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# Cybercrime Group FIN7 Using Windows 11 Alpha-Themed Docs to Drop Javascript Backdoor
**Authored by:** Gage Mele, Tara Gould, Rory Gould, and Sean Townsend
## Key Findings
- Anomali Threat Research discovered six malicious Windows 11 Alpha-themed Word documents with Visual Basic macros being used to drop JavaScript... |
# Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures
## Command-Line Interface
Command-line interfaces provide a way of interacting with computer systems and are a common feature across many types of operating system platforms. One example command-line interface on Windows systems is `cmd`, which can be used to perform a number of t... |
# ATM Robber WinPot: A Slot Machine Instead of Cutlets
**Authors:** Konstantin Zykov
**19 Feb 2019**
**Minute read**
Automation of all kinds is there to help people with their routine work, making it faster and simpler. Although ATM fraud is a very peculiar sort of work, some cybercriminals spend a lot of effort ... |
# Critical 0-day in Fancy Product Designer Under Active Attack
**Update:** A patched version of Fancy Product Designer, 4.6.9, is now available as of June 2, 2021. This article has been updated to reflect newly available information, including Indicators of Compromise.
On May 31, 2021, the Wordfence Threat Intelligen... |
# Quick Look at Another Alina Fork: XBOT-POS
Hi, it's time for a new post. Today I'll try to have a look at the "Team NZMR." I've found this funny team by hazard on Twitter via the bot @ScumBots.
I would like to write this little blog post because I think that this is interesting to see an Alina panel behind a .onio... |
# CrowdStrike 2022 Global Threat Report
## Foreword
The CrowdStrike 2022 Global Threat Report provides crucial insights into what security teams need to know to stay ahead of today's threats in an increasingly ominous threat landscape.
As organizations scrambled at the start of 2021 to protect supply chains and int... |
# Emotet Modules and Recent Attacks
**Authors**
AMR
Anti-Malware Research
Emotet was first found in the wild in 2014. Back then its main functionality was stealing user banking credentials. Since then it has survived numerous transformations, started delivering other malware, and finally became a powerful botne... |
# Phishing Emails Used to Deploy KONNI Malware
## Summary
This Alert uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) framework. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has observed cyber actors using emails containing a Microsoft Word document with a malicious Visual... |
# The Art of Clipboard Forensics: Recovering Deleted Data
**April 27, 2023**
## Introduction
In this blog post, I’ll be sharing my notes from my exploration of clipboard forensics. I’ll cover the tools and techniques used in this process and explain how you can use them to dump clipboard data even if it is deleted. ... |
# Dragonfly: Western Energy Sector Targeted by Sophisticated Attack Group
The energy sector in Europe and North America is being targeted by a new wave of cyber attacks that could provide attackers with the means to severely disrupt affected operations. The group behind these attacks is known as Dragonfly. The group h... |
# Linux.Midrashim
This is my first x64 ELF infector written in full Assembly. It contains a non-destructive payload and will infect other ELF (PIE is also supported) in the current directory only and not recursively. It uses the PT_NOTE to PT_LOAD infection technique.
## Build
Assemble it with FASM x64.
```bash
$ f... |
# The Manufacturing Threat Landscape in 2020
**Falcon OverWatch Team**
*July 14, 2020*
Since January 2020, the CrowdStrike® Falcon OverWatch™ managed threat hunting team has observed an escalation in hands-on-keyboard activity. The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally shifted the way businesses are working, and adve... |
# North Korea Bitten by Bitcoin Bug: Financially Motivated Campaigns Reveal New Dimension of the Lazarus Group
**December 19, 2017**
**Darien Huss**
## Overview
Proofpoint researchers have uncovered a number of multistage attacks that use cryptocurrency-related lures to infect victims with sophisticated backdoors ... |
# Agent Tesla hidden in a historical anti-malware tool
**Published:** 2021-02-11
**Last Updated:** 2021-02-11 07:17:18 UTC
**by Jan Kopriva**
While going through attachments of e-mails caught in my e-mail quarantine since the beginning of February, I found an ISO file with what turned out to be a sample of the Ag... |
# TLP:WHITE
## National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center
### ANALYSIS REPORT
**DISCLAIMER:** This report is provided “as is” for informational purposes only. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) does not provide any warranties of any kind regarding any information contained within. DHS does not... |
# StellarParticle Campaign: Novel Tactics and Techniques
StellarParticle is a campaign tracked by CrowdStrike as related to the SUNSPOT implant from the SolarWinds intrusion in December 2020 and associated with COZY BEAR (aka APT29, “The Dukes”). The StellarParticle campaign has continued against multiple organization... |
# Palmerworm: Espionage Gang Targets the Media, Finance, and Other Sectors
Companies in Japan, Taiwan, U.S., and China among victims.
