Data Breach Today

AUGUST 30, 2019

Watering-Hole Attack Analysis From Google Follows Apple's February Patches Since at least 2016, hacked websites have targeted zero-day flaws in current versions of Apple iOS to surreptitiously implant data-stealing and location-tracking malware, says Google's Project Zero team. Apple patched the latest vulnerabilities in February.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Does this means I am posting analysis blog again? The post MMD-0063-2019 – Summarize report of three years MalwareMustDie research (Sept 2016-Sept 2019) appeared first on Security Affairs. Hello, it’s unixfreaxjp here. It has been a while since I wrote our own blog, and it is good to be back. The background.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

Researchers at the University of Sherbrooke in Canada recently published an analysis of 911 , and found there were roughly 120,000 PCs for rent via the service, with the largest number of them located in the United States. The 911 user interface, as it existed when the service first launched in 2016. “The 911[.]re

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

” reads the analysis published by CheckPoint. ” continues the analysis. The post Domestic Kitten – An Iranian surveillance operation under the radar since 2016 appeared first on Security Affairs. “Interestingly, these targets include Kurdish and Turkish natives and ISIS supporters. call records.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2024

The Moobot botnet has been active since at least 2016, it also includes other routers and virtual private servers (VPS). The analysis of memory dumps and command-and-control connections revealed that the botnet is running a variant of the Ngioweb malware. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2023

Researchers from Singapore-based cybersecurity firm Numen Cyber have published a detailed analysis of the vulnerability along with a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit that works against Windows Server 2016. ” reads the analysis published by the experts. . ” reads the analysis published by the experts.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2022

The popular cybersecurity expert Kevin Beaumont published an analysis of the flaw. ” reads the analysis published by Beaumont. ” The issue affects multiple Microsoft Office versions, including Office, Office 2016, and Office 2021.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2022

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-22620 , was fixed for the first time in 2013, but in 2016 experts discovered a way to bypass the fix. CVE-2022-22620 was initially fixed in 2013, reintroduced in 2016, and then disclosed as exploited in-the-wild in 2022.” Its fix was just regressed in 2016 during refactoring.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “ Trickbot ,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia that has enabled countless ransomware attacks and bank account takeovers since its debut in 2016. companies and government entities.

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Security Affairs

JULY 3, 2022

” To properly address zero-day vulnerabilities Google researchers recommend platform security teams and other independent security researchers to invest in root cause analysis, variant analysis, patch analysis, and exploit technique analysis. We publish our analyses at this repository. ” concludes Stone.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2022

In this post, I present an abstract from the original analysis that I suggest reading, below the annual increase in the number of breaches: Year Number of Scams Year Increase In Number of Breaches (%) 2021 76 2020 – 2021 145% 2020 31 2019 – 2020 19% 2019 26 2018 – 2019 73%. Threat actors stole $3.18 The top 5 breaches in history are: 1.

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Dark Reading

JUNE 17, 2020

If the 2016 election is any indication, images included in state-sponsored social media posts are effective at disseminating propaganda, new analysis shows.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

Below is the list of exploit payloads added to the bot: D-Link: CVE-2015-1187 , CVE-2016-20017 , CVE-2020-25506 , and CVE-2021-45382. ” reads the analysis published by Fortinet. ” concludes the analysis. These critical flaws allow remote attackers to deliver command injection via a crafted request.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

In 2016, researchers from the non-profit organization CitizenLab published a report that describes a campaign of targeted spyware attacks carried out by the Stealth Falcon. The authors used different languages to hinder analysis, researchers explained. ” reads the analysis published by ESET.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The exploit had numerous debug strings from an older, publicly known exploit for vulnerability CVE-2016-3309 , but closer analysis revealed that it was a zero-day.” ” reported the analysis published by Kaspersky.

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Info Source

MARCH 19, 2018

Support for Windows 2016. is the global standard for advanced image analysis and payment document recognition. Support for Windows 2016. Support for Windows 2016. Support for Windows 2016. Support for Windows 2016. Support for Windows 2016. a2ia CheckReader V10.0 Savings bonds from Italy.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

CSPY Downloader is a tool designed to evade analysis and acts as a downloader to deliver additional payloads. The new malware appears to have been developed recently, but threat actors might have used Backdating, or timestomping to thwart analysis attempts (anti-forensics).

