Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

Researchers at Cybereason’s Nocturnus team have uncovered a new Astaroth Trojan campaign that is currently exploiting the Avast antivirus and security software developed by GAS Tecnologia to steal information and drop malicious modules. According to the experts, LOLbins are very effecting in evading antivirus software.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2019

The owner of a Swedish company behind a popular remote administration tool (RAT) implicated in thousands of malware attacks shares the same name as a Swedish man who pleaded guilty in 2015 to co-creating the Blackshades RAT , a similar product that was used to infect more than half a million computers with malware, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2019

A vulnerability in Kaspersky Antivirus had exposed a unique identifier associated with users to every website they have visited in the past 4 years. A vulnerability in the Kaspersky Antivirus software, tracked as CVE-2019-8286, had exposed a unique identifier associated with its users to every website they have visited in the past 4 years.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Windows Defender, the Windows built-in anti-malware tool, implemented the ability to run in a secure sandbox mode. Since antivirus and anti-malware tools run with the highest level of privileges to scan all parts of a computer for malicious code, it has become a desired target for attackers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released reports on North Korea-linked HIDDEN COBRA malware. Each report includes a detailed “malware descriptions, suggested response actions, and recommended mitigation techniques.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2020

Researchers spotted a new Android banking trojan dubbed BlackRock malware that steals credentials and credit card data from hundreds of apps. The BlackRock malware borrows the code from the Xerxes banking malware, which is a strain of the popular LokiBot Android trojan.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 17, 2021

And information is out that the campaign could have started by a hacking group dubbed Ferocious Kitten that has been active since 2015 and was conducting spying through a highly sophisticated malware named MarkiRAT. . Why the malware spreading hackers are targeting only Persian-speaking people is yet to be revealed to the public.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

The Latvian expert Ruslans Bondars (37), who developed and run the counter antivirus service Scan4You has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. Scan4you is a VirusTotal like online multi-engine antivirus scanning service that could be used by vxers to test evasion abilities of their malware against the major antiviruses.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Since end-December 2019 lampion malware has been noted as the most prominent malware targeting Portuguese organizations. Figure 1: Lampion malware email templates. 2020-02-13] #Lampion v2 #portugal #malware #ATA 0998f6473004e0ba54ead5784ba62db8 h}//vrau-x.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.[com/0.zip zip h//oiurx14x.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.}com/P-14-7.dll

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

” What follows is a deep dive into the identity of that Chinese vendor, which appears to have a long and storied history of pushing the envelope on mobile malware. com via Domaintools.com shows the domain was assigned in 2015 to a company called “ Shanghai Blazefire Network Technology Co. com 2015-03-09 GODADDY.COM, LLC.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

China-linked hackers carried out cyber espionage campaigns targeting governments, corporations, and think tanks with TAIDOOR malware. “CISA encourages users and administrators to review Malware Analysis Report MAR-10292089-1.v1 “CISA encourages users and administrators to review Malware Analysis Report MAR-10292089-1.v1

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

This remote access Trojan (RAT) was first discovered in infected Windows computers in 2017 by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN), but it has been active since at least 2015. CERT-IN had described GravityRAT as “unlike most malware, which are designed to inflict short term damage.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2018

ESET researchers have spotted a new strain of malware tracked as Exaramel that links the dreaded not Petya wiper to the Industroyer ICS malware. A few months ago, researchers from ESET discovered a new piece of malware that further demonstrates the existence of a link between Industroyer and the NotPetya wiper.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2019

A new ransomware, called Nemty ransomware, has been discovered over the weekend by malware researchers. The popular malware researcher Vitali Kremez discovered that the Nemty ransomware uses an unusual name for the mutex object, “hate.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2020

Experts pointed out that Google Chrome appears to implicitly trust any file downloaded from Google Drive, even if they are flagged and “malicious” by antivirus software as malicious. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Google Drive).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 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. At the time, North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group leveraged for the first time on a MacOS variant of the Fallchill malware.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning of a notable increase in the use of LokiBot malware by threat actors since July 2020. The Agency’s EINSTEIN Intrusion Detection System has detected persistent malicious activity associated with the LokiBot malware. ” reads the CISA’s advisory. .”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2021

Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky discovered a new strain of malware that is believed to be part of the arsenal of theUS Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has discovered a new malware that experts attribute to the US Central Intelligence Agency. We therefore named this malware Purple Lambert.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2020

Group-IB’s CERT-GIB analyzed hundreds of coronavirus -related phishing emails and discovered top malware strains in COVID-19 campaigns. 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. SecurityAffairs – malware, Coronavirus).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Experts warn of the KryptoCibule Windows malware that has been active since late 2018 and has targeted users in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Security researchers from ESET have shared technical detailts of a new piece of Windows malware tracked as KryptoCibule. ” reads the report. ” concludes ESET.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

