Collaborate Disseminate
By Deeba Ahmed
The new Whiffy Recon Malware was identified by cybersecurity researchers at Secureworks.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Smoke Loader Botnet Drops Location Tracker Whiffy Recon Malware
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The Kronos banking trojan is back. Researchers have identified four unique campaigns that use variants of the once formidable malware. Continue reading Kronos Banking Trojan Resurfaces After Years of Silence
On March 7, we reported that a massive Dofoil campaign attempted to install malicious cryptocurrency miners on hundreds of thousands of computers. Windows Defender Antivirus, with its behavior monitoring, machine learning technologies, and layered appr… Continue reading Poisoned peer-to-peer app kicked off Dofoil coin miner outbreak
The surge in Bitcoin prices has driven widescale interest in cryptocurrencies. While the future of digital currencies is uncertain, they are shaking up the cybersecurity landscape as they continue to influence the intent and nature of attacks. Cybercri… Continue reading Invisible resource thieves: The increasing threat of cryptocurrency miners
German users are being targeted with a rogue patch for the recently announced Meltdown and Spectre flaws.
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Cybercrime
Social engineering
Tags: germanmalwareMeltdownphishingsmoke loaderSmoke Loader MalwaresmokeloaderSpectre
(Read m… Continue reading Fake Spectre and Meltdown patch pushes Smoke Loader malware
A look at some techniques used by the Terror exploit kit to evade traffic-based detection.
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Exploits
Threat analysis
Tags: exploit kitsmalvertisingPropeller Ads Mediasmoke loaderTerror EKTerror exploit kit
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The… Continue reading Terror exploit kit goes HTTPS all the way
In this post we take a quick glance at some changes made to the Sundown exploit kit. The landing page has been tweaked and uses various obfuscation techniques. Sundown is used in some smaller campaigns and in this particular case dropped a downloader f… Continue reading New-looking Sundown EK drops Smoke Loader, Kronos banker
This time we will have a look at another payload from recent RIG EK campaign. It is Smoke Loader (also known as Dofoil), a bot created several years ago. One of its early versions was advertised on the black marker in 2011.Categories: Malware
Threat a… Continue reading Smoke Loader – downloader with a smokescreen still alive