Firestarter Android Malware Abuses Google Firebase Cloud Messaging

An APT group is starting fires with a new Android malware loader, which uses a legitimate Google messaging service to bypass detection. The malware, dubbed “Firestarter,” is used by an APT threat group called “DoNot.” DoNot uses Firebase Cloud Messaging FCM, which is a cross-platform cloud soluti...

KashmirBlack Botnet Hijacks Thousands of Sites Running On Popular CMS Platforms

An active botnet comprising hundreds of thousands of hijacked systems spread across 30 countries is exploiting "dozens of known vulnerabilities" to target widely-used content management systems CMS. The "KashmirBlack" campaign, which is believed to have started around November 2019, aims for...

DoNot’s Firestarter abuses Google Firebase Cloud Messaging to spread

By Warren Mercer, Paul Rascagneres and Vitor Ventura. The newly discovered Firestarter malware uses Google Firebase Cloud Messaging to notify its authors of the final payload location.Even if the command and control C2 is taken down, the DoNot team can still redirect the malware to another C2 usi...

suricata-rules

This repository contains Suricata IDS Intrusion Detection System rules for detecting various types of malicious activity, including CobaltStrike, CryptoMiner, and other threats. The rules are designed to identify specific patterns and behaviors associated with these threats. The rules are organiz...

IAmTheKing and the SlothfulMedia malware family

On October 1, 2020, the DHS CISA agency released information about a malware family called SlothfulMedia, which they attribute to a sophisticated threat actor. We have been tracking this set of activity through our private reporting service, and we would like to provide the community with...

Lemon Duck Cryptocurrency-Mining Botnet Activity Spikes

Researchers are warning of a recent dramatic uptick in the activity of the Lemon Duck cryptocurrency-mining botnet, which targets victims’ computer resources to mine the Monero virtual currency. Click to Register! Researchers warn that Lemon Duck is “one of the more complex” mining botnets, with...

RAINBOWMIX Apps in Google Play Serve Up Millions of Ad Fraud Victims

Researchers with White Ops have uncovered a scam to deliver millions of out-of-context OOC ads through a group of more than 240 Android applications on the official Google Play store, which the team said were collectively delivering more than 15 million impressions per day at their peak. The apps...

Tenda Router Zero-Days Emerge in Spyware Botnet Campaign

Two former Tenda router zero-days are anchoring the spread of a Mirai-based botnet called Ttint. In addition to denial-of-service DoS attacks, this variant also has remote-access trojan RAT and spyware capabilities. According to 360Netlab, the botnet is unusual in a few ways. For one, on the RAT...

SAS@Home is back this fall

The world during the pandemic prepares many surprises for us. Most of them are certainly unpleasant: health risks, inability to travel or meet old friends. One of these unpleasant surprises awaited us in the early spring, when the organizing team of the beloved SAS conference were forced to...

Feds Hit with Successful Cyberattack, Data Stolen

A federal agency has suffered a successful espionage-related cyberattack that led to a backdoor and multistage malware being dropped on its network. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA issued an alert on Thursday, not naming the agency but providing technical details of...

Detecting Threats in Real-time With Active C2 Information

Often security practitioners rely on the reputation of IP Addresses to determine if traffic to and from that IOC is malicious. In practice, the reputation of IOCs, IPs specifically is only updated when public repositories or tracking projects have observed the command and control server C2 being...

UPDATE: Empire v3.4.0

Empire v3.4.0 was released a couple of days ago! I briefly mentioned about this tool in my old post titled - List of Open Source C2 Post-Exploitation Frameworks. This new version brings support for Malleable C2 listeners and reflective file loading among other bug fixes. What is Empire? Empire 3....

Windows TCPIP Finger Command - C2 Channel and Bypassing Security Software

Title: Windows TCPIP Finger Command - C2 Channel and Bypassing Security Software Author: John Page aka hyp3rlinx Date: 2020-09-16 Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org Source: http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/WindowsTCPIPFingerCommandC2ChannelandBypassingSecuritySoftware.txt...

Microsoft Windows Finger Security Bypass / C2 Channel

Title: Windows TCPIP Finger Command - C2 Channel and Bypassing Security Software + Credits: John Page aka hyp3rlinx + Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org + Source: http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/WindowsTCPIPFingerCommandC2ChannelandBypassingSecuritySoftware.txt + twitter.com/hyp3rlinx +...

Microsoft Windows Finger Security Bypass / C2 Channel Exploit

Microsoft Windows TCPIP Finger Command finger.exe that ships with the OS, can be used as a file downloader and makeshift C2 channel. Legitimate use of Windows Finger Command is to send Finger Protocol queries to remote Finger daemons to retrieve user information. However, the finger client can al...

SNIcat - Server Name Indication Concatenator

SNIcat is a proof of concept tool that performs data exfiltration, utilizing a covert channel method via. Server Name Indication , a TLS Client Hello Extension. The tool consists of an agent which resides on the compromised internal host, and a Command &Control Server which controls the agent and...

Python-based Spy RAT Emerges to Target FinTech

The Evilnum group, which specializes in targeting financial technology companies, has debuted a new tool: A Python-based remote access trojan RAT, dubbed PyVil. The malware’s emergence dovetails with a change in the chain of infection and an expansion of infrastructure for the APT. According to...

LOLBITS v2.0.0 - C2 Framework That Uses Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) As Communication Protocol And Direct Syscalls + Dinvoke For EDR User-Mode Hooking Evasion

LOLBITS is a C2 framework that uses Microsoft's Background Intelligent Transfer Service BITS to establish the communication channel between the compromised host and the backend. The C2 backend is hidden behind an apparently harmless flask web application and it's only accesible when the HTTP...

Magecart Credit-Card Skimmer Adds Telegram as C2 Channel

The e-commerce card-skimming landscape has a new wrinkle: Cybercriminals affiliated with the Magecart collective are using encrypted messaging service Telegram as a channel for sending stolen credit-card information back to its command-and-control C2 servers. That’s according to researchers who...

Mihari - A Helper To Run OSINT Queries & Manage Results Continuously

Mihari is a helper to run queries & manage results continuously. Mihari can be used for C2, landing page and phishing hunting. How it works Mihari makes a query against Shodan, Censys, VirusTotal, SecurityTrails, etc. and extracts artifacts IP addresses, domains, URLs and hashes from the results...