Ryuk ransomware develops worm-like capability

The French governments computer emergency readiness team, thats part of the National Cybersecurity Agency of France, or ANSSI, has discovered a Ryuk variant that has worm-like capabilities during an incident response. For those unacquainted with Ryuk, it is a type of ransomware that is used in...

CVE-2021-24094

Windows TCP/IP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability...

Email-Worm.Win32.Sircam.eb Insecure Permissions

Discovery / credits: Malvuln - malvuln.com c 2021 Original source: https://malvuln.com/advisory/cd88a9b686acd9ccf23dba8d248129b4.txt Contact: [email protected] Media: twitter.com/malvuln Threat: Email-Worm.Win32.Sircam.eb Vulnerability: Insecure Permissions EoP Description: Sircam.eb creates a...

New Cryptojacking Malware Targeting Apache, Oracle, Redis Servers

A financially-motivated threat actor notorious for its cryptojacking attacks has leveraged a revised version of their malware to target cloud infrastructures using vulnerabilities in web server technologies, according to new research. Deployed by the China-based cybercrime group Rocke , the...

Rocke Group’s Malware Now Has Worm Capabilities

Researchers have identified an updated malware variant used by the cybercrime gang Rocke Group that targets cloud infrastructures with crypto-jacking attacks. The malware is called Pro-Ocean, which was first discovered in 2019, and has now been beefed-up with “worm” capabilities and rootkit...

FannyBMP or DementiaWheel Detection Registry Check

This module searches for the Fanny.bmp worm related reg keys. fannybmp is a worm that exploited zero day vulns more specifically, the LNK Exploit CVE-2010-2568. Which allowed it to spread even if USB Autorun was turned off. This is the same exploit that was used in StuxNet. Module Options msf use...

A week in security (January 18 – January 24)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at changes to WhatsApp’s privacy policy, we provided information about Malwarebytes being targeted by the same threat actor that was implicated in the SolarWinds breach, we told the story of ZeroLogon, looked at the pros and cons of Zoom watermarking,...

Constructor.Win32.SMWG.c Insecure Permissions

Discovery / credits: Malvuln - malvuln.com c 2021 Original source: https://malvuln.com/advisory/47e819a6ce3d5e93819f4842cfbe23d6.txt Contact: [email protected] Media: twitter.com/malvuln Threat: Constructor.Win32.SMWG.c Vulnerability: Insecure Permissions Description: Description: SMWG - P2P...

Email-Worm.Win32.Agent.gi Remote Stack Buffer Overflow

Discovery / credits: Malvuln - malvuln.com c 2021 Original source: https://malvuln.com/advisory/74e65773735f977185f6a09f1472ea46.txt Contact: [email protected] Media: twitter.com/malvuln Threat: Email-Worm.Win32.Agent.gi Vulnerability: Remote Stack Buffer Overflow - UDP Datagram Description:...

CVE

This is a collection of HTML files from a blog about reverse engineering and security. The files are dated from August 2019 to September 2019 and appear to be written in Chinese. The content includes various topics such as: Creating and finding SEH Structured Exception Handler in Windows Input...

Malicious Package in sdfjghlkfjdshlkjdhsfg

All versions of sdfjghlkfjdshlkjdhsfg contain malicious code. The package is essentially a worm that fetches all packages owned by the user, adds a script to self-replicate as a preinstall script and publishes a new version. Recommendation Remove the package from your environment and ensure all...

GHSA-GCFC-MGG3-8J2C Malicious Package in sdfjghlkfjdshlkjdhsfg

All versions of sdfjghlkfjdshlkjdhsfg contain malicious code. The package is essentially a worm that fetches all packages owned by the user, adds a script to self-replicate as a preinstall script and publishes a new version. Recommendation Remove the package from your environment and ensure all...

PT-2020-21307

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions sdfjghlkfjdshlkjdhsfg affected versions not specified Description The issue concerns malicious code within the software. It is described as a worm that fetches all packages owned by the user, adds a script to self-replicate as a preinstall...

News Wrap: AWS Cryptojacking Worm, IBM Privacy Lawsuit and More

Threatpost editors Lindsey O’Donnell-Welch and Tara Seals discuss the top security news stories of the week ended Aug. 21, including: IBM, the owner of the Weather Channel mobile app, has reached a settlement with the Los Angeles city attorney’s office after a 2019 lawsuit alleged that the app wa...

FritzFrog Botnet Attacks Millions of SSH Servers

A peer-to-peer P2 botnet called FritzFrog has hopped onto the scene, and researchers said it has been actively breaching SSH servers since January. SSH servers are pieces of software found in routers and IoT devices, among other machines, and they use the secure shell protocol to accept connectio...

AWS Cryptojacking Worm Spreads Through the Cloud

A cryptomining worm from the group known as TeamTNT is spreading through the Amazon Web Services AWS cloud and collecting credentials. Once the logins are harvested, the malware logs in and deploys the XMRig mining tool to mine Monero cryptocurrency. According to researchers at Cado Security, the...

Lazarus Group Brings APT Tactics to Ransomware

Targeted ransomware attacks are on the rise, usually perpetrated by financially motivated threat gangs, which often work in concert together. However, researchers said that a recent strain of ransomware, called VHD, can be linked to an unusual source: The Lazarus Group APT. According to researche...

How An Image Could've Let Attackers Hack Microsoft Teams Accounts

Microsoft has patched a worm-like vulnerability in its Teams workplace video chat and collaboration platform that could have allowed attackers to take over an organization's entire roster of Teams accounts just by sending participants a malicious link to an innocent-looking image. The flaw,...

MS03-026: Buffer Overrun in RPC May Allow Code Execution

Technical UpdateSeptember 10, 2003: The following changes were made to this article: Updated the "Security Patch Replacement Information" sections to indicate that this patch has been replaced by 824146 MS03-039. For more information about the 824146 security patch MS03-039, click the following...

TEA - Ssh-Client Worm

A ssh-client worm made with tas framework. How it works? This is a fakessh-client that manipulates the tty input/output to execute arbitrary commands and upload itself through the ssh connection. To work properly, the remote machine needs: display the "Last login" message when login. dd and stty...