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# Scope Note Insikt Group used the Recorded Future product and dark web analysis to track the activity of threat actor ThisWasKraken, who operates the Kraken Cryptor ransomware affiliate program on a top-tier Russian-speaking criminal forum. Insikt Group collaborated with researchers at McAfee. Ransomware continually r...
# Double header: IsaacWiper and CaddyWiper As war in Ukraine rages, new destructive malware continues to be discovered. In this short blog post, we will review IsaacWiper and CaddyWiper, two new wipers that do not have much in common based on their source code, but with the same intent of destroying targeted Ukrainian...
# Highly Resilient Peer-to-Peer Botnets Are Here: An Analysis of GameoverZeus **Dennis Andriesse**, **Christian Rossow**, **Brett Stone-Gross**, **Daniel Plohmann**, and **Herbert Bos** VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, {d.a.andriesse, c.rossow, h.j.bos}@vu.nl Dell SecureWorks, bstonegross@secureworks.com ...
# Killing the Myth of Cisco IOS Diversity: Recent Advances in Reliable Shellcode Design **Ang Cui** **Jatin Kataria** **Salvatore J. Stolfo** Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York NY, 10027, USA ang@cs.columbia.edu jk3319@columbia.edu sal@cs.columbia.edu ## ABSTRACT IOS firmware...
# Doctor Web detected Linux Trojan written in Go Doctor Web analysts have detected and examined a new Linux Trojan which is able to run a cryptocurrency mining program on an infected computer. Its key feature lies in the fact that it is written in Go, a language developed by Google. A Trojan, named Linux.Lady.1, can ...
# SharkBot: A “New” Generation Android Banking Trojan NCC Group, as well as many other researchers, noticed a rise in Android malware last year, especially Android banking malware. Within the Threat Intelligence team of NCC Group, we’re looking closely at several of these malware families to provide valuable informati...
# Technical Analysis of SOVA Android Malware **Introduction** In September 2021, SOVA, a new Android Banking Trojan, was announced in a known underground forum. It had multiple capabilities and was basically almost in the go-to market phase. Until March 2022, multiple versions of SOVA were found and some of these fe...
# Threat Actor Profile: TA407, the Silent Librarian In our September 5, 2019, Threat Insight post, “Seems Phishy: Back To School Lures Target University Students and Staff,” we discussed the seasonal uptick of phishing campaigns directed at university students and staff, usually between June and October of every year....
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# Idea: Opcode-Sequence-Based Malware Detection **Igor Santos**, **Felix Brezo**, **Javier Nieves**, **Yoseba K. Penya**, **Borja Sanz**, **Carlos Laorden**, **Pablo G. Bringas** S3Lab, eNergy Lab University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain {isantos, felix.brezo, javier.nieves, yoseba.penya, borja.sanz, claorden, pablo....
# ENISA Threat Landscape Report 2018 ## Executive Summary 2018 was a year that brought significant changes in the cyberthreat landscape. These changes stemmed from discrete developments in the motives and tactics of the most important threat agent groups, namely cyber-criminals and state-sponsored actors. Monetizatio...
# Machine Learning from Idea to Reality: A PowerShell Case Study **Author:** Joost Jansen **Date:** September 2, 2020 This blog provides a ‘look behind the scenes’ at the RIFT Data Science team and describes the process of moving from the need or an idea for research towards models that can be used in practice. M...
# Cybersecurity DNA ## Iron Cybercrime Group Under The Scope **Omri Ben Bassat** 29.05.18 | 11:53 am In April 2018, while monitoring public data feeds, we noticed an interesting and previously unknown backdoor using HackingTeam’s leaked RCS source code. We discovered that this backdoor was developed by the Iron cy...
# Storm Cloud Unleashed: Tibetan Focus of Highly Targeted Fake Flash Campaign **March 31, 2020** **by Volexity Threat Research** Beginning in May 2019, Volexity started tracking a new series of strategic web compromises that have been used in highly targeted attacks against Tibetan individuals and organizations by ...
# Squirrelwaffle: New Loader Delivering Cobalt Strike Zscaler ThreatLabz has been following an emerging new malware loader known as Squirrelwaffle that is being used to deliver Cobalt Strike. In this blog, we will be analyzing the complete attack chain for this new malware family. This campaign has been running since ...
