Enhanced Monitoring to Detect APT Activity Targeting Outlook Online

SUMMARY In June 2023, a Federal Civilian Executive Branch FCEB agency identified suspicious activity in their Microsoft 365 M365 cloud environment. The agency reported the activity to Microsoft and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, and Microsoft determined that advanced...

How Talos IR’s Purple Team can help you prepare for the worst-case scenario

Purple Team exercises are included within the Cisco Talos Incident Response Retainer service and our experts can help your organization find security holes before the bad guys can. As your trusted advisor, our purple team, which is a combination of both red and blue teams, emulates one joint atta...

Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Actors 19 June to 25 June 2023

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForce Labs recently made several significant discoveries related to cybersecurity threats. Over the past week, the fact that there were a total of twelve attacks executed, taking advantage of seventeen different vulnerabilities ...

RedEyes Exploiting Ably Platform Using FadeStealer and Wiretapping Capabilities

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary RedEyes, a state-sponsored APT group, is targeting individuals through spear phishing emails and employing an Infostealer with wiretapping capabilities, utilizing the Ably platform for command and contro...

Chinese Espionage Malware Targets European Healthcare via USB Drives

By Waqas The malware campaign has been attributed to the Chinese APT group Mustang Panda, also known as Camaro Dragon. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Chinese Espionage Malware Targets European Healthcare via USB Drives...

Flea APT Targets Foreign Ministries with New Backdoor.Graphican

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Flea APT15 targeted foreign ministries with their new backdoor, Backdoor.Graphican, leveraging Microsoft Graph API and OneDrive for C&C communication. To receive real-time threat advisories, please follo...

Chinese Hacker Group 'Flea' Targets American Ministries with Graphican Backdoor

Foreign affairs ministries in the Americas have been targeted by a Chinese state-sponsored actor named Flea as part of a recent campaign that spanned from late 2022 to early 2023. The cyber attacks, per Broadcom's Symantec, involved a new backdoor codenamed Graphican. Some of the other targets...

Cybercriminals Exploit Old Telerik Bug for Data Theft

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary APT actors and financially motivated cybercriminals were observed exploiting old Telerik vulnerabilities in an attack targeting a US government agency. To receive real-time threat advisories, please foll...

Unveiling Cadet Blizzard APT’s Wiper Attacks Targeting Ukraine

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Cadet Blizzard, a Russian GRU-sponsored threat group, conducted major cyber operations using WhisperGate, a customized wiper malware, to demonstrate their destructive capabilities through targeted attack...

Threat Actors Exploit Progress Telerik Vulnerabilities in Multiple U.S. Government IIS Servers

SUMMARY From November 2022 through early January 2023, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and authoring organizations identified the presence of indicators of compromise IOCs at a federal civilian executive branch FCEB agency. Analysts determined that multiple cyber threat...

Fake Researcher Profiles Spread Malware through GitHub Repositories as PoC Exploits

At least half of dozen GitHub accounts from fake researchers associated with a fraudulent cybersecurity company have been observed pushing malicious repositories on the code hosting service. All seven repositories, which are still available as of writing, claim to be a proof-of-concept PoC exploi...

Behind the Scenes: Unveiling the Hidden Workings of Earth Preta

This blog entry discusses the more technical details on the most recent tools, techniques, and procedures TTPs leveraged by the Earth Preta APT group, and tackles how we were able to correlate different indicators connected to this threat actor...

Operation Triangulation: Zero-Click iPhone Malware

Kaspersky is reporting a zero-click iOS exploit in the wild: Mobile device backups contain a partial copy of the filesystem, including some of the user data and service databases. The timestamps of the files, folders and the database records allow to roughly reconstruct the events happening to th...

IT threat evolution Q1 2023

IT threat evolution in Q1 2023 IT threat evolution in Q1 2023. Non-mobile statistics IT threat evolution in Q1 2023. Mobile statistics Targeted attacks BlueNoroff introduces new methods bypassing MotW At the close of 2022, we reported the recent activities of BlueNoroff, a financially motivated...

Exploit for Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound) in Microsoft

" CVE-2021-31956" WIP PoC code for CVE-2021-31956 in preparat...

New Zero-Click Hack Targets iOS Users with Stealthy Root-Privilege Malware

A previously unknown advanced persistent threat APT is targeting iOS devices as part of a sophisticated and long-running mobile campaign dubbed Operation Triangulation that began in 2019. "The targets are infected using zero-click exploits via the iMessage platform, and the malware runs with root...

Operation Triangulation: iOS devices targeted with previously unknown malware

While monitoring the network traffic of our own corporate Wi-Fi network dedicated for mobile devices using the Kaspersky Unified Monitoring and Analysis Platform KUMA, we noticed suspicious activity that originated from several iOS-based phones. Since it is impossible to inspect modern iOS device...

CISA issues warning to US businesses: Beware of China's state-sponsored cyber actor

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has an urgent message for US businesses: watch out for Volt Typhoon, a threat actor sponsored by the Peoples Republic of China PRC. The agency's joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA published last week highlights a cluster of tactics,...

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,...

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,...