Tag: Threats
Figure 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 MoreBackSwap is new banking malware recently discovered by Eset1 and later analyzed by CERT Polska.2 Unlike previous banking trojans, which typically either intercept requests and redirect users to fake banking websites or inject malicious code from command and control (C&C) servers to manipulate browser processes, BackSwap keeps its campaign locally. The JavaScript is hardcoded and…
Read MoreIn August 2018 when we presented our research on the extreme vulnerability of many emergency services vehicles due to their use of onboard cellular gateways, we hoped to get the attention of people who could help change things. After all, when you tell the world you’ve been able to easily track police cruisers, in real-time,…
Read MoreOne of the missteps I found was that, by default, the Tor node would accept and relay BitTorrent traffic. My American ISP detected the BitTorrent traffic exiting my node and started sending me emails, and, I suspect, interfering with my network traffic (though I didn’t prove that beyond a suspicion). Fortunately, the Tor Project…
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 MoreNote that each “while” loop is performing string decryption on the sequences of bytes shown in the variables above the loop. When following the execution in a debugger, the strings are decrypted, and some meaningful indicators of VM checks are visible. (See appendix for decryption function details.) In this code snippet, three checks are evident:…
Read MoreYou might have been scammed without even knowing it. A 2016 NYU study1 found that many scammers used affiliate programs from background check companies to earn a commission every time they referred someone to the program. So, let’s say you found a rental you were interested in on Craigslist and you emailed the owner. The…
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,…
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