- Android malware: A million people downloaded these malicious apps before they were finally removed from Google Play
November 15, 2022
Google has removed a series of apps downloaded by over a million Android users from the Google Play Store that infected smartphones with malware and bombarded devices with malicious pop-up ads. The malware has been detailed by cybersecurity researchers at Malwarebytes. The apps were still available to download for a number of days after the research ...
- Phishing drops IceXLoader malware on thousands of home, corporate devices
November 10, 2022
A ongoing phishing campaign has infected thousands of home and corporate users with a new version of the ‘IceXLoader’ malware. The authors of IceXLoader, a malware loader first spotted in the wild this summer, have released version 3.3.3, enhancing the tool’s functionality and introducing a multi-stage delivery chain. The discovery of the Nim-based malware came in June ...
- Malicious extension lets attackers control Google Chrome remotely
November 8, 2022
A new Chrome browser botnet named ‘Cloud9’ has been discovered in the wild using malicious extensions to steal online accounts, log keystrokes, inject ads and malicious JS code, and enlist the victim’s browser in DDoS attacks. The Cloud9 browser botnet is effectively a remote access trojan (RAT) for the Chromium web browser, including Google Chrome and ...
- Massive Phishing Campaigns Target India Banks’ Clients
November 7, 2022
Trend Micro researchers observed an uptick in attacks targeting bank customers in India, the common entry point being a text message with a phishing link. The SMS content urges the victims to open the embedded phishing link or malicious app download page and follow the instructions: To fill in their personally identifiable information (PII) and ...
- Azov Ransomware is a wiper, destroying data 666 bytes at a time
November 7, 2022
The Azov Ransomware continues to be heavily distributed worldwide, now proven to be a data wiper that intentionally destroys victims’ data and infects other programs. Last month, a threat actor began distributing malware called ‘Azov Ransomware’ through cracks and pirated software that pretended to encrypt victims’ files. However, instead of providing contact info to negotiate a ransom, ...
- APT10: Tracking down LODEINFO 2022, part I
October 31, 2022
Kaspersky has been tracking activities involving the LODEINFO malware family since 2019, looking for new modifications and thoroughly investigating any attacks utilizing those new variants. LODEINFO is sophisticated fileless malware first named in a blogpost from JPCERT/CC in February 2020. The malware was regularly modified and upgraded by the developers to target media, diplomatic, governmental and ...
- Banking Trojan Techniques: How Financially Motivated Malware Became Infrastructure
October 31, 2022
While advanced persistent threats get the most breathless coverage in the news, many threat actors have money on their mind rather than espionage. You can learn a lot about the innovations used by these financially motivated groups by watching banking Trojans. Because attackers constantly create new techniques to evade detection and perform malicious acts, studying monetarily ...
- New Azov data wiper tries to frame researchers and BleepingComputer
October 30, 2022
A new and destructive ‘Azov Ransomware’ data wiper is being heavily distributed through pirated software, key generators, and adware bundles, trying to frame well-known security researchers by claiming they are behind the attack. The Azov Ransomware falsely claims to have been created by a well-known security researcher named Hasherazade and lists other researchers, myself, and BleepingComputer, ...
- Cranefly: Threat Actor Uses Previously Unseen Techniques and Tools in Stealthy Campaign
October 28, 2022
Symantec, by Broadcom Software, has discovered a previously undocumented dropper that is being used to install a new backdoor and other tools using the novel technique of reading commands from seemingly innocuous Internet Information Services (IIS) logs. The dropper (Trojan.Geppei) is being used by an actor Symantec calls Cranefly (aka UNC3524), to install another piece of ...
- Defeating Guloader Anti-Analysis Technique
October 28, 2022
Unit 42 researchers recently discovered a Guloader variant that contains a shellcode payload protected by anti-analysis techniques, which are meant to slow human analysts and sandboxes processing this sample. To help speed analysis for this sample and others like it, we are providing a complete Python script to deobfuscate the Guloader sample that is available ...