Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2024

The original Mandrake campaign had two major infection waves, in 2016–2017 and 2018–2020. These included relocating malicious functions to obfuscated native libraries, using certificate pinning to secure C2 communications, and determine if it was running on a rooted device or in an emulated environment.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

The Commons FileUpload library is the default file upload mechanism in Struts 2, the CVE-2016-1000031 was discovered two years ago by experts at Tenable. The CVE-2017-5645 flaw resides in the Codehaus versions of Groovy and affected OCA Unified Inventory Management.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2019

UPnP-enabled devices running outdated software are exposed to a wide range of attacks exploiting known flaws in UPnP libraries. The campaign observed by Akamai in December tracked as EternalSilence, was targeting millions of machines living behind the vulnerable routers by leveraging the EternalBlue and EternalRed (CVE-2017-7494) exploits.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The malicious Monero (XMR) Coinhive cryptomining scripts were delivered leveraging the Google’s legitimate Google Tag Manager (GTM) library. “As soon as the apps are downloaded and launched, they fetch a coin-mining JavaScript library by triggering Google Tag Manager (GTM) in their domain servers.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Bug bounties for other nine products ( FLUX TL , KeePass , 7-zip , Digital Signature Services (DSS) , Drupal , GNU C Library ( glibc ) , PHP Symfony , Apache Tomcat , and WSO2 ) are arranged through the Intigrity platform. “In 2017, the project was extended for three more years. GNU C Library (glibc). 15/10/2019.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Unlike past attacks, in the last campaign, attackers attempted to exploit the Microsoft Office remote code execution vulnerability ( CVE-2017-8570 ). In turn, the C2 location responds with a JSON object explicitly including C2 data and payload locations for libraries and additional files. ” concludes Cofense.

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

But this month’s Patch Tuesday is overshadowed by the “ Log4Shell ” 0-day exploit in a popular Java library that web server administrators are now racing to find and patch amid widespread exploitation of the flaw. We’ve seen similar vulnerabilities exploited before in breaches like the 2017 Equifax data breach.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2019

“Two vulnerabilities (CVE-2017-16544 and CVE-2015-0235) were verified by emulating the device with the MEDUSA scaleable firmware runtime. SEC Consult also discovered that WAGO industrial switches use outdated versions of the BusyBox UNIX toolkit and the GNU C Library (glibc). ” reads the security advisory.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The CVE-2021-44228 flaw made the headlines last week, after Chinese security researcher p0rz9 publicly disclosed a Proof-of-concept exploit for the critical remote code execution zero-day vulnerability ( aka Log4Shell ) that affects the Apache Log4j Java-based logging library.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

A previously unknown cyber espionage group, tracked as Gallmaker, has been targeting entities in the government, military and defense sectors since at least 2017. Gallmaker been active since at least December 2017, researchers observed a spike in its operations in April and most recent attacks were uncovered in June.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The group was also observed using modified versions of common malware such as PlugX RAT , Trochilus RAT, keyloggers using the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) library, the custom in-memory HyperBro backdoor, and a Cobalt Strike sample. One of the backdoors leverages the file hosting service Dropbox as command-and-control (C&C).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2019

We analyzed this sample two years ago and we linked it to a Sofacy attack operation discovered by FE researchers in the mid of 2017, which hit several hotels in European and Middle Eastern countries. GAMEFISH document dropper (reference sample, 2017). Technical Analysis. exe” system utility. Figure 4: “mrset.bat” file code.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2018

In one incident in 2017, HIDDEN COBRA actors enabled cash to be simultaneously withdrawn from ATMs located in over 30 different countries. “HIDDEN COBRA actors most likely deployed ISO 8583 libraries on the targeted switch application servers. ” states the report. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2019

Early April, experts at Yoroi-Cybaze ZLab spotted a new interesting malware sample, likely active since 2017, that was linked to ATMitch attacks. . In the first days of April, our threat monitoring operations spotted a new interesting malware sample possibly active in the wild since 2017.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2022

The bot includes exploits for Oracle WebLogic Server vulnerabilities CVE-2019-2725 and CVE-2017-10271 , and the Drupal RCE flaw tracked as CVE-2018-7600. The list of targeted routers include GPON home router, DD-WRT router, and the Tomato router. . It saves it as “/tmp/russ” and executes it.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

It’s interesting to notice it calls some “non-library” functions; functions loaded from the previously referenced dll file. The file is a dynamic linked library not already known to major security platforms. The library embeds MSIL code running on top of the.NET framework, so it is quite straightforward to recover its source code.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Javali trojan is active since November 2017 and targets users of financial and banking organizations geolocated in Brazil and Mexico. dll: Windows legitimate DLL for runtime dependencies – MICROSOFT® C RUNTIME LIBRARY. dll: Windows legitimate DLL for runtime dependencies – MICROSOFT® C RUNTIME LIBRARY.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2023

IcedID banking trojan first appeared in the threat landscape in 2017, it has capabilities similar to other financial threats like Gozi , Zeus , and Dridex. The “maker.dll” is a malicious libraries used to perform various malicious activities and load the IcedID malware, while “ikm.msi” is a legitimate installer of the Zoom application.