The Threat Hunter Team at Symantec, a division of Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO), has uncovered a new espionage campaign carried out by the Palmerworm group (aka BlackTech) involving a brand ... |
# APT41 World Tour 2021
**4 malicious campaigns, 13 confirmed victims, and a new wave of Cobalt Strike infections**
**Nikita Rostovtsev**
**Threat Analyst at the Advanced Persistent Threat Research Team, Group-IB**
In March 2022, one of the oldest state-sponsored hacker groups, APT41, breached government networ... |
# Meet the GoldenJackal APT Group
GoldenJackal is an APT group, active since 2019, that usually targets government and diplomatic entities in the Middle East and South Asia. Despite the fact that they began their activities years ago, this group is generally unknown and, as far as we know, has not been publicly descri... |
# Operation Silent Watch: Desktop Surveillance in Azerbaijan and Armenia
**February 16, 2023**
## Executive Summary
Amid rising tensions between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Lachin corridor in late 2022, Check Point Research identified a malicious campaign against entities in Armenia. The malware distributed in t... |
# Who's Behind the GPcode Ransomware?
In one of these moments when those who are supposed to know don't know, and those who don't realize what they know aren't reaching the appropriate parties, it's time we get back to the basics - finding out who's behind GPcode and trying to tip them on the consequences of their bla... |
# Moonlight – Targeted Attacks in the Middle East
Vectra Threat Labs researchers have uncovered the activities of a group of individuals currently engaged in targeted attacks against entities in the Middle East. We identified over 200 samples of malware generated by the group over the last two years. These attacks are... |
# Cyber Threat Report: RambleOn Android Malware
**Author:** Ovi Liber, Threat Researcher @ Interlab
**Publishing Date:** 2022/12/30
## Executive Summary
A journalist in South Korea recently received a malicious APK file suggested to be installed on their phone by an anonymous tipper. Analysis by Interlab’s Threa... |
# Chaos Ransomware Variant in Fake Minecraft Alt List
## Brings Destruction to Japanese Gamers
**Affected Platforms:** Windows
**Impacted Parties:** Japanese Minecraft Gamers
**Impact:** Potential loss of files and money due to file encryption and destruction and paying ransom
**Severity Level:** Medium
Mine... |
# White Paper: Defending Against the Dragonfly Cyber Security Attacks
**Joel T. Langill**
ICS Cyber Security Expert
RedHatCyber.com
Written for Belden
Version 3.0
December 10, 2014
## Introduction
The age of malware specifically targeting industrial control systems (ICS) began in 2010 when Stuxnet was sh... |
# Uniklinik Düsseldorf: Ransomware "DoppelPaymer" soll hinter dem Angriff stecken
Die Verantwortlichen für den Angriff auf die Uniklinik sitzen laut Justizministerium möglicherweise in Russland. Die Ermittlungen und Aufräumarbeiten dauern an.
Nach dem Angriff auf die Düsseldorfer Uni-Klinik führt eine mögliche Spur d... |
# C99Shell Not Dead
In today's blog post, we'll talk about C99shell - a powerful PHP backdoor.
## Introduction
I recently got contacted on Twitter in regards to a hacked webpage:
@bartblaze Hey, maybe interesting for you: http://t.co/6rZUD1O1qZ Found on hacked joomla page Got a lot of those files. All have same sc... |
# Advanced Persistent Threat Actors Targeting U.S. Think Tanks
## Summary
This Advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) framework. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have observed persistent cyber int... |
# Anti-UPX Unpacking Technique
**Shusei Tomonaga**
March 15, 2022
Malware targeting Windows OS (PE format) has a variety of obfuscation and packing techniques that complicate the code analysis processes. On the other hand, there are only a few types of packing techniques for Linux-targeting malware (ELF format), ... |
# Closing in on MageCart 12
This is the fourth blog with details on the activities of MageCart 12. In this article, yet another part of their ongoing campaign is uncovered. The amount of infected sites for this campaign is higher than in the previous cases.
