Security Boulevard

JANUARY 17, 2022

Ukraine is again under malware attack. And the tactics look strikingly similar to 2017’s NotPetya hack by the Russian GRU. The post ‘Russian’ Wiper Malware: ‘Prelude to war’ in Ukraine appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Dubbed TA2541 by Proofpoint researchers, the group has been attacking targets in several critical industries since 2017 with phishing emails and cloud-hosted malware droppers. The post Researchers discover common threat actor behind aviation and defense malware campaigns appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 14, 2020

Sources close to the investigation tell KrebsOnSecurity the malware is known as Defray. Defray was first spotted in 2017, and its purveyors have a history of specifically targeting companies in the healthcare space. R1 RCM declined to discuss the strain of ransomware it is battling or how it was compromised.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

What’s the best way for a company to test its malware defenses in real-life scenarios? In fact, a 2017 report predicted that by 2020 businesses will be hit by a threat actor every eleven seconds. The post Safely Test Your Malware, Ransomware and Virus Defenses appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2023

A sophisticated malware tracked as StripedFly remained undetected for five years and infected approximately one million devices. Researchers from Kaspersky discovered a sophisticated malware, dubbed StripedFly, that remained under the radar for five years masquerading as a cryptocurrency miner. “What was the real purpose?

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The Hacker News

AUGUST 20, 2021

ShadowPad, an infamous Windows backdoor that allows attackers to download further malicious modules or steal data, has been put to use by five different Chinese threat clusters since 2017.

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The Hacker News

APRIL 10, 2023

Over one million WordPress websites are estimated to have been infected by an ongoing campaign to deploy malware called Balada Injector since 2017. The massive campaign, per GoDaddy's Sucuri, "leverages all known and recently discovered theme and plugin vulnerabilities" to breach WordPress sites.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 27, 2022

A novel malware named CosmicStrand is said to be targeting the old motherboards offered by Asus and Gigabyte and the crux is that it can survive operating system re-installs and it survives in Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFIs) unlike just the storage drive.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2024

Proofpoint researchers observed a threat actor, tracked as TA547, targeting German organizations with an email campaign delivering the Rhadamanthys malware. The security firm pointed out that this is the first TA547 group to use this malware family. The experts also discovered the attempts of using LLM in malware campaigns.

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Penetration Testing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

In a newly uncovered advanced malware campaign, threat actors are using a complex, fileless approach to deliver the Remcos Remote Access Trojan (RAT), leveraging a benign-looking Excel document as the... The post Fileless Remcos RAT Campaign Leverages CVE-2017-0199 Flaw appeared first on Cybersecurity News.

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The Hacker News

JANUARY 16, 2023

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)'s Hive multi-platform malware suite, the source code of which was released by WikiLeaks in November 2017. Unidentified threat actors have deployed a new backdoor that borrows its features from the U.S.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The Computer Emergency Response Team in Ukraine (CERT-UA) reported that a PurpleFox malware campaign had already infected at least 2,000 computers in the country. Experts defined DirtyMoe as a complex malware that has been designed as a modular system. ” reads the alert published by CERT-UA.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Threat actors are exploiting an old Microsoft Office vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-11882, to spread the Agent Tesla malware. Threat actors are exploiting an old Microsoft Office vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-11882 (CVSS score: 7.8), as part of phishing campaigns to spread the Agent Tesla malware.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Unlike traditional malware, which relies on a file being written to a disk, fileless malware is intended to be memory resident only, ideally leaving no trace after its execution. For an attacker, fileless malware has two major advantages: There is no file for traditional anti-virus software to detect. Is fileless malware new?

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2024

On January 4, 2017, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), located in Cleveland, Ohio, became aware of an infection on more than 100 of its computers. The university was notified by an undisclosed third party, who provided information to help the team find and identify the malware. Who is Phillip Durachinsky?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 17, 2022

Microsoft has issued an official warning to all IT and not-for-profit organizations, along with some critical government organizations across Ukraine, that their digital infrastructure could be targeted by a dreaded data wiping malware campaign.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 9, 2021

WannaCry was a 2017 cyberattack, based on a NSA-discovered and Russia-stolen-and-published Windows vulnerability. Even if we assume that the report is self-serving to the company that wrote it, and that the statistic is not generally representative, this is still a disaster. The number should be 0%.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

The DOJ said it did not seek to disinfect compromised devices; instead, it obtained court orders to remove the Cyclops Blink malware from its “command and control” servers — the hidden machines that allowed the attackers to orchestrate the activities of the botnet. energy facilities. ” HYDRA. . ” HYDRA. .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 4, 2022

A new malware developed by China is on the prowl on the web and is seen targeting Japanese companies for now. First it sneaks into the network to evaluate the target defense-line and then a second stage malware is then induced and executed to conduct espionage, data steal and such.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 5, 2022

