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Posted 3 days ago by jaime.blasco
Last week, our friends from Norman published a great report on a cyber espionage campaign named Operation Hangover.  We have released some Yara rules to detect most of the payloads mentioned on the paper. You can download the rules from our Github space:   On the other hand the Hangover attackers have been using several … Read more →
Posted 21 days ago by jaime.blasco
A few days ago we reported a new Watering Hole campaign affecting a U.S Department of Labor website. In our first analysis we reported that the exploited vulnerability was CVE-2012-4792 . Further analysis showed that the vulnerability exploited ... [More] wasn’t CVE-2012-4792 but a new zeroday vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer 8 (CVE-2013-1347). It was confirmed by Microsoft that released a … Read more → [Less]
Posted 25 days ago by jaime.blasco
During the last few hours we have identified that one the U.S. Department of Labor website has been hacked and it is serving malicious code. Clarification: The website affected is the The Department of Labor (DOL) Site Exposure Matrices (SEM) ... [More] Website  “The Department of Labor (DOL) Site Exposure Matrices (SEM) Website is a repository of information gathered from … Read more → [Less]
Posted 27 days ago by Eduardo De la Arada
UrlQuery is a service for detecting and analyzing web-based malware, claims its webside, this service is very useful and provides a full specific report of the submitted webpage. We use these services a lot in the lab, so we’ve decided to make ... [More] our lives easier by developing a simple context menu extension which automatically sends urls to the service. The … Read more → [Less]
Posted about 1 month ago by jaime.blasco
 - What is Bitcoin? Bitcoin is an online descentralised virtual currency based on an open source, P2P protocol. Bitcoins can be transferred using a computer without relying on a financial institution. If you haven’t heard about Bitcoin I recommend ... [More] you watch the following video: Both the Bitcoin creation and transfer is performed by computers called … Read more → [Less]
Posted 2 months ago by jaime.blasco
Summary During the last few years, we have been publishing about a group of hackers who have focused on targeting DIB (Defence Industrial Base) and other government organizations: - Another Sykipot sample likely targeting US federal agencies - Are ... [More] the Sykipot’s authors obsessed with next generation US drones? - Sykipot variant hijacks DOD and Windows … Read more → [Less]
Posted 2 months ago by jaime.blasco
During the day I’ve been thinking about what have just happened in South Korea. We have published earlier today a quick blog post about how the wiper payload works. It is a very simple piece of code that overwrites the MBR (Master Boot Record) making the affected system unable to start after reboot. Other companies have … Read more →
Posted 2 months ago by jaime.blasco
As many of you would probably know several South Korean banks and media companies have been affected by an attack that has wiped several systems. It seems the South Korean security company Nshc has published more details on his Facebook Page Based on the samples we collected, the malware overwrites the MBR (Master Boot Record) … Read more →
Posted 2 months ago by jaime.blasco
Last month Adobe released a fix to patch a vulnerability that was being exploited in the wild. Kaspersky found that the 0day was being used by a very sophisthicated group to target different governments  using a malware called MiniDuke. Alienvault ... [More] Labs have detected that a different group of attackers have been using this vulnerability to target … Read more → [Less]
Posted 3 months ago by jaime.blasco
I’m sure all of you have heard about Mandiant’s APT1 report published yesterday. As many of you probably know we have been tracking and exposing this group for a long time as well as other individuals and companies in the security industry. A ... [More] couple of examples are: - Win32/Coswid - Unveiling a spearphishing campaign and possible ramifications … Read more → [Less]
 

 
 

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