State-Sponsored Hackers Exploit Two Cisco Zero-Day Vulnerabilities for Espionage

A new malware campaign leveraged two zero-day flaws in Cisco networking gear to deliver custom malware and facilitate covert data collection on target environments. Cisco Talos, which dubbed the activity ArcaneDoor, attributed it as the handiwork of a previously undocumented sophisticated...

Researchers Detail Multistage Attack Hijacking Systems with SSLoad, Cobalt Strike

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an ongoing attack campaign that's leveraging phishing emails to deliver a malware called SSLoad. The campaign, codenamed FROZENSHADOW by Securonix, also involves the deployment of Cobalt Strike and the ConnectWise ScreenConnect remote desktop software...

Hackers Exploit OpenMetadata Flaws to Mine Crypto on Kubernetes

Threat actors are actively exploiting critical vulnerabilities in OpenMetadata to gain unauthorized access to Kubernetes workloads and leverage them for cryptocurrency mining activity. That's according to the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team, which said the flaws have been weaponized since the...

Porch-Pirate - The Most Comprehensive Postman Recon / OSINT Client And Framework That Facilitates The Automated Discovery And Exploitation Of API Endpoints And Secrets Committed To Workspaces, Collections, Requests, Users And Teams

Porch Pirate started as a tool to quickly uncover Postman secrets, and has slowly begun to evolve into a multi-purpose reconaissance / OSINT framework for Postman. While existing tools are great proof of concepts, they only attempt to identify very specific keywords as "secrets", and in very...

ADOKit - Azure DevOps Services Attack Toolkit

Azure DevOps Services Attack Toolkit - ADOKit is a toolkit that can be used to attack Azure DevOps Services by taking advantage of the available REST API. The tool allows the user to specify an attack module, along with specifying valid credentials API key or stolen authentication cookie for the...

Pentest-Muse-Cli - AI Assistant Tailored For Cybersecurity Professionals

Pentest Muse is an AI assistant tailored for cybersecurity professionals. It can help penetration testers brainstorm ideas, write payloads, analyze code, and perform reconnaissance. It can also take actions, execute command line codes, and iteratively solve complex tasks. Pentest Muse Web App In...

Skytrack - Planespotting And Aircraft OSINT Tool Made Using Python

About skytrack is a command-line based plane spotting and aircraft OSINT reconnaissance tool made using Python. It can gather aircraft information using various data sources, generate a PDF report for a specified aircraft, and convert between ICAO and Tail Number designations. Whether you are a...

Russia Hackers Using TinyTurla-NG to Breach European NGO's Systems

The Russia-linked threat actor known as Turla infected several systems belonging to an unnamed European non-governmental organization NGO in order to deploy a backdoor called TinyTurla-NG TTNG. "The attackers compromised the first system, established persistence and added exclusions to antivirus...

From Deepfakes to Malware: AI's Expanding Role in Cyber Attacks

Large language models LLMs powering artificial intelligence AI tools today could be exploited to develop self-augmenting malware capable of bypassing YARA rules. "Generative AI can be used to evade string-based YARA rules by augmenting the source code of small malware variants, effectively loweri...

Drones and the US Air Force

Fascinating analysis of the use of drones on a modern battlefield--that is, Ukraine--and the inability of the US Air Force to react to this change. The F-35A certainly remains an important platform for high-intensity conventional warfare. But the Air Force is planning to buy 1,763 of the aircraft...

CVE-2024-1221

This vulnerability potentially allows files on a PaperCut NG/MF server to be exposed using a specifically formed payload against the impacted API endpoint. The attacker must carry out some reconnaissance to gain knowledge of a system token. This CVE only affects Linux and macOS PaperCut NG/MF...

RKS - A Script To Automate Keystrokes Through A Graphical Desktop Program

A script to automate keystrokes through an active remote desktop session that assists offensive operators in combination with living off the land techniques. About RKS RemoteKeyStrokes All credits goes to nopernik for making it possible so I took it upon myself to improve it. I wanted something...

After FBI Takedown, KV-Botnet Operators Shift Tactics in Attempt to Bounce Back

The threat actors behind the KV-botnet made "behavioral changes" to the malicious network as U.S. law enforcement began issuing commands to neutralize the activity. KV-botnet is the name given to a network of compromised small office and home office SOHO routers and firewall devices across the...

Warning: New Malware Emerges in Attacks Exploiting Ivanti VPN Vulnerabilities

Google-owned Mandiant said it identified new malware employed by a China-nexus espionage threat actor known as UNC5221 and other threat groups during post-exploitation activity targeting Ivanti Connect Secure VPN and Policy Secure devices. This includes custom web shells such as BUSHWALK,...

CloudRecon - Finding assets from certificates

CloudRecon Finding assets from certificates! Scan the web! Tool presented @DEFCON 31 Install You must have CGO enabled, and may have to install gcc to run CloudRecon sudo apt install gcc go install github.com/g0ldencybersec/CloudRecon@latest Description CloudRecon CloudRecon is a suite of tools f...

CERT-UA Uncovers New Malware Wave Distributing OCEANMAP, MASEPIE, STEELHOOK

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT-UA has warned of a new phishing campaign orchestrated by the Russia-linked APT28 group to deploy previously undocumented malware such as OCEANMAP, MASEPIE, and STEELHOOK to harvest sensitive information. The activity, which was detected by the...

Recommendations that defenders can use from Talos’ Year in Review Report

The Talos Year in Review is available now and contains a wealth of insights about how the threat landscape has shifted in 2023. With new ransomware strains emerging from leaked source code, commodity loaders adding more reconnaissance measures to their belts, and geopolitical events influencing A...

Russian FSB Cyber Actor Star Blizzard Continues Worldwide Spear-phishing Campaigns

The Russia-based actor is targeting organizations and individuals in the UK and other geographical areas of interest. OVERVIEW The Russia-based actor Star Blizzard formerly known as SEABORGIUM, also known as Callisto Group/TA446/COLDRIVER/TAG-53/BlueCharlie continues to successfully use...

Adobe ColdFusion Vulnerability Leads to Federal Agency Breach

Summary: Unidentified threat actors exploit Adobe ColdFusion vulnerability CVE-2023-26360 on government servers, leading to potential unauthorized code execution. Incidents involve reconnaissance, data extraction attempts, and emphasize the importance of software updates. Threat Level - Red |...

Hackers Exploited ColdFusion Vulnerability to Breach Federal Agency Servers

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA warned of active exploitation of a high-severity Adobe ColdFusion vulnerability by unidentified threat actors to gain initial access to government servers. "The vulnerability in ColdFusion CVE-2023-26360 presents as an improper access...