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# The ICO Fines Ticketmaster UK £1.25 Million for Security Failures: A Lesson to be Learned Ticketmaster UK, a leading ticketing company and part of Ticketmaster, has been fined £1.25 million by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for failing to protect customer data during the infamous February 2018 data brea...
# Cyber Events Summary Report - August 2019 ## Preface The below report provides an in-depth review of significant trends, as well as major attack events in the cyber landscape that took place in the first half of 2019. The report follows our Cyber Events Summary Report of 2018 and presents changes and developments i...
# North Korea-linked APT Attack Disguised as Digital Asset Wallet Service Customer Center ## Malware Analysis Report Hello? This is the East Security Security Response Center (ESRC). A malicious file disguised as the Klip customer center was recently discovered, and users need to be extra careful. Klip is a digital ...
# Blockchain Analysis Shows Connections Between Four of 2020’s Biggest Ransomware Strains As we’ve covered on our blog, there may be fewer cybercriminals responsible for ransomware attacks than one would initially think given the number of individual attacks, distinct strains, and amount stolen from victims. Cybersecu...
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# GuLoader? No, CloudEyE. Italian company exposed on Clearnet earned up to $500,000 helping cybercriminals to deliver malware using cloud drives. Recently, we wrote about the network dropper known as GuLoader, which has been very actively distributed in 2020 and is used to deliver malware with the help of cloud servi...
# Pushdo - Analysis of a Modern Malware Distribution System Recently, Sophos published a blog entry detailing the trouble they are having with the Pushdo trojan, a fairly new and prolific threat being circulated in fake "E-card" emails. From their description, it is clear that the author(s) of Pushdo are making a conc...
# Interesting Hidden Threat Since Years Today I’d like to share the following reverse engineering path since it ended up to be more complex than I thought. The full path took me about hours of work and the sample covers many obfuscation steps and implementation languages. During the analysis time, only a few Antivirus...
# Hacktivism: India vs. Pakistan Posted by RFSID on February 11, 2016 in Cyber Threat Intelligence Floodlit international border between India and Pakistan, as seen from the International Space Station. When India gained independence from Britain in 1947, a new, predominantly Muslim nation of Pakistan was created dur...
# Supply Chain – The Major Target of Cyberespionage Groups Resecurity has shared the acquired intelligence with law enforcement and partners for mitigation. On Friday, December 28, 2018, at 10:25 AM, Resecurity reached out to Citrix and shared an early warning notification about a targeted attack and data breach. Ba...
# Tofsee Botnet: Proxying and Mining **Key findings** BitSight has recently observed a 15-year-old modular spambot called Tofsee being distributed by PrivateLoader (ruzki), a notorious malware distribution service we also closely monitor. BitSight has noticed Tofsee engaging in web traffic proxying, with a small perc...
# ESET Discovers Attor, a Spy Platform with Curious GSM Fingerprinting ESET researchers discover a previously unreported cyberespionage platform used in targeted attacks against diplomatic missions, governmental institutions, and privacy-concerned users. ESET researchers have discovered a new espionage platform with ...
# Zebrocy’s Multilanguage Malware Salad **Authors** GReAT Zebrocy is a Russian-speaking APT that presents a strange set of stripes. To keep things simple, there are three things to know about Zebrocy: - Zebrocy is an active sub-group of victim profiling and access specialists. - Zebrocy maintains a lineage back ...
# France Ties Russia's Sandworm to a Multiyear Hacking Spree The Russian military hackers known as Sandworm, responsible for everything from blackouts in Ukraine to NotPetya, the most destructive malware in history, don't have a reputation for discretion. But a French security agency now warns that hackers with tools ...
# Analysis of Project Cobra Project Cobra and the Carbon System were mentioned by Kaspersky in the article called “The Epic Turla Operation.” This malware is used by the same actors as Uroburos (aka Snake/Turla) and Agent.BTZ. We estimate that Carbon System was developed after Agent.BTZ and before Uroburos. The Carbon...
# HNS Evolves From IoT to Cross-Platform Botnet A botnet discovered at the start of the year and named Hide 'N Seek (HNS) has expanded from infecting Internet of Things (IoT) devices and is now also targeting cross-platform database solutions as well. This is an important development in the botnet's evolution, which a...
