Microsoft adds “major” update to detect Zeus trojan

Threat actors are hiring freelance pentesters to improve the effectiveness of their ransomware attacks

Aside from utilizing junk code and conducting metamorphic transformations, BabbleLoader also exploits a plethora of other techniques, including unique control flow and encryption, to conceal malicious activities from traditional and artificial intelligence-based detection systems, according to an Intezer analysis.

More severe of the two issues — both of which have been discovered and reported by TZL security researchers during the Matrix Cup hacking competition in China — is the critical remote code execution flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-38812, which stems from a vCenter DCE/RPC protocol heap overflow issue.