Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2020

The MESSAGETAP spyware was reportedly used by WICKED PANDA to monitor short message service (SMS) traffic from telecom networks. Additional data are included in the report, it analyzes both cybercrime trends and nation-state hacking operations and provided interesting info on other groups of attackers and their TTPs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2020

Spyware turned out to be the most common malware class hiding in fraudulent COVID-19 emails, with AgentTesla topping the list of phishers’ favorite strains. Spyware: the most likely COVID-19 payload. Most COVID-19-related phishing emails analyzed had different spyware strains embedded as attachments. Source: CERT-GIB.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2020

The spyware is able to steal SMS messages, contact lists and device information along with to sign victims up for premium service subscriptions. The Joker spyware checks for SIM cards associated with one of the above countries. This approach allows the Joker spyware to make it hard static analysis. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

“It is still not clear if these attack attempts may be originated by a any well established cybercrime group modifying its TTP or a completely new one, however CERT-Yoroi is tracking this threat with the internal codename “Sload-ITA” (TH-163).” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

In response to an inquiry from this office, the RCMP stopped short of naming names, but said “we can confirm that our National Division Cybercrime Investigative Team did execute a search warrant at a Toronto location last week.”. In 2014, the U.S. government said was used to infect more than a half million computers worldwide.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2018

According to Group-IB experts, cyber criminals stole user accounts’ data using special spyware – form grabbers, keyloggers, such as Pony Formgrabber, AZORult and Qbot ( Qakbot ). Cybercrime has no borders and affects private and public companies and ordinary citizens. Security Affairs – leaked credentials, cybercrime).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2024

The list also includes criminals, suspected terrorists, intelligence operatives and a European spyware firm. In June 2016, security researcher Chris Vickery found a copy of the World-Check database dated 2014 that was accidentally exposed online.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2019

Scranos – A Cross Platform, Rootkit-Enabled Spyware rapidly spreading. Operator of Codeshop Cybercrime Marketplace Sentenced to 90 months in prison. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Azorult has been around since at least 2016, malware researchers at Proofpoint spotted a new version of the AZORult Spyware in the wild, it was involved in a large email campaign on July 18, just 24 hours it appeared in cybercrime forums on the Dark Web. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

NSO mobile Pegasus Spyware used in operations in 45 countries. Magecart cybercrime group stole customers credit cards from Newegg electronics retailer. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Ngrok Mining Botnet.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

TA505 Cybercrime targets system integrator companies. WhatsApp flaw CVE-2019-11931 could be exploited to install spyware. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2019

ZLab Yoroi-Cybaze dissected another attack wave of Ursnif Trojan, aka Gozi ISFB, an offspring of the original Gozi which source code was leaked in 2014. ZLab Yoroi-Cybaze dissected another attack wave of Ursnif Trojan, aka Gozi ISFB, an offspring of the original Gozi which source code was leaked in 2014. Introduction.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2019

CEO of NGN International, Yaqoob AlAwadhi stated that, from 2017 to 2018, cybercrimes aimed at financial thefts increased significantly with cyber-criminals largely exploiting software vulnerabilities through phishing mailings and hacked legal resources. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2019

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – payment data, cybercrime ). We dubbed this JS Sniffer family GMO because the malware uses gmo[.]li Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2019

TA505 cybercrime group use SDBbot RAT in recent campaigns. Swedish Government grants police the use of spyware against violent crime suspects. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Adobe Creative Cloud Users.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

. · BusyGasper spyware remained undetected for two years while spying Russians. · Federal prosecutors indicted a 20-year-old man who built the Satori botnet. · Hacking The Hacker. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. Security Affairs – Newsletter ).

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2020

H2 2019 has proved the tendency of past several years: mail remains the main method of delivering ransomware, spyware, backdoors and other malware, being used by cyber crooks in 94 percent of cases. They, in turn, let spyware and backdoors move ahead and become the second most popular malware with a 35-percent share.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2019

ViceLeaker Android spyware targets users in the Middle East. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Israeli blamed Russia for jamming at Israeli Ben Gurion airport. Cyber Defense Magazine – July 2019 has arrived.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2018

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. . · Hundreds of thousands MikroTik Routers involved in massive Coinhive cryptomining campaign. · Industrial Sector targeted in surgical spear-phishing attacks.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Last year, we foresaw the APT and cybercrime worlds becoming more porous on an operational level. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have claimed that threat actors have been using catfishing to lure Israeli soldiers into installing spyware. Let’s start by looking at the predictions we made for 2021.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2019

Cybercriminals steal user accounts’ data using special spyware aimed at obtaining users’ authentication data. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The scammers created those fake identities to redirect traffic away from the adult platforms onto pages showing bogus alerts claiming users were infected with pornographic spyware. This well-known scheme attempts to scare victims into calling so-called technicians for assistance but in fact defrauds them for hundreds of dollars.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

He argued that security works when it costs €100,000 for spyware to hack into a politician’s iPhone. He analysed ten years of ransomware and found the problem, in terms of volume and frequency, was in 2014. “So Detective Inspector Gerard Doyle of the Garda Siochana National Cybercrime Bureau urged victims not to pay the ransom.

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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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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

During routine monitoring of detections for FinFisher spyware tools, we discovered traces that point to recent FinFly Web deployments. It was first publicly documented in 2014, in the aftermath of the Gamma Group hacking incident. FinFly Web is, in essence, a suite of tools and packages that implement a web-based exploitation server.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Historically, Lazarus used MATA to attack various industries for cybercrime-like intentions: stealing customer databases and spreading ransomware. Historically, its Windows implant was represented by a single-stage spyware installer. Southeast Asia and Korean Peninsula. This version was detected and researched several times up to 2018.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

We can learn a lot from the cybercrime of the past…the history of cybercrime is a glimpse into what we can expect in the future. In the past 18 months, we’ve experienced the beginning of an era that has seen cybersecurity and cybercrime at the center of it all. Dateline Cybercrime . Robert Herjavec.

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