Categories: News Tags: Lockbit Tags: cl0p Tags: papercut Tags: vmware Tags: magecart Tags: fileless Tags: chatgpt Tags: apc Tags: Pupy rat Tags: guloader Tags: black basta Tags: flipper zero Tags: clickjacking The most interesting security related news of the week from April 24 till April 30 |
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Read moreCategories: News Categories: Cryptomining Tags: Cryptojacking Tags: fileless Tags: malware Tags: LOLBins Tags: RiskWare.BitCoinMiner Tags: Trojan.BitCoinMiner Tags: c2 Tags: mining pools Probably due to rising energy costs and the volatility in crypto-currencies, we can see a rise in malicious crypto mining, aka cryptojacking. |
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Read moreCredit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 17:00:56 +0000
We discovered the polymoprhic threat Dexphot in October 2018. In the months that followed, we closely tracked the threat as attackers upgraded the malware, targeted new processes, and worked around defensive measures. One year’s worth of intelligence helped us gain insight not only into the goals and motivations of Dexphot’s authors, but of cybercriminals in general.
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Credit to Author: rajeshnataraj| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 04:01:09 +0000
SophosLabs are monitoring a significant spike in crypto mining attacks, which spread quickly across enterprise networks. Starting from a single infection, these attacks use a variety of malicious scripts that, eventually, turn an enterprise’s large pool of CPU resources into efficient cryptocurrency mining slaves. The threat actors behind these campaigns have been using an array […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/jF91Bgk0dso” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read moreCredit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 17:34:41 +0000
We’ve discussed the challenges that fileless threats pose in security, and how Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (Microsoft Defender ATP) employs advanced strategies to defeat these sophisticated threats. Part of the slyness of fileless malware is their use of living-off-the-land techniques, which refer to the abuse of legitimate tools, also called living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBins), that…
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Read moreCredit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 16:00:51 +0000
Advanced technologies in Microsoft Defender ATP’s Antivirus exposed and defeated a widespread fileless campaign that completely “lived off the land” throughout a complex attack chain that run the info-stealing backdoor Astaroth directly in memory
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Read moreCredit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 16:00:51 +0000
Advanced technologies in Microsoft Defender ATP next-generation protection exposed and defeated a widespread fileless campaign that completely “lived off the land” throughout a complex attack chain that run the info-stealing backdoor Astaroth directly in memory
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Read moreCredit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 17:29:45 +0000
Microsoft Defender ATP instruments memory-related function calls such as VirtualAlloc and VirtualProtect to catch in-memory attack techniques like reflective DLL loading. The same signals can also be used to generically detect malicious credential dumping activities performed by a wide range of different individual tools.
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