Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2020

The attack described by Microsoft begun with a phishing message that was opened by an internal employee, the malware infected its systems and made lateral movements infected other systems in the same network. The virus halted core services by saturating the CPU usage on Windows devices.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Antivirus and security giant Avast and virtual private networking (VPN) software provider NordVPN each today disclosed months-long network intrusions that — while otherwise unrelated — shared a common cause: Forgotten or unknown user accounts that granted remote access to internal systems with little more than a password.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 17, 2024

First discovered in 2018, it has been used to carry out large-scale ATM cash-out operations. Stealth Capabilities : The malware is designed to avoid detection by traditional antivirus solutions, employing techniques such as process masquerading and rootkit-like functionality.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2019

Sucuri spotted threat actors abusing the URL redirect function of the.htaccess file to redirect visitors of compromised websites to phishing sites, sites delivering malware, or simply to generate impressions. A warning message from endpoint antivirus software when users try to visit malicious site redirected by Joomla and WordPress sites.

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2020

Evilnum threat actor was first spotted in 2018 while using the homonym malware. Experts observed several variants of the script since May 2018, having different server-side code for the C&C and supporting different commands. Threat actors used a dedicated C2 server for each component that is installed via manual commands.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

This APT group has conducted broad cyber campaigns in support of MOIS objectives since approximately 2018. Back it up with an effective antivirus solution , EDR and SIEM. Lastly, ensure that emplyees are trained to be alert for suspicious emails or social media posts—they could be the start of a phishing attack.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2019

Hackers exploit Jenkins flaw CVE-2018-1000861 to Kerberods malware. Vulnerability in UC Browser Apps exposes to phishing attacks. Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability found in Kaspersky Antivirus Engine. Top-Tier Russian Hacking group Fxmsp claims hack of major AntiVirus Companies.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2019

The Astaroth Trojan was first spotted by security firm Cofense in late 2018 when it was involved in a campaign targeting Europe and Brazil. According to the experts, LOLbins are very effecting in evading antivirus software. . ” reads the analysis published by Andrea Lelli from Microsoft.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 4, 2022

Common distribution methods for this type of installer are phishing campaigns, forum spam, YouTube posts and comments, as well as untrustworthy software download sites. Purple Fox is the name given to a malware family that has been in constant development ever since it was discovered in 2018. Purple Fox background.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2021

The threat actors are actively exploiting the following vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiOS: CVE-2018-13379 ; CVE-2020-12812 ; CVE-2019-5591. Install and regularly update antivirus and anti-malware software on all hosts. Any attempts to install or run this program and its associated files should be prevented.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2020

Turchin obtained credentials to target networks by launching spear-phishing attacks and brute-forcing the passwords of remote desktop servers exposed online. 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

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

It focused on deploying POS malware and launching targeted spear-phishing attacks against organizations worldwide. The DisableAntiSpyware parameter allows disabling the Windows Defender Antivirus in order to deploy another security solution.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Researchers at Cofense have uncovered a phishing campaign targeting Brazilian citizens with the Astaroth Trojan that uses Facebook and YouTube in the infection process. The attach chain appears to be very complex and starts with phishing messages that come with an.htm file attached. ” reads the analysis published by Cofense.”

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Hacker Combat

JANUARY 6, 2022

The first discovery of Purple Fox was in 2018. Some of the ways it spreads include; exploitative kits, phishing emails, and other malicious links. This folder is responsible for several tasks including shutting a wide spectrum of antivirus functions. The stealthy malware can be planted while evading detection.

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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. Last DNS activity was in December 2018. As usual, the malware looks like a legitimate e-mail attachment, named as “invoice.doc”. Figure 7 – System information stealed by malware.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

ScamClub is a threat actor who’s been involved in malvertising activities since 2018. While we could not identify precisely which entity served the ad, we have reported the website used to run the fake scanner to Cloudflare which immediately took action and flagged it as phishing.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

With every new type of crypto or locker , the hash sum is changed, so an antivirus that is effective against one malware family will be ineffective a few months later against another type of ransomware. TRY IT FREE The post G Suite Ransomware Protection 2018 first appeared on SpinOne. How Can I Get Infected by Ransomware?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

In 2018, they targeted card processing using supply-chain attack , picking up 550 000 USD via ATMs of the bank’s counterpart over one weekend. In April 2018, two months after they successfully targeted card processing, the group decided to leverage its previous scheme and stole roughly 150 000 USD through ATMs.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 29, 2019

When antivirus (AV) software first arrived in the late 1980s, the science of combating computer viruses was very straightforward. Another way is to test code samples against our backend, to try to fool our antivirus classifiers. The intent is to figure out which parts of the file are being detected by us as being malicious.

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

Users attacked by adware in 2018 through 2020 ( download ). For example, an attacker could log in to a victim’s Facebook account and post a phishing link or spread spam. variant has been known since 2018, and we have never once had to adjust the process of detecting it in almost three years. Where did these come from?

