Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

New Zealand’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) also published a security alert warning of spam campaigns spreading the Emotet threat. jp) email addresses that have been infected with the infamous malware and that can be employed in further spam campaigns. Today was only about a dozen replychain and nothing else.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In the middle-August, the malware was employed in fresh COVID19-themed spam campaign. Recent spam campaigns used messages with malicious Word documents, or links to them, pretending to be an invoice, shipping information, COVID-19 information , resumes, financial documents, or scanned documents.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The NOBELIUM APT ( APT29 , Cozy Bear , and The Dukes) is the threat actor that conducted supply chain attack against SolarWinds, which involved multiple families of implants, including the SUNBURST backdoor , TEARDROP malware , GoldMax malware , Sibot , and GoldFinder backdoors. ” states Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2022

Microsoft Security Intelligence team Microsoft reported that a new variant of the Sysrv botnet, tracked as Sysrv-K, now includes exploits for vulnerabilities in the Spring Framework and WordPress. — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 13, 2022.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

The group is suspected to have been running successful malware campaigns for more than five years. The attackers have used off-the-shelf malware since the beginning of their operations and have never developed their own malware. — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 11, 2021.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2022

Microsoft Security Intelligence experts are warning of a long-running campaign conducted by a cloud threat actor group, tracked as 8220, that is now targeting Linux servers to install crypto miners. “We observed notable updates to the long-running malware campaign targeting Linux systems by a group known as the 8220 gang.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2022

pic.twitter.com/Tro0NfMD0j — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 17, 2022. pic.twitter.com/stXJMDMevc — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 17, 2022. Then the attackers are able to perform other malicious actions, such as deploying malware.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Akamai Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) discovered a new version of the KmsdBot botnet that employed an updated Kmsdx binary targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The malware was employed in cryptocurrency mining campaigns and to launch denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2020

— Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) October 6, 2020. — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) October 6, 2020. Attacks showing up in commodity malware like those used by the threat actor CHIMBORAZO indicate broader exploitation in the near term.” states Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In October, Akamai’s Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) noticed an anomalous activity to the company’s honeypots targeting a rarely used TCP port. The InfectedSlurs is based on the JenX Mirai malware variant that in 2018 leveraged the Grand Theft Auto videogame community to infect devices.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2021

— Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) June 11, 2021. The sites appear as a clone of Google Drive web pages used to serve the SolarMaker malware. pic.twitter.com/cBeTfteyGl — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) June 11, 2021. ” state Microsoft. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2020

pic.twitter.com/Q3BMs7fSvx — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 27, 2020. Learn how to build organizational security hygiene to prevent human-operated attacks: [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 27, 2020.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Researchers from the Akamai Security Intelligence Group uncovered a Magecart web skimming campaign that is manipulating the website’s default 404 error page to hide malicious code. The loader retrieves this string from the comment, decodes it, and initiates the attack, stealing the personal information provided by users.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The security firms have collected more than 125,000 TrickBot malware samples and mapped the command and control infrastructure. The TrickBot botnet was considered by security experts one of the biggest botnets. Microsoft took action against the Trickbot botnet, disrupting one of the world’s most persistent malware operations.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2019

Microsoft Defender ATP Research Team discovered a fileless malware campaign that was spreading the information stealing Astaroth Trojan. Experts at the Microsoft Defender ATP Research Team discovered a fileless malware campaign that is delivering the information stealing Astaroth Trojan.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

— Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) July 23, 2021. HTML smuggling is a highly evasive technique for malware delivery that leverages legitimate HTML5 and JavaScript features. The malicious payloads are delivered via encoded strings in an HTML attachment or webpage.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2023

Researchers at Microsoft Security Intelligence team published a series of tweets to warn of a new wave of attacks aimed at distributing the Clop ransomware and linked it to the financially motivated cybercriminal group Sangria Tempest (ELBRUS, FIN7 ).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2019

pic.twitter.com/PQ2g7rvDQm — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) June 21, 2019. — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) June 21, 2019. The final payload is the remote access Trojan FlawedAmmyy,” reads a Tweet published by Microsoft Security Intelligence. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

— Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) September 24, 2020. We strongly recommend customers to immediately apply security updates for CVE-2020-1472. We strongly recommend customers to immediately apply security updates for CVE-2020-1472.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2021

. “Today, we have taken an additional step to further support our customers who are still vulnerable and have not yet implemented the complete security update. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. ” reads the announcement published by Microsoft.

