Webinar — A MythBusting Special: 9 Myths about File-based Threats

Bad actors love to deliver threats in files. Persistent and persuasive messages convince unsuspecting victims to accept and open files from unknown sources, executing the first step in a cyber attack. This continues to happen whether the file is an EXE or a Microsoft Excel document. Far too often...

Tracking the Stealthy Movements of Vidar Info-Stealer Malware

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Vidar is an info-stealer malware that was first spotted in the wild in late 2018. It is considered a distinct fork of the Arkei malware family and has a simple business model where customers pay between...

DEV-0569 finds new ways to deliver Royal ransomware, various payloads

Recent activity from the threat actor that Microsoft tracks as DEV-0569, known to distribute various payloads, has led to the deployment of the Royal ransomware, which first emerged in September 2022 and is being distributed by multiple threat actors. Observed DEV-0569 attacks show a pattern of...

New Report Uncovers Emotet's Delivery and Evasion Techniques Used in Recent Attacks

Threat actors associated with the notorious Emotet malware are continually shifting their tactics and command-and-control C2 infrastructure to escape detection, according to new research from VMware. Emotet is the work of a threat actor tracked as Mummy Spider aka TA542, emerging in June 2014 as ...

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...