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Wednesday, 04 May 2022 09:48
Chat Logs Expose Ransomware Groups Methods and Styles of Interactions with Victims
Written by Sean Kalinich
Ransomware is a huge shadow over many businesses and individuals’ heads. It has loomed as a significant threat since the first stains hit the internet inside malicious zip files masquerading as “Xerox” documents. Since that time ransomware and the groups…
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Monday, 02 May 2022 12:15
Google Says they Will Fight Doxxing, With Some Conditions of Course
Written by Sean Kalinich
Google is an odd company. They have used the personal vs corporate data ownership line like a jump rope over the years. We have watched them for a long time and all we can say is that their track record…
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Monday, 02 May 2022 08:39
Cloud Services Suffer the Same Issue as On Prem Services, they just Hide it Better
Written by Sean Kalinich
It Cloud services are exceptionally popular as a cost effective and simple method to maintain common operational needs. Everything from email to fully fledged infrastructures can be maintained in the “cloud”. All of these can be accomplished at lower overall…
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Friday, 29 April 2022 08:36
Conti has a New Toy as Bumblebee Malware Replaces BazarLoader
Written by Sean Kalinich
April must be the month for new malware tools to be released, or at least announced as we have already heard about new forms of attack/infection from the group behind Emotet and now we hear that Conti has replaced BazarLoader…
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Wednesday, 27 April 2022 11:07
More Flaws Found in NPM Allowing Attackers to Attach Malicious Packages to Known Good Devs.
Written by Sean Kalinich
A new flaw has been identified in the Node.js package manager, NPM. The flaw is being described as a logical flaw, but in reading over the data it seems more like a permissions flaw. The good news is that as…
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Wednesday, 27 April 2022 06:30
Yet Another New Attack Method Shows Up From the Group Behind Emotet
Written by Sean Kalinich
Yesterday we told you that the gang behind Emotet was looking to used Excel add-ins as a possible new technique to compromise systems as part of their spamming campaigns. The detected techniques were labeled as potentially being part of research…
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Tuesday, 26 April 2022 09:31
The Group Behind Emotet is Looking to Get Around Microsoft’s VBA Changes
Written by Sean Kalinich
TA542 the wonderful people that brought you Emotet appears to be in the middle of a development and testing cycle on new delivery methods. According to researchers at ProofPoint the creators or the Emotet Botnet are potentially looking to find…
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Friday, 22 April 2022 10:13
Amazon’s Awkward Moment as Log4J Fix has an Escalation and Escape Bug
Written by Sean Kalinich
It seems that Amazon’s hotfix for Log4Shell in their AWS environment might have been a bit rushed. According to a review of the hot there are a total of four CVEs specifically related to the hotfix and how it functions.…
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Thursday, 21 April 2022 05:37
Okta now says Lapsus$ only had 25 Minutes of Fame with Two Clients
Written by Sean Kalinich
The breach of IDAM group Okta in January by the self-promoting group Lapsus$ amidst other high-profile breaches and data leaks this year was a significant concern. The concern rose because when the incident first happened, Okta passed it off as…
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Thursday, 14 April 2022 16:51
CISA warns that US ICS/SCADA Systems are being Targeted by Threat Groups
Written by Sean Kalinich
CISA has issued another warning that SCADA/ICS systems are being targeted for attack. This time they are in the sights of Nation-State groups and with customized tools. The tools are part of follow-on activities after the initial beachhead has been…
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Wednesday, 13 April 2022 05:13
Law Enforcement Celebrates Another Hacker Forum Takedown as the Seizure of RaidForums is Announced.
Written by Sean Kalinich
2022 has been a busy year for the information security industry on both sides of the playing field. We have seen an increase in target attacks on businesses, a larger number of Zero-Day vulnerabilities disclosed that were being actively exploited…
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Tuesday, 12 April 2022 09:11
Open Source Takes Another Hit as 3rd Protestware Shows up in NPM Repository
Written by Sean Kalinich
The Open Source community has been one that many leverage to help build their applications. It has become a great place to find applications packages that make building out a larger application or eco systems less time consuming. We see…
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Monday, 11 April 2022 07:45
Leaked Conti Ransomware used in Attacks on Russian Targets
Written by Sean Kalinich
Not that long ago, a Ukrainian security researcher published a vast number of internal chats from the Ransomware group Conti. On top of that treasure trove of information the same researcher also published the source code for the Conti Ransomware.…
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Friday, 08 April 2022 09:49
Crypto Mining Malware Targeting Amazon Lambda Serverless Environments
Written by Sean Kalinich
Some needs to let Gordan Freeman know that the Xen aliens are attacking Lambda, time to grab a crowbar and go to work. Ok, so there are no invaders from a border dimension coming and the Lambda in question is…
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Friday, 08 April 2022 05:13
The State of Banking and Financial Malware on Google’s Play Store is Just Bad
Written by Sean Kalinich
It looks like there has been another round of malware identified on the Google Play sore and, you guessed it, the majority is focused on banks and other financial institutions. The combination of apps found totals around 515,000 downloads. 500,000…
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Tuesday, 05 April 2022 10:32
Financial Threat Group, FIN7 Shows Signs of Evolving Tools and Coordination with Ransomware Groups
Written by Sean Kalinich
For some reason, malware, attacker tools, and even the threat groups themselves tend to be viewed and talked about as static objects (outside of the security and threat analytics world). Malware is just Malware, the same with Ransomware strains. Once…
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