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# The clandestine Horus Eyes RAT: From the underground to criminals’ arsenal Nowadays, the volume of banking trojans has increased both in number and sophistication, with criminals bringing more potent cyberweapons from the underground to equip their malicious arsenal. This phenomenon is connected to the criminals’ mi...
# New Campaign Abusing StackBlitz Tool to Host Phishing Pages There are numerous tools available to help individuals create new, exciting webpages. And, there seem to be just as many hackers looking to exploit these tools for their own gain. Recently, the Zscaler ThreatLabz Team came across various phishing campaigns ...
See what it's like to have a partner in the fight. Our colleague Keya Horiuchi recently described a threat detection where the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) initiated a series of suspicious processes and attempted to install a trojan on a customer endpoint. In this post, we’re going to discuss wha...
# Volt Typhoon Targets US Critical Infrastructure with Living-off-the-Land Techniques Microsoft has uncovered stealthy and targeted malicious activity focused on post-compromise credential access and network system discovery aimed at critical infrastructure organizations in the United States. The attack is carried out...
# Var tæt på at slukke tusindvis af vindmøller: Nu fortæller Vestas om cyberangreb Allan Nisgaard February 14, 2022 Fredag den 19. november 2021 klokken otte om aftenen får topchef i Vestas, Henrik Andersen, sved på panden. Vindmøllegiganten, der har 80.000 vindmøller fordelt på hele kloden, er nemlig blevet ramt...
# DiskKill/HermeticWiper: A Disruptive Cyber-Weapon Targeting Ukraine’s Critical Infrastructures **February 26, 2022** ## Introduction During the early hours of Thursday, 24 February 2022, Russia launched an attack on Ukraine due to the ongoing dispute over its possible inclusion within NATO countries. This event ha...
# 概述 人面狮行动是活跃在中东地区的网络间谍活动，主要目标可能涉及到埃及和以色列等国家的不同组织，目的是窃取目标敏感数据信息。活跃时间主要集中在2014年6月到2015年11月期间，相关攻击活动最早可以追溯到2011年12月。主要采用利用社交网络进行水坑攻击，截止到目前我总共捕获到恶意代码样本314个，C&C域名7个。 人面狮样本将主程序进行伪装成文档诱导用户点击，然后释放一系列的dll，根据功能分为9个插件模块，通过注册资源管理器插件的方式来实现核心dll自启动，然后由核心dll根据配置文件进行远程dll注入，将其他功能dll模块注入的对应的进程中，所以程序运行的时候是没有主程序的。用户被感染后比较难以发现，且使用多种加密方...
# Team TNT – The First Crypto-Mining Worm to Steal AWS Credentials **August 16, 2020** Over the weekend we’ve seen a crypto-mining worm spread that steals AWS credentials. It’s the first worm we’ve seen that contains such AWS specific functionality. The worm also steals local credentials and scans the internet for mi...
# Russia’s Gamaredon aka Primitive Bear APT Group Actively Targeting Ukraine **Updated Feb. 16** **By Unit 42** **February 3, 2022** **Category:** Government, Malware **Tags:** Advanced URL Filtering, APT, Cortex, DNS security, Gamaredon, next-generation firewall, primitive bear, Russia, Ukraine, WildFire Th...
# Cybereason vs. Prometheus Ransomware Prometheus is a relatively new variant of the Thanos ransomware that is operated independently by the Prometheus group, and was first observed in February of 2021. In just a short period of time, Prometheus caused a lot of damage, and breached over 40 companies. ## Key Findings ...
# Ransoms Demanded for Hijacked Instagram Accounts An extensive phishing campaign has targeted corporate Instagram accounts since approximately August 2021. The threat actors demand ransoms from the victims to restore access. Organizations typically focus on traditional enterprise cybersecurity threats. However, som...
# Geost Botnet: The Story of the Discovery of a New Android Banking Trojan from an OpSec Error **Sebastian Garcia** Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic **Maria Jose Erquiaga** UNCUYO University, Czech Republic **Anna Shirokova** Avast Software, Czech Republic sebastian.garcia@agents.fel.cv...
# UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT ## FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK **GOOGLE LLC,** Plaintiff, v. **DMITRY STAROVIKOV; ALEXANDER FILIPPOV; and Does 1-15,** Defendants. **COMPLAINT FOR DAMAGES AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF** Plaintiff Google LLC (“Google”) for its Complaint against the Defendants listed below...
