SecureList

MARCH 12, 2021

Encrypting user files. For example, a sample with the MD5 hash sum 914e49921c19fffd7443deee6ee161a4 contains two architectures: x86_64 and ARM64. This payload uses JavaScript API to run bash commands in order to download a JSON configuration file. Downloading of JSON config. Downloading and executing a payload.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

“What makes the backdoor distinctive are its downloadable modules and their capabilities, as it contains a custom algorithm designed to gather RES 3700 POS database passwords by decrypting them from Windows registry values.” ” reads the analysis published by ESET. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

It can perform various malicious actions, including displaying ads in invisible windows, downloading and executing DEX files, installing applications, opening links in hidden WebView windows, executing JavaScript, and creating tunnels through the victim’s device. The malicious code can also potentially subscribe to paid services.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 31, 2025

The cyberthreat landscape of 2024 was rife with increasingly sophisticated threats, and encryption played a pivotal rolea staggering 87.2% billion attempted encrypted attacks, a clear demonstration of the growing risk posed by cybercriminals leveraging encryption to evade detection. of threats were hidden in TLS/SSL traffic.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 31, 2022

multiple encryption for C2 communication with ancient crypto algorithm. The encryption function used to send data was also modified, making it even more complicated. The second key is used by the Vigenere cipher to encrypt the base64 encoded header (url-safe replaced padding from “=” to “ ”). and v0.6.5,

Encryption 142

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 3, 2020

NIST’s identity-centric architecture. In August, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released its blueprint for establishing a Zero Trust security architecture, NIST SP 800-207. A Zero Trust security architecture is based on three foundational principles: Ensure that data, equipment, systems, etc.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Except for the first-stage loader and the PipeShell plugin, all plugins are downloaded from the C2 and then loaded into memory, leaving no trace on disk. 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.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

The attack starts with a shell script that downloads binaries for various architectures (ARM, MIPS, X86), extracts a command-and-control (C2) server from an encrypted configuration, and connects to it. “Analysis of the script download URL’s telemetry reveals a concentrated pattern of infections.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The new IoT malware borrows code from the Xor.DDoS and Mirai bots, it also implements fresh evasion techniques, for example, the authors have encrypted both the main component and its corresponding Lua script using the ChaCha stream cipher. The IoT malware ran only on systems with an x86 architecture.

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SecureList

JUNE 22, 2023

KTAE shows similarities between LockBit Green and Conti Three pieces of adopted code really stand out: the ransomware note, the command line options and the encryption scheme. The group now usesa custom ChaCha8 implementation to encrypt files with a randomly generated key and nonce that are saved/encrypted with a hard-coded public RSA key.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2021

The malware also implements ransomware behavior, it is able to encrypt files and display a ransom note. For example, a sample with the MD5 hash sum 914e49921c19fffd7443deee6ee161a4 contains two architectures: x86_64 and ARM64.” states the report published by Kaspersky. ” reads the report published by Trend Micro. ” .

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SecureList

MARCH 21, 2023

176) The ZIP files were downloaded from various locations hosted on two domains: webservice-srv[.]online Infection chain Infection chain Installation workflow The malicious LNK points to a remotely hosted malicious MSI file that is downloaded and started by the Windows Installer executable. online and webservice-srv1[.]online

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SecureList

JANUARY 6, 2025

Depending on the configuration, it may use the SCHANNEL security package, which supports SSL and TLS encryption on Windows. 0x0D (13) Download a file from the specified URL and write to the specified file path. The backdoor has an execution day and time check. If the C2 port has an “s” appended, an SSL session is initiated.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

And, as promised, the beta version was made available for download in the Play Store on Friday November 17, 2023. According to Nothing, Sunbird’s architecture provides a system to deliver a message from one user to another without ever storing it at any point in its journey. – Nothing Chats is not end-to-end encrypted.

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SecureList

MARCH 12, 2024

More than a third (39%) used the microservice architecture. Distribution of programming languages used in writing web applications, 2021–2023 ( download ) We analyzed data obtained through web application assessments that followed the black, gray and white box approaches.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 14, 2021

Encryption. Architecture. Encryption. Architecture. It’s noteworthy, however, to see skills like malware analysis, penetration testing and threat assessment fall, while concepts like coding/programming, encryption, risk assessment/management and intrusion detection remain top of mind with professionals. Networking.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

“While continuing research into this group’s activity, we discovered it has distributed samples of FinSpy for Microsoft Windows through a fake Adobe Flash Player download website. It extracts the binary for the relevant architecture in /tmp/udev2 and executes it. ” reads the Amnesty’s report.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The code is very simple and it has the only purpose to download another component from the internet: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Diagnostics; using System.IO; using System.Net; using System.Text; namespace Realtime { class Program { static void Main (string[] args) { WebClient wc = new WebClient (); wc.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

At the time of the malware discovery, this app had been downloaded to more than 100 million devices worldwide. At the time of writing this, the mod could be downloaded from spotiplus[.]xyz This request contains encrypted JSON data, specifically detailing the compromised device and the application hosting the module.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 3, 2018

