Leader of Hacking Group Who Stole $1 Billion From Banks Arrested In Spain

Spanish Police has arrested the alleged leader of an organised Russian cybercrime gang behind the Carbanak and Cobalt malware attacks, which stole over a billion euros from banks worldwide since 2013. In a coordinated operation with law enforcement agencies across the globe, including the FBI and...

Cobalt Strike Scripted Web Delivery Remote Code Execution

Certain evasion tools obfuscate scripts in order to circumvent inspection by security software. An attacker could use such evasion methods in order to execute arbitrary code on the target, using it to download and execute a malicious payload...

Threat Analysis: Malicious Microsoft Word Documents Being Used in Targeted Attack Campaigns

A Microsoft Word document .doc believed to be malicious was recently submitted to Carbon Black’s Threat Analysis Unit TAU. The submitting organization did not feel that that document and subsequent payload was fully executing in their analysis environment, and questioned whether or not it was...

Cobalt Strike Payload Remote Code Execution

Cobalt Strike is an exploit kit that operates by delivering malicious payload to the victim's computer...

Hackers Exploit Recently Disclosed Microsoft Office Bug to Backdoor PCs

A recently disclosed severe 17-year-old vulnerability in Microsoft Office that lets hackers install malware on targeted computers without user interaction is now being exploited in the wild to distribute a backdoor malware. First spotted by researchers at security firm Fortinet, the malware has...

Threat Analysis: Equation Equals Backdoor

On November 20, 2017 the exploit for CVE-2017-11882 was publicly released, which allowed for code execution in vulnerable versions of Microsoft’s Equation editor. CVE-2017-11882 affects the following versions of Microsoft Office: Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3 Microsoft Office 2010 Service...

Experts Unveil Cyber Espionage Attacks by CopyKittens Hackers

Security researchers have discovered a new, massive cyber espionage campaign that mainly targets people working in government, defence and academic organisations in various countries. The campaign is being conducted by an Iran-linked threat group, whose activities, attack methods, and targets hav...

morphHTA - Morphing Cobalt Strike PowerShell Evil HTA Generator

morphHTA is a Morphing Cobalt Strike PowerShell Evil HTA Generator Usage : usage: morph-hta.py -h --in --out --maxstrlen --maxvarlen --maxnumsplit optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit --in File to input Cobalt Strike PowerShell HTA --out File to output the morphed HTA to...

Cobalt RaQ4 Administrative Interface backup.cgi Command Execution (EXTINCTSPINACH)

The Cobalt RaQ4 administrative interface running on the remote host is affected by a remote command execution vulnerability in the /cgi-bin/.cobalt/backup/backup.cgi script. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to execute arbitrary commands. EXTINCTSPINACH is one of multiple...

FIN7 Evolution and the Phishing LNK

FIN7 is a financially-motivated threat group that has been associated with malicious operations dating back to late 2015. FIN7 is referred to by many vendors as “Carbanak Group”, although we do not equate all usage of the CARBANAK backdoor with FIN7. FireEye recently observed a FIN7 spear phishin...

FIN7 Evolution and the Phishing LNK

FIN7 is a financially-motivated threat group that has been associated with malicious operations dating back to late 2015. FIN7 is referred to by many vendors as “Carbanak Group”, although we do not equate all usage of the CARBANAK backdoor with FIN7. FireEye recently observed a FIN7 spear phishin...

FIN7 Spear Phishing Campaign Targets Personnel Involved in SEC Filings

In late February 2017, FireEye as a Service FaaS identified a spear phishing campaign that appeared to be targeting personnel involved with United States Securities and Exchange Commission SEC filings at various organizations. Based on multiple identified overlaps in infrastructure and the use of...

Downloads Resources over HTTP

Overview Affected versions of cobalt-cli insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in code execution o...

Hackers Steal Millions From European ATMs Using Malware That Spit Out Cash

ATM hackers who long relied on tactics of stealing payment card numbers and online banking credentials to steal millions are now targeting the bank itself to steal cash directly from the machines. Earlier this year, a gang of cyber criminals infected several ATMs with malware in Taiwan and Thaila...

Cobalt Strike team Services is proof of the RCE vulnerability as soon as possible to upgrade to the latest version-bug warning-the black bar safety net

! Security customer reviews Some time ago Metasploit just broke deserialization vulnerability may lead to remote unauthorized execution of code today and broke the Cobalt Strike team Services RCE vulnerability, it appears that the security personnel in the use of these excellent open source tools...

Vulnerabilities of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that allow a remote attacker to compromise the accessibility of protected information

The Linux-image-2.6.26-2-r5k-cobalt package of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system has multiple vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may result in a violation of the accessibility of protected information. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely...

Vulnerabilities of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that allow a remote attacker to compromise the accessibility of protected information

The Linux-image-2.6.18-6-r5k-cobalt package from the Debian GNU/Linux operating system has multiple vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may result in a violation of the accessibility of protected information. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely...

Vulnerabilities in the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that allow a malicious individual to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information

The multiple vulnerabilities in the linux-image-2.6.18-5-r5k-cobalt package of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system may lead to breaches of the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information...

Vulnerabilities of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that allow a remote attacker to compromise the accessibility of protected information

The Linux-headers-2.6.26-2-r5k-cobalt package on the Debian GNU/Linux operating system has multiple vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may result in the compromise of protected information. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely...

Vulnerabilities of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that allow a remote attacker to compromise the accessibility of protected information

The multiple vulnerabilities in the linux-headers-2.6.18-6-r5k-cobalt package of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system may lead to a violation of the accessibility of protected information. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely...