Rhysida Ransomware

Rhysida Ransomware By Alexandre Mundo, Max Kersten, and Leandro Velasco · October 9, 2023 New ransomware victims are made every day by ransom gangs with a variety of ransomware malware families, one of which is the Rhysida ransomware family. Within this blog, an anonymised version of an attack by...

LUCR-3: Scattered Spider Getting SaaS-y in the Cloud

LUCR-3 overlaps with groups such as Scattered Spider, Oktapus, UNC3944, and STORM-0875 and is a financially motivated attacker that leverages the Identity Provider IDP as initial access into an environment with the goal of stealing Intellectual Property IP for extortion. LUCR-3 targets Fortune 20...

Cyber Group 'Gold Melody' Selling Compromised Access to Ransomware Attackers

A financially motivated threat actor has been outed as an initial access broker IAB that sells access to compromised organizations for other adversaries to conduct follow-on attacks such as ransomware. SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit CTU has dubbed the e-crime group Gold Melody, which is also kno...

Cloud storage security: What’s new in the threat matrix

Today, we announce the release of a second version of the threat matrix for storage services, a structured tool that assists in identifying and analyzing potential security threats on data stored in cloud storage services. The matrix, first released in April 2021 as detailed in the blog post Thre...

Cloud storage security: What’s new in the threat matrix

Today, we announce the release of a second version of the threat matrix for storage services, a structured tool that assists in identifying and analyzing potential security threats on data stored in cloud storage services. The matrix, first released in April 2021 as detailed in the blog post Thre...

Cybercriminals Renting WikiLoader to Target Italian Organizations with Banking Trojan

Organizations in Italy are the target of a new phishing campaign that leverages a new strain of malware called WikiLoader with an ultimate aim to install a banking trojan, stealer, and spyware referred to as Ursnif aka Gozi. "It is a sophisticated downloader with the objective of installing a...

New P2PInfect Worm Targets Redis Servers with Undocumented Breach Methods

The P2PInfect peer-to-peer P2 worm has been observed employing previously undocumented initial access methods to breach susceptible Redis servers and rope them into a botnet. "The malware compromises exposed instances of the Redis data store by exploiting the replication feature," Cado Security...

Chinese Hackers Using Never-Before-Seen Tactics for Critical Infrastructure Attacks

The newly discovered Chinese nation-state actor known as Volt Typhoon has been observed to be active in the wild since at least mid-2020, with the hacking crew linked to never-before-seen tradecraft to retain remote access to targets of interest. The findings come from CrowdStrike, which is...

Cybercrime Group 'Muddled Libra' Targets BPO Sector with Advanced Social Engineering

A threat actor known as Muddled Libra is targeting the business process outsourcing BPO industry with persistent attacks that leverage advanced social engineering ploys to gain initial access. "The attack style defining Muddled Libra appeared on the cybersecurity radar in late 2022 with the relea...

CVE-2023-24032

In Zimbra Collaboration Suite through 9.0 and 8.8.15, an attacker who has initial user access to a Zimbra server instance can execute commands as root by passing one of JVM arguments, leading to local privilege escalation LPE...

LockBit ransomware advisory from CISA provides interesting insights

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center MS-ISAC, and the cybersecurity authorities of Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, and New Zealand CERT NZ, NCSC-NZ have all...

Clop Ransomware Gang Likely Aware of MOVEit Transfer Vulnerability Since 2021

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have published a joint advisory regarding the active exploitation of a recently disclosed critical flaw in Progress Software's MOVEit Transfer application to drop ransomware. "The Cl0p Ransomwar...

Xollam, the Latest Face of TargetCompany

This blog talks about the latest TargetCompany ransomware variant, Xollam, and the new initial access technique it uses. We also investigate previous variants' behaviors and the ransomware family's extortion scheme...

Improved BlackCat Ransomware Strikes with Lightning Speed and Stealthy Tactics

The threat actors behind BlackCat ransomware have come up with an improved variant that prioritizes speed and stealth in an attempt to bypass security guardrails and achieve their goals. The new version, dubbed Sphynx and announced in February 2023, packs a "number of updated capabilities that...

Improved BlackCat Ransomware Strikes with Lightning Speed and Stealthy Tactics

The threat actors behind BlackCat ransomware have come up with an improved variant that prioritizes speed and stealth in an attempt to bypass security guardrails and achieve their goals. The new version, dubbed Sphynx and announced in February 2023, packs a "number of updated capabilities that...

Affiliate Me 5.0.1 SQL Injection

Exploit Title: Affiliate Me Version 5.0.1 - SQL Injection Exploit Date: May 16, 2023. CVSS 3.1: 6.4 Medium CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Tactic: Initial Access TA0001 Technique: Exploit Public-Facing Application T1190 Application Name: Affiliate Me Application Version:...

Affiliate Me Version 5.0.1 - SQL Injection

Exploit Title: Affiliate Me Version 5.0.1 - SQL Injection Exploit Date: May 16, 2023. CVSS 3.1: 6.4 Medium CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Tactic: Initial Access TA0001 Technique: Exploit Public-Facing Application T1190 Application Name: Affiliate Me Application Version:...

WBiz Desk 1.2 - SQL Injection

Exploit Title: WBiz Desk 1.2 - SQL Injection Exploit Date: May 12, 2023. CVSS 3.1: 6.4 Medium CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Tactic: Initial Access TA0001 Technique: Exploit Public-Facing Application T1190 Application Name: WBiz Desk Application Version: 1.2 Link:...

Affiliate Me Version 5.0.1 - SQL Injection Vulnerability

Exploit Title: Affiliate Me Version 5.0.1 - SQL Injection CVSS 3.1: 6.4 Medium CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Tactic: Initial Access TA0001 Technique: Exploit Public-Facing Application T1190 Application Name: Affiliate Me Application Version: 5.0.1 Vendor:...

WBiz Desk 1.2 SQL Injection Vulnerability

Exploit Title: WBiz Desk 1.2 - SQL Injection CVSS 3.1: 6.4 Medium CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Tactic: Initial Access TA0001 Technique: Exploit Public-Facing Application T1190 Application Name: WBiz Desk Application Version: 1.2 Link:...