North Korean Hackers Start New Year with Attacks on Russian Foreign Ministry

A North Korean cyberespionage group named Konni has been linked to a series of targeted attacks aimed at the Russian Federation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs MID with New Year lures to compromise Windows systems with malware. "This activity cluster demonstrates the patient and persistent nature o...

‘Malsmoke’ Exploits Microsoft’s E-Signature Verification

Threat actors are exploiting Microsoft’s digital signature verification to steal user credentials and other sensitive information by delivering the ZLoader malware, which previously has been used to distribute Ryuk and Conti ransomware, researchers have found. Researchers at Check Point Research...

Beware of Fake Telegram Messenger App Hacking PCs with Purple Fox Malware

Trojanized installers of the Telegram messaging application are being used to distribute the Windows-based Purple Fox backdoor on compromised systems. That's according to new research published by Minerva Labs, describing the attack as different from intrusions that typically take advantage of...

TrojanSourceFinder - Help Find Trojan Source Vulnerability In Code

TrojanSourceFinder helps developers detect "Trojan Source" vulnerability in source code. Trojan Source vulnerability allows an attacker to make malicious code appear innocent. In general, the attacker tries to lure by passing his code off as a comment visually. It is a serious threat because it...

‘DarkWatchman’ RAT Shows Evolution in Fileless Malware

A novel remote access trojan RAT being distributed via a Russian-language spear-phishing campaign is using unique manipulation of Windows Registry to evade most security detections, demonstrating a significant evolution in fileless malware techniques. Dubbed DarkWatchman, the RAT – discovered by...

New Fileless Malware Uses Windows Registry as Storage to Evade Detection

A new JavaScript-based remote access Trojan RAT propagated via a social engineering campaign has been observed employing sneaky "fileless" techniques as part of its detection-evasion methods to elude discovery and analysis. Dubbed DarkWatchman by researchers from Prevailion's Adversarial...

Adobe Premiere Rush Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2021-101128)

Adobe Premiere Rush is a cross-platform video editing software from Adobe. Adobe Premiere Rush has a security vulnerability that could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service...

Relentless Log4j Attacks Include State Actors, Possible Worm

Call it a “logjam” of threats: Attackers including nation-state actors have already targeted half of all corporate global networks in security companies’ telemetry using at least 70 distinct malware families — and the fallout from the Log4j vulnerability is just beginning. Researchers manning...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2012-3015

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Siemens SIMATIC STEP7 before 5.5 SP1, as used in SIMATIC PCS7 7.1 SP3 and earlier and other products, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in a STEP7 project folder...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2015-0096

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, and Windows RT Gold and 8.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in...

400 Banks’ Customers Targeted with Anubis Trojan

Customers of Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Capital One, along with nearly 400 other financial institutions, are being targeted by a malicious app disguised to look like the official account management platform for French telecom company Orange S.A. Researchers say this is just the...

Malicious PyPI Code Packages Rack Up Thousands of Downloads

Three malicious packages hosted in the Python Package Index PyPI code repository have been uncovered, which collectively have more than 12,000 downloads – and presumably slithered into installations in various applications. Independent researcher Andrew Scott found the packages during a nearly...

Over a Dozen Malicious NPM Packages Caught Hijacking Discord Servers

At least 17 malware-laced packages have been discovered on the NPM package Registry, adding to a recent barrage of malicious software hosted and delivered through open-source software repositories such as PyPi and RubyGems. DevOps firm JFrog said the libraries, now taken down, were designed to gr...

Malicious npm Code Packages Built for Hijacking Discord Servers

A series of malicious packages in the Node.js package manager npm code repository are looking to harvest Discord tokens, which can be used to take over unsuspecting users’ accounts and servers. The npm repository is an open-source home for JavaScript developers to share and reuse code blocks. The...

Emotet’s back and it isn’t wasting any time

Emotet is one of the best known, and most dangerous, malware threats of the past several years. On several occasions it appeared to take an early retirement, but it has always came back. In January of this year, a global police operation dismantled Emotets botnet. Law enforcement then used their...

Trojan.Win32.Mucc.ivk Unquoted Service Path

Discovery / credits: Malvuln - malvuln.com c 2021 Original source: https://malvuln.com/advisory/1d622f8c72b010b8d7213c032db122e4.txt Contact: [email protected] Media: twitter.com/malvuln Threat: Trojan.Win32.Mucc.ivk Vulnerability: Insecure Service Path Description: The malware creates a servic...

MGASA-2021-0527 Updated perl/perl-Encode packages fix security vulnerability

Encode.pm, as distributed in Perl through 5.34.0, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse Encode::ConfigLocal library in the current working directory that preempts dynamic module loading. Exploitation requires an unusual configuration, and certain 2021 versions of Encode.pm 3.05...

Have you downloaded that Android malware from the Play Store lately?

This post has been updated to include the Malwarebytes detection for these Android apps. Security researchers have discovered banking Trojan apps on the Google Play Store, and say they have been downloaded by more than 300,000 Android users. As you may know, banking Trojans are kitted for stealin...

Finland Faces Blizzard of Flubot-Spreading Text Messages

The Flubot banking trojan is blanketing Finland, spreading via Android phones that are sending millions of malicious text messages. On Friday, the National Cyber Security Centre NCSC-FI at the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency posted a “severe” alert about the malware blizzard, which it...

300,000 Android users impacted by malware apps on Play Store

By Waqas In total, 4 different banking trojan malware disguised as cryptocurrency apps, QR code readers, PDF scanners, fitness monitors, etc. were identified on the Play Store. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 300,000 Android users impacted by malware apps on Play Store...