eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2023

Application security tools and software solutions are designed to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities and threats in software applications. These tools play a vital role in ensuring the security, integrity, and confidentiality of sensitive information, such as personal data and financial records.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 28, 2020

In this post, we will follow up on a prior article on using Mayhem to analyze stb and MATIO by reviewing three additional vulnerabilities found in another open source library. This question is fairly self-explanatory, but sometimes a non-trivial hurdle: dynamic analysis needs to be able to run the target! What Makes a Good Target?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2019

Experts analyzed an Office document containing a payload that is able to bypass Microsoft AppLocker and Anti-Malware Scan Interface (AMSI), Introduction. Technical analysis. Initial document view. This trick is able to bypass all the major sandboxing services, like Any.run and Hybrid Analysis. Sample information.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2024

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and Mandiant reported a surge in the number of actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in 2023. Out of the eight in-the-wild zero-day issues targeting Chrome in 2023, none of the vulnerabilities impacted the Document Object Model (DOM) and there were use-after-free issues.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

In fact, there are more than a few flaws present, as well as the occasional gaping security hole. Code debugging and code security tools exist to find and help developers fix the problems that occur. Security and Speed Needs Drive Growth. Best Code Debugging and Code Security Tools. SonarQube’s standout features.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 29, 2022

Log4j is the latest, greatest vulnerability to demonstrate just how tenuous the security of modern networks has become. By no means has the cybersecurity community been blind to the complex security challenges spinning out of digital transformation. Log4j, for instance, is a ubiquitous logging library.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 28, 2020

In this post, we will follow up on a prior article on using Mayhem to analyze stb and MATIO by reviewing three additional vulnerabilities found in another open source library. This question is fairly self-explanatory, but sometimes a non-trivial hurdle: dynamic analysis needs to be able to run the target! What Makes a Good Target?

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 28, 2020

In this post, we will follow up on a prior article on using Mayhem to analyze stb and MATIO by reviewing three additional vulnerabilities found in another open source library. This question is fairly self-explanatory, but sometimes a non-trivial hurdle: dynamic analysis needs to be able to run the target! What Makes a Good Target?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

” reads the analysis published by Microsoft. . “After April 2021, when the key was leaked to the corporate environment in the crash dump, the Storm-0558 actor was able to successfully compromise a Microsoft engineer’s corporate account.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2022

This same legitimate application has previously been used by the Lazarus Group, as documented in this report from CISA.” The document contains a macro split into two parts, the first one is used to decode a base64 blob that contains a second OLE object containing a second macro. “continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2023

TA453 in May 2023 started using LNK infection chains instead of Microsoft Word documents with macros. The messages demand feedback on a project called “Iran in the Global Security Context” and requested permission to send a draft for review. ” reads the analysis published by Proofpoint. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2021

In July 2021, the French national cyber-security agency ANSSI warned of ongoing attacks against a large number of French organizations conducted by the Chine-linked APT31 cyberespionage group. ” reads the analysis published by the experts. The library mimics the legitimate MSVCR100.dll Pierluigi Paganini.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 4, 2021

At this point, the document only has historical interest. Presumably, volumes IV, V, and VI are still hidden inside the classified libraries of the NSA. 20, “The Analysis of Systems Employing Long or Continuous Keys”; Monograph No. 23, “Fundamentals of Key Analysis”; Monograph No.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2020

The Kimsuky APT group has been analyzed by several security teams. Technical Analysis. The “ AutoUpdate.dll” library then gains persistence by setting the following registry key “ HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRunOnceWindowsDefender ”. scr” file, the document is named “ ??? ??.hwp hwp” extension.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2023

The IcedID malware usually spreads malvertising campaigns using weaponized Office documents. ” reads the analysis published by Cyble. . ” reads the analysis published by Cyble. The analysis conducted by the experts revealed that the file was a version of the IcedID malware. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2023

The attack chain commences with a spear-phishing email containing a weaponized document, which contains a link leading to the download of an HTML file. The HTLM files are hosted on a legitimate online library website that was likely compromised by the threat actors sometime between the end of January 2023 and the beginning of February 2023.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

“CISA obtained four malicious files for analysis during an on-site incident response engagement at a Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) organization compromised by Iranian government sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) actors.” ” reads the Malware Analysis Report (AR22-320A) published by CISA.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Hundreds of millions of Android users are potentially exposed to the risk of hack due to the use of Android Play Core Library versions vulnerable to CVE-2020-8913. The CVE-2020-8913 flaw is a local, arbitrary code execution vulnerability that resides exists in the SplitCompat.install endpoint in Android’s Play Core Library.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 3, 2022

