Turla has been targeting authorities, government officials and diplomats for years, according to an analysis by ESET, and have been using watering hole techniques to redirect potentially interesting sufferer to their C&C infrastructure since at least 2014. Lately, Turla has recently been keen on targeting those visiting embassy sites, with nearly all websites which may […]
Japanese authorities have arrested a 14-year-old boy in Osaka, a prefecture, and large port city, for apparently creating and distributing a ransomware malware. This is the first such arrest in Japan that consists of a Ransomware-related crime. Ransomware is a piece of malware that encrypts documents on a victim’s computer and makes them unavailable until […]
Jaff, a ransomware family that emerged on May 12, the same day WannaCry did, appears linked to wider operations, as a recent sample was found to share server space with a refined cybercrime marketplace, Heimdal Security alerts. Distributed via PDF documents attached to spam e-mail sent by the Necurs botnet, Jaff was already said to […]
ESET has created and released a decryption tool for AESNI, or XData, ransomware variants. Anyone infected by the malware, also known as Win32/Filecoder. AESNI. B and Win32/Filecoder. AESNI. C can use the ESET tool. The decryptor ideal for files encrypted with the RSA key employed by AES-NI variant B, which adds the extensions. aes256, aes_ni, […]
Malware can be spotted by network traffic:- Learning network traffic going to suspicious domains could demonstrate to security administrators that their network is afflicted with malware – months, before they might get a sample of the forward malware, says a new study out of the Georgia Institute of Technology. The researchers lurking behind the study […]