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MIRCOP Crypto-Ransomware Channels Guy Fawkes, Claims To Be The Victim Instead

  • Posted on:June 24, 2016 at 2:00 am
  • Posted in:Ransomware, Spam
  • Author:
    Jaaziel Carlos (Threat Response Engineer)
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Ransomware behavior has been the talk of the town. We have seen oddly long ransom payment deadlines from GOOPIC, password stealing capabilities from RAA, chat support from the latest JIGSAW variant, and all these are just incidents discovered this June. But among these new behaviors, we came across a truly unique behavior in MIRCOP crypto-ransomware.

Detected as RANSOM_MIRCOP.A, MIRCOP places the blame on users and does not give victims instructions on how to pay the ransom. In fact, it assumes that victims already know how to pay them back.

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Tags: crypto-ransomwaremacro malwarePowershell

Latest Flash Exploit Used in Pawn Storm Circumvents Mitigation Techniques

  • Posted on:October 16, 2015 at 8:36 am
  • Posted in:Exploits, Targeted Attacks, Vulnerabilities
  • Author:
    Peter Pi (Threats Analyst)
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Our analysis of the Adobe Flash zero-day vulnerability used in the latest Pawn Storm campaign reveals that the previous mitigation techniques introduced by Adobe were not enough to secure the platform. Used in Pawn Storm to target certain foreign affairs ministries, the vulnerability identified as CVE-2015-7645 represents a significant change in tactics from previous exploits. It is…

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Tags: 0dayAdobeAPTExploitFlashPawn StormTargeted Attackvulnerability

Shellshock Continues to Make Waves with Active IRC Bot

  • Posted on:September 27, 2014 at 2:31 pm
  • Posted in:Malware, Vulnerabilities
  • Author:
    Trend Micro
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Given the severity of the Bash vulnerability, also known as Shellshock, it is no wonder that we’re seeing a lot of attacks leveraging this. Just hours after this vulnerability was reported, malware payload such as ELF_BASHLITE.A emerged in the threat landscape. Other payload like PERL_SHELLBOT.WZ and ELF_BASHLET.A were also spotted in the wild, which have capabilities to…

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Tags: bashbash bug vulnerabilityIRC botIRC channelIRC servershellshock

Scams Circulate After German Email Accounts Get Hacked

  • Posted on:February 3, 2014 at 1:48 pm
  • Posted in:Social
  • Author:
    Michael Tants (Threats Analyst)
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Recently, the German Federal Office for Information Security disclosed that the email accounts of up to 16 million users had been compromised. The computers of these users were infected with information-stealing malware which were used to steal these login credentials. The German government has set up a page where users can check if their email accounts…

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Tags: emailFederal Office for Information SecurityGermanyscam

SDBOT IRC Botnet Continues to Make Waves

  • Posted on:December 11, 2009 at 11:06 am
  • Posted in:Bad Sites
  • Author:
    Loucif Kharouni (Senior Threat Researcher)
1

SDBOT malware have been around since 2004. Most of the bots that use Internet Relay Chat (IRC) protocol communication such as AGOBOT, IRCBOT, RBOT, and others have been around as early as 2001 yet these kinds of malware rarely attract attention due to their ability to silently operate. These bot malware are neither heavy email…

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