Fortinet FortiSandbox Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Fortinet FortiSandbox is an APT Advanced Persistent Threat protection appliance from Fortinet. The appliance offers dual sandboxing technology, dynamic threat intelligence, real-time control panel and reporting. Fortinet FortiSandbox is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting vulnerability that stem...

CISA, FBI, and CNMF Release Advisory on Multiple Nation-State Threat Actors Exploit CVE-2022-47966 and CVE-2022-42475

Today, CISA, Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, and U.S. Cyber Command’s Cyber National Mission Force CNMF published a joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA, Multiple Nation-State Threat Actors Exploit CVE-2022-47966 and CVE-2022-42475. This CSA provides information on an incident at an Aeronautical...

Earth Estries Targets Government, Tech for Cyberespionage

We break down a new cyberespionage campaign deployed by a cybercriminal group we named Earth Estries. Analyzing the tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs employed, we observed overlaps with the advanced persistent threat APT group FamousSparrow as Earth Estries targets governments and...

Researchers Uncover Years-Long Cyber Espionage on Foreign Embassies in Belarus

A hitherto undocumented threat actor operating for nearly a decade and codenamed MoustachedBouncer has been attributed to cyber espionage attacks aimed at foreign embassies in Belarus. "Since 2020, MoustachedBouncer has most likely been able to perform adversary-in-the-middle AitM attacks at the...

CISA and FBI Release Cybersecurity Advisory on Enhanced Monitoring to Detect APT Activity Targeting Outlook Online

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA, Enhanced Monitoring to Detect APT Activity Targeting Outlook Online, to provide guidance to agencies and critical infrastructure organizations on...

State-Backed Hackers Employ Advanced Methods to Target Middle Eastern and African Governments

Governmental entities in the Middle East and Africa have been at the receiving end of sustained cyber-espionage attacks that leverage never-before-seen and rare credential theft and Exchange email exfiltration techniques. "The main goal of the attacks was to obtain highly confidential and sensiti...

Dark Pink APT Group Leverages TelePowerBot and KamiKakaBot in Sophisticated Attacks

The threat actor known as Dark Pink has been linked to five new attacks aimed at various entities in Belgium, Brunei, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam between February 2022 and April 2023. This includes educational institutions, government agencies, military bodies, and non-profit organizations,...

New APT Group Red Stinger Targets Military and Critical Infrastructure in Eastern Europe

A previously undetected advanced persistent threat APT actor dubbed Red Stinger has been linked to attacks targeting Eastern Europe since 2020. "Military, transportation, and critical infrastructure were some of the entities being targeted, as well as some involved in the September East Ukraine...

Hackers Targeting Italian Corporate Banking Clients with New Web-Inject Toolkit DrIBAN

Italian corporate banking clients are the target of an ongoing financial fraud campaign that has been leveraging a new web-inject toolkit called drIBAN since at least 2019. "The main goal of drIBAN fraud operations is to infect Windows workstations inside corporate environments trying to alter...

New Tomiris APT Group Targets Governments

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Tomiris is a Russian-speaking advanced persistent threat APT group that has been active since at least 2021 and is known for its use of sophisticated tactics and tools, including zero-day exploits and...

Winter Vivern with Pro-Russian Objectives Targets Government

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The Winter Vivern Advanced Persistent Threat APT is a relatively underreported group that operates with pro-Russian objectives and targets government agencies. To receive real-time threat advisories, plea...

Tick APT Targeted High-Value Customers of East Asian Data-Loss Prevention Company

A cyberespionage actor known as Tick has been attributed with high confidence to a compromise of an East Asian data-loss prevention DLP company that caters to government and military entities. "The attackers compromised the DLP company's internal update servers to deliver malware inside the...

Lazarus Group Likely Using New WinorDLL64 Backdoor to Exfiltrate Sensitive Data

A new backdoor associated with a malware downloader named Wslink has been discovered, with the tool likely used by the notorious North Korea-aligned Lazarus Group, new findings reveal. The payload, dubbed WinorDLL64 by ESET, is a fully-featured implant that can exfiltrate, overwrite, and delete...

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...

Hackers Target Ukrainian Software Company Using GoMet Backdoor

A large software development company whose software is used by different state entities in Ukraine was at the receiving end of an "uncommon" piece of malware, new research has found. The malware, first observed on the morning of May 19, 2022, is a custom variant of the open source backdoor known ...

What is Steganography, and how can we Avoid it?

What is steganography? Steganography is, broadly, a type of covert communication involving the use of any medium to hide messages. Steganography is a relatively old technique of hiding ‘secret’ data in plain sight to avoid detection. Seeing a resurgence of late, bad actors are taking advantage of...

Predatory Sparrow massively disrupts steel factories while keeping workers safe

Stuxnets attack on Irans uranium enrichment facilities manifested fears of cyberattacks leaking into the real world. What once was theory is now upon us. Two weeks ago, multiple Iranian steel facilities experienced a cyberattack that might have been pulled off by what many cybersecurity experts i...

Growling Bears Make Thunderous Noise

Growling Bears Make Thunderous Noise By Trellix · June 6, 2022 Per public attribution, Russian cybercriminal groups have always been active. Their tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs have not significantly evolved over time, although some changes have been observed. Lately, the threat...

SideWinder Hackers Launched Over a 1,000 Cyber Attacks Over the Past 2 Years

An "aggressive" advanced persistent threat APT group known as SideWinder has been linked to over 1,000 new attacks since April 2020. "Some of the main characteristics of this threat actor that make it stand out among the others, are the sheer number, high frequency and persistence of their attack...

Belarusian ‘Ghostwriter’ Actor Picks Up BitB for Ukraine-Related Attacks

Ghostwriter – a threat actor previously linked with the Belarusian Ministry of Defense – has glommed onto the recently disclosed, nearly invisible “Browser-in-the-Browser” BitB credential-phishing technique in order to continue its ongoing exploitation of the war in Ukraine. In a Wednesday post,...