Findings released this week by ReversingLabs show 87 percent of security and technology professionals view software tampering as a new breach vector of concern, yet only 37 percent say they have a way to detect it across their software supply chain. Its function is to record events in a log for a system administrator to review and act upon.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2020

Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for April 2020 address 113 flaws, including three Windows issues that have been exploited in attacks in the wild. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for April 2020 address 113 flaws, including two remote code execution flaws in Windows that are actively exploited.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an alert to warn of a surge of Emotet attacks that have targeted multiple state and local governments in the U.S. Emotet is a modular malware, its operators could develop new Dynamic Link Libraries to update its capabilities. since August. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2022

The experts uncovered a campaign using lure documents themed around COVID-19 and the Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province. The weaponized documents were crafted to start the infection process and led to the installation of Cobalt Strike beacons on infected systems. ” concluded the analysis.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

” reads the analysis published by Palo Alto Networks. ’ PyMICROPSIA uses Python libraries to implements multiple operations, including data theft, Windows process and systems interaction. .” Experts also documented a keylogging capability implemented using the GetAsyncKeyState API as part of a separate payload.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Security experts at Cybaze – Yoroi ZLab have analyzed a new sample of the AdvisorsBot malware, a downloader that was first spotted in August 2018. Technical analysis. Once opened, the document kindly asks to the users to enable the macro scripts, heavily obfuscated to avoid static detection. DLL Analysis.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. This file, which also masquerades as a legitimate word document, is designed to lure unsuspecting victims into executing the loader. The second-stage malware, UpdatTask.dll , is a dynamic-link library (DLL) written in C++ that includes two export functions, DllEntryPoint and Entry.

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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. — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 13, 2022.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Discovery focuses on understanding legacy application, infrastructure, data, interaction between applications, services and data and other aspects like security. Modernization teams perform their code analysis and go through several documents (mostly dated); this is where their reliance on code analysis tools becomes important.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The activity of the cyber espionage group was first documented by ESET experts Matthieu Faou and Francis Labelle in a talk at the Virus Bulletin 2020 security conference. The malware samples analyzed by the researchers are slightly obfuscated using string obfuscation and dynamic Windows API library loading.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 25, 2018

Often, the risk of spoliation of ESI can be minimized simply by issuing a properly documented legal hold, which can go a long way in showing due diligence efforts to meet your duty to preserve. Which made me think of the state of data creation, management, storage, and security in the corporate world today.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Cybereason Nocturnus security researchers have identified an active campaign focused on the users of a large e-commerce platform in Latin America. ” reads the analysis published by Cybereason. The post Phishing campaign targets LATAM e-commerce users with Chaes Malware appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Security experts from Trend Micro have spotted a new strain of ransomware involved in attacks in July and August, the malicious code was posing as the Locky ransomware. ” reads hte analysis published by Trend Micro. exe will drop malware components — several C++ and Python libraries and the Python 2.7 Pierluigi Paganini.

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National Archives Records Express

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As part of the new digital preservation effort, NARA undertook an agency-wide digital preservation gap analysis to help identify areas of improvement in NARA’s capacity and capabilities. Success of the Strategy depends upon ongoing analysis of the numbers and types of file formats across all NARA’s electronic records collections.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2021

The Dropbox link leads to a RAR archive that masquerades as a Word document by setting the “file_subpath” parameter to point to a filename with a.DOCX extension. “The archive contains two malicious DLL libraries as well as two legitimate executables that sideload the DLL files. ” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2020

IBM security researcher continues to monitor the evolution of the infamous Zeus Sphinx banking Trojan (aka Zloader or Terdot ) that receives frequent updates and that was involved in active coronavirus scams. . Zeus Sphinx is distributed through malspam campaigns that use weaponized office documents. 2 Trojan that was leaked online.

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erwin

JUNE 26, 2020

The data catalog is a searchable asset that enables all data – including even formerly siloed tribal knowledge – to be cataloged and more quickly exposed to users for analysis. Another classic example is the online or card catalog at a library. for analysis and integration purposes). Operational Metadata.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2020

During our Cyber Threat Intelligence monitoring we spotted a particular Office document weaponized to deliver such kind of malicious tool, uncovering a hidden malicious campaign designed to target Italian speaking victims. Technical Analysis. Figure 2: Overview of the malicious document. Code Snippet 4.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Nowadays the Malware-As-A-Service is one of the criminal favorite ways to breach security perimeter. Technical Analysis. The document uses a common phishing schema, it invites the user to enable the macro execution due to compatibility reasons with older Microsoft Office versions. The document contains an obfuscated VBA macro.

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