Experts Find Similarities Between New LockBit 3.0 and BlackMatter Ransomware

Cybersecurity researchers have reiterated similarities between the latest iteration of the LockBit ransomware and BlackMatter, a rebranded variant of the DarkSide ransomware strain that closed shop in November 2021. The new version of LockBit, called LockBit 3.0 aka LockBit Black, was released in...

Experts Shed Light on BlackGuard Infostealer Malware Sold on Russian Hacking Forums

A previously undocumented "sophisticated" information-stealing malware named BlackGuard is being advertised for sale on Russian underground forums for a monthly subscription of $200. "BlackGuard has the capability to steal all types of information related to Crypto wallets, VPN, Messengers, FTP...

New MyloBot Malware Variant Sends Sextortion Emails Demanding $2,732 in Bitcoin

A new version of the MyloBot malware has been observed to deploy malicious payloads that are being used to send sextortion emails demanding victims to pay $2,732 in digital currency. MyloBot, first detected in 2018, is known to feature an array of sophisticated anti-debugging capabilities and...

TrickBot Crashes Security Researchers’ Browsers in Latest Upgrade

Trojan titan TrickBot has added a striking anti-debugging feature that detects security analysis and crashes researcher browsers before its malicious code can be analyzed. The new anti-debugging feature was discovered by Security Intelligence analysts with IBM, who reported the emergence of a...

WordPress Sites Abused in Aggah Spear-Phishing Campaign

Threat actors are using compromised WordPress websites to target manufacturers across Asia with a new spear-phishing campaign that delivers the Warzone RAT, a commodity infostealer available widely for purchase on criminal forums, researchers have found. The threat group Aggah, believed to be...

HyperDbg - The Source Code Of HyperDbg Debugger

HyperDbg is designed with a focus on using modern hardware technologies to provide new features to the reverse engineering world. It operates on top of Windows by virtualizing an already running system using Intel VT-x and Intel PT. This debugger aims not to use any APIs and software debugging...

IAmTheKing and the SlothfulMedia malware family

On October 1, 2020, the DHS CISA agency released information about a malware family called SlothfulMedia, which they attribute to a sophisticated threat actor. We have been tracking this set of activity through our private reporting service, and we would like to provide the community with...

CVE-2020-7705

This affects the package MintegralAdSDK from 0.0.0. The SDK distributed by the company contains malicious functionality that tracks any URL opened by the app and reports it back to the company, along with performing advertisement attribution fraud. Mintegral can remotely activate hooks on the...

CVE-2020-7705

This affects the package MintegralAdSDK from 0.0.0. The SDK distributed by the company contains malicious functionality that tracks any URL opened by the app and reports it back to the company, along with performing advertisement attribution fraud. Mintegral can remotely activate hooks on the...

Phantom-Evasion

This is a Python antivirus evasion tool called Phantom-Evasion. It is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License GPL version 3. The tool is designed to evade detection by antivirus software and is intended for educational or research purposes only. The tool consists of several...

Web skimming with Google Analytics

Web skimming is a common class of attacks generally aimed at online shoppers. The principle is quite simple: malicious code is injected into the compromised site, which collects and sends user-entered data to a cybercriminal resource. If the attack is successful, the cybercriminals gain access to...

Threat Roundup for September 27 to October 4

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Sept. 27 and Oct. 4. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics...

Unprotect Project: Classify Malwares Based on Known Evasion Techniques

PenTestIT RSS Feed One of the first steps in learning about a malware is to see if it is evasive in any sense and then proceed accordingly. The Unprotect Project helps you do this easily. It is an open source project in Python that proposes a malware classification techniques based on their evasi...

EPChallenge

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Threat Roundup for March 29 to April 5

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between March 29 and April 05. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral...

The use of a posture clear odd 11882 format overflow document analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Prior to inadvertently give a very interesting rtf document, the sandbox where the behavior of a pile, the document itself and confuse the very clear odd, so spend a little time to analyze this sample. Substantially clear the sample of the attack techniques and attack the chain, the open part of...

Highly Sophisticated Parasite RAT Emerges on the Dark Web

Researchers are tracking a remote access trojan RAT on underground markets that, so far, has only been attributed to one small malicious email campaign. However, the RAT, dubbed Parasite HTTP by the Proofpoint researchers that discovered it, has an impressive list of sophisticated features –...

Threat Roundup for June 29 to July 6th

Today, as we do every week, Talos is giving you a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed this week — covering the dates between June 29 and July 6. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, it will summarize the threats we've observed by...

Energy-warning! Be wary EnMiner mining kill-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently, sangfor found a high strength of the virus against the behavior of the new mining virus, its viral mechanisms and conventional mining large difference, once infected, the cleanup is extremely difficult. Currently the virus in the outbreak early, sangfor has this virus named EnMiner mini...

Hunting down Dofoil with Windows Defender ATP

Dofoil is a sophisticated threat that attempted to install coin miner malware on hundreds of thousands of computers in March, 2018. In previous blog posts we detailed how behavior monitoring and machine learning in Windows Defender AV protected customers from a massive Dofoil outbreak that we...