Elegant sLoad Carries Out Spying, Payload Delivery in BITS

A fresh analysis of the trojan sLoad sheds light on the growing trend of advanced malware “living off the land” of a targeted system and successfully evading detection and carrying out malicious activities. SLoad is a PowerShell downloader type of malware and is known for its impressive...

CVE-2019-19771

The lodahs package 0.0.1 for Node.js is a Trojan horse, and may have been installed by persons who mistyped the lodash package name. In particular, the Trojan horse finds and exfiltrates cryptocurrency wallets...

CVE-2019-19771

The lodahs package 0.0.1 for Node.js is a Trojan horse, and may have been installed by persons who mistyped the lodash package name. In particular, the Trojan horse finds and exfiltrates cryptocurrency wallets...

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The lodahs package 0.0.1 for Node.js is a Trojan horse, and may have been installed by persons who mistyped the lodash package name. In particular, the Trojan horse finds and exfiltrates cryptocurrency wallets...

CVE-2019-19771

The lodahs package 0.0.1 for Node.js is a Trojan horse, and may have been installed by persons who mistyped the lodash package name. In particular, the Trojan horse finds and exfiltrates cryptocurrency wallets...

CVE-2019-19771

CVE-2019-19771 concerns the lodahs package (Node.js) version 0.0.1, a malware trojan masquerading as lodash that installs via mistyped npm package names and exfiltrates cryptocurrency wallets. Multiple sources (Red Hat, NVD, GHSA, OSV, CNVD, CVE lists) describe it as malware affecting Node.js env...

Multi-stage downloader Trojan sLoad abuses BITS almost exclusively for malicious activities

Many of today’s threats evolve to incorporate as many living-off-the-land techniques as possible into the attack chain. The PowerShell-based downloader Trojan known as sLoad, however, puts all its bets on BITS. Background Intelligent Transfer Service BITS is a component of the Windows operating...

Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) Threat Intelligence Notification: njRAT

njRAT is a Remote Access Trojan RAT that will silently collect and steal sensitive information such as login credentials. It can also perform keylogger monitoring, remote desktop control, installing additional malicious software, and many other malicious activities on the victim’s computer. In...

A week in security (December 2 – December 8)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we took a look at a new version of the IcedID Trojan, described web skimmers up to no good, and took a deep dive into containerization. We also explored a report bringing bad news for organizations and insider threats, and threw a spotlight on a video game phish...

Threat Roundup for November 29 to December 6

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Nov. 29 and Dec. 6. 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,...

‘Highly Competitive' Buer Loader Emerges in Underground Markets

A previously undocumented modular loader has emerged as a lucrative tool for cybercriminals in a variety of campaigns. Researchers say the “highly competitive” loader, dubbed Buer, is intended for use by actors seeking a turn-key, off-the-shelf solution. Researchers say they have spotted the load...

New version of IcedID Trojan uses steganographic payloads

This blog post was authored by @hasherezade, with contributions from @siriurz and Jérôme Segura. Security firm Proofpoint recently published a report about a series of malspam campaigns they attribute to a threat actor called TA2101. Originally targeting German and Italian users with Cobalt Strik...

Europol Shuts Down 'Imminent Monitor' RAT Operations With 13 Arrests

In a coordinated International law enforcement operation, Europol today announced to shut down the global organized cybercrime network behind Imminent Monitor RAT, yet another hacking tool that allows cybercriminals to gain complete control over a victim's computer remotely. The operation targete...

Europol Shuts Down 'Imminent Monitor' RAT Operations With 13 Arrests

In a coordinated International law enforcement operation, Europol today announced to shut down the global organized cybercrime network behind Imminent Monitor RAT , yet another hacking tool that allows cybercriminals to gain complete control over a victim's computer remotely. The operation target...

Manipulating Machine Learning Systems by Manipulating Training Data

Interesting research: "TrojDRL: Trojan Attacks on Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents": Abstract:: Recent work has identified that classification models implemented as neural networks are vulnerable to data-poisoning and Trojan attacks at training time. In this work, we show that these training-ti...

Stalking the Stalkerware

Ever get the feeling you’re being followed? Unfortunately, when it comes to our digital lives, this is increasingly the case. But while we’re all keen to boost our followers on social media, it’s a different matter when it comes to anonymous third parties secretly stalking us online. Yes, we’re...

Ginp Android trojan targets banking apps & threatens 2FA/SMS

By Waqas Dubbed Ginp; the trojan keeps coming back with new capabilities. Here's what the malware does to Android devices... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ginp Android trojan targets banking apps & threatens 2FA/SMS...

Threat Roundup for November 15 to November 22

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Nov. 15 and Nov. 22. 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...

CVE-2019-16406

Centreon Web 19.04.4 has weak permissions within the OVA aka VMware virtual machine and OVF aka VirtualBox virtual machine files, allowing attackers to gain privileges via a Trojan horse Centreon-autodisco executable file that is launched by cron...

CVE-2019-16406

Centreon Web 19.04.4 has weak permissions within the OVA aka VMware virtual machine and OVF aka VirtualBox virtual machine files, allowing attackers to gain privileges via a Trojan horse Centreon-autodisco executable file that is launched by cron...