The Formbook malware is an information stealer that is in use by many threat actors. The embedded object downloaded a remote template that exploits CVE-2017-11882 to download and execute the FormBook malware. Recently, the Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence Team found a Formbook campaign targeting oil and gas companies.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Researchers uncovered an ongoing campaign abusing popular messaging platforms Skype and Teams to distribute the DarkGate malware. The threat actors abused popular messaging platforms such as Skype and Teams to deliver a script used as a loader for a second-stage payload, which was an AutoIT script containing the DarkGate malware.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2021

China-linked BlackTech cyberespionage group was targeting Japanese companies using new malware tracked as ‘Flagpro’. Researchers from NTT Security reported that China-linked BlackTech cyberespionage group targeted Japanese companies using new malware tracked as ‘Flagpro’. “It means that they are actively developing new malwares.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Experts uncovered a new Go-based multi-platform malware, tracked as NKAbuse, which is the first malware abusing NKN technology. Researchers from Kaspersky’s Global Emergency Response Team ( GERT ) and GReAT uncovered a new multiplatform malware dubbed NKAbuse. ” reads the report published by Kaspersky.

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Joseph Steinberg

APRIL 6, 2021

Remember to keep backups disconnected from your computer and network so that if any ransomware (or other malware) gets onto the network it cannot infect the backups. Ransomware, like other types of malware, can spread via “smart devices” that are not considered by most people to be “computers.”

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2019

Marcus Hutchins , the “accidental hero” who helped arrest the spread of the global WannaCry ransomware outbreak in 2017, will receive no jail time for his admitted role in authoring and selling malware that helped cyberthieves steal online bank account credentials from victims, a federal judge ruled Friday.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 6, 2022

During the pandemic, lockdowns forced people to stay at home and do their shopping online, which was mirrored in point-of-sale (PoS) and ATM malware activity, as certain regions saw malicious transactions drop significantly. Perpetrators continue to spread already-existing, widely used malware to attack PoS terminals and ATMs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2024

Microsoft addressed two zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-29988 and CVE-2024-26234) actively exploited by threat actors to deliver malware Microsoft addressed two zero-day vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2024-29988 and CVE-2024-26234, that threat actors are exploiting to deliver malware.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 25, 2019

Trojan horse-based malware attacks and spyware rose sharply in 2018 as ransomware-based attacks declined, according to a new report published by Malwarebytes. Ransomware attacks remain a persistent threat, but are not as prevalent as they were at their peak in 2017, which coincided with the meteoric rise in cyptocurrency values.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2022

Experts pointed out that the malware is being actively developed. The malware can quickly adopt one-day vulnerabilities (within days of a published proof of concept).” The post EnemyBot malware adds new exploits to target CMS servers and Android devices appeared first on Security Affairs. LFI CVE-2018-16763 Fuel CMS 1.4.1

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Heimadal Security

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The North Korean cyberespionage group known as Kimsuky has been observed exploiting three different Android malware targeted specifically at South Korean users. Kimsuky, also known as Velvet Chollima, Thallium, or Black Banshee, is a North Korean-based cybercrime group with operations going back to 2017.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 29, 2022

Details are in that Racoon Stealing malware aka password stealing malicious software was being distributed in a MAAS (malware as a service) service for a price range of $75 to $200 on monthly note. The post Racoon stealer malware suspends its operations due to war on Ukraine appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 25, 2022

billion in business interruption losses from the Notpetya cyber attack of 2017 which were claimed against “all risks” property re/insurance policies providing coverage for losses resulting from destruction or corruption of computer data and software. Merck suffered US$1.4

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Bleeping Computer

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Federal Police of Brazil and cybersecurity researchers have disrupted the Grandoreiro banking malware operation, which has been targeting Spanish-speaking countries with financial fraud since 2017. [.]

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

A new multifunctional Go-based malware dubbed Chaos is targeting both Windows and Linux systems, experts warn. Researchers from Black Lotus Labs at Lumen Technologies, recently uncovered a multifunctional Go-based malware that was developed to target devices based on multiple architectures, including Windows and Linux.

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The Hacker News

MARCH 28, 2023

Multiple threat actors have been observed using two new variants of the IcedID malware in the wild with more limited functionality that removes functionality related to online banking fraud. IcedID, also known as BokBot, started off as a banking trojan in 2017. It's also capable of delivering additional malware, including ransomware.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 30, 2020

Chip-based credit and debit cards are designed to make it infeasible for skimming devices or malware to clone your card when you pay for something by dipping the chip instead of swiping the stripe. But a recent series of malware attacks on U.S.-based Unsurprisingly, thieves have known about this weakness for years.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2021

The botnet was linked to a new malware hosting domain that has been serving Mirai variants for several different botnets over the past year. This payload contains the logic to change the execution path to a temporary location, wget a file from a malware hosting page, provide execution permissions, and execute it.”

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