Details of an NSA Hacking Operation

Pangu Lab in China just published a report of a hacking operation by the Equation Group aka the NSA. It noticed the hack in 2013, and was able to map it with Equation Group tools published by the Shadow Brokers aka some Russian group. …the scope of victims exceeded 287 targets in 45 countries,...

Chinese Experts Uncover Details of Equation Group's Bvp47 Covert Hacking Tool

Researchers from China's Pangu Lab have disclosed details of a "top-tier" backdoor put to use by the Equation Group, an advanced persistent threat APT with alleged ties to the cyber-warfare intelligence-gathering unit of the U.S. National Security Agency NSA. Dubbed "Bvp47" owing to numerous...

Living Off the Land: How to Defend Against Malicious Use of Legitimate Utilities

Living-off-the-land binaries LOLBins are no joke: Cyberattackers have been increasingly making use of them to hide their malicious work from security solutions. It’s time for threat hunters and IT security staff to familiarize themselves with how these are used in the attack chains of some of the...

Experts Detail Logging Tool of DanderSpritz Framework Used by Equation Group Hackers

Cybersecurity researchers have offered a detailed glimpse into a system called DoubleFeature that's dedicated to logging the different stages of post-exploitation stemming from the deployment of DanderSpritz, a full-featured malware framework used by the Equation Group. DanderSpritz came to light...

GHSA-J86V-P27C-73FM Unitialized access in `EinsumHelper::ParseEquation`

Impact During execution, EinsumHelper::ParseEquation is supposed to set the flags in inputhasellipsis vector and outputhasellipsis boolean to indicate whether there is ellipsis in the corresponding inputs and output. However, the code only changes these flags to true and never assigns false. cc f...

PYSEC-2021-809

TensorFlow is an open source platform for machine learning. In affeced versions during execution, EinsumHelper::ParseEquation is supposed to set the flags in inputhasellipsis vector and outputhasellipsis boolean to indicate whether there is ellipsis in the corresponding inputs and output. However...

CVE-2021-41201

TensorFlow is an open source platform for machine learning. In affeced versions during execution, EinsumHelper::ParseEquation is supposed to set the flags in inputhasellipsis vector and outputhasellipsis boolean to indicate whether there is ellipsis in the corresponding inputs and output. However...

US Media, Retailers Targeted by New SparklingGoblin APT

An emerging international cybergang is broadening its targets to include North American media firms, universities and one computer retailer. The advanced persistent threat APT group is new, according to researchers who dubbed it SparklingGoblin. Also new is a novel backdoor technique, called...

Exploit for Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Cisco Ios

About 这个github仓库，是eqgrp-free-file.tar.xz 的免费解压版本， 源文件由“The Shadow Brokers”黑客组织放出。 加密的拍卖版本可以在网上找到和下载。 Firewall 这个文件夹包含了所有的源文件。 listing.txt则是所有文件的清单。 This repository contains the decrypted and decompressed contents of the eqgrp-free-file.tar.xz file released by "The Shadow Brokers". The contents ar...

Chinese Hackers Stole an NSA Windows Exploit in 2014

Check Point has evidence that probably government affiliated Chinese hackers stole and cloned an NSA Windows hacking tool years before probably government affiliated Russian hackers stole and then published the same tool. Heres the timeline: The timeline basically seems to be, according to Check...

Chinese Hackers Hijacked NSA-Linked Hacking Tool: Report

New research has found evidence that a Chinese-affiliated threat group APT31 has hijacked a hacking tool previously used by the Equation Group which has been tied to the U.S. National Security Agency, or NSA. The tool in question, dubbed “Jian,” is used to exploit a local privilege-escalation LPE...

Chinese Hackers Had Access to a U.S. Hacking Tool Years Before It Was Leaked Online

On August 13, 2016, a hacking unit calling itself "The Shadow Brokers" announced that it had stolen malware tools and exploits used by the Equation Group, a sophisticated threat actor believed to be affiliated to the Tailored Access Operations TAO unit of the U.S. National Security Agency NSA...

Chinese Hackers Had Access to a U.S. Hacking Tool Years Before It Was Leaked Online

On August 13, 2016, a hacking unit calling itself "The Shadow Brokers" announced that it had stolen malware tools and exploits used by the Equation Group, a sophisticated threat actor believed to be affiliated to the Tailored Access Operations TAO unit of the U.S. National Security Agency NSA...

Researchers Uncover Cyber Espionage Operation Aimed At Indian Army

Cybersecurity researchers uncovered fresh evidence of an ongoing cyberespionage campaign against Indian defense units and armed forces personnel at least since 2019 with an aim to steal sensitive information. Dubbed "Operation SideCopy " by Indian cybersecurity firm Quick Heal, the attacks have...

Researchers Uncover Cyber Espionage Operation Aimed At Indian Army

Cybersecurity researchers uncovered fresh evidence of an ongoing cyberespionage campaign against Indian defense units and armed forces personnel at least since 2019 with an aim to steal sensitive information. Dubbed "Operation SideCopy" by Indian cybersecurity firm Quick Heal, the attacks have be...

Sifter 7.4 - OSINT, Recon & Vulnerability Scanner

Sifter is a osint, recon & vulnerability scanner. It combines a plethara of tools within different module sets in order to quickly perform recon tasks, check network firewalling, enumerate remote and local hosts, and scan for the 'blue' vulnerabilities within microsft and if unpatched, exploit...

Coronavirus-Themed APT Attack Spreads Malware

An advanced persistent threat APT group is leveraging the coronavirus pandemic to infect victims with a previously unknown malware, in a recently discovered campaign that researchers call “Vicious Panda.” Researchers identified two suspicious Rich Text Format files RTF — a text file format used b...

RDP DOUBLEPULSAR Remote Code Execution Exploit

This Metasploit module executes a Metasploit payload against the Equation Group's DOUBLEPULSAR implant for RDP. While this module primarily performs code execution against the implant, the "Neutralize implant" target allows you to disable the implant. This module requires Metasploit:...

RDP DOUBLEPULSAR Remote Code Execution

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'RDP DOUBLEPULSAR Remote Code Execution', 'Description' = %q This module executes a Metasploit payload against the Equation Group's DOUBLEPULSAR...

SMB DOUBLEPULSAR Remote Code Execution Exploit

This Metasploit module executes a Metasploit payload against the Equation Group's DOUBLEPULSAR implant for SMB as popularly deployed by ETERNALBLUE. While this module primarily performs code execution against the implant, the "Neutralize implant" target allows you to disable the implant. This...