Collaborate Disseminate
By Habiba Rashid
The alleged administrator of the website selling NetWire malware has been arrested in Croatia.
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Authorities seized a domain distributing the NetWire RAT and arrested a Croatian individual who administered the website.
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Human rights activists in India were targeted by a coordinated spyware campaign from January to October of 2019, according to research published Monday by Amnesty International and the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab. Nine activists in total were targeted, eight of which have been calling for the release of 11 people jailed during protests related to the violent uprising in Bhima Koregaon, India in 2018. The targets were sent spearphishing emails with malicious links and files that, if clicked, would infect the victims’ computers with spyware capable of tracking their communications. Three of the activists were targeted by Pegasus, a notorious spyware program developed by Israeli surveillance software firm NSO Group, according to Amnesty and Citizen Lab. Human rights defenders in India have been victimized by spyware in the past. But the research shows that surveillance software has been leveraged multiple times against activists linked to the Bhima Koregaon activists. One […]
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A new threat group uses NSIS as an installer to target industrial companies with revolving payloads, including LokiBot, FormBook, BetaBot, Agent Tesla and Netwire. Continue reading RATicate Group Hits Industrial Firms With Revolving Payloads
Taxpayers are being targeted by a new NetWire RAT variant in a recent malspam campaign that makes use of an improved keylogger and an Excel 4.0 Macro. Continue reading Taxpayers Targeted With Improved NetWire RAT Variant
Malware infection technique called TxHollower gets updated with stealthy features. Continue reading New Loader Variant Behind Widespread Malware Attacks
We have been noticing a “new ” netwire Trojan recently being delivered by multiple different spam emails, abusing Microsoft OneDrive, either through compromised or fraudulently set up accounts. This particular version says that asecorp ( a … Continue reading Fake DHL Shipment Notification delivers Netwire Trojan
One Nigerian man, working alone and using old malware, launched an email-based malware campaign that successfully stole thousands of dollars from manufacturing, banking and construction companies around the world. A new report from CheckPoint Technologies spotlights a low-sophistication campaign of business email compromise (BEC) attacks against 4,000 global companies in the last four months. Security researchers say they traced the attacks back to a single individual in his mid-20s aiming infect target networks, steal data and commit fraud. The thousands of attempts have resulted in 14 companies being infected. Nigerian and international law enforcement were informed a month ago, CheckPoint threat intelligence manager Maya Horowitz told CyberScoop, but it’s not clear if any action has been taken. The attacker uses the phrase “get rich or die trying” on social media accounts, the researchers said, lending that name to the case study. The attacker uses fake emails appearing to come from Saudi Aramco, the second-largest daily oil […]
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Citizen Lab investigates the targeting of Chinese language news websites in a phishing attack that leveraged the NetWire remote access Trojan. Continue reading Threat Actors Target Chinese Language News Sites
Researchers say they spotted the remote access Trojan NetWire stealing payment card data from one organization. Continue reading NetWire RAT Back, Stealing Payment Card Data