Beware: Tainted VPNs Being Used to Spread EyeSpy Surveillanceware

Tainted VPN installers are being used to deliver a piece of surveillanceware dubbed EyeSpy as part of a malware campaign that started in May 2022. It uses "components of SecondEye – a legitimate monitoring application – to spy on users of 20Speed VPN, an Iranian-based VPN service, via trojanized...

Australian Healthcare Sector Targeted in Latest Gootkit Malware Attacks

A recent wave of Gootkit malware loader attacks has targeted the Australian healthcare sector by leveraging legitimate tools like VLC Media Player. Gootkit, also called Gootloader, is known to employ search engine optimization SEO poisoning tactics aka spamdexing for initial access. It typically...

BitRAT Now Sharing Sensitive Bank Data as a Lure

Introduction In June of 2022 Qualys Threat Research Unit TRU wrote an in-depth report on Redline, a commercial off the shelf infostealer that spreads via fake cracked software hosted on Discord’s content delivery network. Since then, we have continued to track similar threats to identify their...

Beware: Cybercriminals Launch New BrasDex Android Trojan Targeting Brazilian Banking Users

The threat actors behind the Windows banking malware known as Casbaneiro has been attributed as behind a novel Android trojan called BrasDex that has been observed targeting Brazilian users as part of an ongoing multi-platform campaign. BrasDex features a "complex keylogging system designed to...

North Korean APT37 Unleashes Dolphin Backdoor on South Korea

By Habiba Rashid The backdoor is equipped with a wide range of spying capabilities, including exfiltrating files, keylogging, and stealing browser data, etc. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: North Korean APT37 Unleashes Dolphin Backdoor on South Korea...

AsyncRAT C2 Framework: Overview, Technical Analysis & Detection

In this blog we describe the AsyncRAT C2 command & control Framework, which allows attackers to remotely monitor and control other computers over a secure encrypted link. We provide an overview of this threat, a technical analysis, and a method of detecting the malware using Qualys Multi-Vector...

Novel ‘Nerbian’ Trojan Uses Advanced Anti-Detection Tricks

A newly discovered and complex remote access trojan RAT is spreading via malicious email campaigns using COVID-19 lures and includes numerous features to evade analysis or detection by researchers, Proofpoint has found. Dubbed Nerbian RAT, the novel malware variant is written in the OS-agnostic G...

Experts Detail Saintstealer and Prynt Stealer Info-Stealing Malware Families

Cybersecurity researchers have dissected the inner workings of an information-stealing malware called Saintstealer that's designed to siphon credentials and system information. "After execution, the stealer extracts username, passwords, credit card details, etc.," Cyble researchers said in an...

Chinese state-sponsored threat group APT41 targets U.S. critical organizations using two Zero-Days

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here A China state-sponsored threat group known as APT41 is observed compromising at least six U.S. state governments networks in a threat campaign beginning from May 2021. APT41 is a well-known Chinese state-sponsored espionage...

Medusa Android Banking Trojan Spreading Through Flubot's Attacks Network

Two different Android banking Trojans, FluBot and Medusa, are relying on the same delivery vehicle as part of a simultaneous attack campaign, according to new research published by ThreatFabric. The ongoing side-by-side infections, facilitated through the same smishing SMS phishing infrastructure...

Catching the RAT called Agent Tesla

For the last few years, the Qualys Research Team has been observing an infamous "Malware-as-a-service" RAT Remote Access Trojan called Agent Tesla. It first appeared in 2014, and since then many variants have been deployed. This malware uses multiple techniques for evading detection as well as...

BRATA Android malware factory resets phones after stealing funds

By Waqas The new variant of BRATA malware is also capable of GPS tracking and keylogging. A malware that was… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: BRATA Android malware factory resets phones after stealing funds...

Android malware BRATA can wipe devices

Cleafy, a cybersecurity firm specializing in online fraud, has published new details about banking Trojan BRATA Brazilian Remote Access Tool, Android, a known malware strain that first became widespread in 2019. BRATA is now being used to perform factory resets on victims machines. Its rare for...

Patchwork APT caught in its own web

Patchwork is an Indian threat actor that has been active since December 2015 and usually targets Pakistan via spear phishing attacks. In its most recent campaign from late November to early December 2021, Patchwork has used malicious RTF files to drop a variant of the BADNEWS Ragnatela Remote...

SharkBot Android banking Trojan cleans users out

Researchers have discovered and analyzed a new Android banking Trojan that allows attackers to steal sensitive banking information such as user credentials, personal information, current balance, and even to perform gestures on the infected device. According to the researchers, SharkBot...

Mozilla Firefox Security Advisory (MFSA2011-45) - Linux

This host is missing a security update for Mozilla Firefox. Copyright C 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; y...

Cybersecurity Experts Warn of a Rise in Lyceum Hacker Group Activities in Tunisia

A threat actor, previously known for striking organizations in the energy and telecommunications sectors across the Middle East as early as April 2018, has evolved its malware arsenal to strike two entities in Tunisia. Security researchers at Kaspersky, who presented their findings at the...

CrossC2-1

It is an offensive tool for macOS. The repository contains a CrossC2 framework fork, version 2.0, created by gloxec. The tool includes various modules for tasks such as file management, password gathering, keylogging, browser data dumping, and more. The framework uses a loader script that include...

ESPecter Bootkit Malware Haunts Victims with Persistent Espionage

A rare Windows UEFI bootkit malware has been discovered, offering attackers a path to cyber-espionage, researchers are warning. According to ESET, the bootkit’s goal is to install a full featured backdoor on a target PC, which “supports a rich set of commands and contains various automatic data...

Researchers Discover UEFI Bootkit Targeting Windows Computers Since 2012

Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday revealed details of a previously undocumented UEFI Unified Extensible Firmware Interface bootkit that has been put to use by threat actors to backdoor Windows systems as early as 2012 by modifying a legitimate Windows Boot Manager binary to achieve persistence...