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 12, 2024

Trimarc Vision is a powerful security posture analysis product that provides visibility into the most important security components of Active Directory. Based out of Washington, DC, the company is self-funded and was founded in 2016 by Sean Metcalf, a Microsoft Certified Master in Active Directory. Washington, DC, Jan.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 20, 2021

Citizen Lab conducted an independent analysis. Citizen Lab has been researching and reporting on its actions since 2016. Or, at least, an enormous trove of documents was leaked to journalists. There’s a lot to read out there. Amnesty International has a report. The Guardian has extensive coverage. More coverage.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2023

Google’s Threat Analysis Group Google states that more than 40% of zero-day flaws discovered in 2022 were variants of previous issues. The popular Threat Analysis Group (TAG) Maddie Stone wrote Google’s fourth annual year-in-review of zero-day flaws exploited in-the-wild [ 2021 , 2020 , 2019 ], it is built off of the mid-year 2022 review.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2020

In a few days back, the MalwareMustDie team’s security researcher unixfreaxjp has published a new Linux malware analysis of Fbot that has focused on the decryption of the last encryption logic used by its bot client. What had happened now is the re-emerged of the SATORI Mirai variant basis with the payload called Fbot. [.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The expert pointed out that every firmware developed since 2016 has been tested and found to be vulnerable. “During our analysis, we observed numerous payloads attempting to leverage this vulnerability to probing the status of devices or extracting sensitive data from victims. ” reads the analysis published by Fortinet.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2022

“This analysis has enabled us to develop a forensic tool to identify Trickbot-related compromise and other suspicious indicators on MikroTik devices. We published this tool to help customers ensure these IoT devices are not susceptible to these attacks.” ” reads the post published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Karma ransomware is a new threat that was first spotted in June of 2021, it is important to distinguish it from a different threat with the same name that is active since 2016. The analysis of the compilation dates of the samples suggests that the Karma ransomware is still under active development.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2022

“It uses several methods of obfuscation for its strings to hinder analysis and hide itself from other botnets. ” reads the analysis published by Fortinet. Below is the list of supported commands: “Based on the analysis of FortiGuard Labs, Enemybot is Keksec’s latest tool for performing DDoS attacks.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

“We found dozens of related samples that had been appearing in the wild since 2016 and had been deployed in various application marketplaces including Google Play.” ” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2020

“During our research, we were able to identify strong links between a Crutch dropper from 2016 and Gazer. The latter, also known as WhiteBear, was a second-stage backdoor used by Turla in 2016-2017.” ” continues the analysis. ” reads the report published by ESET.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 12, 2022

A document published by the Obama administration in May 2016 (PDF) says the DEA’s El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC) systems in Texas are available for use by federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement, as well as the Department of Defense and intelligence community. . ” The DEA’s EPIC portal login page.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 14, 2022

Late 2016: Ukraine blamed Russian security services for thousands of cyber attacks against its infrastructure. December 2016: Sandworm used Industroyer1 for a power outage that received some attention in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital. Industroyer1 was specifically made to attack electric grids.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2022

The threat actors behind this campaign impersonate Mexican Government Officials, the malware uses multiple anti-analysis techniques along with implementation of Captcha for evading Sandboxes. ” reads the post published by Zscaler. ” reads the post published by Zscaler. ” concludes the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 2, 2022

CyberGRX launched in 2016 precisely because bespoke assessments had become untenable. The idea behind it is that this is a process of collecting the right data, creating your own quality data and performing very complex analysis in order to produce actionable results,” he says. Here are key takeaways: Smoothing audits.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2021

The new malware implement new and improved rootkit and worm capabilities, it continues to target cloud applications by exploiting known vulnerabilities such as Oracle WebLogic ( CVE-2017-10271 ) and Apache ActiveMQ ( CVE-2016-3088 ) servers. ” reads the analysis published by Palo Alto Networks. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2022

” TrickBot is a popular banking Trojan that has been around since October 2016, its authors have continuously upgraded it by implementing new features. The analysis conducted by IBM X-Force researchers reinforced the link between Diavol ransomware and the TrickBot malware.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2020

reads the analysis published by Reason Labs. The malware also uses an information-stealing technique, which was first seen in 2016 and related to the “AZORult” malware family. ” continues the analysis. Additional technical details are included in the analysis shared by Reason Labs.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2021

” reads the analysis published by the expert. According to the researchers, the Smominru botnet has been active at least since 2016 and at the time of its discovery infected more than 526,000 Windows computers. ” continues the analysis. Encryption used is a very simple ROT cipher, where the key is set to -1.”

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Data Protection Report

MAY 18, 2022

While these details may not appear to be sensitive at first glance, a careful analysis of the context is required when collecting, using, or disclosing any personal information. Factors that affect this analysis include the nature of the information balanced against what is already available in the public sphere.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

com — were seen as early as 2016 as distribution points for the Hummer Trojan , a potent strain of Android malware often bundled with games that completely compromises the infected device. com 2016-02-18 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., At least another five of the domains registered to tosaka1027@gmail.com — 99youx[.]com

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