Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Latin American Javali trojan weaponizing Avira antivirus legitimate injector to implant malware. After that, the following files are extracted, namely: Avira.exe : Legitimate injector from Avira Antivirus. In the last few years, many banking trojans developed by Latin American criminals have increased in volume and sophistication.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2019

A Russian hacking group Fxmsp is offering for sale the access to the networks of at least three antivirus companies in the US and source code of their software. Buyers can also pay at least $300,000 acquiring both, the price depends on the antivirus company. SecurityAffairs – antivirus companies, Fxmsp). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2020

Chinese hackers have exploited a zero-day vulnerability the Trend Micro OfficeScan antivirus in the recently disclosed hack of Mitsubishi Electric. The amount of unauthorized access is approximately 200 megabytes, mainly for documents.”. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Quick Heal Antivirus

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Microsoft office documents are used worldwide by both corporates and home-users alike. The post Your Office Document is at Risk – XLL, A New Attack Vector appeared first on Quick Heal Blog | Latest computer security news, tips, and advice. It’s different office versions, whether.

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Quick Heal Antivirus

JULY 1, 2021

The post WARZONE RAT – Beware Of The Trojan Malware Stealing Data Triggering From Various Office Documents appeared first on Quick Heal Blog | Latest computer security news, tips, and advice. Warzone RAT is part of an APT campaign named “Confucius.” Confucius APT is known to target government sectors.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

Melissa was hidden in a weaponized Word document that arrived as an email attachment. Votiro is a Tel Aviv-based security startup that is pioneering a new white-listing approach to help companies mitigate their exposure to weaponized email and document-distributed malware. The key takeaways: Productivity vs. security.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 8, 2019

Evil Clippy is a tool for creating malicious Microsoft Office macros: At BlackHat Asia we released Evil Clippy, a tool which assists red teamers and security testers in creating malicious MS Office documents. In the meantime, any tool analyzing the VBA source code (such as antivirus) is completely fooled.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2019

On or around May 12, at least two antivirus firms began detecting booby-trapped Microsoft Word files that were sent along with some various of the following message: {Pullman & Assoc. Our {legal team | legal council | legal departement} has prepared a document explaining the {litigation | legal dispute | legal contset}.

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Centraleyes

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

But instead of legal documents, victims are met with a decoy and a hidden malware file. Stealth Mode Activated To avoid detection, Rhadamanthys uses a clever trick: it clones itself as a much larger file in the victim’s Documents folder, disguised as a Firefox component.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

It had no documented cyber incident response runbooks or IT recovery plans (apart from documented AD recovery plans) for recovering from a wide-scale ransomware event. Antivirus software triggered numerous alerts after detecting Cobalt Strike activity but these were not escalated.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 11, 2023

•Employ real-time antivirus scanning. By using real-time antivirus scanning to detect and neutralize security risks as they enter the trading system, threats can be quickly identified and eliminated. This includes scanning all materials, such as investor onboarding documents and communication. Implement strong data encryption.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 7, 2021

In the process of doing so, I encountered a small snag: The FSB’s website said in order to communicate with them securely, I needed to download and install an encryption and virtual private networking (VPN) appliance that is flagged by at least 20 antivirus products as malware. The FSB headquarters at Lubyanka Square, Moscow.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2024

“While NetScan ran on the primary Veeam backup server, antivirus (AV) protection was disabled on the virtual machine host, both through antivirus user interfaces (UI) and through the command line.” The attackers used the free Windows file manager WinSCP to exfiltrate the data to a server they controlled.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 30, 2024

For example, the last laptop I got had an antivirus software trial preinstalled—not necessarily a bad thing, but still bloatware. From a day-to-day perspective, your PC helps you create or enjoy videos, music, photos, documents, and much more to unleash your creativity, plan your life, and run your business. What is bloatware?

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Megatraffer explained that malware purveyors need a certificate because many antivirus products will be far more interested in unsigned software, and because signed files downloaded from the Internet don’t tend to get blocked by security features built into modern web browsers. “Antivirus software trusts signed programs more.

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The tool — dubbed "APOMacroSploit" — is a macro exploit generator that allows the user to create an Excel document capable of bypassing antivirus software,

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2021

Chinese military unit PLA Unit 61419 is suspected to be involved in cyber-espionage campaigns against multiple antivirus companies. “Insikt Group assesses that the purchase of foreign antivirus software by the PLA poses a high risk to the global antivirus software supply chain.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Identity IQ

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

However, these disasters can make you more vulnerable to identity theft, as critical documents and devices may be lost , stolen, or damaged, and the urgency of the situation often leads to lapses in security. During a disaster, keep documents and devices with you, use secure connections, and monitor your accounts for unusual activity.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 15, 2022

According to an official document from the Unites States District Court, Western District of Texas Waco Division, Webroot is seeking damages for lost sales, profits, and market share. The complaint has raised eyebrows within the sector and on social media. To read this article in full, please click here

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2022

Dubbed “ Follina ,” the flaw became public knowledge on May 27, when a security researcher tweeted about a malicious Word document that had surprisingly low detection rates by antivirus products. “Most malicious Word documents leverage the macro feature of the software to deliver their malicious payload. .

