What is a keylogger?

A blog post published earlier this year posed the question "Is Grammarly a keylogger?" I have personally had people reference that post and ask me to add detection of Grammarly to Malwarebytes. The answer has always been, "no." Whether or not you like what Grammarly does, Grammarly is not a...

Watering Hole Attacks Push ScanBox Keylogger

A China-based threat actor has ramped up efforts to distribute the ScanBox reconnaissance framework to victims that include domestic Australian organizations and offshore energy firms in the South China Sea. The bait used by the advanced threat group APT is targeted messages that supposedly link...

Meet Borat RAT, a New Unique Triple Threat

Atlanta-based cyber risk intelligence company, Cyble discovered a new Remote Access Trojan RAT malware. What makes this particular RAT malware distinct enough to be named after the comic creation of Sacha Baron Cohen? RAT malware typically helps cybercriminals gain complete control of a victim's...

Spying on the spies. See what JavaScript commands get injected by in-app browsers

Developer and privacy expert Felix Krause aka KrauseFx announced this week that he had introduced a simple tool to list the JavaScript commands executed by iOS apps when they deployed an in-app web browser to render webpages. He already shared some eye-opening results on his Twitter feed. By...

Backdoor.Win32.Destrukor.20 MVID-2022-0627 Remote Command Execution

Discovery / credits: Malvuln John Page aka hyp3rlinx c 2022 Original source: https://malvuln.com/advisory/c790749f851d48e66e7d59cc2e451956B.txt Contact: [email protected] Media: twitter.com/malvuln Threat: Backdoor.Win32.Destrukor.20 Vulnerability: Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution...

WebView2-Cookie-Stealer - Attacking With WebView2 Applications

Please read this blog post to get more information. Source Code This code is a modified version of Microsoft's WebView2 Code. The current code can be cleaned up and made much better. Demo Launch Example Usage Example Usage Tested onWindows 10 & 11. When the binary is executed...

New Android Banking Trojan 'Revive' Targeting Users of Spanish Financial Services

A previously unknown Android banking trojan has been discovered in the wild, targeting users of the Spanish financial services company BBVA. Said to be in its early stages of development, the malware — dubbed Revive by Italian cybersecurity firm Cleafy — was first observed on June 15, 2022 and...

Researchers Detail PureCrypter Loader Cyber Criminals Using to Distribute Malware

Cybersecurity researchers have detailed the workings of a fully-featured malware loader dubbed PureCrypter that's being purchased by cyber criminals to deliver remote access trojans RATs and information stealers. "The loader is a .NET executable obfuscated with SmartAssembly and makes use of...

Snake Keylogger Spreads Through Malicious PDFs

While most malicious e-mail campaigns use Word documents to hide and spread malware, a recently discovered campaign uses a malicious PDF file and a 22-year-old Office bug to propagate the Snake Keylogger malware, researchers have found. The campaign—discovered by researchers at HP Wolf...

pikachu

It is an offensive tool for web application security training. The primary CVE ID is not explicitly stated, but the tool is designed to demonstrate various web application vulnerabilities, including but not limited to: Burt Force brute force, XSS cross-site scripting, CSRF cross-site request...

No-Joke Borat RAT Propagates Ransomware, DDoS

Attackers are using a newly released remote access trojan RAT to spread ransomware and distributed denial of service DDoS — in addition to the traditional RAT function of backdooring victims’ systems. Researchers at Cyble Research Labs discovered the RAT, which they dubbed Borat RAT because it us...

Gh0stCringe RAT makes database servers squeal for protection

Researchers have found that the Gh0stCringe RAT is infecting Microsoft SQL and MySQL, and seems to focus on servers with weak protection. The Gh0stCringe RAT communicates with a command and control C&C server to receive instructions and is capable of exfiltrating information. SQL SQL is short for...

Iranian Hackers Using New PowerShell Backdoor in Cyber Espionage Attacks

An advanced persistent threat group with links to Iran has updated its malware toolset to include a novel PowerShell-based implant called PowerLess Backdoor, according to new research published by Cybereason. The Boston-headquartered cybersecurity company attributed the malware to a hacking group...

What is RAT Remote Access Trojan ❓ Detection and Removal

Introduction Humans live in the 21st century where a large portion of our exchanges are taken care of on the web. Thus, people, businesses and organizations are presented with new online protection dangers. A significant number of these digital dangers will break into your framework and challenge...

New Fileless Malware Uses Windows Registry as Storage to Evade Detection

A new JavaScript-based remote access Trojan RAT propagated via a social engineering campaign has been observed employing sneaky "fileless" techniques as part of its detection-evasion methods to elude discovery and analysis. Dubbed DarkWatchman by researchers from Prevailion's Adversarial...

Backdoor.Win32.VB.awm Authentication Bypass / Information Disclosure

Discovery / credits: Malvuln - malvuln.com c 2021 Original source: https://malvuln.com/advisory/2271d942a23a89d7adea524d4ac3c13f.txt Contact: [email protected] Media: twitter.com/malvuln Threat: Backdoor.Win32.VB.awm Vulnerability: Authentication Bypass - Information Leakage Description: The...

Solarmarker InfoStealer Malware Once Again Making its Way Into the Wild

Healthcare and education sectors are the frequent targets of a new surge in credential harvesting activity from what's a "highly modular" .NET-based information stealer and keylogger, charting the course for the threat actor's continued evolution while simultaneously remaining under the radar...

Threat Spotlight: Solarmarker

By Andrew Windsor, with contributions from Chris Neal. Executive summaryCisco Talos has observed new activity from Solarmarker, a highly modular .NET-based information stealer and keylogger.A previous staging module, "d.m," used with this malware has been replaced by a new module dubbed... This i...

MacOS Being Picked Apart by $49 XLoader Data Stealer

There’s a new version of the old FormBook form-stealer and keylogger that’s added Mac users to its hit list, and it’s selling like hotcakes on underground markets for as low as $49. It’s not only cheap; it’s easy. The data stealer is distributed in the form of malware-as-a-service MaaS and stands...

Investigating a unique “form” of email delivery for IcedID malware

Microsoft threat analysts have been tracking activity where contact forms published on websites are abused to deliver malicious links to enterprises using emails with fake legal threats. The emails instruct recipients to click a link to review supposed evidence behind their allegations, but are...