A phishing campaign exploiting a bug in Nespresso’s website has been able to evade detection by taking advantage of security tools that fail to look for malicious nested or hidden links. The campaign starts with a phishing email that appears to have been sent from an employee with Bank of America, with a message to […]
A creative exploit of Palo Alto Networks’ extended detection and response (XDR) software could have allowed attackers to puppet it like a malicious multitool. In a briefing at Black Hat Asia this week, Shmuel Cohen, security researcher at SafeBreach, described how he not only reverse-engineered and cracked into the company’s signature Cortex product but also […]
The exploit allowed Lazarus to enhance its FudModule rootkit, enabling it to evade detection and disable security protections. Additionally, a previously undocumented remote access trojan (RAT) used by Lazarus was discovered.
Cybercrime , Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Qakbot Wouldn’t Be the First Trojan to Come Back After a Takedown Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • February 13, 2024 Security researchers are seeing new examples of Qakbot malware. (Image: Shutterstock) Takedowns aren’t always forever in cyberspace. Months after a U.S. law […]
Organizations constantly work to ensure optimal threat detection and prevention across their systems. One question gets asked repeatedly: “Can we detect the threats we’re supposed to be able to detect?” Red team assessment, penetration testing, and even purple team assessments (in their current form) are all designed to answer these questions. Unfortunately, as attacks get […]
ExtraHop, a Seattle, WA-based company which specialises in cloud-native network detection and response (NDR), raised $100M in Growth Capital. The round saw participation from undisclosed existing investors. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its business reach. Led by Greg Clark, CEO, ExtraHop provides the Reveal(x) platform that delivers 360-degree visibility […]
Cybersecurity is awash in threat detection and mitigation solutions: SIEM, DLP, SOAR, MDR, EDR, XDR, and more. Threat detection is essential, as it serves to locate and minimize the threat as quickly and effectively as possible. However, some companies are starting to embrace an earlier line of defense that Gartner calls human-centric security. The tech […]
Summary Threat actors often employ stealthy attack techniques to elude detection and stay under the defender’s radar. One way they do so is by using uncommon programming languages to develop malware. Using an uncommon programming language to develop malware provides several benefits, including: Evading some signature based detections Impeding analysis by malware analysts that are […]
Security experts have unmasked a new trick adopted by the GULOADER malware to evade detection by antivirus software. The highly evasive shellcode downloader malware, which typically spreads through emails bearing ZIP archives or links containing a VBScript file, has been found leveraging Vectored Exception Handler (VEH) capability to make analysis challenging. More in detail According […]
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