Sea Lotus APT groups use CVE-2017-8570 vulnerability of the new sample and Association analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Sea Lotus（OceanLotus）APT gang is a highly organized, professional foreign national hacker group, the oldest by 360 days eye Labs discovered and disclosed. The organization since at least 2012 and 4 January will be for the Chinese government, research institutes, Maritime institutions, Maritime...

Ransomware Attack Hits Ukrainian Energy Ministry, Exploiting Drupalgeddon2

The Ukrainian Energy Ministry has been hit by a ransomware attack – and for once it looks like this is the work of amateurs, not nation-state attackers bent on making a geopolitical point. However, the bad actors appear to have made use of the recently patched Drupal vulnerability, pointing out y...

Router vulnerability analysis the sixth bullet: CVE-2018-7445 MikroTik router system buffer overflow vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

A. Vulnerability overview CVE-2018-7445 MikroTik RouterOS SMB buffer overflow Reference information: https://www.coresecurity.com/advisories/mikrotik-routeros-smb-buffer-overflow Vulnerability firmware version: mikrotik-6.40.6.iso the x86 version Download: https://mikrotik.com/download Mikrotik...

A week in security (April 16 – April 22)

Last week, we took a stroll down memory lane talking about Facebook and MySpace, noticed a change in the Magnitude exploit kit—wherein it started adopting the GandCrab ransomware, took a good look at a new form of adware that is based on Python, chatted a bit about Russian hacking with a...

Energetic Bear/Crouching Yeti: attacks on servers

Energetic Bear/Crouching Yeti is a widely known APT group active since at least 2010. The group tends to attack different companies with a strong focus on the energy and industrial sectors. Companies attacked by Energetic Bear/Crouching Yeti are geographically distributed worldwide with a more...

WHP - Microsoft Windows Hacking Pack

M$ Windows Hacking Pack =========== Tools here are from different sources. The repo is generally licensed with WTFPL, but some content may be not eg. sysinternals. "pes" means "PE Scambled". It's useful sometimes. Remote Exploits =========== Windows 2000 / XP SP1 MS05-039 Microsoft Plug and Play...

Perspectives on Russian hacking

Russia is an endlessly fascinating subject both in and around infosec. Recent years have shifted attention away from pure malware capabilities, to psyops, social engineering, and an endless slew of mind games designed to destabilize and keep nations ever-so-slightly off balance. Security firms in...

Google Play Boots Three Malicious Apps From Marketplace Tied to APTs

Two advanced persistent threat groups managed to sneak apps onto the Google Play marketplace earlier this year. Both were designed to conduct surveillance on targets located in the Middle East region, according to Lookout security researchers. One of the groups, identified as APT-C-23 also known ...

List of Adversary Emulation Tools

PenTestIT RSS Feed Every once in a while, the security industry brings forth a new buzz word and introduces terminologies that sound über cool and generate lot's of interest. One such word going around now-a-days is automated "adversary emulation". Let's first understand what this really means...

Your new friend, KLara

While doing threat research, teams need a lot of tools and systems to aid their hunting efforts – from systems storing Passive DNS data and automated malware classification to systems allowing researchers to pattern-match a large volume of data in a relatively short period of time. These tools ar...

A Closer Look at APT Group Sofacy’s Latest Targets

Threatpost talks to Kaspersky Lab researcher Kurt Baumgartner who was instrumental in tracking the latest activities of the Russian-speaking Sofacy APT gang. Research shows a continual march toward Far East targets and overlapping of activities with other groups such as Lamberts, Turla and Danti...

APT Hackers Infect Routers to Covertly Implant Slingshot Spying Malware

Security researchers at Kaspersky have identified a sophisticated APT hacking group that has been operating since at least 2012 without being noticed due to their complex and clever hacking techniques. The hacking group used a piece of advanced malware—dubbed Slingshot—to infect hundreds of...

The Slingshot APT FAQ

While analysing an incident which involved a suspected keylogger, we identified a malicious library able to interact with a virtual file system, which is usually the sign of an advanced APT actor. This turned out to be a malicious loader internally named 'Slingshot', part of a new, and highly...

Sofacy APT Adopts New Tactics and Far East Targets

CANCUN, Mexico – A new analysis of the Russian-speaking Sofacy APT gang shows a continual march toward Far East targets and overlapping of activities with other groups such as Lamberts, Turla and Danti. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab this morning at its Security Analyst Summit, released their updat...

The devil’s in the Rich header

In our previous blog, we detailed our findings on the attack against the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics. For this investigation, our analysts were provided with administrative access to one of the affected servers, located in a hotel based in Pyeongchang county, South Korea. In addition, we...

Lookout: Dark Caracal Points To APT Actors Moving To Mobile Targets

CANCUN, Mexico – On the heels of global cyber espionage campaign Dark Caracal, security firm Lookout is sounding the alarm on how it is indicative of advanced persistent threats moving from desktop platforms to mobile platforms. Dark Caracal, which was first discovered by researchers in January, ...

Leaked NSA Dump Also Contains Tools Agency Used to Track Other Hackers

A years ago when the mysterious hacking group 'The Shadow Brokers' dumped a massive trove of sensitive data stolen from the US intelligence agency NSA, everyone started looking for secret hacking tools and zero-day exploits. A group of Hungarian security researchers from CrySyS Lab and Ukatemi ha...

APTSimulator - A toolset to make a system look as if it was the victim of an APT attack

APT Simulator is a Windows Batch script that uses a set of tools and output files to make a system look as if it was compromised. Use Cases 1. POCs: Endpoint detection agents / compromise assessment tools 2. Test your security monitoring's detection capabilities 3. Test your SOCs response on a...

Cyber Espionage Group Targets Asian Countries With Bitcoin Mining Malware

Security researchers have discovered a custom-built piece of malware that's wreaking havoc in Asia for past several months and is capable of performing nasty tasks, like password stealing, bitcoin mining, and providing hackers complete remote access to compromised systems. Dubbed Operation PZChao...

BSides NYC, a volunteer organized event put on by and for the community

Another edition of BSides NYC has passed, and as first time attendee and presenter, I was genuinely impressed with the impeccable organization, the content shared, and the interesting conversations that took place among enthusiasts and professionals from all over the world. I've been a long time...