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Chinese-speaking cybercrime gang Rocke changes tactics

Security Affairs

The cybercrime organization was first spotted in April 2018 by researchers at Cisco Talos, earlier 2019 researchers from Palo Alto Networks Unit42 found new malware samples used by the Rocke group for cryptojacking that uninstalls from Linux servers cloud security and monitoring products developed by Tencent Cloud and Alibaba Cloud.

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“FudCo” Spam Empire Tied to Pakistani Software Firm

Krebs on Security

The common acronym in nearly all of Saim Raza’s domains over the years — “FUD” — stands for “ F ully U n- D etectable,” and it refers to cybercrime resources that will evade detection by security tools like antivirus software or anti-spam appliances. FAIL BY NUMBERS.

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Glupteba botnet is back after Google disrupted it in December 2021

Security Affairs

Researchers believe that at least five different merchants and exchanges were used to fund the Glupteba addresses since 2019. The experts used passive DNS records to uncover Glupteba domains and hosts and analyzed the latest set of TLS certificates used by the bot to figure out the infrastructure used by the attackers.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 210 – News of the week

Security Affairs

Locked Shields 2019 – Chapeau, France wins Cyber Defence Exercise. CVE-2019-0803 Windows flaw exploited to deliver PowerShell Backdoor. Analyzing OilRigs malware that uses DNS Tunneling. Avast, Avira, Sophos and other antivirus solutions show problems after. Blue Cross of Idaho data breach, 5,600 customers affected.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 221 – News of the week

Security Affairs

Cyber Defense Magazine – July 2019 has arrived. Firefox finally addressed the Antivirus software TLS Errors. Godlua backdoor, the first malware that abuses the DNS over HTTPS (DoH). A cyberattack took offline websites of the Georgia agency. After 2 years under the radars, Ratsnif emerges in OceanLotus ops.

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Satacom delivers browser extension that steals cryptocurrency

SecureList

Satacom downloader, also known as LegionLoader, is a renowned malware family that emerged in 2019. It is known to use the technique of querying DNS servers to obtain the base64-encoded URL in order to receive the next stage of another malware family currently distributed by Satacom. To do so, it performs a DNS request to don-dns[.]com

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Tomiris called, they want their Turla malware back

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Introduction We introduced Tomiris to the world in September 2021, following our investigation of a DNS-hijack against a government organization in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The following map shows the countries where we detected Tomiris targets (colored in green: Afghanistan and CIS members or ratifiers).

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