Related CherryBlos and FakeTrade Android Malware Involved in Scam Campaigns

Credit to Author: Trend Micro Research| Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Trend Micro’s Mobile Application Reputation Service (MARS) team discovered two new related Android malware families involved in cryptocurrency-mining and financially-motivated scam campaigns targeting Android users.

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Lemon Group’s Cybercriminal Businesses Built on Preinfected Devices

Credit to Author: Fyodor Yarochkin| Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

An overview of the Lemon Group’s use of preinfected mobile devices, and how this scheme is potentially being developed and expanded to other internet of things (IoT) devices. This research was presented in full at the Black Hat Asia 2023 Conference in Singapore in May 2023.

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New APT34 Malware Targets The Middle East

Credit to Author: Mohamed Fahmy| Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We analyze an infection campaign targeting organizations in the Middle East for cyberespionage in December 2022 using a new backdoor malware. The campaign abuses legitimate but compromised email accounts to send stolen data to external mail accounts controlled by the attackers.

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Attacking The Supply Chain: Developer

Credit to Author: David Fiser| Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In this proof of concept, we look into one of several attack vectors that can be abused to attack the supply chain: targeting the developer. With a focus on the local integrated developer environment (IDE), this proof considers the execution of malicious build scripts via injecting commands when the project or build is incorrectly “trusted”.

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IcedID Botnet Distributors Abuse Google PPC to Distribute Malware

Credit to Author: Ian Kenefick| Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

We analyze the latest changes in IcedID botnet from a campaign that abuses Google pay per click (PPC) ads to distribute IcedID via malvertising attacks.

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Trend Joining App Defense Alliance Announced by Google

Credit to Author: Jon Clay| Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Trend Micro’s participation in Google’s App Defense Alliance will ensure the security of customers by preventing malicious apps from being made available on the Google Play Store.

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Atlassian Confluence Vulnerability CVE-2022-26134 Abused For Cryptocurrency Mining, Other Malware

Credit to Author: Sunil Bharti| Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Users are advised to patch immediately: We found exploit samples abusing the Atlassian Confluence vulnerability (CVE-2022-26134) in the wild for malicious cryptocurrency mining.

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