- Old-School Bagle Worm Spotted in Modern Spam Campaigns
December 10, 2018
Fresh mass-email campaigns spreading the long-running Bagle worm have recently been spotted, affecting Microsoft Windows machines. These appear to be a throwback to an earlier time. Also referred to as Beagle, Bagel contains a backdoor that listens on TCP port 6777 which is hardcoded in the worm’s body. This backdoor component provides remote access to the ...
- IoT Botnets Behind 78% of Malware Network Events in 2018 According to Report
December 6, 2018
Internet of things (IoT) botnet activity during 2018 was behind roughly 78% of all network malware events detected by the NetGuard Endpoint Security solution deployed on more than 150 million devices according to a report by the Nokia Threat Intelligence Lab. The Nokia Threat Intelligence Report 2019 report was also performed using multiple malware sandboxes and honeypots, on both ...
- New Adobe Flash Zero-Day Exploit Found Hidden Inside MS Office Docs
December 6, 2018
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player that hackers are actively exploiting in the wild as part of a targeted campaign appears to be attacking a Russian state health care institution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-15982, is a use-after-free flaw resides in Flash Player that, if exploited successfully, allows an attacker to ...
- ESET discovers 21 new Linux malware families
December 6, 2018
Although Linux is a much more secure operating system compared to the more widely used Windows, it is not impervious to misconfigurations and malware infections. Over the past decade, the number of malware families targeting Linux has grown, but the total number of threats is still orders of magnitude under the malware numbers reported attacking Windows systems. This smaller ...
- New Ransomware Spreading Rapidly in China Infected Over 100,000 PCs
December 4, 2018
A new piece of ransomware is spreading rapidly across China that has already infected more than 100,000 computers in the last four days as a result of a supply-chain attack… and the number of infected users is continuously increasing every hour. What’s Interesting? Unlike almost every ransomware malware, the new virus doesn’t demand ransom payments in Bitcoin. Instead, ...
- U.S Charges Two Iranian Hackers for SamSam Ransomware Attacks
November 28, 2018
The Department of Justice announced Wednesday charges against two Iranian nationals for their involvement in creating and deploying the notorious SamSam ransomware. The alleged hackers, Faramarz Shahi Savandi, 34, and Mohammad Mehdi Shah, 27, have been charged on several counts of computer hacking and fraud charges, the indictmentunsealed today at New Jersey court revealed. The duo used SamSam ransomware to ...
- New industrial espionage campaign leverages AutoCAD-based malware
November 28, 2018
Security researchers have spotted a somewhat unique malware distribution campaign that targets companies using AutoCAD-based malware. Discovered by cyber-security firm Forcepoint, which shared its findings with ZDNet yesterday, the campaign appears to have been active since 2014, based on telemetry data the company has analyzed. Forcepoint says the group behind this recent campaign is most likely very sophisticated ...
- GreyEnergy APT Delivers Malware via Phishing Attacks and Multi-Stage Dropper
November 27, 2018
The highly complex backdoor malware payload designed by the GreyEnergy advanced persistent threat (APT) group is being dropped on targeted machines using the common phishing infection vector as detailed by Nozomi Networks’ Alessandro Di Pinto. GreyEnergy attacked and infiltrated the networks of multiple critical infrastructure targets from Eastern Europe, from Poland and Ukraine, with other objectives ...
- Threat Actor Uses DNS Redirects, DNSpionage RAT to Attack Government Targets
November 27, 2018
Cisco Talos discovered a new malware campaign targeting a commercial Lebanese airline company, as well as United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Lebanon government domains. According to Cisco Talos’ findings, the recently observed campaign could not be connected to other threat actors or attacks based on the used infrastructure and its Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTP). The actor ...
- Mobile Rotexy Malware Touts Ransomware, Banking Trojan Functions
November 26, 2018
A mobile malware has accelerated its activity in 2018, launching more than 70k attacks in August through October. Mobile malware, dubbed Rotexy, has evolved from being spyware to now a dangerous banking trojan packing a host of new clever features. Researchers report 70,000 attacks between August and October with targets primarily based in Russia. In a technical brief released ...