January 2023

Researchers Uncover Packer Used by Several Malware to Evade Detection for 6 Years

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Over the past six years, a shellcode-based packer known as TrickGate has been functioning successfully without drawing attention while enabling threat actors to spread a variety of malware, including TrickBot, Emotet, AZORult, Agent Tesla, FormBook, Cerber, Maze, and REvil. TrickGate is a “master of disguises,” according to Arie Olshtein of Check Point Research. This is […]

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A New Wave of Malware is Spreading via Cracked Softwares

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Since early 2020, information-stealing malware like Raccoon and Vidar has been disseminated using a “large and resilient infrastructure” made up of over 250 domains. Security company SEKOIA stated in a research released earlier this month that the infection chain “uses roughly a hundred of phoney cracked software catalogue websites that lead to multiple links before

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Malware Attack on CircleCI Engineer’s Laptop Leads to Recent Security Incident

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DevOps platform CircleCI revealed on Friday that unidentified threat actors hacked a worker’s laptop and used malware to obtain their two-factor authentication-backed credentials to access the company’s systems and data a month earlier. The “complex attack,” according to the CI/CD provider CircleCI, occurred on December 16, 2022, and the malware evaded detection by its anti malware.

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Rackspace Admits Play Ransomware Gang Was Behind Recent Breach

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On Thursday, cloud services provider Rackspace acknowledged that the intrusion from last month was caused by the Play ransomware group. A previously unidentified security exploit was used by the security event, which happened on December 2, 2022, to acquire initial access to the Rackspace Hosted Exchange email system. The Texas-based business stated that “CVE-2022-41080 is

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BitKeep Confirms Cyber Attack, Loses Over $9 Million in Digital Currencies

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BitKeep, a decentralized multi-chain cryptocurrency wallet, announced a cyber attack on its Android app on Wednesday that allowed threat actors to spread fake copies of it in order to steal users’ digital money. In a “large-scale hacking event,” according to BitKeep CEO Kevin Como, “the altered APK caused the disclosure of user’s private keys and

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Potential Wiretapping Bugs Found in Google Home Smart Speakers by Researchers

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For identifying security flaws in Google Home smart speakers that could be used to install backdoors and convert them into wiretapping devices, a security researcher was given a bug prize of $107,500. The researcher, who goes by the name Matt Kunze, revealed the flaws in a technical write-up released this week. The flaws “allowed an

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