Cyber security technical information

Category: Virus & Malware

  • Threat actor intend to stop your antivirus program – 2018

    Just heard that there is a new attack method use by ransomware. The malware intend to stop and disable your workstation antivirus process. Since no antivirus protection, threat actor is free to do their task. Perhaps the defense vendor pay the focus on Ring 0 attack (kernel). Meanwhile new generation AV software implement behavioral detection…

  • Renaissance – Cyber attack transformation

    Preface: Renaissance – The period of this revival, roughly the 14th through the 16th century, marking the transition from medieval to modern times. Background: The virus and malware wreak havoc in information technology environment in past decade especially on Microsoft windows operating system platform. It looks that a transformation was happened since smartphone leading the…

  • About DHS Malware Analysis Report (MAR) – 10135536-B

    Preface: There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts! ― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist Discussion details: Heard that the North Korean government suspected state sponsor of Lazarus Group cyber attack activities. A nick name to Lazarus group dubbed Hidden Cobra exposed to the world mid this year. The…

  • Descendants of the spyware or malware

    Malware activities life not easy since malware detector is common and popular. Even though the malware circumvent the detector but it is hard to bypass the monitor of SOC because of SIEM product. It looks that it limit space for spy or malware to hunt your data. The design weakness of malware is that it…

  • New trend – Botnet infection technique empowered Ransomware infection

    Preface: We known that botneck infection technique popular last few year. The objective of the botneck infection more on DDOS attack. But the status now has been change. Below sample of code on how botnet operation. using System.Threading.Tasks; using log4net; using Loki.Bot; using Loki.Common; using Loki.Game;   namespace MapBuddy.Tasks {     public class MapExplorationCompleteTask…

  • Not a sophisticated technique, but it got his way to compromised ATM windows OS machine

    Preface: Not a pulp fiction! Kaspersky Lab found that the latest generation of Malware focus in Bank ATM machine attack operate lightweight and simple. But we known that ATM machine was hardening the connectivity. May be you will be interested? In what way let the machine compromised? Introduction to Bank ATM malware types (malware found…

  • I am a Microsoft OS. Just wonder why I was hacked even though I have protective system?

    Preface: A simple question was asked by kernel? Why I was hacked even though I have comprehensive protective system? Background: The windows Operating System development team fully understand relies on market anti virus might not protecting their core OS significantly. Since the computer user not only using Microsoft word processing application. They are allow the…

  • Assurance level of 3rd party software – Part 1

    Preface As we know google did the 3rd party application assurance last few months. Their objective is intend to fight against unknown malicious code embedded in software. Hidden malicious code history Metamorphic code (Win32/Simile)  was born on 2002 written in assembly language which target Microsoft software operating system products. As time goes by, the 2nd…

  • The incentive of caching & Web browser exploitation – Hacker benefit

      Preface Bring up hypothesis boldly while prove it conscientiously and carefully.  We hypothesis cyber criminal case objective to steal the data. The gatekeeper is the credential. For instance user password. We known that the enhancement of authentication was added to specifics technology. Yes, it is a personal electronic certificate. Do you think whether the criminal…

  • About apple Mac security topic – Does it a Trojan horse or administrator negligence?

    Attention: In regards to the subject matter, below details is a short discussion and therefore not require to written in details long form. Enjoy! Preface: Once upon a time. The Greek army going to breakthrough the Troy city defense mechanism. A group of army  hide themselves inside a horse……. Discussion topic – malware bypasses gatekeeper …