Spam Campaigns Spread Trickbot Malware with Tax Lure

Hackers pushing the TrickBot banking trojan are exploiting tax season by pushing malicious Microsoft Excel spreadsheet documents via spam campaigns. Researchers said that they discovered the malware in three different campaigns since Jan. 27, 2019. These campaigns target victims with emails...

LokiBot Trojan Spotted Hitching a Ride Inside .PNG Files

A spam campaign pushing the info-stealing LokiBot trojan leverages a novel technique to avoid detection. According to researchers, the spam messages include malicious .zipx attachment hidden inside a .PNG file that can slip past some email security gateways. According to Trustwave SpiderLabs, tha...

Threat Roundup for March 29 to April 5

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between March 29 and April 05. 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...

BasBanke: Trend-setting Brazilian banking Trojan

BasBanke is a new Android malware family targeting Brazilian users. It is a banking Trojan built to steal financial data such as credentials and credit/debit card numbers, but not limited to this functionality. The propagation of this threat began during the 2018 Brazilian elections, registering...

Roaming Mantis, part IV

One year has passed since we published the first blogpost about the Roaming Mantis campaign on securelist.com, and this February we detected new activities by the group. This blogpost is follow up on our earlier reporting about the group with updates on their tools and tactics. Mobile config for...

Canadian Police Raid ‘Orcus RAT’ Author

Canadian police last week raided the residence of a Toronto software developer behind “Orcus RAT,” a product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. Its author maintains Orcus is a legitimate Remote Administration Tool that is...

CVE-2018-19113

The Pronestor PNHM aka Health Monitoring or HealthMonitor add-in before 8.1.13.0 for Outlook has "BUILTIN\Users:IF" permissions for the "%PROGRAMFILESX86%\proNestor\Outlook add-in for Pronestor\PronestorHealthMonitor.exe" file, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse...

Code injection

The Pronestor PNHM aka Health Monitoring or HealthMonitor add-in before 8.1.13.0 for Outlook has "BUILTIN\Users:IF" permissions for the "%PROGRAMFILESX86%\proNestor\Outlook add-in for Pronestor\PronestorHealthMonitor.exe" file, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse...

phpMussel - PHP-based Anti-Virus Anti-Trojan Anti-Malware Solution

phpMussel is an ideal solution for shared hosting environments, where it's often not possible to utilize or install conventional anti-virus protection solutions, phpMussel is a PHP script designed to detect trojans, viruses,malware and other threats within files uploaded to your system wherever t...

Threat Landscape for Industrial Automation Systems in H2 2018

H2 2018 in figures All statistical data used in this report was collected using the Kaspersky Security Network KSN, a distributed antivirus network. The data was received from those KSN users who gave their consent to have data anonymously transferred from their computers. We do not identify the...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2019-4594)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2019-4594 advisory. - ext4: always verify the magic number in xattr blocks Theodore Ts'o Orabug: 29437127 CVE-2018-10879 CVE-2018-10879 - ext4: add corruption check in...

Insecure UC Browser 'Feature' Lets Hackers Hijack Android Phones Remotely

Beware! If you are using UC Browser on your smartphones, you should consider uninstalling it immediately. Why? Because the China-made UC Browser contains a "questionable" ability that could be exploited by remote attackers to automatically download and execute code on your Android devices...

Threat Roundup for March 15 to March 22

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

AZORult++: Rewriting history

The AZORult Trojan is one of the most commonly bought and sold stealers in Russian forums. Despite the relatively high price tag $100, buyers like AZORult for its broad functionality for example, the use of .bit domains as C&C servers to ensure owner anonymity and to make it difficult to block th...

Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Multiple IBM Products

The IBM Power System S922, among others, is a Power processor-based server device from IBM in the United States. A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the boot loader in several IBM products. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to overwrite the bootloader's instruction memory, bypass...

Mac-Focused Malvertising Campaign Abuses Google Firebase DBs

A malvertising group named VeryMal that targets Mac users has changed up its tactics, ditching steganography as its obfuscation technique. Instead, it’s using ad tags that fetch a payload from Google Firebase in order to redirect users to malicious pop-ups. Confiant estimates that close to 1...

Israeli fintech firms hit by Cardinal RAT malware

By Waqas The IT security researchers at Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 have discovered a malware that has been targeting Israeli cyberspace especially those dealing with technology and financial sector. Dubbed Cardinal RAT remote access Trojan by researchers; the malware is currently targeting two...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in Website Building System of Guangzhou Ju Teng Information Technology Co.

Guangzhou Ju Teng Information Technology Co., Ltd. specializes in website planning, production, promotion and network system development. Guangzhou Ju Teng Information Technology Co., Ltd. station building system there are SQL injection vulnerabilities, the attacker to take advantage of the...

Counter-Strike 1.6 game client 0-day exploited to spread Belonard trojan

By Waqas Dr. Web’s cybersecurity researchers have identified an attacker is trying to exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in Counter-Strike 1.6 game specifically to distribute Belonard Trojan. Reportedly, about 39% of all the active servers of the game on Steam have been manipulated and compromised ...

Hackers are using 19-year-old WinRAR bug to install nasty malware

By Waqas By using the bug, hackers are desperately dropping persistent malware through generic trojan on systems using the old version of WinRar. McAfee security firm’s researcher Craig Schmugar has identified that the world famous and commonly used compression software WinRar is plagued with cod...