We observed an increase in hacking group Outlaw’s activities in December, with updates on the kits’ capabilities reminiscent of their previous attacks.
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Cryptocurrencies’ values are increasing again, which may explain why the number of stealthy techniques to deliver them have also increased this year. We found another campaign using process hollowing and a dropper component to evade detection and analysis, and can potentially be used for other malware payloads.
Read More We found a threat that scans for open ports and brute forces systems with weak credentials to drop a Monero cryptocurrency miner. While the installation and mining process is hidden by old evasion tool XHide Process Faker, the malware can be used for bigger attacks in the future as both the shellbot and miner can be monetized.
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One of our honeypots detected a URL spreading a botnet with a Monero miner bundled with a Perl-based backdoor component. The routine caught our attention as the techniques employed are reminiscent as those used in the Outlaw hacking group’s previous operation.
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We found cryptocurrency-mining activity that involves the exploitation of the Oracle WebLogic server vulnerability CVE-2019-2725 with the interesting behavior of using certificate files as an obfuscation tactic.
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