Ooda Loop

MARCH 7, 2025

The attack works by infiltrating users GitHubs, Discrods, DropBox, and other accounts while […] The post Free movie streams expose a million pirates to malware and data theft appeared first on OODAloop. The campaign has impacted million of devices around the world.

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Palo Alto Networks

OCTOBER 16, 2024

GenAI and Malware Creation Our research into GenAI and malware creation shows that while AI can't yet generate novel malware from scratch, it can accelerate attackers' activities. AI serves as a capable co-pilot for less skilled attackers and can regenerate or impersonate certain existing types of malware.

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Tenable

MAY 16, 2024

One of the most common cryptomining threats for cloud environments is the Kinsing malware. Kinsing is a notorious malware family active for several years, primarily targeting Linux-based cloud infrastructure. The Kinsing malware uses different locations to stay undetected and hides itself as a system file.

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Aqua Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Known as HeadCrab , this advanced threat actor utilizes a state-of-the-art, custom-made malware that is undetectable by agentless and traditional anti-virus solutions to compromise a large number of Redis servers. The HeadCrab botnet has taken control of at least 1,200 servers.

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Aqua Security

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Aqua Nautilus researchers identified a new Linux malware targeting Weblogic servers. When Hadooken is executed, it drops a Tsunami malware and deploys a cryptominer. In this blog, we explain the malware, its components, and how we detected

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Ooda Loop

MAY 17, 2024

Google has announced improved security features and AI-powered protections in Android 15, meant to keep users safe from fraud and malware. Play Protect, which scans 200 billion Android apps every day, and which was recently enhanced with real-time code scanning, is getting live threat detection, to expand its on-device AI […]

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The Crazy Programmer

JULY 27, 2021

One of the main ones being malware. APTs are commonly used to launch malware into software development lifecycles. APTs are commonly used to launch malware into software development lifecycles. Some companies find that malware can be sent into their software without them being able to properly detect it. Flexibility.

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2024

It can also create cyber threats that are harder to detect than before, such as AI-powered malware, which can learn from and circumvent an organization’s defenses at breakneck speed. Data privacy in the age of AI is yet another cybersecurity concern.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

MARCH 12, 2025

Follow the 'I'm not a robot' CAPTCHA, and you might just end up with malware on your PC.

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Aqua Security

JUNE 5, 2024

Aqua Nautilus discovered a new campaign of Muhstik malware targeting message queuing services applications, specifically the Apache RocketMQ platform. Our investigation revealed that the attackers downloaded the known malware Muhstik onto the compromised instances by exploiting a known vulnerability in the platform.

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CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

More than ever, businesses are concerned that threat actors could place malware on their OT networks and syphon valuable data over an extended period. Andre Ferreira, Director of Enterprise 5G Customer Solutions at NTT DATA, explains: “Increasing IT-OT convergence exposes OT networks to a broader range of external threats.

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Ooda Loop

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The threat group is using PXA Stealer, a new Python-based malware. The campaign has not yet been associated with a specific actor, but the attacker is known to be Vietnamese-speaking.

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Palo Alto Networks

MAY 15, 2024

In a thought-provoking interview on the Threat Vector podcast , Palo Alto Networks researchers Bar Matalon and Rem Dudas shed light on their groundbreaking research into AI-generated malware and shared their predictions for the future of AI in cybersecurity. And there is a bit of a longer version for that answer.

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Aqua Security

OCTOBER 3, 2024

In this blog post, Aqua Nautilus researchers aim to shed light on a Linux malware that, over the past 3-4 years, has actively sought more than 20,000 types of misconfigurations in order to target and exploit Linux servers. If you have a Linux server connected to the internet, you could be at risk.

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Tenable

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Meanwhile, cybercriminals have amplified their use of malware for fake software-update attacks. That’s the main takeaway from the Center for Internet Security’s list of the 10 most prevalent malware used during the third quarter. Collectively, they accounted for 77% of the quarter’s malware infections.

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Aqua Security

AUGUST 21, 2024

Aqua Nautilus researchers have uncovered PG_MEM, a new PostgreSQL malware, that brute forces its way into PostgreSQL databases, delivers payloads to hide its operations, and mines cryptocurrency. In this blog, we explain this attack, the techniques used by the threat actor, and how to detect and protect your environments.