# Malware Analysis — Manual Unpacking of Redaman In this post, we are looking to manually unpack the sample called Redaman, which is a banking trojan. Some of its capabilities include: - Monitor browser activity - Downloading files to the infected host - Keylogging activity - Capture screen shots and record video of ...
# AGARI CYBER INTELLIGENCE DIVISION ## THREAT ACTOR DOSSIER: Scattered Canary ### Executive Summary In a first, Agari has cataloged the evolution of a Nigerian cybercriminal organization from its emergence as a one-man shop into a powerful business email compromise (BEC) enterprise employing dozens of threat actors....
# New Rook Ransomware Feeds Off the Code of Babuk By Jim Walter and Niranjan Jayanand First noticed on VirusTotal on November 26th by researcher Zack Allen, Rook Ransomware initially attracted attention for the operators’ rather unorthodox self-introduction, which stated that “We desperately need a lot of money” and ...
# Hidden Tear Project: Forbidden Fruit Is the Sweetest The scourge of ransomware is by far today’s biggest computer security concern. By stepping into the crypto realm, cybercrooks have thrown down the gantlet to antivirus labs around the globe that are still mostly helpless in the face of this challenge. While many ...
# Nefarious Macro Malware Drops “Loki Bot” to Steal Sensitive Information Across GCC Countries Macro malware are still playing their atrocious activities in the wild, frightening all sectors around the globe. The latest spam campaign that flew around GCC countries created a “scary rain” across multiple entities. This ...
# ESET Threat Report T1 2021 ## Foreword Welcome to the T1 2021 issue of the ESET Threat Report! During the first four months of this year, the COVID-19 pandemic was still the number one news topic around the world; however, it became notably less prominent in the threat landscape. One could say “fortunately,” yet as ...
# Microcin is Here **Authors** Denis Legezo With asynchronous sockets, steganography, GitLab ban and a sock. In February 2020, we observed a Trojan injected into the system process memory on a particular host. The target turned out to be a diplomatic entity. What initially attracted our attention was the enterpr...
# Sandworm Windows Zero-Day Vulnerability Being Actively Exploited A critical new vulnerability in the Windows operating system is reportedly being exploited in a limited number of attacks against targets in the US and Europe. The Microsoft Windows OLE Package Manager Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2014-4114...
# Islamic Republic of Iran **Chief of State:** Supreme Leader Ali Hoseini-Khamenei **Government:** Theocratic Republic **Capital:** Tehran **National Holiday:** 1st April **GDP by sector:** Agriculture (9.1%), Industry (39.9%), Services (51%) **Export Partners:** China (22.4%), India (8.7%), Turkey (8.5%), J...
# IBM X-Force Delves Into ExoBot's Leaked Source Code **By Shahar Tavor co-authored by Limor Kessem** **September 10, 2018** Following the recent source code leak of the Android banking Trojan ExoBot, IBM X-Force research delved into the malware’s inner workings to help uncover insights into its dynamic mechanisms ...
# Malicious Office Files Using Fileless UAC Bypass to Drop KEYBASE Malware This is a "Guest Diary" submitted by Ismael Valenzuela and Marc Rivero. Interested in writing a guest diary? Let us know via our contact page. Macro-based malware that hides in Microsoft Word or Excel documents is nothing new to Incident Respo...
# LockBit 2.0: Ransomware Attacks Surge After Successful Affiliate Recruitment After a brief slowdown in activity from the LockBit ransomware gang following increased attention from law enforcement, LockBit is back with a new affiliate program, improved payloads, and a change in infrastructure. According to IBM X-Forc...
# Naikon APT: Cyber Espionage Reloaded ## Introduction Recently Check Point Research discovered new evidence of an ongoing cyber espionage operation against several national government entities in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. This operation, which we were able to attribute to the Naikon APT group, used a new backd...
# Analysis of Top Non-HTTP/S Threats Adversaries generally use standard application layer protocols for communication between malware and command and control (C&C) servers. This is for several reasons: first, malicious traffic blends in more easily with legitimate traffic on standard protocols like HTTP/S; second, com...