# Infected PowerPoint Files Using Cloud Services to Deliver Multiple Malware **Gustavo Palazolo** **January 24, 2022** **Co-authored by Gustavo Palazolo and Ghanashyam Satpathy** ## Summary In 2021, malicious Office documents accounted for 37% of all malware downloads detected by Netskope, showing favoritism for...
# Cat Scratch Fever: CrowdStrike Tracks Newly Reported Iranian Actor as FLYING KITTEN Today, our friends at FireEye released a report on an Iran-based adversary they are calling Saffron Rose. CrowdStrike Intelligence has also been tracking and reporting internally on this threat group since mid-January 2014 under the ...
# The 'Madi' Infostealers - A Detailed Analysis On 17 July, we published a blog about Madi and the ongoing campaign used to infiltrate computer systems throughout the Middle East, targeting users in Iran, Israel, Afghanistan, and other individuals globally. Here is the follow-up with a detailed analysis of the infoste...
# Harvester: Nation-state-backed group uses new toolset to target victims in South Asia A previously unseen actor, likely nation-state-backed, is targeting organizations in South Asia, with a focus on Afghanistan, in what appears to be an information-stealing campaign using a new toolset. The Harvester group uses both...
# Grayfly: Chinese Threat Actor Uses Newly-discovered Sidewalk Malware Symantec, part of Broadcom Software, has linked the recently discovered Sidewalk backdoor to the China-linked Grayfly espionage group. The malware, which is related to the older Crosswalk backdoor (Backdoor.Motnug), has been deployed in recent Gray...
# An Overview of FinTech Threat Landscape Research shows that there has been a considerable increase in digital threats targeting financial firms since the onset of the pandemic. The statistical reports released between 2020-2021 show that cyber-attacks on financial firms and services have increased by 238%. Out of th...
# Suckfly: Revealing the Secret Life of Your Code Signing Certificates A China-based APT group has an insatiable appetite for stolen code-signing certificates. **By:** Jon DiMaggio, Symantec Employee **Created:** 15 Mar 2016 Many security-minded organizations utilize code signing to provide an additional layer of ...
# ModifiedElephant APT and a Decade of Fabricating Evidence **Tom Hegel** ## Executive Summary Our research attributes a decade of activity to a threat actor we call ModifiedElephant. ModifiedElephant is responsible for targeted attacks on human rights activists, human rights defenders, academics, and lawyers across...
# Attacks on Android Clipboard **Xiao Zhang and Wenliang Du** Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA {xzhang35, wedu}@syr.edu ## Abstract In this paper, we perform a thorough study on the risks posed by the globally accessible Android Clipboard. Based on ...
# Understand Shellcode with CyberChef **Cyber_00011011** February 17, 2021 Cooking up Cyber Add two parts cyber and one part input to produce a delicious recipe. All joking aside, CyberChef is a pretty sweet tool that anyone in the cybersecurity community would likely find useful. It really is the entire kitche...
# Hunting the Mutex **Palo Alto Networks** **August 14, 2014** **By Palo Alto Networks** **Category:** Malware, Threat Advisories - Advisories, Threat Advisory/Analysis, Threat Prevention, Unit 42 **Tags:** Haystack, mutex, WildFire ## Summary Mutex analysis is an often overlooked and useful tool for malwa...
# The PhishLabs Blog ## Globe Imposter Ransomware Makes a New Run Get The Latest Insights
# Olympic Ticket Reseller Magecart Infection **Jacob Pimental** **January 25, 2020** I have recently stumbled across a Magecart infection on an Olympic ticket reseller site. This article will contain a brief analysis of the Magecart infection as well as my experience disclosing this information to the company. This...
# Chaos Ransomware: A Proof of Concept With Potentially Dangerous Applications Since June 2021, we’ve been monitoring an in-development ransomware builder called Chaos, which is being offered for testing on an underground forum. While it’s purportedly a .NET version of Ryuk, closer examination of the sample reveals th...
# LATENTBOT: Trace Me If You Can **Threat Research Blog** December 11, 2015 | by Taha Karim, Daniel Regalado | Botnets FireEye Labs recently uncovered LATENTBOT, a new, highly obfuscated bot that has been in the wild since mid-2013. It has managed to leave hardly any traces on the Internet, is capable of watching i...
