2024
24.11

Die Palette ist breit und reicht von Angriffen auf Kryptofirmen und -börsen über Ransomware bis zum Einschleusen von Freelancern in US-Unternehmen und fingierten Online-Vorstellungsgesprächen. Anfang Oktober warnte das Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz Unternehmen vor nordkoreanischen IT-Mitarbeitern, die ihre Dienstleistungen über Plattformen für Freelancer anbieten.

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2024
23.11

A new stealthy malware targeting Linux hosts made a lot of noise: The malware has been pretty well analyzed and I won’t repeat what has been already disclosed. I found a copy of the “httpd” binary (SHA256:22e4a57ac560ebe1eff8957906589f4dd5934ee555ebcc0f7ba613b07fad2c13)[2]. I dropped the malware in my lab to see how it detonated. I infected the lab without root privileges and detected the same behavior except files were not written to some locations due to a lack of access (not root). When executing without root privileges, the rootkit feature is unavailable and the malware runs “disclosed”.

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2024
22.11

Der Physiknobelpreis geht an Wegbereiter der heutigen KI-Landschaft. Mit der Entwicklung von künstlichen neuronalen Netzen schufen sie die Grundlage für Chatbots wie Chat-GPT.

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2024
21.11

Chinese government hackers penetrated the networks of several large US-based Internet service providers and may have gained access to systems used for court-authorized wiretaps of communications networks, The Wall Street Journal reported. “People familiar with the matter” told the WSJ that hackers breached the networks of companies including Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen (also known as CenturyLink).

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2024
20.11

Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been observed delivering a previously undocumented backdoor and remote access trojan (RAT) called VeilShell as part of a campaign targeting Cambodia and likely other Southeast Asian countries.

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