# Maui Ransomware Threat Report **Silas Cutler, Principal Reverse Engineer** **06/07/2022** As ransomware has grown to epidemic proportions, the ecosystems of Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) gangs such as Conti, LockBit, and BlackCat have become broadly recognizable. Outside of that ecosystem, there are other ransom...
# BlackBerry 2021 Threat Report ## Executive Summary The BlackBerry 2021 Threat Report examines the biggest cybersecurity events of last year and the security issues likely to affect the upcoming year. By publishing this information, we hope to minimize the damage of future cyber attacks and strengthen the global secu...
# Tracking PrivateLoader: Malware Distribution Service PrivateLoader is a loader from a pay-per-install malware distribution service that has been utilized to distribute info stealers, banking trojans, loaders, spambots, and ransomware on Windows machines. First seen in early 2021, being hosted on websites that claim ...
# Try not to stare - MedusaLocker at a glance Mystic but also a new(-ish) threat: Medusa ransomware. Let's take a quick peek, but don't look too close or you may need to fetch backups soon. A general disclaimer as always: downloading and running the samples linked below will lead to the encryption of your personal da...
# The OilRig Campaign: Attacks on Saudi Arabian Organizations Deliver Helminth Backdoor **By Robert Falcone and Bryan Lee** **May 26, 2016** In May 2016, Unit 42 observed targeted attacks primarily focused on financial institutions and technology organizations within Saudi Arabia. Artifacts identified within the ma...
# Bayer Points Finger at Wicked Panda in Cyberattack German chemicals giant Bayer claims it has found malware from a Winnti hacker group in China which attacked the company in early 2018. The attack is part of a rising wave of cyberattacks worrying firms. A group of hackers known as Wicked Panda accessed Bayer's netw...
# March 2022’s Most Wanted Malware: Easter Phishing Scams Help Emotet Assert its Dominance San Carlos, CA — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 Check Point Research (CPR), the Threat Intelligence arm of Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a leading provider of cyber security solutions globally, has published its lat...
# Shadows with a Chance of BlackNix In the last post, I did an analysis of a set of BBSRAT samples that are characterized by unique mutexes (cc5d64b344700e403e2sse, cc5d6b4700e403e2sse, cc5d6b4700032eSS) and calls back to a known Winnti Group C2 (bot[.]googlerenewals[.]net). In this post, I’m going to continue on anal...
# Imperva Observes Hive of Activity Following Hafnium Microsoft Exchange Disclosures ## Introduction On 2 March 2021, Microsoft and Veloxity produced disclosures outlining the discovery of four zero-day vulnerabilities affecting multiple versions of Microsoft Exchange Server. Each of the vulnerabilities has been attr...
# Blackhole Ramnit - Samples and Analysis Ramnit, a Zeus-like trojan/worm/file infector with rootkit capabilities, has been in the wild for a long time but recently made news because Seculert reported about a financial variant of this malware aimed at stealing Facebook credentials. While I did not see any Facebook-rel...
# CONTI Ransomware: Cheat Sheet Ransomware is today very effective and causes serious problems in many companies. We hear almost every day about entire businesses under ransom and companies that lose turnover and opportunities since they have no available data to deal with. For such a reason, I feel like I have to con...
# KoiVM Loader Resurfaces With a Bang By Rahul R December 2, 2022 We at K7 Labs recently found an interesting new .NET loader which downloads and executes KoiVM virtualized binary, which in turn drops Remcos RAT and Agent Tesla based on the availability of its C2. The samples under consideration use hastebin URLs a...
# Exbyte: BlackByte Ransomware Attackers Deploy New Exfiltration Tool Symantec’s Threat Hunter Team has discovered that at least one affiliate of the BlackByte ransomware (Ransom.Blackbyte) operation has begun using a custom data exfiltration tool during their attacks. The malware (Infostealer.Exbyte) is designed to e...
# China-Based APT Mustang Panda Targets Minority Groups, Public and Private Sector Organizations ## Overview The Anomali Threat Research Team has identified an ongoing campaign believed to be conducted by the China-based threat group, Mustang Panda. The team first revealed these findings on Wednesday, October 2, duri...
