Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2023

TA453 in May 2023 started using LNK infection chains instead of Microsoft Word documents with macros. The last-stage malware is the GorjolEcho backdoor, which displays a decoy PDF document, while awaiting next-stage payloads from the C2 server. GorjolEcho maintains persistence by copying the initial stages malware in a StartUp entry.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

exe will drop malware components — several C++ and Python libraries and the Python 2.7 Core dynamic-link library (DLL) — along with the main ransomware executable (lockyfud.exe, which was created via PyInstaller ) in C:Users{user}AppDataLocalTempis-{random}.tmp.” When successfully run, the Facture_23100.31.07.2018.exe

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

. “The purpose of this document is to describe the operating mode used during these attacks and the associated compromise indicators, then to provide recommendations to limit the impact of this type of incident.” locked to the filename of the encrypted files. The malicious code appended the extension.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The attackers use Microsoft Word’s built-in feature to fetch a payload from a remote server, by changing the template target of the settings.xml file which is embedded in the document and populating this field with a download URL of the next payload. SecurityAffairs – hacking, malware).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

JSWorm encrypts all the user files appending a new extension to their name. During the encryption phase, the ransomware creates an HTML Application “JSWRM-DECRYPT.hta” in each folder it encounters. The malware encrypts all the files whose extension is not present in the list. Figure 3: Extensions excluded from encryption.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption scrambles data to make it unreadable to those without decryption keys. Proper use of encryption preserves secrecy and radically lowers the potential damage of a successful cybersecurity attack. Encryption algorithm types will provide an overview of the mathematical algorithms used to encrypt data (AES, RSA, etc.),

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Modernization teams perform their code analysis and go through several documents (mostly dated); this is where their reliance on code analysis tools becomes important. The accelerator generated UI for desired channel that could be integrated to the APIs, unit test cases and test data and design documentation.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

“Although issues with certificate validation have been identified within the encrypted communication between the mobile application and the backend system, the inner layer of end-to-end encryption could not be broken.” .” reads the report published by SEC Consult. ” reads the blog post published by the company.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2023

Encryption: This protects sensitive data by converting it into a coded form that can only be accessed or decrypted with the appropriate key. Encryption ensures that data remains confidential and secure, even if intercepted or accessed by unauthorized parties.

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AIIM

JULY 24, 2018

Entity Extraction that automatically identifies names, organizations, locations, dates, quantities and monetary value from contracts; Natural Language Processing (NLP) that helps organizations infer meaning from agreements in context by analyzing contract clauses and their relationships within and between documents.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

It exploits a vulnerability in the Windows wdigest.dll library and then uses an improved ListPlanting technique to inject its code into a trusted process. The activity of the group is characterized by the heavy use of legitimate tools and per-victim encryption in the early stages of the attack chains.

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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. The document presents itself as a request for a DSOP FUND (Defence Services Officers Provident Fund ). Figure 1: Piece of the malicious document employed in the Op. Conclusion.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

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. Figure 1: Screen of the fake document. According to the MSDN documentation , the method Delegate. Load()” method.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2019

The attack vector is still not clear, APT28 typically use decoy Office documents armed with VB macro. Then, all the information is encoded in Base64 and sent to the C2 through the “ connect ” function, using a SSL encrypted HTTP channel. Technical Analysis. AutoIt script’s main function.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2019

In February 2019, SI-LAB captured multiple samples of phishing campaigns using an Office Excel document carrying a malicious Excel 4.0 After the Excel document is opened (xls file), the content it displays will lure the user to execute malicious Excel 4.0 At first glance, we analyzed a.xls document with an XLM macro (Excel 4.0

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2018

From the PDF documents, the backdoor is able to recover what attackers call a container in the logs. This is a binary blob with a special format that contains encrypted commands for the backdoor ,” reads the report released by ESET. Technically, the attachment does not have to be a valid PDF document.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2018

N051118 ), where the malicious payload was dropped abusing a macro-enabled word document able to download the malicious DLL paylaod. The malware tries to connect to the remote host 149.154.157.104 (EDIS-IT IT) through an encrypted SSL channel, then it downloads other components and deletes itself from the filesystem.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Non-glibc C standard library. Lack of available source code or documentation. Uses uClibc instead of glibc C standard library. Extracting firmware can sometimes be difficult due to custom firmware layouts and encryption. Let's find the missing library and add it to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Non-glibc C standard library. Lack of available source code or documentation. Uses uClibc instead of glibc C standard library. Extracting firmware can sometimes be difficult due to custom firmware layouts and encryption. Let's find the missing library and add it to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2019

