This Week in Security News: IoT Devices Are a Target in Cybercriminal Underground

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn how fileless malware abuses PowerShell. Also, read how Trend Micro researchers are pulling back the curtain on the cybercriminal...

The 10 Most Common Attacks

This post is an excerpt from The Ultimate Cybersecurity Guide for the IT Professional. Common Attacks Today’s organizations face four main categories of adversaries. In order to fully defend against these four types, you must also understand what motivates them. This context will best position yo...

The Hottest Malware Hits of the Summer

It's been a summer of ransomware hold-ups, supply chain attacks and fileless attacks flying under the radar of old-school security. With malware running amok while we were lying on the beach, here's a recap of the most burning strains and trends seen in the wild during the months of July and Augu...

The Hottest Malware Hits of the Summer

It's been a summer of ransomware hold-ups, supply chain attacks and fileless attacks flying under the radar of old-school security. With malware running amok while we were lying on the beach, here's a recap of the most burning strains and trends seen in the wild during the months of July and Augu...

Microsoft Windows - WSReset UAC Protection Bypass (Registry)

Microsoft Windows - WSReset UAC Protection Bypass Registry Fileless UAC bypass WSReset.exe @404death base on : https://www.activecyber.us/activelabs/windows-uac-bypass EDB Note: Download https://github.com/offensive-security/exploitdb-bin-sploits/raw/master/bin-sploits/47754.zip import sys, os fr...

Microsoft Windows - 'WSReset' UAC Protection Bypass (Registry)

Fileless UAC bypass WSReset.exe @404death base on : https://www.activecyber.us/activelabs/windows-uac-bypass EDB Note: Download https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/47754.zip import sys, os from ctypes import import winreg CMD =...

Russian Hacking Group Targeting Banks Worldwide With Evolving Tactics

Silence APT , a Russian-speaking cybercriminal group, known for targeting financial organizations primarily in former Soviet states and neighboring countries is now aggressively targeting banks in more than 30 countries across America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Active since at least September 201...

Russian Hacking Group Targeting Banks Worldwide With Evolving Tactics

Silence APT, a Russian-speaking cybercriminal group, known for targeting financial organizations primarily in former Soviet states and neighboring countries is now aggressively targeting banks in more than 30 countries across America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Active since at least September 2016...

Threat Roundup for July 26 to Aug. 2

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between July 26 and Aug. 2. 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,...

Popular Malware Families Using 'Process Doppelgänging' to Evade Detection

The fileless code injection technique called Process Doppelgänging is actively being used by not just one or two but a large number of malware families in the wild, a new report shared with The Hacker News revealed. Discovered in late 2017, Process Doppelgänging is a fileless variation of Process...

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security Releases Advisory on Fileless Malware

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security CCCS has released an advisory on an Astaroth fileless malware campaign affecting Microsoft Windows. Astaroth resides solely in memory, and an attacker can use it and other fileless malware to steal information, such as credentials and keystrokes, and obtain...

Watch Out! Microsoft Spotted Spike in Astaroth Fileless Malware Attacks

Security researchers at Microsoft have released details of a new widespread campaign distributing an infamous piece of fileless malware that was primarily being found targeting European and Brazilian users earlier this year. Dubbed Astaroth , the malware trojan has been making the rounds since at...

Watch Out! Microsoft Spotted Spike in Astaroth Fileless Malware Attacks

Security researchers at Microsoft have released details of a new widespread campaign distributing an infamous piece of fileless malware that was primarily being found targeting European and Brazilian users earlier this year. Dubbed Astaroth, the malware trojan has been making the rounds since at...

Dismantling a fileless campaign: Microsoft Defender ATP’s Antivirus exposes Astaroth attack

The prevailing perception about fileless threats, among the security industry’s biggest areas of concern today, is that security solutions are helpless against these supposedly invincible threats. Because fileless attacks run the payload directly in memory or leverage legitimate system tools to r...

Threat Roundup for May 31 to June 7

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between May 31 and June 07. 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,...

Threat Roundup for May 24 to May 31

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between May 24 and May 31. 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,...

Threat Roundup for April 26 to May 3

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between April 26 and May 03. 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...

Flerken - Obfuscated Command Detection Tool

Command line obfuscation has been proved to be a non-negligible factor in fileless malware or malicious actors that are "living off the land". To bypass signature-based detection, dedicated obfuscation techniques are shown to be used by red-team penetrations and even APT activities. Meanwhile,...

fireELF - Fileless Linux Malware Framework

fireELF is a opensource fileless linux malware framework thats crossplatform and allows users to easily create and manage payloads. By default is comes with 'memfdcreate' which is a new way to run linux elf executables completely from memory, without having the binary touch the harddrive. Feature...

Attack Madness: The “Final Four” Cyber Threats According to Security Professionals

In the spirit of March Madness, we’re evaluating the type of cyberattacks that most concern our community of security experts. When approximately one million cyberattacks are attempted per day, this “madness” takes on a whole new level for organizations looking to protect themselves against the...