# MITRE ATT&CK T1055 Process Injection In 2019, Picus Labs analyzed 48,813 malware samples to determine tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by adversaries. Each observed TTP was categorized using the MITRE ATT&CK® framework. As a result, 445,018 TTPs observed in the last year were mapped to ATT&CK to ident...
# Rootkit Umbreon / Umreon - x86, ARM samples Pokémon-themed Umbreon Linux Rootkit Hits x86, ARM Systems Research: Trend Micro There are two packages: one is 'found in the wild' full and a set of hashes from Trend Micro (all but one file are already in the full package). ## File information ### Part one (full pac...
# The Curious Tale of a Fake Carrier App Posted by Ian Beer, Google Project Zero **NOTE:** This issue was CVE-2021-30983 and was fixed in iOS 15.2 in December 2021. Towards the end of 2021, Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) shared an iPhone app with me: an app splash screen showing the Vodafone carrier logo and t...
# ReconHellcat Uses NIST Theme as Lure To Deliver New BlackSoul Malware **January 5, 2021** ## Introduction On 27 November, QuoIntelligence detected a new malware, seemingly uploaded to VirusTotal by a user in Turkmenistan, which shares multiple similarities to the threat actor we previously dubbed ReconHellcat. The...
# 全球高级持续性威胁(APT)2020年中报告 ## 前言 奇安信威胁情报中心多年来持续跟踪分析全球高级持续性威胁(APT)活动趋势,总结高级持续性威胁背后的攻击组织在过去一段时间中的攻击活动和战术技术特点。 如今,2020年即将过去不平静的半年,而在全球网络安全领域也充满了变化和挑战。1月底,奇安信威胁情报中心监测到国外多个APT组织利用新冠疫情相关热点事件为诱饵对中国境内目标和机构实施APT攻击活动。随后利用新冠疫情实施的APT攻击活动被频频曝光。同时,由于企业远程办公和利用VPN远程接入企业网络的情况越来越普遍,多例围绕VPN应用的APT攻击活动也被发现。 本报告总结了2020年上半年全球范围内的主要APT活动情况,...
# Malicious Spam Campaigns Delivering Banking Trojans **Authors** Anton Kuzmenko In mid-March 2021, we observed two new spam campaigns. The messages in both cases were written in English and contained ZIP attachments or links to ZIP files. Further research revealed that both campaigns ultimately aimed to distribu...
# Princess Locker Decryptor **[UPDATE: 19th March 2018]** – I keep getting e-mails from people asking me why my decryptor doesn’t work. Please understand, this is an obsolete tool, it was written in 2016 for the FIRST VERSION of Princess Locker. The current version is improved and no longer decryptable. **[UPDATE: 28...
# Detecting Initial Access: HTML Smuggling and ISO Images — Part 2 In the previous blog in this series, we extracted behavioral TTPs, prepared the attack emulation, and executed it. It's time for analyzing the logs, validating/modifying the hypotheses that we generated after reading the report (or generating new one...
# Darkside Ransomware Gang Loses Control of Servers and Funds A day after US President Joe Biden announced plans to disrupt the hackers behind the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack, the operator of the Darkside ransomware stated that the group lost control of its web servers and some of the funds from ransom payments. “...
# Dark Seoul Cyber Attack: Could it be worse? **Jon A.P. Marpaung**, **Hoon Jae Lee** Cryptography & Network Security Lab, Dongseo University San 69-1, Jurye 2-dong, Sasang-gu, Busan 617-716, Korea jonathan@spentera.com hjlee@dongseo.ac.kr ## Abstract On March 20, 2013, a cyber attack now known as Dark Seo...
# Analysis of a triple-encrypted AZORult downloader I recently came across an interesting malicious document. Distributed as an attachment of a run-of-the-mill malspam message, the file with a DOC extension didn’t look like anything special at first glance. However, although it does use macros as one might expect, in ...
# MassLogger: An Emerging Spyware and Keylogger **Written by Aniruddha Dolas** **July 31, 2020** **Estimated reading time: 7 minutes** ## Summary We have been dealing with a new spyware for the past two months, named MassLogger. This advanced keylogger and spyware are distributed via MalSpam attachments and has ...
