Since the beginning of this year, Avast has protected more than 2,000 customers from this password stealer.
Avast researchers have found password stealer malware, disguised as a private Fortnite server, where users can meet for a private match, and use skins for free. The malware is being heavily propagated on communications platform Discord.…
Information stealing malware is on the rise. Cyble Research Labs recently discovered a new malware dubbed “AvD crypto stealer” on a cybercrime forum. Upon further investigation, however, we observed that this does not function as a Crypto Stealer. This is, in fact, a disguised variant of well-known Clipper malware that can read and edit any text copied by the victim i.e.…
ESET researchers discovered a still-ongoing campaign using a previously undocumented Korplug variant, which they named Hodur due to its resemblance to the THOR variant previously documented by Unit 42 in 2020. In Norse mythology, Hodur is Thor’s blind half-brother, who is tricked by Loki into killing their half-brother Baldr.…
One Hotel to rule them all, One Hotel to find them, One Hotel to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
By John Fokker · March 17, 2022
This story was also written by Thibault Seret
Introduction:Our advanced threat research team has discovered a first-stage malicious campaign targeting luxury hotels in Macao, China since the latter half of November 2021.…
The DirtyMoe malware is deployed using various kits like PurpleFox or injected installers of Telegram Messenger that require user interaction. Complementary to this deployment, one of the DirtyMoe modules expands the malware using worm-like techniques that require no user interaction.
This research analyzes this worming module’s kill chain and the procedures used to launch/control the module through the DirtyMoe service.…
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Update March 17, 2022: Cisco Talos has updated the IOC section with additional hashes and ClamAV coverage.
Executive summaryOpportunistic cybercriminals are attempting to exploit Ukrainian sympathizers by offering malware purporting to be offensive cyber tools to target Russian entities.…We recently came across a stealer, called Raccoon Stealer, a name given to it by its author. Raccoon Stealer uses the Telegram infrastructure to store and update actual C&C addresses.
Raccoon Stealer is a password stealer capable of stealing not just passwords, but various types of data, including:
Cookies, saved logins and forms data from browsers Login credentials from email clients and messengers Files from crypto wallets Data from browser plugins and extension Arbitrary files based on commands from C&CIn addition, it’s able to download and execute arbitrary files by command from its C&C.…
Over the past year the TeamTNT threat actor has been very active. TeamTNT is one of the predominant cryptojacking threat actors currently targeting Linux servers.…
The criminal group behind the Arkei information stealer appears to be interested in more than just picking our pockets. While cryptocurrency remains a primary target for the malware, which has recently been tied to use of the stealthy SmokeLoader downloader, a new analysis of Arkei shows that it has now expanded its reach to collect multifactor (MFA) authentication data as well.…
Over the past seven months, SophosLabs has monitored a series of new efforts to distribute SolarMarker, an information stealer and backdoor (also known as Jupyter or Polazert). First detected in 2020, the .NET malware usually delivered by a PowerShell installer has information harvesting and backdoor capabilities.…
Analysis of a new malware called Mars Stealer, which is a further development of Oski Stealer.
It has been noticed that Oski support stopped answering its customers and deleted its telegram account and bot around July 2, 2020. This disappearance has raised eyebrows, as major projects like KPOT Stealer and Predator The Thief don’t usually just go away.…
Over the past months, the Cybereason Nocturnus Team observed an uptick in the activity of the Iranian attributed group dubbed Phosphorus (AKA Charming Kitten, APT35), known for previously attacking medical research organizations in the US and Israel in late 2020, and for targeting academic researchers from the US, France, and the Middle East region back in 2019.…
In 2021, Kaspersky ICS CERT experts noticed a growing number of anomalous spyware attacks infecting ICS computers across the globe.
Although the malware used in these attacks belongs to well-known commodity spyware families, these attacks stand out from the mainstream due to a very limited number of targets in each attack and a very short lifetime of each malicious sample.…
BlueNoroff is the name of an APT group coined by Kaspersky researchers while investigating the notorious attack on Bangladesh’s Central Bank back in 2016. A mysterious group with links to Lazarus and an unusual financial motivation for an APT. The group seems to work more like a unit within a larger formation of Lazarus attackers, with the ability to tap into its vast resources: be it malware implants, exploits, or infrastructure.…
