The first Patch Tuesday of 2020 in January brought an unusually long list of patches, but February brings an even wider range of fixes that address a total of 99 vulnerabilities — including 12 classified as Critical, with the remaining 99 deemed Important. Only five of the vulnerabilities were made public before the patches were released; one of these was rated as Critical.
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We spotted two variants of activities from hacking group Outlaw. The script used in the first version of its bot has two functionalities: the miner and Haiduc-based dropper. The second variant of the code, distributed by the bot, was mainly designed to brute force and further exploit the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol and cloud administration cPanel in order to escalate the privileges.
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Late last year, in several high-profile and potent DDoS attacks, Linux-targeting Mirai (identified by Trend Micro as ELF_MIRAI family) revealed just how broken the Internet of Things ecosystem is. The malware is now making headlines again, thanks to a new Windows Trojan that drastically increases its distribution capabilities.
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Crysis (detected by Trend Micro as RANSOM_CRYSIS.A), a ransomware family first detected in February this year, has been spotted targeting businesses in Australia in New Zealand through remote desktop protocol (RDP) brute force attacks.
Crysis has been reported in early June this year to have set its sights into carving a market share left by TeslaCrypt when the latter’s developers decided to shut down their operations, and rivaling Locky’s prevalence in the ransomware threat landscape.
Read MorePoS malware has been receiving a tremendous amount of attention in the past two years with high profile incidents like Target, Home Depot, and Kmart. With the massive “Black Friday” shopping season coming up, PoS malware will surely get additional publicity. This high profile nature means, we constantly look for evolving PoS malware and look into their behavior…
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