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Microsoft Revokes Malicious Drivers in Patch Tuesday Culling

July 11, 2023 0 Comments 2023-07, anti-edr, drivers, drivers.stl, EDR, featured, fivesys, fk_undead, fu rootkit, netfilter, Patch Tuesday, Patches, rootkit, sophos x-ops, threat research, uac, wfp, windows filtering platform, windows update

Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2023 17:20:38 +0000

In December 2022, Microsoft published their monthly Windows Update packages that included an advisory about malicious drivers, signed by Microsoft and other code-signing authorities, that Sophos X-Ops (and others) observed threat actors abusing during attacks. Today, Microsoft issued Security Advisory ADV230001 as part of their July Windows Update that addresses Sophos’ discovery of more than […]

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The Link Between AWM Proxy & the Glupteba Botnet

June 28, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, alureon, awm proxy, Breadcrumbs, constella intelligence, dennstr, dmitry starovikov, domaintools, eset, glupteba botnet, Google, kaspersky lab, lycefer, meris, Ne'er-Do-Well News, pay-per-install, riley kilmer, rootkit, rsocks botnet, spur.us, tdl-4, tdss, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 18:33:31 +0000

On December 7, 2021, Google announced it had sued two Russian men allegedly responsible for operating the Glupteba botnet, a global malware menace that has infected millions of computers over the past decade. That same day, AWM Proxy — a 14-year-old anonymity service that rents hacked PCs to cybercriminals — suddenly went offline. Security experts had long seen a link between Glupteba and AWM Proxy, but new research shows AWM Proxy’s founder is one of the men being sued by Google.

MalwareBytes Security

5 Linux malware families SMBs should protect themselves against

June 8, 2022 0 Comments Botnet, Business, linux malware, Ransomware, rootkit, smb

Credit to Author: Bill Cozens| Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2022 13:43:32 +0000

In this post, we’ll give you an overview of five Linux malware families your SMB should be protecting itself against — and how they work.

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A week in security (March 21 – 27)

March 28, 2022 0 Comments A week in security, avoslocker, elden ring, esports, facebook, hp printer vulnerability, lapsus, microsoft exchange server, okta, phishing, protestware, Ransomware, rootkit, white house

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 10:17:58 +0000

The most important and interesting security stories from the last seven days.

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A new rootkit comes to an ATM near you

March 22, 2022 0 Comments atm fraud, atm malware, atm rootkit, binbash, caketap, Cybercrime, lightbasin, miglocleaner, rootkit, slapstick, steelcorgi, steelhound, sun4me, tinyshell, unc1945, unc2891, wingcrack, winghook, wiperight

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 21:24:19 +0000

CAKETAP is a new rootkit that can run on ATM switch servers—and its not alone in its ATM attacks.

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A week in security (January 13 – 19)

January 20, 2020 0 Comments A week in security, apt40, Cisco, citrix, data enrichment, deepfakes, elastic servers, emotet, rootkit, travelex, weleakinfo

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 16:32:45 +0000

Our weekly security roundup for January 13-19, with a look at elastic servers, data enrichment, rootkits, regulation for deepfakes, and more.

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A week in security

Tags: apt40 Cisco citrix data enrichment deepfakes elastic servers emotet rootkit travelex weleakinfo

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How to prevent a rootkit attack

January 14, 2020 0 Comments application rootkits, bootloader, firmware rootkits, hardware rootkits, how-tos, kernel rootkits, phishing, rootkit, rootkit attacks, Social engineering, virtualized rootkits

Credit to Author: Gilad Maayan| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 17:31:55 +0000

Rootkit attacks are considered one of the most dangerous cyberthreats today. Learn what they are, how they infect systems, and how to protect against them.

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How-tos

Tags: application rootkits bootloader firmware rootkits hardware rootkits kernel rootkits phishing rootkit rootkit attacks Social Engineering virtualized rootkits

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