Qakbot Malware Attacks Resurrected By Black Basta Hacker Collective Qakbot Malware Utilized as a Means of Cyber Extortion in Canada Qakbot malware and ransomware attacks have soared across the globe as a new hacker group known as “Black Basta” has targeted a number of Canadian corporations. Qakbot ransomware sometimes referred [...]
Security researchers at Avast have discovered a new malware strain that uses comes with a quite rich set of features for exfiltration of (sensitive) information, modular architecture capable of fetching and executing other commands and executables and all of it via multiple layers of encrypted communication named Torii. We have already ...
Backdoor.Joanap is a malicious program which is developed by cyber criminals to gain illegal income. It uses several stealthy ways to get inside the targeted computer and after successful invasion it carry out several malicious activities. According to a research this malware hides its executable in INI and CNF files ...
A new malware known as VPNFilter capable of targeting a range of routers and NAS devices rendering infected devices unusable and also capable of maintaining a persistent presence on an infected device, even after a reboot. VPNFilter has a range of capabilities including spying on traffic being routed through the ...
Monero is the 13th biggest cryptocurrency by value and has been sold as being more secure than bitcoin. As of the time of writing 1 Monero (XMR) was worth USD 318.16. With rising prices and lack of tracking (unlike bitcoin which can be tracked with wallets) its becoming a prime ...
Meltdown and Spectre exploit critical vulnerabilities in modern processors. These hardware bugs allow programs to steal data which is currently processed on the computer. While programs are typically not permitted to read data from other programs, a malicious program can exploit Meltdown and Spectre to get hold of secrets stored in ...
Mandiant recently responded to an incident at a critical infrastructure organization where an attacker deployed malware designed to manipulate industrial safety systems. The targeted systems provided emergency shutdown capability for industrial processes. We assess with moderate confidence that the attacker was developing the capability to cause physical damage and inadvertently shutdown operations. This malware, which we call TRITON, is an attack framework built to interact with Triconex Safety Instrumented System (SIS) controllers. We have not attributed the incident to a threat actor, though we believe the activity is consistent with a nation state preparing for an attack. TRITON is one of a limited number of publicly identified malicious software families targeted at industrial control systems (ICS). It follows Stuxnet which was used against Iran in 2010 and Industroyer which we believe was deployed by Sandworm Team against Ukraine in 2016. TRITON is consistent with these attacks, in that it could prevent safety mechanisms from executing their intended function, resulting in a physical consequence. Malware Family Main Modules Description TRITON trilog.exe Main executable leveraging libraries.zip library.zip Custom communication library for interaction with Triconex controllers. Table 1: Description of TRITON Malware Incident Summary The attacker gained remote access to an SIS engineering workstation and deployed the TRITON attack framework to reprogram the SIS ...
There was a time when most Server Administrations/Network Administrators would just change the port 3389 to any other and/or change default login username to a RDP server and assume its secure. While this may best practice, it doesnt really help as a simple nmap scan reveals the listening port and ...
The first time I read about #BadRabbit, it reminded me of the movie Secret Life of Pets. I wonder if the malware namers thought of the same. After Wannacry and Petya/Not Petya/GoldenEye, its clear that Ukraine is a testing ground for everyone to try out their malware, program different variants ...
One curious thing I have noticed with these Global malicious epidemics is that most of them happen very close to a weekend. Wannacry went viral on a Thursday, GoldenEye on a Friday and with minimal support available on a weekend, they easily impact large corporations. What started last night with ...
