Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2021

” reads the analysis published by ESET. The encrypted module is subsequently received with a unique identifier – signature – and an additional key for its decryption.” The decrypted module is loaded into memory using the MemoryModule library. The preceding component that registers the Wslink service is not known.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2022

” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky researcher Denis Legezo. The experts discovered that the attackers are hiding encrypted shellcode containing the next-stage malware as 8KB pieces in event logs. ” continues the analysis. The attack chain aims at distributing.RAR archive from the legitimate site file.io

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 26, 2024

It manages service-to-service communication, providing essential functionalities such as service discovery, load balancing, encryption and authentication. Language libraries for connectivity have partial and inconsistent implementation of traffic management features and are difficult to maintain and upgrade.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2019

. “While continuing to monitor activity of the OceanLotus APT Group, BlackBerry Cylance researchers uncovered a novel payload loader that utilizes steganography to read an encrypted payload concealed within a.png image file.” ” reads the report published by the experts.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2019

” reads the analysis published by ESET. The malware implements a modular structure with a dispatcher and loadable plugins, all of which are implemented as dynamic-link libraries (DLLs). The Attor malware makes sophisticated use of encryption to hide its components. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2020

” reads the analysis published by the researchers. The Mac version uses the same AES key and IV as the Linux variant to encrypt and decrypt the config file. The Mac RAT implements a C&C communication similar to the Linux variant. “Both Mac and Linux variants use the WolfSSL library for SSL communications.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2021

The ransomware uses OpenSSL’s AES algorithm with CBC mode to encrypt files and leverages Telegram’s API for C2 communications. The ransomware appends radioactive symbols (“ ”) to the filenames of encrypted files. . ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 10, 2022

The system uses DLL (Dynamic Link Library) files to store some resources the application needs and will load automatically. If it does not find one, the encrypted shell code is written in 8KB chunks in the event logs. The malware analysis by Kaspersky is quite remarkable and detailed. Also read: How Hackers Evade Detection.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2023

Encryption: This protects sensitive data by converting it into a coded form that can only be accessed or decrypted with the appropriate key. Encryption ensures that data remains confidential and secure, even if intercepted or accessed by unauthorized parties.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2020

a United States defense research entity, a Turkish government agency managing public works, several large technology and communications firms headquartered in Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom, and medical organizations/medical research facilities located in Japan and Canada). ” reads the analysis published by PaloAlto Networks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2019

The sample has been initially identified by an Italian independent security researcher, who warned the InfoSec community and shared the binary for further analysis. Technical Analysis. Then, all the information is encoded in Base64 and sent to the C2 through the “ connect ” function, using a SSL encrypted HTTP channel.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

” reads the analysis published by ESET. They use DNS tunneling for stealthier C&C communications, and place execution guardrails on the malicious components to hide the malware from security researchers.” The downloader communicates with C2 servers using DNS tunneling.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption scrambles data to make it unreadable to those without decryption keys. Proper use of encryption preserves secrecy and radically lowers the potential damage of a successful cybersecurity attack. Encryption algorithm types will provide an overview of the mathematical algorithms used to encrypt data (AES, RSA, etc.),

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2020

” reads the analysis published by Intezer. ” continues the analysis. While most attackers derive their implants from popular and well-tested sources such as open source (e.g., Mirai) or blackmarket toolsets (e.g., “Kaiji has simple features.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Technical Analysis. The dropped file payload is a.NET executable embedding some anti-analysis tricks. This way, the control flow is switched to the delegated method which actually points to a DLL containing the anti-analysis logic. Static information about the AgentTesla evasive loader. Load()” method. The “Swety” Module.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

So, Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab team decided to dive deep into technical analysis. Technical Analysis. The two dll are legit windows library and are used in support of the malicious behaviour. The first operation is to provide to the C2 a list of the running processes on the victim machine: Figure 10: C2 communication. Conclusion.

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Info Source

MARCH 5, 2018

In addition to secure access to print devices and pull-printing, YSoft SafeQ encrypts communications within YSoft SafeQ and communications to other systems (for example, 3 rd party document repositories, shared network folders and email services) and will provide the corresponding tools to our customers in order for them to be fully GDPR compliant.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Technical Analysis. The malware tries to connect to the remote host 149.154.157.104 (EDIS-IT IT) through an encrypted SSL channel, then it downloads other components and deletes itself from the filesystem. In the meanwhile it sets up a system service into the “HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetServices” registry key. dll” and “D93C2D64.dll”.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Guido Vranken returns to The Hacker Mind to discuss his CryptoFuzz tool on GitHub, as well as his experience fuzzing and finding vulnerabilities in cryptographic libraries and also within cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum. Fortunately, in this episode, we’re discussing vulnerabilities in both. It’s not a secret.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2019

For instance, the latest waves increased their target selectivity abilities by implementing various country-checks and their anti-analysis capabilities through heavy code obfuscation. Technical Analysis. This layer is quite different because it contains a junk-char enriched hexadecimal code, actually XOR encrypted with the 0x52 key.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2019

The first port is used to maintain communications between C2 and clients. For more details on this finding see the Technical Analysis below. Technical Analysis. However, as already mentioned at the beginning of the technical analysis, SI-LAB team obtained two types of files, namely xls and doc archives. dll library).

