Q&A: Insights from the Red Canary 2020 Threat Detection Report

In light of the latest update to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, Red Canary has developed a Threat Detection Report uncovering the top techniques attackers use to target your organization. To understand the significance of the report, we turned to two of VMware Carbon Black’s top threat experts, Greg...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday March 2020: a new record was set, SMBv3 “Wormable” RCE and updates for February goldies

SMBv3 "Wormable" RCE Without a doubt, the hottest Microsoft vulnerability in March 2020 is the "Wormable" Remote Code Execution in SMB v3 CVE-2020-0796. The most commonly used names for this vulnerability are EternalDarkness, SMBGhost and CoronaBlue. There was a strange story of how it was...

New Lemon Duck Malware Campaign Targets IoT, Large Manufacturers

Printers, smart TVs and automated guided vehicles that depend on Windows 7 have become the latest juicy targets for cybercriminals leveraging a “self-spreading” variant of the malware Lemon Duck. In a report released Wednesday by TrapX Security, researchers warn manufacturers dependent on IoT...

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...

SMB DOUBLEPULSAR Remote Code Execution

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

Satan Ransomware Reborn to Torment Businesses

A ransomware with the un-snappy moniker of “5ss5c” has emerged on the scene and appears to be in active development. According to independent researcher Bart Blaze, the malware is the successor to the Satan ransomware, and its authors are still experimenting with focused targeting China, for now...

Ispy - Eternalblue (MS17-010) / Bluekeep (CVE-2019-0708) Scanner And Exploit

ispy : Eternalbluems17-010/BluekeepCVE-2019-0708 Scanner and exploiter Metasploit automation How to install : git clone https://github.com/Cyb0r9/ispy.git cd ispy chmod +x setup.sh ./setup.sh Screenshots : Tested On : Parrot OS Kali linux Tutorial How to use ispy...

DOUBLEPULSAR - Payload Execution and Neutralization 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...

DOUBLEPULSAR - Payload Execution and Neutralization (Metasploit)

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

DOUBLEPULSAR Payload Execution / Neutralization

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

Exploit for Use After Free in Microsoft

ispy ispy : Eternalbluems17-010/BluekeepCVE-2019-0708 S...

DOUBLEPULSAR Payload Execution and Neutralization

This 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...

Smominru Botnet Indiscriminately Hacked Over 90,000 Computers Just Last Month

Insecure Internet-connected devices have aided different types of cybercrime for years, most common being DDoS and spam campaigns. But cybercriminals have now shifted toward a profitable scheme where botnets do not just launch DDoS or spam—they mine cryptocurrencies as well. Smominru, an infamous...

Smominru Botnet Indiscriminately Hacked Over 90,000 Computers Just Last Month

Insecure Internet-connected devices have aided different types of cybercrime for years, most common being DDoS and spam campaigns. But cybercriminals have now shifted toward a profitable scheme where botnets do not just launch DDoS or spam—they mine cryptocurrencies as well. Smominru, an infamous...

Smominru Cryptominer Scrapes Credentials for Half-Million Machines

A commodity cryptomining botnet campaign that has infected a half-million computers is now tapping a lucrative secondary moneymaking opportunity in selling access to victim machines, according to researchers. An analysis of the known Smominru cryptomining campaign, which uses a modified version o...

'URGENT/11' Critical Infrastructure Bugs Threaten EternalBlue-Style Attacks

UPDATE A cadre of 11 vulnerabilities, six of them critical remote code-execution RCE bugs, have been uncovered that affect millions of critical infrastructure systems, such as SCADA gear at utilities, elevator and industrial controllers, patient monitors and MRI machines, programmable logic...

Ransomware isn’t just a big city problem

This month, one ransomware story has been making a lot of waves: the attack on Baltimore city networks. This attack has been receiving more press than normal, which could be due to the actions taken or not taken by the city government, as well as rumors about the ransomware infection mechanism...

A Reminder to Update Your Systems to Prevent a Worm

On May 14, Microsoft released fixes for a critical Remote Code Execution vulnerability, CVE-2019-0708, in Remote Desktop Services – formerly known as Terminal Services – that affects some older versions of Windows. In our previous blog post on this topic we warned that the vulnerability is...

Baltimore city ransomware attack is powered by stolen NSA hacking tool

By Uzair Amir This time the hacking tool being used is EternalBlue. The New York Times has reported that the recent ransomware attacks in major US cities specifically Baltimore are closely linked together due to the fact that the key component in all the campaigns is a stolen NSA tool EternalBlue...

The WannaCry Security Legacy and What’s to Come

May 12 will mark the second anniversary of the WannaCry ransomware cryptoworm attack. It was a troubling time: During the four-day long ordeal, the cryptoworm infected more than 300,000 endpoints among 200,000 separate victims throughout 150 countries. It propagated rapidly through the EternalBlu...