# ISOMorph Infection: In-Depth Analysis of a New HTML Smuggling Campaign Menlo Security has been closely monitoring an attack we are naming ISOMorph. ISOMorph leverages HTML Smuggling to deliver malicious files to users’ endpoints by evading network security solutions such as sandboxes and legacy proxies. Isolation pr...
# Tech Report: Targeted Attack on France’s TV5Monde ## Introduction Increasingly, cyberattacks targeting various industrial sectors are directed towards prominent institutions. In a recent incident reported on April 8, 2015, TV5 Monde, one of France’s largest global television networks, was attacked by hackers, resul...
# BBSRAT Attacks Targeting Russian Organizations Linked to Roaming Tiger In late 2014, ESET presented an attack campaign that had been observed over a period of time targeting Russia and other Russian-speaking nations, dubbed “Roaming Tiger.” The attack was found to heavily rely on RTF exploits and was thought to make...
# HWP Malware Using the Steganography Technique: RedEyes (ScarCruft) By muhan February 21, 2023 In January, the ASEC (AhnLab Security Emergency response Center) analysis team discovered that the RedEyes threat group (also known as APT37, ScarCruft) had been distributing malware by exploiting the HWP EPS (Encapsul...
# Phishing Campaign Threatens Job Security, Drops Bazar and Buer Malware November 10, 2020 by Area 1 Security “You’re fired…..NOT!” An ongoing and rapidly evolving spear phishing campaign is threatening targets with false claims of employment termination due to economic impacts from the global pandemic, among numer...
# Global DNS Hijacking Campaign: DNS Record Manipulation at Scale ## Introduction FireEye’s Mandiant Incident Response and Intelligence teams have identified a wave of DNS hijacking that has affected dozens of domains belonging to government, telecommunications, and internet infrastructure entities across the Middle ...
# Ukraine: Disk-wiping Attacks Precede Russian Invasion **UPDATE February 24, 2022, 13:42:** This blog has been updated with details about ransomware being used as a possible decoy during some wiper attacks. A new form of disk-wiping malware (Trojan.Killdisk) was used to attack organizations in Ukraine shortly before...
# Sodin Ransomware Exploits Windows Vulnerability and Processor Architecture **Authors** Orkhan Mamedov Artur Pakulov Fedor Sinitsyn When Sodin (also known as Sodinokibi and REvil) appeared in the first half of 2019, it immediately caught our attention for distributing itself through an Oracle Weblogic vulner...
# MoqHao Android Malware Analysis and Phishing Campaign **TL;DR** The Roaming Mantis cyber threat actor is currently targeting France with an SMS phishing campaign to deliver a malicious Android application named MoqHao. This malware contains its code in an encrypted and compressed resource. Once the resource is lau...
# New Insights into Energetic Bear’s Watering Hole Cyber Attacks on Turkish Critical Infrastructure **By Yonathan Klijnsma** **November 02, 2017** On October 20th, US-CERT published an alert (TA-17-293A) with information about the activities of an APT targeting the critical infrastructure sector. The report contain...
# ProblemChild: Detecting Living-off-the-Land Attacks Using the Elastic Stack When it comes to malware attacks, one of the more common techniques is “living off the land” (LOtL). Utilizing standard tools or features that already exist in the target environment allows these attacks to blend into the environment and avo...
# Study of the ShadowPad APT Backdoor and Its Relation to PlugX In July 2020, we released a study of targeted attacks on state institutions in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan with a detailed analysis of malware found in compromised networks. During the investigation, Doctor Web specialists analyzed and described several gro...
# North Korean State-Sponsored Cyber Actors Use Maui Ransomware to Target the Healthcare and Public Health Sector ## Summary The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of the Treasury are releasing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to p...
# WastedLocker: Symantec Identifies Wave of Attacks Against U.S. Organizations Attackers were preparing to attack dozens of U.S. corporations, including eight Fortune 500 companies. UPDATE June 30: Further investigation by Symantec has confirmed dozens of U.S. newspaper websites owned by the same parent company have...
