Hijacking Your Bandwidth: How Proxyware Apps Open You Up to Risk

Credit to Author: Trend Micro Research| Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In this investigation, we analyzed several prominent “passive income” applications and found out that there may be security risks upon participating in these programs.

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New APT34 Malware Targets The Middle East

Credit to Author: Mohamed Fahmy| Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We analyze an infection campaign targeting organizations in the Middle East for cyberespionage in December 2022 using a new backdoor malware. The campaign abuses legitimate but compromised email accounts to send stolen data to external mail accounts controlled by the attackers.

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New Mimic Ransomware Abuses Everything APIs for its Encryption Process

Credit to Author: Nathaniel Morales| Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Trend Micro researchers discovered a new ransomware that abuses the APIs of a legitimate tool called Everything, a Windows filename search engine developed by Voidtools that offers quick searching and real-time updates for minimal resource usage.

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Attacking The Supply Chain: Developer

Credit to Author: David Fiser| Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In this proof of concept, we look into one of several attack vectors that can be abused to attack the supply chain: targeting the developer. With a focus on the local integrated developer environment (IDE), this proof considers the execution of malicious build scripts via injecting commands when the project or build is incorrectly “trusted”.

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Vice Society Ransomware Group Targets Manufacturing Companies

Credit to Author: Ieriz Nicolle Gonzalez| Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In this blog entry, we’d like to highlight our findings on Vice Society, which includes an end-to-end infection diagram that we were able to create using Trend Micro internal telemetry.

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“Payzero” Scams and The Evolution of Asset Theft in Web3

Credit to Author: Fyodor Yarochkin| Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In this entry, we discuss a Web3 fraud scenario where scammers target potential victims via fake smart contracts, and then take over their digital assets, such as NFT tokens, without paying. We named this scam “Payzero”.

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Batloader Malware Abuses Legitimate Tools, Uses Obfuscated JavaScript Files in Q4 2022 Attacks

Credit to Author: Junestherry Dela Cruz| Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We discuss the Batloader malware campaigns we observed in the last quarter of 2022, including our analysis of Water Minyades-related events (This is the intrusion set we track behind the creation of Batloader).

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Earth Bogle: Campaigns Target the Middle East with Geopolitical Lures

Credit to Author: Peter Girnus| Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We discovered an active campaign ongoing since at least mid-2022 which uses Middle Eastern geopolitical-themed lures to distribute NjRAT (also known as Bladabindi) to infect victims across the Middle East and North Africa.

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