Before diving into the infected sites and the rough duration... |
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# MuddyWater Expands Operations
## Summary
MuddyWater is a relatively new APT that surfaced in 2017. It has focused mainly on governmental targets in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, according to past telemetry. However, the group behind MuddyWater has been known to target other countries in the Middle East, Europe, and the US... |
# BlackEnergy by the SSHBearDoor: Attacks Against Ukrainian News Media and Electric Industry
**By Anton Cherepanov**
**Posted 3 Jan 2016 - 12:28 AM**
**Cybercrime Tags**
The cybercriminal group behind BlackEnergy, the malware family that has been around since 2007 and made a comeback in 2014, was also active in 2... |
# UK Exposes Series of Russian Cyber Attacks Against Olympic and Paralympic Games
Russia’s military intelligence service, the GRU, conducted cyber reconnaissance against officials and organisations at the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games due to take place in Tokyo this summer before they were postponed. The targets i... |
# Jumping into Shellcode
Malware analysis is exciting because you never know what you will find. In previous diaries, I already explained why it's important to have a look at groups of interesting Windows API calls to detect some behaviors. The classic example is code injection. Usually, it is based on something like ... |
# Maltego Investigation
## Total Number of Entities
- 843
- 1562
## Ranked by Incoming Links
| Rank | Type | Value | Incoming Links |
|------|-----------------|----------------|-----------------|
| 1 | Launchers | CBricksDoc | 64 |
| 2 | Password | admin ... |
# The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide
## Foreword
### 1. Acknowledgements
Ori Pomerantz would like to thank Yoav Weiss for many helpful ideas and discussions, as well as finding mistakes within this document before its publication. Ori would also like to thank Frodo Looijaard from the Netherlands, Stephen Judd ... |
# REvil: The Usage of Legitimate Remote Admin Tooling
**Krijn de Mik**
**Jun 10, 2021**
## 1. Introduction
Recently, Hunt & Hackett did an incident response engagement involving Sodinokibi (also known as REvil) ransomware. During the incident, the adversary installed a ScreenConnect service on several systems, fun... |
# A Deep Dive into Lokibot Infection Chain
By Irshad Muhammad, with contributions from Holger Unterbrink.
## News Summary
Lokibot is one of the most well-known information stealers on the malware landscape. In this post, we'll provide a technical breakdown of one of the latest Lokibot campaigns. Talos also has a new... |
# Free Symchanger Malware Tricks Users into Installing Backdoor
In a previous post, I discussed how attackers can trick website owners into installing malware onto a website — granting the attacker the same unauthorized access as if they had exploited a vulnerability or compromised login details for the website. But d... |
# The pentest you didn’t know about
## Restrictions
1. The report was written by Group-IB experts without any third-party funding.
2. The report provides information on the tactics, tools, and infrastructure of the previously unknown group RedCurl. The report’s goal is to minimize the risk of the group committing fur... |
# Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain to Compromise Multiple Global Victims With SUNBURST Backdoor
**UPDATE (May 2022):** We have merged UNC2452 with APT29. The UNC2452 activity described in this post is now attributed to APT29.
