Earth Longzhi: New subgroup of APT41

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Earth Longzhi is running a spearphishing campaign to infect organizations with a payload such as Cobalt Strike loader, Symatic loader, CroxLoader, BigpipeLoader, OutLoader, and other custom hacking tools...

Microsoft Blames Russian Hackers for Prestige Ransomware Attacks on Ukraine and Poland

Microsoft on Thursday attributed the recent spate of ransomware incidents targeting transportation and logistics sectors in Ukraine and Poland to a threat cluster that shares overlaps with the Russian state-sponsored Sandworm group. The attacks, which were disclosed by the tech giant last month,...

Microsoft threat intelligence presented at CyberWarCon 2022

At CyberWarCon 2022, Microsoft and LinkedIn analysts presented several sessions detailing analysis across multiple sets of actors and related activity. This blog is intended to summarize the content of the research covered in these presentations and demonstrates Microsoft Threat Intelligence...

Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting demonstrates industry-leading protection in the 2022 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations for Managed Services

Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting, our newest managed threat hunting service, delivered industry-leading results during the inaugural MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations for Managed Services. We provided a seamless, comprehensive, and rapid response to the simulated attack using expert-led...

Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting demonstrates industry-leading protection in the 2022 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations for Managed Services

Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting, our newest managed threat hunting service, delivered industry-leading results during the inaugural MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations for Managed Services. We provided a seamless, comprehensive, and rapid response to the simulated attack using expert-led...

APT29 Exploited a Windows Feature to Compromise European Diplomatic Entity Network

The Russia-linked APT29 nation-state actor has been found leveraging a "lesser-known" Windows feature called Credential Roaming following a successful phishing attack against an unnamed European diplomatic entity. "The diplomatic-centric targeting is consistent with Russian strategic priorities a...

Experts Warn of Browser Extensions Spying On Users via Cloud9 Chrome Botnet Network

The Keksec threat actor has been linked to a previously undocumented malware strain, which has been observed in the wild masquerading as an extension for Chromium-based web browsers to enslave compromised machines into a botnet. Called Cloud9 by security firm Zimperium, the malicious browser add-...

CVE-2022-45061

An issue was discovered in Python before 3.11.1. An unnecessary quadratic algorithm exists in one path when processing some inputs to the IDNA RFC 3490 decoder, such that a crafted, unreasonably long name being presented to the decoder could lead to a CPU denial of service. Hostnames are often...

PSF-2022-10 Slow IDNA decoding with large strings

An issue was discovered in Python before 3.11.1. An unnecessary quadratic algorithm exists in one path when processing some inputs to the IDNA RFC 3490 decoder, such that a crafted, unreasonably long name being presented to the decoder could lead to a CPU denial of service. Hostnames are often...

Researchers Detail New Malware Campaign Targeting Indian Government Employees

The Transparent Tribe threat actor has been linked to a new campaign aimed at Indian government organizations with trojanized versions of a two-factor authentication solution called Kavach. "This group abuses Google advertisements for the purpose of malvertising to distribute backdoored versions ...

Indian Government targeted by APT-36

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary APT 36, also known as Transparent Tribe, is an information theft and espionage gang that was last active in mid-July 2022. Recently, invasive advertising and the data exfiltration tool LimePad were used t...

CVE-2022-35842

An exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor vulnerabiltiy CWE-200 in FortiOS SSL-VPN versions 7.2.0, versions 7.0.0 through 7.0.6 and versions 6.4.0 through 6.4.9 may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to gain information about LDAP and SAML settings configured in FortiOS...

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An exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor vulnerabiltiy CWE-200 in FortiClient for Mac versions 7.0.0 through 7.0.5 may allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain the SSL-VPN password in cleartext via running a logstream for the FortiTray process in the terminal...

CVE-2022-33878

An exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor vulnerabiltiy CWE-200 in FortiClient for Mac versions 7.0.0 through 7.0.5 may allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain the SSL-VPN password in cleartext via running a logstream for the FortiTray process in the terminal...

CVE-2022-35842

CVE-2022-35842 concerns FortiOS SSL-VPN where an exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor could allow remote access to LDAP and SAML settings. Affected FortiOS SSL-VPN versions are: 7.2.0; 7.0.0–7.0.6; and 6.4.0–6.4.9. The underlying issue is information disclosure (CWE-200); no...

CVE-2022-35842

An exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor vulnerabiltiy CWE-200 in FortiOS SSL-VPN versions 7.2.0, versions 7.0.0 through 7.0.6 and versions 6.4.0 through 6.4.9 may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to gain information about LDAP and SAML settings configured in FortiOS...

Chinese Hackers Using New Stealthy Infection Chain to Deploy LODEINFO Malware

The Chinese state-sponsored threat actor known as Stone Panda has been observed employing a new stealthy infection chain in its attacks aimed at Japanese entities. Targets include media, diplomatic, governmental and public sector organizations, and think-tanks in Japan, according to twin reports...

OpenSSL Releases Security Update

OpenSSL has released a security advisory to address two vulnerabilities, CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786, affecting OpenSSL versions 3.0.0 through 3.0.6. Both CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786 can cause a denial of service. According to OpenSSL, a cyber threat actor leveraging CVE-2022-3786, "can...

Researchers Uncover Stealthy Techniques Used by Cranefly Espionage Hackers

A recently discovered hacking group known for targeting employees dealing with corporate transactions has been linked to a new backdoor called Danfuan. This hitherto undocumented malware is delivered via another dropper called Geppei, researchers from Symantec, by Broadcom Software, said in a...

MGASA-2022-0396 Updated git packages fix security vulnerability

CVE-2022-39253: A malicious actor could convince a victim to clone a repository with a symbolic link pointing at sensitive information on the victim's machine. CVE-2022-39260: Allowing a malicious actor to intentionally overflow the return value, leading to arbitrary heap writes. CVE-2022-29187:...