Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

A large number of French critical infrastructure firms were hacked as part of an extended malware campaign that appears to have been orchestrated by at least one attacker based in Morocco, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. ‘FATAL’ ERROR.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

New Zealand’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) also published a security alert warning of spam campaigns spreading the Emotet threat. jp) email addresses that have been infected with the infamous malware and that can be employed in further spam campaigns. Today was only about a dozen replychain and nothing else.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The Emotet banking trojan has been active at least since 2014, the botnet is operated by a threat actor tracked as TA542. In the middle-August, the malware was employed in fresh COVID19-themed spam campaign. Emotet is a modular malware, its operators could develop new Dynamic Link Libraries to update its capabilities.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 18, 2021

Recorded Future that offers Enterprise Security Intelligence to American companies has revealed that there has been a persistent cyber threat to Indian Defense and Telecom sector from Chinese Military Intelligence since 2014.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2020

Experts from the Microsoft Security Intelligence team provided some details on a new “massive campaign” using COVID-19 themed emails. Researchers from the Microsoft Security Intelligence team provided some details on a new massive phishing campaign using COVID-19 themed emails. macros in malware campaigns.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2020

pic.twitter.com/Q3BMs7fSvx — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 27, 2020. Learn how to build organizational security hygiene to prevent human-operated attacks: [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 27, 2020. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Crooks behind Emotet malware attempt to take advantage of the Halloween festivity, a new campaign could invite you to a Halloween party. Threat actors are attempting to take advantage of the Halloween festivities, a recent Emotet malware campaign spotted by BleepingComputer employed spam emails that invite recipients to a Halloween party.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

— Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) September 24, 2020. We strongly recommend customers to immediately apply security updates for CVE-2020-1472. We strongly recommend customers to immediately apply security updates for CVE-2020-1472. Don’t waste time, patch your system now! Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2019

pic.twitter.com/PQ2g7rvDQm — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) June 21, 2019. — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) June 21, 2019. The final payload is the remote access Trojan FlawedAmmyy,” reads a Tweet published by Microsoft Security Intelligence. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2024

Akamai’s Security Intelligence and Response Team (SIRT) has detected a botnet campaign exploiting multiple previously known vulnerabilities and a newly discovered zero-day, tracked as CVE-2024-7029 (CVSS score: 8.7), in AVTECH CCTV cameras. The bot also targets AVTECH issues , a Hadoop YARN RCE , and CVE-2014-8361.

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2020

The Emotet banking trojan has been active at least since 2014, the botnet is operated by a threat actor tracked as TA542. Malware researchers Joseph Roosen confirmed that limited activity associate with the botnet was observed earlier this week, botnet operators were using weaponized documents employing old URLs. TNW and Be safe!

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2020

trillion signals we process daily through the Microsoft Intelligent Security Graph.” 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. SecurityAffairs – COVID-19, hacking).

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2020

Experts from the Microsoft Security Intelligence team provided some details on a new “massive campaign” using COVID-19 themed emails. 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

JULY 9, 2019

Microsoft Defender ATP Research Team discovered a fileless malware campaign that was spreading the information stealing Astaroth Trojan. Experts at the Microsoft Defender ATP Research Team discovered a fileless malware campaign that is delivering the information stealing Astaroth Trojan. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2019

Spam messages are carrying weaponized RTF documents that could infect users with malware without any user interaction, just opening the RTF documents. pic.twitter.com/Ac6dYG9vvw — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) June 7, 2019. — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) June 7, 2019.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

On December 6, The Akamai Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) published the first update to the InfectedSlurs advisory series. The security firm revealed that threat actors were exploiting a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-49897 (CVSS score 8.0) released June 21, 2014). and earlier. and earlier (5.0.0

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2019

The popular expert Larry Cashdollar, from Akamai’s Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT), spotted a new version of the Echobot botnet that counts 26 different exploits. ” Botnet operators continue to implement new methods to make their malware more aggressive and to infect the larger number of systems as possible. .”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The security firms have collected more than 125,000 TrickBot malware samples and mapped the command and control infrastructure. The TrickBot botnet was considered by security experts one of the biggest botnets. Microsoft took action against the Trickbot botnet, disrupting one of the world’s most persistent malware operations.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

“The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), with its state and territory partners, is continuing to respond to the widespread malware campaign known as Emotet while responding to reports that hackers are exploiting the BlueKeep vulnerability to mine cryptocurrency.” ” Noble added.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Learn how the group tried to stay under the radar using threats perceived to be less alarming: [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) November 30, 2020. New blog: The threat actor BISMUTH, which has been running increasingly complex targeted attacks, deployed coin miners in campaigns from July to August 2020.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Microsoft 365 Defender customers can also refer to these detections: [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) October 5, 2020. 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 29, 2020

.” Microsoft Threat Intelligence Information Center (MSTIC) has uncovered activity by the threat actor PHOSPHOROUS, which has been masquerading as conference organizers and sending spoofed invitations by email to high-profile individuals. Get details here: [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) October 28, 2020.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

At the time of its discovery, operators added 8 new exploits, but a few weeks later the popular expert Larry Cashdollar from Akamai’s Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) discovered a variant that included a total of 26 exploits. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

BlueKeep is a wormable flaw that can be exploited by malware authors to create malicious code with WannaCry capabilities. ” A new wave of attacks could exploit the vulnerability to spread more dangerous and destructive malware, like ransomware or spyware. . Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Penetration Testing

AUGUST 28, 2024

Akamai’s Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) has discovered a widespread Mirai botnet campaign exploiting a recently disclosed zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2024-7029) in AVTECH IP cameras.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2020

He’s a contributing editor to IBM’s Security Intelligence, Tripwire’s The State of Security Blog, and a contributing writer to Bora. He also regularly produces written content for Zix and a number of other companies in the digital security space.

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NopSec

MARCH 1, 2017

Unified VRM Analytics leverages vulnerability data from across all the modules (Internal, External and Web) the user has subscribed to and correlates that vulnerability information with external and internal threat feeds to provide the user actionable security intelligence.

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NopSec

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Businesses, governments, and consumers alike need to be aware of ransomware – a type of malware that can inflict serious damage on your finances and productivity in a very short span of time. Today, we explain this category of malware: how it works, the risks it poses to your organization, and strategies for preventing an attack.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2020

Level up Your Security Program With the Same Security Intelligence Used by the World’s Largest Governments and Many of the Fortune 1000. With this release, Recorded Future is the only intelligence company to openly offer access to its data. Verdict IOCs In 1 View: Enhance Malware Analysis.

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