Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Security experts from Trend Micro have spotted a new strain of ransomware involved in attacks in July and August, the malicious code was posing as the Locky ransomware. ” reads hte analysis published by Trend Micro. exe will drop malware components — several C++ and Python libraries and the Python 2.7 Pierluigi Paganini.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

In July, Trend Micro reported that an APT group tracked as Void Banshee was spotted exploiting the Windows zero-day CVE-2024-38112 (CVSS score of 7.5) Trend Micro researchers discovered that the flaw was actively exploited in the wild in May. states Trend Micro. states Trend Micro.

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APRIL 14, 2020

The two RCE flaws in Windows, tracked as CVE-2020-1020 and CVE-2020-0938 , are related to the Adobe Type Manager Library. In March, Microsoft warned of hackers exploiting the two zero-day remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in the Windows Adobe Type Manager Library, both issues impact all supported versions of Windows.

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AUGUST 12, 2024

. “Attackers use the classic DLL sideloading technique: when the desktop.exe file is launched, the malicious VERSION.dll library is loaded into the corresponding process” reads the report published by Kaspersky. “This library is a backdoor packed with the VMProtect tool. It also bears similarities to PlugX.”

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JULY 17, 2024

Trend Micro researchers discovered that the flaw was actively exploited in the wild in May and reported it to Microsoft which addressed the zero-day with the July 2024 Patch Tuesday security updates. The archives are disseminated in cloud-sharing websites, Discord servers, and online libraries, and other means.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Trend Micro Researchers spotted the Chinese-speaking threat actor Earth Lusca using a new multiplatform backdoor called KTLVdoor. Attackers spread the backdoor as a dynamic library (DLL, SO), the malware allows attackers to fully control the compromised environment.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

Another gang, Night Sky ransomware operation, started exploiting the Log4Shell vulnerability in the Log4j library to gain access to VMware Horizon systems. The Night Sky ransomware operation started exploiting the Log4Shell flaw (CVE-2021-44228) in the Log4j library to gain access to VMware Horizon systems. trendmrcio[.]com,

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Krebs on Security

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. Log4Shell is the name picked for a critical flaw disclosed Dec.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. ” Trend Micro become aware of the new backdoor after the group targeted a company in the Philippines using both common and custom malware and exploitation tools. One of the backdoors leverages the file hosting service Dropbox as command-and-control (C&C).

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JANUARY 31, 2021

“LD_PRELOAD forces binaries to load specific libraries before others, allowing the preloaded libraries to override any function from any library. One of the ways to use LD_PRELOAD is to add the crafted library to /etc/ld.so.preload.” ” continues the analysis. Pro-Ocean deploys an XMRig miner 5.11.1

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MARCH 31, 2024

In March 2024, Trend Micro researchers uncovered a sophisticated campaign conducted by a threat actor tracked as Earth Krahang while investigating the activity of China-linked APT Earth Lusca. The Linux version of DinodasRAT uses Pidgin’s libqq qq_crypt library functions for encryption and decryption of data.

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APRIL 1, 2020

The campaign analyzed by Trend Micro used the exploit kits Fallout and Rig , its characteristic was the use of Google Drive to evade detection. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. ” concludes Trend Micro. The service is offered at a price that ranged from US$75 per week to $200 per month.

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MAY 5, 2019

Experts at Trend Micro uncovered a Magecart attack that hit at least 201 online stores which serve 176 colleges and universities in the U.S. “The attacker injected their skimming script into the shared JavaScript libraries used by online stores on the PrismWeb platform.” ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro.

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CILIP

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Libraries lead the way with Green Libraries Week This year, Libraries Week went Green, with libraries from Jersey to John O’Groats hosting more than 280 environmental and sustainability activities,* from 2nd-8th October 2023.

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DECEMBER 24, 2022

Researchers from Trend Micro have uncovered a Raspberry Robin worm campaign targeting telecommunications and government office systems across Latin America, Australia, and Europe. ” reads the report published by Trend Micro. ” reads the report published by Trend Micro. exe to execute a malicious command.

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CILIP

JUNE 17, 2024

Libraries and the fight against truth decay Truth decay is the diminishing role of facts and analysis in public life, it is a phenomenon that erodes civil discourse, causes political paralysis, and leads to general uncertainty around what is and is not. A longer-form interview with Stijn appears in the May/June edition of IP magazine.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Early this year, researchers from Trend Micro discovered that the TeamTNT botnet was improved with the ability to steal Docker credentials. It also hides malicious processes using library injection and encrypts the malicious payload. Uses a library injection technique based on LD_PRELOAD to hide the malicious processes.

