Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

Researchers uncovered a recent campaign carried out by the InvisiMole group that has been targeting a small number of high-profile organizations. The group has been active since at least 2013, ESET experts linked the group to the Gamaredon Russian APT group Gamaredon despite considers the two crews independent.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The APT group was discovered in June 2022 by Kaspersky which linked it to a series of attacks aimed at high-profile entities in Europe and Asia since at least December 2020. ” reads the analysis published by Checkpoint. The tools have no code similarities with any known tool used by other threat actors.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The researchers believe that the threat actor behind Attor a state-sponsored group involved in highly targeted attacks on selected targets. ” 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).

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2023

Iran-linked APT group tracked TA453 has been linked to a new malware campaign targeting both Windows and macOS systems. ” reads the analysis published by Proofpoint. That system identifier is then encrypted with the NokNok function and base64 encoded before being used as the payload of an HTTP POST to library-store.camdvr[.]org.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2020

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group employed a Mac variant of the Dacls Remote Access Trojan (RAT) in recent attacks. The activity of the Lazarus APT group (aka HIDDEN COBRA ) surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks. ” reads the analysis published by the researchers.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2019

Victims of the PyLocky Ransomware can use a tool released by security researcher Mike Bautista at Cisco Talos group to decrypt their files for free. The good news is that security researcher Mike Bautista at Cisco Talos group released a decryption tool that allows them to decrypt their files for free.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 10, 2022

The researchers said it’s clearly the work of an advanced threat actor but they could not attribute the campaign to a known APT group. The system uses DLL (Dynamic Link Library) files to store some resources the application needs and will load automatically. The malware analysis by Kaspersky is quite remarkable and detailed.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A cyber espionage group targets governments and state-owned organizations in multiple Asian countries since early 2021. ” reads an analysis published by Symantec Threat Hunter team, part of Broadcom Software. ” reads an analysis published by Symantec Threat Hunter team, part of Broadcom Software.

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Elie

MARCH 17, 2018

This post provides an in-depth analysis of the inner workings of Gooligan, the infamous Android OAuth stealing botnet. This file is encrypted with a hardcoded [XOR encryption] function. This encryption is used to escape the signatures that detect the code that Gooligan borrows from previous malware. first post.

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Elie

MARCH 17, 2018

This post provides an in-depth analysis of the inner workings of Gooligan, the infamous Android OAuth stealing botnet. This file is encrypted with a hardcoded [XOR encryption] function. This encryption is used to escape the signatures that detect the code that Gooligan borrows from previous malware. first post.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2018

Malware researchers from ESET have conducted a new analysis of a backdoor used by the Russia-linked APT Turla in targeted espionage operations. The new analysis revealed a list of high-profile victims that was previously unknown. ” reads the analysis published by ESET. ” reads the analysis published by ESET.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

Malware Analysis Sandboxes could expose sensitive data of your organization. A backdoor mechanism found in tens of Ruby libraries. China-linked APT41 group targets US-Based Research University. million to allow towns to access encrypted data. Galaxy S10 is the first 5G phone that can be used by US DoD.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

The vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2019-13720 and CVE-2019-13721, reside respectively in Chrome’s audio component and in the PDFium library. “[$7500][ 1013868 ] High CVE-2019-13721: Use-after-free in PDFium. ” continues the analysis. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

We noticed that the TTP of the group is almost the same leveraging a weaponized document with a fake certificate of request of an Indian public fund. So, Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab team decided to dive deep into technical analysis. Technical Analysis. The SilentCMD Module. aBbU0le8hiInks/B/3500/m1ssh0upUuchCukXanevPozlu[.dll Conclusion.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The TeamTNT hacker group has been employing a new piece of malware, dubbed Hildegard, to target Kubernetes installs. The hacking group TeamTNT has been employing a new piece of malware, dubbed Hildegard, in a series of attacks targeting Kubernetes systems. ” states the analysis published by Palo Alto Networks.

