Neurevt trojan takes aim at Mexican users

By Chetan Raghuprasad, with contributions from Vanja Svajcer. News summaryCisco Talos discovered a new version of the Neurevt trojan with spyware and backdoor capabilities in June 2021 using Cisco Secure Endpoint product telemetry.This version of Neurevt appears to target users of Mexican...

Rogue Marketplace AlphaBay Reboots

The illicit marketplace AlphaBay appears to have resurfaced, four years after a high-profile takedown by international law enforcement agencies. The reboot, according to researchers at Flashpoint, isn’t an exact a replica. Rather, the reconstituted version of the site is described as an homage to...

IT threat evolution in Q2 2021. Mobile statistics

These statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky products received from users who consented to providing statistical data. Quarterly figures In Q2 2021, according to data from Kaspersky Security Network: 14,465,672 malware, adware and riskware attacks were prevented. The largest shar...

CVE-2021-36770

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...

CVE-2021-36770

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...

Design/Logic Flaw

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...

CVE-2021-36770

CVE-2021-36770 affects IBM Cognos Analytics. The IBM bulletin notes a local privilege-escalation via an untrusted search path in the Perl Encode module (Encode::ConfigLocal) loaded from the current working directory, preempting dynamic module loading. Exploitation requires an unusual configuratio...

CVE-2021-36770

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...

CVE-2021-36770

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...

Trojan-Proxy.Win32.Raznew.gen Unauthenticated Open Proxy

Discovery / credits: Malvuln - malvuln.com c 2021 Original source: https://malvuln.com/advisory/55ce4b6c2ec10838c54dca54d96801d6.txt Contact: [email protected] Media: twitter.com/malvuln Threat: Trojan-Proxy.Win32.Raznew.gen Vulnerability: Unauthenticated Open Proxy Description: The malware...

Chaos Malware: Ransomware and Wiper

An under-construction malware called Chaos has been spotted, which is being advertised on an underground forum as being available for testing. While it calls itself ransomware, an analysis revealed that it’s actually more of a wiper. According to Trend Micro researcher Monte de Jesus, Chaos has...

Android Malware ‘FlyTrap’ Hijacks Facebook Accounts

Researchers have uncovered a new Android trojan, dubbed FlyTrap, that’s spread to more than 10,000 victims via rigged apps on third-party app stores, sideloaded apps and hijacked Facebook accounts. In a report posted on Monday, Zimperium’s zLabs mobile threat research teams wrote that FlyTrap has...

Beware! New Android Malware Hacks Thousands of Facebook Accounts

A new Android trojan has been found to compromise Facebook accounts of over 10,000 users in at least 144 countries since March 2021 via fraudulent apps distributed through Google Play Store and other third-party app marketplaces. Dubbed "FlyTrap," the previously undocumented malware is believed t...

CVE-2021-36770

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...

Cinobi Banking Trojan Targets Cryptocurrency Exchange Users via Malvertising

We found a new social engineering-based malvertising campaign targeting Japan that delivered a malicious application. The malicious application abused sideloading vulnerabilities to load and start the Cinobi banking trojan...

Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Small.fp Unauthenticated Open Proxy

Discovery / credits: Malvuln - malvuln.com c 2021 Original source: https://malvuln.com/advisory/07122dd3b069bbbb445e060c1249d5a2.txt Contact: [email protected] Media: twitter.com/malvuln Threat: Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Small.fp Vulnerability: Unauthenticated Open Proxy Description: The malware...

A Wide Range of Cyber Attacks Leveraging Prometheus TDS Malware Service

Multiple cybercriminal groups are leveraging a malware-as-a-service MaaS solution to carry out a wide range of malicious software distribution campaigns that result in the deployment of payloads such as Campo Loader, Hancitor, IcedID, QBot, Buer Loader, and SocGholish against individuals in Belgi...

New Chinese Spyware Being Used in Widespread Cyber Espionage Attacks

A threat actor presumed to be of Chinese origin has been linked to a series of 10 attacks targeting Mongolia, Russia, Belarus, Canada, and the U.S. from January to July 2021 that involve the deployment of a remote access trojan RAT on infected systems, according to new research. The intrusions ha...

Hackers Exploit Microsoft Browser Bug to Deploy VBA Malware on Targeted PCs

An unidentified threat actor has been exploiting a now-patched zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer browser to deliver a fully-featured VBA-based remote access trojan RAT capable of accessing files stored in compromised Windows systems, and downloading and executing malicious payloads as part of an...

Crimea “manifesto” deploys VBA Rat using double attack vectors

This blog post was authored by Hossein Jazi. On July 21, 2021, we identified a suspicious document named "Манифест.docx" "Manifest.docx" that downloads and executes two templates: one is macro-enabled and the other is an html object that contains an Internet Explorer exploit. While both technique...