microsoft distributed to antivirus companies and other security partners on Feb. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Microsoft Exchange).

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2021

PKPLUG used a technique known as “ living off the land ” to bypass antivirus detection and target Microsoft Exchange servers. Aro.exe is likely part of the “ ARO 2012 advanced repair and optimization tool,” which is a freely available tool that claims to fix Windows registry errors. SecurityAffairs – hacking,Thor RAT).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2019

This technology is stored in the Workbook OLE stream in Excel 97-2003 format which makes it very difficult to detect and parse by antivirus (AV) engines. doc and.xlm) to evade antivirus detection and bypass spam filters as well. SecurityAffairs – FlawedAmmyy malware, hacking). See more about msiexec.exe and its parameters here.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Compare that to 2012 when the UAE ranked fifth in the Global Cybersecurity Index. Email Hack Scams Dubai-based Exhibition Firms Client Roster Cheers Exhibition, a Dubai-based firm, was targeted in an elaborate phishing attack that took control of its email services and phished its client roster.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The Hacker had discovered Zuckerberg’s password in a 2012 LinkedIn data breach and he had used the same password across several accounts. Malicious Hacking Attacks As you can see from the examples of recent data breaches above, malicious by attacks by hackers is one of the main causes of data breaches.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Such a scenario isn’t fantasy; something like this actually existed between 2012 and 2014. It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. Then there came all this antivirus, antimalware products, there was a need to report which ones were better at solving the problem.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Such a scenario isn’t fantasy; something like this actually existed between 2012 and 2014. It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. Then there came all this antivirus, antimalware products, there was a need to report which ones were better at solving the problem.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Such a scenario isn’t fantasy; something like this actually existed between 2012 and 2014. It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. Then there came all this antivirus, antimalware products, there was a need to report which ones were better at solving the problem.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. It seems at times that not much has happened after that.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. It seems at times that not much has happened after that.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

FLASHBACK The new clues about Rescator’s identity came into focus when I revisited the reporting around an April 2013 story here that identified the author of the OSX Flashback Trojan , an early malware strain that quickly spread to more than 650,000 Mac computers worldwide in 2012. “Good afternoon,” r-fac1 wrote on Dec.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Looking back at past leaks of private companies providing such services, such as in the case of Hacking Team, we learned that many states all over the world were buying these capabilities, whether to complement their in-house technologies or as a stand-alone solution they couldn’t develop. Hack-and-leak is the new black (and bleak).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2025

The cyber espionage group has been active since at least 2012 and has been using the Sagerunex backdoor since at least 2016. Additionally, the use of VMProtect obfuscates the malware code to evade antivirus detection. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,APT)

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