ThreatList: Malware Samples Targeting IoT More Than Double in 2018

It’s no secret that connected devices are posing a security threat in the commercial, consumer and industrial worlds. A fresh report on this expanding threat landscape shows that attacks are accelerating, with MikroTik routers, Telnet password-cracking and the Mirai botnet dominating the...

New trends in the world of IoT threats

Cybercriminals' interest in IoT devices continues to grow: in H1 2018 we picked up three times as many malware samples attacking smart devices as in the whole of 2017. And in 2017 there were ten times more than in 2016. That doesn't bode well for the years ahead. We decided to study what attack...

Loading Kernel Shellcode

In the wake of recent hacking tool dumps, the FLARE team saw a spike in malware samples detonating kernel shellcode. Although most samples can be analyzed statically, the FLARE team sometimes debugs these samples to confirm specific functionality. Debugging can be an efficient way to get around...

Denis and Co.

In April 2017, we published a detailed review of a malicious program that used DNS tunneling to communicate to its C&C. That study prompted us to develop a technology to detect similar threats, which allowed us to collect a multitude of malware samples using DNS tunneling. In this article, we wil...

maltran - Tool To Download Malware Exercises From MALware-TRaffic-ANalysis.net

This tool was developed with the purpose of furthering and organizing access to traffic analysis exercises and malware files captured and published almost daily. Maltran makes the views and downloads exercises and malspams easier in an extremely simple and organized way. Visit website...

Microsoft Says Fireball Malware Threat 'Overblown'

Check Point has ramped down its projections on the impact of the recently disclosed Fireball malware after Microsoft called its initial numbers into question. Details on Fireball were published June 1 by Check Point, which said the malware was the work of a Chinese digital marketing agency called...

Honeypots and the Internet of Things

There were a number of incidents in 2016 that triggered increased interest in the security of so-called IoT or 'smart' devices. They included, among others, the record-breaking DDoS attacks against the French hosting provider OVH and the US DNS provider Dyn. These attacks are known to have been...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: yara-3.6.0-1.fc26

YARA is a tool aimed at but not limited to helping malware researchers to identify and classify malware samples. With YARA you can create descriptions of malware families or whatever you want to describe based on textual or binary patterns. Each description, a.k.a rule, consists of a set of strin...

Malware Network Communication Provides Better Early Warning Signal

Research is expected to be unveiled today that challenges the industry’s current reliance on dynamic malware analysis as the best means of early detection of infections. Instead, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, the IMDEA Software Institute and EURECOM posit that a better...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: yara-3.5.0-7.fc25

YARA is a tool aimed at but not limited to helping malware researchers to identify and classify malware samples. With YARA you can create descriptions of malware families or whatever you want to describe based on textual or binary patterns. Each description, a.k.a rule, consists of a set of strin...

AVCaesar - Malware Analysis Engine and Repository

AVCaesar is a malware analysis engine and repository, developed by malware.lu within the FP7 project CockpitCI. Functionalities AVCaesar can be used to: Perform an efficient malware analysis of suspicious files based on the results of a set of antivirus solutions, bundled together to reach the...

Facebook Opens ThreatExchange Information Sharing Platform

Facebook, with its giant infrastructure and its equally wide view into Internet attacks, has built an information-sharing platform that it hopes will entice other big technology companies to join and contribute threat data and indicators of compromise. The platform, called ThreatExchange, already...

APT28 — State Sponsored Russian Hacker Group

Nearly a decade-long cyber espionage group that targeted a variety of Eastern European governments and security-related organizations including the North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO has been exposed by a security research firm. The US intelligence firm FireEye released its latest Advanced...

Inside the Targeted Attack on The New York Times

The Chinese group behind the targeted attack on the New York Times was laser focused on accessing the email of a reporter and the newspaper’s former Beijing bureau chief to the point that it used an inordinate number of custom malware samples to get the job done. “In terms of statistics, 45 custo...

Dark Comet RAT Tailored For Attacks On Gamers, Governments

Researchers analyzing the Dark Comet remote access Trojan RAT program say that data from more than 400 campaigns suggests the malicious program is being used for a wide range of jobs, from attacks on online gamers, to potential hacks of air force bases and government Web sites. In the blog entry,...

The Curious Case of Carl A. …Someone

On the list of things made obsolete by the Internet, signatures are right up there with paperback books and the postal service, but the Microsoft Malware Protection Center decided to dig deeper into the signature of Carl A. unreadable last name anyway and see why it keeps turning up in malware...