# China’s Export of Intrusive Artificial Intelligence China’s export of AI-enabled technologies and ideologies to illiberal regimes around the world enables authoritarianism and systemic oppression and degrades democratic values. Chinese digital dominance poses both a critical cybersecurity threat to the world and a ...
# The Evolution of GuLoader ## Introduction In this Spotlight, we take another look at GuLoader. The malware family has been active since at least 2020. It gained attention because of its evasion techniques and its abuse of legitimate and popular cloud services to host its malicious payloads. The downloader is common...
# Conti Puts the ‘Organized’ in Organized Crime Combing through business intelligence platforms to find new prospects. Deciding whether to focus on huge multinational companies or small- and medium-sized businesses. Finding the right person to contact in the organization. Developing a script that will land information...
# Recover Your Files with StrongPity ## Introduction First, a warm welcome to the new subscribers of the Anchored Narratives mailing list. For those who are new to the list, I regularly pick an exciting tweet that matches my intelligence requirements and generates anchored stories on geopolitical (cyber) threats, dig...
# Conti and Hive Ransomware Operations: Leveraging Victim Chats for Insights **Written by** Kendall McKay with contributions from Paul Eubanks and Jaime Filson Updated May 2, 2022 ## Executive Summary Through open-source research, we obtained and analyzed over four months of chat logs—more than 40 separate c...
# ESET Research White Papers ## MACHETE JUST GOT SHARPER ### Venezuelan government institutions under attack How spies managed to steal gigabytes of confidential data over the course of a year --- ## EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Machete is a cyberespionage toolset developed by a Spanish-speaking group that has been operating s...
# Threat Update: DoubleZero Destructor **March 28, 2022** **By Splunk Threat Research Team** The Splunk Threat Research Team is actively monitoring the emergence of new threats in the cyber domain of ongoing geopolitical events. As we have shown previously in several releases, including HermeticWiper and CaddyWiper...
# Vietnamese Bank Blocks $1 Million SWIFT Heist A Vietnamese bank says it foiled a plot to transfer $1.36 million out of its accounts via the interbank SWIFT messaging system in the fourth quarter of 2015 as part of a suspected malware attack launched by fraudsters. Tien Phong Commercial Joint Stock Bank, based in Han...
# CrowdStrike Global Threat Intelligence Report 2014 ## Introduction At CrowdStrike, “Intelligence powers everything we do.” This is not a corporate slogan, and it is not a marketing theme. It is the realization of having the most dedicated professionals focusing on solving problems that have real strategic, politica...
# Emissary Panda APT: Recent Infrastructure and RAT Analysis **Summary** Emissary Panda, a group that goes by many names (APT27, IronTiger, BronzeUnion, TG-3390, and LuckyMouse), is a Chinese APT that is suspected of being active for nearly a decade. This group has been known to target aerospace, government, defense...
# Fractional Dynamics of Stuxnet Virus Propagation in Industrial Control Systems **Zaheer Masood** 1, **Muhammad Asif Zahoor Raja** 2,*, **Naveed Ishtiaq Chaudhary** 2, **Khalid Mehmood Cheema** 3, **Ahmad H. Milyani** 4 1. Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Capital University of Science and Techno...
# Winnti Evolution - Going Open Source ProtectWise recently observed a burst of activity and change of tactics from an advanced actor group commonly referred to as “Winnti.” The purpose of this post is to share details of the group’s recent activity in an effort to assist the public in searching for related activity i...
# The First Trojan in History to Steal Linux and Mac OS X Passwords Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is reporting the emergence of the first cross-platform backdoor to run under Linux and Mac OS X. This malicious program is designed to steal passwords stored by a number of popular Internet applications. **Mac.B...
# DorkBot: An Investigation **Research By:** Mark Lechtik **Date:** February 4, 2018 ## Overview DorkBot is a known malware that dates back to 2012. It is thought to be distributed via links on social media, instant messaging applications, or infected removable media. Although it is a veteran among the notorious...
# ELF Malware Analysis 101 Part 2: Initial Analysis In the previous article, we profiled the ELF malware landscape and explained how malware infects systems. We discussed the current lack of ELF malware visibility, reflected in subpar detection rates by leading engines and the shortage of publicly available resources ...
# Satori Author Linked to New Mirai Variant Masuta Microsoft Word also leveraged in the email campaign, which uses a 22-year-old Office RCE bug.
