Rebirth of Emotet: New Features of the Botnet and How to Detect it

One of the most dangerous and infamous threats is back again. In January 2021, global officials took down the botnet. Law enforcement sent a destructive update to the Emotet's executables. And it looked like the end of the trojan's story. But the malware never ceased to surprise. November 2021, i...

Gaming, Banking Trojans Dominate Mobile Malware Scene

The number of cyberattacks launched against mobile users was down last year, researchers have found — but don’t pop the champagne just yet. The decline was offset by jacked-up, more sophisticated, more nimble mobile nastiness. In a Monday report, Kaspersky said that its researchers have observed ...

Security Bulletin: InstallAnywhere generates installation executables which are vulnerable to a DLL-planting vulnerability (CVE-2016-4560)

Summary Flexera InstallAnywhere, shipped and used by IBM Spectrum Control and Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system by using a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory of a setup-launcher. Vulnerability Details CVEID:...

Xenomorph banking Trojan downloaded over 50,000 times from Play Store

Besides the name of the creature that “stars” in the Alien movies by 20th Century Fox, Xenomorph is also the name given to an Android banking Trojan. Researchers found this banking Trojan to be distributed on the official Google Play Store, with more than 50,000 installations. The researchers...

CLSA-2022-1645466518 Fix of CVE: CVE-2021-20284, CVE-2021-20197, CVE-2021-42574, CVE-2021-3487, CVE-2020-35448

CVE-2021-42574: Developer environment: Unicode's bidirectional BiDi override characters can cause trojan source attacks 2009172 - CVE-2021-20284: Heap-based buffer overflow in bfdelfslurpsecondaryrelocsection in elf.c 1961526 - CVE-2020-35448: Heap-based buffer overflow in bfdgetlsigned32 in...

New Android Banking Trojan Spreading via Google Play Store Targets Europeans

A new Android banking trojan with over 50,000 installations has been observed distributed via the official Google Play Store with the goal of targeting 56 European banks and carrying out harvesting sensitive information from compromised devices. Dubbed Xenomorph by Dutch security firm ThreatFabri...

Mobile malware evolution 2021

These statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky products received from users who consented to providing statistical data. Figures of the year In 2021, Kaspersky mobile products and technologies detected: 3,464,756 malicious installation packages 97,661 new mobile banking Trojans...

Moses Staff Hackers Targeting Israeli Organizations for Cyber Espionage

The politically motivated Moses Staff hacker group has been observed using a custom multi-component toolset with the goal of carrying out espionage against its targets as part of a new campaign that exclusively singles out Israeli organizations. First publicly documented in late 2021, Moses Staff...

TrickBot Ravages Customers of Amazon, PayPal and Other Top Brands

Cyberattackers are targeting 60 different high-profile companies with the TrickBot malware, researchers have warned, with many of those in the U.S. The goal is to attack those companies’ customers, according to Check Point Research CPR, which are being cherry-picked for victimization. According t...

Ban Pegasus spyware, urges European Union Data Protection Supervisor

The European Data Protection Supervisor EDPS has urged the EU to ban the development and deployment of spyware with the capabilities of Pegasus to protect fundamental rights and freedoms. What is Pegasus? On July 18, a group of 17 newspaper and media organizations—aided by Amnesty International’s...

Researchers Link ShadowPad Malware Attacks to Chinese Ministry and PLA

Cybersecurity researchers have detailed the inner workings of ShadowPad, a sophisticated and modular backdoor that has been adopted by a growing number of Chinese threat groups in recent years, while also linking it to the country's civilian and military intelligence agencies. "ShadowPad is...

Threat Campaign by Molerats uses NimbleMamba Malware to target Middle East

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here An APT group Molerats associated with Gaza has launched a new threat campaign using a malware NimbleMamba aimed at Middle Eastern governments, foreign policy think tanks, and even a state-owned airline. The current attack was...

Exploit for Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Siemens 6Bk1602-0Aa12-0Tp0_Firmware

Article Journal: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373214...

Exploit for Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Siemens 6Bk1602-0Aa12-0Tp0_Firmware

Article Journal: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373214...

Cybercrooks Frame Targets by Planting Fabricated Digital Evidence

Threat actors are hijacking the devices of India’s human rights lawyers, activists and defenders, planting incriminating evidence to set them up for arrest, researchers warn. The actor, dubbed ModifiedElephant, has been at it for at least 10 years, and it’s still active. It’s been shafting target...

Hackers Planted Fake Digital Evidence on Devices of Indian Activists and Lawyers

A previously unknown hacking group has been linked to targeted attacks against human rights activists, human rights defenders, academics, and lawyers across India in an attempt to plant "incriminating digital evidence." Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne attributed the intrusions to a group it tracks...

Medusa Android Banking Trojan Spreading Through Flubot's Attacks Network

Two different Android banking Trojans, FluBot and Medusa, are relying on the same delivery vehicle as part of a simultaneous attack campaign, according to new research published by ThreatFabric. The ongoing side-by-side infections, facilitated through the same smishing SMS phishing infrastructure...

Medusa Malware Joins Flubot’s Android Distribution Network

Flubot, the Android spyware that’s been spreading virally since last year, has hitched its infrastructure wagon up to another mobile threat known as Medusa. That’s according to ThreatFabric, which found that Medusa is now being distributed through the same SMS-phishing infrastructure as Flubot,...

Catching the RAT called Agent Tesla

For the last few years, the Qualys Research Team has been observing an infamous "Malware-as-a-service" RAT Remote Access Trojan called Agent Tesla. It first appeared in 2014, and since then many variants have been deployed. This malware uses multiple techniques for evading detection as well as...

The evolution of a Mac trojan: UpdateAgent’s progression

Our discovery and analysis of a sophisticated Mac trojan in October exposed a year-long evolution of a malware family—and depicts the rising complexity of threats across platforms. The trojan, tracked as UpdateAgent, started as a relatively basic information-stealer but was observed distributing...