Tenable

JANUARY 21, 2021

A number of threat intelligence platforms continue to report on APT groups and malware campaigns that daisy-chain vulnerabilities and weaknesses against their targets. CVE-2017-11774 , CVE-2017-0213. CVE-2015-4902 , CVE-2017-0262, CVE-2014-4076, CVE-2015-2387, CVE-2015-1701, CVE-2017-0263. and abroad. .

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

That’s why 2017 calls for experts with the most-needed set of skills, to ensure businesses can continue driving towards success without being taken down by a breach. The coming year brings new opportunities for businesses to grow and develop with the latest data tools, but with this advancement comes a series of risks and downfalls.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Saudi oil and gas manufacturing plants have been the target of several cyberattacks, including the Trisis malware in 2017 that shut down one of the kingdom’s biggest petrochemical plants. But the country has faced extensive criticism for its human rights record by international rights groups.

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Tenable

JANUARY 27, 2023

Sandworm APT Deploys New SwiftSlicer Wiper Using Active Directory Group Policy Sandworm, the Russian-backed APT responsible for NotPetya in 2017, has recently attacked an Ukrainian organization using a new wiper, SwiftSlicer. BREAKING On January 25th #ESETResearch discovered a new cyberattack in ?? We attribute this attack to #Sandworm.

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The Parallax

MAY 7, 2018

Malware and antivirus software usually go together like tacos and pickles. Pretty much any software can be targeted to be ripped off,” says Mark Lechtik, a security researcher on the Check Point Malware Research Team who led the investigation into SiliVaccine. Leave it to North Korea to combine them like peanut butter and jelly.

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ProtectWise

MARCH 2, 2017

On the week of February 20th 2017, ProtectWise began observing a rather successful malicious spam (malspam) campaign distributing the Hancitor Downloader. The downloader has been observed delivering a variety of malware, such as Zloader, a Send-Safe spambot and other malware utilizing Tor. Victim Demographics.

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The Daily WTF

DECEMBER 23, 2020

To kick things off, we're going to pull from the faroff year of Christmas 2017, and return to our Developer Carols. WCry the Malware (to the tune of Frosty the Snowman). WCry the Malware, was a nasty ugly worm, With a cryptolock and a bitcoin bribe, Spread over SMB. Original ). Suggested by Mark Bowytz).

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The Parallax

MAY 14, 2019

Google Play is an ‘order of magnitude’ better at blocking malware. As long as the Android 2FA phones are free of malware, they might even be more secure than separate two-factor authentication keys, such as YubiKeys , says Aaron Cockerill, chief strategy officer at Lookout Mobile Security. READ MORE ON ANDROID SECURITY AND PRIVACY.

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Tenable

JANUARY 19, 2024

In addition, the latest on the Androxgh0st malware. 6 - CISA and FBI issue warning about Androxgh0st malware Is the Androxgh0st malware on your radar screen? Find out why Uncle Sam is warning critical infrastructure facilities about drones made in China, while urging water treatment plants to beef up incident response plans.

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Kentik

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

And Cisco researchers found that the CCleaner malware was targeting at least 18 tech companies. CCleaner Malware Fiasco Targeted At Least 18 Specific Tech Firms (WIRED). 2017 Storms May Mean Network Rethink (Light Reading). Cisco Chairman John Chambers announced this week that he will not seek re-election.

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The Parallax

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

While there’s no ransomware-specific cost estimate to the health care business, Verizon’s annual Data Breach Report for 2018 estimates that ransomware is included in 85 percent of the successful malware attacks against hospitals. Cybersecurity researchers at Cylance estimated that the number of ransomware attacks tripled in 2017.

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The Parallax

MARCH 20, 2018

T o create layers of obfuscation that hide an attack’s origins, Grange says, Inception Framework then reroutes its malicious messages at least three times through the hijacked routers before ultimately sending them to their targets, or allowing the hidden malware to communicate with its control server.

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taos

OCTOBER 14, 2019

First Published: April 4, 2017, By Mark McCullough?—?Technical Technical Consultant Former Mozilla developer, Robert O’Callahan recently joined the growing chorus of those openly stating that anti-virus products cause more security harm than they prevent.

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Tenable

AUGUST 19, 2022

Vulnerabilities associated with 2021’s top malware. Right after the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) outlined the top malware of 2021, Tenable’s Security Response Team identified vulnerabilities associated with these malicious strains. CVE-2017-0144.

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Jeremiah Grossman

JUNE 3, 2009

Cyber criminals out of necessity have evolved their attack portfolios to include Clickjacking as a preferred method for tricking their victims into propagating malware, defrauding themselves, and initiating other forms a malicious acts. And perhaps there won’t be until sometime between 2014 and 2017 if historical timelines hold.

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Tenable

MARCH 12, 2020

Malware and phishing campaigns use global interest in the novel coronavirus to capitalize on fear and uncertainty around the pandemic. Coronavirus-themed malware campaigns. Emotet is part of a chain of three malware strains dubbed the Triple Threat by researchers at Cybereason. Background. Emotet campaign.

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The actors have also used trojan versions of X-Popup, a messenger application used in several smaller hospitals in South Korea and have spread malware using 2 malicious domains, xpopup.pe[.]kr Three members of the group have been indicted in the US on charges relating to attacks where more than $1.3 billion has been stolen or extorted.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

PenguinFaceplant.gif : Club Penguin was shut down in 2017 , but fans rebooted it — without authorization from Disney. government agencies are warning that state-backed hackers have developed custom malware that enables them to compromise and hijack commonly used industrial control system devices.

