Buggy implementation of CVE-2018-8373 vulnerability used to deliver Quasar RAT

A variant of a remote code execution vulnerability with Internet Explorer's scripting engine known as CVE-2018-8373 patched last August has been found in the wild. Looking at the IOCs posted by our colleagues at TrendMicro, we recognized the infrastructure serving this exploit. The same static...

APT10 Targeting Japanese Corporations Using Updated TTPs

Introduction In July 2018, FireEye devices detected and blocked what appears to be APT10 Menupass activity targeting the Japanese media sector. APT10 is a Chinese cyber espionage group that FireEye has tracked since 2009, and they have a history of targeting Japanese entities. In this campaign, t...

Partner Perspectives: Creating Your Own Threat Hunting Army

Idan Bellayev is the head of security research for empow. Cyber intelligence is one of the strongest tools that can be used to combat a potential attacker. Accessing the information needed to build cyber intelligence from a reliable source is typically difficult and very expensive - but it doesn’...

Partner Perspectives: The Target Strikes Back – Predicting the Persistent Attacker

Idan Bellayev is the head of security research for empow. Predicting cyber-attacks has long been an elusive goal in the cyber-security industry. Methods such as Lockheed Martin's Cyber Kill Chain evangelized the idea that staying one step ahead of your adversary is the way to defeat advanced,...

Cb ThreatSight Investigation Reveals RETADUP Worm Leverages AutoIt to Launch Monero Cryptomining Campaign

While monitoring a customer’s environment, the Carbon Black ThreatSight team discovered a series of unusual alerts. Further investigation of the suspect processes revealed these alerts were related to an attacker leveraging the open-source Monero framework to launch a crypto-mining campaign. Afte...

Collecting & Hunting For IOCs With Gusto and Style: rastrea2r

Ever wanted to turn your AV console into an Incident Response & Threat Hunting machine? Rastrea2r pronounced “rastreador” – hunter- in Spanish is a multi-platform open source tool that allows incident responders and SOC analysts to triage suspect systems and hunt for Indicators of Compromise IOCs...

Redis Server compromised by 'RedisWannaMine' Attack - Active Check

The remote Redis server is unprotected and has been compromised via the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE =...

Hidden Cobra Strikes Again with Custom RAT, SMB Malware

The feds are warning that the North Korean APT group known as Hidden Cobra is mounting active attacks on U.S. businesses and others globally, including organizations in the media, aerospace, financial and critical infrastructure sectors. According to a United States Computer Emergency Readiness...

Contain Attacks in Real Time with Live Response in Cb Defense

Endpoint security is broken. Yes, you’ve heard it before - traditional, signature-based antivirus AV can’t keep up with the volume of new malware and advanced attack methods being developed by cyber criminals every day. And that’s absolutely true. But a report published last year highlights an ev...

February 12, 2018 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Luge” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! February 12, 2018 - Headlines Russians penetrated U.S. voter systems, top U.S...

CVE-2018-4878

A use-after-free vulnerability was discovered in Adobe Flash Player before 28.0.0.161. This vulnerability occurs due to a dangling pointer in the Primetime SDK related to media player handling of listener objects. A successful attack can lead to arbitrary code execution. This was exploited in the...

Boomerang spam bombs Malwarebytes forum—not a smart move

Tech support scammers are generally not the best and brightest. As such, they will occasionally post ads for their fake companies in the comment sections here or on the Malwarebytes forums. Last week, however, scammers struggled with configuring their spambots, resulting in spam bombs on the foru...

GOSINT - Open Source Threat Intelligence Gathering and Processing Framework

The GOSINT framework is a project used for collecting, processing, and exporting high quality indicators of compromise IOCs. GOSINT allows a security analyst to collect and standardize structured and unstructured threat intelligence. Applying threat intelligence to security operations enriches...

Cb Defense October 2017 Release Speeds Up Your Response

During a response scenario, every minute counts. The faster you can complete your investigation, the faster you can start taking corrective action. That’s why this week we’re happy to announce the October 2017 update of Cb Defense, which improves search functionality within the Cb Defense console...

CVE-2017-8759

Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, 3.5, 3.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2 and 4.7 allow an attacker to execute code remotely via a malicious document or application, aka “.NET Framework Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.” Recent assessments: hrbrmstr at May 12, 2020 7:51pm UTC reported: This CVE made ...

Threat Analysis: Word Documents with Embedded Macros Leveraging Emotet Trojan

Many customers have recently asked how Carbon Black's solutions detect macros and droppers specifically referencing Emotet dropper files. Customers often say that macros and droppers are an ongoing problem in their environments. They are also seen day-to-day by most practitioners. The analysis...

TIH: The Open Source Threat Intelligence Hunter

PenTestIT RSS Feed The primary purpose of threat intelligence is to help you understand the risks of threats, such as zero-days, advanced persistent threats APTs and exploits. But how do you do that on a large scale in an automated manner? You now have a solution in TIH, the Threat Intelligence...

New Point-of-Sale Malware LockPoS Hitches Ride with FlokiBot

Botnets distributing FlokiBot point-of-sale malware have awoken from months of slumber and are back in business spewing a new malware dubbed LockPoS. Researchers say the malware is still flying under the radar of many antivirus and intrusion detection systems because it’s so new. Currently, LockP...

Thousands of Security Experts Work Together to Collectively Combat Petya / NotPetya Ransomware Attack

On Tuesday, Carbon Black’s community of security experts began working together with Carbon Black Threat Research to rapidly analyze the new ransomware family that was hitting organizations from Russia to Britain. More than 100 customers and partners communicated IOCs as the attack hit. “I heard...

Using Threat Intelligence to Mitigate Wanna Decryptor (WannaCry)

Basics of Cyber Threat Intelligence Cyber Threat Intelligence is analyzed information about the opportunities, capabilities, and intent of cyber adversaries. The goal of cyber threat intelligence is to help people make decisions about how to prevent, detect, and respond to threats against their...