Tag: Client-platform malware
Figure 6: Targets by Industry Notable Target Drops European banks have continually been a top target of TrickBot, and although there was growth in targets in that region, Europe stands out more in this configuration because Australia and New Zealand targets dropped off, thereby boosting Europe’s portion of the pie. There were no New Zealand…
Read MoreTrickbot Rapidly Expands its Targets in August, Shifting Focus to US Banks and Credit Card Companies
Figure 13: Top TrickBot C&C hosting networks by ASN owner, geo, and count Conclusion The analyzed configurations initially saw TrickBot shift away from the Nordic countries and into France, Spain, the US, and the UK; it appeared for a time that the targeting of this malware was becoming more focused on fewer countries and more…
Read MoreF5 security researchers analyzed the Ramnit banking trojan campaign that was active over the holiday season and discovered it’s not much of a banking trojan anymore. 64% of its targets were retail eCommerce sites, including Amazon.com, Best Buy, Forever 21, Gap, Zara, Carter’s, OshKosh B’gosh, Macy’s, Victoria’s Secret, H&M, Overstock.com, Toys“R”Us, Zappos, and many others.…
Read MoreLast week, F5 threat researchers spotted a Monero (XMR) crypto-mining campaign that was taking advantage of a user configuration vulnerability in the rTorrent client, specifically misconfigured XML-RPC functionality. This misconfiguration vulnerability in rTorrent allows an unauthenticated user to execute methods in the rTorrent client using HTTP requests. After deeper analysis of the attack logs, F5…
Read MoreIn the F5 and Ponemon report, The Evolving Role of CISOs and their Importance to the Business, security leaders were asked to rank their top threats to their security ecosystem. The number one answer was advanced persistent threats (ranked 8.8 out of 10). We’ve already talked about why CISOs should manage the most likely damaging…
Read MoreThere’s an old joke that a job in security is a safe place to be grumpy. From what I’ve seen over my career, that is often true. Security people seem to cherish their reputation for being pessimistic and untrusting. Some take it further and cast their disdain upon the users, who obviously need to be…
Read MoreThe rise of poorly secured Internet of Things (IoT) devices has made it possible for attackers to gain access to targets of interest. Nation-states, spies, mercenaries, and others don’t need to dress up as repairmen to plant bugs in rooms anymore; they can just hack into a room that has vulnerable IoT devices. In May,…
Read MoreExecutive Summary Like coral reefs teeming with a variety of life, web applications are “colony creatures.” They consist of a multitude of independent components, running in separate environments with different operational requirements and supporting infrastructure (both in the cloud and on premises) glued together across networks. In this report, we examine that series of interacting…
Read MoreEver wonder what security professionals see as their main barrier to achieving a strong application security posture? We wondered that, too, so we asked them. As part of F5 Labs’ first annual Application Protection Report, F5, in conjunction with Ponemon Institute, surveyed security professionals on a slew of security-related topics. In answer to this particular…
Read MoreAttack Destination Ports The following ports in order of prevalence were targeted in the Singapore attacks: 5060 — clear text Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) 23 — Telnet remote management 1433 — Microsoft SQL Server database 81 — Alternate web server port for host-to-host communication 7547 — TCP port used by ISPs to remotely manage…
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