Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2019

The name Planetary ransomware comes from the use of the names of planets for the extensions the malicious code adds to the file names of encrypted files (i.e.mira,yum , Pluto, or. The latest variant of the Planetary malware appends the.mira extension to the names of the encrypted files.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Below is the step-by-step procedure that could have allowed attackers to exploit the vulnerability against Packagist: Create a project in a remote Mercurial repository; Put the manifest in composer.json and add a malicious readme entry; When using a payload like the one depicted above, create a file named payload.sh

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2018

The jQuery File Upload is a jQuery widget “with multiple file selection, drag&drop support, progress bars, validation and preview images, audio and video.”. The plugin is widely adopted by numerous server-side platforms that support standard HTML form file uploads: PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, Java, Node.js, Go, and others.

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2021

Searching for these common entries led us to a YouTube video titled “Simps Botnet , Slamming!!!”, created by a user named “itz UR0A” created on 24 April 2021. Figure 7: Youtube video demo of Simps Botnet. Figure 10: keksec.infected.you.log file. Another commonality was the Simps Botnet infection log message.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2018

. “Even without an enumeration vector, this is still bad news, because a lot of document software, like office, will actually keep files in static locations that contain the full path and file names of recently opened documents.,” ” explained the expert.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2019

“This malware, which we named BlackSquid after the registries created and main component file names, is particularly dangerous for several reasons.” “The miner in resource is the primary miner used, but it also determines if the targeted system has a video card. ” states Trend Micro.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Inführ used a specially ODT file containing a white-colored hyperlink (he has used the white color to make it invisible in the document) that has an “ onmouseover ” event to execute a local python file. ” wrote the expert. The expert also published the PoC exploit code for the flaw that works on Windows OS.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2019

The following video PoC shows how to gain full control over a targeted system by tricking the victims into opening maliciously crafted compressed archive file using WinRAR. The file associated with the fake Ariana Grande’s hit album is currently detected by a limited number of antivirus solutions.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MARCH 20, 2023

Last December, the CNIL already issued a fine for an amount of €3 million against a company publishing video games for smartphone and which used Apple’s IDFV identifier for advertising purpose without the users’ valid consent ( see , in French only). The CNIL will continue its investigations in 2023.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2019

Below a video PoC of the attack: The Gatekeeper bypass flaw affects all macOS versions, including the latest one (ver. The disk image files were either an ISO 9660 image with a.dmg file name, or an actual Apple Disk Image format.dmg file. 10.14.5), and Apple has yet to release an update to address the issue.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But those videos, they sure are cute, no? So, I just thought I’d point that out.

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Info Source

JUNE 24, 2019

. · OCR title naming (all models) : The optical character recognition (OCR) function recognizes title bar (microfiche) or title image (microfilm) text. View the Mekel Technology microfilm video or the microfiche video to see Mekel 2.0 in operation. Brochure: MACH 5, 10, 12 microfilm scanners.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Researchers at Cymulate security firm devised a new stealthy technique to deliver malware leveraging videos embedded into weaponized Microsoft Office Documents. The technique could be used to execute JavaScript code when a user clicks on a weaponized YouTube video thumbnail embedded in a Weaponized Office document.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 19, 2018

Let's start with this video as it pretty succinctly explains the issue in consumer-friendly terms: VIDEO: Nova Scotia's government is accusing a 19-year-old of breaching their government website's security ~ Privacy experts disagree. That's something I vehemently disagree with.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

The expert discovered also that the gathered info was first stored in a password protected zip file named “history.zip”, then it would be uploaded to a remote server. Below a video created by Privacy_1st to show his findings.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2018

The messages used employment-related subjects such as “About a role” and “Job Application,” while the malicious attached documents used file names in the format of “firstname.surname_resume.doc”. The stolen information is organized into sections: info : basic computer information such as Windows version and computer name.

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The Texas Record

JUNE 1, 2021

These folders will be easy to start with, because they will most likely contain records that are easy to distinguish from convenience copies: Downloads, My Pictures, My Videos, and My Received Files. Organizing and Naming. Instead of “Notes,” label the file “Conference X Notes – 2021-01-01”).

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

In that post, I embedded a short video that shows how easily these attacks are automated and I want to include it again here: Within the first 20 seconds, the author of the video has chosen a combo list just like the one three quarters of a billion people are in via this Combination #1 breach.

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KnowBe4

MAY 31, 2023

It also includes a summary of indicators of compromise (IOCs), such as unique command-line strings, hashes, file paths, exploitation of certain vulnerabilities, and file names commonly used by this actor. The two stand out because they are also common file extension names.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2021

Researchers uncovered a malspam campaign that spreads the QNode remote access Trojan (RAT) using fake Trump’s sex scandal video as bait. Security experts from Trustwave uncovered a malspam campaign that is delivering the QNode remote access Trojan (RAT) using fake Trump’s sex scandal video as bait. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 19, 2017

On March 14 this year, someone sent me a 27GB file called "masterdeeds.sql" which was a MySQL database backup file. There was nothing immediately remarkable about it; there was no clear indication of a source (many similar examples include the source website in the file name) and there were "only" 2.2

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

It's not just the media using scary imagery either, check out the first 20 seconds of this video promoting a home security product: Holy s**t! I don't know precisely what the guy at the start of that video is doing, but there's a lot of green screens and we all know that means there's some serious hacking going on. That's one bad dude!

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