Malwarebytes

APRIL 19, 2022

Since 2018, one of the Lazarus Group’s tactics has been to disguse AppleJeus malware as cryptocurrency trading platforms for both Windows and Mac. CISA warns that it uses these trojanized applications to gain access to victims’ computers, to spread other malware, and steal private keys or to exploit other security gaps.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Researchers discovered a “high” severity command injection vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-15442, in Cisco Webex Meetings Desktop. Researchers Ron Bowes and Jeff McJunkin of Counter Hack discovered a “high” severity command injection vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-15442 , in Cisco Webex Meetings Desktop. .”

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 20, 2021

In 2018 three high-ranking members of a sophisticated international cybercrime group operating out of Eastern Europe were arrested and taken into custody by US authorities. The Carbanak campaign first made international headlines in 2015 as one of the first malware campaigns that specialized in remote ATM robberies. The malware.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The activity of the Lazarus APT group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks. This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

One month ago, Cisco addressed the CVE-2018-15442 vulnerability, also tracked as WebExec by Counter Hack researchers Ron Bowes and Jeff McJunkin who discovered it. The CVE-2018-15442 vulnerability could be exploited by an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands as a privileged user. and later prior to 33.0.5,

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

In October 2018, prosecutors in the Southern District of California named four Adconion employees — Jacob Bychak , Mark Manoogian , Petr Pacas , and Mohammed Abdul Qayyum — in a ten-count indictment on charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, and electronic mail fraud. Amobee , the Redwood City, Calif.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2019

US DoJ charged two Russian citizens for deploying the Dridex malware and for their involvement in international bank fraud and computer hacking schemes. The Bugat malware a multifunction malware package designed to automate the theft of confidential personal and financial information. Attorney Brady.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

In middle May 2018, both The New York Times and The Washington Post , revealed the name of the alleged source of the Vault 7 leak , the man who passed the secret documents to Wikileaks. Qihoo 360 reported that technical details of most implants used by the APT-C-39 are consistent with the ones described in the Vault 7 dump.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

We also review what pushed cybercriminals to transform their operations into the now well-known malware-as-a-service model — the use of cloud servers, the decreasing relevance of custom malware and the subsequent emergence of small, agile teams. Malware developers — no longer hiring. Client-side attacks on the wane.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 28, 2022

Which to be fair, is what a lot of malware and APT actors do. Back in 2018 I made this statement: Dear %Companies%, A single security minded Sys Admin is worth more than a handful of pentesters. Rob Fuller (@mubix) June 14, 2018. System administrators usually know their systems very well.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Here are my takeaways: Skills deficit Over the past 20 years, enterprises have shelled out small fortunes in order to stock their SOCs with the best firewalls, anti-malware suites, intrusion detection, data loss prevention and sandbox detonators money can buy. For a full drill down on our discussion give a listen to the accompanying podcast.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2018

The gang stole over a billion euros from banks across the world, the name “Carbanak” comes with the name of the malware they used to compromise computers at banks and other financial institutions. In January 2018 foreign authorities also arrested Fedir Hladyr in Dresden, Germany, he is currently detained in Seattle pending trial.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

With lateral movement across a victim’s IT infrastructure, threat actors can escalate privileges, spread malware , extract data , and disrupt IT services as with ransomware attacks. SamSam Ransomware: Malware Specializing in RDP. A few days later, IT systems started malfunctioning with ransom messages following.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

They’re known for their credit card malware and phishing campaigns. They targeted specific profiles such as system administrators who know how to map corporate networks, locate backups and identify users within a system, which are critical steps in ransomware attacks. Also read: How to Recover From a Ransomware Attack.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

According to Microsoft documentation ,msc files can be used for system administration. Attackers exploited this functionality to run commands on user systems: inside the.msc file, they specified the URI urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt and commands in JavaScript and VBScript.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

Some of these attacks are challenging to detect because they look like they could be the behavior of legitimate system administrators. To remedy this vulnerability, Adobe recommends installing Update 16 for ColdFusion 2018 and Update 6 for ColdFusion 2021. Threat actors can use WFP to escalate their privileges on Windows.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

Some of these attacks are challenging to detect because they look like they could be the behavior of legitimate system administrators. To remedy this vulnerability, Adobe recommends installing Update 16 for ColdFusion 2018 and Update 6 for ColdFusion 2021. Threat actors can use WFP to escalate their privileges on Windows.

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NopSec

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Most of the time, network and system administrators are concerned about the availability of their network and systems because of the continuous vulnerability scanning pressure. I also observed in my discussions with clients that enterprise CMDB systems are rarely updated or effectively maintained.

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Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

Going back a bit, it was also the top attack vector in 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, and well, hopefully, you get the picture. It could be a system administrator who has access to sensitive defense information and recently just met an attractive fitness influencer on social media (hello, Iran !). Why should I care about Phish?

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Security Boulevard

MAY 21, 2024

On Detection: Tactical to Functional Part 12 Introduction At Shmoocon 2015, Will Schroeder (Harmj0y) gave a talk titled “ I Hunt Sys Admins ,” describing how attackers can hunt (or find the location of) system administrators throughout the network. NetSessionEnum function, one sample (net session) called the undocumented srvcli!NetSessionEnum

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

Canadian police last week raided the residence of a Toronto software developer behind “ Orcus RAT ,” a product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. According to Rezvesz himself, he is no stranger to the Canadian legal system. An advertisement for Orcus RAT.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. Russian software engineer Eugene Kaspersky’s frustration with the malware of the 80s and 90s led to the founding of antivirus and cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky Lab.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

We discovered the malware as part of an attack against a high-profile organization in Vietnam. We found the loader for this file so interesting that we decided to base one of the tracks of our Targeted Malware Reverse Engineering course on it. com – all generated using RoyalRoad and attempting to exploit CVE-2018-0802.

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