DarkUniverse APT Emerges to Deliver Sophisticated, Targeted Spy Attacks

A sophisticated espionage APT that was active for at least eight years before receding into the shadows has been uncovered — and researchers said that it may still be active. In April 2017, ShadowBrokers published one of their many leaks of cyberweapons used by the National Security Agency NSA an...

DarkUniverse – the mysterious APT framework #27

In April 2017, ShadowBrokers published their well-known 'Lost in Translation' leak, which, among other things, contained an interesting script that checked for traces of other APTs in the compromised system. In 2018, we found an APT described as the 27th function of this script, which we call...

Calypso APT Emerges from the Shadows to Target Governments

A newly discovered APT group, dubbed Calypso after a custom malware RAT that it uses, has been targeting state institutions in six different countries since 2016. Government organizations in India 34 percent, Brazil and Kazakhstan 18 percent respectively, Russia and Thailand 12 percent respective...

The forgotten domain: Exploring a link between Magecart Group 5 and the Carbanak APT

This blog post was authored by Jérôme Segura, William Tsing, and Adam Thomas. In a previous post, we described the possible overlap between certain domains registered by Magecart Group 4 and the Cobalt gang. While attribution is always a difficult endeavor, sharing TTPs can help others to connect...

Turla Compromises, Infiltrates Iranian APT Infrastructure

The Turla APT group has been spotted co-opting two cyberweapons from an Iranian APT APT 34, according to one set of researchers, known as the Nautilus and Neuron implants, and deploying them against targets in the Middle East. The group also infiltrated the global operational infrastructure used ...

Details of the Olympic Destroyer APT

Interesting details on Olympic Destroyer, the nation-state cyberattack against the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea. Wired's Andy Greenberg presents evidence that the perpetrator was Russia, and not North Korea or China...

Shikata Ga Nai Encoder Still Going Strong

One of the most popular exploit frameworks in the world is Metasploit. Its vast library of pocket exploits, pluggable payload environment, and simplicity of execution makes it the de facto base platform. Metasploit is used by pentesters, security enthusiasts, script kiddies, and even malicious...

NSA and NCSC Release Joint Advisory on Turla Group Activity

The National Security Agency NSA and the United Kingdom National Cyber Security Centre NCSC have released a joint advisory on advanced persistent threat APT group Turla—widely reported to be Russian and also known as Snake, Uroburos, VENEMOUS BEAR, or Waterbug. The advisory provides an update to...

APT trends report Q3 2019

For more than two years, the Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT at Kaspersky has been publishing quarterly summaries of advanced persistent threat APT activity. The summaries are based on our threat intelligence research and provide a representative snapshot of what we have published and...

Multiple Vulnerabilities in Pulse Secure VPN

The CERT Coordination Center CERT/CC has released information on multiple vulnerabilities affecting Pulse Secure Virtual Private Network VPN. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. These vulnerabilities have been targeted by advanced persistent thre...

Securing the managed service provider (MSP)

Managed service providers MSPs have been a boon to midsize enterprise. They allow for offloading technical debt to an agent with the skills and resources to manage it, thereby giving an organization room to focus on growing a business, rather than the particulars of infrastructure. For a long...

Mail.ru: SSRF in clients.city-mobil.ru

Limited non-blind SSRF in clients.city-mobil.ru the report was submitted before the launch of dedicated bug bounty scope for Citymobil Non-blind SSRF in apt-cacher, used for getting software updates, allowing limited requests to internal services...

New Reductor Nation-State Malware Compromises TLS

Kaspersky has a detailed blog post about a new piece of sophisticated malware that it's calling Reductor. The malware is able to compromise TLS traffic by infecting the computer with hacked TLS engine substituted on the fly, "marking" infected TLS handshakes by compromising the underlining...

APT Groups Exploiting Flaws in Unpatched VPNs, Officials Warn

State-sponsored advanced persistent threat APT groups are using flaws in outdated VPN technologies from Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet and Pulse Secure to carry out cyber attacks on targets in the United States and overseas, warned U.S. and U.K. officials. The National Security Agency NSA issued a...

NSA Releases Advisory on Mitigating Recent VPN Vulnerabilities

The National Security Agency NSA has released an advisory on advanced persistent threat APT actors exploiting multiple vulnerabilities in Virtual Private Network VPN applications. A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and...

CVE-2009-1358

apt-get in apt before 0.7.21 does not check for the correct error code from gpgv, which causes apt to treat a repository as valid even when it has been signed with a key that has been revoked or expired, which might allow remote attackers to trick apt into installing malicious repositories...

Vulnerabilities Exploited in Multiple VPN Applications

The United Kingdom UK National Cyber Security Centre NCSC has released an alert on advanced persistent threat APT actors exploiting vulnerabilities in Virtual Private Network VPN applications. A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. The...

New Research into Russian Malware

There's some interesting new research about Russian APT malware: The Russian government has fostered competition among the three agencies, which operate independently from one another, and compete for funds. This, in turn, has resulted in each group developing and hoarding its tools, rather than...

A Look Into Continuous Efforts By Chinese Hackers to Target Foreign Governments

Phishing is still one of the widely used strategies by cybercriminals and espionage groups to gain an initial foothold on the targeted systems. Though hacking someone with phishing attacks was easy a decade ago, the evolution of threat detection technologies and cyber awareness among people has...

'Narrator' Windows Utility Trojanized to Gain Full System Control

A suspected Chinese advanced persistent threat APT group has been spotted attacking tech companies using a trojanized screen-reader application, replacing the built-in Narrator “Ease of Access” feature in Windows. According to BlackBerry Cylance, the attackers also deploy a version of the...