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Cybersecurity researchers have detailed an updated version of the malware HeadCrab that’s known to target Redis database servers across the world since early September 2021. The development, which comes exactly a year after the malware was first publicly disclosed by Aqua, is a sign that the financially-motivated threat actor behind the campaign is actively adapting […]
A new fileless attack dubbed PyLoose has been observed striking cloud workloads with the goal of delivering a cryptocurrency miner, new findings from Wiz reveal. “The attack consists of Python code that loads an XMRig Miner directly into memory using memfd, a known Linux fileless technique,” security researchers Avigayil Mechtinger, Oren Ofer, and Itamar Gilad […]
Government organizations in Central Asia are the target of a sophisticated espionage campaign that leverages a previously undocumented strain of malware dubbed DownEx. Bitdefender, in a report shared with The Hacker News, said the activity remains active, with evidence likely pointing to the involvement of Russia-based threat actors. The Romanian cybersecurity firm said it first […]
A new set of phishing attacks delivering the more_eggs malware has been observed striking corporate hiring managers with bogus resumes as an infection vector, a year after potential candidates looking for work on LinkedIn were lured with weaponized job offers. “This year the more_eggs operation has flipped the social engineering script, targeting hiring managers with […]
Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps off a previously undocumented and stealthy custom malware called SockDetour that targeted U.S.-based defense contractors with the goal of being used as a secondary implant on compromised Windows hosts. “SockDetour is a backdoor that is designed to remain stealthily on compromised Windows servers so that it can serve as […]
A previously undocumented firmware implant deployed to maintain stealthy persistence as part of a targeted espionage campaign has been linked to the Chinese-speaking Winnti advanced persistent threat group (APT41). Kaspersky, which codenamed the rootkit MoonBounce, characterized the malware as the “most advanced UEFI firmware implant discovered in the wild to date,” adding “the purpose of […]
A new JavaScript-based remote access Trojan (RAT) propagated via a social engineering campaign has been observed employing sneaky “fileless” techniques as part of its detection-evasion methods to elude discovery and analysis. Dubbed DarkWatchman by researchers from Prevailion’s Adversarial Counterintelligence Team (PACT), the malware uses a resilient domain generation algorithm (DGA) to identify its command-and-control (C2) […]
Microsoft issued a serious warning about the new form of stealthy fileless Malware campaign “Nodersok” that attacks windows computers using living-off-the-land techniques. Living-off-the-land Binaries (LOLBin) technique refers to the abuse of legitimate windows tools and uses it to maintain its persistence and performing other malicious activities in the targeted windows machine. Microsoft researchers are continuously […]
Watch out Windows users! There’s a new strain of malware making rounds on the Internet that has already infected thousands of computers worldwide and most likely, your antivirus program would not be able to detect it. Why? That’s because, first, it’s an advanced fileless malware and second, it leverages only legitimate built-in system utilities and […]
Infamous Turla APT Hackers group renew its arsenal with a new hacking tool named “Topinambour ” also called as aka Sunchoke that is mainly used to target and compromise the government networks. The newly added tool started using at the beginning of 2019, and the malware authors named it as Tonpinambour by themselves for this […]
Security researchers at Microsoft have released details of a new widespread campaign distributing an infamous piece of fileless malware that was primarily being found targeting European and Brazilian users earlier this year. Dubbed Astaroth, the malware trojan has been making the rounds since at least 2017 and designed to steal users’ sensitive information like their […]
A widespread fileless malware campaign called Astaroth spotted with the “lived off the land” method to attack Windows users with advanced persistent technique to evade the detection. Microsoft uncovered this fileless malware using anomaly detection algorithm and the observation of sudden spike in the use of Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) tool to run the […]
Cyber criminals now approaching a unique way to spread Powload malware with the help of steganography to infect the targeted system. Powload campaign activity distributing since 2018 through fileless techniques and hijacking email accounts to deliver the information-stealing malware such as emotet and Ursnif. But the recent attacks employed the steganography techniques in which attackers […]
You might be able to recall the NSA exploit called EternalBlue which was leaked by the hacker group in April last year. The Windows exploit was later used to launch worldwide cyber disaster in the name of WannaCry. Another ransomware, also based on EternalBlue, followed a month later. Now, when cryptocurrency is on the rise […]
Fileless malware are types of malicious code used in cyber attacks that don’t use files to launch the attack and carry on the infection on the affected device or network. The infection is run in the RAM memory of the device, so traditional antivirus and antimalware solutions can’t detect it at all. Malicious hackers use […]
Nowadays Hackers Distributing Advanced Fileless Malware with Evasion capabilities which are very Difficult to Detect. Security experts from Trend Micro Identified a new crypto miner which uses Fileless malware Techniques. It uses Windows Management Instrumentation for fileless persistence and uses scrcons.exe to execute its scripts. In order to enter into the system, it uses EternalBlue […]
Nowadays Hackers Distributing Advanced Fileless Malware with Evasion capabilities which are very Difficult to Detect. These types of malware sit in the system registry and making hard for Antivirus hard to identify the infection. The security researchers from Quick Heal Security Labs detected as Fileless malware which uses PowerShell scripts stored in the windows registry. […]
Hackers are Distributing Advanced Fileless Malware with Evasion capabilities that lead very Difficult to Detect With a different kind of Advance Attacking Capabilities and Methods. A Complete Fileless Malware was Detected as “JS_POWMET” that capable to evade the Security Control such as AV While Enter into the Target Machine with Fileless capability. It will eventually […]
In the recent DEF CON Meet, technical director of security shop Endgame Hyrum Anderson disclosed a research paper on adapting API frameworks in building a malware that AV engines cannot identify. The core function of the system is to build a legitimate looking app by making minor changes to the original app that can avoid […]
A Fileless Ransomware “SOREBRECT” Discovered that have the capability to inject the Malicious code into the target and Encrypt the victim’s data. its PsExec utility lets you execute processes on other systems. SOREBRECT developed with more stealthy and self-destruct routine capability make it as Fileless Malware. Before terminating the main Binary it executes the encryption […]
Hackers centered at the least eight ATMs in Russia and stole $800,000 using fileless malware in a single night, however, the technique used by the intruders remained an entire thriller with CCTV photos just showing a lone offender walking up to the ATM and gathering cash without even touching the machine. Even the affected banks […]