The Advanced Persistent Threat files: Lazarus Group

We've heard a lot about Advanced Persistent Threats APTs over the past few years. As a refresher, APTs are prolonged, aimed attacks on specific targets with the intention to compromise their systems and gain information from or about that target. While the targets may be anyone or anything—a...

Researcher Claims Iranian APT Behind 6TB Data Heist at Citrix

A researcher has attributed a recently publicized attack on Citrix’ internal network to the Iranian-linked group known as IRIDIUM – and said that the data heist involved 6 terabytes of sensitive data. Resecurity posted a blog on Friday indicating that it detected a targeted attack and data breach...

A week in security (February 18 – 24)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we explored the world of crack hunting, gave you a 101 on the world of bots and their threats and advantages, and took a look at some clever phishing scams. We also explained how a Mac fends off malware, posted a handy “lazy person's guide to cybersecurity,” and du...

Microsoft: Russia's Fancy Bear Working to Influence EU Elections

As the May elections for European Parliament loom, Russia-linked APT groups are amping up their efforts to target journalists, think-tanks, non-governmental organizations and other members of civil society, according to Microsoft. The tech giant said on Tuesday that it has observed a recent serie...

ThreatList: APT Adversaries Up the Ante on Speed, Target Telecom

Despite law-enforcement wins in the form of several high-profile arrests and indictments during 2018, nation-state adversaries have upped their games when it comes to speed. That’s according to CrowdStrike’s 2019 Global Threat Report, which found that when analyzing how long it takes to go from...

2018 in Snort Rules

This blog post was authored by Benny Ketelslegers of Cisco Talos The cybersecurity field shifted quite a bit in 2018. With the boom of cryptocurrency, we saw a transition from ransomware to cryptocurrency miners. Talos researchers identified APT campaigns including VPNFilter, predominantly...

The APT Name Game: How Grim Threat Actors Get Goofy Monikers

What’s in a name? When it comes to advanced persistent threat groups, it is often quite a bit. While their monikers’ may seem whimsical – Fancy Bear, Nomadic Octopus, Ocean Lotus and Darkhotel – the reality is these are not arbitrary names. In fact, many are similar to schoolyard nicknames or a...

LOLBAS - Living Off The Land Binaries And Scripts (LOLBins And LOLScripts)

The goal of the LOLBAS project is to document every binary, script, and library that can be used for Living Off The Land techniques. All the different files can be found behind a fancy frontend here: https://lolbas-project.github.io thanks @ConsciousHacker for this bit of eyecandy and the team ov...

Chafer APT Takes Aim at Diplomats in Iran with Improved Custom Malware

UPDATE An Iran-linked APT known as Chafer has been spotted targeting various entities based in Iran with an enhanced version of a custom malware that takes a very unique approach to communication by using the Microsoft Background Intelligent Transfer Service BITS mechanism over HTTP. Meanwhile th...

U.S. Government Goes After North Korea's Joanap Botnet

The U.S. Justice Department is looking to retaliate against North Korea-linked hackers who have built up a massive global network of infected computers. The department announced on Wednesday that it would seek to map out the Joanap botnet, which has been built and controlled by North Korea-linked...

FBI Mapping 'Joanap Malware' Victims to Disrupt the North Korean Botnet

The United States Department of Justice DoJ announced Wednesday its effort to "map and further disrupt" a botnet tied to North Korea that has infected numerous Microsoft Windows computers across the globe over the last decade. Dubbed Joanap, the botnet is believed to be part of "Hidden Cobra"—an...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-3462

Incorrect sanitation of the 302 redirect field in HTTP transport method of apt versions 1.4.8 and earlier can lead to content injection by a MITM attacker, potentially leading to remote code execution on the target machine...

CVE-2019-3462: apt/apt-get remote code execution vulnerability alerts-a vulnerability alert-the black bar safety net

0x00 vulnerability background 2019 1 May 22, @Max Justicz in his blog is disclosed about the debian-based package Manager apt/apt-get remote code execution in some detail. When by APT for any software installation, update, etc., the default will be to go HTTP instead of HTTPS, an attacker can MiT...

USN-3863-1: APT vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

Severity High Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 Canonical Ubuntu 16.04 Canonical Ubuntu 18.04 Description Max Justicz discovered that APT incorrectly handled certain parameters during redirects. If a remote attacker were able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack,...

A Vulnerability in Debian’s Apt Allows for Easy Lateral Movement in Data Centers

Learn about the new vulnerability that was found in Debian’s Advanced Package Tool that allows for easy lateral movement in data center...

RogueRobin Malware Uses Google Drive as C2 Channel

A custom malware used by the APT known as DarkHydrus uses a mix of novel techniques, including using Google Drive as an alternate command-and-control C2 channel. According to Palo Alto’s Unit 42 intelligence division, the targeted attack involved spear-phishing emails written in Arabic sent to...

Debian DLA-1637-1 : apt security update (amended)

amended to refer to jessie in the sources.list entry below, instead of stable Max Justicz discovered a vulnerability in APT, the high level package manager. The code handling HTTP redirects in the HTTP transport method doesn't properly sanitize fields transmitted over the wire. This vulnerability...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : APT vulnerability (USN-3863-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3863-1 advisory. Max Justicz discovered that APT incorrectly handled certain parameters during redirects. If a remote attacker were able to perform a...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3863-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Debian DSA-4371-1 : apt - security update

Max Justicz discovered a vulnerability in APT, the high level package manager. The code handling HTTP redirects in the HTTP transport method doesn't properly sanitize fields transmitted over the wire. This vulnerability could be used by an attacker located as a man-in-the-middle between APT and a...