CoinVault Ransomware Authors Sentenced to 240 Hours of Community Service

Almost three years after the arrest of two young Dutch brothers, who pleaded guilty to their involvement in creating and distributing CoinVault ransomware malware, a district court in Rotterdam today sentenced them to 240 hours of community service. In 2015, the two suspects — Melvin 25-year-old...

Kronos Banking Trojan Surfaces After Years of Silence

The Kronos banking trojan is back from the malware dustbin. After years of lying dormant, hackers have reworked the underlying code and are actively targeting victims in Germany, Japan and Poland. The latest variant has incorporated a new command-and-control feature designed to work with the Tor...

The Data Breach ‘Kill Chain’: Early Detection is Key

Today, organizations rely heavily on data, with a big portion of that data made up of sensitive information. As organizations become the custodians of more and more sensitive information, the frequency of data breaches increases accordingly. In some cases, the origin of a data breach is outside o...

Threat Roundup for July 13-20

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 July 13 and 20. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, we will summarize the threats we've observed by...

Threat Roundup for July 6-13

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 July 6 and 13. 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 ...

Chinese Espionage Group TEMP.Periscope Targets Cambodia Ahead of July 2018 Elections and Reveals Broad Operations Globally

Introduction FireEye has examined a range of TEMP.Periscope activity revealing extensive interest in Cambodia's politics, with active compromises of multiple Cambodian entities related to the country’s electoral system. This includes compromises of Cambodian government entities charged with...

Gaza Cybergang Returns With New Attacks On Palestinian Authority

Security researchers from Check Point Threat Intelligence Team have discovered the comeback of an APT advanced persistent threat surveillance group targeting institutions across the Middle East, specifically the Palestinian Authority. The attack, dubbed "Big Bang," begins with a phishing email se...

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...

Python-Based Adware Evolves to Install Malicious Browser Extensions

Security researchers have been warning of a few newly detected variants of python-based adware that are being distributed in the wild not only to inject ads but also found installing malicious browser extensions and hidden cryptocurrency miner into victims' computers. Dubbed PBot , or PythonBot ,...

Malicious App Infects 60,000 Android Devices – But Still Saves Their Batteries

UPDATE A battery-saving app that also allows attackers to snatch text messages and read sensitive log data has been downloaded by more than 60,000 Android devices so far. But what’s unique about the attack, according to the researchers at RiskIQ who discovered it, is that it holds true to its...

Chinese Hackers Carried Out Country-Level Watering Hole Attack

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an espionage campaign that has targeted a national data center of an unnamed central Asian country in order to conduct watering hole attacks. The campaign is believed to be active covertly since fall 2017 but was spotted in March by security researchers fr...

Malicious JavaScript Package Detection

Detection and reporting of known malicious JavaScript packages or package versions. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG 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-only ifdescripti...

Adobe Issues Patch for Actively Exploited Flash Player Zero-Day Exploit

If you have already uninstalled Flash player, well done! But if you haven't, here's another great reason for ditching it. Adobe has released a security patch update for a critical vulnerability in its Flash Player software that is actively being exploited in the wild by hackers in targeted attack...

CVE-2017-16128

The module npm-script-demo opened a connection to a command and control server. It has been removed from the npm registry...

Design/Logic Flaw

The module npm-script-demo opened a connection to a command and control server. It has been removed from the npm registry...

CVE-2017-16128

The module npm-script-demo opened a connection to a command and control server. It has been removed from the npm registry...

Command and Control – Browser

Red Teams are always focused in the discovery of innovative ways to establish connections back to their command and control infrastructure. The main reasons that leads red teams to use standard protocols or native system functionality for command and control operations is to bypass some sort of...

IoT Botnets Found Using Default Credentials for C&C Server Databases

Not following cybersecurity best practices could not only cost online users but also cost cybercriminals. Yes, sometimes hackers don't take best security measures to keep their infrastructure safe. A variant of IoT botnet, called Owari , that relies on default or weak credentials to hack insecure...

Brazilian Banking Trojan Communicates Via Microsoft SQL Server

Researchers have discovered a banking trojan making waves in Brazil with an array of tricks up its sleeve, including using an unusual command and control C&C server and a full-screen social-engineering overlay form. Researchers at IBM X-Force research on Tuesday revealed that attackers are using...

Command and Control via Legitimate Behavior over HTTP: TrevorC2

TrevorC2 is a client/server model for masking command and control through a normally browsable website. Detection becomes much harder as time intervals are different and does not use POST requests for data exfil. There are two components to TrevorC2 – the client and the server. The client can be...