Catching up with WoofLocker, the most elaborate traffic redirection scheme to tech support scams

Categories: Threat Intelligence

Tags: tech support scams

Tags: fingerprinting

Tags: steganography

This tech support scam is one of the most long running and covert ones we have ever seen.

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James Webb telescope images used to hide malware

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Categories: Threats

Tags: Msdllupdate.exe

Tags: macros

Tags: James Webb

Tags: certutil

Tags: Golang

Tags: base64

Tags: steganography

Tags: OxB36F8GEEC634.jpg

In a recent malware campaign, images from the James Webb telescope were used to hide malware.

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Explained: Steganography

Categories: Explained

Categories: News

Tags: Steganography

Tags: encryption

Tags: least significant bits

Tags: rgb

Tags: masking

Tags: palette-based

Tags: lossy

Tags: compression

Tags: cropping

Steganography is the prime example of hiding something in plain sight. We look at the basics, some methods, and the hurdles of hiding messages in images.

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WOOF locker: Unmasking the browser locker behind a stealthy tech support scam operation

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 16:00:00 +0000

We reveal the inner workings of WOOF locker, the most sophisticated browser locker campaign we’ve seen to date. Learn how this tech support scam evades researchers and ensnares users by hiding in plain sight.

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New evasion techniques found in web skimmers

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 22:25:06 +0000

As Magecart credit card skimmers become exposed by security researchers, their authors are refining evasion techniques to go undetected.

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