New Hacking Campaign by Transparent Tribe Hackers Targeting Indian Officials

A threat actor of likely Pakistani origin has been attributed to yet another campaign designed to backdoor targets of interest with a Windows-based remote access trojan named CrimsonRAT since at least June 2021. "Transparent Tribe has been a highly active APT group in the Indian subcontinent,"...

Mass-Scale Ransomware Attacks Providing Hackers the Ability to Earn Quick Money

During the past six months, the Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit TAU analyzed more than 1,000 ransomware samples, categorizing them into 150 families, and found the following: Attackers are looking to make quick, easy money with unsophisticated malware combined with sophisticated delivery method...

WinRM Script Exec Remote Code Execution

This module uses valid credentials to login to the WinRM service and execute a payload. It has two available methods for payload delivery: Powershell 2 and above and VBS CmdStager. The module will check if Powershell is available, and if so uses that method. Otherwise it falls back to the VBS...

Microsoft SQL Server - Payload Execution (via SQL Injection) (Metasploit)

$Id: mssqlpayloadsqli.rb 11730 2011-02-08 23:31:44Z jduck $ This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit Framework web site for more information on licensing and terms of use...

Microsoft SQL Server Payload Execution via SQL Injection

This module will execute an arbitrary payload on a Microsoft SQL Server, using a SQL injection vulnerability. Once a vulnerability is identified this module will use xpcmdshell to upload and execute Metasploit payloads. It is necessary to specify the exact point where the SQL injection...