Unveiling the Sea Turtle Cyber Espionage Campaign

Summary: Sea Turtle, a Turkey-based Advanced Persistent Threat APT actor, has been active since 2017. The group has primarily targeted European and Middle Eastern organizations, focusing on information theft and DNS hijacking to compromise repositories with valuable and sensitive data. In a recen...

Video series discussing the major threat actor trends from 2023

In this video series, Talos Director of Threat Intelligence and Interdiction Matt Olney and Head of Outreach Nick Biasini share their insights on the most significant cybersecurity threats from the past year. From attacks on network infrastructure to the latest APT activities, as well as an updat...

D3m0n1z3dShell - Demonized Shell Is An Advanced Tool For Persistence In Linux

Demonized Shell is an Advanced Tool for persistence in linux. Install git clone https://github.com/MatheuZSecurity/D3m0n1z3dShell.git cd D3m0n1z3dShell chmod +x demonizedshell.sh sudo ./demonizedshell.sh One-Liner Install Download D3m0n1z3dShell with all files: curl -L...

Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Actors 11 December to 17 December 2023

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForce Labs has recently made several significant discoveries related to cybersecurity threats. Over the past week, we identified a total of eleven executed attacks, six instances of adversary activity, and five exploited...

Russian SVR Exploits Critical TeamCity Vulnerability Globally

Summary: A critical vulnerability CVE-2023-45247 in JetBrains TeamCity is actively exploited by Russias SVR cyber actors APT 29, allowing full server compromise. The targeted software widely used by developers poses a significant threat, enabling access to sensitive information and potential...

Recommendations that defenders can use from Talos’ Year in Review Report

The Talos Year in Review is available now and contains a wealth of insights about how the threat landscape has shifted in 2023. With new ransomware strains emerging from leaked source code, commodity loaders adding more reconnaissance measures to their belts, and geopolitical events influencing A...

Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Exploiting JetBrains TeamCity CVE Globally

SUMMARY The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, U.S. National Security Agency NSA, Polish Military Counterintelligence Service SKW, CERT Polska CERT.PL, and the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre NCSC assess Russian Foreign...

The Unseen Thread Linking Sandman APT and KEYPLUG Backdoor

Summary: The Sandman Advanced Persistent Threat APT is closely linked to suspected threat clusters originating from China, specifically identified as Storm-0866, also known as Red Dev 40. Within the same victim environments, the Sandmans Lua-based malware, LuaDream, and the KEYPLUG backdoor have...

Operation Blacksmith: Lazarus targets organizations worldwide using novel Telegram-based malware written in DLang

Cisco Talos recently discovered a new campaign conducted by the Lazarus Group were calling "Operation Blacksmith," employing at least three new DLang-based malware families, two of which are remote access trojans RATs, where one of these uses Telegram bots and channels as a medium of command and...

Iranian APT Group ‘CyberAv3ngers’ Target U.S. Critical Infrastructure

Summary: CyberAv3ngers, an Iranian APT group affiliated with the IRGC, is known for cyberattacks against critical infrastructure, recently targeting U.S. Water and Wastewater Systems facilities. The group employs defacement tactics, exploiting default credentials in Unitronics PLCs, and expressin...

The malware, attacker trends and more that shaped the threat landscape in 2023

The 2023 Cisco Talos Year in Review is now available to download. Once again, the Talos team has meticulously combed through a massive amount of data to analyze the major trends that have shaped the threat landscape in 2023. Global conflict influenced a lot of these trends, altering the tactics a...

Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Actors 27 November to 3 December 2023

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForce Labs recently made several significant discoveries in the realm of cybersecurity threats. In the past week alone, a total of eight attacks were executed, six vulnerabilities were uncovered, and two active adversaries were...

North Korean APT’s Covert Supply-Chain Ambush

Summary: There has been a significant increase in software supply chain attacks orchestrated by North Korean hackers. Notably, the MagicLine4NX and 3CX compromises gained attention, with the Lazarus hacking group employing a sophisticated approach. They leverage a zero-day vulnerability in the...

The Rise of DarkCasino APT Group Exploiting WinRAR 0-Day

Summary: DarkCasino, an APT group with economic motivations, was initially identified in 2021. The group introduced DarkMe, a Trojan Horse program based on Visual Basic. Recently, DarkCasino has been linked to the zero-day exploitation of CVE-2023-38831, an arbitrary code execution vulnerability...

New 'HrServ.dll' Web Shell Detected in APT Attack Targeting Afghan Government

An unspecified government entity in Afghanistan was targeted by a previously undocumented web shell called HrServ in what's suspected to be an advanced persistent threat APT attack. The web shell, a dynamic-link library DLL named "hrserv.dll," exhibits "sophisticated features such as custom...

HrServ – Previously unknown web shell used in APT attack

Introduction In the course of our routine investigation, we discovered a DLL file, identified as hrserv.dll, which is a previously unknown web shell exhibiting sophisticated features such as custom encoding methods for client communication and in-memory execution. Our analysis of the sample led t...

Experts Uncover DarkCasino: New Emerging APT Threat Exploiting WinRAR Flaw

A hacking group that leveraged a recently disclosed security flaw in the WinRAR software as a zero-day has now been categorized as an entirely new advanced persistent threat APT. Cybersecurity company NSFOCUS has described DarkCasino as an "economically motivated" actor that first came to light i...

Advanced threat predictions for 2024

Advanced persistent threats APTs are the most dangerous threats, as they employ complex tools and techniques, and often are highly targeted and hard to detect. Amid the global crisis and escalating geopolitical confrontations, these sophisticated cyberattacks are even more dangerous, as there is...

Chinese APT Masquerading as Cloud Services in Cambodia

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Chinese APT targets Cambodian government via disguised cloud services, aiming to access sensitive data, aligning with Chinas regional interests. Actors adapt work hours, signaling Chinese origin, urging...

Chinese APT Posing as Cloud Services to Spy on Cambodian Government

By Deeba Ahmed Palo Alto's Unit 42 Reveals Chinese APT Spying on 24 Cambodian Government Entities as Part of Long-Term Cyberespionage. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Chinese APT Posing as Cloud Services to Spy on Cambodian Government...