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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

MARCH 2, 2019

This malware is not new and it was used in past waves by TA505, a group known for sending large-scale Dridex, Locky, and GlobeImposter campaigns, among others. TA505 group is using now a new entity to sign its malware denominated “ AlCOHOL LTD ”, with the following email associated: NastasyaTurkina68@mail[.]ru. Technical Analysis.

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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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IT Governance

JANUARY 10, 2022

Meanwhile, a third hospital group – in Dordogne – narrowly avoided falling victim, after an IT supplier detected ransomware on the organisation’s servers. The tech giant disclosed four zero-day bugs, which were being used to steal sensitive information, encrypt data for ransom and execute destructive attacks.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

That file was delivered via malscam campaigns around the world and its source-code is obfuscated in order to evade antivirus detection and complicate its analysis. Themida packer has a large group of specific features that are very appreciated by criminals to protect their threats. Technical Analysis.

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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. They look for possible vulnerabilities such as input validation errors, improper coding practices, and known susceptible libraries in the codebase. Tenable.io

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2019

Security experts at FireEye observed Chinese APT41 APT group targeting a web server at a U.S.-based Experts at FireEye observed Chinese APT41 APT group targeting a web server at a U.S.-based The arsenal of the group includes backdoors , credential stealers, keyloggers, and rootkits. based research university. chm ) files.

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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 bash script is either a single file or a group of files pointing to the main bash script. Bash scripts invoking encrypted Zip file.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

As always, our pressured IT and security teams will need to use severity ratings in combination with a risk analysis of assets potentially exposed by vulnerabilities to determine priorities and schedules. encryption and to contact vendors about possible issues and fixes for their encryption algorithms.

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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. As observed during the last few years, several threats share a lot of TTP and code, and that is a clear signal of cooperation between malicious groups. Discovering Javali trojan banker.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2023

In early June, the researchers from the Russian firm Kaspersky uncovered a previously unknown APT group that is targeting iOS devices with zero-click exploits as part of a long-running campaign dubbed Operation Triangulation. the analysis of the final payload has yet to be finished. ” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

“The Cr1ptT0r group member added that the URLs and IP addresses are not logged, so there is no correlation between data and the victim.” It is also possible to decrypt single files paying $19.99, in this case, victims have to send the encrypted file to the operators. ” wrote Bleeping Computer. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2021

China-linked APT group Cycldek is behind an advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting entities in the government and military sector in Vietnam. China-linked APT group LuckyMouse (aka Cycldek, Goblin Panda , Hellsing, APT 27, and Conimes) is targeting government and military organizations in Vietnam with spear-phishing.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 17, 2021

Possibly feeling the heat from being referenced in President Biden’s Executive Order on cybersecurity this past week, the DarkSide group sought to distance itself from their attack against Colonial Pipeline. “Sodinokibi”) ransomware groups.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Q: If a ransomware attack happens on your system(s) and all the data is encrypted, is it possible that the hacker has total control of your system(s), meaning administrative privileges? Since all the system data is encrypted, the hackers have admin/root privileges. Q: Is tape slower than disk storage systems? A device is a device.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 10, 2021

For SQLi purposes, this means keeping all web application software components, including database server software, frameworks, libraries, plug-ins, and web server software, up to date. . Encryption: Keep Your Secrets Secret. Encryption is almost universally employed as a data protection technique today and for a good reason.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

Security researcher Marco Ramilli analyzed a new Coronavirus (COVID-19)-themed attack gathering evidence of the alleged involvement of an APT group. I want to “spoil” the conclusions now, but it’s getting pretty sad if an APT group makes use of its knowledge to take advance from COVID-19 outbreak. The first stage is a fake PDF file.

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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. Key Differentiators. ManageEngine.

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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. Of course, as new rights like this are created, the Bill will ensure that they cannot be taken too far.

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