## Executive Summary
We have discovered a global intrusion campaig... |
# 127 Million User Records from 8 Companies for Sale on the Dark Web
An individual who earlier this week was selling 620 million user records stolen from 16 companies has now put up a second batch of hacked data totaling 127 million, originating from eight companies. The data is currently being sold on Dream Market, a... |
# Notorious TrickBot Malware Gang Shuts Down its Botnet Infrastructure
The modular Windows crimeware platform known as TrickBot formally shuttered its infrastructure on Thursday after reports emerged of its imminent retirement amid a lull in its activity for almost two months, marking an end to one of the most persist... |
# Emissary Trojan Analysis
In December 2015, Unit 42 published a blog about a cyber espionage attack using the Emissary Trojan as a payload. Emissary is related to the Elise Trojan and the Operation Lotus Blossom attack campaign, which prompted us to start collecting additional samples of Emissary. The oldest sample w... |
# APT Gang Branches Out to Medical Espionage in Community Health Breach
Microsoft Word also leveraged in the email campaign, which uses a 22-year-old Office RCE bug. |
# BasBanke: Trend-setting Brazilian banking Trojan
BasBanke is a new Android malware family targeting Brazilian users. It is a banking Trojan built to steal financial data such as credentials and credit/debit card numbers, but not limited to this functionality. The propagation of this threat began during the 2018 Braz... |
# Mobile Campaign ‘Bouncing Golf’ Affects Middle East
We uncovered a cyberespionage campaign targeting Middle Eastern countries. We named this campaign “Bouncing Golf” based on the malware’s code in the package named “golf.” The malware involved, which Trend Micro detects as AndroidOS_GolfSpy.HRX, is notable for its w... |
# An Insider Insights into Conti Operations – Part One
This is the first of two blog posts, where we focus on the Conti ransomware group whose training material was recently leaked on a cybercrime forum. To provide some context to this analysis, we describe Conti’s evolution and success since its origin. We then conte... |
# MiKey - A Linux Keylogger
Linux malware is slowly becoming more popular. Within the past couple of years, there were several major incidents that cited the use of Windows backdoors being ported to Linux. Through our research on the Windows KLRD keylogger from the Odinaff report, we were able to discover several new ... |
# ADVENTURES WITH SMOKE LOADER
## ASSOCIATED FILES:
- Zip archive of the pcaps: 2017-11-02-Smoke-Loader-and-Neutrino-pcaps.zip (5.1 MB, 5,129,196 bytes)
- Zip archive of the pcaps: 2017-11-02-Smoke-Loader-and-Neutrino-and-Lethic-malware.zip (1.1 MB, 1,088,202 bytes)
## INFECTION SUMMARY
89.38.98.150/sZioajajaj.exe (S... |
# SWEED Targeting Precision Engineering Companies in Italy
## Introduction
Today I’d like to share a quick analysis of an interesting attack targeting precision engineering companies based in Italy. Precision engineering is a very important business market in Europe; it includes developing mechanical equipment for au... |
# New Wiper Malware Used Against Ukrainian Organizations
**Malware March 4, 2022**
By John Dwyer co-authored by Kevin Henson
## March 7, 2022 Update
A correction has been applied to this blog; further analysis of the wiper malware revealed that the wiper leverages an implementation of the Mersenne Twister pseudora... |
# Tracking Tick Through Recent Campaigns Targeting East Asia
This blog post is authored by Ashlee Benge and Jungsoo An, with contributions from Dazhuo Li.
## Summary
Since 2016, an advanced threat group that Cisco Talos is tracking has carried out cyberattacks against South Korea and Japan. This group is known by se... |
# Dissecting DEloader Malware with Obfuscation
DEloader is a loader malware primarily used to load the Zeus banking trojan. It is a stealth malware designed to keep the payload hidden and encrypted in memory. A payload is dynamically retrieved from a remote HTTPS server.
So far, there have been three versions of DElo... |
# InfoDot Ransomware
Этот крипто-вымогатель шифрует данные бизнес-пользователей с помощью алгоритмов AES-256 (режим CBC) и RSA-2048, а затем требует выкуп в 4 BTC, чтобы вернуть файлы. Оригинальное название: в записке не указано. На файле написано: bigdata.exe.
**Обнаружения:**
- DrWeb -> Trojan.Encoder.29861
- BitDe... |
# SolarWinds Patches Critical Serv-U Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild
SolarWinds is urging customers to patch a Serv-U remote code execution vulnerability exploited in the wild by "a single threat actor" in attacks targeting a limited number of customers.
