Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2025

The Akira ransomware gang exploited an unsecured webcam to bypass EDR and launch encryption attacks on a victim’s network. The ransomware group used an unsecured webcam to encrypt systems within atarget’s network, bypassing Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR). Akira successfully encrypted files across the network.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2025

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Banshee Stealer, a MacOS Malware-as-a-Service, shut down after its source code leaked online. In August 2024, Russian hackers promoted BANSHEE Stealer, a macOS malware targeting x86_64 and ARM64, capable of stealing browser data, crypto wallets, and more. The code is now available on GitHub. concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2024

As cryptocurrencies have grown in popularity, there has also been growing concern about cybercrime involvement in this sector Cryptocurrencies have revolutionized the financial world, offering new investment opportunities and decentralized transactions. Compromised websites and malware are often at the root of these types of attacks.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In March 2023, researchers at ESET discovered malware implants embedded into various messaging app mods. The campaign, which targeted Android and Windows users, saw the malware spread through unofficial sources. The campaign, which targeted Android and Windows users, saw the malware spread through unofficial sources.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Now new findings reveal that AVrecon is the malware engine behind a 12-year-old service called SocksEscort , which rents hacked residential and small business devices to cybercriminals looking to hide their true location online. ” According to Kilmer, AVrecon is the malware that gives SocksEscort its proxies.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2025

Pirated software seekers are targeted by the new MassJacker clipper malware, according to CyberArk researchers. A new malware campaign spreading a new clipper malware dubbed MassJacker targets users searching for pirated software, Cyberark users warn. com) distributing pirated software that also spreads malware.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

This post examines the activities of Khoroshev’s many alter egos on the cybercrime forums, and tracks the career of a gifted malware author who has written and sold malicious code for the past 14 years. was used by a Russian-speaking member called Pin on the English-language cybercrime forum Opensc. Image: treasury.gov.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2025

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2025

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2024

The Mexican Drug Cartels Want You Casio: Notice of Partial Service Outage and Information Leak Caused by Ransomware Attack He founded a “startup” to access sanctioned Russian websites: the cyber police of Khmelnytskyi region exposed the hacker Hacked ‘AI Girlfriend’ Data Shows Prompts Describing Child Sexual Abuse Malware Over 300,000!

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 8, 2020

But judging from the proliferation of help-wanted ads for offensive pentesters in the cybercrime underground, today’s attackers have exactly zero trouble gaining that initial intrusion: The real challenge seems to be hiring enough people to help everyone profit from the access already gained. THE DOCTOR IS IN. ” WHO IS DR. SAMUIL?

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 16, 2021

First debuting in early 2019, CLOP is one of several ransomware groups that hack into organizations, launch ransomware that encrypts files and servers, and then demand an extortion payment in return for a digital key needed to unlock access. ? /.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 28, 2021

New data suggests someone has compromised more than 21,000 Microsoft Exchange Server email systems worldwide and infected them with malware that invokes both KrebsOnSecurity and Yours Truly by name. “web shells”) that various cybercrime groups worldwide have been using to commandeer any unpatched Exchange servers.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2025

” Perm is the current administrator of Star Fraud , one of the more consequential cybercrime communities on Telegram and one that has emerged as a foundry of innovation in voice phishing attacks. That is why I am not worried as we see criminals migrate to various ‘encrypted’ platforms that promise to ignore thepolice.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2025

PLAYFULGHOST is a new malware family with capabilities including keylogging, screen and audio capture, remote shell access, and file transfer/execution. The backdoor is distributed through: Phishing emails with themes such as code of conduct to trick users into downloading the malware. ” reads the report published by Google.