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2021

Russian national Oleg Koshkin was convicted for operating a “crypting” service used to obfuscate the Kelihos bot from antivirus software. “According to court documents and evidence introduced at trial, Oleg Koshkin, 41, formerly of Estonia, operated the websites “Crypt4U.com,” “fud.bz” and others.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The gang also published several pictures of passports and company documents as proof of the hack. Once the malware has escalated the privileges on a machine, the threat actors use a batch script to uninstall popular antivirus solutions installed on the machine. Cactus Ransomware has just posted Schneider Electric.

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Webroot

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

There are many steps you can take to ensure your identity isn’t compromised: Shredding bank statements Securing important documents Ensuring your passwords are effectively managed Investing in a quality antivirus for your devices. The same trusted antivirus but with the added bonus of identity protection.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2021

Microsoft 365 Defender data shows that the SEO poisoning technique is effective, given that Microsoft Defender Antivirus has detected and blocked thousands of these PDF documents in numerous environments. The attack works by using PDF documents designed to rank on search results. ” state Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2021

Security expert spotted a new piece of malware that leverages weaponized Word documents to download a PowerShell script from GitHub. Security expert discovered a new piece of malware uses weaponized Word documents to download a PowerShell script from GitHub.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 20, 2021

Severa ran several affiliate programs that paid cybercriminals to trick people into installing fake antivirus software. In 2011, KrebsOnSecurity dissected “SevAntivir” — Severa’s eponymous fake antivirus affiliate program — showing it was used to deploy new copies of the Kelihos spam botnet.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2021

The spear-phishing messages used a malicious Rich Text File (RTF) document that included descriptions of an autonomous underwater vehicle. The RTF documents were uncovered by Cybereason Nocturnus Team while investigating recent developments in the RoyalRoad weaponizer, also known as the 8.t t Dropper/RTF exploit builder.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The group usually takes advantage of Word documents and uses shortcut files for the initial intrusion. Based on our telemetry, we observed that one victim in the UAE was attacked using a malicious Word document. The victim received a document file named “Shamjit Client Details Form.doc” on September 2, 2022.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

In the last few days I have done some analysis on malicious documents, especially PDF. ” Let’s go to our case study: I received a scan request for a PDF file that was reported to support an antivirus vendor, and it replied that the file was not malicious. Then I thought, “Why not turn a PDF analysis into an article?”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The phishing messages carry weaponized Excel documents that are able to bypass security checks and that had low detection rates. The trick used by the Epic Macnchego gang consists of compiling the documents with a.NET library called EPPlus , instead of the standard Microsoft Office software. EPPlus is such a tool.”

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CSO Magazine

JULY 6, 2022

Rather than installing malicious software on your network that antivirus software might flag, attackers use the code already there to launch attacks. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), New Zealand’s NCSC, and the UK NCSC recently released a document called Keeping PowerShell: Security Measures to Use and Embrace.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The Sentinel Labs’s analysis revealed that Black Basta ransomware operators develop and maintain their own toolkit, they documented only collaboration with a limited and trusted set of affiliates. The DisableAntiSpyware parameter allows disabling the Windows Defender Antivirus in order to deploy another security solution.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2023

Adobe Acrobat Sign allows registered users to sign documents online and send a document signature request to anyone. The message includes a link to the document that that will be hosted on Adobe itself. This latter process consists of generating an email that is sent to the intended recipients. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2021

. “A Russian national was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for operating a “crypting” service used to conceal the Kelihos malware from antivirus software, which enabled hackers to systematically infect approximately hundreds of thousands of victim computers around the world with malicious software, including ransomware.”

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SecureList

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Run a keyword-based search to identify potential leaked documents. During one project, we reviewed third-party antivirus logs and identified multiple webshell detections on the same server for several days. Collect a forensic triage package from the consultant’s laptop. Analyze the package to identify all leaked credentials.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

EDR vs Other Security Solutions EDR works smoothly with various security tools, including EPP, antivirus, SIEM, and MDR. They handle many endpoints, extending protection beyond traditional antivirus solutions. Organizations should employ antivirus software to protect themselves against known malware and basic vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2021

The operators behind LockFile ransomware encrypt alternate blocks of 16 bytes in a document to evade detection. Instead, LockFile encrypts every other 16 bytes of a document. This means that a file such as a text document remains partially readable and looks statistically like the original. ” states Sophos.

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