Threat Roundup for June 7 to June 14

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between June 07 and June 14. 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...

Covert Keylogging: Sniping your Typing

There have been many attempts at making key logging devices or software over the years, however, whilst a DIY solution is usually made from large Raspberry Pi devices or Arduino boards, the KeyLogger PRO offering from Maltronics has raised a few eyebrows with regards to the wealth of features...

CVE-2019-12505

CVE-2019-12505 affects Inateck WP1001 wireless presenter (Rev. v1.3C). The issue arises from unencrypted and unauthenticated data communication over the 2.4 GHz link, enabling a remote attacker to perform keystroke injection and send arbitrary keystrokes to a victim’s computer when the target is ...

Ukrainian Police Arrest 6 Hackers Linked to DDoS and Financial Attacks

Ukrainian Police have this week busted out two separate groups of hackers involved in carrying out DDoS attacks against news agencies and stealing money from Ukrainian citizens, respectively. According to the authorities, the four suspected hackers they arrested last week, all aged from 26 to 30...

CVE-2018-15007

The Sky Elite 6.0L+ Android device with a build fingerprint of SKY/x6069trxl601sky/x6069trxl601sky:6.0/MRA58K/1482897127:user/release-keys contains a pre-installed platform app with a package name of com.fw.upgrade.sysoper versionCode=238, versionName=2.3.8 that contains an exported broadcast...

LuminosityLink Hacking Tool Author Gets 30-Months Prison Sentence

A 21-year-old Kentucky man who previously pleaded guilty to developing, marketing, and selling an infamous remote access trojan RAT called LuminosityLink has now been sentenced to 30 months in prison. According to a press release published Monday by U.S. Attorney's Office, Colton Grubbs, who used...

LuminosityLink Hacking Tool Author Gets 30-Months Prison Sentence

A 21-year-old Kentucky man who previously pleaded guilty to developing, marketing, and selling an infamous remote access trojan RAT called LuminosityLink has now been sentenced to 30 months in prison. According to a press release published Monday by U.S. Attorney's Office, Colton Grubbs, who used...

Threat Roundup for August 24-31

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 Aug. 24 and 31. 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...

CSS Keylogger - Chrome Extension And Express Server That Exploits Keylogging Abilities Of CSS

Chrome extension and Express server that exploits keylogging abilities of CSS. To use SetupChrome extension 1. Download repository git clone https://github.com/maxchehab/CSS-Keylogging 2. Visit chrome://extensions in your browser or open up the Chrome menu by clicking the icon to the far right of...

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...

Panda Banking Trojan Diversifies into Cryptocurrency, Porn, Other Targets

The Panda banking trojan, a spin-off from the infamous Zeus malware, is widening its net to attack more than just financial services targets, as seen in three ongoing campaigns discovered in May. The Windows-focused Panda is far from the cuddly thing its name would suggest. It has a full arsenal ...

Boutique Shops Offering Rewards Points Pop Up on the Dark Web

Cybercriminal interest in stolen data is not solely limited to financial or personally identifiable information. The exploitation of rewards-points programs, especially those associated with travel, is also on the radar screen for the bad guys. To cater to this interest, a series of boutique stor...

Another Critical Flaw Found In Drupal Core—Patch Your Sites Immediately

It's time to update your Drupal websites, once again. For the second time within a month, Drupal has been found vulnerable to another critical vulnerability that could allow remote attackers to pull off advanced attacks including cookie theft, keylogging, phishing and identity theft. Discovered b...

Coldroot Mac Malware Silently Performs System-Wide Keylogging

By Waqas Another day, another malware - This time it targets macOS This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Coldroot Mac Malware Silently Performs System-Wide Keylogging...

CrossRAT keylogging malware targets Linux, macOS & Windows PCs

By Waqas Another day, another malware - This time, it is CrossRAT malware This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: CrossRAT keylogging malware targets Linux, macOS & Windows PCs...

Microsoft Office Vulnerabilities Used to Distribute Zyklon Malware in Recent Campaign

Introduction FireEye researchers recently observed threat actors leveraging relatively new vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office to spread Zyklon HTTP malware. Zyklon has been observed in the wild since early 2016 and provides myriad sophisticated capabilities. Zyklon is a publicly available,...

HP Notebook SynTP.sys File Keylogging Code Debugging Vulnerability

The SynTP.sys file is part of the Synaptics touchpad driver that comes with some HP notebook models. The HP laptop SynTP.sys file keylogger code debugging vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker to abuse the debugging code of the keylogger component, e.g., a malware developer can enable...

Google's Data on Login Thefts

This is interesting research and data: With Google accounts as a case-study, we teamed up with the University of California, Berkeley to better understand how hijackers attempt to take over accounts in the wild. From March 2016 to March 2017, we analyzed several black markets to see how hijackers...

Significant FormBook Distribution Campaigns Impacting the U.S. and South Korea

We observed several high-volume FormBook malware distribution campaigns primarily taking aim at Aerospace, Defense Contractor, and Manufacturing sectors within the U.S. and South Korea during the past few months. The attackers involved in these email campaigns leveraged a variety of distribution...

HawkEye Credential Theft Malware Distributed in Recent Phishing Campaign

A wide variety of threat actors began distributing HawkEye malware through high-volume email campaigns after it became available for purchase via a public-facing website. The actors behind the phishing campaigns typically used email themes based on current events and media reports that would piqu...