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GoTrim botnet actively brute forces WordPress and OpenCart sites

Security Affairs

The analysis also revealed that the bot does not maintain persistence in the infected system. C2 communications are encrypted using the Advanced Encryption Standard in Galois Counter Mode (AES-GCM) with a key derived from a passphrase embedded in the malware binary. ” continues the report. ” concludes the report.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 13 – 19 November 2023

IT Governance

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. According to OPB, the district didn’t provide details, but said that “our student credentials may have been compromised as part of a security incident”.

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Crooks use hidden directories of compromised HTTPS sites to deliver malware

Security Affairs

Security experts at Zscaler discovered that threat actors are using hidden “well-known” directories of HTTPS sites to store and deliver malicious payloads. of the popular CMS that are affected by a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) flaw that resides in the comment section of WordPress that is enabled by defaul t. “The hidden /.well-known/

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Gootkit delivery platform Gootloader used to deliver additional payloads

Security Affairs

” reads the analysis published by researchers Gabor Szappanos and Andrew Brandt from Sophos. In its latest attempts to evade detection by endpoint security tools, Gootloader has moved as much of its infection infrastructure to a “fileless” methodology as possible.” ” continues the analysis. “This.js

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Dacls RAT, the first Lazarus malware that targets Linux devices

Security Affairs

And our analysis shows that this is a fully functional, covert and RAT program targeting both Windows and Linux platforms, and the samples share some key characters being used by Lazarus Group.” ” reads the analysis published by Qihoo 360 Netlab. com /cms/ wp -content/uploads/2015/12/. ” continues the analysis.

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The Long Run of Shade Ransomware

Security Affairs

Since the beginning of the year, security firms observed a new intense ransomware campaign spreading the Shade ransomware. Between January and February, a new, intense, ransomware campaign has been observed by many security firms. Technical analysis. Shade encrypts all the user files using an AES encryption scheme.