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Anubis, a new info-stealing malware spreads in the wild

Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Microsoft warned of a recently uncovered piece of malware, tracked as Anubis that was designed to steal information from infected systems. This week, Microsoft warned of a recently uncovered piece of malware, tracked as Anubis, that was distributed in the wild to steal information from infected systems. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Crooks spread malware via pirated movies during COVID-19 outbreak

Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

Microsoft warns of a spike in malware spreading via pirate streaming services and movie piracy sites during the COVID-19 pandemic. Crooks are attempting to take advantage of COVID-19 pandemic spreading malware via pirate streaming services and movie piracy sites during the COVID-19 outbreak, Microsoft warns. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Trickbot is the most prolific malware operation using COVID-19 themed lures

Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2020

TrickBot is the malware that most of all is involved in COVID-19-themed attacks, Microsoft’s Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) data reveals. Based on Office 365 ATP data, Trickbot is the most prolific malware operation using COVID-19 themed lures. This means we’re seeing a changing of lures, not a surge in attacks.”

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Microsoft spotted multiple malspam campaigns using malware-laced ISO and IMG files

Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2020

Microsoft warns of threat actors targeting organizations with malware-laced ISO and IMG files aimed at delivering a remote access trojan. Microsoft advanced machine learning threat detection models detected multiple malspam campaigns distributing malware-laced ISO. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – COVID-19, malspam).

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Microsoft warns TA505 changed tactic in an ongoing malware campaign

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

In contrast, past Dudear email campaigns carried the malware as attachment or used malicious URLs. pic.twitter.com/mcRyEBUmQH — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) January 30, 2020. pic.twitter.com/1qnx3NmwiB — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) January 30, 2020.

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Purple Lambert, a new malware of CIA-linked Lambert APT group

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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Russian Cybercrime group is exploiting Zerologon flaw, Microsoft warns

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2020

— Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) October 6, 2020. — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) October 6, 2020. Attacks showing up in commodity malware like those used by the threat actor CHIMBORAZO indicate broader exploitation in the near term.” states Microsoft.

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Microsoft, Italy and the Netherlands agencies warn of EMOTET campaigns

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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Microsoft warns of “massive campaign” using COVID-19 themed emails

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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Microsoft warns about ongoing PonyFinal ransomware attacks

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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BEST PRACTICES: Mock phishing attacks prep employees to avoid being socially engineered

The Last Watchdog

MAY 1, 2019

In 2015, penetration tester Oliver Münchow was asked by a Swiss bank to come up with a better way to test and educate bank employees so that passwords never left the network perimeter. This is stunning: phishing attacks soared in 2018, rising 250% between January and December, according to Microsoft’s Security Intelligence Report.

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CISA alert warns of Emotet attacks on US govt entities

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

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. ” According to CISA, the surge in the attacks has rendered this malware one of the most prevalent ongoing threats.

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Microsoft warns of attacks delivering FlawedAmmyy RAT directly in memory

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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Hackers are using Zerologon exploits in attacks in the wild

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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Emotet operators are running Halloween-themed campaigns

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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Crooks continues to use COVID-19 lures, Microsoft warns

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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A new Astaroth Trojan Campaign uncovered by Microsoft

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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Microsoft warns of spam campaign exploiting CVE-2017-11882 flaw

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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Coronavirus-themed attacks May 17 ? May 23, 2020

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. Security experts observed a spike in the use of the GuLoader since March 2020 while investigating COVID-19-themed malspam campaigns. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – COVID-19, hacking).

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Emotet botnet surges back after months of absence

Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2020

In 2019, security experts haven’t detected any activity associated with Emotet since early April, when researchers at Trend Micro have uncovered a malware campaign distributing a new Emotet Trojan variant that compromises devices and uses them as Proxy C2 servers. I did get some malspam here but it was all filtered. TNW and Be safe!

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Lebanese APT group with suspected links to Hezbollah breached 250 servers worldwide

SC Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2021

The APT group – also referred to as “Volatile Cedar” – has been operating since 2012 and has kept a low profile, flying under the radar, since 2015 when its operations were first discovered by CheckPoint researchers and Kaspersky Labs.