# FASTCash and INJX_PURE ## How Threat Actors Use Public Standards for Financial Fraud **Kevin Perlow** **BlackHat USA 2020** ### About Me **Technical Threat Intelligence (TechINT)** **Previous Research** - SANS DFIR 2016: YARA and VirusTotal (w/ Allen Swackhamer) - SANS DFIR 2017: Tracking Bitcoin Transactions -...
# MALWARE ANALYSIS REPORT **MALWARE NAME:** HatMan **TARGETED MALWARE** **DATE:** December 18, 2017 ## SUMMARY The HatMan malware affects Triconex controllers by modifying in-memory firmware to add additional programming. The extra functionality allows an attacker to read/modify memory contents and execute cust...
# Release the Kraken: Fileless Injection into Windows Error Reporting Service On September 17th, we discovered a new attack called Kraken that injected its payload into the Windows Error Reporting (WER) service as a defense evasion mechanism. That reporting service, WerFault.exe, is usually invoked when an error relat...
# Campaign Possibly Connected to “MuddyWater” Surfaces in the Middle East and Central Asia **Posted on:** March 12, 2018 at 5:00 am **Posted in:** Targeted Attacks **Author:** Jaromir Horejsi (Threat Researcher) We discovered a new campaign targeting organizations in Turkey, Pakistan, and Tajikistan that has some...
# Conti-nuation: Methods and Techniques Observed in Operations Post the Leaks **Authored by:** Nikolaos Pantazopoulos, Alex Jessop, and Simon Biggs **Date:** March 31, 2022 ## Executive Summary In February 2022, a Twitter account using the handle ‘ContiLeaks’ started to publicly release information about the ope...
# Rehashed RAT Used in APT Campaign Against Vietnamese Organizations **September 5, 2017** **Threat Research** **By Jasper Manuel and Artem Semenchenko** Recently, FortiGuard Labs came across several malicious documents that exploit the vulnerability CVE-2012-0158. To evade suspicion from the victim, these RTF fi...
# Running ELF Executables from Memory **Guilherme Thomazi** March 27, 2019 7 minute read ## Executing ELF binary files from memory with memfd_create syscall Something that always fascinated me was running code directly from memory. From Process Hollowing (aka RunPE) to PTRACE injection. I had some success play...
# Threat Group Cards: A Threat Actor Encyclopedia ## Introduction When analyzing security incidents, we always face the question of which adversary we are possibly dealing with and what we know about their prior engagements and TTP, to get a better understanding of how to approach and what else to look for. This docum...
# How China Turned a Prize-Winning iPhone Hack Against the Uyghurs Patrick Howell O'Neill Beijing secretly used an award-winning iPhone hack to spy on Uyghurs. The United States tracked the attack and informed Apple. The Tianfu Cup is a “venue for China to get zero-days,” say experts. In March 2017, a group of hacke...
# Afghan Government Compromise: Browser Beware Posted on June 12, 2015 by Steven Adair Visiting a wide-ranging number of websites associated with the Government of Afghanistan may yield visitors an unwanted surprise. For the second time this year, malicious code has surfaced on cdn.afghanistan.af, a host that serves ...
# Dot "MZP" Ransomware Analysis Happy new year y'all. And with it there's new Ransomware to analyze, so come along for the ride :D Dot "MZP" Ransomware was first discovered by AmigoA and AkhmendTaia on the 31st of December 2019. AV detections and ransom note contents didn't seem to match any previously present strain...
# New Modular Downloaders Fingerprint Systems, Prepare for More - Part 1: Marap **August 16, 2018** **Proofpoint Staff** ## Overview Proofpoint researchers recently discovered a new downloader malware in a fairly large campaign primarily targeting financial institutions. The malware, dubbed “Marap” (“param” backwa...
# Hackers Take Over Diplomat's Email, Target Russian Deputy Minister Hackers believed to work for the North Korean government have compromised the email account of a staff member of Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MID) and deployed spear-phishing attacks against the country’s diplomats in other regions. One of t...
# New Threat Actor Group DarkHydrus Targets Middle East Government **By Robert Falcone, Bryan Lee, and Tom Lancaster** **July 27, 2018** **Category: Unit 42** **Tags: DarkHydrus, RogueRobin** In July 2018, Unit 42 analyzed a targeted attack using a novel file type against at least one government agency in the M...
