Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

I am security researcher and have discovered this 0 day in wordpress (wp-file-manager). According to the security researcher, “ I’ve sent a writeup and POC for the vulnerable plugin for the project author but didn’t get any response, and my private post was deleted. Hello @WordPress @ExploitDB @offsectraining. wx04fzx05uck5????????

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2019

First of all the attacker knew the target organization was protected by a SOC (Security Operation Center) so she sent a well crafted email claiming to deliver a Microsoft document wrapping out the weekly SOC report as a normal activity in order to induce the victim to open-it. SOC report 10 12 2019.doc But let’s try to quickly check it.

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The Texas Record

MAY 7, 2018

We are happy to welcome guest writers from the Texas Department of Information Resources, Daniel Hankins, Shared Services Security Manager and Andy Bennett, Director Information Security Governance. Unsavory parties are stealing data, then turning around and attempting to blackmail companies and wealthy individuals into paying.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2018

The downloaded payload is able to create three new local files: C:WindowsTemp temp.jpg , containing Javascript code; C:WindowsTemp Windows.vbe , containing an encoded Visual Basic script; C:ProgramData Microsoft.db , containing the encrypted final payload. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2019

All the files have misleading extension to confuse the analysis and most of them are text files containing junk data. At this point, using the encoded data contained into “uaf.icm” between the string pattern “[sData]” and “[esData]” , the first script creates a second one, with a random name (es. Example of malware evasion.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Experts at Yoroi’s Cyber Security Defence Center along with Fincantieri’s security team investigated the recently discovered Martymcfly malware attacks. At first look the message appears suspicious due to inconsistent sender’s domain data inside the SMTP headers: From: alice.wu@anchors-chain.com. ip address: Figure 11.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The first line of this file embeds a huge array of Base64 encoded elements, but its raw decoding led only to other incomprehensible data, evidencing the presence of a more complex layer of protection. Other structures containing Base64 data. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2019

It is the encrypted final payload. Figure 11: Malicious resource retrieving routine. Every sensitive information, string or other information is encrypted through Rijndael algorithm, as shown in figure 16. This is only the starting point: it retrieves all sensitive data and login data from a large list of browsers.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

A royal baby, a fire at Notre-Dame, the highest grossing film of all time and more than 12 billion breached data records: 2019 has been quite a year. IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. Part one covers January to June, and will be followed by part in the coming days.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

For example, it uses VM-protection techniques, debug-protection, virtual machine emulation, anti-monitors techniques, anti-memory patching (see all Themida features here ). The first alert related to this wave was observed on March 22nd by The Computer Security Certified Response Team (CSIRT), of the Ministry of the Interior from Chile.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2018

In fact, those guys are all pretty good examples of the ability to build amazing things from the ground up and I'm sure that many of you reading this have sat down and started building something with the same enthusiasm as, say, Zuckerberg did with Facebook in 2004. Just over 2 years ago, my wife (Kylie) had spinal surgery.

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