Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The threat actors attempted to exploit multiple vulnerabilities in DVRs, including CVE-2017-7921, CVE-2018-9995 , CVE-2020-25078, CVE-2021-33044 , and CVE-2021-36260. In March 2024, threat actors behind this campaign started targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Latin American Javali trojan weaponizing Avira antivirus legitimate injector to implant malware. Javali trojan is active since November 2017 and targets users of financial and banking organizations geolocated in Brazil and Mexico. Background of Latin American Trojans.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

This deal reads like to the epilogue to a book titled The First 20 Years of the Supremely Lucrative Antivirus Market. Way back in 1990, Symantec acquired Norton Utilities and made Norton the heart of its antivirus subscription offering. billion in 2017; Avast acquired AVG for $1.3 billion in 2016, for instance.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

These two software are currently unknown to most if not all antivirus companies.” “FUD” in the ad above refers to software and download links that are “Fully UnDetectable” as suspicious or malicious by all antivirus software. The Exe Clean service made malware look like goodware to antivirus products.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2022

Norton 360 , one of the most popular antivirus products on the market today, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on its customers’ computers. In 2017, the identity theft protection company LifeLock was acquired by Symantec Corp. ” Norton 360 is owned by Tempe, Ariz.-based based NortonLifeLock Inc.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2019

The software is broadly classified as malware by most antivirus companies, likely thanks to an advertised feature list that includes dumping the remote computer’s temporary memory; retrieving passwords from dozens of email programs; snarfing the target’s Wi-Fi credentials; and viewing the target’s Webcam.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2021

Russian national Oleg Koshkin was convicted for operating a “crypting” service used to obfuscate the Kelihos bot from antivirus software. ”The websites promised to render malicious software fully undetectable by nearly every major provider of antivirus software. . ” reads the press release published by DoJ.”The

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 27, 2022

What’s interesting about this malware is that it was existing from the past 4-5 years and Chinese antivirus vendor Qihoo 360 discovered it for the first time in 2017. NOTE- In the year 2017, Qihoo 360 said in its security report that Cosmic Strand was backdoor-ed on the Asus B85M motherboards by a vendor in the supply chain.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2019

based company in 2016 and 2017. For example, in April 2017, someone using a Cognizant account utilized the “fiddler” hacking program to circumvent cyber protections that Maritz had installed several weeks earlier.” This is remarkably similar to activity that was directed against a U.S. In May 2018, Maritz Holdings Inc. ,

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Those included spreadsheets chock full of bank account details tied to some of the world’s most active cybercriminals, and to a vast network of shell corporations created by Vrublevsky and his co-workers to help launder the proceeds from their various online pharmacy, spam and fake antivirus operations.

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SecureList

MARCH 10, 2025

The file exploits a known vulnerability ( CVE-2017-11882 ) to run a malicious shellcode and initiate a multi-level infection process that leads to the installation of malware we have named “Backdoor Loader” This acts as a loader for “StealerBot”, a private post-exploitation toolkit used exclusively by SideWinder.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In December 2017, approximately USD $52 million worth of bitcoin mysteriously disappeared from the coffers of NiceHash. More recently, Škorjanc served as chief technology officer at NiceHash , a Slovenian company that lets users sell their computing power to help others mine virtual currencies like bitcoin.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

It's also why the United States has blocked the cybersecurity company Kaspersky from selling its Russian-made antivirus products to US government agencies. That's why there is so much worry about Chinese-made equipment for the new 5G wireless networks. China denied having done so , of course. The United States does it. Our allies do it.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Worldwide spending on information security products and services rose to $114 billion in 2018, up from $102 billion in 2017, an increase of 12.4 Here are three fundaments to get you, and others over whom you have influence, on the right path: Use antivirus. To be sure, it’s not as if the good guys aren’t also innovating.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2022

The emails used weaponized Microsoft Word documents exploiting the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability. The CVE-2017-11882 flaw is a memory-corruption issue that affects all versions of Microsoft Office released between 2000 and 2017. The vulnerability affects the MS Office component EQNEDT32.EXE

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2021

“A Russian national was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for operating a “crypting” service used to conceal the Kelihos malware from antivirus software, which enabled hackers to systematically infect approximately hundreds of thousands of victim computers around the world with malicious software, including ransomware.”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 17, 2021

Note- Usage of Kaspersky solutions has been banned in all US federal departments since 2017 as the company is believed to be funded by Russian intelligence who assigned it the task of passing on critical information to remote servers located in the Russian Federation via Kaspersky Antivirus software.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 16, 2019

“JekaProf” and “procryptgroup” from Moldova, specialized in “crypting” or obfuscating the GozNym malware to evade detection by antivirus software. The indictment alleges 32-year-old Eduard Malancini , a.k.a. One of those alleged mule managers — Farkhad Rauf Ogly Manokhim (a.k.a.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