# New RURansom Wiper Targets Russia **March 8, 2022** **By: Jaromir Horejsi, Cedric Pernet** A conflict in cyberspace is unfolding parallel to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine on the ground. Cyberattacks are being lobbed against both Russian and Ukrainian sides, with a new wiper directed against Russia joi...
# Software Vulnerability Information ## Executive Summary This article exposes the malicious activities of Group 123 during 2017. We assess with high confidence that Group 123 was responsible for the following six campaigns: - "Golden Time" campaign. - "Evil New Year" campaign. - "Are you Happy?" campaign. - "FreeMi...
# 7 Years of Scarlet Mimic’s Mobile Surveillance Campaign Targeting Uyghurs **September 22, 2022** ## Introduction In 2022, Check Point Research (CPR) observed a new wave of a long-standing campaign targeting the Uyghur community, a Turkic ethnic group originating from Central Asia, one of the largest minority ethni...
# SolarWinds: How a Rare DGA Helped Attacker Communications Fly Under the Radar In the second of a series of follow-up analyses on the SolarWinds attacks, we examine how the attackers made command and control communications particularly stealthy. In the weeks since news of the SolarWinds attacks broke, we’ve continu...
# Robbinhood Malware Analysis with Radare2 Jacob Pimental July 1, 2019 This article will provide an overview of how we can extract function names from Windows GoLang binaries to make reversing easier and to give a brief analysis on the Robbinhood Ransomware that attacked Baltimore recently. GoLang is a programmin...
# Russian Cyber Actors Use Compromised Routers to Facilitate Cyber Operations ## SUMMARY The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Security Agency (NSA), US Cyber Command, and international partners are releasing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to warn of Russian state-sponsored cyber actors’ use of...
# Here’s what we know about DarkSide ransomware With the ransomware incident that shut down a major fuel pipeline in the United States, another well-known variant on the cybercrime underground has been thrust into the international spotlight. On May 10, 2021, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation announced the at...
# Introduction Within conducting hybrid aggression against Ukraine since 2014, Russian Federation special services launched open intelligence and sabotage activities. For that purpose, the capabilities of the existing cyber units have been strengthened and new units were created. Individuals were actively involved in ...
# Remcos Analysis **Malware Name:** Remcos **File Type:** x32 exe (.NET) **SHA256:** 5eb996275b36c1e8c1d3daa71e6469507a29401c77f2b1fd91e4d354ccde9860 ## Analysis Process This writeup starts with a suspicious executable that was sent via mail. We can see that most part of the PE is packed (entropy ~ 8 -> High e...
# Operation Buhtrap Malware Distributed via Ammyy.com The free version of Ammyy’s remote administrator software was being served a bundle that contained an NSIS installer used by the gang behind Operation Buhtrap. We noticed in late October that users visiting the Ammyy website to download the free version of its rem...
# Let's Learn: Dissecting Lazarus Windows x86 Loader **Goal:** Document and dissect the latest Lazarus Windows 32-bit (x86) version involved in the crypto trading application distribution targeting Windows and macOS users. The malware and the campaign were originally discovered by MalwareHunterTeam. **Where we found ...
# Nanocore & CypherIT Hello everyone! It's been a while since I've posted. There's been some changes in my life that have distracted me from my malware temporarily. One of those updates is a career change. I will officially be working as a security researcher and in preparation of that I felt that I needed to keep my ...
# WIP26 Espionage: Threat Actors Abuse Cloud Infrastructure in Targeted Telco Attacks **By Aleksandar Milenkoski, Collin Farr, and Joey Chen, in collaboration with QGroup** ## Executive Summary A new threat cluster we track as WIP26 has been targeting telecommunication providers in the Middle East. We assess it is l...
# TrickBot Bolsters Layered Defenses to Prevent Injection The cyber crime gang that operates the TrickBot Trojan, as well as other malware and ransomware attacks, has been escalating activity. As part of that escalation, malware injections have been fitted with added protection to keep researchers out and get through ...
# Evil Eye Threat Actor Resurfaces with iOS Exploit and Updated Implant In September 2019, Volexity published *Digital Crackdown: Large-Scale Surveillance and Exploitation of Uyghurs*, which described a series of attacks against Uyghurs from multiple Chinese APT actors. The most notable threat actor detailed in the bl...
