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Cyber Threats Observatory Gets Improvements

Security Affairs

In other words, it could be nice to see what are the patterns used by malware in both: domain names, file names and process names. TOP domains, TOP processes and TOP File Names. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. About the author: Marco Ramilli, Founder of Yoroi.

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Using Microsoft Powerpoint as Malware Dropper

Security Affairs

The script downloads a file named: AZZI.exe and saves it by a new name: VRE1wEh9j0mvUATIN3AqW1HSNnyir8id.exe on a System temporary directory for running it. In other words Stage 3 reads an image placed under the internal resource of PE File, extracts and executes it. The final payload looks like AzoRult Malware.

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France: the CNIL has released its annual dawn raid Program for 2023: four national priorities and one priority coming from the EDPB!

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

As a reminder, in 2022, the CNIL priority topics were (i) direct marketing (ii) monitoring telework and (iii) the use of cloud computing (see our previous post ). This decision comes from several claims filed with CNIL for unauthorized access by third parties to patient records held by health care institutions.

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Malware researcher reverse engineered a threat that went undetected for at least 2 years

Security Affairs

During the analysis time, only really few Antivirus (6 out of 60) were able to “detect” the sample. The execution of such a command drops on local HardDrive (AppData-Local-Temp) three new files named: RetrieveRandomNumber.vbs (2x) and RandomName.reg. On Final Stage VBS Run Files. reg) analysis program.

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APT34: Glimpse project

Security Affairs

Indeed we might observe a File-based command and control (a quite unusual solution) structure, a VBS launcher, a PowerShell Payload and a covert channel over DNS engine. But let’s move on and start a quick analysis on it. The command and control is implemented by a standalone.NET application working through files.

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Hacking The Hacker. Stopping a big botnet targeting USA, Canada and Italy

Security Affairs

Today I’d like to share a full path analysis including a KickBack attack which took me to gain full access to an entire Ursniff/Gozi botnet. My entire “Cyber adventure” began with a simple email within a.ZIP file named “Nuovo Documento1.zip” SEAAppDataLocalTemp/rEOuvWkRP.exe.