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SC Magazine

MAY 14, 2021

Microsoft Security Intelligence earlier this week tweeted out that it has been tracking a campaign of remote access trojans (RATs) targeting the aerospace and travel industries with spear-phishing emails that distribute an actively developed loader, which then delivers RevengeRAT or AysncRAT. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Learn how the group tried to stay under the radar using threats perceived to be less alarming: [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) November 30, 2020. New blog: The threat actor BISMUTH, which has been running increasingly complex targeted attacks, deployed coin miners in campaigns from July to August 2020.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Get TTPs and protection info: [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) October 14, 2022. In April, Sandworm targeted energy facilities in Ukraine with a new strain of the Industroyer ICS malware (INDUSTROYER2) and a new version of the CaddyWiper wiper.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2019

The popular expert Larry Cashdollar, from Akamai’s Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT), spotted a new version of the Echobot botnet that counts 26 different exploits. The first binary I found was compiled for ARM and still had the debugging information intact, which made it a little easier to analyze.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

BlueKeep is a wormable flaw that can be exploited by malware authors to create malicious code with WannaCry capabilities. ” A new wave of attacks could exploit the vulnerability to spread more dangerous and destructive malware, like ransomware or spyware. . SecurityAffairs – Bluekeep, malware). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2022

link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) January 11, 2022. — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) January 11, 2022. According to Microsoft the ransomware operators compromised the exposed systems to deploy the NightSky ransomware. trendmrcio[.]com, rogerscorp[.]org, sophosantivirus[.]ga,

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2019

Spam messages are carrying weaponized RTF documents that could infect users with malware without any user interaction, just opening the RTF documents. pic.twitter.com/Ac6dYG9vvw — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) June 7, 2019. — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) June 7, 2019.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Get TTPs and protection info: [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) October 14, 2022. Microsoft has identified a new ransomware strain "Prestige" in limited targeted attacks in Ukraine and Poland. Several notable features differentiate this ransomware from other campaigns and payloads tracked by MSTIC.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2021

Microsoft researchers also spotted a ransomware gangs that is exploiting ProxyLogon flaws to spread a piece of malware tracked as DearCry. — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) March 12, 2021. Microsoft protects against this threat known as Ransom:Win32/DoejoCrypt.A, and also as DearCry.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Even so, organizations’ work to secure their Kubernetes architecture doesn’t end there. For information on how to secure that part of a Kubernetes cluster, click here. About the Author: David Bisson is an information security writer and security junkie. There are also the Node components.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

“The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), with its state and territory partners, is continuing to respond to the widespread malware campaign known as Emotet while responding to reports that hackers are exploiting the BlueKeep vulnerability to mine cryptocurrency.” ” Noble added.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2020

Experts from the Microsoft Security Intelligence team provided some details on a new “massive campaign” using COVID-19 themed emails. Recent research shows that the oil industry — already experiencing difficulties due to COVID-19 — must remain abreast of threats to stay safe from hackers.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2022

Microsoft linked a private-sector offensive actor (PSOA) to attacks using multiple zero-day exploits for its Subzero malware. Microsoft states that multiple news reports have linked the company to the Subzero malware toolset used to hack a broad range of devices, phones, computers, and network and internet-connected devices.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

At the time of its discovery, operators added 8 new exploits, but a few weeks later the popular expert Larry Cashdollar from Akamai’s Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) discovered a variant that included a total of 26 exploits. SecurityAffairs – Echobot variant, malware). Nothing interesting so far. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Cyber threat management , being an advanced discipline, craves analytical attention and a commander’s strategic skills of information security executives to confront and overcome the multi-dimensional cyber threats. You will create cyber awareness among your staff, as well as users, partners, customers.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 25, 2021

I've decided to make my Cybercrime Forum Data Set for 2019 and 2021 exclusively available online for free in order for me to speed the dissemination process and to possibly empower security researchers and vendors with the necessary information to help them stay on the top of their game in terms of current and emerging cyber threats including U.S

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Cisco Security

MAY 27, 2022

Malware Threat Intelligence made easy and available, with Cisco Secure Malware Analytics and SecureX by Ben Greenbaum . SecureX: Bringing Threat Intelligence Together by Ian Redden . Secure Endpoint for iOS/Security Connector . Secure Malware Analytics (formerly Threat Grid) .

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