# Early Analysis of the Twilio Phishing Attack - It is the Tip of the Iceberg **What happened?** On August 4th, threat actors gained illicit access to customer information on the Twilio platform - a global UCaaS service with nearly 8,000 employees - following an SMS-based social engineering attack that fooled staff ...
# An Oil and Gas Weak Spot: Flow Computers ## Executive Summary Flow computers calculate oil and gas volume and flow rates; these measurements are critical not only to process safety but are also used as inputs in other areas, including billing. Team82 is disclosing details on a path-traversal vulnerability in ABB To...
# SilverTerrier – Nigerian Business Email Compromise **By Peter Renals** **October 7, 2021** **Category: Unit 42** **Tags: Business Email Compromise, Cybercrime, SilverTerrier** ## Executive Summary Business email compromise (BEC) remains the most common and costly threat facing our customers. The year 2020 ma...
# AtomSilo Ransomware Enters the League of Double Extortion Ransomware is used widely in cyberattacks to disrupt the victim's organization. Over the last two years, many attackers have evolved their ransomware tactics to include data exfiltration. This tactic is known as "double-extortion": attackers demand ransom for...
# Going Rogue: A Mastermind Behind Android Malware Returns with a New RAT **Research by:** Aviran Hazum, Alex Shamshur, Raman Ladutska, Ohad Mana, Israel Wernik **Date:** January 12, 2021 ## Introduction Now more than ever, we rely on our smartphones to keep in touch with our work, our families, and the world arou...
# IIStealer: A Server-Side Threat to E-Commerce Transactions The first in our series on IIS threats looks at a malicious IIS extension that intercepts server transactions to steal credit card information. ESET researchers have discovered and analyzed a previously undocumented trojan that steals payment information fr...
# LightBasin: A Roaming Threat to Telecommunications Companies LightBasin (aka UNC1945) is an activity cluster that has been consistently targeting the telecommunications sector at a global scale since at least 2016, leveraging custom tools and an in-depth knowledge of telecommunications network architectures. Recent ...
# Ransomware Gang Turns to Revenge Porn At least one ransomware gang has taken a rare and highly invasive step in order to convince its victims to pay: leaking nude images allegedly uncovered as part of their hack of a target company. The news presents an escalation in the world of ransomware and digital extortion, a...
# Triple Threat: Emotet Deploys TrickBot to Steal Data & Spread Ryuk **Written By** Cybereason Nocturnus April 2, 2019 | 15 minute read Research by Noa Pinkas, Lior Rochberger, and Matan Zatz Cybereason’s Active Monitoring and Hunting teams have uncovered a severe threat that uses the Emotet trojan and the Tr...
# Operation Dream Job's Campaign to Victimize Job Seekers in Korea The attack against job seekers in the aerospace and defense industry was first discovered in 2019. This attack was dubbed ‘Operation Dream Job.’ The attacker disguised as recruiters from well-known aerospace and defense companies and exploited business...
# M-TRENDS 2016 2015 a été l'année de tous les records. Jamais les cybermenaces : révélations de compromissions et les groupes de cyberpirates n'ont été aussi nombreux à travers le monde. Dans le même temps, les motivations de ces attaquants se sont diversifiées : infiltration et destruction de systèmes, vol d'informa...
# Winter Vivern | Uncovering a Wave of Global Espionage **Tom Hegel** ## Executive Summary SentinelLabs has conducted an investigation into Winter Vivern Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) activity, leveraging observations made by The Polish CBZC and Ukraine CERT. Our research has uncovered a previously unknown set of...
# Harvester: Nation-State-Backed Group Uses New Toolset to Target Victims in South Asia A previously unseen actor, likely nation-state-backed, is targeting organizations in South Asia, with a focus on Afghanistan, in what appears to be an information-stealing campaign using a new toolset. The Harvester group uses both...
# Threat Actor Selling New Atomic macOS (AMOS) Stealer on Telegram **April 26, 2023** ## Undetected Golang-Based Stealer Emerges and Baffles Security Vendors In recent years, macOS has become increasingly popular among users, largely due to its user-friendly interface, which is often commended for its simplicity and...
# Malicious Cyber Activity Targeting Critical SAP Applications SAP systems running outdated or misconfigured software are exposed to increased risks of malicious attacks. SAP applications help organizations manage critical business processes—such as enterprise resource planning, product lifecycle management, customer ...