CVE-2017-6077 NETGEAR DGN2200 devices with firmware through 10.0.0.50 Affected models that are end-of-support: NSA210, NSA220, NSA220+, NSA221, NSA310, NSA310S, NSA320, NSA320S, NSA325 and NSA325v2 CVE-2017-18368 ZyXEL P660HN-T1A v1 TCLinux Fw $7.3.15.0 Ax with firmware 1.04b12 and earlier CVE-2016-1555 Netgear WN604 before 3.3.3

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 3, 2020

The malicious link that set off antivirus alarm bells when people tried to visit Blue Shield California downloaded javascript content from a domain called linkojager[.]org. Contacted by KrebsOnSecurity, Page Ruler’s original developer Peter Newnham confirmed he sold his extension to MonetizUs in 2017.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2021

The Windows botnet has been active since late 2017, it was mainly used to mine cryptocurrency, but it was also involved in DDoS attacks in 2018. Experts pointed out that the number of infected systems could be far greater because data provided by AVAST are only related to systems running their antivirus solution.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Implement network segmentation , “such that all machines on your network are not accessible from every other machine” Update antivirus software on all hosts and enable real-time detection. CVE-2017-0144 : Similar to CVE-2017-0145.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

” Microleaves has long been classified by antivirus companies as adware or as a “potentially unwanted program” (PUP), the euphemism that antivirus companies use to describe executable files that get installed with ambiguous consent at best, and are often part of a bundle of software tied to some “free” download.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 15, 2024

In 2017, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a directive to remove Kaspersky software from federal systems, citing fears that the company's products could be used to facilitate espionage and cyberattacks by the Russian government. Their antivirus will be as useful as a screen door on a submarine." Air Force (Ret.),

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The man pleaded guilty in December 2017 to one count of willful retention of classified national defense information. On September 11, 2014, Kaspersky antivirus detected the Win32.GrayFish.gen On September 11, 2014, Kaspersky antivirus detected the Win32.GrayFish.gen Equestre.*”.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

From then, the company has been offering antivirus software, multi-cloud security, extended detection and response and anti-virus and IoT protection. NOTE 2 – Bitdefender has been assisting Europol European Cybercrime Centre in solving cyber crime from the year 2017 and is also assisting Interpol from the year 2020.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

McAfee had gone private in 2017 when it was spun off from Intel, then went public again last year – and is now going private again. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2022, but first there’s a 45-day “go shop” period during which McAfee has the right to consider other offers.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2022

The company states that the bug affected all users who created or revoked shared invitation links between 17 April 2017 and 17 July 2022. This issue was reported by an independent security researcher and disclosed to Slack on 17 July 2022. ” reads the advisory published by Slack. .

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

In July 2017, Russian antivirus vendor Dr.Web published research showing that Triada had been installed by default on at least four low-cost Android models. Triada is the very same malicious software Google said was found pre-installed on many of its devices and being used to install spam apps that display ads.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2019

The last time security experts documented the FIN8’s activities was in 2016 and 2017. FireEye documented obfuscation techniques used by the group in June 2017 and the involvement of PUNCHTRACK POS-scraping malware. At the time, FireEye and root9B published detailed reports about a series of attacks targeting the retail sector.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2018

SBU along with experts from a well-known antivirus company determined that the malware involved in the attack are updated versions of the Industroyer backdoor. BlackEnergy made the headlines as the responsible for the massive power outage that occurred in Ukraine in December 2015.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2021

The weaponized RTF documents generated with the exploit builder are able to trigger the CVE-2017-11882 , CVE-2018-0798 , CVE-2018-0802 vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Equation Editor. This tool was widely adopted by several China-linked threat actors, including Tick , Tonto Team and TA428.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Kobe identified unauthorized access to its network in August 2016 and in June 2017, Pasco had detected the intrusion in May 2018. The attackers have exploited a directory traversal and arbitrary file upload vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-18187, in the Trend Micro OfficeScan antivirus. reported the Nikkei.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2020

” NEC was informed of the intrusion in July 2017 by a security company contracted by the electronics company to investigate alleged unauthorized accesses to the internal network. The attackers have exploited a directory traversal and arbitrary file upload vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-18187, in the Trend Micro OfficeScan antivirus.

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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. Lastly, if you use an antivirus for your Android device , always make sure you are using the latest version. The history of GravityRAT.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2020

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 25, 2024

Founded in 1997, the Russian firm has grown into a global leader, boasting millions of users for its antivirus software and other security solutions. Kaspersky’s antivirus software grants deep access to user systems, potentially allowing the company to collect sensitive data. similar to the 2017 ban for government agencies.

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