Attackers Breach Microsoft Customer Service Accounts

The same group behind the SolarWinds supply-chain attacks has been targeting Microsoft’s corporate networks to gain access to specific organizations — primarily, U.S.-based IT and government organizations. Microsoft officially announced the attacks after Reuters obtained an email sent to customer...

SolarWinds Hackers Breach Microsoft Customer Support to Target its Customers

In yet another sign that the Russian hackers who breached SolarWinds network monitoring software to compromise a slew of entities never really went away, Microsoft said the threat actor behind the malicious cyber activities used password spraying and brute-force attacks in an attempt to guess...

Using Breached Password Detection Services to Prevent Cyberattack

Bolstering password policies in your organization is an important part of a robust cybersecurity strategy. Cybercriminals are using compromised accounts as one of their favorite tactics to infiltrate business-critical environments; as we've seen in recent news, these attacks can be dangerous and...

Top 12 Security Flaws Russian Spy Hackers Are Exploiting in the Wild

Cyber operatives affiliated with the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service SVR have switched up their tactics in response to previous public disclosures of their attack methods, according to a new advisory jointly published by intelligence agencies from the U.K. and U.S. Friday. "SVR cyber operato...

FBI, CISA Uncover Tactics Employed by Russian Intelligence Hackers

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, Department of Homeland Security DHS, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI on Monday published a new joint advisory as part of their latest attempts to expose the tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs adopted by the Russian...

Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Cyber Operations: Trends and Best Practices for Network Defenders

Summary The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, Department of Homeland Security DHS, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA assess Russian Foreign Intelligence Service SVR cyber actors—also known as Advanced Persistent Threat 29 APT 29, the Dukes, CozyBear, and Yttrium—will...

Adfsbrute - A Script To Test Credentials Against Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), Allowing Password Spraying Or Bruteforce Attacks

A script to test credentials against Active Directory Federation Services ADFS, calculating the ADFS url of an organization and allowing password spraying or bruteforce attacks. The main idea is carrying out password spraying attacks with a random and high delay between each test and using a list...

Defending Against the Zero Day: Analyzing Attacker Behavior Post-Exploitation of Microsoft Exchange

In recent weeks, there has been quite a lot of reporting on the exploitation of the latest disclosed vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Exchange Server by an attacker referred to as HAFNIUM. One of the major reasons these latest vulnerabilities are so dangerous and appealing to attackers is that they...

More SolarWinds News

Microsoft analyzed details of the SolarWinds attack: Microsoft and FireEye only detected the Sunburst or Solorigate malware in December, but Crowdstrike reported this month that another related piece of malware, Sunspot, was deployed in September 2019, at the time hackers breached SolarWinds...

Tritium - Password Spraying Framework

A tool to enumerate and spray valid Active Directory accounts through Kerberos Pre-Authentication. Background Although many Kerberos password spraying tools currently exist on the market, I found it difficult to find tools with the following built-in functionality: The ability to prevent users fr...

SolarWinds Hackers Also Breached Malwarebytes Cybersecurity Firm

Malwarebytes on Tuesday said it was breached by the same group who broke into SolarWinds to access some of its internal emails, making it the fourth major cybersecurity vendor to be targeted after FireEye, Microsoft, and CrowdStrike. The company said its intrusion was not the result of a SolarWin...

NCSC Releases 2020 Annual Review

The United Kingdom UK National Cyber Security Centre NCSC has released its Annual Review 2020, which focuses on its response to evolving and challenging cyber threats. Recognizing cybersecurity as a “team sport,” the publication includes highlights of NCSC’s collaboration with many partners,...

Trident - Automated Password Spraying Tool

The Trident project is an automated password spraying tool developed to meet the following requirements: the ability to be deployed on several cloud platforms/execution providers the ability to schedule spraying campaigns in accordance with a target’s account lockout policy the ability to increas...

How to Prevent Pwned and Reused Passwords in Your Active Directory

Many businesses are currently looking at how to bolster security across their organization as the pandemic and remote work situation continues to progress towards the end of the year. As organizations continue to implement security measures to protect business-critical data, there is an extremely...

CVE-2020-8243

A vulnerability in the Pulse Connect Secure 9.1R8.2 admin web interface could allow an authenticated attacker to upload custom template to perform an arbitrary code execution. Recent assessments: wvu-r7 at October 07, 2020 10:52pm UTC reported: Oh dear, another Pulse Secure vuln. Let’s break this...

SharpHose - Asynchronous Password Spraying Tool In C# For Windows Environments

SharpHose is a C password spraying tool designed to be fast, safe, and usable over Cobalt Strike's execute-assembly. It provides a flexible way to interact with Active Directory using domain-joined and non-joined contexts, while also being able to target specific domains and domain controllers...

Chalumeau - Automated, Extendable And Customizable Credential Dumping Tool

Chalumeau is automated,extendable and customizable credential dumping tool based on powershell and python. Main Features Write your own Payloads In-Memory execution Extract Password List Dashboard reporting / Web Interface Parsing Mimikatz Dumping Tickets Screenshots Known Issues Parsing Mimikatz...

How bad bots are targeting the healthcare sector

Credential cracking, or password spraying, is one of the most effective ways for cybercriminals to get access to user accounts. It refers to the brute-force automated cracking, or pairing of usernames and passwords by using sophisticated high-speed bots. According to a National Cyber Awareness...

Inside Microsoft Threat Protection: Mapping attack chains from cloud to endpoint

The increasing pervasiveness of cloud services in today’s work environments, accelerated by a crisis that forced companies around the globe to shift to remote work, is significantly changing how defenders must monitor and protect organizations. Corporate data is spread across multiple...

Minimalistic-offensive-security-tools - A Repository Of Tools For Pentesting Of Restricted And Isolated Environments

Minimalistic SMB loginbruteforcer smblogin.ps1 A simple SMB login attack and password spraying tool. It takes a list of targets and credentials username and password as parameters and it tries to authenticate against each target using the provided credentials. Despite its minimalistic design, the...