CISA Updates Alert and Releases Supplemental Guidance on Emergency Directive for SolarWinds Orion Compromise

CISA has updated AA20-352A: Advanced Persistent Threat Compromise of Government Agencies, Critical Infrastructure, and Private Sector Organizations, originally released December 17. This update states that CISA has evidence of, and is currently investigating, initial access vectors in addition to...

CISA, FBI, and CNMF Identify a New Malware Variant: ComRAT

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, and the Department of Defense Cyber National Mission Force CNMF have identified a malware variant—referred to as ComRAT—used by the Russian-sponsored advanced persistent threat APT actor Turla. In...

North Korea-Backed Spy Group Poses as Reporters in Spearphishing Attacks, Feds Warn

The North Korean advanced persistent threat APT group known as Kimsuky is actively attacking commercial-sector businesses, often by posing as South Korean reporters, according to an alert from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA. Kimsuky a.k.a. Hidden Cobra has been...

Greg Rattray Invented the Term Advanced Persistent Threat

I was so pleased to read this Tweet yesterday from Greg Rattray: "Back in 2007, I coined the term “Advanced Persistent Threat” to characterize emerging adversaries that we needed to work with the defense industrial base to deal with... Since then both the APT term and the nature of our adversarie...

APT Hackers Exploit Autodesk 3ds Max Software for Industrial Espionage

It's one thing for APT groups to conduct cyber espionage to meet their own financial objectives. But it's an entirely different matter when they are used as "hackers for hire" by competing private companies to make away with confidential information. Bitdefender's Cyber Threat Intelligence Lab...

InvisiMole Group Resurfaces Touting Fresh Toolset, Gamaredon Partnership

The InvisiMole threat group has resurfaced in a new campaign, revealing a new toolset and a strategic collaboration with the high-profile Gamaredon advanced persistent threat APT group. InvisiMole was first uncovered by ESET in 2018, with cyberespionage activity dating back to 2013 in operations ...

Trump, Biden Campaign Staffers Targeted By APT Phishing Emails

With the U.S. presidential election months away, advanced persistent threat APT groups are targeting the campaign staffers of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden in recent phishing attacks. On Thursday, Shane Huntley with Google’s Threat Analysis Group said on Twitter that two separate phishing...

Chafer APT Hits Middle East Govs With Latest Cyber-Espionage Attacks

Researchers have uncovered new cybercrime campaigns from the known Chafer advanced persistent threat APT group. The attacks have hit several air transportation and government victims in hopes of data exfiltration. The Chafer APT has been active since 2014 and has previously launched cyber espiona...

Feds Reveal Hidden Cobra's Trove of Espionage Tools

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation have exposed what they say are hacking tools used by the North Korean-sponsored APT group Hidden Cobra. The disclosure was the result of a broad government effort to combat the advanced persistent threat group, who have...

MITRE ATT&CK APT 29 evaluation proves Microsoft Threat Protection provides deeper end to end view of advanced threats

As attackers use more advanced techniques, it’s even more important that defenders have visibility not just into each of the domains in their environment, but also across them to piece together coordinated, targeted, and advanced attacks. This level of visibility will allow us to get ahead of...

The 10 Most Common Attacks

This post is an excerpt from The Ultimate Cybersecurity Guide for the IT Professional. Common Attacks Today’s organizations face four main categories of adversaries. In order to fully defend against these four types, you must also understand what motivates them. This context will best position yo...

Learn Ethical Hacking From Scratch — 2019 Training Bundle

The world of cybersecurity is fast-paced and ever-changing. New attacks are unleashed every day, and companies around the world lose millions of dollars as a result. The only thing standing in the way of cybercrime is a small army of ethical hackers. These cybersecurity experts are employed to fi...

The Logic of a Classic Advanced Persistent Threat Attack

By David Balaban Story of an Advanced Persistent Threat attack against a large corporation that started with a series of blank emails. Advanced persistent threats APTs are increasingly targeting enterprise networks nowadays. This article highlights a recent attack against a large, well-protected...

Reference: TaoSecurity Research

I started publishing my thoughts and findings on digital security in 1999. I used to provide this information on my Web site, but since I don't keep that page up-to-date anymore, I decided to publish it here. 2015 and later: Please visit Academia.edu for Mr. Bejtlich's most recent research. 2014...

Source Code for CARBANAK Banking Malware Found On VirusTotal

Security researchers have discovered the full source code of theCarbanak malware—yes, this time it's for real. Carbanak—sometimes referred as FIN7, Anunak or Cobalt—is one of the most full-featured, dangerous malware that belongs to an APT-style cybercriminal group involved in several attacks...

US Indicts Two Chinese Government Hackers Over Global Hacking Campaign

The US Department of Justice on Thursday charged two Chinese hackers associated with the Chinese government for hacking numerous companies and government agencies in a dozen countries. The Chinese nationals, Zhu Huaknown online as Afwar, CVNX, Alayos and Godkiller and Zhang Shilong known online a...

Threats in the Netherlands

Introduction On October 4, 2018, the MIVD held a press conference about an intercepted cyberattack on the OPWC in the Netherlands, allegedly by the advanced threat actor Sofacy also known as APT28 or Fancy Bear, among others. According to the MIVD, four suspects were caught red handed trying to...

de.sydney.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-644403 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| de.sydney.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Cyber Espionage is Alive and Well: APT32 and the Threat to Global Corporations

Cyber espionage actors, now designated by FireEye as APT32 OceanLotus Group, are carrying out intrusions into private sector companies across multiple industries and have also targeted foreign governments, dissidents, and journalists. FireEye assesses that APT32 leverages a unique suite of...

Google’s lessons in security: bring together security engineering and incident response

Last week during Google Next conference, we have heard an interesting talk where a google security PM, Andy Chang, explained what Google has learned from preventing, detecting and responding to cyber attacks over the years. Not surprisingly, Google is paying a lot of attention to securing the...