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Microsoft partnered with other security firms to takedown TrickBot botnet

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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New Echobot Botnet targets Oracle, VMware Apps and includes 26 Exploits

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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Australian Govt agency ACSC warns of Emotet and BlueKeep attacks

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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Iran-linked APT is exploiting the Zerologon flaw in attacks

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 -->. We strongly recommend patching. ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Cybercrime gang FIN7 returned and was spotted delivering Clop ransomware

Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2023

Researchers at Microsoft Security Intelligence team published a series of tweets to warn of a new wave of attacks aimed at distributing the Clop ransomware and linked it to the financially motivated cybercriminal group Sangria Tempest (ELBRUS, FIN7 ).

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The number of exploits in the Echobot botnet reached 59

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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Microsoft warns of more disruptive BlueKeep attacks and urges patch installation

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. . SecurityAffairs – Bluekeep, malware). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Iran-linked Phosphorous APT hacked emails of security conference attendees

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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5 Components of the Kubernetes Control Plane that Demand Special Attention in Your Security Strategy

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2020

About the Author: David Bisson is an information security writer and security junkie. He’s a contributing editor to IBM’s Security Intelligence, Tripwire’s The State of Security Blog, and a contributing writer to Bora. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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AI in Cybersecurity: White And Dark Sides

Spinone

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Risk Level Assessment It’s crucial for a business to contextualize internal cyber security intelligence with external threat data to determine real security risks and their impact on business. The Future of Life Institute launched an AI Safety Research Program in 2015, with the help of a generous donation by Elon Musk.

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Recorded Future to Provide Free Access to Elite Intelligence Through New Browser Extension

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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Anubis, a new info-stealing malware spreads in the wild

Crooks spread malware via pirated movies during COVID-19 outbreak

Trending Sources

Trickbot is the most prolific malware operation using COVID-19 themed lures

Microsoft spotted multiple malspam campaigns using malware-laced ISO and IMG files

Microsoft warns TA505 changed tactic in an ongoing malware campaign

Purple Lambert, a new malware of CIA-linked Lambert APT group

Russian Cybercrime group is exploiting Zerologon flaw, Microsoft warns

Microsoft, Italy and the Netherlands agencies warn of EMOTET campaigns

Microsoft warns of “massive campaign” using COVID-19 themed emails

Microsoft warns about ongoing PonyFinal ransomware attacks

BEST PRACTICES: Mock phishing attacks prep employees to avoid being socially engineered

CISA alert warns of Emotet attacks on US govt entities

Microsoft warns of attacks delivering FlawedAmmyy RAT directly in memory

Hackers are using Zerologon exploits in attacks in the wild

Emotet operators are running Halloween-themed campaigns

Crooks continues to use COVID-19 lures, Microsoft warns

A new Astaroth Trojan Campaign uncovered by Microsoft

Microsoft warns of spam campaign exploiting CVE-2017-11882 flaw

Coronavirus-themed attacks May 17 ? May 23, 2020

Emotet botnet surges back after months of absence

Lebanese APT group with suspected links to Hezbollah breached 250 servers worldwide

Microsoft partnered with other security firms to takedown TrickBot botnet

New Echobot Botnet targets Oracle, VMware Apps and includes 26 Exploits

Australian Govt agency ACSC warns of Emotet and BlueKeep attacks

Iran-linked APT is exploiting the Zerologon flaw in attacks

Cybercrime gang FIN7 returned and was spotted delivering Clop ransomware

The number of exploits in the Echobot botnet reached 59

Microsoft warns of more disruptive BlueKeep attacks and urges patch installation

Iran-linked Phosphorous APT hacked emails of security conference attendees

5 Components of the Kubernetes Control Plane that Demand Special Attention in Your Security Strategy

AI in Cybersecurity: White And Dark Sides

Recorded Future to Provide Free Access to Elite Intelligence Through New Browser Extension

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