New Research Delves into the World of Malicious LNK Files and Hackers Behind Them

Cybercriminals are increasingly leveraging malicious LNK files as an initial access method to download and execute payloads such as Bumblebee, IcedID, and Qakbot. A recent study by cybersecurity experts has shown that it is possible to identify relationships between different threat actors by...

Following the LNK metadata trail

Adversaries shift toward Shell Link LNK files, likely sparked by Microsofts decision to block macros, provides the opportunity to capitalize on information that can be provided by LNK metadata. Cisco Talos analyzed metadata in LNK files and correlated it with threat actors tactics techniques and...

Threat Actors Spreading NjRAT in New “Earth Bogle” Campaign

By Deeba Ahmed The campaign is active, and currently, threat actors are targeting victims with NjRAT also known as Bladabindi in the Middle East and North Africa. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Threat Actors Spreading NjRAT in New "Earth Bogle" Campaign...

NetSupport RAT employs phishing campaigns that incorporate Pokemon lures

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary NetSupport Manager is a remote control tool that can be used by ordinary or corporate users to remotely control systems, but it is being abused by threat actors as it allows external control over specifi...

Hackers Can Abuse Legitimate GitHub Codespaces Feature to Deliver Malware

New research has found that it is possible for threat actors to abuse a legitimate feature in GitHub Codespaces to deliver malware to victim systems. GitHub Codespaces is a cloud-based configurable development environment that allows users to debug, maintain, and commit changes to a given codebas...

Actors, Threats and Vulnerabilities 9 January 2023 – 15 January 2023

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New Analysis Reveals Raspberry Robin Can be Repurposed by Other Threat Actors

A new analysis of Raspberry Robin's attack infrastructure has revealed that it's possible for other threat actors to repurpose the infections for their own malicious activities, making it an even more potent threat. Raspberry Robin aka QNAP worm, attributed to a threat actor dubbed DEV-0856, is a...

New Analysis Reveals Raspberry Robin Can be Repurposed by Other Threat Actors

A new analysis of Raspberry Robin's attack infrastructure has revealed that it's possible for other threat actors to repurpose the infections for their own malicious activities, making it an even more potent threat. Raspberry Robin aka QNAP worm, attributed to a threat actor dubbed DEV-0856, is a...

Actors, Threats and Vulnerabilities 2 January 2023 – 8 January 2023

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Threat Actors Using WerFault.exe to Deploy Pupy RAT

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The Pupy RAT malware is using a technique called DLL side-loading to disguise itself as the legitimate WerFault.exe process in order to evade detection. The malware is delivered via an ISO image that...

Year in Review: Rapid7 Cybersecurity Research

Welcome to 2023, a year that sounds so futuristic it is hard to believe it is real. But real it is, and make no mistake, threat actors are still out there, working hard to get into networks the world over. So, at the start of the new year, I am reminded of two particular phrases: Those who do not...

The FBI's Perspective on Ransomware

Ransomware: contemporary threats, how to prevent them and how the FBI can help In April 2021, Dutch supermarkets faced a food shortage. The cause wasn't a drought or a sudden surge in the demand for avocados. Rather, the reason was a ransomware attack. In the past years, companies, universities,...

Actors, Threats and Vulnerabilities 26 December 2022 – 02 January 2023

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Trading platforms are in jeopardy due to ArkeiStealer

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Threat actors are currently disseminating ArkeiStealer via Windows Installer binaries disguised as trading applications. The trading application has been backdoored with the SmokeLoader downloader, which...

Thousands of Citrix Servers Still Unpatched for Critical Vulnerabilities

Thousands of Citrix Application Delivery Controller ADC and Gateway endpoints remain vulnerable to two critical security flaws disclosed by the company over the last few months. The issues in question are CVE-2022-27510 and CVE-2022-27518 CVSS scores: 9.8, which were addressed by the virtualizati...

Actors, Threats and Vulnerabilities 19 – 25 December 2022

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APT Hackers Turn to Malicious Excel Add-ins as Initial Intrusion Vector

Microsoft's decision to block Visual Basic for Applications VBA macros by default for Office files downloaded from the internet has led many threat actors to improvise their attack chains in recent months. Now according to Cisco Talos, advanced persistent threat APT actors and commodity malware...

SideCopy APT Launches Phishing Campaign Against Indian Government

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The new malicious activity of the SideCopy threat actors is the attack campaign STEPPYKAVACH, which was notably active in 2021 and was originally related to Pakistan. The most recent malicious attack...

GHSA-G86J-HWG9-77Q5 SentinelOne impersonated via PyPI packages

In December 2022, threat actors impersonated SentinelOne by uploading fake software development kits SDKs onto PyPI. The SDKs contain fully functional SentinelOne clients, but the packages also contained malicious backdoors that are only executed when called on programmatically, as opposed to...

2022 Top Five Immediate Threats in Geopolitical Context

As we are nearing the end of 2022, looking at the most concerning threats of this turbulent year in terms of testing numbers offers a threat-based perspective on what triggers cybersecurity teams to check how vulnerable they are to specific threats. These are the threats that were most tested to...