CyberSecure Specialist

21 Oct

ESET research into POLONIUM’s arsenal – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

Information

More than a dozen organizations operating in various verticals were attacked by the threat actor This week, ESET researchers published their analysis of previously undocumented backdoors and cyberespionage tools that the POLONIUM APT group has deployed against targets in Israel. The group has used at least seven different custom backdoors in the past year, and ESET has named five previously undocumented backdoors with the suffix “-Creep.” More than a dozen organizations operating in various verticals…

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21 Oct

APT‑C‑50 updates FurBall Android malware – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

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ESET Research spots a new version of Android malware known as FurBall that APT-C-50 is using in its wider Domestic Kitten campaign This week, ESET researchers published their analysis of a new variant of the Android malware known as FurBall that APT-C-50 has used in its wider Domestic Kitten campaign. The campaign is known to take aim at Iranian citizens as part of mobile surveillance campaigns – and the same applies to this new FurBall…

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21 Oct

Fashion brand SHEIN fined $1.9m for lying about data breach

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by Naked Security writer Chinese company Zoetop, former owner of the wildly popular SHEIN and ROMWE “fast fashion” brands, has been fined $1,900,000 by the State of New York. As Attorney General Letitia James put it in a statement last week: SHEIN and ROMWE’s weak digital security measures made it easy for hackers to shoplift consumers’ personal data. As if that weren’t bad enough, James went on to say: [P]ersonal data was stolen and Zoetop…

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21 Oct

Dangerous hole in Apache Commons Text – like Log4Shell all over again

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by Paul Ducklin Java programmers love string interpolation features. If you’re not a coder, you’re probably confused by the word “interpolation” here, because it’s been borrowed as programming jargon where it’s not a very good linguistic fit… …but the idea is simple, very powerful, and sometimes spectacularly dangerous. In other programming ecosystems it’s often known simply as string substitution, where string is shorthand for a bunch of characters, usually meant for displaying or printing out,…

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21 Oct

When cops hack back: Dutch police fleece DEADBOLT criminals (legally!)

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by Paul Ducklin Sadly, we’ve needed to cover the DEADBOLT ransomware several times before on Naked Security. For almost two years already, this niche player in the ransomware cybercrime scene has been preying mainly on home users and small businesses in a very different way from most contemporary ransomware attacks: If you were involved in cybersecurity about ten years ago, when ransomware first started to become a massive money-spinner for the cyberunderworld, you will remember…

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21 Oct

Incident Of The Week UPDATE: Hy-Vee Details Investigation Into 2019 Payment Card…

Malware

Midwestern U.S. retailer Hy-Vee disclosed investigation findings this week from a data breach announced in mid-August impacting millions of customers utilizing its food and service point-of-sale (PoS) transaction machines. The investigation identified the operation of malware designed to access payment card data from cards used on PoS devices at certain Hy-Vee fuel pumps, drive-thru coffee shops, and restaurants (which include the company’s Hy-Vee Market Grilles, Hy-Vee Market Grille Expresses and the Wahlburgers locations that Hy-Vee…

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21 Oct

Incident Of The Week: Wawa, Champagne French Bakery Café And Islands Restaurants…

Malware

A trio of retailers disclosed payment card incidents this week resulting in data breaches. Bad actors are infecting point-of-sale (POS) terminals with malware. The malware captures payment card information before it enters the transaction processing system. POS Malware: Wawa Convenience and Fuel Retailer Retail chain Wawa disclosed that it had discovered malware on its payment processing servers earlier this month. An external forensics team determined that the malware began running at different points in time…

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21 Oct

Malware Analysis Strives To Outpace Enterprise Digitalization

Malware

An increase in enterprise phishing threats and malware delivery has boosted demand for malware analysis. Malware analysis is the process by which the purpose and functionality of malware samples are analyzed and determined. The information gathered from the malware analysis provides insights into developing an effective detection technique for the malicious code. In addition, it is an essential element for developing the efficient removal tools that can ultimately eliminate malware from an infected system. Mobile…

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21 Oct

#StopRansomware: Daixin Team

Attacks, Insights, Malware

Original release date: October 21, 2022 CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA), #StopRansomware: Daixin Team to provide information on the “Daixin Team,” a cybercrime group actively targeting U.S. businesses, predominantly in the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) Sector, with ransomware and data extortion operations. This joint CSA provides Daixin actors’ tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and indicators of…

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21 Oct

New Variant of FurBall Android Malware Seen from Iranian Domestic Kitten (APT-C-50)

Attacks, Malware

The latest campaign by Domestic Kitten not only highlights the rise of using phishing as an initial attack vector, but also the growing mobile malware market. This form of malware should be on the radar of every enterprise, especially ones with Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) policies, as there are limited ways for an employer to monitor their employees’ mobile devices. With the growing threat of malware targeting mobile devices, it is becoming more and more likely that…

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