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North Korea-linked Andariel APT Group exploited an ActiveX Zero-Day in recent attacks

Haythem Elmir 7 ans ago

A North Korea-linked APT group, tracked as AndarielGroup, leveraged an ActiveX zero-day vulnerability in targeted attacks against South Korean entities. According to a report published by South Korean cyber-security firm AhnLab, the Andariel Group is a division of the dreaded Lazarus APT Group, it already exploited ActiveX vulnerabilities in past attacks The attackers exploited at […]

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Le phishing se déchaîne sur les réseaux sociaux

Haythem Elmir 7 ans ago

La fraude ciblant les utilisateurs des réseaux sociaux (ou « angler phishing ») a bondi de 200% en un trimestre, selon Proofpoint. Proofpoint a publié son rapport trimestriel sur les menaces cyber qui pèsent sur les entreprises (Quaterly Threat Report Q1 2018). Le rapport s’appuie sur l’analyse quotidienne de 5 milliards de […]

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Miscreants hijacked the defunct SpamCannibal blacklist service

Haythem Elmir 7 ans ago

The SpamCannibal blacklist service was hijacked since Wednesday morning, attackers changed the DNS name server settings for the website overnight. The SpamCannibal was born to blacklist IP address of malicious servers involved in spam campaigns and DoS attacks. SpamCannibal was using a continually updated database containing the IP addresses of spam or […]

US-CERT issued an alert on two malware associated with North Korea-linked APT Hidden Cobra

Haythem Elmir 7 ans ago

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI issued a joint Technical alert on two strain on malware, the Joanap backdoor Trojan and Brambul Server Message Block worm, associated with the HIDDEN COBRA North Korea-linked APT group. “Working with U.S. government partners, DHS and FBI identified Internet Protocol (IP) addresses […]

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Oracle Plans to Drop Java Serialization Support, the Source of Most Security Bugs

Haythem Elmir 7 ans ago

Oracle plans to drop support for data serialization/deserialization from the main body of the Java language, according to Mark Reinhold, chief architect of the Java platform group at Oracle. Serialization is the process of taking a data object and converting it into a stream of bytes (binary format), so it […]

BackSwap malware finds innovative ways to empty bank accounts

Haythem Elmir 7 ans ago

Banking malware (also referred to as banker) has been decreasing in popularity among cybercrooks for a few years now, one of the reasons being that both anti-malware companies and web browser developers are continuously widening the scope of their protection mechanisms against banking Trojan attacks. This results in conventional banking […]

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Adobe to Acquire Magento E-Commerce Platform for $1.68 Billion

Haythem Elmir 7 ans ago

Adobe announced yesterday plans to buy the Magento e-commerce platform for $1.68 billion. While the Magento brand is mostly known for the open source online store CMS of the same name, Adobe was mostly interested in Magento Commerce, an online-store-as-a-service platform. Adobe plans to embed the Magento Commerce platform into […]

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New US Bill Wants to Create National Guard Cyber Units

Haythem Elmir 7 ans ago

US lawmakers have proposed a bill that would create specialized units in the National Guard for defending and responding to cyber-attacks. According to the bill’s text, these cyber-units —referred to as National Guard Cyber Civil Support Teams— will be at the disposal of state governors and will have a series […]

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Spam Botnet Tracked Down to Malicious PHP Script Found on 5,000 Hacked Sites

Haythem Elmir 7 ans ago

A malicious PHP script found on over 5,000 compromised websites has been fingered as the source of a large-scale spam campaign that has been silently redirecting users to web pages hosting diet and intelligence boosting pills. The purpose of this script is to keep hacked sites under the control of […]

North Korea-linked Sun Team APT group targets deflectors with Android Malware

Haythem Elmir 7 ans ago

A North Korea-linked APT group tracked as Sun Team has targeted North Korean deflectors with a malicious app that was published in the official Google Play store. A North Korea-linked APT group tracked as Sun Team has targeted North Korean deflectors with a malicious app that was published in the official Google Play store. The campaign, […]