Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The Sweden government is going to authorize the use of spyware on suspects’ devices to spy on their communications and track them. “ The police are given the opportunity to read encrypted communications. From March next year, it will be legal to intercept encrypted calls in mobiles, computers and video calls.”

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In short, in 2020, cyberthreats evolved. of all Mac detections in 2020—the rest can be attributed to Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs) and Adware ThiefQuest tricked many researchers into believing it was the first example of ransomware on macOS since 2017, but the malware was hiding its real activity of massive data exfiltration.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Mitigating Ransomware Attacks – Decoupling Encryption Keys From Encrypted Data. Wed, 11/25/2020 - 05:55. Once the hackers gain an inside entry in an organisation’s IT systems, they deploy a file-encrypting malware known as ransomware. While front line defense mechanisms like firewalls, anti-theft, anti-spyware, etc.

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Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2021

The spyware is able to steal SMS messages, contact lists, and device information and to sign victims up for premium service subscriptions. The developers are embedding Joker as a payload that can be encrypted in different ways, either a.dex file xored or encrypted with a number, or through the same. dex file as before.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

However, P8 contains many built-in functions and redesigns of the communication protocol and encryption algorithm, making it a well-designed and powerful espionage platform. The access management software facilitates access to the encrypted partition of the drive. PhantomNet is a RAT first described by ESET in late 2020.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

A VPN provides a secure internet connection, ensuring your browsing data is encrypted for maximum privacy and security. There will be an estimated 30 billion IoT networked devices by 2020. VPNs are the baseline cybersecurity tool to safeguard internet-enabled devices and a home network. The Bottom Line.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 26, 2021

Researchers from Citizen Lab, an academic research and development lab based in the University of Toronto in Canada, has recently discovered that an exploit affecting iMessage is being used to target Bahraini activists with the Pegasus spyware. In 2020, Citizen Lab named KISMET , a then 0-day exploit against iPhone iOS version 13.5.1

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2021

In order to facilitate file encryption, the ransomware look for processes associated with backups, anti-virus/anti-spyware, and file copying and terminates them. The Hive ransomware adds the.hive extension to the filename of encrypted files. The malware deletes the Hive executable and the hive.bat script. key.hive or *.key.*.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

The spyware is able to steal SMS messages, contact lists and device information along with to sign victims up for premium service subscriptions. ” According to the experts the 17 different samples were uploaded to Google Play in September 2020 and they had a total of 120,000 downloads.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 11, 2022

Reacting to the news on the government spyware like NSO Group Pegasus and Android affecting Hermit malware, the Mobile Giant of Korea said that it offers a firm commitment to safeguarding the personal and sensitive information of its users.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Assembly would set up a committee of international experts in 2020 that will be tasked with elaborating “a comprehensive international convention on countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes.” It will only serve to stifle global efforts to combat cybercrime.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

pic.twitter.com/StU68THrXy — MalwareHunterTeam (@malwrhunterteam) March 6, 2020. Once the GuLoader malware has downloaded an encrypted file from [link] it will decrypt it and inject the malware into the legitimate Windows wininit.exe process. Payload: Formbook (thx @James_inthe_box ).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2023

stolen credit/debit cards Pegasus spyware used to spy on a Polish mayor Hundreds of thousands of websites hacked as part of redirection campaign MQsTTang, a new backdoor used by Mustang Panda APT against European entities Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 FiXS, a new ATM malware that is targeting Mexican banks BidenCash leaks 2.1M

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

During routine monitoring of detections for FinFisher spyware tools, we discovered traces that point to recent FinFly Web deployments. One of the suspected FinFly Web servers was active for more than a year between October 2019 and December 2020. The activities peaked in November 2020, but are still ongoing.

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SecureList

JUNE 7, 2021

In 2019, Gootkit stopped operating after it experienced a data leak , but has been active again since November 2020. The main body is a modular framework, containing registration, spyware, VMX detection and other modules. Most of the strings are encrypted using XOR encryption and are decrypted at runtime. Windows NT 6.1;

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2021

To best understand the scale of the problem, let’s look into some recently notified, large organisation security breaches, reported over a four-week period between 20 th November and 17 th December 2020. 20 th Nov 2020 – Manchester United Football Club ( www.manutd.com ). 30 th November 2020 – Embrear ( www.embrear.com ).

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Malwarebytes

MAY 10, 2022

In 2020, the European Commission initiated temporary legislation which allows the searching of all private chats, messages, and emails for illegal depictions of minors and attempted initiation of contact with minors. Needless to say that many privacy advocates are ready to storm the barricades to prevent this law from being approved.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

For most implants, the threat actor uses similar implementations of DLL hijacking (often associated with ShadowPad malware) and memory injection techniques, along with the use of RC4 encryption to hide the payload and evade detection. libssl.dll or libcurl.dll was statically linked to implants to implement encrypted C2 communications.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 11, 2021

McAfee recently published a report stating that mobile malware infections in the fourth quarter of 2020 surpassed 40 million after steadily climbing earlier in the year. Check Point published mobile security research showing that 46% of respondents experienced employees downloading at least one malicious app during 2020. ransomware?

