Researchers Uncover FIN8's New Backdoor Targeting Financial Institutions

A financially motivated threat actor notorious for setting its sights on retail, hospitality, and entertainment industries has been observed deploying a completely new backdoor on infected systems, indicating the operators are continuously retooling their malware arsenal to avoid detection and st...

When coin miners evolve, Part 2: Hunting down LemonDuck and LemonCat attacks

Note: In this two-part blog series, we expose a modern malware infrastructure and provide guidance for protecting against the wide range of threats it enables. Part 1 covered the evolution of the threat, how it spreads, and how it impacts organizations. Part 2 provides a deep dive on the attacker...

When coin miners evolve, Part 2: Hunting down LemonDuck and LemonCat attacks

Note: In this two-part blog series, we expose a modern malware infrastructure and provide guidance for protecting against the wide range of threats it enables. Part 1 covered the evolution of the threat, how it spreads, and how it impacts organizations. Part 2 provides a deep dive on the attacker...

AD Starter Scan - Dangerous Trust Relationship

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Awesome-Red-Teaming

This is an offensive tool for Red Teaming. It is a list of resources for anyone wishing to learn about Red Teaming, including initial access, execution, persistence, privilege escalation, defense evasion, credential access, discovery, lateral movement, collection, exfiltration, command and contro...

Exploit for CVE-2020-1472

PoC exploit for CVE-2020-1472 ZeroLogon vulnerability. The target product/service is Windows Domain Controller DC. The vulnerability class/vector is authentication bypass via all-zero challenge. The probable entry point is the Netlogon service, which is accessed via the Impacket library. Notable...

Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures of Indicted APT40 Actors Associated with China’s MSS Hainan State Security Department

Summary This Joint Cybersecurity Advisory was written by the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA to provide information on a Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat APT group known in open-source reporting as APT40. This advisory provides...

REvil Ransomware gang behind the Kaseya VSA Supply-Chain attack

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. The REvil ransomware group was successful in carrying out a supply chain attack by exploiting the zero-day vulnerability CVE-2021-30116 in the Kaseya VSA server and delivering a malicious script to all the computer devices...

Indexsinas SMB Worm Campaign Infests Whole Enterprises

The Indexsinas SMB worm is on the hunt for vulnerable environments to self-propagate into, researchers warned – with a particular focus on the healthcare, hospitality, education and telecommunications sectors. Its end goal is to drop cryptominers on compromised machines. Indexsinas, aka...

Bash Ransomware DarkRadiation Targets Red Hat- and Debian-based Linux Distributions

We investigate how certain hacking tools are used to move laterally on victims’ networks to deploy ransomware. These tools contain reconnaissance/spreader scripts, exploits for Red Hat and CentOS, binary injectors, and more. In this blog, we focus on analyzing the worm and ransomware script...

TChopper - Conduct Lateral Movement Attack By Leveraging Unfiltered Services Display Name To Smuggle Binaries As Chunks Into The Target Machine

New technique I have discovered recently and give it a nickname Chop chop to perform lateral movement using windows services display name and WMI by smuggling the malicious binary as base64 chunks and automate the process using the TChopper tool. How it works the tool will get the file you willin...

SharpWebServer - HTTP And WebDAV Server With Net-NTLM Hashes Capture Functionality

A Red Team oriented simple HTTP & WebDAV server written in C with functionality to capture Net-NTLM hashes. To be used for serving payloads on compromised machines for lateral movement purposes. Requires .NET Framework 4.5 and System.Net and System.Net.Sockets references. Usage :: SharpWebServer ...

Metarget - Framework Providing Automatic Constructions Of Vulnerable Infrastructures

1 Introduction Metarget = meta- + target, a framework providing automatic constructions of vulnerable infrastructures, used to deploy simple or complicated vulnerable cloud native targets swiftly and automatically. 1.1 Why Metarget? During security researches, we might find that the deployment of...

Cobalt Strike, a penetration testing tool abused by criminals

If you were to compose a list of tools and software developed by security and privacy defenders that ended up being abused by the bad guys, then Cobalt Strike would unfortunately be near the top of the list. Maybe only Metasploit could give it a run for the first place ranking. Metasploit—probabl...

CheeseTools - Self-developed Tools For Lateral Movement/Code Execution

This repository has been made basing onto the already existing MiscTool, so big shout-out to rasta-mouse for releasing them and for giving me the right motivation to work on them. CheeseExec Command Exec / Lateral movement via PsExec-like functionality. Must be running in the context of a...

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine信息泄露漏洞（CVE-2021-27075）

CVE-2021-27075: Microsoft Azure Vulnerability Allows Privilege Escalation and Leak of Private Data Written by Paul Litvak - 11 May 2021 In this post I will explain how the Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine VM extension works and how we found a fatal vulnerability in the extension mechanism affectin...

CyberBattleSim - An Experimentation And Research Platform To Investigate The Interaction Of Automated Agents In An Abstract Simulated Network Environments

CyberBattleSim is an experimentation research platform to investigate the interaction of automated agents operating in a simulated abstract enterprise network environment. The simulation provides a high-level abstraction of computer networks and cyber security concepts. Its Python-based Open AI G...

Raft of Exim Security Holes Allow Linux Mail Server Takeovers

A veritable cornucopia of security vulnerabilities in the Exim mail server have been uncovered, some of which could be chained together for unauthenticated remote code execution RCE, gaining root privileges and worm-style lateral movement, according to researchers. The Qualys Research Team has...

Hundreds of Millions of Dell Users at Risk from Kernel-Privilege Bugs

Five high-severity security flaws in Dell’s firmware update driver are impacting potentially hundreds of millions of Dell desktops, laptops, notebooks and tablets, researchers said. The bugs have gone undisclosed for 12 years, and could allow the ability to bypass security products, execute code...

Imperva to acquire CloudVector: Prioritizing API Protection for Modern Environments

I am excited to announce Imperva has entered into an agreement to acquire CloudVector to advance our mission to protect data and all paths to it. Together, we believe we can change what organizations expect from Web Application and API Protection solutions. There are multiple reasons APIs are at...