Tag: Malware
First 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…
Read MoreThe most common initial vector for phishing attacks is the fraudulent email. A well-crafted phishing email entices the victim to click on a malicious link that then takes them to an attacker’s site. Once that happens, that site must appear to be as authentic as possible. Images, fonts, layout, styles, and even the URL will…
Read MoreWhat is Certificate Transparency? Certificate Transparency (CT) is a method for publicly logging, auditing, and monitoring the creation of new SSL/TLS (digital) certificates. Originally a concept from Google, CT is now an open standard under RFC 6962, albeit still an experimental one. Originally designed to enhance the veracity of Extended Validation (EV) certificates, many certificate…
Read MoreRecently, threat researchers from F5 Networks spotted a new campaign targeting Elasticsearch systems. It leverages an exploit from 2014 to spread several new malwares designed to deploy an XMR (Monero) mining operation. The campaign exploits a five-year-old vulnerability (CVE-2014-3120) in Elasticsearch systems running on both Windows and Linux platforms to mine XMR cryptocurrency. On Linux,…
Read MoreSecurity researchers at F5 Networks constantly monitor web traffic at various locations throughout the world. This allows us to detect “in the wild” malware, and to get an insight into the current threat landscape. Here’s an overview of what we saw in May 2019. Throughout the month of May, the team detected 10 new attack…
Read MoreCryptominers are frequently included in recent attack campaigns; if you would like to learn more about cryptominers, please check out some of our previous monthly attack campaign wrap-ups. Conclusion Campaigns aimed at mining cryptocurrency and targeting Oracle WebLogic continue to rise in popularity. This has been fueled in part by the zero-day vulnerability found in…
Read MoreAttacks Types of the Top Attacking IP Addresses The top 50 IP addresses attacking systems in Canada were geographically spread fairly evenly. Eight percent are assigned to South Korea, and closely following, with 7% are assigned in the U.S. Though smaller in number, the three Canadian IP addresses in the top attacking IP address list…
Read MoreMobile World Congress: cancelled due to Coronavirus. IBM and others pulled out of the RSA Conference for the same reason. Supply chains are in jeopardy, since so much technology is manufactured in China. It seems even we in the tech world can’t avoid getting pulled into the Coronavirus gravity well. While this pandemic isn’t hitting…
Read MoreCOVID-19, aka the Coronavirus, is really starting to worry people. It’s an unfamiliar, seemingly unnatural new threat dragging a lot of uncertain baggage with it. It has already caused global disruptions on both the macro- and micro-scale. All over the world, organizations and individuals are mobilizing response plans, and that’s a good thing. The U.S.…
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