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JUNE 18, 2020

It exploits a vulnerability in the Windows wdigest.dll library and then uses an improved ListPlanting technique to inject its code into a trusted process. The attack chain begins with the deployment of a TCP downloader that fetches the next stage payload.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Elasticsearch is a Java-based search engine based on the free and open-source information retrieval software library Lucene. Earlier 2017, the number of internet-accessible Elasticsearch installs was roughly 35,000. Experts from HackenProof discovered Open Elasticsearch instances that expose over 82 million users in the United States.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2019

The group has been active at least since 2009, in April 2017 experts from PwC UK and BAE Systems uncovered a widespread hacking campaign, tracked as Operation Cloud Hopper , targeting managed service providers (MSPs) in multiple countries worldwide.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2019

Microsoft warns of spam campaign exploiting CVE-2017-11882 flaw. Google expert disclosed details of an unpatched flaw in SymCrypt library. CIA sextortion campaign, analysis of a well-organized scam. CVE-2019-12735 – opening a specially crafted file in Vim or Neovim Editor could compromise your Linux system.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Analyzing other 2017’s threat reports, we noticed the address did not changed over time, different story for the email address. Comparison between the ransom note of Shade 2019 (up) and Shade 2017 (down, source: SonicWall ). Ransomware Onion website. Flypool dashboard reporting info about attacker’s wallet. Conclusions.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2018

Most of the websites spoofed universities’ online library systems, the attackers were interested in accessing those resources and gather intelligence. Department of Justice indicted the Mabna Institute and nine Iranian nationals in connection with COBALT DICKENS activity occurring between 2013 and 2017.”

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Unwritten Record

APRIL 14, 2020

National Bookmobile Day is April 22, part of National Library Week (April 19-25). . A library is a place that stores information, a place where people from all walks of life have the opportunity to obtain textual and audiovisual material for education, entertainment, and enlightenment. Libraries, Mobile — Third Army La.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In other words all the infrastructures, the samples, the command and controls, the domains and IPs, the certificate, the libraries and, general speaking, all the operations that come before the attack phase in term of environments. For example from 2017 to early 2018 APT28 used specific techniques such as: T1251 , T1329 , T1336 and T1319.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2019

The list of exploits used by the malware includes EternalBlue , DoublePulsar ; exploits for CVE-2014-6287, Tomcat arbitrary file upload vulnerability CVE-2017-12615 , CVE-2017-8464 ; and three ThinkPHP exploits for different versions of the framework.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In 2017, a hacker group known as the Shadow Brokers stolen malware and hacking tools from the arsenal of the NSA-Linked Equation Group , then it published online the data dump called “ Lost in Translation.” The DarkUniverse has been active at least from 2009 until 2017. mod and glue30.dll. The updater.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2018

In defining similarities, we take into account only unique code connections, and disregard common code or libraries. For example, the “Common SMB module” that was part of the WannaCry Ransomware (2017) was similar to the code used the malware Mydoom (2009), Joanap , and DeltaAlfa.

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APRIL 6, 2021

Since 2017, the group was observed launching attacks using RTF lure documents with political content related to Vietnam. In 2018, the cyberespionage group targeted once again Vietnam running a spear-phishing campaign that uses weaponized documents featuring Vietnamese-language lures and themes.

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CILIP

JUNE 25, 2024

Green Library inspires Gosport community The green library transformation at Bridgemary Library in Gosport is inspiring behaviour change in its local community by providing resources and motivation to engage with climate change. This means more efficient heating and a more comfortable space for building users.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2023

Lookout first detected WyrmSpy as early as 2017, while it first discovered DragonEgg at the start of 2021. These commands include instructing the malware to upload log files, photos stored on the device, and acquire device location using the Baidu Location library.” Most recent samples of DraginEgg are dated April 2023.

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AUGUST 3, 2018

According to Kaspersky, there was a spike in the number of spear phishing messages in November 2017 that targeted up to 400 industrial companies located in Russia. The malicious library includes the system file winspool.drv that is located in the system folder and is used to send documents to the printer.

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CILIP

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Mastering RPG Games in Libraries For librarians or teachers who aren’t players themselves, the scope of role-playing games can seem overwhelming, especially because being a game master in a school or public library for a group of students is quite different to being a game master for adults with hours to spend.

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CILIP

JANUARY 10, 2023

Libraries and sanctuary. John Vincent has been actively tackling social exclusion in libraries and other cultural and heritage organisations through The Network (www.seapn.org.uk) and the Libraries of Sanctuary project, that evolved from the Cities of Sanctuary.

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