# The Desert Falcons Targeted Attacks **Authors** Ghareeb Saad Mohamad Amin Hasbini The Desert Falcons are a new group of Cyber Mercenaries operating in the Middle East and carrying out Cyber Espionage across that region. The group uses an arsenal of homemade malware tools and techniques to execute and conceal ...
# Threat Hunting for Malicious PowerShell Usage in Gigasheet **Syed Hasan** **March 3, 2022** **6 min read** PowerShell exploitation has become one of the most lucrative attack vectors for threat actors. In this blog, we’ll uncover some of the most common ways to hunt for malicious PowerShell. Let’s get to operat...
# Analyzing Conti-Leaks Without Speaking Russian — Only Methodology If you’re like me and you don’t speak Russian, and you have a Conti leak to analyze, here are some tricks for you. **Disclaimer:** I will not do an in-depth analysis of the files here. It’s just a blog post to show methodology in such cases. The aud...
# APT28 Rollercoaster: The Lowdown on Hijacked LoJack Recently, the ASERT team at Arbor Networks published a report on an old version of the Absolute Software product, Absolute LoJack for laptops, being illicitly modified by suspected APT28 actors. The LoJack implant, previously known as Computrace and brought into th...
# G Data Whitepaper: Analysis of Rurktar ## Rurktar ### 1. Introduction There is a new malware called Rurktar. It’s a trojan spy which is installed as a service called RCSU. The service connects back to the attacker machine and waits for commands. The file size of the malware is mostly around ~50Kb. Currently, the tr...
# Linux DDoS Trojan Hiding Itself with an Embedded Rootkit **Threat Intelligence Team** 6 Jan 2015 At the end of September 2014, a new threat for the Linux operating system dubbed XOR.DDoS, forming a botnet for distributed denial-of-service attacks, was reported by the MalwareMustDie! group. The post mentioned the ...
# Threat Actors Migrating to the Cloud April 10, 2020 Where do malware payloads come from? It’s a question with an apparently trivial answer. Usually, these sit on dedicated servers owned by the campaign managers, and occasionally on a legitimate website that has been broken into and commandeered. But, as we were rec...
# BazarCall to Conti Ransomware via Trickbot and Cobalt Strike **August 1, 2021** ## Intro This report will go through an intrusion that went from an Excel file to domain-wide ransomware. The threat actors used BazarCall to install Trickbot in the environment, which downloaded and executed a Cobalt Strike Beacon. Fr...
# Security Update Guide ## Microsoft Security Response Center CVE-2021-1732
# Research, News, and Perspectives ## Exploits & Vulnerabilities ### Celebrating 15 Years of Pwn2Own Join Erin Sindelar, Mike Gibson, Brian Gorenc, and Dustin Childs as they discuss Pwn2Own's 15th anniversary, what we've learned, and how the program will continue to serve the cybersecurity community in the future. ...
# Mustang Panda Abuses Legitimate Apps to Target Myanmar Based Victims **Update 12.06.22:** Mustang Panda is targeting countries across Europe and Asia Pacific, utilizing geopolitical events to their advantage. Their attack chain remains consistent, with the continued use of archive files, shortcut files, malicious lo...
# Research, News, and Perspectives ## Celebrating 15 Years of Pwn2Own Join Erin Sindelar, Mike Gibson, Brian Gorenc, and Dustin Childs as they discuss Pwn2Own's 15th anniversary, what we've learned, and how the program will continue to serve the cybersecurity community in the future. **Latest News** May 25, 2022 ##...
# Mini Stealer: Possible Predecessor of Parrot Stealer **August 29, 2022** ## Mini Stealer’s Builder & Panel Released for Free During a routine threat hunting exercise, Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL) discovered a post on a cybercrime forum where a Threat Actor (TA) released MiniStealer’s builder and pan...
# Domestic Kitten APT Operates in Silence Since 2016 An extensive surveillance operation targets specific groups of individuals with malicious mobile apps that collect sensitive information on the device along with surrounding voice recordings. Researchers with CheckPoint discovered the attack and named it Domestic Ki...
# From Shamoon to StoneDrill ## Wipers attacking Saudi organizations and beyond Beginning in November 2016, Kaspersky Lab observed a new wave of wiper attacks directed at multiple targets in the Middle East. The malware used in the new attacks was a variant of the infamous Shamoon worm that targeted Saudi Aramco and ...
