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Victim Machine has joined #general: Using Third-Party APIs as C&C Infrastructure

  • Posted on:June 6, 2017 at 5:05 am
  • Posted in:Exploits, Vulnerabilities
  • Author:
    Stephen Hilt and Lord Alfred Remorin (Senior Threat Researchers)
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Imagine a well-experienced security analyst at a major company going through his normal routine of checking logs at the end of the workday. A quick look at the company’s security solution logs reveal nothing too peculiar or alarming — except for one thing: a higher than normal amount of traffic to the office’s newly introduced third-party chat platform.

He doesn’t give this much thought. After all, the company’s been pushing to have the chat platform as the main office communication tool, so it makes sense that there’d be more traffic than usual.  The security analyst calls it a day and goes home.

One the way home, however, he gets an alert: The security scanner has detected a potential security issue. He returns to the office, and finds what appears to be the cause: A machine was flagged downloading known malicious files, which were then caught by the company’s security solution. Again, nothing too strange, but he decides to investigate just what triggered the malicious behavior.

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Tags: APIChat Program APIDiscordSlackTelegram

Brazilians Migrate to Telegram, Cybercriminals Follow Suit

  • Posted on:June 30, 2016 at 6:10 am
  • Posted in:Deep Web, Malware
  • Author:
    Trend Micro
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Staple product offerings like online banking Trojans and tutorials for aspiring cybercriminals are still being peddled in the Brazilian underground market. While old crimeware remain the same, we observed that these young and brazen cybercriminals (two words that aptly describe the Brazilian cybercriminals of today), have switched communication platforms. After the temporary shutdown on WhatsApp last December, cybercriminals changed messaging tools to avoid unwanted attention from law enforcement agencies. Although this shift may be coincidental, the secure messaging features of Telegram, a cloud-based messenger similar to WhatsApp, may make it ripe for abuse.

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Tags: Brazilian cybercriminal undergroundTelegram

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