Summary On July 23, 2024, CrowdStrike Intelligence identified the phishing domain crowdstrike-office365[.]com, which impersonates CrowdStrike and delivers malicious ZIP and RAR files containing a Microsoft Installer (MSI) loader. The loader ultimately executes Lumma Stealer packed with CypherIt. The domain was registered on July 23, 2024, days after July 19, 2024, when an issue … [Read more...] about Malware Distributed Using Falcon Sensor Update Phishing Lure
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Malicious Inauthentic Falcon Crash Reporter Installer Distributed to German Entity
Summary On July 24, 2024, CrowdStrike Intelligence identified an unattributed spearphishing attempt delivering an inauthentic CrowdStrike Crash Reporter installer via a website impersonating a German entity. The website was registered with a sub-domain registrar. Website artifacts indicate the domain was likely created on July 20, 2024, one day after an issue present in a … [Read more...] about Malicious Inauthentic Falcon Crash Reporter Installer Distributed to German Entity
Beyond the trace: Pinpointing performance culprits with continuous profiling and distributed tracing correlation
Now that we have the offset, how do we use that to actually read the data that the library puts there for us? This brings us back to the magic fs: portion of the mov instruction that we discussed earlier. In X86, most memory operands can optionally be supplied with a segment register that influences the address translation.Segments are an archaic construct from the early days … [Read more...] about Beyond the trace: Pinpointing performance culprits with continuous profiling and distributed tracing correlation
Hacked WordPress Sites Abusing Visitors’ Browsers for Distributed Brute-Force Attacks
Mar 07, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Web Security Threat actors are conducting brute-force attacks against WordPress sites by leveraging malicious JavaScript injections, new findings from Sucuri reveal. The attacks, which take the form of distributed brute-force attacks, "target WordPress websites from the browsers of completely innocent and unsuspecting site visitors," … [Read more...] about Hacked WordPress Sites Abusing Visitors’ Browsers for Distributed Brute-Force Attacks
Cryptocurrency Stealer Malware Distributed via 13 NuGet Packages
Apr 11, 2023Ravie LakshmananSoftware Security / Cryptocurrency Cybersecurity researchers have detailed the inner workings of the cryptocurrency stealer malware that was distributed via 13 malicious NuGet packages as part of a supply chain attack targeting .NET developers. The sophisticated typosquatting campaign, which was detailed by JFrog late last month, impersonated … [Read more...] about Cryptocurrency Stealer Malware Distributed via 13 NuGet Packages
“Fobo” Trojan distributed as ChatGPT client for Windows
The golden rule — “if something is popular, criminals will exploit it” — strikes once again. This time, we’re talking about the trending ChatGPT chatbot, developed by OpenAI, which has been all over the news of late. A word about the popularity of ChatGPT When OpenAI opened access to its AI chatbot (that is, a chatbot based on neural networks trained on a vast corpus of text), … [Read more...] about “Fobo” Trojan distributed as ChatGPT client for Windows
The Elastic Guide to: Distributed Work
How exactly does a distributed company work? We’re distributed by design, which means our company policies and values revolve around how to best work when Elasticians are around the world.Because we’ve been doing this long before distributed work became cool, we have some tips and tricks that make it easier for everyone to stay connected and perform their best work. Ask for … [Read more...] about The Elastic Guide to: Distributed Work
Cracking Performance Issues in Microservices with Distributed Tracing
Microservices architecture is the new norm for building products these days. An application made up of hundreds of independent services enables teams to work independently and accelerate development. However, such highly distributed applications are also harder to monitor.When hundreds of services are traversed to satisfy a single request, it becomes difficult to investigate … [Read more...] about Cracking Performance Issues in Microservices with Distributed Tracing
APM is Legacy. Distributed Tracing is for Modern Teams
Some background. Having implemented at least 20 or more APM systems in production as an end-user at various companies, and both deployed and managed countless monitoring tools outside APM, I understand the role of the practitioner.Later on, I shifted to Gartner and led the APM Magic Quadrant for four years, finally spending another four years at AppDynamics (operating under … [Read more...] about APM is Legacy. Distributed Tracing is for Modern Teams
APT Hackers Distributed Android Trojan via Syrian e-Government Portal
An advanced persistent threat (APT) actor has been tracked in a new campaign deploying Android malware via the Syrian e-Government Web Portal, indicating an upgraded arsenal designed to compromise victims. "To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that the group has been publicly observed using malicious Android applications as part of its attacks," Trend Micro … [Read more...] about APT Hackers Distributed Android Trojan via Syrian e-Government Portal