Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2021

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 343 appeared first on Security Affairs. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 27, 2023

But in addition to vastly improved reasoning and visual capabilities, GPT-4 also retains many of ChatGPT’s security and privacy issues , in some cases even enhancing them. They presented this summary of those exploits — the thumbs up means those capabilities have been enhanced in GPT-4: ChatGPT security issues carried over to GPT-4.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

As organizations embrace hybrid IT environments, SD-WAN and the tools combine to form a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) offering that gives organizations the latest capabilities for optimizing WANs and securing hybrid enterprise workloads. Networking specialists like Cisco and HPE’s Aruba are moving deeper into security.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The threat actors leverage spear-phishing emails to deliver archive files utilizing DLL side-loading schemes. The CurKeep payload is very small, it is 10kb in size, contains 26 functions and is not statically compiled with any library. appeared first on Security Affairs. In turn, the C2 responds with strings of commands.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2020

PaloAlto Networks experts warn of malicious Coronavirus themed phishing campaigns targeting government and medical organizations. The attacks against the Canadian healthcare organizations were discovered between March 24 and March 26, they started with coronavirus -themed phishing campaigns that were carried out in the last months.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Iran-linked Cobalt Dickens APT group carried out a spear-phishing campaign aimed at tens of universities worldwide. This operation is similar to the threat group’s August 2018 campaign , using compromised university resources to send library-themed phishing emails.” ” continues the report.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 10, 2022

The cyber security landscape offered similarly familiar topics: there were huge data breaches at Facebook and LinkedIn, while the threat of ransomware reached catastrophic levels. You can read more about that attack, along with the year’s other biggest stories, in our 2021 cyber security review of the year.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

DEV-0950 group used Clop ransomware to encrypt the network of organizations previously infected with the Raspberry Robin worm. The experts noticed that threat actors tracked as DEV-0950 used Clop ransomware to encrypt the network of organizations previously infected with the worm. ” reads the report published by Microsoft.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Endpoint security software is designed to detect, avert, and eradicate malware on endpoint devices like desktop computers, laptops, network servers, and mobile phones. Endpoint security solutions are available in three forms—personal, small and mid-sized business (SMB), and enterprise use. Bitdefender Premium Security.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2021

In March 2020, CERT France cyber-security agency warned about a new wave of ransomware attack that was targeting the networks of local government authorities. According to the experts, the first infections were observed in late 2019, victims reported their files were encrypted by a strain of malware.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In the case of double-extortion ransomware attacks, malware is used to not only encrypt the victim’s data but also exfiltrate sensitive files, such as customer information, which attackers then threaten to release publicly. The attack is an early example of social engineering and phishing.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches. Read on for more details on these threats or jump down to see the linked vendor reports. 20% increase accesses of specific organizations advertised.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2023

The spear-phishing message appears as a benign conversation lure masquerading as a senior fellow with the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) to the public media contact for a nuclear security expert at a US-based think tank focused on foreign affairs. ” reads the analysis published by Proofpoint.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. 5 Common Phishing Attacks and How to Avoid Them? A backdoor mechanism found in tens of Ruby libraries. million to allow towns to access encrypted data. Hackers are scanning the web for vulnerable Fortinet, Pulse Secure Products installs. Once again thank you!

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Attackers carried out spear-phishing emails using the Know Your Customer regulations (KYC) as a lure. The second layer of Python code decodes and loads to memory the main RAT and the imported libraries. The new infection chain starts by including just one LNK file in the ZIP archive attached to spear-phishing messages.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The malicious activity starts with a phishing email sent to the target victims in Latin American – Brazil, Mexico, Chile, and Peru – and Europe – Spain and Portugal. In short, the phishing email is received by victims. dll: Windows legitimate DLL for runtime dependencies – MICROSOFT® C RUNTIME LIBRARY.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 30, 2024

billion in total potential damages by year-end Although the impact on Change Healthcare and UHG will be quantified for the US Security Exchange Commission (SEC), the impact on the US healthcare industry is more difficult to measure. CNN interviewed small practitioners stranded without payments , and UGH wound up providing $6.5

