Ice Breaker a Looming Threat on the Gaming Industry

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Online gaming and gambling companies have been targeted by hackers using unseen backdoors. The attacks are grouped together and referred to as "Ice Breaker." The intrusions make use of smart social...

Malicious code in cu-dashboard-components (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 05a7db61863c75c4e403ac8634e0889a3980b57447fb6c65a10f21724a064fe1 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

Russian Turla Hackers Hijack Decade-Old Malware Infrastructure to Deploy New Backdoors

The Russian cyberespionage group known as Turla has been observed piggybacking on attack infrastructure used by a decade-old malware to deliver its own reconnaissance and backdoor tools to targets in Ukraine. Google-owned Mandiant, which is tracking the operation under the uncategorized cluster...

WordPress plugin has been exploited in the wild to mount backdoors

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Malicious actors are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in the YITH WooCommerce Gift Cards Premium WordPress plugin in order to plant backdoors on e-Commerce sites. The security flaw...

Malicious code in usaa-colors (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 98ac31658eaf9b02bb8d44c8717ac9059ef1ea10b509367972d9dc2ea0d3d4c1 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

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...

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...

PT-2022-28245 · Sentinelone · Sentinelone

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: SentinelOne affected versions not specified Description: Threat actors impersonated SentinelOne by uploading fake software development kits SDKs onto PyPI. These SDKs contained fully functional SentinelOne clients but also included malicious...

FIN7 Cybercrime Syndicate Emerges as a Major Player in Ransomware Landscape

An exhaustive analysis of FIN7 has unmasked the cybercrime syndicate's organizational hierarchy, alongside unraveling its role as an affiliate for mounting ransomware attacks. It has also exposed deeper associations between the group and the larger threat ecosystem comprising the now-defunct...

Trojaned Windows Installer Targets Ukraine

Mandiant is reporting on a trojaned Windows installer that targets Ukrainian users. The installer was left on various torrent sites, presumably ensnaring people downloading pirated copies of the operating system: Mandiant uncovered a socially engineered supply chain operation focused on Ukrainian...

IIS modules: The evolution of web shells and how to detect them

Web exploitation and web shells are some of the most common entry points in the current threat landscape. Web servers provide an external avenue directly into your corporate network, which often results in web servers being an initial intrusion vector or mechanism of persistence. Monitoring for...

Hack-for-Hire Group Targets Travel and Financial Entities with New Janicab Malware Variant

Travel agencies have emerged as the target of a hack-for-hire group dubbed Evilnum as part of a broader campaign aimed at legal and financial investment institutions in the Middle East and Europe. The attacks, which took place during 2020 and 2021 and likely went as far back as 2015, involved a...

Chinese Hackers Using Russo-Ukrainian War Decoys to Target APAC and European Entities

The China-linked nation-state hacking group referred to as Mustang Panda is using lures related to the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War to attack entities in Europe and the Asia Pacific. That's according to the BlackBerry Research and Intelligence Team, which analyzed a RAR archive file titled...

UBUNTU-CVE-2022-4093

SQL injection attacks can result in unauthorized access to sensitive data, such as passwords, credit card details, or personal user information. Many high-profile data breaches in recent years have been the result of SQL injection attacks, leading to reputational damage and regulatory fines. In...

Researchers Find Links b/w Black Basta Ransomware and FIN7 Hackers

A new analysis of tools put to use by the Black Basta ransomware operation has identified ties between the threat actor and the FIN7 aka Carbanak group. This link "could suggest either that Black Basta and FIN7 maintain a special relationship or that one or more individuals belong to both groups,...

Unknown Actors are Deploying RomCom RAT to Target Ukrainian Military

The threat actor behind a remote access trojan called RomCom RAT has been observed targeting Ukrainian military institutions as part of a new spear-phishing campaign that commenced on October 21, 2022. The development marks a shift in the attacker's modus operandi, which has been previously...

Malicious code in tttestsupport-common (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware ec247ef9b86fec7b8f1a1487f90871675bf61efd5c6483db68965ad27692f119 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

Researchers Uncover Custom Backdoors and Spying Tools Used by Polonium Hackers

A threat actor tracked as Polonium has been linked to over a dozen highly targeted attacks aimed at Israelian entities with seven different custom backdoors since at least September 2021. The intrusions were aimed at organizations in various verticals, such as engineering, information technology,...

POLONIUM employs backdoors to target Israel

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary POLONIUM is a cyber espionage gang that leverages OneDrive and Dropbox cloud services for command and control C&C by employing a custom toolkit that includes seven backdoors and various spying modules to...

How Water Labbu Exploits Electron-Based Applications

In the second part of our Water Labbu blog series, we explore how the threat actor exploits Electron-based applications using Cobalt Strike to deploy backdoors...