# Tracing the Lineage of DarkSeoul This paper presents a case study of the April 2013 'DarkSeoul' cyber-attack, which crippled tens of thousands of computers in South Korea's banking and media sectors through the use of destructive malware. While the attack was initially believed to be the work of hacktivists, malware...
# Small Sieve Malware Analysis Report **Version 1.0** **27 January 2022** © Crown Copyright 2022 ## Executive Summary - Use of the Telegram Bot API reduces visibility to network defenders. - Custom string and traffic obfuscation routines are also employed to evade detection. - Functionality is limited to download...
# Dissecting the Danabot Payload Targeting Italy **December 20, 2018** ## Introduction In the last weeks, a new variant of the infamous botnet named Danabot hit Italy. Security firms such as Proofpoint and Eset analyzed other samples of the same threat targeting the Australian landscape back in May 2018 and, more re...
# Sunburst: Connecting the Dots in the DNS Requests **Authors** Igor Kuznetsov Costin Raiu On December 13, 2020, FireEye published important details of a newly discovered supply chain attack. An unknown attacker, referred to as UNC2452 or DarkHalo, planted a backdoor in the SolarWinds Orion IT software. This ba...
# Attackers Insert Themselves into the Email Conversation to Spread Malware The “never get gifts from strangers” rule applies for suspicious email attachments as well as enterprises and SMBs alike educate their employees about the dangers lurking in cyberspace. One of the most popular threats is malware delivered by e...
# MuddyWater Targets Middle Eastern and Asian Countries in Phishing Attacks Cisco Talos has illustrated the ways in which the Iranian-backed hacker group has attempted cyberattacks against various countries. Iranian APT supergroup MuddyWater has been identified as the hackers linked to attempted phishing attacks again...
# SilverFish APT Group Threat Actor Report ## 1 Introduction The PRODAFT Threat Intelligence (PTI) team discovered a highly sophisticated group of cybercriminals targeting exclusively large corporations and public institutions worldwide, with a focus on the EU and the US. Despite refraining from making any attributio...
# Prototype Nation ## The Chinese Cybercriminal Underground in 2015 **Lion Gu** ## Leaked-data search engines: Intel gathering made easy for criminals The Deep Web is simply the vast and hidden section of the Internet that is not accessible via search engines. A huge chunk of the Deep Web deals with cybercrimi...
# Malware Actors Using NIC Cyber Security Themed Spear Phishing to Target Indian Government Organizations This blog post describes an attack campaign where NIC (National Informatics Centre) Cyber Security themed spear phishing email was used to possibly target Indian government organizations. In order to infect the vi...
# Mobile Banking Fraud: BRATA Strikes Again **Federica Abbinante, Francesco Iubatti** ## Executive Summary In the past year, we observed a spike of Android RAT infections on the Cleafy platform caused by an increase in Android Banking Trojans used for fraudulent activities, usually combined with smishing and social ...
# Cybersecurity Threat Landscape Q1 2021 ## Summary Highlights of Q1 2021 include: - The number of attacks increased by 17% compared to Q1 2020, and compared to Q4 2020, the increase was 1.2%, with 77% being targeted attacks. Incidents involving individuals accounted for 12% of the total. - Ransomware is still the m...
# Secrets Behind Ever101 Ransomware ## Executive Summary A victim called the incident response teams of Global Threat Center, reporting a seemingly new stream of ransomware attack. Upon investigation, we determined the extension of the encrypted files was certainly new, but the malware displayed significant similarit...
# Exclusive: Operation Shady Rat— ## Unprecedented Cyber-espionage Campaign and Intellectual-Property Bonanza For at least five years, a high-level hacking campaign—dubbed Operation Shady Rat—has infiltrated the computer systems of national governments, global corporations, nonprofits, and other organizations, with ...
# LAZARUS & WATERING-HOLE ATTACKS On 3rd February 2017, researchers at badcyber.com released an article that detailed a series of attacks directed at Polish financial institutions. The article is brief, but states that "This is – by far – the most serious information security incident we have seen in Poland," followed...
# OilRig Performs Tests on the TwoFace Webshell **By Robert Falcone** **December 11, 2017** ## Summary Unit 42 is well aware of the OilRig threat group conducting testing activities on their tools prior to their use in active operations. We first discussed OilRig’s testing activity in our April 2017 blog, which ...