# Industroyer2 in Perspective **Joe** **04/23/2022** ## Background On 12 April 2022, the Ukrainian CERT and ESET disclosed the existence of Industroyer2, a successor to the malware targeting Ukrainian electric distribution and transmission operations in 2016. Industroyer2 arrived after multiple disruptive cyber in...
# Charting TA2541's Flight **Key Findings** - Proofpoint researchers have tracked a persistent cybercrime threat actor targeting aviation, aerospace, transportation, manufacturing, and defense industries for years. - The threat actor consistently uses remote access trojans (RATs) that can be used to remotely control ...
# Underminer Exploit Kit: The More You Check The More Evasive You Become The Underminer exploit kit has surfaced numerous times since 2019, but here it is back again delivering the Amadey malware, as the Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence team found last week. ## Exploit Kit An exploit kit (EK), or an exploit pack, is...
# Tracking Subaat: Targeted Phishing Attack Leads to Threat Actor’s Repository **By Unit 42** **October 27, 2017** In mid-July, Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 identified a small targeted phishing campaign aimed at a government organization. While tracking the activities of this campaign, we identified a repository of a...
# IcedID Macro Ends in Nokoyawa Ransomware **May 22, 2023** Threat actors have moved to other means of initial access, such as ISO files combined with LNKs or OneNote payloads, but some appearances of VBA macros in Office documents can still be seen in use. In this case, we document an incident taking place during Q4...
# Warning over LockerGoga and MegaCortex Ransomware Attacks Targeting Private Industry in Western Countries **Dev Kundaliya** December 24, 2019 The FBI has issued an alert to warn enterprises about LockerGoga and MegaCortex ransomware that are targeting large organisations and businesses in western countries. The a...
# Daggerfly: APT Actor Targets Telecoms Company in Africa **Threat Hunter Team, Symantec** ## MgBot Modular Malware Framework MgBot is a well-designed modular framework that is actively maintained. The components of the framework are the following: - MgBot EXE dropper - MgBot DLL Loader - MgBot Plugins The MgBot p...
# North Korea's Lazarus APT Leverages Windows Update Client, GitHub in Latest Campaign **Threat Intelligence Team** January 27, 2022 This blog was authored by Ankur Saini and Hossein Jazi Lazarus Group is one of the most sophisticated North Korean APTs that has been active since 2009. The group is responsible for...
# New Ransomware Family Identified: LokiLocker RaaS ## Overview BlackBerry Threat Intelligence has identified a new Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) family, tracked to its probable beta stage release. Like many other strains of ransomware, LokiLocker encrypts files and renders machines unusable if the ransom is not pai...
# API Hashing Tool, Imagine That Kyle O'Meara and CERT Insider Threat Center March 25, 2019 In the fall of 2018, the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) Reverse Engineering (RE) Team received a tip from a trusted source about a YARA rule that triggered an alert in VirusTotal. This YARA rule was found in the Depart...
# Security Response: W32.Duqu ## The precursor to the next Stuxnet ### Version 1.3 (November 1, 2011) ## Executive Summary On October 14, 2011, we were alerted to a sample by the Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security (CrySyS) at Budapest University of Technology and Economics. The threat appeared very similar...
# Zoom For You — SEO Poisoning to Distribute BATLOADER and Atera Agent **Ng Choon Kiat, Angelo Del Rosario, Martin Co** **Feb 01, 2022** **7 min read** While defending our customers against threats, Mandiant Managed Defense continues to see new threats that abuse trust in legitimate tools and products to carry ...
# 富山大学水素同位体科学研究センターに対する標的型サイバー攻撃について（概要） ## 経緯 - H28.6/14（火） 外部機関から本学PCのウィルス感染の可能性ありとの情報提供があり、水素同位体科学研究センター非常勤職員が使用するPCがウィルスに感染していたことが判明。直ちに学内調査を開始（通信ログの解析）。 - 6/16（木） 文科省にインシデントの概要、被害状況、外部機関への連携状況等について第1報を報告。当該PC内保有情報の学内調査、分析を開始。 - 6/27（月） 通信ログの解析終了（学内調査）。文科省に今後の再発防止策、当該職員の対応・認識状況、ログの解析状況等について第2報として追加報告。 - 7/6（水） 外部専...