cyber crime

SMS PVA Services’ Use of Infected Android Phones Reveals Flaws in SMS Verification

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SMS PVA Services’ Use of Infected Android Phones Reveals Flaws in SMS Verification

Using these code snippets and C&C traffic as fingerprints, we were able to identify two more DEX files with the same functionality but different C&Cs, indicating an active development process and several versions of both the development code and production code of the Android malware. Only text messages sent by specific services and matched by the regex provided by the C&C were intercepted. This is likely to prevent the user of the Android phone from…

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This Week in Security News – January 28th, 2022

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This Week in Security News – January 28th, 2022

Read on: Codex Exposed Task Automation and Response Consistency In this blog series, Trend Micro explores different aspects of Codex and assess its capabilities with a focus on the security aspects that affect not only regular developers, but also malicious users. Being able to automate tasks or programmatically execute them unsupervised is an essential part of both regular and malicious computer usage. In this series, Trend Micro explores if a tool like Codex is reliable…

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Defending the Supply Chain: Why the DDS Protocol is Critical in Industrial and Software Systems

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Defending the Supply Chain: Why the DDS Protocol is Critical in Industrial and Software Systems

By measuring the exposure of DDS services, in one month we found 643 distinct public-facing DDS services in 34 countries affecting 100 organizations via 89 internet service providers (ISPs). Of the DDS implementations by seven distinct vendors (one of which we were initially unaware of), 202 leaked private IP addresses (referring to internal network architecture details), and seven supposedly secret URLs. Some of these IP addresses expose unpatched or outdated DDS implementations, which are affected…

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Emotet Spam Abuses Unconventional IP Address Formats to Spread Malware

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Emotet Spam Abuses Unconventional IP Address Formats to Spread Malware

Emotet Spam Abuses Unconventional IP Address Formats to Spread Malware We found waves of Emotet spam campaigns using unconventional IP addresses to evade detection. By: Ian Kenefick January 21, 2022 Read time:  ( words) We observed Emotet spam campaigns using hexadecimal and octal representations of IP addresses, likely to evade detection via pattern matching. Both routines use social engineering techniques to trick users into enabling document macros and automate malware execution. Upon receiving these standards,…

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This Week in Security News – January 21, 2022

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This Week in Security News – January 28th, 2022

Read on: Cybersecurity for Industrial Control Systems: Part 1 In this two-part series, Trend Micro looks at cybersecurity threats that affected industrial control systems endpoints and shares insights and recommendations to mitigate such threats. Trend Micro’s expert team extensively studied reported malware families in ICS endpoints to validate ICS security and establish a global baseline for examining threats that put these systems at risk. CISA Urges US Orgs to Prepare for Data-Wiping Cyberattacks Ukraine government…

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Defending Users’ NAS Devices From Evolving Threats

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Defending Users’ NAS Devices From Evolving Threats

Defending Users’ NAS Devices From Evolving Threats In our latest research, we analyze the threats targeting well-known brands of network-attached storage (NAS) devices. By: Stephen Hilt, Fernando Merces January 20, 2022 Read time:  ( words) Threats to the internet of things (IoT) continue to evolve as users and businesses grow increasingly reliant on these tools for constant connectivity, access to information and data, and workflow continuity. Cybercriminals have taken notice of this dependence and now…

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Active archiving boosts cybersecurity protection

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Active archiving boosts cybersecurity protection

Active archiving boosts cybersecurity protection | Security Magazine This website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. By visiting this website, certain cookies have already been set, which you may delete and block. By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to the use of cookies. Visit our updated privacy and cookie policy to learn more. This Website Uses CookiesBy closing…

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Earth Lusca Employs Sophisticated Infrastructure, Varied Tools and Techniques

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Earth Lusca Employs Sophisticated Infrastructure, Varied Tools and Techniques

Since mid-2021, we have been investigating a rather elusive threat actor called Earth Lusca that targets organizations globally via a campaign that uses traditional social engineering techniques such as spear phishing and watering holes. The group’s primary motivation seems to be cyberespionage: the list of its victims includes high value targets such as government and educational institutions, religious movements, pro-democracy and human rights organizations in Hong Kong, Covid-19 research organizations, and the media, among others. However,…

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Today’s top three challenges hindering SMB cybersecurity

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Today’s top three challenges hindering SMB cybersecurity

Today’s top three challenges hindering SMB cybersecurity | Security Magazine This website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. By visiting this website, certain cookies have already been set, which you may delete and block. By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to the use of cookies. Visit our updated privacy and cookie policy to learn more. This Website Uses…

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Nation-state cyberattacks threaten the private sector

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Nation-state cyberattacks threaten the private sector

Nation-state cyberattacks threaten the private sector | Security Magazine This website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. By visiting this website, certain cookies have already been set, which you may delete and block. By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to the use of cookies. Visit our updated privacy and cookie policy to learn more. This Website Uses CookiesBy…

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