# Territorial Dispute – NSA’s Perspective on APT Landscape ## Introduction This document is based on a specific part of the “Shadow Brokers” leaks. The unknown party, calling itself “Shadow Brokers,” leaked information about stolen information from NSA a number of times. In the fifth leak of the group, which was name...
# Evolution of Malware Sandbox Evasion Tactics – A Retrospective Study **Executive Summary** Malware evasion techniques are widely used to circumvent detection as well as analysis and understanding. One of the dominant categories of evasion is anti-sandbox detection, simply because today’s sandboxes are becoming the...
# The “Kimsuky” Operation: A North Korean APT? **Authors** Dmitry Tarakanov For several months, we have been monitoring an ongoing cyber-espionage campaign against South Korean think-tanks. There are multiple reasons why this campaign is extraordinary in its execution and logistics. It all started one day when we...
# New Uyghur and Tibetan Themed Attacks Using PDF Exploits **Authors** Igor Kuznetsov On Feb 12th 2013, FireEye announced the discovery of an Adobe Reader 0-day exploit which is used to drop a previously unknown, advanced piece of malware. We called this new malware “ItaDuke” because it reminded us of Duqu and be...
# SOLARDEFLECTION C2 Infrastructure Used by NOBELIUM in Company Brand Misuse This report profiles the unique infrastructure used by Russian state-sponsored threat activity group NOBELIUM. The activity was identified through a combination of large-scale automated network traffic analytics and analysis derived from open...
# Microsoft and Okta Confirm Breach by LAPSUS$ Extortion Group Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed that the LAPSUS$ extortion-focused hacking crew had gained "limited access" to its systems, as authentication services provider Okta revealed that nearly 2.5% of its customers have been potentially impacted in the wake of the...
# Snake/404 Keylogger, BIFF, and Covering Tracks?: An unusual maldoc It’s always interesting to see how attackers take a variety of techniques and wrap them up into one document. Some are so heavily obfuscated that it’s rather easy to point and say, “Oh, the malicious stuff is probably in there. I should focus on that...
# Big Game Hunting: The Evolution of INDRIK SPIDER **From Dridex Wire Fraud to BitPaymer Targeted Ransomware** Sergei Frankoff and Bex Hartley November 14, 2018 INDRIK SPIDER is a sophisticated eCrime group that has been operating Dridex since June 2014. In 2015 and 2016, Dridex was one of the most prolific eCr...
# More Evil: A Deep Look at Evilnum and Its Toolset Matías Porolli July 9, 2020 ESET has analyzed the operations of Evilnum, the APT group behind the Evilnum malware previously seen in attacks against financial technology companies. While said malware has been seen in the wild since at least 2018 and documented p...
# Hackers are trying to topple Belarus’s dictator, with help from the inside Since becoming president of Belarus in 1994, Alexander Lukashenko has built Europe’s most repressive police state and ruthlessly used his power to stay in office as a dictator. Now hackers are trying to turn the extensive surveillance state a...
# The Approach of TA413 for Tibetan Targets **Summary** This attack chain begins with the victim receiving a malicious RTF file through a phishing attack. When the victim opens the RTF file, it contains a hidden encoded file which is then decoded and executed using shellcode. The executed file performs process hollo...
# IcedID (Bokbot) with Dark VNC and Cobalt Strike **Published:** 2022-07-27 **Last Updated:** 2022-07-27 03:15:24 UTC **by Brad Duncan (Version: 1)** ## Introduction As early as April 2022, a long-running threat actor known as TA551 (designated by Proofpoint), Monster Libra (designated by Palo Alto Networks), ...
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# Technical Analysis of Tofsee Botnet Tofsee, also known as Gheg, is a botnet analyzed by CERT Polska. Its main job is to send spam, but it is capable of performing other tasks as well. This is possible due to the modular design of the malware, which consists of a main binary that the user downloads and infects with. ...
# PsiXBot Now Using Google DNS over HTTPS and Possible New Sexploitation Module **September 6, 2019** **The Proofpoint Threat Insight Team** ## Overview Since posting our last PsiXBot update, the group or actor behind this malware has continued to make changes. Most notably, we have observed: - The introduction o...