# Blog - Team Cymru **Post author:** S2 Research Team We use cookies on our website to ensure you get the best experience. Got it!
# Another Nobelium Cyberattack **UPDATE (May 28, 2021, 1pm PT):** Our teams have continued to investigate the latest wave of phishing attacks launched by Nobelium. Based on what we currently know, the security community should feel good about the collective work done to limit the damage done by this wave of attacks. A...
# Operation Dragon Castling: APT Group Targeting Betting Companies **March 22, 2022** by Luigino Camastra, Igor Morgenstern, Jan Holman ## Introduction We recently discovered an APT campaign we are calling Operation Dragon Castling. The campaign is targeting what appears to be betting companies in South East Asia,...
# Outlaw Updates Kit to Kill Older Miner Versions, Targets More Systems **Posted on:** February 10, 2020 at 1:00 pm **Posted in:** Bad Sites, Exploits, Malware, Targeted Attacks, Vulnerabilities **Author:** Trend Micro By Jindrich Karasek (Threat Researcher) As we’ve observed with cybercriminal groups that aim...
# Bitter APT Adds Bangladesh to Their Targets Cisco Talos has observed an ongoing malicious campaign since August 2021 from the Bitter APT group that appears to target users in Bangladesh, a change from the attackers' usual victims. As part of this, there's a new trojan based on Apost Talos is calling "ZxxZ," which in...
# SUNBURST, TEARDROP and the NetSec New Normal ## Foreword In December 2020, a large-scale cyberattack targeting many organizations – predominantly tech companies, mainly in the United States, but not only there – was discovered to have been going on for several months. The attack was of a degree of sophistication th...
# Qakbot Decoder Name already in use. A tag already exists with the provided branch name. Many Git commands accept both tag and branch names, so creating this branch may cause unexpected behavior. Are you sure you want to create this branch? 1 contributor Users who have contributed to this file. Sorry, something we...
# WHITEPAPER ## Security Debugging MosaicLoader, One Step at a Time ### Summary Bitdefender researchers have noticed a new malware strain spiking in our telemetry. What caught our attention were processes that add local exclusions in Windows Defender for specific file names (prun.exe, appsetup.exe, etc.), that all re...
# InSideCopy: How this APT continues to evolve its arsenal By Asheer Malhotra and Justin Thattil. Cisco Talos is tracking an increase in SideCopy's activities targeting government personnel in India using themes and tactics similar to APT36 (aka Mythic Leopard and Transparent Tribe). SideCopy is an APT group that mim...
# Arid Viper APT Targets Palestine with New Wave of Politically Themed Phishing Attacks By Asheer Malhotra and Vitor Ventura Cisco Talos has observed a new wave of Delphi malware called Micropsia developed and operated by the Arid Viper APT group since 2017. This campaign targets Palestinian entities and activists us...
While researching new, unknown threats collected by WildFire, we discovered the apparent re-emergence of a cyber espionage campaign thought to be dormant after its public disclosure in June 2013. The tools and tactics discovered, while not identical to the previous Dark Seoul campaign, showed extreme similarities in th...
# Adwind Dodges AV via DDE This blog post is authored by Paul Rascagneres, Vitor Ventura, with contributions from Tomislav Pericin and Robert Perica from ReversingLabs. ## Introduction Cisco Talos, along with fellow cybersecurity firm ReversingLabs, recently discovered a new spam campaign that is spreading the Adwin...
# Visa Alert and Update on the Oracle Breach Credit card industry giant Visa on Friday issued a security alert warning companies using point-of-sale devices made by Oracle's MICROS retail unit to double-check the machines for malicious software or unusual network activity, and to change passwords on the devices. Visa ...
# MTR in Real Time: Pirates pave way for Ryuk ransomware **Tilly Travers** **May 6, 2021** Sophos’ Rapid Response team was recently brought in to contain and neutralize an attack involving Ryuk ransomware. The target was a life sciences research institute that has close partnerships with local universities and work...
# Operation Overtrap Targets Japanese Online Banking Users ## Technical Brief By Jaromir Horejsi and Joseph C. Chen (Threat Researchers) We recently discovered a new campaign that we dubbed “Operation Overtrap” for the numerous ways it can infect or trap victims with its payload. The campaign mainly targets online u...