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The Parallax

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

cstone (@unsynchronized) November 28, 2017. Malware writers love this because it’s so stable.”. Brandon Creighton, another well-known security researcher, tweeted that he was able to exploit the root flaw remotely , meaning that a hacker wouldn’t have to be sitting in front of the Mac to unlock it. macos 10.13

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Ivanti

OCTOBER 11, 2022

A risk-based vulnerability management approach to prioritization takes CVSS and vendor severity into account, but also includes risk indicators like public disclosure, known exploited, ties to malware and ransomware, and if the vulnerability is trending (being seen often in attacks). Publicly disclosed vulnerabilities. Cybersecurity tip.

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AlienVault

AUGUST 1, 2018

These spear phishing emails use a mix of different openly available malware and document exploits for delivery. PAFs first multinational air exercise ACES Meet 2017 concludes in Pakistan.doc. Hajj Policy and Plan 2017.doc. As we’ve seen previously , the usage of openly available malware makes attribution difficult.

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Kaseya

JUNE 24, 2019

In 2017, 50,000 cyber-attacks were targeted at IoT devices, an increase of 600 percent from 2016 and the number of IoT-driven malware attacks surpassed 121,000 in 2018. WannaCry, the cyberattack that infected more than 230,000 computers in over 150 countries in 2017, could have been avoided with a simple patch.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 4, 2017

Geopolitical tensions ensure that 2017 will be another big year for state-sponsored cyber attacks. Right after identity theft, malware is the next favorite cyber attack technique. Installing malware on user devices and Internet accessible servers has become commonplace today. Junaid Islam. Check Device and Server Software.

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Ivanti

JUNE 14, 2023

AI generated polymorphic exploits can bypass leading security tools Recently, AI-generated polymorphic malware has been developed to bypass EDR and antivirus, leaving security teams with blind spots into threats and vulnerabilities. This mutation is not detectable by traditional signature-based and low-level heuristics detection engines.

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The Parallax

JUNE 19, 2018

Dr. Bleetman, a senior clinician in an emergency room on May 12, 2017, when the ransomware struck down computers around the world, had just started his noon shift at East London’s Newham University Hospital ER, when he and other medical staff members noticed that the computers were no longer properly working.

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Sailpoint

JANUARY 1, 2018

As 2018 arrives, David Lee and Mike Kiser welcome Chief Strategy Officer Kevin Cunningham and Chief Executive Officer Mark McClain as we review what occurred in 2017—and what it portends for the coming year. What has changed in the landscape in the last twelve months? How will identity continue to expand its influence in the coming year?

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Sailpoint

JANUARY 1, 2018

As 2018 arrives, David Lee and Mike Kiser welcome Chief Strategy Officer Kevin Cunningham and Chief Executive Officer Mark McClain as we review what occurred in 2017—and what it portends for the coming year. What has changed in the landscape in the last twelve months? How will identity continue to expand its influence in the coming year?

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

This article increases awareness for organizations seeking to enhance their digital risk posture against the increasing threat of ransomware (a type of malware) deployed by threat actors to prevent or limit users from accessing their system until a ransom is paid. Crystal Lister. million in 2015 to 638 million in 2016.

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The Parallax

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

“But if there’s a difference in the keys, it means that that binary’s new; we didn’t see it in the factory; it’s a dropper ,” or the beginning stages of a malware attack, he says. Using these kinds of attacks, China’s Keen Labs hacked a Tesla in 2017, forcing it to stop. And Carwall blocks it.

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Lacework

OCTOBER 3, 2023

This was followed by 15 years at Google, where I helped manage software engineering teams that built security primitives into the company’s infrastructure and also worked to protect billions of users online from malware and phishing attacks via Google Safe Browsing, a technology that has been integrated into most major browsers.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Malvertising is increasingly being deployed by threat actors to spread malware, including ransomware and scams, and redirect users from legitimate websites to phishing and exploit kit–hosting sites. The threat from malvertising is increasing, however, there are opportunities for organizations and individuals to mitigate their digital risk.

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The Cipher Brief

MARCH 24, 2021

EXPERT PERSPECTIVE – On 17 February 2021, the DOJ and the FBI finally brought charges against three North Koreans from Lazarus, the North Korean state-endorsed group that launched the Wannacry attack of 2017. Intrusion set designers craft the malware exploits to sell to other hackers.

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AlienVault

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Malware Delivery through Open Source Exploit Kits. The attached malicious document downloads and executes a script that installs the final payload: This script contains text (eg; “<component id='giffile'>” ) which matches a pre-packed version of the popular CVE-2017-0199 exploit available on GitHub.

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ProtectWise

MAY 15, 2017

The patches for Microsoft (currently supported) operating systems were released on March 14, 2017 following the Shadow Brokers leak. Speculation suggests this was the malware attempting to check for fabricated network traffic commonly found in sandboxing solutions used by security researchers. Who Created The Malware?

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AlienVault

MARCH 25, 2019

As 2018 drew to a close and 2019 took over, I began to see a different behavior from SMB malware authors. Some key functionality is below: Can download more malware. Malware Analysis. Stage1 - Typically the first contact or entry point for malware. This is the first part of the malware to arrive on a system.

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Tenable

MAY 2, 2023

According to the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), SLTT governments experienced more than 2,800 ransomware incidents from January 2017 through March 2021. There’s no question that state, local, tribal and territorial (SLTT) governments are getting bombarded with cyber attacks.

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The Parallax

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

A 2017 study by the American Medical Association and Accenture found that while more than 83 percent of doctors say they have experienced some form of cyberattack, only half of those surveyed are worried about future attacks. A hard drive may contain cryptomining malware , which can slow down or cause other malfunctions on devices.

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