Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2022

” reads the analysis published by the experts. “Unlike other threats that hijack shared libraries by modifying the environment variable LD_PRELOAD, this malware uses 2 different ways to load the malicious library. The experts pointed out that the malware outstands for its almost hermetic hooking of libraries.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 1, 2024

While most issues can be fixed through prompt patching and updating, a few remain unfixed and may require more significant changes to the security stack to block possible attacks. March 22, 2024 Emergency Out-of-Band Windows Server Security Updates Type of vulnerability (or attack): Memory leak. Upgrade versions 7.2.0 through 7.2.2

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2022

The malicious packages, which were reported to PyPI, are: loglib-modules — appears to target developers familiar with the legitimate ‘loglib’ library. pyg-modules — appears to target developers familiar with the legitimate ‘pyg’ library. ” continues the analysis. com:8000/upload. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2023

Upon executing one of the infected apps, it loads a heavily obfuscated native library containing a dropper that decrypts and runs malicious code from the app assets. This move makes hard the analysis and the detection of the malware. . The payload is only used to intercept notifications and view web pages.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2024

We verify these guesses by monitoring whether the DMP performs a dereference through cache-timing analysis. Developers of cryptographic libraries can either set the DOIT bit and DIT bit bits, which disable the DMP on some CPUs.” Once we make a correct guess, we proceed to guess the next batch of key bits.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Shellcode play an essential role in cyber attacks, the popular expert Unixfreaxjp explained how to utilize radare2 for variation of shellcode analysis. A good analysis tool can help you dissect a shellcode if the low-level language analysis operation is supported, as any shellcode is coded in assembly language.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Threat actors are already abusing Log4Shell vulnerability in the Log4j library for malicious purposes such as deploying malware. A few hours ago, researchers at NetLab 360 reported that their Anglerfish and Apacket honeypots were already hit by attacks attempting to trigger the Log4Shell flaw in the Log4j library. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2021

IN FRA:HALT is a set of vulnerabilities affecting a popular TCP/IP library commonly OT devices manufactured by more than 200 vendors. “Forescout Research Labs and JFrog Security Research exploited two of the Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities in their lab and show the potential effects of a successful attack.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2022

Recently, the Chinese security firm Rising detected a Linux variant of the SFile ransomware that uses the RSA+AES algorithm mode. “For example, the variant captured this time uses nuctech-gj0okyci (nuctech is the English name of Nuctech Technology Co., as the suffix name. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 7, 2023

We have 4 upcoming events planned for June 2023: Mayhem Unleashed Webinar: Discover our Next Generation Security Testing Solution DevSecOps Roundtable CyberSecurity Summit Hartford ForAllSecure APFT (Adversary, Penetration, and FuzzTesting) Training Read on to learn more about June’s events. We hope to see you there! The challenge?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2023

Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence team warns of four different ransomware families ( KeRanger , FileCoder , MacRansom , and EvilQuest ) that impact Apple macOS systems. The researchers reported that KeRanger and EvilQuest use a sequence of opendir() , readdir() , and closedir() library functions to get the list of files.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2018

Security researchers at Intezer and McAfee have conducted a joint investigation that allowed them to collect evidence that links malware families attributed to North Korean APT groups such as the notorious Lazarus Group and Group 123. ” reads the analysis published by the experts.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2020

The discovery urges Apple into implementing additional security measures to protect these components, following the approach already adopted by Google to protect multimedia processing libraries. Multimedia processing libraries are used by the modern mobile OS to automatically manage multimedia files (i.e.

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Security Affairs

JULY 3, 2022

continues the analysis. In the example below, q:erpbirel.yax deciphers to d:recovery.lnk.”. The malware uses cmd.exe to read and execute a file stored on the infected external drive, it leverages msiexec.exe for external network communication to a rogue domain used as C2 to download and install a DLL library file.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 25, 2023

There are a lot of options for software security testing tools. In this blog post, I'm going to cover a simple two-step process that will allow you to pick the best software security tool for your organization. The main security concern is the third-party code has a known vulnerability. has known vulnerability PYSEC-2021-19.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2022

of the library wipe the content of arbitrary files and replace it with a heart emoji. This security incident involves destructive acts of corrupting files on disk by one maintainer and their attempts to hide and restate that deliberate sabotage in different forms. ” reads the analysis published by security firm Synk.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 21, 2022

The application, node-ipc, adds remote interprocess communication and neural networking capabilities to other open source code libraries. As a dependency, node-ipc is automatically downloaded and incorporated into other libraries, including ones like Vue.js CLI, which has more than 1 million weekly downloads. […].

