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Fake LockBit, Real Damage: Ransomware Samples Abuse AWS S3 to Steal Data

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Fake LockBit, Real Damage: Ransomware Samples Abuse AWS S3 to Steal Data 2024-10-16 at 14:35 By This article uncovers a Golang ransomware abusing AWS S3 for data theft, and masking as LockBit to further pressure victims. The discovery of hard-coded AWS credentials in these samples led to AWS account suspensions. This article is an excerpt […]

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Silent Threat: Red Team Tool EDRSilencer Disrupting Endpoint Security Solutions

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Silent Threat: Red Team Tool EDRSilencer Disrupting Endpoint Security Solutions 2024-10-15 at 11:02 By Trend Micro’s Threat Hunting Team discovered EDRSilencer, a red team tool that threat actors are attempting to abuse for its ability to block EDR traffic and conceal malicious activity. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives

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Water Makara Uses Obfuscated JavaScript in Spear Phishing Campaign, Targets Brazil With Astaroth Malware

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Water Makara Uses Obfuscated JavaScript in Spear Phishing Campaign, Targets Brazil With Astaroth Malware 2024-10-14 at 11:48 By Trend Micro researchers have uncovered a surge of malicious activities involving a threat actor group that we track as Water Makara. This group is targeting enterprises in Brazil, deploying banking malware using obfuscated JavaScript to slip past

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Earth Simnavaz Levies Advanced Cyberattacks Against UAE and Gulf Regions

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Earth Simnavaz Levies Advanced Cyberattacks Against UAE and Gulf Regions 2024-10-11 at 11:02 By Trend Micro’s investigation into the recent activity of Earth Simnavaz provides new insights into the APT group’s evolving tactics and the immediate threat it poses to critical sectors in the UAE. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News

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How Ransomhub Ransomware Uses EDRKillShifter to Disable EDR and Antivirus Protections

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How Ransomhub Ransomware Uses EDRKillShifter to Disable EDR and Antivirus Protections 2024-09-20 at 18:31 By Trend Micro tracked this group as Water Bakunawa, behind the RansomHub ransomware, employs various anti-EDR techniques to play a high-stakes game of hide and seek with security solutions. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives

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Vulnerabilities in Cellular Packet Cores Part IV: Authentication

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Vulnerabilities in Cellular Packet Cores Part IV: Authentication 2024-09-18 at 13:46 By Our research reveals two significant vulnerabilities in Microsoft Azure Private 5G Core (AP5GC). The first vulnerability (CVE-2024-20685) allows a crafted signaling message to crash the control plane, leading to potential service outages. The second (ZDI-CAN-23960) disconnects and replaces attached base stations, disrupting network

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Protecting Against RCE Attacks Abusing WhatsUp Gold Vulnerabilities

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Protecting Against RCE Attacks Abusing WhatsUp Gold Vulnerabilities 2024-09-12 at 12:46 By In this blog entry, we provide an analysis of the recent remote code execution attacks related to Progress Software’s WhatsUp Gold that possibly abused the vulnerabilities CVE-2024-6670 and CVE-2024-6671. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original

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Earth Preta Evolves its Attacks with New Malware and Strategies

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Earth Preta Evolves its Attacks with New Malware and Strategies 2024-09-09 at 10:48 By In this blog entry, we discuss our analysis of Earth Preta’s enhancements in their attacks by introducing new tools, malware variants and strategies to their worm-based attacks and their time-sensitive spear-phishing campaign. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research,

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TIDRONE Targets Military and Satellite Industries in Taiwan

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TIDRONE Targets Military and Satellite Industries in Taiwan 2024-09-06 at 12:49 By Our research reveals that an unidentified threat cluster we named TIDRONE have shown significant interest in military-related industry chains, particularly in the manufacturers of drones. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this

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Banking Trojans: Mekotio Looks to Expand Targets, BBTok Abuses Utility Command