"Microsoft has provided evidence of limited, targeted cust... |
# Analysis of .Net Stealer GrandSteal (2019-03-18)
In this post, I share my notes about the analysis of a sample (a stealer written in .Net) whose family is unknown to me. Somebody tagged the sample as Quasar at Any.Run; however, after analyzing it and comparing it with Quasar code, I concluded this sample doesn't see... |
# Zero-day in Windows Kernel Transaction Manager (CVE-2018-8611)
**Research**
12 Dec 2018
**Authors**
Boris Larin
Vladislav Stolyarov
Anton Ivanov
## Executive summary
In October 2018, our AEP (Automatic Exploit Prevention) systems detected an attempt to exploit a vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows o... |
# Ttint: 一款通过2个0-day漏洞传播的IoT远控木马
**作者**: 涂凌鸣，马延龙，叶根深
**日期**: 2020年9月30日
## 背景介绍
从2019年11月开始，360Netlab未知威胁检测系统Anglerfish蜜罐节点相继监测到某个攻击者使用2个腾达路由器0-day漏洞传播一个基于Mirai代码开发的远程控制木马（RAT）。常规的Mirai变种基本都是围绕DDoS做文章，而这个变种不同，在DDoS攻击之外，它针对路由器设备实现了Socket5代理，篡改路由器DNS，设置iptables，执行自定义系统命令等多达12个远程控制功能。
此外，在C2通信层面，它使用WSS (WebSocket ... |
# Fonix Ransomware Decryptor
**Bogdan BOTEZATU**
February 04, 2021
A decryptor for Fonix Ransomware is now available for download. Also known as FonixCrypter or Xinof, this family of malware was initially spotted in June 2020 and went out of business in late January this year. The news, broken by one of the proje... |
# Cyber Security Updates
**09 March 2021**
**Why managing the human factors is crucial to a successful cyber security crisis response**
In this blog, Lorena Gutierrez discusses why a successful response to a cyber security crisis strongly relies on a number of human factors.
**08 March 2021**
**Womxn in Cyber’s... |
# The Evolution of BackSwap
## The Story of An Innovative Banking Malware
**Research By:** Itay Cohen
### Introduction
The BackSwap banker has been in the spotlight recently due to its unique and innovative techniques to steal money from victims while staying under the radar and remaining undetected. This malware w... |
# Experts Shed Light on BlackGuard Infostealer Malware Sold on Russian Hacking Forums
A previously undocumented "sophisticated" information-stealing malware named BlackGuard is being advertised for sale on Russian underground forums for a monthly subscription of $200. "BlackGuard has the capability to steal all types ... |
# 북 해킹 조직, 공정거래위원회 사칭 피싱 공격 진행중!
안녕하세요? 이스트시큐리티 시큐리티대응센터(이하 ESRC)입니다. 공정거래위원회를 사칭한 피싱 메일을 통해 악성파일이 유포되고 있어 사용자들의 각별한 주의가 필요합니다.
이번에 발견된 피싱 메일은 '[공정거래위원회] 서면 실태조사 사전 예고 안내통지문'의 제목으로 유포되었으며, 본문에는 공정거래법의 조항을 언급하며 사용자의 협조를 구하는 내용과 함께 '소명자료 요청서류'의 파일명을 가진 압축파일(.zip)이 첨부되어 있습니다.
압축 파일 내부에는 다음과 같은 4개의 파일이 첨부되어 있습니다.
- 결제대... |
# Belling the BEAR
**ThreatConnect Research Team**
**9/28/2016**
ThreatConnect reviews activity targeting Bellingcat, a key contributor in the MH17 investigation.
## Introduction
Since posting about the DNC hack, each time we published a blog post on a BEAR-based topic we thought it was going to be our last. But ... |
# Ztorg: from rooting to SMS
**Authors**
Roman Unuchek
I’ve been monitoring Google Play Store for new Ztorg Trojans since September 2016, and have so far found several dozen new malicious apps. All of them were rooting malware that used exploits to gain root rights on the infected device. Then, in the second half... |
# Threat Bulletin: Exploring the Differences and Similarities of Agent Tesla v2 & v3
Agent Tesla is a spyware that has been around since 2014. It’s in active development, constantly being updated and improved with new features, obfuscation, and encryption methods. The malware is sold as a service with a relatively che... |
# Confucius Says... Malware Families Get Further By Abusing Legitimate Websites
**By Tom Lancaster and Micah Yates**
**September 28, 2016**
**Category:** Malware, Unit 42
**Tags:** Confucius, Quora, Yahoo
## Introduction
When malware wants to communicate home, most use domain names, allowing them to resolve ... |
# Android Apps and Malware Capitalize on Coronavirus
As new developments regarding the coronavirus outbreak emerge, Android developers (malware developers included) have started capitalizing on the topic. Bitdefender researchers have recently analyzed Android telemetry from Google Play and other third-party marketplac... |
# Newly Found npm Malware Mines Cryptocurrency on Windows, Linux, macOS Devices
Update: Following our disclosure of these malicious packages, the legitimate library "ua-parser-js" used by millions was itself found to be compromised. We have released a subsequent blog post covering the "ua-parser-js" compromise.
