A week in security (March 14 – 20)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Beware of this bogus and phishy “Instagram Support” email Meet Exotic Lily, access broker for ransomware and other malware peddlers Double header: IsaacWiper and CaddyWiper How to protect RDP Online Safety Bill’s provisions for “legal but harmful” content described...

CVE-2022-26526

Anaconda Anaconda3 Anaconda Distribution through 2021.11.0.0 and Miniconda3 through 4.11.0.0 can create a world-writable directory under %PROGRAMDATA% and place that directory into the system PATH environment variable. Thus, for example, local users can gain privileges by placing a Trojan horse...

CVE-2022-26526

Anaconda Anaconda3 Anaconda Distribution through 2021.11.0.0 and Miniconda3 through 4.11.0.0 can create a world-writable directory under %PROGRAMDATA% and place that directory into the system PATH environment variable. Thus, for example, local users can gain privileges by placing a Trojan horse...

PT-2022-17918 · Anaconda3 +1 · Anaconda3 +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Anaconda3 versions through 2021.11.0.0 Miniconda3 versions through 4.11.0.0 Description: The issue allows local users to gain privileges by placing a Trojan horse file into a world-writable directory under %PROGRAMDATA% that is added to the...

Escobar is the new Android banking Trojan we’ve met before

Aberebot, a known Android banking Trojan, has changed its name and returned loaded with new features. First spotted by @MalwareHunterTeam in early March, this mobile variant was renamed "Escobar"—a homage to the Colombian drug baron—and disguised itself as a McAfee app. It went by the package nam...

Malware Posing as Russia DDoS Tool Bites Pro-Ukraine Hackers

Looking to cyber-hassle Russia, Ukrainian sympathizers? Be careful — malware is making the rounds, disguised as a pro-Ukraine cyber-tool that will turn around and bite you instead, researchers are warning. In a Wednesday threat advisory, Cisco Talos described a campaign it’s observed in which a...

Qakbot Botnet Sprouts Fangs, Injects Malware into Email Threads

The Qakbot botnet is getting more dangerous, sinking its fangs into email threads and injecting malicious modules to pump up the core botnet’s powers. On Thursday, Sophos published a deep dive into the botnet, describing how researchers have recently seen it spreading through email thread hijacki...

Fake Antivirus Apps on Play Store Loaded with SharkBot Banking Trojan

By Deeba Ahmed The SharkBot trojan was found in four fake antivirus apps on Google Play Store collectively boasting 57,000 downloads.… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Fake Antivirus Apps on Play Store Loaded with SharkBot Banking Trojan...

SharkBot Banking Malware Spreading via Fake Android Antivirus App on Google Play Store

The threat actor behind a nascent Android banking trojan named SharkBot has managed to evade Google Play Store security barriers by masquerading as an antivirus app. SharkBot, like its malware counterparts TeaBot, FluBot, and Oscorp UBEL, belongs to a category of financial trojans capable of...

TeaBot Trojan Haunts Google Play Store, Again

The TeaBot banking trojan – also known as “Anatsa” – has been spotted on the Google Play store, researchers from Cleafy have discovered. The malware – designed to intercept SMS messages and login credentials from unwitting users – affected users of “more than 400 banking and financial apps,...

Ukraine Hit with Novel ‘FoxBlade’ Trojan Hours Before Invasion

“As tanks rolled into Ukraine, so did malware,” summarized humanitarian author Andreas Harsono, referring to the novel malware that Microsoft has named FoxBlade. On Monday, the company reported that its Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC had detected cyberattacks launched against Ukraine’s digital...

CLSA-2022-1646060667 Fix of CVE: CVE-2021-42574, CVE-2018-20673

CVE-2021-42574: Developer environment: Unicode's bidirectional BiDi override characters can cause trojan source attacks 2008391 - CVE-2018-20673: libiberty: Integer overflow in demangletemplate function 1668394...

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...