Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2020

Linksys has reset passwords for all its customers’ after learning on ongoing DNS hijacking attacks aimed at delivering malware. Crooks continue to launch Coronavirus-themed attacks , in the last weeks, experts observed hackers hijacking D-Link and Linksys routers to redirect users to COVID19-themed sites spreading malware.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2020

Security researchers discovered another malware family delivered through tax software that some businesses operating in China are required to install. Security researchers at Trustwave have discovered another malware family delivered through tax software that Chinese banks require companies operating in the country to install.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2019

A still ongoing spam campaign that has been active during the last months has been distributing the Redaman banking malware. Experts at Palo Alto Networks continue to monitor an ongoing spam campaign that has been distributing the Redaman banking malware. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2020

” The malware sample employed in the attack resembled a Winnti dropper previously analyzed by ESET researcher that was submitted to a public online malware scanning service. The analysis of the configuration file of malware allowed the identification of the intended target. ” continues the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2019

The financially-motivated hacking group FIN7 is back and used a new piece of malware in a recent hacking campaign. Security experts at Flashpoint revealed that the financially-motivated cybercrime group FIN7 (aka Anunak and Carbanak ) used new malware in a recent hacking campaign. ” continues the analysis. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

Security experts from Trend Micro have discovered a new strain of coin miner that targets the Linux platform and installs the XMR-Stak Cryptonight cryptocurrency miner, researchers observed it killing other Linux malware and coin miners present on the infected machine. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Troy Hunt

JULY 12, 2018

For example, check out how it's used when embedded in the TXT record of a DNS entry which is then loaded into a WHOIS service which doesn't properly output encode the results. We've often seen CSRF attacks against routers result in DNS hijacking which, of course, is yet another risk that HTTPS protects against. DNS Hijacking.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2019

Iran-linked OilRig cyberespionage group is using the reconnaissance malware Karkoff along with DNSpionage in recent campaigns. Iran-linked OilRig cyberespione group is using the reconnaissance malware Karkoff along with DNSpionage in recent campaigns. ” reads the analysis published by Talos. ” continues the experts.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The popular encrypted email service Tutanota was hit with a series of DDoS attacks this week targeting its website fist and its DNS providers later. Encrypted email service, Tutanota suffered a series of DDoS attacks that initially targeted the website and later its DNS providers. “As a result these providers went down. .

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Security experts recently found notable malware activity affecting devices running Linux that is associated with the Momentum Botnet. Malware researchers from Trend Micro recently observed notable malware activity affecting devices running Linux that is associated with the Momentum Botnet. ” concludes the analysis.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Palo Alto Network researchers discovered a new malware, tracked as XBash, that combines features from ransomware, cryptocurrency miners, botnets, and worms. Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks have discovered a new piece of malware, dubbed XBash piece that is targeting both Linux and Microsoft Windows servers.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2020

Security researchers demonstrated that hundreds of sub-domains belonging to Microsoft could potentially be hijacked and abused to deliver malware and for phishing attacks. Let’s consider mybrowser.microsoft.com, it might have resolved by the DNS to something like webserver9000.azurewebsites.net. azurewebsites.net.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Over the last few days, a phishing campaign from DHL and entitled “ DHL Shipment Notification ” has been targeted users worldwide distribution the Muncy malware. Now, the malware is targeting user’s worldwide and has been spread via phishing campaigns. The process flow diagram below shown how the malware works.

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Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2019

Threat actors used the Extembro DNS- changer Trojan in an adware campaign to prevent users from accessing security-related websites. Security experts at Malwarebytes observed an adware campaign that involved the Extembro DNS- changer Trojan to prevent users from accessing websites of security vendors. ” concludes the 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. ” The IT network of The Manipulaters, circa 2013. Image: Facebook.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2019

Kaspersky Lab reported that hundreds of users have been targeted with malware over the past month as part of a recent Roaming Mantis campaign. Security experts at Kaspersky Lab reported that hundreds of users have been targeted with malware over the past month as part of a new campaign associated with Roaming Mantis gang.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2019

“This malware is a lure Excel document with name ‘???????.xlsm’. The final stage malware is a backdoor written in C#. According to the analysis made by malware researchers from Palo Alto Networks, the text file includes parts of a Windows Script Component (.SCT) The final stage malware is a backdoor written in C#.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2019

