Digitally Signed Bandook Malware Once Again Targets Multiple Sectors

A cyberespionage group with suspected ties to the Kazakh and Lebanese governments has unleashed a new wave of attacks against a multitude of industries with a retooled version of a 13-year-old backdoor Trojan. Check Point Research called out hackers affiliated with a group named Dark Caracal in a...

CRAT wants to plunder your endpoints

By Asheer Malhotra. Cisco Talos has observed a new version of a remote access trojan RAT family known as CRAT.Apart from the prebuilt RAT capabilities, the malware can download and deploy additional malicious plugins on the infected endpoint.One of the plugins is a ransomware known as "Hansom."CR...

paradoxiaRAT - Native Windows Remote Access Tool

Paradoxia Remote Access Tool. Features Paradoxia Console Feature | Description ---|--- Easy to use | Paradoxia is extremely easy to use, So far the easiest rat! Root Shell | - Automatic Client build | Build Paradoxia Client easily with or without the icon of your choice. Multithreaded |...

Ghimob: a Tétrade threat actor moves to infect mobile devices

Guildma, a threat actor that is part of the Tétrade family of banking trojans, has been working on bringing in new techniques, creating new malware and targeting new victims. Recently, their new creation, the Ghimob banking trojan, has been a move toward infecting mobile devices, targeting...

GovRAT 2.0 - FUD unknown RAT with special functions

This RAT was written by me and cannot be blocked. FUD tested with the strictest firewall policies. You are buying the source code + digital certificate to sign your files. I can also host the C&C for you for extra Functions: Access C&C with any browser. Compile C&C for Linux OR Windows. VALID...

Tenda Router Zero-Days Emerge in Spyware Botnet Campaign

Two former Tenda router zero-days are anchoring the spread of a Mirai-based botnet called Ttint. In addition to denial-of-service DoS attacks, this variant also has remote-access trojan RAT and spyware capabilities. According to 360Netlab, the botnet is unusual in a few ways. For one, on the RAT...

Hackers Continue Cyberattacks Against Vatican, Catholic Orgs

A state-sponsored threat group linked to China has been engaged in a five-month long cyberattack against the Vatican and other Catholic Church-related organizations. Attacks have come in the form of spear phishing emails laced with the PlugX remote access tool RAT as the payload. Researchers with...

Evilnum hackers targeting financial firms with a new Python-based RAT

An adversary known for targeting the fintech sector at least since 2018 has switched up its tactics to include a new Python-based remote access Trojan RAT that can steal passwords, documents, browser cookies, email credentials, and other sensitive information. In an analysis published by Cybereas...

Evilnum hackers targeting financial firms with a new Python-based RAT

An adversary known for targeting the fintech sector at least since 2018 has switched up its tactics to include a new Python-based remote access Trojan RAT that can steal passwords, documents, browser cookies, email credentials, and other sensitive information. In an analysis published by Cybereas...

Python-based Spy RAT Emerges to Target FinTech

The Evilnum group, which specializes in targeting financial technology companies, has debuted a new tool: A Python-based remote access trojan RAT, dubbed PyVil. The malware’s emergence dovetails with a change in the chain of infection and an expansion of infrastructure for the APT. According to...

China-based APT Debuts Sepulcher Malware in Spear-Phishing Attacks

A China-based APT has been sending organizations spear-phishing emails that distribute a never-before-seen intelligence-collecting RAT dubbed Sepulcher. Researchers discovered the new malware being distributed over the past six months through two separate campaigns. The first, in March, targeted...

Transparent Tribe Mounts Ongoing Spy Campaign on Military, Government

The APT group Transparent Tribe is mounting an ongoing cyberespionage campaign, researchers said, which is aimed at military and diplomatic targets around the world. The effort features a worm that can propagate from machine to machine while stealing files from USB removable drives. Transparent...

Transparent Tribe: Evolution analysis,part 1

Background and key findings Transparent Tribe, also known as PROJECTM and MYTHIC LEOPARD, is a highly prolific group whose activities can be traced as far back as 2013. Proofpoint published a very good article about them in 2016, and since that day, we have kept an eye on the group. We have...

EINSTEIN Data Trends – 30-day Lookback

Summary Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA analysts have compiled the top detection signatures that have been the most active over the month of May in our national Intrusion Detection System IDS, known as EINSTEIN. This information is meant to give the reader a closer look into...

Publicly Available Tools Seen in Cyber Incidents Worldwide

Summary This report is a collaborative research effort by the cyber security authorities of five nations: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.12345 In it we highlight the use of five publicly available tools, which have been used for malicious purposes in...

IndigoDrop spreads via military-themed lures to deliver Cobalt Strike

By Asheer Malhotra. Cisco Talos has observed a malware campaign that utilizes military-themed malicious Microsoft Office documents maldocs to spread Cobalt Strike beacons containing full-fledged RAT capabilities. These maldocs use malicious macros to deliver a multistage and highly modular...

Espionage Group Hits U.S. Utilities with Sophisticated Spy Tool

The APT known as TA410 has added a modular remote-access trojan RAT to its espionage arsenal, deployed against Windows targets in the United States’ utilities sector. According to researchers at Proofpoint, the RAT, called FlowCloud, can access installed applications and control the keyboard,...

Sophisticated Info-Stealer Targets Air-Gapped Devices via USB

The Cycldek APT group has added a previously unknown malware dubbed USBCulprit to its arsenal, aimed at reaching air-gapped devices. Cycldek a.k.a. Goblin Panda, APT 27 and Conimes has been targeting governments in Southeast Asia since 2013, according to analysis from Kaspersky, and has been...

‘Coronavirus Report’ Emails Spread NetSupport RAT, Microsoft Warns

A recent spear-phishing campaign has been spotted spreading a weaponized NetSupport Manager remote access tool RAT, which is a legitimate tool used for troubleshooting and tech support. Attackers use the ongoing coronavirus pandemic as a lure, as well as malicious Excel documents, to convince...

US Government Exposes North Korean Malware

US Cyber Command has uploaded North Korean malware samples to the VirusTotal aggregation repository, adding to the malware samples it uploaded in February. The first of the new malware variants, COPPERHEDGE, is described as a Remote Access Tool RAT "used by advanced persistent threat APT cyber...