# Skimmers in Images: GitHub Repos **Denis Sinegubko** *July 22, 2020* MalwareBytes recently shared some information about web skimmers that store malicious code inside real .ico files. During a routine investigation, we detected a similar issue. Instead of targeting .ico files, however, attackers chose to inject c...
# xHunt Campaign: New BumbleBee Webshell and SSH Tunnels Used for Lateral Movement **By Robert Falcone** **January 11, 2021** ## Executive Summary In September 2020, we began investigating a Microsoft Exchange server at a Kuwaiti organization that a threat group compromised as part of a continued xHunt campaign....
# Story of the Week: Code Signing Certificate on the Darkweb **Hyunmin Suh** **May 17, 2021** **Co-Authors: Denise Dasom Kim, Jungyeon Lim, YH Jeong | S2W LAB Talon** ## Executive Summary Code signing certificates have been used since the Stuxnet incident (2011). Malware using code signing certificates is classi...
# Software for Adversary Simulations and Red Team Operations Adversary Simulations and Red Team Operations are security assessments that replicate the tactics and techniques of an advanced adversary in a network. While penetration tests focus on unpatched vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, these assessments benefi...
# Who is Mr Wu? In our last post, we introduced you to APT3 and promised to identify the individuals behind the intrusion. Today we will follow the trail left by APT3’s infrastructure procurers and will identify our first APT3 operator, Mr Wu. ## Mr Wu The trail starts in 2010, when FireEye researchers analyzing the...
# Taiwan Targeted with New Cyberespionage Back Door Trojan **March 28, 2016** **By: Jon DiMaggio, Symantec Employee** Backdoor.Dripion was custom developed, deployed in a highly targeted fashion, and used command and control servers disguised as antivirus company websites. In late August 2015, Symantec identified ...
# DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms ## PREFACE ### 1. Scope As directed in Joint Publication (JP) 1, Doctrine for the Armed Forces of the United States, the DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms (DOD Dictionary) sets forth standard US military and associated terminology to encompass the joint ...
# RedDelta PlugX Undergoing Changes and Overlapping Again with Mustang Panda PlugX Infrastructure Focus on Threat Research through malware reverse engineering New RedDelta PlugX variant undergoes revisions to slow down analysis. Extracted C2s link back to two known Mustang Panda command and control servers. **Family...
# ASLR Protection for Statically Linked Executables **Written By:** Ryan O'Neill **Email:** ryan.oneill@leviathansecurity.com **Twitter:** @ryan_elfmaster **Target Audience:** Software vendors, OS maintainers, Software engineers, & Security researchers. ## 1 Introduction This paper provides insights into the m...
# Modern Asian APT Groups’ Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) **Authors** Nikita Nazarov Kirill Mitrofanov Alexander Kirichenko Vladislav Burtsev Natalya Shornikova Vasily Berdnikov Sergey Kireev Almost every quarter, someone publishes major research focusing on campaigns or incidents that invo...
# New LNK Attack Tied to Higaisa APT Discovered **Threat Intelligence Team** June 4, 2020 This post was authored by Hossein Jazi and Jérôme Segura On May 29th, we identified an attack that we believe is part of a new campaign from an Advanced Persistent Threat actor known as Higaisa. The Higaisa APT is believed t...
# The Return of the Emotet as the World Unlocks **Written by Prashant Tilekar** **September 29, 2020** **Categories:** Cybersecurity, Emotet A threat actor named Emotet Trojan has been in the wild for more than 5 years, and now it is back after a 5 months break. It has spread globally, infecting new as well as ...
# The “HawkEye” Attack: How Cybercrooks Target Small Businesses for Big Money By Paul Ducklin 29 Feb 2016 SophosLabs researcher and regular Naked Security contributor Gabor Szappanos (Szapi) has recently been reviewing the past year’s worth of attack data relating to Microsoft Word document exploits. He wanted to l...
# BYOVD 기법으로 백신 프로그램을 무력화하는 라자루스 공격 그룹의 악성코드 감염 사례 2022년 4월 안랩은 ASEC 블로그에서 라자루스 공격 그룹이 악성코드 감염을 위해 INITECH 프로세스를 악용한다는 내용을 소개했다. 본 글에서는 라자루스 공격 그룹이 워터링 홀 기법을 통해 시스템 해킹에 성공한 후 내부 네트워크 내의 시스템들을 추가로 해킹하기 위해 드림시큐리티사의 MagicLine4NX 제품의 취약점을 이용하고 있으며, 취약한 드라이버를 이용해 백신 프로그램을 무력화하고 있다는 내용을 공유하고자 한다. ## 최초 침투 공격자는 피해 시스템에 침투하...