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Dark Reading

APRIL 4, 2023

The malware is one of the most sophisticated ransomwares ever seen in the wild, and marks a leap ahead for cybercrime.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2022

Hive ransomware operators have improved their file-encrypting module by migrating to Rust language and adopting a more sophisticated encryption method. ” These upgrades prove that Hive is one of the fastest evolving ransomware families in the cybercrime ecosystem. . ” reads the post published by Microsoft.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 1, 2020

Emboldened by their successes, several ransomware gangs recently have started demanding two ransoms : One payment to secure a digital key that can unlock files, folders and directories encrypted by their malware, and a second to avoid having any stolen information published or shared with others. Maybe you disagree, dear readers?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2025

Kaspersky researchers discovered a mass malware campaign spreading SilentCryptoMiner by disguising it as a tool to bypass internet restrictions. While investigating the increased use of Windows Packet Divert ( WPD ) tools by crooks to distribute malware under this pretense, the researchers spotted the campaign.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A threat actor has leaked the source code for the first version of the HelloKitty ransomware on a Russian-speaking cybercrime forum. The availability of the source in the cybercrime ecosystem can allow threat actors to develop their own version of the Hello Kitty ransomware.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape. Android Malware Detection Based on Behavioral-Level Features with Graph Convolutional Networks.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The researchers pointed out that tools belonging to the arsenal of China-linked APT groups are often shared resources, however, many arent publicly available and arent usually associated with cybercrime activity. The attack used a Toshiba executable to sideload PlugX malware.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Having been in the field for so long, we have witnessed some major changes in the cybercrime world’s modus operandi. This report shares our insights into the Russian-speaking cybercrime world and the changes in how it operates that have happened in the past five years. Malware developers — no longer hiring.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

ValidCC , a dark web bazaar run by a cybercrime group that for more than six years hacked online merchants and sold stolen payment card data, abruptly closed up shop last week. Group-IB believes UltraRank is responsible for a slew of hacks that other security firms previously attributed to at least three distinct cybercrime groups.

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SecureList

APRIL 18, 2022

Kaspersky experts have found a vulnerability in the Yanluowang encryption algorithm and created a free decryptor to help victims of this ransomware with recovering their files. This is necessary to make files used by other programs available for encryption. The encryption code for big files. Yanluowang description.

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SecureList

APRIL 18, 2022

Kaspersky experts have found a vulnerability in the Yanluowang encryption algorithm and created a free decryptor to help victims of this ransomware with recovering their files. This is necessary to make files used by other programs available for encryption. The encryption code for big files. Yanluowang description.

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Encryption Ransomware Backups VPN 144

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2024

perfctl malware targets misconfigured Linux servers to deploy cryptocurrency miners and proxyjacking software in an ongoing campaign. Aqua Nautilus researchers shed light on a Linux malware, dubbed perfctl malware, that over the past 3-4 years targeted misconfigured Linux servers. ” reads the report.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2022

Experts warn of a new variant of the RedLine malware that is distributed via emails as fake COVID-19 Omicron stat counter app as a lure. The malicious code can also act as a first-stage malware. Upon executing the Omicron Stats.exe, it unpacks resources encrypted with triple DES using ciphermode ECB and padding mode PKCS7.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2024

The cybercrime group ExCobalt targeted Russian organizations in multiple sectors with a previously unknown backdoor known as GoRed. Positive Technologies researchers reported that a cybercrime gang called ExCobalt targeted Russian organizations in multiple sectors with a previously unknown Golang-based backdoor known as GoRed.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2024

Researchers warn threat actors are manipulating GitHub search results to target developers with persistent malware. Checkmarx researchers reported that t hreat actors are manipulating GitHub search results to deliver persistent malware to developers systems. The archive contained an executable named feedbackAPI.exe.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

“They allegedly used the Phobos malware to encrypt information on the networks, blocking the companies from accessing the data unless a ransom was paid and a decryption key was provided by the gang. Generation of target list of extensions and folders to encrypt. ” reported the website Nation Thailand.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 8, 2022

One of the biggest problems in the cybercrime section of the report relates to backups. Assuming the attackers don’t just vanish into the night, the business may decide to pay the ransom and recover the encrypted files. ” The post Report: Brazil must do more to encrypt, back up data appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

In September 2024, Doctor Web researchers uncovered a malware, tracked as Vo1d , that infected nearly 1.3 Researchers at the Chinese cybersecurity firm QiAnXin (QAX) recently discovered 89 new malware samples. Vo1d botnet has enhanced its stealth and resilience with RSA encryption to secure communication, preventing C2 takeover.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Vampire malware: draining systems dry This malware creeps in undetected, draining resources and stealing data in the dark. Like vampires, malware strains can operate quietly, leeching data or encrypting files without warning, making ransomware and spyware infections incredibly haunting.

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