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Monero mining malware is in full swing now, as eight Australian companies reported that they were compromised with malware. The cybercriminals were able to monetize their Monero mining malware to the tune of $3900 worth of Monero coins. The mining activities have been active since May 2018, and it took the companies to disclose the […]
Cybercriminals are using new sophisticated techniques to spread CSV malware via Google sheets instead of using Microsoft Excel sheet which is often used by malicious hackers. Cyber attackers are day today increasing and the attackers are always one step ahead to launching sophisticated cyber attackers which is very difficult to detect and mitigate. Basically .CSV […]
The underground markets flooded with a number of hacking tools that can be used to perform various malicious activities in the form of Cybercrime as a Service. All these tools and services are offered at various pricing range, there are here are a number of dark web markets available such as Berlusconi Market, Empire Market, […]
The very prolific Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 has made a huge discovery again, as they revealed to the public another cryptocurrency mining malware. Known as CookieMiner, it is a new crypto mining virus that specifically developed to target Mac hardware. Using cookies connected with login under MyEtherWallet, an interface service supporting Ethereum. “It sparked […]
Iranian cyber espionage group APT39 focus on stealing on personal information o perform monitoring, tracking, or surveillance operations against specific individuals. The group carrying a widespread campaign focused their operations in the Middle East, the U.S. and South Korea. Following are the industries targeted including telecommunications, travel industries, high-tech industry, and government entities. “We have […]
Formbook campaign with what looks like a few changes. Recently the criminals distributing this malware have been using .exe files inside various forms of an archive, including .iso, .ace, .rar. , zip. Frequently they use various Microsoft Office Equation Editor exploits to contact a remote site & download the payload. Very occasionally I have seen […]
Threat actors misuse the popularity of the TeamViewer Tool and utilizing it to drop the malware on victim devices that steal sensitive data. Teamviewer is the most popular tool used for remote control, desktop sharing, online meetings, web conferencing and file transfer between computers. A Security researcher who goes by name FewAtoms spotted a malicious […]
Hackers have unleashed a global malware campaign using the Google cloud computing platform via weaponized PDF. Security researchers at the Netskope Threat Research Labs have detected this malware attack, which mostly targeted the banking and finance sector. Government firms too have been targeted worldwide. A recent Netskope blog post authored by Ashwin Vamshi states, “Netskope […]
Threat actors using Google computing platform (GCP) to deliver the malware through malicious PDF files. The attack targeting governments and financial firms worldwide. According to Netskope Threat Research Labs detected the targeted based on its 42 customers instances and likely the attacks to be launched by the infamous hacking group Cobalt Strike. Last year Cybercriminals […]
Cyber Criminals now using new Stenography technique to distribute a powerful Obfuscated PDF exploit in order to compromise the targets and evade the detection. Malicious hackers are always finding new techniques to exploit the vulnerabilities and compromising victims machine without more user interaction to increase the success ratio of the attack. Steganography is the technique […]
A 2015-era banking trojan is seen actively spreading in the wild again, this time specifically targeting potential victims from a specific country only. Palo Alto Networks detected massive number of phishing emails containing the Redaman banking trojan targeting emails ending with .ru domain. Formerly known as RTM banking trojan in 2015, the Redaman malware is […]
Fallout is an exploit kit (EK) first identified at the end of August 2018. It was first seen as a part of a malvertising campaign affecting users in Japan, Korea, the Middle East, Southern Europe, and others in the Asia Pacific. Fallout was observed exploiting vulnerabilities CVE-2018-4878 and CVE-2018-8174 and distributing the Gandcrab ransomware to […]
A new phishing email campaign contained a malicious word document with macros downloads and executes Ursnif malware and GandCrab ransomware. Security researchers from Carbon Black observed the campaign in wild and roughly 180 variants detected. The first stage of attack starts in delivering of weaponized MS word document to deliver the initial stages, according to […]
Attackers threaten to collapse users’ mining platforms Network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security report the finding of a new ransomware variant especially targeted against Bitcoin mining platforms. So far, most known infection cases have been reported in China, as this is the country with the most cryptocurrency mining […]
Malicious hackers have infected some torrents on this platform with a malware functional in Windows operating systems Although in general this practice does not generate major drawbacks, experts in network security and ethical hacking from the International Institute of Cyber Security say that downloading a torrent involves taking some risks, as many of these files […]
Most people think that there’s little if any, Mac malware in the civilized world. Unfortunately, that impression is just wishful thinking. Well, we have seen how things shaped in 2018, and the increased targeting of the macOS platform by APT groups. We also saw how the criminals tried to exploit cryptomining and targeting those who […]
This new and sophisticated malicious software is able to bypass the best security measures A new ransomware family discovered at the beginning of 2019 has generated alarm among the cybersecurity community due to its apparent modular features and its well-developed coding techniques, report specialists in network security and ethical hacking from the International Institute of […]
The coordinated efforts were part of the URLhaus initiative that Abuse.ch launched in March 2018, and whose primary objective is to collect and share URLs about active malware campaigns so the information security (infosec) community can take action by blacklisting or taking down URLs. In a report published today, Abuse.ch says the URLhaus project has […]
A new ransomware called Phobos is infecting devices and networks in a massive way A group of hackers is finding remote access to networks of different organizations to distribute new variants of ransomware. According network security and ethical hacking experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security, attackers are also infecting sites that share cracked […]
DarkHydruns APT Group targets government entities in the middle eats with weaponized excel documents that delivers a new variant of RogueRobin trojan and can establish communication with C2 server through DNS tunnel and Google Drive API. The campaign uses a weaponized Excel document with macro enabled(xlsm) to deliver the malware, once the user open the […]
Piratebay users are now being victimized by malware and phishing attack that hijacking the websites and steal the cryptocurrencies. A researcher who was trying to download a torrent from Piratebay, a torrent file drops .LNK shortcut file contained a CozyBear malware along with dangerous PowerShell commands. Piratebay is one of the worlds leading torrents site with […]