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Gootloader inside out

January 16, 2025 admin 0 Comments Featured, gootkit, gootloader, hellodolly, JScript, malicious seo, malware, obfuscation, php, php shell, SEO, threat research, wordpress, yara

Credit to Author: Gabor Szappanos| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:00:02 +0000

Open-source intelligence reveals the server-side code of this pernicious SEO-driven malware – without needing a lawyer afterward

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‘Fix It’ social-engineering scheme impersonates several brands

December 19, 2024 admin clickfix, CloudFlare, cybercrime, malvertising, malware, Powershell

Criminals are luring victims looking to download software and tricking them into running a malicious command.

Independent Krebs

Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz

December 3, 2024 admin @chenlun, A Little Sunshine, and mobile anti-abuse working group, Anti-Phishing Working Group, coalition against unsolicited commercial email, ICANN, interisle consulting, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, John Levine, Latest Warnings, malware, messaging, new gtlds, phishing, spam, The Coming Storm, U.S. Postal Service

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:27:31 +0000

Phishing attacks increased nearly 40 percent in the year ending August 2024, with much of that growth concentrated at a small number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) — such as .shop, .top, .xyz — that attract scammers with rock-bottom prices and no meaningful registration requirements, new research finds. Meanwhile, the nonprofit entity that oversees the domain name industry is moving forward with plans to introduce a slew of new gTLDs.

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Persistence in the Shadows: A Study of Zephyr Miner Exploiting System Services

December 2, 2024 admin #quickheal #cybersecurity #cyberawareness, #zephyr coin, Antivirus, crypto mining, Cryptojacking, cryptomining, malware, Uncategorized

Credit to Author: Rayapati Lakshmi Prasanna Sai| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 15:15:15 +0000

Crypto Mining Crypto mining is the process by which individuals or organizations use computer power to solve complex…

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Hello again, FakeBat: popular loader returns after months-long hiatus

November 8, 2024 admin cybercrime, fakebat, Google Ads, lumma, lummac2, malvertising, malware

The web browser, and search engines in particular, continue to be a popular entry point to deliver malware to users. While…

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Fraudulent Slack ad shows malvertiser’s patience and skills

August 21, 2024 admin cybercrime, Google Ads, malvertising, malware, sectoprat, slack

Once again, threat actors seek out Google search ads for top software downloads, but this time they show a lot of patience and bring on evasion tricks.

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