Threat Actors Target Chinese Language News Sites

A California-based news website covering China, called China Digital Times, was targeted in a spying campaign that involved phishing lures and the use of the NetWire remote access Trojan. The attacks began in February 2017 and were part of a wider campaign of phishing, reconnaissance and malware...

EternalBlue Exploit Spreading Gh0st RAT, Nitol

EternalBlue, the exploit used in the WannaCry ransomware outbreak, is now being leveraged to distribute the Nitol backdoor and Gh0st RAT malware. Security researchers at FireEye said, just as WannaCry criminals did, threat actors are leveraging the same Microsoft Server Message Block SMB protocol...

Threat actors leverage EternalBlue exploit to deliver non-WannaCry payloads

The “EternalBlue” exploit MS017-010 was initially used by WannaCry ransomware and Adylkuzz cryptocurrency miner. Now more threat actors are leveraging the vulnerability in Microsoft Server Message Block SMB protocol – this time to distribute Backdoor.Nitol and Trojan Gh0st RAT. FireEye Dynamic...

Threat actors leverage EternalBlue exploit to deliver non-WannaCry payloads

The “EternalBlue” exploit MS017-010 was initially used by WannaCry ransomware and Adylkuzz cryptocurrency miner. Now more threat actors are leveraging the vulnerability in Microsoft Server Message Block SMB protocol – this time to distribute Backdoor.Nitol and Trojan Gh0st RAT. FireEye Dynamic...

Threat actors leverage EternalBlue exploit to deliver non-WannaCry payloads

The “EternalBlue” exploit MS017-010 was initially used by WannaCry ransomware and Adylkuzz cryptocurrency miner. Now more threat actors are leveraging the vulnerability in Microsoft Server Message Block SMB protocol – this time to distribute Backdoor.Nitol and Trojan Gh0st RAT. FireEye Dynamic...

Threat Round-up for May 05 - May 12

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between May 05 and May 12. As with previous round-ups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavior characteristics,...

HandBrake for Mac Compromised with Proton Spyware

The handlers of the open source HandBrake video transcoder are warning anyone who recently downloaded the Mac version of the software that they’re likely infected with malware. HandBrake warned users on Saturday of a compromise of one of its mirror download servers, and said anyone who grabbed th...

Website of Popular Mac Software Hacked to Spread Malware

If you have recently downloaded the popular open source video transcoder app HandBrake on your Mac, there are chances that your computer is infected with a notorious Remote Access Trojan RAT. The HandBrake team issued a security alert on Saturday, warning Mac users that one of its mirror servers ...

Stealthy Konni RAT Targeting North Korea Since 2014

Two recent espionage campaigns against political and strategic targets in North Korea has been linked to malware that has stayed hidden for the better part of three years. Cisco’s research arm Talos published a report yesterday on the malware it calls Konni. Two attacks in April used phishing...

Shamoon Collaborator Greenbug Adopts New Communication Tool

Researchers have identified a possible new collaborator in the continued Shamoon attacks against Saudi organizations. Called Greenbug, this group is believed to be instrumental in helping Shamoon steal user credentials of targets ahead of Shamoon’s destructive attacks. However, researchers know...

Malware Hunter Crawls Internet Looking for RAT C2s

A new crawler released today by Shodan designed to find command and control servers has already unearthed 5,800 controllers for more than 10 remote access Trojan RAT families. The crawler, called Malware Hunter, poses as an infected computer beaconing out to an attacker’s server waiting for...

Malware Hunter — Shodan's new tool to find Malware C&C Servers

Rapidly growing, insecure internet-connected devices are becoming albatross around the necks of individuals and organizations with malware authors routinely hacking them to form botnets that can be further used as weapons in DDoS and other cyber attacks. But now finding malicious servers, hosted ...

WMI Based Agentless Post-Exploitation PowerShell RAT: WMImplant

WMImplant is a PowerShell based tool that leverages WMI to both perform actions against targeted machines, but also as the C2 channel for issuing commands and receiving results. WMImplant will likely require local administrator permissions on the targeted machine. It is designed to run both...

WMImplant – A WMI Based Agentless Post-Exploitation RAT Developed in PowerShell

Just over one year ago November 2015, I released WMIOps, a PowerShell script that enables a user to carry out different actions via Windows Management Instrumentation WMI on the local machine or a remote machine. WMIOps can: Start or stop a process. Return a list of all running processes. Power...

WMImplant – A WMI Based Agentless Post-Exploitation RAT Developed in PowerShell

Just over one year ago November 2015, I released WMIOps, a PowerShell script that enables a user to carry out different actions via Windows Management Instrumentation WMI on the local machine or a remote machine. WMIOps can: Start or stop a process. Return a list of all running processes. Power...

New Fileless Malware Uses DNS Queries To Receive PowerShell Commands

It is no secret that cybercriminals are becoming dramatically more adept, innovative, and stealthy with each passing day. While new forms of cybercrime are on the rise, traditional activities seem to be shifting towards more clandestine techniques that involve the exploitation of standard system...

Open Source Cross Platform RAT: Pupy

Open Source Cross Platform RAT: Pupy Pupy is an opensource, cross-platform Windows, Linux, OSX, Android, multi function RAT Remote Administration Tool and post-exploitation tool mainly written in python. It features a all-in-memory execution guideline and leaves very low footprint. Pupy can...

Joomla JE Video Rat Component SQL Injection Vulnerability

Joomla is an open source content management system CMS. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in the Joomla JE Video Rat component. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to access or modify database data...

SpyNote RAT Now Disguised As Netflix App

A new version of the SpyNote Trojan is designed to trick Android users into thinking it’s a legitimate Netflix application. Once installed, the remote access Trojan RAT essentially hands control of the device over to the hacker, enabling them to copy files, view contacts, and eavesdrop on the...

Malware exploit: Xanity

Type: File Upload Author: Xiphos Research Ltd. TorCTPwn I was having a look at the C&C panel of the Xanity RAT for a bit of amusement, and noticed that it suffers an absurdly trivial shell upload vulnerability, outlined below. See: upload.php and note we can upload whatever the hell we want to a...