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JANUARY 26, 2020

Malware attack took down 600 computers at Volusia County Public Library. Chinese hackers exploited a Trend Micro antivirus zero-day used in Mitsubishi Electric hack. US-based childrens clothing maker Hanna Andersson discloses a data breach. Yomi Hunter Catches the CurveBall. Jeff Bezos phone was hacked by Saudi crown prince.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

. “While this is definitely more server-centric, remember that Windows clients can also run http.sys, so all affected versions are affected by this bug,” said Dustin Childs from Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative. “Test and deploy this patch quickly.” ” Quickly indeed.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2021

Trend Micro researchers spotted a new strain of ransomware, dubbed DarkRadiation, which is writted in Bash script and target Linux distributions (Red Hat/CentOS and Debian) and Docker cloud containers. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. CLI tool and library to obfuscate bash scripts.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2021

After the disclosure of the exploit, Microsoft researchers reported that Nation-state actors from China, Iran, North Korea, and Turkey are now abusing the Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) in the Log4J library in their campaigns. ” reads the analysis published by AdvIntel.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

SecurityAffairs – hacking, malware). The post Phishing campaign targets LATAM e-commerce users with Chaes Malware appeared first on Security Affairs.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Trend Micro uncovered a new wave of attacks aimed at distributing the PlugX remote access trojan masqueraded as an open-source Windows debugger tool called x32dbg. Researchers detailed a new wave of attacks distributing the PlugX RAT disguised as a legitimate Windows debugger tool.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2018

The vulnerability was discovered by the researcher Lucas Leong of the Trend Micro Security Research team that publicly disclosed an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in all supported versions of Microsoft Windows. The root cause of the problem resides in the Window’s core dynamic link libraries “msrd3x40.dll.”.

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CILIP

JANUARY 16, 2024

CILIP welcomes publication of Sanderson Review of Public Libraries CILIP has welcomed the publication of the findings of Baroness Sanderson of Welton’s Independent Review of Public Libraries, announced today at an event at the House of Lords attended by our CEO, Nick Poole.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2019

Security experts at Trend Micro have discovered a new Monero cryptomining miner, dubbed BlackSquid, that is targeting web servers, network drives, and removable drives. ” states Trend Micro. Trend Micro says that the majority of BlackSquid attacks have, so far, been detected in Thailand and the United States.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2023

The network of compromised devices was discovered by Trend Micro which shared details of its investigation at the Black Hat Asia 2023 conference in May. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. The threat actors infected at least 8.9 million compromised Android devices, most of them are budget phones. .

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2020

The operation sees the contribution of Trend Micro, law enforcement and CERTs from ASEAN countries, including Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. ” reported Trend Micro. ” reads the press release published by the Interpol.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2020

.” The messages use a weaponized rich text format (RTF) attachment that exploits the CVE-2012-0158 buffer overflow in Microsoft’s ListView / TreeView ActiveX controls in MSCOMCTL.OCX library. ” continues the analysis. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The experts pointed out that most of the apps containing hard-coded Amazon Web Services were iOS apps (98%), this is a trend that the researchers have been tracking for years. 47% of these apps contained valid AWS tokens that granted complete access to all private files, including backups, and Amazon S3 buckets in the cloud.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The experts discovered that multiple services of the McAfee software try to load a library from the path c:WindowsSystem32wbemwbemcomn.dll , that cannot be found because it is located in System32 and not in the System32Wbem folder. An attacker can place a malicious dll named wbemcomn.dll. in the wbem folder and get it executed.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Cyber Threat Trends Dashboard. CVE-2020-7247 RCE flaw in OpenSMTPD library affects many BSD and Linux distros. Attacks on Citrix servers increase after the release of CVE-2019-19781 exploits. Fortinet removed hardcoded SSH keys and database backdoors from FortiSIEM. Magento 2.3.4 addresses three critical Code execution flaws.

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DECEMBER 8, 2019

Experts discovered DLL hijacking issues in Kaspersky and Trend Micro solutions. Two malicious Python libraries were stealing SSH and GPG keys. Website of gunmaker Smith & Wesson hit by a Magecart attack. Mozilla removed 4 Avast and AVG extensions for spying on Firefox users. Talos experts found a critical RCE in GoAhead Web Server.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2019

PyLocky was first spotted by Trend Micro in July 2018, it is written in Python and it is packaged with the PyInstaller tool that is normally used to freeze Python programs into stand-alone executables. The encryption routines are implemented using the PyCrypto library and leverage the 3DES (Triple DES) cipher.

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JANUARY 21, 2019

CX-Supervisor allows to rapidly create human-machine interfaces (HMIs) for supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems thanks to the availability of a large number of predefined functions and libraries. The vulnerabilities were reported through Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI).

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