Sonat... |
# BitRAT Malware Now Spreading as a Windows 10 License Activator
A new BitRAT malware distribution campaign is underway, exploiting users looking to activate pirated Windows OS versions for free using unofficial Microsoft license activators. BitRAT is a powerful remote access trojan sold on cybercrime forums and dark ... |
# Smoking Guns - Smoke Loader Learned New Tricks
This post is authored by Ben Baker and Holger Unterbrink.
## Overview
Cisco Talos has been tracking a new version of Smoke Loader — a malicious application that can be used to load other malware — for the past several months following an alert from Cisco Advanced Malw... |
# STRRAT, ZLoader, and HoneyGain
Cybersecurity Awareness Month may be in full swing, but that doesn’t mean that cybercriminals have been taking a break. In fact, the opposite is true – October has seen threats like ZLoader and HoneyGain continue to evolve. Meanwhile, STRRAT has wreaked havoc by enabling bad actors to ... |
# DNS Over HTTPS for Cobalt Strike
**17 Nov 2021**
**Kyle Avery**
## Introduction
Setting up the C2 infrastructure for red team engagements has become more and more of a hassle in recent years. This is a win for the security community because it means that vendors and professionals have learned from previously suc... |
# NCSC Alert: Ransomware Attack on Health Sector - UPDATE
**Date:** 2021-05-16
**Status:** TLP-WHITE
This document is classified using Traffic Light Protocol. Recipients may share TLP-WHITE information freely, without restriction. Please treat this document in accordance with the TLP assigned.
## Revision Histor... |
# When Ransomware Encryption Goes Wrong
IBM Security X-Force researchers have recently reverse-engineered Prometheus ransomware samples as part of ongoing incident response operations. X-Force has found that samples that infected organizational networks featured flawed encryption. This allowed our team to develop a fa... |
# Nazar: Spirits of the Past
## Introduction
Those were some of the words that the Equation Group (NSA) operators left in the records documenting their attacks against target systems, and which were later leaked by the Shadow Brokers. The plethora of information exposed in the fifth and last leak by the Shadow Broker... |
# CITIZEN LAB TECHNICAL BRIEF
## IEXPL0RE RAT
**BY SETH HARDY | AUGUST 2012**
### INTRODUCTION
This report describes a remote access trojan (RAT) that three human rights-related organizations taking part in a Citizen Lab study on targeted cyber threats against human rights groups received via email in 2011 and at t... |
# Deep Analysis of the Online Banking Botnet TrickBot
**By Xiaopeng Zhang | December 06, 2016**
One month ago we captured a Word document infected with malicious VBA code, which was detected as WM/Agent!tr by the Fortinet AntiVirus service. Its file name is InternalFax.doc, and its MD5 is 4F2139E3961202B1DFEAE288AED5... |
# Cloud-Based Malware Delivery: The Evolution of GuLoader
**Research by:** Alexey Bukhteyev, Arie Olshtein
**Date:** May 22, 2023
## Key Takeaways
- GuLoader is a prominent shellcode-based downloader used in numerous attacks to deliver a wide range of malware.
- Active for over three years, GuLoader continues to ... |
# sLoad and Ramnit Pairing in Sustained Campaigns Against UK and Italy
**Overview**
Since May 2018, Proofpoint researchers have observed email campaigns using a new downloader called sLoad. sLoad is a PowerShell downloader that most frequently delivers Ramnit banker and includes noteworthy reconnaissance features. T... |
# WastedLocker Superseded by Hades Ransomware
**Adam Podlosky - Brendon Feeley**
**March 17, 2021**
## Introduction
In December 2019, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action against the Russia-based cybercriminal group INDRIK SPIDER, also known as Evil Corp, a sophisticat... |
# 2021 Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities
## SUMMARY
This joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) was coauthored by cybersecurity authorities of the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom: the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), Feder... |
# Magento Vendor Fishpig Hacked, Backdoors Added
**September 13, 2022**
**Web Skimming / Sansec Threat Research**
Fishpig, a vendor of popular Magento-Wordpress integrations, has been hacked. Sansec found that attackers have injected malware in Fishpig software and taken control of Fishpig servers. Online stores ru... |
# Russian National Extradited to United States to Face Charges for Alleged Role in Cybercriminal Organization
October 28, 2021
