Advanced threat predictions for 2023

It is fair to say that since last years predictions, the world has dramatically changed. While the geopolitical landscape has durably shifted, cyberattacks remain a constant threat and show no signs of receding – quite the contrary. No matter where they are, people around the world should be...

Microsoft threat intelligence presented at CyberWarCon 2022

At CyberWarCon 2022, Microsoft and LinkedIn analysts presented several sessions detailing analysis across multiple sets of actors and related activity. This blog is intended to summarize the content of the research covered in these presentations and demonstrates Microsoft Threat Intelligence...

CISA Releases SSVC Methodology to Prioritize Vulnerabilities

Today CISA published its guide on Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization SSVC, a vulnerability management methodology that assesses vulnerabilities and prioritizes remediation efforts based on exploitation status, impacts to safety, and prevalence of the affected product in a singular...

Threat Spotlight: Cyber Criminal Adoption of IPFS for Phishing, Malware Campaigns

The InterPlanetary File System IPFS is an emerging Web3 technology that is currently seeing widespread abuse by threat actors. Cisco Talos has observed multiple ongoing campaigns that leverage the IPFS network to host their malware payloads and phishing kit infrastructure while facilitating other...

CVE-2022-41073

Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Recent assessments: ccondon-r7 at December 29, 2022 11:52pm UTC reported: Evidently this is being used for privilege escalation in ransomware attacks when threat actors have initial access to systems through existing Raspberry Robin,...

Microsoft Warns of Uptick in Hackers Leveraging Publicly-Disclosed 0-Day Vulnerabilities

Microsoft is warning of an uptick among nation-state and criminal actors increasingly leveraging publicly-disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities for breaching target environments. The tech giant, in its 114-page Digital Defense Report, said it has "observed a reduction in the time between the...

Threat actors buy new BlueFox Stealer to exfiltrate data

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary A Russian-speaking user named distamx has been selling BlueFox Stealer as malware-as-a-service since December 2021. A subscription to the customizable malware costs $350 per month on underground forums...

Experts Warn of SandStrike Android Spyware Infecting Devices via Malicious VPN App

A previously undocumented Android spyware campaign has been found striking Persian-speaking individuals by masquerading as a seemingly harmless VPN application. Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky is tracking the campaign under the moniker SandStrike. It has not been attributed to any particular...

Twilio Reveals Another Breach from the Same Hackers Behind the August Hack

Communication services provider Twilio this week disclosed that it experienced another "brief security incident" in June 2022 perpetrated by the same threat actor behind the August hack that resulted in unauthorized access of customer information. The security event occurred on June 29, 2022, the...

Threat Actors launch a campaign to exploit vulnerability in Fortinet

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Tailgate campaign is currently being carried out by the threat actors Hafnium and OilRig. The goal of this campaign is to exploit vulnerabilities in Fortinet. Recently discovered vulnerability...

CISA Has Added One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. This type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risk to the federal enterprise. Note: To view the newly added...

Researchers Expose Over 80 ShadowPad Malware C2 Servers

As many as 85 command-and-control C2 servers have been discovered supported by the ShadowPad malware since September 2021, with infrastructure detected as recently as October 16, 2022. That's according to VMware's Threat Analysis Unit TAU, which studied three ShadowPad variants using TCP, UDP, an...

Where is the Origin?: QAKBOT Uses Valid Code Signing

Code signing certificates help us assure the file's validity and legitimacy. However, threat actors can use that against us. In this blog, discover how QAKBOT use such tactic and learn ways how to prevent it...

Threat Actors Target AWS EC2 Workloads to Steal Credentials

We found malicious samples attempting to steal Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud EC2 Workloads' access keys and tokens via typosquatting and the abuse of legitimate tools...

CVE-2022-39350 @dependencytrack/frontend vulnerable to Persistent Cross-Site-Scripting via Vulnerability Details

@dependencytrack/frontend is a Single Page Application SPA used in Dependency-Track, an open source Component Analysis platform that allows organizations to identify and reduce risk in the software supply chain. Due to the common practice of providing vulnerability details in markdown format, the...

Securing IoT devices against attacks that target critical infrastructure

South Staffordshire PLC, a company that supplies water to over one million customers in the United Kingdom, notified its customers in August of being a target of a criminal cyberattack. This incident highlights the sophisticated threats that critical industries face today. According to South...

Threat Source newsletter (Oct. 20, 2022) — Shields Up! No seriously, Shields Waaaaay Up

By Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Im very excited about this video -- its a project Ive been working on with my team for a while now. Building off what Ive written about in the past regarding fake news, this video examines what essentially equates to t...

Threat Source newsletter (Oct. 20, 2022) — Shields Up! No seriously, Shields Waaaaay Up

By Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter. I’m very excited about this video I’ve embedded below — it’s a project I’ve been working on with my team for a while now. Building off what I’ve written about in the past regarding fake news, this video examines what...

Two Weeks of Monitoring ProxyNotShell (CVE-2022-41040 & CVE-2022-41082) Threat Activity

The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team has been monitoring exploit attempts targeting two zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server tracked as CVE-2022-41040 and CVE-2022-41082, collectively known as ProxyNotShell. These vulnerabilities are actively being exploited in the wild. At the...

CISA Updates Advisory on Threat Actors Exploiting Multiple CVEs Against Zimbra Collaboration Suite

CISA and the Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center MS-ISAC have updated joint Cybersecurity Advisory AA22-228A: Threat Actors Exploiting Multiple CVEs Against Zimbra Collaboration Suite, originally released August 16, 2022. The advisory has been updated to reference the addition of a...