The campaign uncovered by Avast aimed at silently modifying the Brazilian users’ Domain Name System (DNS) settings to redirect victims to malicious websites mimicking legitimate ones. “ Malware then guesses routers’ passwords , which new research from Avast shows are often weak. ” reads a blog post published by Avast.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The OilRig hacker group has been around since at least 2015, since then it targeted mainly organizations in the financial and government sectors, in the United States and Middle Eastern countries. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” continues the experts.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The group has been observed using new tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), it is also using updated malware to evade detection. “the actor moved away from hosting the scripts on dedicated servers and instead started to use Domain Name System (DNS) text records. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2020

“The threat actors behind this campaign are posting malware embedded inside various hacking tools and cracks for those tools on several websites. The domain started to be associated with malware around the time of the re-registration, however, it is unclear whether this Vietnamese individual has any ties to the malware campaign.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2020

“This piece of malware has components injected in the repackaged Zoom application,” The attacks observed by the researchers only did not involved the official Google Play. ddns.net:4444, which is a dynamic DNS service that allows a user with a dynamic IP address to map it to a subdomain. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

The technique is really simple as it only requires an email account that sends messages to itself containing stolen credentials for each victim that executed the malware on their computer. We have records indicating that several Adobe fake pages were deployed from 2015 until recently. Test successful! ” from the same machine.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The list includes Amazon (banned in 2018), Google (2018), Microsoft (2022), and Cloudflare (2015). For a “normal” connection to a website, a Domian Name System (DNS) finds the IP address for the requested domain name. For a “normal” connection to a website, a Domian Name System (DNS) finds the IP address for the requested domain name.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2019

Proofpoint analyzed two strains of malware tracked as ServHelper and FlawedGrace distributed through phishing campaigns by the TA505 crime gang. Security researchers at Proofpoint researchers discovered two strains of malware tracked as ServHelper and FlawedGrace distributed through phishing campaigns by the TA505 crime gang.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

They use DNS tunneling for stealthier C&C communications, and place execution guardrails on the malicious components to hide the malware from security researchers.” Experts also observed attackers using a DNS downloader that was designed for long-term, covert access to the target machine. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2019

The attackers demonstrated an increasing level of sophistication across the years, they used custom-malware and various exploits in their attacks. “Second, we identified a previously undocumented malware family with strong links to the Ke3chang group – a backdoor we named Okrum. ” reads the report published by ESET.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2020

According to a new report published by researchers from security firm Netscout , TrickBot’s operators have started to use a new variant of their malware in an attempt to Linux systems and expand the list of its targets. “Often delivered as part of a zip, this malware is a lightweight Linux backdoor. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Qurium analyzes the blocking implemented by four different operators in Belarus Belarus operators use their own infrastructure to implement the blocking Block techniques include transparent web proxies, injection of HTTP responses, stateless and stateful SSL DPI and fake DNS responses. Qurium forensics report: Internet blocking in Belarus.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

Security expert Marco Ramilli published the findings of a quick analysis of the webmask project standing behind the DNS attacks implemented by APT34 (aka OilRig and HelixKitten ). According to Duo, “ OilRig delivered Trojans that use DNS tunneling for command and control in attacks since at least May 2016. Leaked Source code.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2020

“Today we released an update for CVE-2020-1350 , a Critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in Windows DNS Server that is classified as a ‘wormable’ vulnerability and has a CVSS base score of 10.0. This issue results from a flaw in Microsoft’s DNS server role implementation and affects all Windows Server versions.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2020

The botnet was initially designed to launch DDoS attacks using UDP, DNS and HEX floods. In the first 48 hours of discovery, our sensors recorded 15 unique IP addresses spreading malware from a server hosted at 176.123.3.96. Today the number of malware hosting servers has grown to over 75.” score of 9.8 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2019

Yoroi Cyber Security Annual Report 2018 – In 2018 cyber-security experts observed an increased number of cyber attacks, malware endure to be the most aggressive and pervasive threat. Section 1 describes the evolution of the malware in the threat landscape in the past twelve months. Download the Yoroi Cyber Security Report 2018.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

sLoad is a sophisticated script, used in the past to deliver different types of malware such as the dreaded “ Ramnit banker”. Technical details, including IoCs and Yara Rules, about the sLoad malware are available on the Yoroi blog. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

Most of APT28s’ campaigns leveraged spear-phishing and malware-based attacks, the recent mass scanning activity represents a change in the modus operandi of the group. “This report aims to shed light on some of Pawn Storm’s attacks that did not use malware in the initial stages.

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