This New Malware Family Using CLFS Log Files to Avoid Detection

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details about a new malware family that relies on the Common Log File System CLFS to hide a second-stage payload in registry transaction files in an attempt to evade detection mechanisms. FireEye's Mandiant Advanced Practices team, which made the discovery...

FBI Releases Indicators of Compromise Associated with Hive Ransomware

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released a Flash report detailing indicators of compromise IOCs and tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs associated with ransomware attacks by Hive, a likely Ransomware-as-a-Service organization consisting of a number of actors using multiple...

FBI Releases Indicators of Compromise Associated with OnePercent Group Ransomware

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released a Flash report detailing indicators of compromise IOCs associated with ransomware attacks by the OnePercent Group, a cyber-criminal organization known since November 2020 for using Cobalt Strike in phishing attacks against U.S. companies. CISA...

Effective Threat-Hunting Queries in a Redacted World

A decade ago, hunting for adversary infrastructure was often as simple as monitoring a domain registrant’s name or phone number in public WHOIS records. As bad actors have moved first toward privacy protection services and then gained further obscurity behind laws such as the General Data...

Exploitation of Pulse Connect Secure Vulnerabilities

Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA is aware of compromises affecting a number of U.S. government agencies, critical infrastructure entities, and other private sector organizations by a cyber threat actor—or actors—beginning in June 2020 or earlier related to...

CISA Releases Five Pulse Secure-Related MARs

As part of CISA’s ongoing response to Pulse Secure compromises, CISA has analyzed five malware samples related to exploited Pulse Secure devices. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the following five malware analysis reports MARs for threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedure...

Have you patched the vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server?

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities have been officially patched for five months now. These vulnerabilities are actively exploited by multiple threat actors named DeadRinger. DeadRinger has been affecting the...

Chinese Hackers Implant PlugX Variant on Compromised MS Exchange Servers

A Chinese cyberespionage group known for targeting Southeast Asia leveraged flaws in the Microsoft Exchange Server that came to light earlier this March to deploy a previously undocumented variant of a remote access trojan RAT on compromised systems. Attributing the intrusions to a threat actor...

Chinese Gas Pipeline Intrusion Campaign, 2011 to 2013

Summary This Advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT &CK® framework, Version 9. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques. Note: CISA released technical information, including indicators of compromise IOCs,...

Malware Targeting Pulse Secure Devices

As part of CISA’s ongoing response to Pulse Secure compromises, CISA has analyzed 13 malware samples related to exploited Pulse Secure devices. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the following 13 malware analysis reports MARs for threat actor techniques, tactics, and procedures TT...

A New Critical SolarWinds Zero-Day Vulnerability Under Active Attack

SolarWinds, the Texas-based company that became the epicenter of a massive supply chain attack late last year, has issued patches to contain a remote code execution flaw in its Serv-U managed file transfer service. The fixes, which target Serv-U Managed File Transfer and Serv-U Secure FTP product...

Strategies, tools, and frameworks for building an effective threat intelligence team

How to think about building a threat intelligence program The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyber threats. In the latest Voice of the Community blog series post, Microsoft Product Marketing Manager Natalia...

Strategies, tools, and frameworks for building an effective threat intelligence team

How to think about building a threat intelligence program The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyber threats. In the latest Voice of the Community blog series post, Microsoft Product Marketing Manager Natalia...

Exploitation of Accellion File Transfer Appliance

Summary This joint advisory is the result of a collaborative effort by the cybersecurity authorities of Australia,1 New Zealand,2 Singapore,3 the United Kingdom,4 and the United States.56 These authorities are aware of cyber actors exploiting vulnerabilities in Accellion File Transfer Appliance...

Breaking down NOBELIUM’s latest early-stage toolset

As we reported in earlier blog posts, the threat actor NOBELIUM recently intensified an email-based attack that it has been operating and evolving since early 2021. We continue to monitor this active attack and intend to post additional details as they become available. In this blog, we highlight...

Updates to Alert on Pulse Connect Secure

CISA has updated Alert AA21-110A: Exploitation of Pulse Connect Secure Vulnerabilities to include new threat actor techniques, tactics, and procedures TTPs, indicators of compromise IOCs, and updated mitigations. CISA encourages users and administrators to review AA21-110A and the following...

Microsoft Warns of Data Stealing Malware That Pretends to Be Ransomware

Microsoft on Thursday warned of a "massive email campaign" that's pushing a Java-based STRRAT malware to steal confidential data from infected systems while disguising itself as a ransomware infection. "This RAT is infamous for its ransomware-like behavior of appending the file name extension...

Update to CISA-FBI Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on DarkSide Ransomware

CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have updated Joint Cybersecurity Advisory AA21-131A: DarkSide Ransomware: Best Practices for Preventing Disruption from Ransomware Attacks, originally released May 11, 2021. This update provides a downloadable STIX file of indicators of compromise...

CISA Releases Analysis Reports on New FiveHands Ransomware

CISA is aware of a recent, successful cyberattack against an organization using a new ransomware variant, known as FiveHands, that has been used to successfully conduct a cyberattack against an organization. CISA has released AR21-126A: FiveHands Ransomware and MAR-10324784-1.v1: FiveHands...

What’s New in InsightAppSec and tCell: Q1 2021 in Review

2021 is off and running! The big question on the corporate world’s mind is, of course, “What will work life look like at the end of 2021?” With vaccines rolling out around the world, another shift is set to take place around when and where people put in their hours. As offices slowly start to...