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Imperial Violet

MARCH 26, 2018

Security Keys are another attempt address this problem—initially in the form of a second authentication factor but, in the future, potentially as a complete replacement. Very briefly, Security Keys are separate pieces of hardware capable of generating public/private key pairs and signing with them. Contrasts with existing solutions.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2021

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. The threat actors are sending out spear-phishing messages to compromise diplomatic targets in Southeast Asia, India, and the U.S. at least since 2013.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Rogue security software. Architect a premium network security model like SASE that encompasses SD-WAN , CASB , secure web gateways , ZTNA , FWaaS , and microsegmentation. Attackers often use botnets to send out spam or phishing campaigns to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Jump ahead: Adware.

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IT Governance

JULY 31, 2019

Remember after last month’s relatively serene cyber security scene we said this wasn’t the beginning of the GDPRevolution ? Hackers steal names and Social Security numbers from Maryland Department of Labour (78,000). Philadelphia Federal Credit Union confirms security breach (unknown). Libraries in Onondaga Co.,

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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 observed APT41 using spear-phishing email with attachments such as compiled HTML (. “HIGHNOON is a backdoor that consists of multiple components, including a loader, dynamic-link library (DLL), and a rootkit.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Since the beginning of the year, security firms observed a new intense ransomware campaign spreading the Shade ransomware. Between January and February, a new, intense, ransomware campaign has been observed by many security firms. Shade encrypts all the user files using an AES encryption scheme. Technical analysis.

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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. VBS file leverages the Windows rundll32 library to inject the first DLL into memory (P-14-7.dll), More recently, in May 2020, a new variant of Lampion was observed.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2021

QakBot is disseminated these days using target phishing campaigns in several languages, including Portuguese. Figure 15: Identification of Delphi forms and unknown resources (encrypted QakBot DLL). The strings inside the QakBot are encrypted, decrypted in run-time, and destroyed after use (like the mediatic Emotet).

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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. The following VBScript is run through cscript.exe, It’s an obfuscated and xor-encrypted payload. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Security firms such as Proofpoint and Eset analyzed other samples of the same threat targeting the Australian landscape back in May 2018 and, more recently, in Italy. The Cybaze -Yoroi ZLab dissected one of these recent Danabot variants spread across the Italian cyberspace leveraging “ Fattura ” themed phishing emails (e.g.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

And my background is pretty straightforward with cyber security for the past 16 years on many different levels. Vamosi: At SecTor, an annual security conference in Toronto, Paua gave not one but two talks this year. What would be valuable from their perspective to encrypt and then ask for the ransom. Is it a phishing campaign?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

At that time, the researchers tracked the sources IP in Pakistan, the attacks were part of a wider operation that relies on multi vector such as watering hole websites and phishing email campaigns delivering custom RATs dubbed Crimson and Peppy. The two dll are legit windows library and are used in support of the malicious behaviour.

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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. 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. Introduction. Agent Tesla is one of these “ commodity malware ”.

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Cyber Info Veritas

JULY 11, 2018

Part of the reason for this is the ever-increasing rate of cybercrimes, hacking, and phishing attacks, especially now that we have technologies such as online and mobile banking. The server then encrypts this data before sending it out to its target destination; all of this takes milliseconds depending on the location of the server.

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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 This is part of a giant list of Living off the Land (LOL) techniques that attackers employ to mask their activities from runtime endpoint security monitoring tools such as AVs.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Kyle Hanslovan CEO of Huntress Labs joins The Hacker Mind to discuss recent LoL attacks, specifically the Microsoft Follina attack and the Kaseya ransomware attack, and how important it is for small and medium sized businesses to start using enterprise grade security, given the evolving nature of these attacks. They'd be allowed, right?

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

Is there something more secure? Simon Moffatt from CyberHut joins The Hacker Mind to discuss how identity and access management (IAM) is fundamental to everything we do online today, and why even multi-factor access, while an improvement, needs to yield to more effortless and more secure passwordless technology that’s coming soon.

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