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CISA: LokiBot Stealer Storms Into a Resurgence
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA is warning that the LokiBot info-stealing trojan is seeing a surge across the enterprise landscape. The uptick started in July, according to the agency, and activity has remained “persistent” ever since. LokiBot targets Windows and...
TrickBot Sample Accidentally Warns Victims They're Infected
TrickBot, the infamous info-stealing trojan, has been trying out a test module that accidentally pops up fraud alerts to victims. A sandboxed sample of the trojan, obtained by MalwareHunterTeam and analyzed by Advanced Intelligence’s Vitali Kremez, turns out to contain a new module, called “modul...
Sophisticated Info-Stealer Targets Air-Gapped Devices via USB
The Cycldek APT group has added a previously unknown malware dubbed USBCulprit to its arsenal, aimed at reaching air-gapped devices. Cycldek a.k.a. Goblin Panda, APT 27 and Conimes has been targeting governments in Southeast Asia since 2013, according to analysis from Kaspersky, and has been...
Revamped HawkEye Keylogger Swoops in on Coronavirus Fears
There’s a new variant of the HawkEye keylogging malware making the rounds, featuring expanded info-stealing capabilities. Its operators are looking to capture the zeitgeist around the novel coronavirus. It’s being distributed using spam that purports to be an “alert” from the Director-General of...
Advanced Obfuscation Marks Widespread Info-Stealing Campaign
A large-scale spam campaign bent on spreading info-stealing malware is applying advanced obfuscation techniques to get around security scanning and maximize infection rates. According to Lastline researchers, a large botnet is distributing malicious rich text format RTF documents that act as...
DeathRansom Campaign Linked to Malware Cornucopia
An ongoing DeathRansom malware campaign has been found by researchers to be part of a larger collection of malicious offensives, all carried out by an actor going by the nickname “scat01.” According to Artem Semenchenko and Evgeny Ananin at FortiGuard Labs, evidence found on Russian underground...
Arcane Stealer V Takes Aim at the Low End of the Dark Web
A general-purpose info-stealing malware is poised to make a splash in cybercrime circles, thanks to its market niche: It’s positioned as an ideal tool for low-skilled adversaries looking to get some skin in the game without having a lot of expertise. According to the Fidelis Threat Research Team...
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...
New attack spreads LokiBot & NanoCore malware in ISO image files
By Waqas Both NanoCore and LokiBot are Info-stealing Trojans. Security researchers at the San Francisco-based firm Netskope have discovered a new malware campaign distributing the info-stealer malware LokiBot and NanoCore via ISO image file attachments that appear to be an invoice. It is notewort...
Trickbot Malware Goes After Remote Desktop Credentials
The banking trojan known as Trickbot has resurfaced, with an updated info-stealing module that allows it to harvest remote desktop application credentials. According to Trend Micro’s Noel Anthony Llimos and Carl Maverick Pascual, a new variant has recently come on the scene, and is being spread v...
MobSTSPY Info-Stealing Trojan Goes Global Via Google Play
An Android spyware dubbed MobSTSPY has managed to ride trojanized apps to a widespread, global distribution, mainly via Google Play. The malware masquerades as a legitimate application purporting to be things like flashlights, games and work productivity tools. While it’s not uncommon to come...
Dark Web Azorult Generator Offers Free Binaries to Cybercrooks
A malicious build-it-yourself platform for the Azorult info-stealing malware has debuted on the Dark Web. The online builder, which its authors have named Gazorp, allows cybercriminals to generate their very own strains of Azorult, along with the apparatus to control it. And, it’s free. “Threat...
Out of sight but not invisible: Defeating fileless malware with behavior monitoring, AMSI, and next-gen AV
Consider this scenario: Two never-before-seen, heavily obfuscated scripts manage to slip past file-based detection and dynamically load an info-stealing payload into memory. The scripts are part of a social engineering campaign that tricks potential victims into running the scripts, which use the...
Threat Roundup for September 7 to September 14
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 Sept. 7 and 14. 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...
Hawkeye Keylogger – Reborn v8: An in-depth campaign analysis
Much of cybercrime today is fueled by underground markets where malware and cybercriminal services are available for purchase. These markets in the deep web commoditize malware operations. Even novice cybercriminals can buy malware toolkits and other services they might need for malware campaigns...
Microsoft teams up with law enforcement and other partners to disrupt Gamarue (Andromeda)
Today, with help from Microsoft security researchers, law enforcement agencies around the globe, in cooperation with Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit DCU, announced the disruption of Gamarue, a widely distributed malware that has been used in networks of infected computers collectively called the...
Microsoft teams up with law enforcement and other partners to disrupt Gamarue (Andromeda)
Today, with help from Microsoft security researchers, law enforcement agencies around the globe, in cooperation with Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit DCU, announced the disruption of Gamarue, a widely distributed malware that has been used in networks of infected computers collectively called the...
Latest Tax Scams Include Phishing Lures, Malware
Microsoft warned Monday this year’s crop of tax scams are using social engineering attacks based on fear to spread Zdowbot and Omaneat banking Trojans and collect personal info via spoofed tax sites linked to from phishing campaigns. The warning comes with less than a month before the April 18 ta...
jQuery.com Hacked, Redirecting to RIG Exploit Kit
Owners of websites built using the jQuery library are being warned of an attack against the toolkit’s website which is redirecting visitors to a third-party site hosting the RIG exploit kit. JQuery is a free and open source JavaScript library used for a number of things, including building AJAX...