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Security researchers spotted a new malware that uses Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to evade detection in attacks against Windows machines. Security researchers from Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs have discovered several malicious Linux binaries developed to target the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2022

Magecart threat actors have switched most of their operations server-side to avoid detection of security firms. Malwarebytes researchers observed the use of 3 different themes by the threat actor to hide their skimmer, named after JavaScript libraries: hal-data[.]org/gre/code.js ” concludes the analysis. livestatic[.]com/theme/main.js

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Even better, security tools like behavioral analytics can spot attacks simply by noticing anomalous activity, important technology for catching zero-day threats and adversarial attacks. The most common ML security approach is the regression technique, also known as the prediction. Logs analysis to find trends and patterns.

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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 ”. Table 2: AutoUpdate.dll Information.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The watsonx platform, along with other IBM AI applications, libraries and APIs help partners more quickly bring AI-powered commercial software to market , reducing the need for specialized talent and developer resources. For example, supply chain management can be a challenge for companies.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

During our analysis of these malware samples, we have identified that some of the malware samples belonged to Qbot and Lokibot attempting to execute.ocx files. Regsvr32 is a Microsoft-signed command line utility in Windows which allows users to register and unregister DLLs (Dynamic Link Library). Example – regsvr32.exe”

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2021

” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky. It loads the magnification.dll library and gets the address of the deprecated MagSetImageScalingCallback API function,” continues the analysis. The post Bizarro banking Trojan targets banks in Brazil and abroad appeared first on Security Affairs. concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2022

continues the analysis. In the example below, q:erpbirel.yax deciphers to d:recovery.lnk.”. The malware uses cmd.exe to read and execute a file stored on the infected external drive, it leverages msiexec.exe for external network communication to a rogue domain used as C2 to download and install a DLL library file.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Many are addressing this via building accelerators that could be customized for enterprise consumption that helps accelerate specific areas of modernization and one such example from IBM is IBM Consulting Cloud Accelerators. We will explore key areas of acceleration with an example in this article.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2022

” continues the analysis. In the example below, q:erpbirel.yax deciphers to d:recovery.lnk.” The post Raspberry Robin spreads via removable USB devices appeared first on Security Affairs. The Raspberry Robin worm often appears as a shortcut.lnk file masquerading as a legitimate folder on the infected USB device.”

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 10, 2022

Hackers have found a way to infect Windows Event Logs with fileless malware , security researchers have found. 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. Hackers Focused on Evasion.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 25, 2018

For example, if a terminated employee (who feels that he or she was wrongly terminated) says something like “I’m going to sue you, you’ll be hearing from my lawyer”, your duty to preserve responsive ESI related to their employment and termination may begin then, not when the case is actually filed.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2021

“The archive contains two malicious DLL libraries as well as two legitimate executables that sideload the DLL files. We found multiple archives like this with file names of government entities in Myanmar, for example “COVID-19 Case 12-11-2020(MOTC).rar” ” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2019

PathAuditor has been released by the tech giant as open-source, the company plans to continue to contribute to the development of the tools and with this move aims at involving the security community to improve it. PathAuditor is a shared library that can be loaded into processes using LD_PRELOAD. .” ” concludes Google.

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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. . ” reads the analysis published by IBM. The Zeus Sphinx banking Trojan is based on the code of the Zeus v.2

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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. For example, Amazon handles millions of different products, and yet we, as consumers, can find almost anything about everything very quickly.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2021

library and community for container images. “For example, most Monero cryptominers forcibly donate some percentage of their mining time to the miner’s developers. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. ” Docker Hub is the world’s largest. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Collibra

JANUARY 9, 2024

Take, for example, a federal health agency tracking the spread of a contagious disease. Different agencies, including education, community development, and public libraries, collaborate to create a comprehensive approach to tackle illiteracy. It’s imperative that the data they rely on is consistent, accurate and timely.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

But how exactly will artificial intelligence help bridge the information security skills gap? And even with the help of machine learning algorithms, what kinds of security work is still best left to humans? We also talk about what’s driving the adoption of AI and machine learning technologies in the information security field.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Imagine walking into the largest library you’ve ever seen. Fortunately, the library has a computer at the front desk you can use to search its entire inventory by title, author, genre, and more. For example, data catalogs have evolved to deliver governance capabilities like managing data quality and data privacy and compliance.

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