# Special Report: Behind the Syrian Conflict’s Digital Front Lines ## Introduction Ten armed units working in opposition to Syrian President Assad’s regime were planning a major operation intended to push a front forward against the Syrian government’s forces. They carefully laid out their objective—take and hold a s...
# Jack of All Trades **Authors** Nikita Buchka Anton Kivva Dmitry Galov Nowadays, it’s all too easy to end up with malicious apps on your smartphone, even if you’re using the official Google Play app store. The situation gets even worse when you go somewhere other than the official store – fake applications, ...
# Fallout Exploit Kit Releases the Kraken Ransomware on Its Victims October 30, 2018 Alexandr Solad and Daniel Hatheway of Recorded Future are coauthors of this post. Rising from the deep, Kraken Cryptor ransomware has had a notable development path in recent months. The first signs of Kraken came in mid-August on a ...
# “绿斑”行动 ——持续多年的攻击 ## 概述 在过去的数年时间里，安天始终警惕地监测、分析、跟踪着各种针对中国的 APT 攻击活动，并谨慎地披露了“海莲花”（APT-TOCS）、“白象”（White Elephant）、“方程式”（Equation）等攻击组织的活动或攻击装备分析，同时也对更多的攻击组织和行动形成了持续监测分析成果。本报告主要分析了某地缘性攻击组织在 2015 年前的攻击活动，安天以与该地区有一定关联的海洋生物作为该攻击组织的名字——“绿斑”（GreenSpot）。为提升中国用户的安全意识，推动网络安全与信息化建设，安天公布这份报告。 综合来看，“绿斑”组织的攻击以互联网暴露目标和资产为攻击入口，采用社工邮...
# IsaacWiper and HermeticWizard: New Wiper and Worm Targeting Ukraine As the recent hostilities started between Russia and Ukraine, ESET researchers discovered several malware families targeting Ukrainian organizations. On February 23rd, 2022, a destructive campaign using HermeticWiper targeted multiple Ukrainian or...
# 3CX Supply Chain Attack Analysis On March 29th, 2023, CrowdStrike published a blog outlining a supply chain attack leveraging the 3CXDesktopApp - a softphone application from 3CX. The ThreatLabz Team immediately started hunting for IoCs on the Zscaler Cloud. We observed infections dating back to February 2023 for bo...
# Operation BugDrop: CyberX Discovers Large-Scale Cyber-Reconnaissance Operation Targeting Ukrainian Organizations By Phil Neray 2/15/2017 CyberX has discovered a new, large-scale cyber-reconnaissance operation targeting a broad range of targets in Ukraine. Because it eavesdrops on sensitive conversations by remote...
# Unmasking China’s State Hackers **Kim Zetter** Intrusion Truth debuted in 2017, unmasking hackers working for the Chinese government. Five years later, they’re still at it while managing to keep their own identity a secret. Photos that Intrusion Truth posted purportedly show one MSS intelligence officer that the g...
# AXLocker, Octocrypt, and Alice: Leading a New Wave of Ransomware Campaigns **November 18, 2022** Ransomware is one of the most critical cybersecurity problems on the internet and possibly the most powerful form of cybercrime plaguing organizations today. It has rapidly become one of the most important and profitabl...
# Waterbear Returns, Uses API Hooking to Evade Security Waterbear, which has been around for several years, is a campaign that uses modular malware capable of including additional functions remotely. It is associated with the cyberespionage group BlackTech, which mainly targets technology companies and government agen...
# Deobfuscating APT32 Flow Graphs with Cutter and Radare2 **Research by:** Itay Cohen **Date:** April 24, 2019 The Ocean Lotus group, also known as APT32, is a threat actor known to target East Asian countries such as Vietnam, Laos, and the Philippines. The group focuses on Vietnam, especially private sector compan...
# Leviathan: Espionage Actor Spearphishes Maritime and Defense Targets ## Overview Proofpoint researchers are tracking an espionage actor targeting organizations and high-value targets in defense and government. Active since at least 2014, this actor has a long-standing interest in maritime industries, naval defense ...
