During the past 4 months Microsoft Onenote file format has been (ab)used as Malware carrier by different criminal groups. While the main infection vector is still on eMail side - so nothing really relevant to write on - the used techniques, the templates and the implemented code to inoculate Malware changed a lot. So it…
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HeadCrab: A Novel State-of-the-Art Redis Malware in a Global Campaign
Aqua Nautilus researchers discovered a new elusive and severe threat that has been infiltrating and residing on servers worldwide since early September 2021. Known as HeadCrab, this advanced threat actor utilizes a state-of-the-art, custom-made malware that is undetectable by agentless and traditional anti-virus solutions to compromise a large number of Redis servers. The HeadCrab botnet has taken control of at least 1,200 servers.
This blog will delve into the details of the HeadCrab attack, examining its methods of operation, techniques used to evade detection, and steps organizations can take to safeguard their systems.
We have recently written about malvertising campaigns that leverage Google paid advertisements to try and trick people into downloading malware instead of the software they were looking for. This malware then stole login credentials from the affected system.
Find out why one of our Android experts has been obsessing over a little black box from Amazon.
We have analyzed more than 800 IT job ads and resumes on the dark web. Here is what the dark web job market looks like.
SEO poisoning is gaining momentum as threat actors leverage malicious ads to deliver malware through web browser searches.
We discuss the Batloader malware campaigns we observed in the last quarter of 2022, including our analysis of Water Minyades-related events (This is the intrusion set we track behind the creation of Batloader).
Samples of four malicious software downloaded and run on macOS 13.1. Could it detect and block them effectively? Or do you need 3rd party protection?
Stay ahead of the game with our review on macOS malware threats. Learn about the top techniques used by threat actors to deliver malware and how to build more resilient defenses.
Malicious Google Ad --> Fake Notepad++ Page --> Aurora Stealer malware
Google Ads is one of the most popular advertising platform, but it's also a target for cybercriminals. Learn how they are using it to spread malware.
A newly uncovered technique to abuse Google’s ad-words powerful advertisement platform is spreading rogue promoted search results in mass. Pointing to allegedly credible advertisement sites that are fully controlled by threat actors, those are used to masquerade and redirect ad-clickers to malicious phishing pages gaining the powerful credibility and targeting capabilities of Google’s search results. Adding customized malware payloads, threat actors are raising the bar for successful malware deployments on Personal PCs with ad words like Grammarly, Malwarebytes, and Afterburner as well as with Visual Studio, Zoom, Slack, and even Dashlane to target organizations.
As part of our research into the cryptomining botnet kmsdbot, we rendered it useless.
Researchers have found that Kinsing malware gained access to Kubernetes servers by exploiting misconfigured and exposed PostgreSQL servers. The threat actors gained
Raspberry Robin appears to be a type of Pay-Per-Install botnet, likely to be used by cybercriminals to distribute other malware.
macOS may alert you when you’re trying to open or run a file, with an alert informing you that malware was detected. But what about in scans?
The ASEC analysis team recently discovered that a Linux malware developed with Shc has been installing a CoinMiner. It is presumed that after successful authentication through a dictionary attack on inadequately managed Linux SSH servers, various malware were installed on the target system. Among those installed were the Shc downloader, XMRig CoinMiner installed through the former, and DDoS IRC Bot, developed with Perl.
A comprehensive analysis of the year's new malware
New YouTube Bot Malware Spotted Stealing User’s Sensitive Information
