Tag: Malware
Figure 16: QA Injection alert, “Page Injected!” Conclusion Panda’s expansion beyond traditional banking targets is following the trend we noticed during the 2017 holiday season.5 This is the first campaign we have seen targeting cryptocurrency sites, but it’s a move that makes sense, given the popularity of cryptocurrency. This act of simultaneous campaigns targeting several…
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 MoreFigure 2: Weblogic WLS-WSAT campaign attempting to download and execute the same Windows executable file This attempt to download the same file immediately indicated to us that the same attacker was using different exploits in the operation. Unfortunately, these files weren’t available to download from the original server nor from other malware repositories, so…
Read MoreFigure 14: Statistics of the Monero mining payment address belonging to the attacker The attacker has earned 8.76 Monero coins by now,4 with a current price of 110.79 USD per a Monero coin,5 which totals to 970.52 USD. According to the information provided on the mining server website, this operation began around June 1.…
Read MoreIn July 2018, F5 released its first annual Application Protection Report based on the results of an F5-commissioned Ponemon survey of 3,135 IT and security practitioners across the globe. Additional research conducted by Whatcom Community College, University of Washington Tacoma, along with data from White Hat Security and Loryka served to make this one of…
Read MoreThreat actors continue to find creative yet relatively unsophisticated ways to launch new campaigns to reap profits from crypto-mining operations. Source link lol
Read MoreJust two weeks ago a new Apache Struts 2 critical remote code execution vulnerability was published,1 and F5 researchers have already detected known threat actors exploiting it in a new crypto-mining campaign: CVE-2018-11776 Apache Struts 2 namespace vulnerability allows unauthenticated remote code execution. In this Monero crypto-mining campaign, the injection point is within the URL.…
Read MoreFigure 4: Dynamically resolving Windows API functions In conclusion, sometimes changes, even minor ones such as this one, are enough to break a working automation process, and they require some time to investigate. That’s how the malware’s authors gain precious time to defraud unsuspecting victims before security vendors can denylist their servers. As a reminder,…
Read MoreFirst detected in May 2018, DanaBot is a fraud trojan that has since shifted its targets from banks in Australia to banks in Europe, as well as global email providers such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo for the holiday phishing season. Source link lol
Read MoreKey Points Only a few days after the ThinkPHP vulnerability was discovered, it is already being exploited on the Internet. Almost 46,000 servers, most of which are located in China, are potential targets for this exploit. Multiple campaigns have been launched simultaneously by different threat actors, which might suggest the infection potential. Campaigns vary from…
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