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New Golang brute forcer discovered amid rise in e-commerce attacks

February 26, 2019 admin Bot, Botnet, bruteforce, Golang, googletagmanager, Magecart, Magento, skimmer, Threat analysis

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:00:08 +0000

E-commerce sites are a hot commodity these days. We dig into how compromised PCs are helping to hack into them to inject skimmers, whether via vulnerabilities in the websites themselves or through a new malware we discovered gaining entry via brute force.

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The Advanced Persistent Threat Files: APT1

February 22, 2019 admin Advanced persistent threats, APT groups, APT1, China, Chinese malware, criminals, Mimikatz, Threat analysis

Credit to Author: William Tsing| Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 17:59:13 +0000

Next up in the Advanced Persistent Threat Files: APT1, a unit of the People’s Liberation Army of China known for wide-scale and high-volume data collection on mostly English-speaking companies.

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Tags: advanced persistent threats APT groups APT1 china Chinese malware mimikatz

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Exploit kits: winter 2019 review

February 12, 2019 admin EK, EKs, exploit kits, Exploits, Fallout, Magnitude, RIG, sundown, Threat analysis, Underminer

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 16:00:00 +0000

We review the top exploit kits in this winter 2019 snapshot.

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Tags: EK EKs exploit kits Fallout Magnitude RIG sundown Underminer

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New critical vulnerability discovered in open-source office suites

February 6, 2019 admin CVE-2018-16858, exploit, Exploits, libreoffice, openoffice, python, RCE, Threat analysis

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 17:16:50 +0000

A security researcher recently published a proof of concept exploit for open-source office software LibreOffice and OpenOffice. Will this new vulnerability be used in the wild?

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Tags: CVE-2018-16858 exploit libreoffice openoffice python rce

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New critical vulnerability in open-source office suites

February 6, 2019 admin CVE-2018-16858, exploit, Exploits, libreoffice, openoffice, python, RCE, Threat analysis

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 17:16:50 +0000

A security researcher recently published a proof of concept exploit for open-source office software LibreOffice and OpenOffice. Will this new vulnerability be used in the wild?

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Tags: CVE-2018-16858 exploit libreoffice openoffice python rce

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Analyzing a new stealer written in Golang

January 30, 2019 admin GO, Golang, IDAGolangHelper, malware, malware analysis, new malware, programming, programming languages, Threat analysis

Credit to Author: hasherezade| Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 17:00:00 +0000

We captured a new information-stealing malware written in Golang (Go). Read up on our analysis of its functionality, as well as the tools researchers can use to unpack malware written in this relatively new programming language.

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Tags: Go Golang IDAGolangHelper malware analysis new malware programming programming languages threat analysis

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