CVE-2018-4878 case: for a Hong Kong Telecommunications Company website is intrusion investigations-vulnerability and early warning-the black bar safety net

! Earlier, a researchers found that a Hong Kong Telecommunications Company website hacking attack, 3 May 21, Morphisec laboratory on the site of attack to carry out the investigation, investigators eventually found that the telecommunications company of the Group's official website was hacked, th...

A week in security (March 26 – April 01)

Last week, we looked at the thought process behind creating a ransomware decryptor, the inner workings of QuantLoader, the ways one can protect their Android devices, the exploit kits we have encountered this winter, the now-known epidemic of data breaches, the coming of TLS 1.3, and the ways one...

Exploit kits: Winter 2018 review

In the past, we used to do a blog series on exploit kits where we would periodically check in on the main players in the market. In March 2017, we wrote the Winter 2017 review, before exploit kit activity dropped down to a whisper. We've since discontinued our blog series, for lack of development...

LeakVM - Research & Pentesting Framework For Android, Run Security Tests Instantly

LeakVM: Run security tests instantly. Why LeakVM : LeakVM fast security test on Android, by skipping the time-consuming build pen-testing laboratories, you can test on real devices or virtual devices. LeakVM makes researchers and pen-testers more productive since they can run the test on real tim...

New Web-Based Malware Distribution Channel ‘BlackTDS’ Surfaces

A new traffic distribution system for malware is being offered as a service on the Dark Web and is promoting itself as an affordable way to deploy exploit kits and malware. The traffic distribution system TDS is being called BlackTDS by the Proofpoint researchers that found it. Traffic distributi...

Cryptomining is all the rage among hackers, as DDoS amplification attacks continue

In this week’s InfoSec news review we’ll dive into cryptomining, get the latest on DDoS amplification, go over recent data breaches, and check out another vendor claiming it can crack iPhones. I, me, mine The freight train that’s cryptomining shows no sign of slowing down, and the cyber security...

Behavior monitoring combined with machine learning spoils a massive Dofoil coin mining campaign

Update: Further analysis of this campaign points to a poisoned update for a peer-to-peer P2P application. For more information, read Poisoned peer-to-peer app kicked off Dofoil coin miner outbreak. Just before noon on March 6 PST, Windows Defender Antivirus blocked more than 80,000 instances of...

The state of malicious cryptomining

While cryptocurrencies have been around for a long time and used for legitimate purposes, online criminals have certainly tarnished their reputation. Unfortunately, the same benefits offered by these decentralized and somewhat anonymous digital currencies were quickly abused to extort money, as w...

How hackers recycle top threats

Developers are known for reusing pieces of code over and over again - after all, if it isn't broke, why fix it? In fact, this is what makes open source programs so popular and valuable - as opposed to having to create completely new code, developers can utilize existing open source code, and can...

Our Analysis of 1,019 Phishing Kits

In recent years phishing activity has grown rapidly, with thousands of phishing sites popping for a virtual moment that last weeks, days or even hours, before becoming ineffective—either getting blacklisted by security providers, or brought down by internet providers and authorities, or in most...

Romanian Police Arrest 5 People for Spreading CTB Locker and Cerber Ransomware

Romanian police have arrested five individuals suspected of infecting tens of thousands of computers across Europe and the United States in recent years by spreading two infamous ransomware families—Cerber and CTB Locker. Under Operation Bakovia—a major global police operation conducted by Europo...

Phishing Biggest Threat to Google Account Security

Last year may have been mostly about ransomware, but it’s difficult to forget the billion or so passwords that were spilled in high-profile breaches and credential leaks. Google and researchers from the University of California Berkeley attempted to ease some of that pain, and teamed up to analyz...

Women in Tech and Career Spotlight: Luda Lazar

For National Cyber Security Awareness Month my colleague Joy Ma kicked off the first in of a series of articles where we’ll be spotlighting some of the women who work at Imperva. Continuing in the series, I spoke with Luda Lazar, security research engineer for the Imperva Defense Center, to get h...

Ursnif Banking Trojan Spreading In Japan

Attackers behind the pervasive banking Trojan Ursnif have made Japan one of their top targets, delivering the malware via spam campaigns that began last month. For years, Ursnif or Gozi has targeted Japan along with North America, Europe and Australia. But according to a recent IBM X-Force analys...

Microsoft Game Definition File Editor 6.3.9600 - XML External Entity Injection Vulnerability

Exploit for windows platform in category local exploits + Credits: John Page aka hyp3rlinx + Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org + Source: http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/MS-WINDOWS-GAME-DEFINITION-FILE-MAKER-v6.3.9600-XML-EXTERNAL-ENTITY.txt + ISR: ApparitionSec Vendor: ================...

Microsoft Game Definition File Editor 6.3.9600 - XML External Entity Injection

Credits: John Page aka hyp3rlinx + Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org + Source: http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/MS-WINDOWS-GAME-DEFINITION-FILE-MAKER-v6.3.9600-XML-EXTERNAL-ENTITY.txt + ISR: ApparitionSec Vendor: ================= www.microsoft.com Product: =========== GDFMaker...

Dark Web Ransomware Economy Growing at an Annual Rate of 2,500%

CryptoLocker. GoldenEye. Locky. WannaCry. It’s no secret that 2017 is shaping up to be the most notorious year on record for ransomware. Even a casual news consumer can identify several, if not all, of the menacing ransomware attacks that have cost worldwide businesses an estimated $1 billion thi...

US Government Site Was Hosting Ransomware

As recently as Wednesday afternoon, a U.S. government website was hosting a malicious JavaScript downloader that led victims to installations of Cerber ransomware. Researcher Ankit Anubhav of NewSky Security tweeted the discovery Wednesday, and within hours, the malware link was taken down. It’s...

Malware vaccination tricks: blue pills or red pills

First, let me explain what I mean by malware vaccination tricks. Most of you will have heard about some of these. Vaccination tricks are in fact techniques that use safety checks done by malware against that same malware. The malware checks for the presence of certain files or registry keys as a...

Inside the Kronos malware – part 1

Recently, a researcher nicknamed MalwareTech famous from stopping the WannaCry ransomware got arrested for his alleged contribution to creating the Kronos banking malware. We are still not having a clear picture whether the allegations are true or not - but let's have a look at Kronos itself...