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SMS PVA Part 1: Underground Service for Cybercriminals

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SMS PVA Part 1: Underground Service for Cybercriminals

SMS PVA Part 1: Underground Service for Cybercriminals Malware In this three-part blog entry, our team explored SMS PVA, a service built on top of a global bot network that compromises smartphone cybersecurity as we know it. By: Trend Micro February 22, 2022 Read time:  ( words) Smartphones have become a huge part of our daily lives. Not only do they allow us to connect with family and friends, these nifty devices let us become…

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Latest Mac Coinminer Utilizes Open-Source Binaries and the I2P Network

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Latest Mac Coinminer Utilizes Open-Source Binaries and the I2P Network

Latest Mac Coinminer Utilizes Open-Source Binaries and the I2P Network Malware A Mac coinminer has been spotted using open-source components in its routine and the I2P Network to hide its traffic. We dive into old iterations of this malware, and also analyze the newest version. By: Luis Magisa February 21, 2022 Read time:  ( words) Coinminers are one of the more profitable types of malware for malicious actors, and they require little maintenance once installed…

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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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Detecting PwnKit (CVE-2021-4034) Using Trend Micro™ Vision One™ and Cloud One™

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Detecting PwnKit (CVE-2021-4034) Using Trend Micro™ Vision One™ and Cloud One™

Detecting PwnKit (CVE-2021-4034) Using Trend Micro™ Vision One™ and Cloud One™ Exploits & Vulnerabilities This blog discusses how CVE-2021-4034 can be detected and blocked using Trend Micro™ Vision One™ and Trend Micro Cloud One™. By: Sunil Bharti, Nitesh Surana February 11, 2022 Read time:  ( words) PolKit, or PolicyKit, is a component that handles system-wide policies and authorizations in Unix and Unix-like operating systems (OS), allowing non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged ones. PolKit’s pkexec…

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Access control and security guards protect Pfizer center

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Access control and security guards protect Pfizer center

Access control and security guards protect Pfizer center | 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…

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Cryptojacking Attacks Target Alibaba ECS Instances

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Cryptojacking Attacks Target Alibaba ECS Instances

Cryptojacking Attacks Target Alibaba ECS Instances Workload Security Discover how some malicious groups disable features in Alibaba Cloud ECS instances for illicit mining of Monero. By: Alfredo de Oliveira February 04, 2022 Read time:  ( words) Cryptojacking attacks continue to increase. Unlike ransomware, cryptojacking cybercriminals make their money staying silent and undetected, leeching the computer power from their target to mine valuable cryptocurrency. Cryptomining can cause serious downtime for developers by draining the enterprise’s processing…

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Codex Exposed Helping Hackers in Training

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Codex Exposed Helping Hackers in Training

In June 2020, OpenAI released version 3 of its Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT-3), a natural language transformer that took the tech world by storm with its uncanny ability to generate text seemingly written by humans. But GPT-3 was also trained on computer code, and recently OpenAI released a specialized version of its engine, named Codex, tailored to help — or perhaps even replace — computer programmers. In a series of blog posts, we explore different…

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The Samba Vulnerability: What is CVE-2021-44142 and How to Fix It

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The Samba Vulnerability: What is CVE-2021-44142 and How to Fix It

An earlier version of an out-of-bounds (OOB) vulnerability in Samba was disclosed via Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative’s (ZDI) Pwn2Own Austin 2021. ZDI looked further into the security gap and found more variants of the vulnerability after the event and subsequently disclosed the findings to the company. While we have not seen any active attacks exploiting this vulnerability, CVE-2021-44142 received a CVSS rating of 9.9 out of the three variants reported. If abused, this security…

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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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TianySpy Malware Uses Smishing Disguised as Message From Telco

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TianySpy Malware Uses Smishing Disguised as Message From Telco

TianySpy Malware Uses Smishing Disguised as Message From Telco Mobile Trend Micro confirmed a new mobile malware infection chain targeting both Android and iPhone devices. The malware might have been designed to steal credentials associated with membership websites of major Japanese telecommunication services. By: Trend Micro January 25, 2022 Read time:  ( words) This blog was first published here: https://blog.trendmicro.co.jp/archives/29322 It has been some time since SMS or text messaging has become a means to…

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