Large data scale breaches have led an increasing number of companies to embrace comprehensive encryption strategies to protect their assets. According to our 2018 Global Encryption Trends Study , 43% of respondents report that their organization has an encryption strategy they apply across the enterprise, compared with 15% in 2005.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2023

MB in size, while the 64-bit ELF binary is compiled with gcc for the AMD64 architecture. In an attack observed by the experts, the ransomware successfully encrypted a CentOS host running a vulnerable version of IBM Aspera Faspex file server software. The ransomware encrypts files and appends the “.ifire” It is 2.18

Ransomware 98

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The Deadglyph’s architecture is composed of cooperating components, a native x64 binary and other.NET assembly. The remaining components are encrypted and stored within a binary registry value.” “Additionally, our investigation led us to the discovery of a compelling multistage shellcode downloader chain on VirusTotal.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

In the first stage of the attack, a payload downloads the other components. The payload is named “pty” followed by a number used to map the architecture. Below some download URL examples: hxxp://159.89.156.190/.y/pty2 Usually Muhstik will be instructed to download an XMRmrig miner and a scanning module.”

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SecureList

APRIL 13, 2023

Recently we explored the topic of infection methods, including malvertising and malicious downloads. RapperBot then determines the processor architecture and infects the device. The downloading of the actual malware is done via a variety of possible commands (for example, wget, curl, tftp and ftpget). Evades EDR/AV.

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SecureList

MAY 23, 2022

This report includes an analysis of the ISaGRAF framework, its architecture, the IXL and SNCP protocols that are used to program and control ISaGRAF-based devices and to communicate with them. Since authentication data is encrypted with a preset symmetric key, the attacker could decrypt an intercepted target (device) password.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

It comes equipped with a built-in TOR network tunnel for communication with command servers, along with update and delivery functionality through trusted services such as GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket, all using custom encrypted archives. org and execute PowerShell scripts. Bitbucket repository content The repository houses only a README.md

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2021

I also considered the performance, the ability to be executed via GUI and CLI, to protect the victim system without installing software,compatible with 32 and 64bits architectures, supporting since 2003/XP in advance, and consuming as less memory as possible, of course. Before downloading. WHAT IS WINTRIAGE ABLE TO? It worked OK”.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The Loki modification inherited various techniques from Havoc to complicate analysis of the agent, such as encrypting its memory image, indirectly calling system API functions, searching for API functions by hashes, and more. The Havoc agent used Daniel Bernstein’s original magic number , 5381, but in Loki, this was replaced with 2231.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2020

Like Satan, 5ss5c launches process via a downloader, leverages the EternalBlue exploit for spreading. Both Satan and 5ss5c have an exclusion list of files that are not encrypted by the malicious codes, the list of the new ransomware include additional files like the one associated with Qih00 360 security solutions (i.e.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The payload fetched by the PowerShell targets 64-bit architecture systems, it is a long script consisting of three components: Tater (Hot Potato – privilege escalation) PowerSploit Embedded exploit bundle binary (privilege escalation). .” ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

According to experts from Avast, the Torii bot has been active since at least December 2017, it could targets a broad range of architectures, including ARM, MIPS, x86, x64, PowerPC, and SuperH. The Torii IoT botnet stands out for the largest sets of architectures it is able to target. ” reads the analysis published by Avast.

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SecureList

MAY 4, 2022

Keeps Cobalt Strike module encoded several times, and AES256 CBC encrypted blob. The spreading of the Cobalt Strike module was achieved by persuading the target to download the link to the.rar on the legitimate site file.io, and run it themselves. However, encryption functions are the same as in the publicly available Throwback code.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The potential future compromise of classical encryption methods and "harvest now, decrypt later" (HNDL) attacks is seeing interest in post-quantum cryptography soar (72% in the financial services sector vs. 68% overall). To dive deeper into the report findings, download the Thales 2024 Data Threat Report: FinServ Edition.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2023

The attack chain commences with the exploitation of one of the above issues, then the threat actor tries to download a shell script downloader from a remote server. Upon executing the script, it would download and execute the proper bot clients for the specific Linux architectures: hxxp://185.225.74[.]251/armv4l

IoT 98

IoT Malware Encryption DDOS 98

eSecurity Planet

MAY 10, 2022

The researchers were struck by “the variety of the campaign’s techniques and modules,” so they made a classification to analyze the modules one by one: All these stages were possible because the hackers managed to trick a target into downloading an infected.rar on file.io, a legitimate website. How the Attackers Injected Code in Windows Logs.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 7, 2024

It covers encryption, identity and access management, network segmentation, and intrusion detection systems. Presentation layer: Utilizes encryption and data formatting standards to ensure data confidentiality and integrity throughout processing and storage.

Architecture 105

Architecture DDOS Encryption Data breaches 105

Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2021

ZHtrap supports multiple architectures, including x86, ARM, and MIPS. Once the bot has taken over the devices, it takes a cue from the Matryosh botnet by using Tor for communications with a C2 infrastructure to download and execute additional payloads.

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