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CIO

AUGUST 24, 2022

The “sting” of a ransomware or malware attack is removed quickly, efficiently, and comprehensively. Who would have thought that the latest answer to cyberattacks was actually found in guaranteed cyber recovery on primary storage?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

NSS Labs also dropped its antitrust suit against the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO), Symantec and ESET, after the testing giant claimed it had discovered evidence of the companies allegedly conspiring to make it harder to test their products.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

But projects get abandoned and picked up by others who plant backdoors or malware, or, as seen recently since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a rise in “protestware,” in which open source software developers alter their code to wipe the contents of Russian computers in protest of the Kremlin’s incursion.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Not all that long ago, it was common for enterprises to rely on signature-based detection for malware, static firewall rules for network traffic and access control lists (ACLs) to define security policies. Gaining malware samples is a lot harder than acquiring data in image processing and NLP.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Malware is the top threat to IoT/OT With so many vulnerabilities plaguing IoT devices, these devices are attractive and relatively easy entry points into corporate networks for attackers. In fact, two notorious botnets, Mirai and Gafgyt, are major contributors to a recent surge in IoT malware attacks.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

For example, someone in the process of receiving of an important Word document from a contact would have that file flagged as malware and would end up disabling security software in order to view it. Ramachandran said SquareX is intended as a alternative to VPN, anti-virus, anti-malware and other endpoint security solutions.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

His areas of interest include open source software security, malware analysis, data breaches, and scam investigations. Needless to say, the sabotaged versions of node-ipc — now effectively malware — were taken down from the npm registry. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ax Sharma is a security researcher and reporter.

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Palo Alto Networks

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The CTA's automated threat intelligence sharing platform allows members to exchange information on malware, phishing, mobile threats and other malicious activities. This alliance facilitates the exchange of timely, actionable threat intelligence, fostering a shared defense against cyberthreats.

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The Parallax

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

SAN FRANCISCO—The greatest trick stalkerware, one of the most dangerous forms of malware , ever played was convincing the world that it didn’t exist. Until recently, cybersecurity experts could overlook stalkerware because of the personal nature of how it spreads, its muddled legal status—and how it is detected.

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Tenable

MARCH 14, 2025

Meanwhile, Tenable did a deep dive on DeepSeeks malware-creation capabilities. The short answer: The DeepSeek R1 large language model (LLM) can provide a useful starting point for developing malware, but it requires additional prompting and debugging. Check out how to protect your org against the Medusa ransomware gang.

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Ooda Loop

MARCH 7, 2025

A critical bug has been found which allows Kibana to be used as a malware host. Read more: [link] The post Critical bug turns Kibana into potential malware host appeared first on OODAloop. Researchers have found a bug in Kibana which allows for remote code execution attacks. A patch has deployed which patches the vulnerability.

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Ooda Loop

MARCH 18, 2025

The group is working with the malicious actor behind the FakeUpdates malware-as-a-service (MaaS) framework. A cybercriminal group, RansomHub, is working with another threat actor to deliver its ransomware. The attacks are being perpetrated against U.S. government organizations. government.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

MARCH 18, 2025

Anyone can become a zero-knowledge threat actor now, thanks to AI.

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CIO

MARCH 15, 2023

A second, more pernicious risk is the fact that ChatGPT can write malware. Sometimes the malware has errors, but with simple repetition the hacker can generate multiple working versions of the code. Such polymorphic malware is particularly hard to detect, because it may be different from one attack to another.

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DevOps.com

JULY 25, 2024

GitHub and similar open-source code and project repositories have become a common target of cybercriminals looking to lure developers into unknowingly downloading malicious scripts.

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CIO

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Sikorski shares, “Palo Alto Networks stands out as a trailblazer in AI adoption, spanning early malware detection, malware family identification and more recent advancements in automating security operations centers (SOCs) to efficiently handle the deluge of alerts.”

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CIO

JULY 25, 2024

Malware, phishing, and ransomware are fast-growing threats given new potency and effectiveness with AI – for example, improving phishing attacks, creating convincing fake identities or impersonating real ones.

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Ooda Loop

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Elastic Security Labs has discovered a new post-exploitation malware kit which targets both Windows and Linux systems. The malware has been used in attacks on a South American nations foreign ministry. […] The post New FinalDraft Malware Spotted in Espionage Campaign appeared first on OODAloop.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

Malware hiding in the woodwork: The U.S. government on Thursday announced that it seized a website used to sell malware designed to spy on computers and cell phones, Lorenzo writes.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

OpenAI has shut down the accounts of threat actors using GPT for a number of activities including developing malware, generating and propagating misinformation, and phishing. Kaspersky’s behavior begs the question: When does an antimalware vendor become malware? Web Videos from XOXO 2024 have been posted.

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The Crazy Programmer

JULY 18, 2021

Cybersecurity is more critical than ever in today’s modern world, especially with news of ransomware attacks and other forms of malware on the rise. To keep your systems secure and your files out of the hands of cybercriminals takes an increasingly comprehensive knowledge of cybersecurity technology.

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