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Credit to Author: Jörg Schindler| Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:24:35 +0000

Gibt es Schlimmeres als einen Ransomware-Angriff, der sämtliche Dateien zerhackt und Geld fordert, damit der Computer wieder befreit wird? WannaCry hat der Ransomware-Gefahr eine ganz neue Dimension verliehen, indem es den Prozess der Datenzerstörung mit einem selbst-verbreitenden Computer-Virus kombinierte. Als Ergebnis konnte WannaCry sich automatisch ins eigene Netzwerk einschleichen und hatte das Potenzial, Hunderte oder […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/QLhkSXxyFmU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

MalwareBytes Security

September 3, 2018 admin

A week in security (August 27 – September 2)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2018 15:00:36 +0000

A round-up of the security news from August 27 – September 2, including ransomware, interesting talks during BlackHat, botnets, and the evils of JavaScript.

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QuickHeal Security

September 3, 2018 admin

“Troldesh’s” One More Variant in the Encryption Offender

Credit to Author: Gulamgaus Shaikh| Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2018 11:52:13 +0000

Over the past few days, we have been observing criminals/hackers using a new carrier to deliver the ransomware malware. Recently, Quick Heal Security Labs observed a new variant of Troldesh ransomware which encrypts the data and adds the extension as “.no_more_ransom”. This ransomware comes under Crypto-Ransomware variant, the origin of this…

QuickHeal Security

September 3, 2018 admin

I am invisible – Monero (XMR) Miner

Credit to Author: Ghanshyam More| Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2018 10:27:58 +0000

From the last one year, Quick Heal Security Labs has been observing a boost in the number of mining malware. Nowadays malware authors are using mining as a replacement for Ransomware to make money. Recently Quick Heal Security Labs came across a malware which mines Monero(XMR). This miner has many…

MalwareBytes Security

August 30, 2018 admin

Reversing malware in a custom format: Hidden Bee elements

Credit to Author: hasherezade| Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 15:41:34 +0000

When we recently analyzed payloads related to Hidden Bee (dropped by the Underminer EK), we noticed something unusual. After reversing the malware, we discovered that its authors actually created their own executable format. Follow our step-by-step analysis for a closer look.

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Tags: custom malware hidden bee hidden bee miner payload reverse engineering reversing malware

MalwareBytes Security

August 29, 2018 admin

Fileless malware: getting the lowdown on this insidious threat

Credit to Author: Vasilios Hioureas| Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 16:48:35 +0000

In this series of articles, we provide an in-depth discussion of fileless malware and their related attacks. In part one, we cover a brief overview of the problems with and general features of fileless malware, laying the groundwork for technical analysis of various samples employing fileless and semi-fileless methods.

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Tags: file history fileless infections fileless malware fileless malware attacks kovter magnitude EK poweliks powershell RAM samsam samsam ransomware semi-fileless SOC team windows

Kaspersky Security

August 17, 2018 admin

How risky is the Internet? Researchers say 42%

Credit to Author: Kaspersky Team| Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 20:18:39 +0000

Almost half of the most-visited websites open visitors to potential dangers. What can you do?

Kaspersky Security

August 15, 2018 admin

KeyPass: Ravenous ransomware

Credit to Author: Leonid Grustniy| Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 17:22:31 +0000

KeyPass ransomware is infecting computers worldwide, encrypting almost everything in its path. And it all starts with downloading a seemingly innocuous installer.