A Russian national, residing in the Yakutsk region of Russia and in Southeast Asia, had his initial appearance in federal court today after his extradition from the Republic of Korea to the N... |
# Structured Threat Hunting: One Way Microsoft Threat Experts Prioritizes Customer Defense
**Update [5/9/2022]:** In line with the recently announced expansion into a new service category called Microsoft Security Experts, we’re introducing the availability of Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting for public preview.... |
# Russia’s Wartime Cyber Operations in Ukraine: Military Impacts, Influences, and Implications
**Jon Bateman**
This paper examines the military effectiveness of Russia’s wartime cyber operations in Ukraine, the reasons why these operations have not had greater strategic impact, and the lessons applicable to other cou... |
# The $1 Billion Russian Cyber Company That the US Says Hacks for Moscow
Patrick Howell O'Neill
The Biden administration sanctions six Russian companies over cyber activities. The list includes the well-known Moscow security firm Positive Technologies. US officials privately believe Positive provides hacking tools an... |
# MartyMcFly Malware: Targeting Naval Industry
Today I’d like to share an interesting analysis of a targeted attack found and dissected by Yoroi. The victim was one of the most important leaders in the field of security and defensive military-grade naval ecosystem in Italy. Everything started from a well-crafted email... |
# Rustock.C – Unpacking a Nested Doll
Unpacking Rustock.C is a challenging task. If you are tired of boring crosswords or Sudoku puzzles and feel like your brain needs a real exercise, think about reversing Rustock.C - satisfaction (or dissatisfaction, depending on the result) is guaranteed.
Rustock.C story began a w... |
# OilRig Targets a Middle Eastern Government and Adds Evasion Techniques to OopsIE
**By Robert Falcone, Bryan Lee and Riley Porter**
**September 4, 2018 at 1:00 PM**
**Category: Unit 42**
**Tags: evasion, Middle East, OilRig, OopsIE**
The OilRig group maintains their persistent attacks against government entiti... |
# Cyber Attackers Target South Korea and US
South Korea sees presidential and bank websites paralysed as Pentagon and White House succeed in deflecting barrage.
North Korean hackers are suspected of launching a cyber-attack on some of the most important government offices in the US and South Korea in recent days, inc... |
# Conti Leaks: Examining the Panama Papers of Ransomware
By John Fokker, Jambul Tologonov · March 31, 2022
## Introduction
It isn’t often the whole world gets an inside look at the business operations of a top-tier cybercriminal group. Very early on in the Russian-Ukrainian Crisis, the predominantly Russian-based ra... |
# Sednit Update: How Fancy Bear Spent the Year
Over the past few years, the Sednit group has used various techniques to deploy their components on target computers. The attack usually starts with an email containing either a malicious link or malicious attachment. The Sednit group — also known as Strontium, APT28, Fan... |
# Exposing Modular Adware: How DealPly, IsErIk, and ManageX Persist in Systems
**Posted on:** April 16, 2020 at 4:57 am
**Posted in:** Bad Sites, Malware
**Author:** Trend Micro
Adware isn’t new and they don’t spark much interest. A lot of them are overlooked and underestimated because they’re not supposed to c... |
# DcDcrypt Ransomware Decryptor
By Gaurav Yadav
September 26, 2022
We at K7 Labs came across a DcDcrypt ransomware sample that had infected a user machine and encrypted all user files. Usually, the chances of getting back the encrypted files in such a scenario are 0, given the level of sophistication involved in ... |
# TrickBot: New Attacks See the Botnet Deploy New Banking Module, New Ransomware
Over the course of the past few weeks, new activity has been observed from TrickBot, one of today’s largest malware botnets, with reports that its operators have helped create a new ransomware strain called Diavol and that the TrickBot ga... |
# Visa Payment Fraud Disruption
**Visa Security Alert**
**NOVEMBER 2019**
## New JavaScript Skimmer ‘Pipka’ Targeting eCommerce Merchants
**Distribution:** Issuers, Acquirers, Processors and Merchants
### Summary
In September 2019, Visa Payment Fraud Disruption’s (PFD) eCommerce Threat Disruption (eTD) p... |
# Kinsing Malware and Its Exploitation Campaigns
Kinsing, a malware family distributed by the H2Miner botnet, is known for targeting Linux-based infrastructure systems including Docker container hosts, Redis instances, and Salt servers. Up to this point, the security firm Intezer and an individual known as “Blackorbir... |
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