{"id":6149,"date":"2019-09-11T21:43:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T01:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/?p=6149"},"modified":"2019-10-24T08:55:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T12:55:28","slug":"the-hottest-malware-hits-of-the-summer-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/2019\/09\/11\/the-hottest-malware-hits-of-the-summer-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hottest Malware Hits of the Summer 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article summarizes the popular malware hits during July and August 2019. These malware hits use several and advance techniques such as Changing hashes via file obfuscation to evade AVs, Using encrypted communication with C2 servers to foil EDRs, and Using feature manipulation and tampering to trick AI, machine-learning engines, and sandboxes. The following malware and ransomware attacks are listed;<br \/>\n&#8211; Fileless Attacks and Living-Off-The-Land (LOTL)<br \/>\n&#8211; (Jack-in-the-box)2<br \/>\n&#8211; Astaroth Malware<br \/>\n&#8211; Sodinokibi Exploits<br \/>\n&#8211; GermanWiper Ransomware<br \/>\n&#8211; MegaCortex Ransomware<br \/>\n&#8211; Silence APT Spreads Malware<br \/>\n&#8211; Turla Attacks<\/p>\n<p>Source: https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2019\/09\/its-been-summer-of-ransomware-hold-ups.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article summarizes the popular malware hits during July and August 2019. These malware hits use several and advance techniques such as Changing hashes via file obfuscation to evade AVs, Using encrypted communication with C2 servers to foil EDRs, and Using feature manipulation and tampering to trick AI, machine-learning engines, and sandboxes. The following malware [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,715219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","category-week-03-it-administrative-controls","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6151,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149\/revisions\/6151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}