# New Python-Based Payload MechaFlounder Used by Chafer **By Robert Falcone and Brittany Barbehenn** **March 4, 2019** In November 2018, the Chafer threat group targeted a Turkish government entity reusing infrastructure that they used in campaigns reported earlier in 2018 by Clearsky, specifically, the domain win1...
# Financially Motivated Mobile Scamware Exceeds 100M Installations **January 26, 2022** **Research by Aazim Yaswant and Nipun Gupta** While some financially motivated scams may seem simple on the surface, cybercriminals are investing large amounts of money into strategies and infrastructure to scale up their malici...
# More Examples of Malspam Pushing Jaff Ransomware ## Associated Files: - Zip archive of the pcap: `2017-05-16-Jaff-ransomware-malspam-traffic.pcap.zip` (92.3 kB) - `2017-05-16-Jaff-ransomware-malspam-traffic.pcap` (97,799 bytes) - Zip archive of the spreadsheet tracker: `2017-05-16-Jaff-ransomware-tracker.csv.zip` (1...
# Elaborate Scripting-Fu Used in Espionage Attack Against Saudi Arabia Government Entity We recently came across a campaign targeting a Saudi Arabia Government entity via a malicious Word document which at first reminded us of an attack we had previously described on this blog. In our previous research, we detailed ...
# Understanding the Windows JavaScript Threat Landscape November 4, 2021 | Shaul Vilkomir-Preisman Script-based attacks have become a significant threat in recent years, with some estimates putting these attacks at 40 percent or more of all global cyberattacks. A script can be anything from a sequence of simple comma...
# Tracking One Year of Malicious Tor Exit Relay Activities (Part II) >25% of the Tor network’s exit capacity has been attacking Tor users. In August 2020, I reported about “How Malicious Tor Relays are Exploiting Users in 2020 (Part I)”. Back then, I hypothesized that the entity behind these malicious Tor relays woul...
# Who Hid My Desktop ## DEEP DIVE INTO HVNC **Or Safran, Pavel Asinovsky** **IBM Trusteer, Israel** **November 2017** ## Agenda - Intro - What is VNC. - Part 1 - Sessions, Window Stations, Desktops. - Part 2 - Financial malware. - hVNC. - Part 3 - Reversing Gozi ISFB’s hVNC module. - Demo. - Detect...
# Кейлоггер с сюрпризом: анализ клавиатурного шпиона и деанон его разработчика В последние годы мобильные трояны активно вытесняют трояны для персональных компьютеров, поэтому появление новых вредоносных программ под старые добрые «тачки» и их активное использование киберпреступниками, хотя и неприятное, но все-таки с...
# Kraken - The Deep Sea Lurker Part 2 **May 26, 2023** **0xToxin** **Threat Analyst & IR team leader - Malware Analysis - Blue Team** ## Intro In the second part of analyzing the “KrakenKeylogger”, I will be diving into some proactive “threat hunting” steps I’ve done during my research about the Kraken. If you h...
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# Attacks on SWIFT Banking System Benefit From Insider Knowledge By Christiaan Beek on May 20, 2016 In recent months, we’ve seen headlines about the compromise of a bank in Bangladesh from which cybercriminals attempted to steal US$951 million. The malware they used was able to manipulate and read unique messages fro...
# PlugX Malware Being Distributed via Vulnerability Exploitation By Sanseo March 9, 2023 ASEC (AhnLab Security Emergency response Center) has recently discovered the installation of the PlugX malware through the Chinese remote control programs Sunlogin and AweSun’s remote code execution vulnerability. Sunlogin’s ...
# Uncovering MosesStaff Techniques: Ideology over Money ## Introduction In September 2021, the hacker group MosesStaff began targeting Israeli organizations, joining a wave of attacks initiated about a year ago by the Pay2Key and BlackShadow groups. These actors operated mainly for political reasons in an attempt to ...
# TA551 (Shathak) Pushes IcedID (Bokbot) ## Introduction TA551 (also known as Shathak) represents a threat actor behind malspam that has pushed different families of malware over the past few years. So far this week, TA551 is pushing IcedID (Bokbot). ## Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) The infection process was simila...