Tag: Attacks


  • A critical Firefox zero-day remote code execution vulnerability is being abused in targeted attacks in the wild, Mozilla has warned on Tuesday. About the vulnerability (CVE-2019-11707) Mozilla did not share many details about the flaw – it simply stated that it is a type confusion vulnerability that can occur when manipulating JavaScript objects due to […]

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  • We previously posted a blog about the Ursnif family of malware using language checks to determine the end user’s location as a means of bypassing sandbox-based endpoint protection during regionally targeted attacks. Since then, we have seen a couple more examples of malware using clever methods to indirectly determine the language of the running machine’s […]

  • The Light Attacks

    The Light Attacks Image by darkday. Light Painting Attack! with the sparklers inside the 100th storm drain

  • A new wave of attacks involving PCASTLE malware are targeting systems located in China with the XMRig cryptocurrency miner. On 17 May, Trend Micro first observed a series of attacks that use PCASTLE, an obfuscated PowerShell script, to target mainly China-based systems with XMRig, cryptomining malware was involved in numerous attacks in 2018. The security […]