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SecureList

MAY 3, 2021

against Q4 2020 (47.78%). Proportion of spam in global email traffic, Q4 2020 and Q1 2021 ( download ). less than the lowest figure in 2020 (46.83%). Proportion of spam in Runet mail traffic, Q4 2020 and Q1 2021 ( download ). In 2020, Russia and Germany led the pack by volume of outgoing spam. This is 0.71

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Recent research by Positive Technologies looked at the cyber threat landscape during Q2 2021 and found that ransomware attacks reached “stratospheric” levels, accounting for 69% of all malware attacks, a huge jump from 39% in Q2 2020. Integrated one-on-one Spyware HelpDesk support. Scan scheduling. Dark web monitoring.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 8, 2022

Cybercriminals often use malware to gain access to a computer or mobile device to deploy viruses, worms, Trojans, ransomware, spyware, and rootkits. A 2020 LokiBot variant was disguised as a launcher for the Fortnite multiplayer video game.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2023

In the latest campaign uncovered by Kaspersky, the APT group, used a modular framework dubbed CloudWizard that supports spyware capabilities, including taking screenshots, microphone recording, harvesting Gmail inboxes, and keylogging. Further analysis revealed that the actor behind the above operations has been active since at least 2008.

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SecureList

AUGUST 15, 2022

While fileless malware is nothing new, the way the encrypted shellcode containing the malicious payload is embedded into Windows event logs is. WinDealer’s man-on-the-side spyware. Yanluowang ransomware: how to recover encrypted files. It encrypts small (less than 3 GB) files completely, and large ones, partially.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In late August 2020, we published an overview of DeathStalker and its activities, including the Janicab, Evilnum and PowerSing campaigns. Meanwhile, in August 2020, we also released a private report on VileRAT for our threat intelligence customers. The attackers compress stolen files into encrypted and password-protected ZIP archives.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

KeyPlug is a modular backdoor with the capability of communicating to its server via several network communication protocols set in its XOR-encrypted embedded configuration block. In June, we identified a previously unknown Android spyware app that targets Persian-speaking individuals. í religion that are banned in Iran.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

2008 — Heartland Payment Systems — 134 million credit cards are exposed through SQL injection to install spyware on Heartland’s data systems. 2014 — eBay — A cyberattack exposes names, addresses, dates of birth, and encrypted passwords of all of eBay’s 145 million users. . Marriott announces it in late 2018. .

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SecureList

AUGUST 30, 2023

A DLL with this name was used in recent deployments of a backdoor that we dubbed Gopuram , which we had been tracking since 2020. In April 2020, we uncovered a significant shift in targeting and infection vector. Using a number of vulnerabilities in iOS, the attachment is executed and installs spyware.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In the past, many actors would join forces to attack and encrypt as many organizations around the world as possible. This behavior was easy to identify because there was a boom in the Intel and AMD mobile graphic cards market in 2020-2021 compared to previous years. Mobile banking Trojans on the rise.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

NullMixer is a dropper that includes more than just specific malware families; it drops a wide variety of malicious binaries to infect the machine with, such as backdoors, bankers, downloaders, spyware and many others. RedLine Stealer has been known since early 2020 and developed through 2021. NullMixer execution chain. PrivateLoader.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

However, instead of encrypting the data, it purposefully destroyed it in the affected systems. The threat actor used news about the Russo-Ukrainian conflict to trick targets into opening harmful emails that exploited the vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-35730, CVE-2020-12641 and CVE-2021-44026).

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Sophos: Noted that 43% of all 2023 malware signature updates are for stealers, spyware, and keyloggers often used to steal credentials from devices. 553% increase in DNS Flood attacks from 1H 2020 to 2H 2023. 60% of all mobile and browser zero-days are exploited by spyware vendors. 20,551 gambling industry attacks.

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SecureList

JULY 27, 2023

Following this, we released the first of a series of additional reports describing the final payload in the infection chain: a highly sophisticated spyware implant that we dubbed “TriangleDB” Operating in memory, this implant periodically communicates with the C2 (command and control) infrastructure to receive commands.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 6, 2024

In data analyzed in the 2020 paper Dark Matter: Uncovering the DarkComet RAT Ecosystem , Turkey is identified as the country with the highest number of DarkComet C2 deployments. It has the typical RAT capabilities including keylogging, microphone capture, webcam capture, and remote access control.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In 2020: The share of spam in email traffic amounted to 50.37%, down by 6.14 In 2020, Bitcoin blackmailers stuck to their old scheme, demanding that their victims transfer money to a certain account and threatening adversity for failure to meet their demands. The share of spam in global email traffic in 2020 was down by 6.14

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SecureList

JULY 29, 2024

Introduction In May 2020, Bitdefender released a white paper containing a detailed analysis of Mandrake, a sophisticated Android cyber-espionage platform, which had been active in the wild for at least four years. After a two-year break, the Mandrake Android spyware returned to Google Play and lay low for two years.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Additional features of botnets include spam, ad and click fraud, and spyware. With over 600,000 devices, this botnet exposed just how vulnerable IoT devices could be and led to the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020. A strain of keylogger malware dubbed LokiBot notably increased in 2020. Jump ahead: Adware. RAM scraper.

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