Updating vCPU in Nutanix prov scheme via Powershell, new machines are not getting the new setting

Tried to decrease the number of cores per vCPU in a Nutanix machine catalog. However, the new machines did not have the desired change...

A Bug in Facebook Messenger for Windows Could've Helped Malware Gain Persistence

Cybersecurity researchers at Reason Labs, the threat research arm of security solutions provider Reason Labs, today disclosed details of a vulnerability they recently discovered in the Facebook Messenger application for Windows. The vulnerability, which resides in Messenger version 460.16, could...

A Bug in Facebook Messenger for Windows Could've Helped Malware Gain Persistence

Cybersecurity researchers at Reason Labs, the threat research arm of security solutions provider Reason Labs, today disclosed details of a vulnerability they recently discovered in the Facebook Messenger application for Windows. The vulnerability, which resides in Messenger version 460.16, could...

Blue teams helping red teams: A tale of a process crash, PowerShell, and the MITRE ATT&CK evaluation

In September 2019, MITRE evaluated Microsoft Threat Protection MTP and other endpoint security solutions. The ATT&CK evaluation lasted for three days, with a professional red team from MITRE emulating many advanced attack behaviors used by the nation-state threat group known as YTTRIUM APT29. Aft...

UPDATE: Empire 3.2.3

Empire 3.2.3 was released a couple of days ago! If you remember, I briefly mentioned about this tool in my five month old post titled - List of Open Source C2 Post-Exploitation Frameworks. This version adds MITRE ATT&CK technique tagging among other new features. What is Empire? Empire 3.0 is an...

TAU Threat Analysis: Hakbit Ransomware

The bad actors behind Hakbit ransomware recently released an updated variant of their ransomware, which encrypts the victim’s data and demands 3 Bitcoins in ransom payment. This updated variant is delivered via phishing email as a malicious Excel document, and contains added functionality from th...

WebLogic Server Deserialization Remote Code Execution Exploit

This Metasploit module exploits a Java object deserialization vulnerability in multiple versions of WebLogic. Unauthenticated remote code execution can be achieved by sending a serialized BadAttributeValueExpException object over the T3 protocol to vulnerable versions of WebLogic. Leveraging an...

Storefront 3.12 - Cannot Join Server Group - Joining the Server Group failed. Joiner cleanup was unsuccessful. Please refer to the Windows Event Log for Details

When attempting to add a Storefront Server to a Server group the following error is observed on Joiner Server: Error:Cannot Join Server Group - Joining the Server Group failed. Joiner cleanup was unsuccessful. Please refer to the Windows Event Log for Details. See image below Event logs: Event 1 ...

TAU Threat Analysis: Medusa Locker Ransomware

In recent weeks Carbon Black’s Threat Analysis Unit TAU has seen an increase in the number of infections attributed to the Medusa Locker ransomware family. There were notable traits exhibited by Medusa Locker in these attacks that warranted further investigation to determine behavioral tactics th...

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Modern App-Only Authentication Limitations

Information Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v8 and higher Due to Microsoft's deprecation of Basic Authentication, the only option available when adding a new Microsoft 365 organization to Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v8 is Modern App-Only Authentication. Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v7 and v7a...

TAU Threat Analysis: Medusa Locker Ransomware

In recent weeks Carbon Black’s Threat Analysis Unit TAU has seen an increase in the number of infections attributed to the Medusa Locker ransomware family. There were notable traits exhibited by Medusa Locker in these attacks that warranted further investigation to determine behavioral tactics th...

How to Remove Missing Restore Points From Veeam Cloud Connect Backups

Purpose This article documents how to handle a situation in which the tenant of a Cloud Provider needs to forget missing restore points from a backup chain stored in a Cloud Repository. By design, the Forget and Remove operations are not available for restore points in a Cloud Repository. A resto...

Turla APT Revamps One of Its Go-To Spy Tools

The Turla APT group has been spotted using an updated version of the ComRAT remote-access trojan RAT to attack governmental targets. Turla a.k.a. Snake, Venomous Bear, Waterbug or Uroboros, is a Russian-speaking threat actor known since 2014, but with roots that go back to 2004 and earlier,...

AutoRDPwn v5.1 - The Shadow Attack Framework

AutoRDPwn is a post-exploitation framework created in Powershell, designed primarily to automate the Shadow attack on Microsoft Windows computers. This vulnerability listed as a feature by Microsoft allows a remote attacker to view his victim's desktop without his consent, and even control it on...

Plesk/myLittleAdmin - ViewState .NET Deserialization (Metasploit)

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule VIEWSTATEGENERATOR = 'CA0B0334'.freeze VIEWSTATEVALIDATIONKEY = "\x5c\x7e\xef\x66\x50\x63\x9d\x2c\xb8\xfa\xa0\xda\x36\xaf\x24\x45\x2d\xcf" ...

Plesk / myLittleAdmin ViewState .NET Deserialization

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule VIEWSTATEGENERATOR = 'CA0B0334'.freeze VIEWSTATEVALIDATIONKEY = "\x5c\x7e\xef\x66\x50\x63\x9d\x2c\xb8\xfa\xa0\xda\x36\xaf\x24\x45\x2d\xcf" ...

TAU Technical Report: New Attack Combines TinyPOS With Living-off-the-Land Techniques for Scraping Credit Card Data

In April of 2020 VMware Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit TAU researchers worked with an Incident Response IR partner on a piece of malware that was discovered during an ongoing PCI investigation. The combined analysis showed that attackers who previously leveraged a malware family called TinyPOS...

Nishang - Offensive PowerShell For Red Team, Penetration Testing And Offensive Security

Nishang is a framework and collection of scripts and payloads which enables usage of PowerShell for offensive security, penetration testing and red teaming. Nishang is useful during all phases of penetration testing. By nikhilmitt Usage Import all the scripts in the current PowerShell session...

Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager

Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager Introduction This article describes new features and issues that are fixed in Update Rollup 3 for Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager DPM. Additionally, this article contains the installation instructions for...

ProLock Ransomware Teams Up With QakBot Trojan to Infect Victims

A relatively new ransomware, ProLock, has paired up with the QakBot banking trojan to access victims’ networks. ProLock’s leveraging of QakBot gives it bolstered persistence, anti-detection and credential-dumping techniques. ProLock ransomware first emerged in March as a successor to another rece...