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

JUNE 17, 2021

Russian national Oleg Koshkin was convicted for operating a “crypting” service used to obfuscate the Kelihos bot from antivirus software. Russian national Oleg Koshkin was convicted for charges related to the operation of a malware crypting service used by the Kelihos botnet to obfuscate malware and evade detection.

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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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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Malware, short for “malicious software,” is any unwanted software on your computer that, more often than not, is designed to inflict damage. Since the early days of computing, a wide range of malware types with varying functions have emerged. Best Practices to Defend Against Malware. Jump ahead: Adware. RAM scraper.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In December 2013, a Slovenian court sentenced Škorjanc to four years and ten months in prison for creating the malware that powered the ‘ Mariposa ‘ botnet. In December 2017, approximately USD $52 million worth of bitcoin mysteriously disappeared from the coffers of NiceHash. issued international arrest warrant for his extradition.

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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

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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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

Regardless of how familiar you are with Information Security, you’ve probably come across the term ‘malware’ countless times. From accessing your business-critical resources and sensitive information to halting business operations and services, a malware infection can quickly become an organization’s worst nightmare come true.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware. The infection chain. What should we learn from this?

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

And the malware that subsequently gets installed continues to get more stealthy and capable with each advancing iteration. Researchers recently flushed out a new variety of the Xbash family of malware tuned to seek out administrators’ rights and take control of Linux servers. Apps from other sources can carry malware or spyware.

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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 This malware is still in beta phase and has been accidently leaked.

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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 — were implicated in propagating the Triada malware. “Yehuo” ( ? ? ) Two of those domains registered to tosaka1027@gmail.com — elsyzsmc[.]com

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Russian national Oleg Koshkin was convicted in January for charges related to the operation of a malware crypting service used by the Kelihos botnet to obfuscate malware and evade detection. Koshkin was arrested in California in September 2019 , while Tsurkan was arrested in April 2017.

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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

JUNE 22, 2021

Experts defined DirtyMoe as a complex malware that has been designed as a modular system. 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. “Both PurpleFox and DirtyMoe are still active malware and gaining strength.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Yoroi security firm uncovered a targeted attack against one of the most important companies in the Italian Naval Industry leveraging MartyMcFly Malware. Using an encrypted payload is quite a common way to evade Antivirus, since the encrypted payload changes depending on the used key. Stage1: Encrypted Content. But what is the key?

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As cybercrime grows and evolves, malware remains a constant weapon in a cybercriminal’s armory. Malware, short for malicious software, is created with the intent of causing harm to a website or computer. In many cases, victims of malware may not realize they’ve been attacked until it’s too late.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 26, 2022

In November 2021, AT&T Alien Labs™ first published research on our discovery of new malware written in the open-source programming language Golang. The team named this malware “BotenaGo.” Key takeaways: BotenaGo malware source code is now available to any malicious hacker or malware developer.

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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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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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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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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Introduction It’s just another cryptocurrency miner… Nobody would even suspect the mining malware was merely a mask, masquerading behind an intricate modular framework that supports both Linux and Windows. Subsequent analysis revealed earlier instances of suspicious code dating back to 2017.

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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. “It is believed that the malware was deployed as a result of several phishing attempts.”

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Malwarebytes and Bitdefender are two of the most recognized names in the cybersecurity market for the latest antivirus software, endpoint detection and response (EDR), and endpoint protection platforms ( EPP ). Malwarebytes EPP solution provides advanced malware detection and endpoint protection for organizations small and large.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2018

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. According to the SBU, BlackEnergy hackers used new samples of malware in a recent series of attack. ” states the ukrinform.net.

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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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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 22, 2018

A powerful, easy-to-use password stealing program known as Agent Tesla has been infecting computers since 2014, but recently this malware strain has seen a surge in popularity — attracting more than 6,300 customers who pay monthly fees to license the software. MALWARE OR BENIGN REMOTE ACCESS TOOL?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2019

A new variant of the HawkEye data stealer emerges in the threat landscape as part of ongoing malware distribution campaigns. New malware campaigns leveraging a new variant of the HawkEye data stealer have been observed by experts at Talos. has been under active development since at least 2013. ” continues the analysis. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In March, the cyberespionage group was observed leveraging ProxyShell against targets in 10 countries and used a variety of malware in its campaign. FRP, Cobalt Strike Beacon, and Tiny Shell) and previously undetected malware tracked as ProxyT, BeaconLoader and the DoorMe backdoor. ” reads the analysis published by the experts.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

North Korea-linked APT group posed as Samsung recruiters is a spear-phishing campaign that targeted South Korean security companies that sell anti-malware solutions, Google TAG researchers reported. The activity of the Zinc APT group, aka Lazarus , surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Computers are secure than smart phones – If that was the case, then why the former encountered more malware attacks in the year 2020-21 and why is that the latter is not been used for only communications. To avoid such threats, better to install anti-malware solutions and authenticator apps to keep online activity safe and secure.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

This post examines the activities of Khoroshev’s many alter egos on the cybercrime forums, and tracks the career of a gifted malware author who has written and sold malicious code for the past 14 years. This user said they specialize in developing malware, creating computer worms, and crafting new ways to hijack Web browsers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

AT&T Alien Labs™ has found new malware written in the open source programming language Golang. The malware creates a backdoor and waits to either receive a target to attack from a remote operator through port 19412 or from another related module running on the same machine. VirusTotal scanning results of BotenaGo malware.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2020

Once the hacker gained access to the network, the deployed password-stealing malware and remote access trojans (RATs) to harvest credentials and establish persistence in the system. Since March 2019, Fxmsp announced in cybercrime forums the availability of information stolen from major antivirus companies located in the U.S.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Check Point researchers have published a detailed analysis of the DoubleFeature tool used to log post-exploitation activities in attacks conducted by the Equation Group and involving the DanderSpritz malware framework. The tool also includes features to bypass Antivirus engines and perform other malicious activities. .

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

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. These included PClock, CryptoLocker 2.0, Crypt0L0cker, and TorrentLocker.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

BitDefender Mobile Security feature assists customers in protecting against malware spread and phishing scams. From then, the company has been offering antivirus software, multi-cloud security, extended detection and response and anti-virus and IoT protection.

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