exploitation of computer software vulnerabilities

Slingshot was a very advanced piece of malware that infected routers initially, and then the computers of the administrators who configured them. Kaspersky thought that the level of sophistication shown – the software was in its sixth version – and its persistence indicated that it was the work of a ...

When TrickBot has compromised a system, it installs itself into a TeamViewer directory and executes, creating a "Modules" folder which stores encrypted plug-and-play modules the malware relies upon. There are already well-documented injector, DLL tampering, and worm modules, but now, tabDll32 ...

Cofense Malware Review Covers Trends and Predictions on Malware, Delivery Methods and Trending Attacks ... Malicious actors demonstrated how quickly they could exploit recently disclosed vulnerabilities, change how they use or modify malware, and how swiftly they could profit from new attack ...

“An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to compromise the device before the user receives it, or to steal private keys from the device physically or, ... but his report focuses on the case of “supply chain attacks” which do not require infecting target computers with additional malware, nor do they insist on the ...

Rashid said he has yet to verify that this month's Nano S update fully neutralizes his proof-of-concept backdoor exploit as claimed by Ledger. ... be exploited in evil-maid scenarios in which someone has brief access to the device and possibly by malware that infects the computer the device is plugged into.

Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab plans to open a data center in Switzerland to address Western government concerns that Russia exploits its anti-virus software ... The Swiss center will collect and analyze files identified as suspicious on the computers of tens of millions of Kaspersky customers in the United ...

Adrian Lamo, the hacker probably best known for breaking into The New York Times's network and for reporting Chelsea Manning's theft of classified ... By 2002, Lamo had taken to calling me on the phone frequently to relate his various exploits, often spoofing his phone number to make it look like the call ...

Security researchers have discovered a new malware framework that's used for cyberespionage and is delivered to computers through hacked ... The Kaspersky researchers don't know how those routers were hacked, but the CIA Vault7 files leaked by WikiLeaks describe an exploit for Mikrotik routers.

McAfee Labs saw PowerShell malware grow by 267% in the fourth quarter of 2017, and by 432% year over year, as the threat category increasingly became ... Adrian Davis from ISC² looks at what should organisations do, at the very least, to ensure business computers are protected from fileless malware.

The security experts also warn that four new malware exploits targeting Macs have been identified in the first two months of 2018, noting that many of ... The researchers also identified a new Java-based exploit targeting Macs that is based on malicious code likely developed for nefarious purposes by a ...

Simply put, a cyber attack is an attack launched from one computer or more computers against another computer, multiple computers or networks. ... personal data on every single American (we're talking about you, Equifax) to possible state-sponsored malware attacks that use plundered NSA exploit code, ...

Cryptocurrency mining has definitely become more and more popular as the price of bitcoin and several other cryptocurrencies started to increase. However, with this growth in popularity also came an increased interest from cybercriminals for this market. Now, it seems that cybercriminals have found a new ...

If it wasn't bad enough with hackers and dodgy websites trying to hijack your computer hardware to mine some crypto coins, ISPs have been discovered doing it also. Governments, or agencies closely linked to them, have been caught commandeering local internet connections in order to inject mining ...

A sophisticated hacking campaign used routers as a stepping stone to plant spyware deep in target machines across the Middle East and Africa. ... exploits MikroTik's "Winbox" software, which is designed to run on the user's computer to allow them to connect to and configure the router, and in the process ...

Hackers are distributing a newly discovered form of trojan malware that offers full access to infected Windows PCs. Dubbed FlawedAmmyy, the malware is built on top of leaked source code for a legitimate app, Version 3 of Ammyy Admin remote desktop software, and enables attackers to secretly snoop on ...

Microsoft experts were able to halt a massive cryptocurrency-mining malware outbreak this week, an attack that spread to roughly 500,000 computers in a ... The team said that the Dofoil Trojan is able to connect to a hacker's command and control (C&C) sever and listen for fresh commands, including the ...

A common alternative description of malware is 'computer virus' -- although are big differences between these types malicious programs. .... Last year's Wannacry ransomware outbreak infected over 300,000 computers around the world -- something it did thanks to the success of worm capabilities which ...

Security firm CrowdStrike says in a new report that the spread of more advanced hacker tools is helping to close the gap between cybercriminal and ... Spider (online crime): Malware and phishing exploits continue to target login credentials to financial and other sites, as well as commercial systems like ...

“The operation uses a hybridization of a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) and XMRig miner” that is “capable of running on many platforms and Windows versions,” the security firm Check Point revealed. Most victims, so far, were “personal computers. With every campaign, the malware has gone through ...

In their paper, MOSQUITO: Covert Ultrasonic Transmissions between Two Air-Gapped Computers using Speaker-to-Speaker Communications' the researchers state that their method is "based on the capability of a malware to exploit a specific audio chip feature in order to reverse the connected speakers ...

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The latest proof is a new piece called ComboJack, which sprung up recently to exploit an old vulnerability in Microsoft DirectX. The malware, which has infected primarily American and Japanese computers, cleverly takes the form of a PDF file with an embedded DOC file that makes use of the DirectX API.

Though their methods and objectives vary, they all lean on leaked NSA hacking tool EternalBlue to infiltrate target computers and spread malware across networks. Leaked to the public not quite a year ago, EternalBlue has joined a long line of reliable hacker favorites. The Conficker Windows worm ...