Hash c86d3ab048976eb70d64409f3e7277ec40d6baf9ba97bcf4882e504fb26b5164 Threat Microsoft Excel malicious document Brief Description Malicious macro Ssdeep 1536:9n1DN3aMePUKccCEW8yjJTdrBZq8/Ok3hOdsylKlgryzc4 bNhZFGzE+cL2knA5xG:9n1DN3aM+UKccCEW8yjJTdrBZq8/Ok3B. This means, the content of the variable “$y” actually is a.NET Dynamic Linked Library.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

dll: Windows legitimate DLL for runtime dependencies – MICROSOFT® C RUNTIME LIBRARY. dll: Windows legitimate DLL for runtime dependencies – MICROSOFT® C RUNTIME LIBRARY. If a path is passed, then the library is only loaded from the specific path. com/document/d/1wG-npl-Rx1WT00cYpjvrE_V_PzzxuavKLkpvYReLjvw/edit.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 7, 2021

In the process of doing so, I encountered a small snag: The FSB’s website said in order to communicate with them securely, I needed to download and install an encryption and virtual private networking (VPN) appliance that is flagged by at least 20 antivirus products as malware. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Image: Wikipedia.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2021

The malicious Office document, when opened, it poses as a DocuSign file – a popular software for signing digital documents. The malicious documents take advantage of Excel 4.0 Figure 3: Excel document used to lure victims and download and execute the QakBot 2nd stage. Dribbling AVs with XLM macros. Suspicious 738 0.5%

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2023

The analysis of the Alaris 8015 allowed the researchers to retrieve hostnames with domain information, AES keys for encryption, SSIDs, Wi-Fi Pre Shared Keys (PSK) passphrase in clear text, credentials for Microsoft Active Directory authentication, and Wi-Fi configuration settings. ” reads the analysis published by Rapid7.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Of course, developers cannot be held responsible for all vulnerabilities, but they usually have privileged accounts and even direct access to sensitive documents and pipes, which makes them increasingly attractive targets. The document lists concrete measures to reduce the risk: Generate architecture and design documents.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Below the attack chain documented by the reseachers from Palo Alto Networks: The attacker targeted an unsecured Kubelet on the internet and searched for containers running inside the Kubernetes nodes. It also hides malicious processes using library injection and encrypts the malicious payload.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

In the book The Art of Invisibility , I challenged my co author Kevin Mitnick to document the steps needed to become invisible online. In the very quiet science fiction section of the Glen Park Public Library in San Francisco. This was before the commercial internet when it was easier to forge documents to create new identities today.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Fundamentals of API Security API security includes a range of tactics such as strict authentication and authorization methods, data encryption technologies, and strong access controls. Employ established input validation techniques and libraries to thwart threats like SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS).

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. Information including their names, email addresses, and encrypted passwords may have been compromised. million account holders.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

Kent: it's a little bit of a borrowed term right inside of software there are API's that you call, you know, in the libraries and stuff to move things around, and we've moved it out into the application space as kind of a way to go get data, a way to communicate between two systems. So it's typically computer to computer communication.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

Kent: it's a little bit of a borrowed term right inside of software there are API's that you call, you know, in the libraries and stuff to move things around, and we've moved it out into the application space as kind of a way to go get data, a way to communicate between two systems. So it's typically computer to computer communication.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

EMOTET has evolved in its delivery, however, this wave was conducted with the most prominent form: inserting malicious documents or URL links inside the body of an email sometimes disguised as an invoice or PDF attachment. We could not retrieve any more information about this library in malware.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2020

Lampion was first documented in December 2019 , and it was distributed in Portugal via phishing emails using templates based on the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax. The text is written in Portuguese, and just the logo at the end of the document was changed between May and July malware versions. exe TargetFileDOSName: rundll32.exe

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

The Department of Justice, have submitted letters to the Library of Congress who manages those exemptions. So it gives you a lot of fertile ground to work on, as compared with the mostly heavily encrypted SSL, TLS web components that a lot of websites and apps use. Intercepting replaying middlings Some of those attacks.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

The Department of Justice, have submitted letters to the Library of Congress who manages those exemptions. So it gives you a lot of fertile ground to work on, as compared with the mostly heavily encrypted SSL, TLS web components that a lot of websites and apps use. Intercepting replaying middlings Some of those attacks.

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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

APRIL 6, 2021

In 2018, the cyberespionage group targeted once again Vietnam running a spear-phishing campaign that uses weaponized documents featuring Vietnamese-language lures and themes. Since 2017, the group was observed launching attacks using RTF lure documents with political content related to Vietnam.

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