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ESPecter Bootkit Malware Haunts Victims with Persistent Espionage
A rare Windows UEFI bootkit malware has been discovered, offering attackers a path to cyber-espionage, researchers are warning. According to ESET, the bootkit’s goal is to install a full featured backdoor on a target PC, which “supports a rich set of commands and contains various automatic data...
Pwncat - Fancy Reverse And Bind Shell Handler
pwncat is a post-exploitation platform for Linux targets. It started out as a wrapper around basic bind and reverse shells and has grown from there. It streamlines common red team operations while staging code from your attacker machine, not the target. pwncat used to only support Linux, but ther...
Russian Turla APT Group Deploying New Backdoor on Targeted Systems
State-sponsored hackers affiliated with Russia are behind a new series of intrusions using a previously undocumented implant to compromise systems in the U.S., Germany, and Afghanistan. Cisco Talos attributed the attacks to the Turla advanced persistent threat APT group, coining the malware...
Turla APT Plants Novel Backdoor In Wake of Afghan Unrest
The Turla advanced persistent threat APT group is back with a new backdoor used to infect systems in Afghanistan, Germany and the U.S., researchers have reported. On Tuesday, Cisco Talos researchers said that they’ve spotted infections they attributed to the Turla group aka Snake, Venomous Bear,...
Malware Attack on Aviation Sector Uncovered After Going Unnoticed for 2 Years
A targeted phishing campaign aimed at the aviation industry for two years may be spearheaded by a threat actor operating out of Nigeria, highlighting how attackers can carry out small-scale cyber offensives for extended periods of time while staying under the radar. Cisco Talos dubbed the malware...
Operation ‘Harvest’: A Deep Dive into a Long-term Campaign
ARCHIVED STORY Operation ‘Harvest’: A Deep Dive into a Long-term Campaign By Christiaan Beek · September 14, 2021 A special thanks to our Professional Services’ IR team,ShadowServer, for historical context on C2 domains, and Thomas Roccia/Leandro Velasco for malware analysis support. Executive...
SOVA, Worryingly Sophisticated Android Trojan, Takes Flight
A new Android banking trojan named SOVA “owl” in Russian is under active development, researchers said, and it has big dreams even in its infancy stage. The malware is looking to incorporate distributed denial of service DDoS, man in the middle MiTM and ransomware functionality into its arsenal –...
BeaconEye - Hunts Out CobaltStrike Beacons And Logs Operator Command Output
BeaconEye scans running processes for active CobaltStrike beacons. When processes are found to be running beacon, BeaconEye will monitor each process for C2 activity. How it works BeaconEye will scan live processes or MiniDump files for suspected CobaltStrike beacons. In live process mode,...
CVE-2021-33191
From Apache NiFi MiNiFi C++ version 0.5.0 the c2 protocol implements an "agent-update" command which was designed to patch the application binary. This "patching" command defaults to calling a trusted binary, but might be modified to an arbitrary value through a "c2-update" command. Said command ...
CVE-2021-33191
From Apache NiFi MiNiFi C++ version 0.5.0 the c2 protocol implements an "agent-update" command which was designed to patch the application binary. This "patching" command defaults to calling a trusted binary, but might be modified to an arbitrary value through a "c2-update" command. Said command ...
Effective Threat-Hunting Queries in a Redacted World
A decade ago, hunting for adversary infrastructure was often as simple as monitoring a domain registrant’s name or phone number in public WHOIS records. As bad actors have moved first toward privacy protection services and then gained further obscurity behind laws such as the General Data...
CVE-2021-33191 MiNiFi CPP arbitrary script execution is possible on the agent's host machine through the c2 protocol
From Apache NiFi MiNiFi C++ version 0.5.0 the c2 protocol implements an "agent-update" command which was designed to patch the application binary. This "patching" command defaults to calling a trusted binary, but might be modified to an arbitrary value through a "c2-update" command. Said command ...
InkySquid State Actor Exploiting Known IE Bugs
The InkySquid advanced persistent threat APT group, which researchers have linked to the North Korean government, was caught launching watering hole attacks against a South Korean newspaper using known Internet Explorer vulnerabilities. New analysis from Volexity reported its team of researchers...
PickleC2 - A Post-Exploitation And Lateral Movements Framework
PickleC2 is a post-exploitation and lateral movements framework. Documentation ReadTheDocs Overview PickleC2 is a simple C2 framework written in python3 used to help the community in Penetration Testers in their red teaming engagements. PickleC2 has the ability to import your own PowerShell modul...
Nimplant - A Cross-Platform Implant Written In Nim
Nimplant is a cross-platform Linux & Windows implant written in Nim as a fun project to learn about Nim and see what it can bring to the table for red team tool development. Currently, Nimplant lacks extensive evasive tradecraft; however, overtime Nimplant will become much more sophisticated...
CVE-2021-36798
A Denial-of-Service DoS vulnerability was discovered in Team Server in HelpSystems Cobalt Strike 4.2 and 4.3. It allows remote attackers to crash the C2 server thread and block beacons' communication with it...
CVE-2021-36798
A Denial-of-Service DoS vulnerability was discovered in Team Server in HelpSystems Cobalt Strike 4.2 and 4.3. It allows remote attackers to crash the C2 server thread and block beacons' communication with it...
Denial of service
A Denial-of-Service DoS vulnerability was discovered in Team Server in HelpSystems Cobalt Strike 4.2 and 4.3. It allows remote attackers to crash the C2 server thread and block beacons' communication with it...
Black Hat 2021: Rapid7 Experts Share Key Day 2 Takeaways
Here we are again, back for another day of Rapid7 expert debriefings and analysis for some of the most talked-about Black Hat sessions of this year. So without further delay, let’s take it away! Get more DEF CON 2021 insights from our Research team on Tuesday, August 10 Sign up for our What...