Iranian Hackers Exploiting VPN Flaws to Backdoor Organizations Worldwide

A new report published by cybersecurity researchers has unveiled evidence of Iranian state-sponsored hackers targeting dozens of companies and organizations in Israel and around the world over the past three years. Dubbed "Fox Kitten ," the cyber-espionage campaign is said to have been directed a...

CSI Evidence Indicators for Targeted Ransomware Attacks

ARCHIVED STORY CSI: Evidence Indicators for Targeted Ransomware Attacks – Part I By Trellix · Febraury 12, 2020 For many years now I have been working and teaching in the field of digital forensics, malware analysis and threat intelligence. During one of the classes we always talk about Lockard’s...

CSI Evidence Indicators for Targeted Ransomware Attacks

ARCHIVED STORY CSI: Evidence Indicators for Targeted Ransomware Attacks – Part I By Trellix · Febraury 12, 2020 For many years now I have been working and teaching in the field of digital forensics, malware analysis and threat intelligence. During one of the classes we always talk about Lockard’s...

Ghost in the shell: Investigating web shell attacks

Recently, an organization in the public sector discovered that one of their internet-facing servers was misconfigured and allowed attackers to upload a web shell, which let the adversaries gain a foothold for further compromise. The organization enlisted the services of Microsoft’s Detection and...

TrickBot Adds Custom, Stealthy Backdoor to its Arsenal

The Russian-speaking cybercriminals behind the TrickBot malware have developed a stealthy backdoor dubbed “PowerTrick,” in order to infiltrate high-value targets. According to research from SentinelLabs, released on Thursday, PowerTrick is designed to execute commands and return the results in...

Kamerka GUI - Ultimate Internet Of Things/Industrial Control Systems Reconnaissance Tool

Ultimate Internet of Things/Industrial Control Systemsreconnaissance tool. Powered by Shodan - Supported by Binary Edge & WhoisXMLAPI writeup - https://medium.com/@wojciech/hack-the-planet-with-%EA%93%98amerka-gui-ultimate-internet-of-things-industrial-control-systems-5ff7d9686b29 Demo -...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Publicly accessible Grafana install allows pivoting to Prometheus datasource

Summary: A publicly accessible Grafana install exposes semi sensitive Dashboards. This also exposes the Prometheus proxied datasources which allow direct queries to a Prometheus instance which reveals sensitive data an opens the instance up to potential DoS via crafted requests. Description: Impa...

AttackSurfaceMapper - A Tool That Aims To Automate The Reconnaissance Process

Attack Surface Mapper is a reconnaissance tool that uses a mixture of open source intellgence and active techniques to expand the attack surface of your target. You feed in a mixture of one or more domains, subdomains and IP addresses and it uses numerous techniques to find more targets. It...

Elegant sLoad Carries Out Spying, Payload Delivery in BITS

A fresh analysis of the trojan sLoad sheds light on the growing trend of advanced malware “living off the land” of a targeted system and successfully evading detection and carrying out malicious activities. SLoad is a PowerShell downloader type of malware and is known for its impressive...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Like Underwater Drone

The Sea Hunting Autonomous Reconnaissance Drone SHARD swims like a squid and can explode on command. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

WinPwn - Automation For Internal Windows Penetrationtest / AD-Security

In many past internal penetration tests I often had problems with the existing Powershell Recon / Exploitation scripts due to missing proxy support. I often ran the same scripts one after the other to get information about the current system and/or the domain. To automate as many internal...

Wild Blue Yonder: VMware Carbon Black ThreatSight Dissects BlueKeep Windows Exploit

VMware Carbon Black’s ThreatSight TS team monitors customer environments to detect and alert on new and emerging threats. Recently, ThreatSight detected malicious behavior that leveraged several attack vectors, including one of the first known uses of the newly released BlueKeep Windows exploit i...

Design/Logic Flaw

A vulnerability in the implementation of a CLI diagnostic command in Cisco FXOS Software and Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to view sensitive system files that should be restricted. The attacker could use this information to conduct additional reconnaissance...

CertUtil Qualms: They Came to Drop FOMBs

This blog post covers an interesting intrusion attempt that Mandiant Managed Defense thwarted involving the rapid weaponization of a recently disclosed vulnerability combined with the creative use of WMI compiled “.bmf” files and CertUtil for obfuscated execution. This intrusion attempt highlight...

CloudUnflare - Reconnaissance Real IP Address For Cloudflare Bypass

Reconnaissance Real IP address for Cloudflare Bypass. Preparation: 1. CompleteDNS API Create an account at completedns.com and verify first. Input your email and password on CompleteDNSLogin variable in cloudunflare.bash. 2. Dependencies Needed curl dig whois Debian Based apt-get install curl...

Osmedeus v2.1 - Fully Automated Offensive Security Framework For Reconnaissance And Vulnerability Scanning

Osmedeus allows you automated run the collection of awesome tools to reconnaissance and vulnerability scanning against the target. Installation git clone https://github.com/j3ssie/Osmedeus cd Osmedeus ./install.sh This install only focus on Kali linux, check more install on Usage page How to use ...

A Comprehensive Guide On How to Protect Your Websites From Hackers

Humankind had come a long way from the time when the Internet became mainstream. What started as a research project ARPANET Advanced Research Projects Agency Network funded by DARPA has grown exponentially and has single-handedly revolutionized human behavior. When WWW world wide web came into...

CVE-2015-9483

The ThemeMakers Invento Responsive Gallery/Architecture Template component through 2015-05-15 for WordPress allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information such as userlogin, userpass, and useremail values via a direct request for the wp-content/uploads/tmmdbmigrate/wpusers.dat URI...

How Tortoiseshell created a fake veteran hiring website to host malware

By Warren Mercer and Paul Rascagneres with contributions from Jungsoo An. Introduction Cisco Talos recently discovered a threat actor attempting to take advantage of Americans who may be seeking a job, especially military veterans. The actor, previously identified by Symantec as Tortoiseshell,...

Real-life social engineering. Another two days in tweets

What happens in a real life social engineering exercise? There’s a lot of planning and preparation that goes on behind the scenes: it’s not a matter of turning up to a site and ‘winging it’! I live tweeted an exercise a little while back, to give a flavour of a real task in real time. For reasons...