File encryption 2013 – 2015. Balaban This ransomware was doing the rounds over spam generated by the Gameover ZeuS botnet, which had been originally launched in 2011 as a toolkit for stealing victim’s banking credentials and was repurposed for malware propagation. RaaS rollout 2015 – 2018. Crypt0L0cker, and TorrentLocker.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2020

Emotet , the most widespread malware worldwide and Ryuk , a ransomware type, are growing threats and real concerns for businesses and internet users in 2020. This study also concludes that a total of 377 Portuguese domains to spread different types of malware in the same period. SecurityAffairs – malware, hacking).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2019

Malware researchers at Cybaze-Yoroi ZLAB team dissected a new sample of Qrypter malware that revealed an interesting evolution of the threat. This attachment has been dissected by Cybaze-Yoroi ZLAB team, revealing an interesting evolution of the Qrypter malware threat. Malware stacktrace. Introduction. Technical Analysis.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 16, 2019

Law enforcement agencies in the United States and Europe today unsealed charges against 11 alleged members of the GozNym malware network, an international cybercriminal syndicate suspected of stealing $100 million from more than 41,000 victims with the help of a stealthy banking trojan by the same name. Prosecutors say Nikolov, a.k.a.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

Decades of adversarial coevolution with the Anti-Virus industry led the malware threats to develop the ability to evade detection, bypassing security boundaries and staying silent until the proper time. This battle, against malware, is huge. Yomi: The Malware Hunter” main interface. The Malware Hunter. For fun and profit.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 3, 2024

In May 2015, KrebsOnSecurity published a brief writeup about the brazen Manipulaters team, noting that they openly operated hundreds of web sites selling tools designed to trick people into giving up usernames and passwords, or deploying malicious software on their PCs. ” A number of questions, indeed.

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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.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Security experts at Cybaze – Yoroi ZLab have analyzed a new sample of the AdvisorsBot malware, a downloader that was first spotted in August 2018. As usual, the malware looks like a legitimate e-mail attachment, named as “invoice.doc”. Figure 3 – Piece of VBS script that starts malware infection. DLL Analysis.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

In May 2015, KrebsOnSecurity briefly profiled “ The Manipulaters ,” the name chosen by a prolific cybercrime group based in Pakistan that was very publicly selling spam tools and a range of services for crafting, hosting and deploying malicious email. One of several current Fudtools sites run by The Manipulaters. Image: Facebook.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2024

An antivirus can provide peace of mind for users worried about accidentally encountering malware while scrolling online. A good antivirus can successfully detect and, in some cases, remove malware before it can seriously damage your device. per year for the first year; $109.99 in subsequent years $69.99

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2018

BlackEnergy made the headlines as the responsible for the massive power outage that occurred in Ukraine in December 2015. The BlackEnergy malware is a threat improved to target SCADA systems, some variants include the KillDisk component developed to wipe the disks and make systems inoperable. ” states the ukrinform.net. .”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2020

The attack described by Microsoft begun with a phishing message that was opened by an internal employee, the malware infected its systems and made lateral movements infected other systems in the same network. The virus halted core services by saturating the CPU usage on Windows devices. ” reads the Microsoft DART announcement.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2020

ch launched the MalwareBazaar service, a malware repository to allow experts to share known malware samples and related info. ch launched a malware repository, called MalwareBazaar , to allow experts to share known malware samples and related analysis. Malware batches are available for download on a daily base.

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2020

Experts spotted a new malware dubbed QNodeService that was involved in Coronavirus-themed phishing campaign, crooks promise victims COVID-19 tax relief. Researchers uncovered a new malware dubbed QNodeService that was employed in a Coronavirus-themed phishing campaign. malware file (either “qnodejs-win32-ia32.js”

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2019

Malware researcher Brad Duncan first observed a new variant of Dridex on June 17 that leverage an Application Whitelisting technique to bypass mitigation via disabling or blocking of Windows Script Host. At the time of discovery, using data from VirusTotal, only six antivirus solutions of about 60 detected suspicious behavior [ 2 ].

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

According to the prosecutors, between 2010 and 2015, the former NSA hacker had taken home with him TAO materials, including exploits and hacking tools. On September 11, 2014, Kaspersky antivirus detected the Win32.GrayFish.gen The analysis of the computer where the archive was found revealed that it was already infected with malware.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

In the middle-August, the Emotet malware was employed in fresh COVID19-themed spam campaign. Emotet malware is also used to deliver other malicious code, such as Trickbot and QBot trojan or ransomware such as Conti (TrickBot) or ProLock (QBot). Generally speaking, removal/cleaning by antivirus is not a sufficient guarantee. .

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