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Banking Trojans: Mekotio Looks to Expand Targets, BBTok Abuses Utility Command 2024-09-05 at 12:46 By Notorious Mekotio and BBTok are having a resurgence targeting Latin American users. Mekotio’s latest variant suggests the gang behind it is broadening their target, while BBTok is seen abusing MSBuild.exe to evade detection. This article is an excerpt from Trend

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Earth Lusca Uses KTLVdoor Backdoor for Multiplatform Intrusion

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Earth Lusca Uses KTLVdoor Backdoor for Multiplatform Intrusion 2024-09-04 at 11:02 By While monitoring Earth Lusca, we discovered the threat group’s use of KTLVdoor, a highly obfuscated multiplatform backdoor, as part of a large-scale attack campaign. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this headline:

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Silent Intrusions: Godzilla Fileless Backdoors Targeting Atlassian Confluence

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Silent Intrusions: Godzilla Fileless Backdoors Targeting Atlassian Confluence 2024-08-30 at 12:16 By Trend Micro discovered that old Atlassian Confluence versions that were affected by CVE-2023-22527 are being exploited using a new in-memory fileless backdoor. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this headline:

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Threat Actors Target the Middle East Using Fake Palo Alto GlobalProtect Tool

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Threat Actors Target the Middle East Using Fake Palo Alto GlobalProtect Tool 2024-08-29 at 12:16 By Threat actors are targeting users in the Middle East by distributing sophisticated malware disguised as the Palo Alto GlobalProtect tool. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this headline:

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Cryptojacking via CVE-2023-22527: Dissecting a Full-Scale Cryptomining Ecosystem

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Cryptojacking via CVE-2023-22527: Dissecting a Full-Scale Cryptomining Ecosystem 2024-08-28 at 08:02 By A technical analysis on how CVE-2023-22527 can be exploited by malicious actors for cryptojacking attacks that can spread across the victim’s system. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this headline:

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How Trend Micro Managed Detection and Response Pressed Pause on a Play Ransomware Attack

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How Trend Micro Managed Detection and Response Pressed Pause on a Play Ransomware Attack 2024-08-21 at 11:01 By Using the Trend Micro Vision One platform, our MDR team was able to quickly identify and contain a Play ransomware intrusion attempt. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source

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A Dive into Earth Baku’s Latest Campaign

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A Dive into Earth Baku’s Latest Campaign 2024-08-09 at 07:16 By Since late 2022, Earth Baku has broadened its scope from the Indo-Pacific region to Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Their latest operations demonstrate sophisticated techniques, such as exploiting public-facing applications like IIS servers for initial access and deploying the Godzilla webshell for command

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Social Media Malvertising Campaign Promotes Fake AI Editor Website for Credential Theft

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Social Media Malvertising Campaign Promotes Fake AI Editor Website for Credential Theft 2024-08-01 at 12:16 By We uncovered a malvertising campaign where the threat actor hijacks social media pages, renames them to mimic popular AI photo editors, then posts malicious links to fake websites. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and

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AI-Powered Deepfake Tools Becoming More Accessible Than Ever

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AI-Powered Deepfake Tools Becoming More Accessible Than Ever 2024-07-30 at 22:17 By Trend Micro research uncovers new cybercrime tools posing increased threats to security, highlighting the rapid evolution of AI-powered hacking services and their potential for mass exploitation This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to

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Play Ransomware Group’s New Linux Variant Targets ESXi, Shows Ties With Prolific Puma

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Play Ransomware Group’s New Linux Variant Targets ESXi, Shows Ties With Prolific Puma 2024-07-19 at 10:31 By Trend Micro threat hunters discovered that the Play ransomware group has been deploying a new Linux variant that targets ESXi environments. Read our blog entry to know more. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News

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The Potential Impact of the OpenSSH Vulnerabilities CVE-2024–6387 and CVE-2024-6409

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The Potential Impact of the OpenSSH Vulnerabilities CVE-2024–6387 and CVE-2024-6409 2024-07-17 at 11:46 By We check the OpenSSH vulnerabilities CVE-2024–6387 and CVE-2024-6409, examining their potential real-world impact and the possibility of exploitation for CVE-2024–6387 in x64 systems. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this

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