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Panda Security Antivirus代码问题漏洞
Panda Security Antivirus is a suite of antivirus software from the Spanish company Panda Security. A security vulnerability exists in Panda Securit, which can be exploited by an attacker to escalate privileges via a maliciously crafted DLL file...
Fake Zoom App Dropped by New APT ‘Luminous Moth’
Researchers have spotted a weird one: A newly identified threat actor linked to China that’s first mass-attacking, but then cherry-picking, just a few targets to hit with malware and data exfiltration. Kaspersky researchers said in a Wednesday writeup that they’ve named the advanced threat actor...
A week in security (May 17 – May 23)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at a banking trojan full of nasty tricks, explained some tips and pointers for using VirusTotal, and dug into how an authentication vulnerability was patched by Pega Infinity. We also explored how a Royal Mail phish deploys evasion tricks to avoid analysi...
This Week in Security News May 7, 2021
New Panda Stealer Targets Cryptocurrency Wallets and Apple Releases Urgent Security Patches for Zero-Day Bugs...
New Crypto-Stealer ‘Panda’ Spreads via Discord
Yet another new information stealer – Panda Stealer – is being spread through a worldwide spam campaign. On Tuesday, Trend Micro researchers said that they first spotted the new stealer in April. The most recent wave of the spam campaign has had the biggest impact in Australia, Germany, Japan and...
New Panda Stealer Targets Cryptocurrency Wallets
In early April, we observed a new information stealer called Panda Stealer being delivered via spam emails. Based on Trend Micro's telemetry, United States, Australia, Japan, and Germany were among the most affected countries during a recent spam wave...
LuckyMouse Hackers Target Banks, Companies and Governments in 2020
An adversary known for its watering hole attacks against government entities has been linked to a slew of newly detected intrusions targeting various organizations in Central Asia and the Middle East. The malicious activity, collectively named "EmissarySoldier," has been attributed to a threat...
Hackers are implanting multiple backdoors at industrial targets in Japan
Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed details of a sophisticated campaign that deploys malicious backdoors for the purpose of exfiltrating information from a number of industry sectors located in Japan. Dubbed "A41APT" by Kaspersky researchers, the findings delve into a new slew of attac...
State-sponsored Threat Groups Target Telcos, Steal 5G Secrets
Chinese-language APTs are targeting telecom companies in cyberespionage campaigns aimed at stealing sensitive data and trade secrets tied to 5G technology, according to researchers. The campaigns, dubbed “Operation Diànxùn”, target and lure victims working in the telecom industry. A typical ploy...
Operation Dianxun Cyberespionage Campaign Targeting Telecommunication Companies
ARCHIVED STORY Operation Diànxùn: Cyberespionage Campaign Targeting Telecommunication Companies By Thomas Roccia · MAR 16, 2021 In this report the McAfee Advanced Threat Research ATR Strategic Intelligence team details an espionage campaign, targeting telecommunication companies, dubbed Operation...
Chinese Antivirus Firm Was Part of APT41 ‘Supply Chain’ Attack
The U.S. Justice Department this week indicted seven Chinese nationals for a decade-long hacking spree that targeted more than 100 high-tech and online gaming companies. The government alleges the men used malware-laced phishing emails and "supply chain" attacks to steal data from companies and...
New USBCulprit Espionage Tool Steals Data From Air-Gapped Computers
A Chinese threat actor has developed new capabilities to target air-gapped systems in an attempt to exfiltrate sensitive data for espionage, according to a newly published research by Kaspersky yesterday. The APT, known as Cycldek, Goblin Panda, or Conimes, employs an extensive toolset for latera...
TrickBot Adds BazarBackdoor to Malware Arsenal
A new module for the infamous trojan known as TrickBot has been deployed: A stealthy backdoor that researchers call “BazarBackdoor.” The binary was first spotted being delivered as part of a phishing campaign that began in March, according to an analysis from Panda Security this week. The campaig...
Panda Accelerator of Jiangsu Youku Network Technology Co. Ltd. suffers from dll hijacking vulnerability
Panda gas pedal is a powerful online game gas pedal, using a new node intelligent matching algorithm, more stable and reliable transmission channel, optimized for steam and other platforms, effectively solving the problem of high latency and other issues for players. Ltd. Panda gas pedal dll...
Coronavirus-Themed APT Attack Spreads Malware
An advanced persistent threat APT group is leveraging the coronavirus pandemic to infect victims with a previously unknown malware, in a recently discovered campaign that researchers call “Vicious Panda.” Researchers identified two suspicious Rich Text Format files RTF — a text file format used b...
New Research Paper: Prevalence and impact of low-entropy packing schemes in the malware ecosystem
Detection of malware is a constant battle between the technologies designed to detect and prevent malware and the authors creating them. One common technique adversaries leverage is packing binaries. Packing an executable is similar to applying compression or encryption and can inhibit the abilit...
LAVA - Large-scale Automated Vulnerability Addition
Evaluating and improving bug-finding tools is currently difficult due to a shortage of ground truth corpora i.e., software that has known bugs with triggering inputs. LAVA attempts to solve this problem by automatically injecting bugs into software. Every LAVA bug is accompanied by an input that...
Panda Threat Group Mines for Monero With Updated Payload, Targets
The Panda threat group, best known for launching the widespread and successful 2018 “MassMiner” cryptomining malware campaign, has continued to use malware to mine cryptocurrency in more recent attacks. A fresh analysis of the group reveals Panda has adopted a newly-updated infrastructure, payloa...
Cryptocurrency miners aren’t dead yet: Documenting the voracious but simple “Panda”
By Christopher Evans and David Liebenberg. Executive summary A new threat actor named "Panda" has generated thousands of dollars worth of the Monero cryptocurrency through the use of remote access tools RATs and illicit cryptocurrency-mining malware. This is far from the most sophisticated actor...
Defense Takeaways from Three Adversary Playbooks
In these days of advanced threats, the perimeter defense strategy – though still useful and necessary – is incomplete. IT security teams need as much information about existing threats as possible, so they know what to look for and how to position proactive countermeasures. Creating and using...