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Lucifer Malware Targeting Windows Researchers from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 division have found an active campaign of new malware in the wild. Dubbed ‘Satan’ by the threat actors, and ‘Lucifer’ by the researchers this malware exploits known bugs to infect Windows machines. Sharing the details in a post, the researchers explained that they caught two strains of Lucifer while analyzing the campaign. Yet, their functionalities predominantly remained the same, version 2 is more advanced. Briefly, Lucifer malware aims at cryptojacking by dropping XMRig on target devices, and DDoS attacks.  Moreover, the other functionalities are slightly different for the two versions. The Lucifer v.1 performs cryptojacking, DDoS attacks, brute-forcing credentials, and self-propagation. Whereas, Lucifer v.2, in addition to these capabilities, also exhibits anti-sandbox and anti-debugger functionalities. Also, the malware tends to drop EternalBlue, EternalRomance, and DoublePulsar backdoors (under cer...

Tycoon Ransomware – New Java Based Ransomware Attack Windows & Linux Users Security experts have warned that hackers are using a new multi-platform Java ransomware “Tycoon” to target Windows and Linux users to lock down the files. We all know that hackers are constantly looking for new means to attack data centers and systems of normal users to steal essential data and information. Since Microsoft Windows is the most used OS, that’s why hackers are making it as their target. hackers are paying more and more attention to other operating systems as well, like macOS and Linux.  As hackers are betting massively on multi-platform malware and ransomware, that affects all the major platforms. The main goal of this critical vulnerability is to infect the SMBs in the software and education industries. Tycoon Ransomware Security experts at BlackBerry  Research  and Intelligence Team in association with KPMG’s UK Cyber ​​Response Services have named this ransomware as “Tycoon,” ...

Kali Linux 2020.2: New look, new packages, new installer options Offensive Security has  released  Kali Linux 2020.2, the latest iteration of the popular open-source penetration testing platform. Kali Linux 2020.2 changes There are several cosmetic changes in this newest  Kali Linux  release: Dark and light themes are now available for the KDE Plasma desktop environment The login screen got new graphics and a new layout New package logos for each tool Other changes include: PowerShell has become more accessible: it has been moved from the Kali Linux’s network repository to the  kali-Linux-large  metapackage, meaning that it will be ready for use if users choose to install this meta-package during system setup or later, once Kali is up and running (through a simple command) After  recently  switching the default “root/toor” credentials to “kali/kali” for desktop images and making the default user account a standard, unprivileged (non-root) user, Of...