# How to Dissect Unusual Protocols for Troubleshooting OT Security As OT security researchers, the Nozomi Networks Labs team continually works to understand OT and IoT device processes and their security risks. This includes understanding how assets like embedded controllers communicate with each other and their works...
# How Symantec Stops Microsoft Exchange Server Attacks Symantec's Intrusion Protection technology will block all attempted exploits of critical vulnerabilities. Users of Microsoft Exchange Server are advised to update to the latest version immediately, as a growing number of attackers are attempting to exploit four ...
# Etterforskningen av datanettverksoperasjonen mot statsforvalterembeter henlegges ## Sentrale funn i etterforskningen Etterforskningen har avdekket at aktøren har lyktes med å skaffe seg administratorrettigheter som har gitt tilgang til sentraliserte datasystemer som benyttes av alle statsforvalterembetene i landet....
# IOCs for Astaroth/Guildma Infection **Date:** 2022-01-17 (MONDAY) - BRAZIL EMAIL PUSHING ASTAROTH/GUILDMA MALWARE ## Email Headers: - **Received:** from 46.148.234[.]126 (EHLO brasilirib07.iribfinanceiroorgbrasil[.]cloud) by [recipient's mail server] with SMTPs (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256); Mon, 1...
# QAKBOT BB Configuration and C2 IPs List This is my first malware blog post, hope it will be useful to someone. I’ll not go deeper into the malware details because there are plenty of detailed reports related to QAKBOT. I’ll describe how the malware changed its resource decryption mechanism and report some IoCs. On ...
# New Fileless Botnet Novter Distributed by KovCoreG Malvertising Campaign **Posted on:** October 1, 2019 at 5:00 am **Posted in:** Bad Sites, Botnets, Malware **Author:** Trend Micro By Jaromir Horejsi and Joseph C. Chen (Threat Researchers) We found a new modular fileless botnet malware, which we named “Novt...
# Botnet Encyclopedia Get in-depth analyses of attack campaigns captured by Guardicore Global Sensors Network (GGSN). Learn about each botnet’s scope, its associated indicators of compromise (IOCs), and the attack flow. ## MoneroSsh ## 911 A long-running campaign in which a Mirai-variant named “Sora” is deployed. T...
# Attack Delivers ‘9002’ Trojan Through Google Drive By Robert Falcone and Jen Miller-Osborn July 26, 2016 Unit 42 recently observed a 9002 Trojan delivered using a combination of shortened links and a shared file hosted on Google Drive. The delivery method also uses an actor-controlled server hosting a custom redi...
# Targeted Destructive Malware ## Systems Affected Microsoft Windows ## Overview US-CERT was recently notified by a trusted third party of cyber threat actors using a Server Message Block (SMB) Worm Tool to conduct cyber exploitation activities targeting a major entertainment company. This SMB Worm Tool is equipped w...
# NSA: Russia's Sandworm Hackers Have Hijacked Mail Servers A warning that hackers are exploiting vulnerable email servers doesn't qualify as an unusual event in general. But when that warning comes from the National Security Agency, and the hackers are some of the most dangerous state-sponsored agents in the world, r...
# Targets of Interest: Russian Organizations Increasingly Under Attack By Chinese APTs **Tom Hegel** ## Executive Summary SentinelLabs has identified a new cluster of threat activity targeting Russian organizations. We assess with high confidence that the threat actor responsible for the attacks is a Chinese state-s...
# IceID Banking Trojan Targeting Banks, Payment Card Providers, E-Commerce Sites A new banking Trojan, first spotted by researchers in September, has been targeting banks, payment card providers, and mobile services providers, to name a few industries. Researchers said Monday that a new banking Trojan, IcedID, is stil...
# CinaRAT Resurfaces With New Evasive Tactics and Techniques **Posted by Nadav Lorber on February 5, 2021** ## Introduction In this post, we will be covering CinaRAT loader's evasive TTPs (tactics, techniques, and procedures) as have been identified and prevented by Morphisec’s zero-trust endpoint security solution,...
# GreyEnergy: Updated Arsenal of One of the Most Dangerous Threat Actors ESET research reveals a successor to the infamous BlackEnergy APT group targeting critical infrastructure, quite possibly in preparation for damaging attacks. Recent ESET research has uncovered details of the successor of the BlackEnergy APT gro...