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 7, 2023

The agent does the vulnerability scan and sends the results to a central server for analysis and remediation. platform for analysis and vulnerability assessment. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint captures and analyzes network traffic data, such as network flows, protocols, and communication patterns, by deploying network sensors.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This is a blog post for advanced users with binary analysis experience. Non-glibc C standard library. Uses uClibc instead of glibc C standard library. Extracting firmware can sometimes be difficult due to custom firmware layouts and encryption. Very few of these devices have security in mind when they were built.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 15, 2020

This is a blog post for advanced users with binary analysis experience. Non-glibc C standard library. Uses uClibc instead of glibc C standard library. Extracting firmware can sometimes be difficult due to custom firmware layouts and encryption. Very few of these devices have security in mind when they were built.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2023

Rapid7 conducted an analysis on three distinct infusion pump models: the Alaris PC 8015, the Baxter Sigma Spectrum model 35700BAX2 along with its associated Wireless Battery Module (WBM), and the Hospira Abbott PLUM A+ with MedNet. ” reads the analysis published by Rapid7. . ” reads the analysis published by Rapid7.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Latin American trojans share the same modus operandi and even modules and blocks of code observed during the analysis of several malware samples. dll: Windows legitimate DLL for runtime dependencies – MICROSOFT® C RUNTIME LIBRARY. dll: Windows legitimate DLL for runtime dependencies – MICROSOFT® C RUNTIME LIBRARY.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2021

The Uptycs threat research team has been observing over 90% of macOS malware in our daily analysis and customer telemetry alerts using shell scripts. The openssl program is a command line tool in macOS for using the various cryptography functions (SSL, TLS) of OpenSSL’s crypto library from the shell.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2020

Our analysis of the phishing email of this new campaign detected at the end of June – July 2020 showed that the template is very similar to the template distributed on May 8th, 2020. VBS file leverages the Windows rundll32 library to inject the first DLL into memory (P-14-7.dll), Deofuscation and renaming VBS calls. .–create

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 10, 2021

The most popular attack type, in-band SQL injections uses the same communication channel and come in two forms: Error-based : by testing what queries receive error messages, attackers can craft targeted SQL injections based on the database structure. . Encryption: Keep Your Secrets Secret. They include: SQLi Type. Description.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In Symantec’s analysis, they noted three examples of how Raindrop behaved: Enabled the malware to access network computers via the management software, and later extract a copy of the Directory Services Internals. Encryption. Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB). Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). Secure email gateway.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2021

In the recent campaign associated with Cycldek , Kaspersky observed that attackers targeted a legitimate component from Microsoft Outlook (FINDER.exe) by loading the malicious library outlib.dll that is used to hijacks the intended execution flow of the program to decode and run a shellcode placed in the rdmin.src binary file.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Falco is an open source library, a kernel module for Linux systems that intercepts the traffic between userspace and kernel space, detecting unexpected application and OS behaviour at runtime. and the library that is making that outbound connection is ‘post-receive’ within GitLab. Conclusion. government agencies and institutions).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2019

. “HIGHNOON is a backdoor that consists of multiple components, including a loader, dynamic-link library (DLL), and a rootkit. When loaded, the DLL may deploy one of two embedded drivers to conceal network traffic and communicate with its command and control server to download and launch memory-resident DLL plugins.”

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2022

And as cyber attackers become ever more sophisticated, so too have the technologies and tools that companies must buy to address rising threats, such as IDPS , UEBA , threat intelligence , patch management , encryption , DLP , DDoS protection , vulnerability management , and even mobile security management. Chat-driven automations.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

And modern fuzzers are not random, they’re guided so they dynamically work their way through the code, increasing their code coverage to find unknown vulnerabilities that can escape other software testing such as static analysis. Not only do I get a much faster time to market, I don’t have to worry about rolling my own encryption.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

And modern fuzzers are not random, they’re guided so they dynamically work their way through the code, increasing their code coverage to find unknown vulnerabilities that can escape other software testing such as static analysis. Not only do I get a much faster time to market, I don’t have to worry about rolling my own encryption.

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Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

It will ensure that libraries can continue to archive material, that journalists can continue to enjoy the freedoms that we cherish in this country, and that the criminal justice system can continue to keep us safe. These decentralised encrypted trust networks are attractive to those who do not trust big databases for privacy reasons.

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