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

It’s often spread through phishing emails or malicious websites, exploiting vulnerabilities and security flaws in outdated operating systems. In fact, Ponemon Institute reported that 73% of small businesses that suffered a ransomware attack in 2018 did not pay the ransom because. What Is Ransomware? they had a full backup.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2019

In February 2019, SI-LAB captured multiple samples of phishing campaigns using an Office Excel document carrying a malicious Excel 4.0 This technology is stored in the Workbook OLE stream in Excel 97-2003 format which makes it very difficult to detect and parse by antivirus (AV) engines. File name: patent-2019-02-20T093A283A05-1.xls

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Yet in a recent report by Nationwide , only 13% of small business owners said they’d been targeted by a cyberattack, but when they saw specific examples of cybercrime — from phishing to ransomware — that number shot up to 58%. In 2018 alone, we saw thousands of data breaches expose more than 446 million records.

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IT Security Guru

MAY 14, 2021

Worse still, many employees aren’t even aware of their personal responsibility to filter phishing emails. A 2021 phishing report by Proofpoint found that just over half of organisations provide company-wide cyber-security training, and consequently, only 63% of respondents within organisations were able to answer what phishing was correctly.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2019

The malware spreads via Trojanized applications disguised as cracked software, or applications posing as legitimate software such as video players, drivers or even antivirus software. According to the experts, the operation is in a consolidation stage, first samples date back to November 2018, with a massive spike in December and January.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The attackers obtain initial access to a system by sending a spear-phishing email to the victim containing a Dropbox download link. After 2018, we observed falling detection rates for FinSpy for Windows. Melcoz had been active in Brazil since at least 2018, before expanding overseas. cents per record). In version 16.80.0

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

This is especially true for your existing intrusion detection and prevention system (IDPS), antivirus, and anti-malware. The Ryuk ransomware family spawned in 2018 from a sophisticated Russia-based cybercrime group. Bitdefender : Bitdefender Antivirus Plus. Update Anti-Ransomware Software. Offline Backups. Description.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 8, 2023

Email security consists of the policies, tools, and services deployed to protect against threats specific to email such as spam, phishing attacks, malware-infested attachments, impersonation, and email interception. Multi-factor Authentication Compromised credentials stolen from a phishing campaign can be quite dangerous.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Last days of 2019 were the perfect time to spread phishing campaigns using email templates based on the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax. SI-LAB noted that Portuguese users were targeted with malscam messages that reported issues related to a debt of the year 2018. Lampion trojan (P-19-2.dll) The malware’s protection.

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Spinone

JANUARY 22, 2020

Although at the end of the 2018 ransomware seemed to be slowing its pace on the cyber threat arena, 2019 has shown that this slowdown wasn’t anything but “the calm before the storm” Ransomware statistics for 2019 vividly illustrated the rapid growth of high-profile ransomware attacks and new, more disrupting ransomware examples.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Sodinokibi (or REvil) ransomware infects computers by exploiting a vulnerability in Oracle WebLogic and using phishing emails. Ryuk is one of the most common ransomware of 2018-2019. Ransomware spreads by phishing emails (soon we’ll show you an example), infected USB devices, and many other ways you wouldn’t expect it to.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Usually, the links are contained in phishing emails (we have shown you an example). To infect computers, this ransomware exploited a vulnerability in Oracle WebLogic and used phishing emails. Сompared to 2018, the average sum hackers demanded has almost doubled in the first quarter of 2019, from $6,733 to $12,762.

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Elie

MAY 30, 2018

Adversarial inputs include malicious documents designed to evade antivirus, and emails attempting to evade spam filters. This series of posts is modeled after the talk I gave at RSA 2018. As shown in the figure, between the end of Nov 2017 and early 2018, there were at least four malicious large-scale attempts to skew our classifier.

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

A usual way to get a ransomware infection is to click a phishing link and give permission to a risky app. In 2018, there were more than 200 million ransomware attacks. Antivirus software may not detect new versions of malicious software. Antivirus software or firewalls don’t always protect your data from ransomware.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We recently detected a phishing campaign targeting cargo shipping companies that drops LokiBot. The idea behind this type of malware is to load the final payload without the loading process or the payload itself being detected by antivirus, EDR, etc. The end result is the DarkGate loader.

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Elie

MAY 30, 2018

Adversarial inputs include malicious documents designed to evade antivirus, and emails attempting to evade spam filters. This series of posts is modeled after the talk I gave at RSA 2018. As shown in the figure, between the end of Nov 2017 and early 2018, there were at least four malicious large-scale attempts to skew our classifier.

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Pentester Academy

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The damages for 2018 were predicted to reach $8 billion; for 2019, the figure was $11.5 Notably, this technique was observed in a spear-phishing campaign from the threat actor NOBELIUM in May. However, it also made use of DoublePulsar backdoor to spread itself from the infected machines. billion, and in 2021 it was $20 billion.

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