South Korean DarkHotel Hackers Targeted Luxury Hotels in Macau

Luxury hotels in the Chinese special administrative region of Macau were the target of a malicious spear-phishing campaign from the second half of November 2021 and through mid-January 2022. Cybersecurity firm Trellix attributed the campaign with moderate confidence to a suspected South Korean...

PSRansom - PowerShell Ransomware Simulator With C2 Server

PSRansom is a PowerShell Ransomware Simulator with C2 Server capabilities. This tool helps you simulate encryption process of a generic ransomware in any system on any system with PowerShell installed on it. Thanks to the integrated C2 server, you can exfiltrate files and receive client informati...

TrickBot Malware Abusing MikroTik Routers as Proxies for Command-and-Control

Microsoft on Wednesday detailed a previously undiscovered technique put to use by the TrickBot malware that involves using compromised Internet of Things IoT devices as a go-between for establishing communications with the command-and-control C2 servers. "By using MikroTik routers as proxy server...

Suspected DarkHotel APT Activity Update

Suspected DarkHotel APT activity update One Hotel to rule them all, One Hotel to find them, One Hotel to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. By John Fokker · March 17, 2022 This story was also written by Thibault Seret Introduction: Our advanced threat research team has discovered a...

BuilderTorCTPHPRAT.b Shell Upload

Discovery / credits: Malvuln - malvuln.com c 2022 Original source: https://malvuln.com/advisory/838f67d7a4b6824ec59892057aab3bb7B.txt Contact: [email protected] Media: twitter.com/malvuln Threat: BuilderTorCTPHPRAT.b Vulnerability: Arbitrary File Upload - RCE Family: TorCTPHPRAT Type: WebUI MD5...

Suspected DarkHotel APT Activity Update

Suspected DarkHotel APT activity update One Hotel to rule them all, One Hotel to find them, One Hotel to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. By John Fokker · March 17, 2022 This story was also written by Thibault Seret Introduction: Our advanced threat research team has discovered a...

New "B1txor20" Linux Botnet Uses DNS Tunnel and Exploits Log4J Flaw

A previously undocumented backdoor has been observed targeting Linux systems with the goal of corralling the machines into a botnet and acting as a conduit for downloading and installing rootkits. Qihoo 360's Netlab security team called it B1txor20 "based on its propagation using the file name...

Escobar is the new Android banking Trojan we’ve met before

Aberebot, a known Android banking Trojan, has changed its name and returned loaded with new features. First spotted by @MalwareHunterTeam in early March, this mobile variant was renamed "Escobar"—a homage to the Colombian drug baron—and disguised itself as a McAfee app. It went by the package nam...

Raccoon Stealer Crawls Into Telegram

A credential stealer that first rose to popularity a couple of years ago is now abusing Telegram for command-and-control C2. A range of cybercriminals continue to widen its attack surface through creative distribution means like this, researchers have reported. Raccoon Stealer, which first appear...

Tp-link Archer C2 OS Command Injection Vulnerability

TP-Link Archer C2 is a wireless router from Tp-link.TP-Link Archer C20i version 0.9.1 3.2 v003a.0 Build 170221 Rel.55462n is vulnerable due to a security flaw in the device's HTTP parameter XTP ExternalIPv6Address. ExternalIPv6Address in the device lacks filtering and escaping of user data, which...

Tp-link Archer C2 操作系统命令注入漏洞

TP-Link Archer C2 is a wireless router from Tp-link.TP-Link Archer C20i version 0.9.1 3.2 v003a.0 Build 170221 Rel.55462n is vulnerable due to a security flaw in the device's HTTP parameter XTP ExternalIPv6Address. ExternalIPv6Address in the device lacks filtering and escaping of user data, which...

TrickBot Malware Gang Upgrades its AnchorDNS Backdoor to AnchorMail

Even as the TrickBot infrastructure closed shop, the operators of the malware are continuing to refine and retool their arsenal to carry out attacks that culminated in the deployment of Conti ransomware. IBM Security X-Force, which discovered the revamped version of the criminal gang's AnchorDNS...

Social Media Hijacking Malware Spreading Through Gaming Apps on Microsoft Store

A new malware capable of controlling social media accounts is being distributed through Microsoft's official app store in the form of trojanized gaming apps, infecting more than 5,000 Windows machines in Sweden, Bulgaria, Russia, Bermuda, and Spain. Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point dubbe...

New "SockDetour" Fileless, Socketless Backdoor Targets U.S. Defense Contractors

Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps off a previously undocumented and stealthy custom malware called SockDetour that targeted U.S.-based defense contractors with the goal of being used as a secondary implant on compromised Windows hosts. "SockDetour is a backdoor that is designed to...

Looking Over the Nation-State Actors’ Shoulders

Looking over the nation-state actors’ shoulders: Even they have a difficult day sometimes By Trellix and Marc Elias · Febraury 17, 2022 Have you ever been curious about how nation-state actors operate and what their day-to-day work looks like? This blog reveals some of these details observed base...

Looking Over the Nation-State Actors’ Shoulders

Looking over the nation-state actors’ shoulders: Even they have a difficult day sometimes By Trellix and Marc Elias · Febraury 17, 2022 Have you ever been curious about how nation-state actors operate and what their day-to-day work looks like? This blog reveals some of these details observed base...

TrickBot Malware Targeted Customers of 60 High-Profile Companies Since 2020

The notorious TrickBot malware is targeting customers of 60 financial and technology companies, including cryptocurrency firms, primarily located in the U.S., even as its operators have updated the botnet with new anti-analysis features. "TrickBot is a sophisticated and versatile malware with mor...

Iranian Hackers Using New Marlin Backdoor in 'Out to Sea' Espionage Campaign

An advanced persistent threat APT group with ties to Iran has refreshed its malware toolset to include a new backdoor dubbed Marlin as part of a long-running espionage campaign that started in April 2018. Slovak cybersecurity company ESET attributed the attacks — codenamed "Out to Sea" — to a...

Iranian state-sponsored APT group MuddyWater targeting organizations via malicious executables

THREAT LEVEL: Red. United States Cyber Command USCYBERCOM has warned of an ongoing cyber attack by Iranian state sponsored actor named as MuddyWater. This APT group is currently targeting Middle Eastern countries and has also targeted European and North American nations. The Iranian-backed...

Segway Hit by Magecart Attack Hiding in a Favicon

Segway, maker of the iconic – and much-spoofed – personal motorized transporter familiar from guided city tours everywhere, has been serving up a nasty credit-card harvesting skimmer via its website that’s likely linked to Magecart Group 12. That’s according to Malwarebytes, which noted that “We...