Ransomware in Node.js, (Thu, Jan 2nd)

Happy new year to all! I hope that you enjoyed the switch to 2020! From a security point of view, nothing changed and malicious code never stops trying to abuse our resources even during the holiday season. Here is a sample that I spotted two days ago. It’s an interesting one because it’s a malware that implements ransomware features developed in Node.js[1]! The stage one is not obfuscated and I suspect the script to be a prototype or a test… It has been submitted to VT from Bahrein (SHA256:90acae3f682f01864e49c756bc9d46f153fcc4a7e703fd1723a8aa7ec01b378c) and has currently a score of 12/58[2].

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Miscellaneous Updates to our “Threatfeed” API, (Mon, Dec 30th)

Much of the data offered by us is available via our API [1]. A popular feature of our API is our “threat feeds.” We use them to distribute lists of IP addresses and hostnames that you may want to block. In particular, our feeds of mining pool IPs and hosts used by Shodan are popular. This weekend, I added a feed for Onyphe [2]. Onyphe is comparable to Shodan, and I do see a lot of scans from them lately, which is why I added the feed. While I was messing with the API, I also added the ability to retrieve hostnames in addition to IP addresses.

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