Cybercrime, Prometei botnet exploits some Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities
Cybereason cybersecurity experts: The malware can infect both Windows and Linux systems and has been upgraded with backdoor capabilities.
Cybercrime, WannaCry is back and ransomware infections are surging
CheckPoint cybersecurity experts trace new samples of the malware. It still uses the EternalBlue exploit to propagate.
Cybercrime, new campaign to distribute Lemon Duck with COVID-19 bait
Sophos cyber security experts: The malware, a cryptominer, infects the victim and tries to spread. For the attack it uses the EternalBlue exploit and an implementation of Mimikatz.
Cybercrime: Here it comes Lucifer, malware distributed in 2 versions
Palo Alto Networks cyber security experts: malicious code exploits multiple vulnerabilities to spread. In addition, it can steal info, launch DDos attacks and cryptojacking.
Cyber Security, Microsoft patches the Windows 10 “SMBGhost”
The CVE-2020-0796 affected the Server Message Block 3.1.1 (SMBv3). It could enable remote and arbitrary code execution, potentially taking control of the system. Moreover, it was wormable.
Cybercrime, Satan ransomware turns into 5ss5c
Cyber security researcher Bart Blaze: The malware, although it has already attacked several victims, is still under development and could expand the list of targets and spread.
Cybercrime, Smominru botnet is spreading and it’s stronger
Guardicore Labs cyber security experts: Only in August the malware infected over 90,000 machines worldwide. It exploits brute force and EternalBlue for cryptomining.
Cyber Security, the Beapy cryptojacking campaign targets enterprises in China
Symantec: It’s a file-based malware, that uses a new EternalBlue variant. Cybercrime initial infection vector are email with malicious attachments.