Adaptive Detection of Polymorphic Malware: Leveraging Mutation Engines and YARA Rules for Enhanced Security

Polymorphic malware continually alters its structure to evade signature-based defences, challenging both commercial antivirus AV and enterprise detection systems. This study introduces a reproducible framework for analysing eight polymorphic behaviours-junk code insertion, control-flow obfuscatio...

New Mirai Botnet Variants Observed: How to Identify a Mirai-Style DDoS Attack

The Mirai Internet of Things IoT botnet, notorious for targeting connected household devices like cameras, alarm systems, and personal routers, continues evolving and poses significant cybersecurity threats. It has a history of executing massive DDoS attacks, including a major incident that...

IoC detection experiments with ChatGPT

ChatGPT is a groundbreaking chatbot powered by the neural network-based language model text-davinci-003 and trained on a large dataset of text from the Internet. It is capable of generating human-like text in a wide range of styles and formats. ChatGPT can be fine-tuned for specific tasks, such a...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Can Create Polymorphic Malware

By Waqas The researchers managed to create the Polymorphic malware by bypassing the content filters in ChatGPT by using an authoritative tone. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: OpenAIs ChatGPT Can Create Polymorphic Malware...

W4SP Stealer Constantly Targeting Python Developers in Ongoing Supply Chain Attack

An ongoing supply chain attack has been leveraging malicious Python packages to distribute malware called W4SP Stealer, with over hundreds of victims ensnared to date. "The threat actor is still active and is releasing more malicious packages," Checkmarx researcher Jossef Harush said in a technic...

Combing through the fuzz: Using fuzzy hashing and deep learning to counter malware detection evasion techniques

Today’s cybersecurity threats continue to find ways to fly and stay under the radar. Cybercriminals use polymorphic malware because a slight change in the binary code or script could allow the said threats to avoid detection by traditional antivirus software. Threat actors customize their wares...

Adrozek Malware Delivers Fake Ads to 30K Devices a Day

A persistent malware campaign called Adrozek has been using an evolved browser modifier to deliver fraudulent ads to search-engine pages, according to Microsoft. At its peak in August, Adrozek was observed on more than 30,000 devices each day, researchers found, affecting multiple browsers. The...

Evolution of Emotet: From Banking Trojan to Malware Distributor

Emotet is one of the most dangerous and widespread malware threats active today. Ever since its discovery in 2014—when Emotet was a standard credential stealer and banking Trojan, the malware has evolved into a modular, polymorphic platform for distributing other kinds of computer viruses. Being...

Full Operational Shutdown—another cybercrime case from the Microsoft Detection and Response Team

Recently, we published our first case report 001: …And Then There Were Six by the Microsoft Detection and Response Team DART. We received significant positive response from our customers and colleagues and our team has been getting inquiries asking for more reports. We are glad to share the DART...

Download Guide — Advanced Threat Protection Beyond the AV

At a certain point, almost every organization reaches the conclusion that there is a need to move past just the standard AV and firewall stack in order to soundly protect their environment. The common practice in recent years is to gain extra protection through implementing either EDR\EPP solutio...

Download Guide — Advanced Threat Protection Beyond the AV

At a certain point, almost every organization reaches the conclusion that there is a need to move past just the standard AV and firewall stack in order to soundly protect their environment. The common practice in recent years is to gain extra protection through implementing either EDR\EPP solutio...

Announcing Malwarebytes 4.0: smarter, faster, and lighter

Malwarebytes was founded on the belief that everyone has a fundamental right to a malware-free existence. Every product we make is built on that premise. That’s why we’ve been hard at work on the latest version of Malwarebytes for Windows that not only sports a whole new look, but packs...

This Week in Security News: Phishing Campaigns and a Biometric Data Breach

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about ever-increasing amounts of phishing campaigns and how Trend Micro caught 2.4 million attacks of this type — a 59% increase from...

CB TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: Smominru Botnet Leverages New Attack Techniques

Carbon Black’s Threat Analysis Unit TAU and CB ThreatSight discovered the resurgence of a previously active crypytomining botnet campaign called Smominru. This campaign has evolved since its original discovery in the latter half of 2017, leveraging new techniques including LOLbins, polymorphic...

Threat Roundup for Nov. 23 to Nov. 30

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Nov. 23 and Nov. 30. 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...