During routine detection maintenance, our Mac researchers stumbled upon a small set of files with backdoor capabilities that seem to form part of a more complex malware toolkit. The following analysis is incomplete, as we are trying to identify the puzzle pieces that are still missing.
Today, everything is “smart” or “intelligent”. We have smartphones, smart cars, smart doorbells, etc. Being "smart" means performing actions depending on the context, the environment, or user actions.
For a while, backdoors and trojans have implemented screenshot capabilities. From an attacker’s point of view, it’s interesting to “see” what’s displayed on the victim’s computer.
A new variant of the URSNIF malware, first observed in June 2022, marks an important milestone for the tool. Unlike previous iterations of URSNIF, this new variant, dubbed LDR4, is not a banker, but a generic backdoor (similar to the short-lived SAIGON variant), which may have been purposely built to enable operations like ransomware and data theft extortion. This is a significant shift from the malware’s original purpose to enable banking fraud, but is consistent with the broader threat landscape.
Cybersecurity researchers have offered insight into a previously undocumented software control panel used by a financially motivated threat group known as TA505.
"The group frequently changes its malware attack strategies in response to global cybercrime trends," Swiss cybersecurity firm PRODAFT said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "It opportunistically adopts new technologies in order to gain leverage over victims before the wider cybersecurity industry catches on."
Confiant monitors 2.5+ billion ads per day via 110+ integrations in the advertising stack. This provides great visibility on malicious activity infiltrating the ad stack and the broader Internet. And that includes all the web3 malicious activity funneling thru it.
The variety and the range of our detection enable Confiant to detect unique malicious activity as soon as it surfaces.
SeaFlower is an example of this unique cluster of malicious activities targeting web3 wallet users that we will document in this blog post.
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