Zero-Day Flash Exploit Targeting Middle East

A zero-day vulnerability is being exploited in the wild in targeted attacks against Windows users in the Middle East, researchers warned Thursday. The Flash Player vulnerability CVE-2018-5002, a stack-based buffer overflow bug that could enable arbitrary code execution, was patched earlier today ...

VPNFilter Malware Impact Larger Than Previously Thought

Researchers say the impact of the VPNFilter malware discovered last month is larger than originally reported. On Wednesday, Cisco Talos researchers said they now believe the malware has infected twice the number of router brands than previously stated. They added that VPNFilter also delivers a mo...

FBI issues alert over two new malware linked to Hidden Cobra hackers

The US-CERT has released a joint technical alert from the DHS and the FBI, warning about two newly identified malware being used by the prolific North Korean APT hacking group known as Hidden Cobra. Hidden Cobra, often known as Lazarus Group and Guardians of Peace, is believed to be backed by the...

RedDawn Espionage Campaign Shows Mobile APTs on the Rise

A sophisticated and targeted mobile espionage campaign has been found targeting North Korean defectors. Mounted by a relatively new APT actor known as Sun Team, the offensive used Google Play and Facebook as attack vectors; and overall, it shows how quickly the mobile threat landscape is evolving...

GravityRAT - The Two-Year Evolution Of An APT Targeting India

This blog post is authored by Warren Mercer and Paul Rascagneres. Update: 4/30 Since the publication of the blog post, one of the anti-VM capability was commented a lot on Twitter: the detection of Virtual Machines by checking the temperature of the system. We decided to add more details and...

Sea Lotus APT groups use CVE-2017-8570 vulnerability of the new sample and Association analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Sea Lotus（OceanLotus）APT gang is a highly organized, professional foreign national hacker group, the oldest by 360 days eye Labs discovered and disclosed. The organization since at least 2012 and 4 January will be for the Chinese government, research institutes, Maritime institutions, Maritime...

Ransomware Attack Hits Ukrainian Energy Ministry, Exploiting Drupalgeddon2

The Ukrainian Energy Ministry has been hit by a ransomware attack – and for once it looks like this is the work of amateurs, not nation-state attackers bent on making a geopolitical point. However, the bad actors appear to have made use of the recently patched Drupal vulnerability, pointing out y...

Router vulnerability analysis the sixth bullet: CVE-2018-7445 MikroTik router system buffer overflow vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

A. Vulnerability overview CVE-2018-7445 MikroTik RouterOS SMB buffer overflow Reference information: https://www.coresecurity.com/advisories/mikrotik-routeros-smb-buffer-overflow Vulnerability firmware version: mikrotik-6.40.6.iso the x86 version Download: https://mikrotik.com/download Mikrotik...

A week in security (April 16 – April 22)

Last week, we took a stroll down memory lane talking about Facebook and MySpace, noticed a change in the Magnitude exploit kit—wherein it started adopting the GandCrab ransomware, took a good look at a new form of adware that is based on Python, chatted a bit about Russian hacking with a...

Energetic Bear/Crouching Yeti: attacks on servers

Energetic Bear/Crouching Yeti is a widely known APT group active since at least 2010. The group tends to attack different companies with a strong focus on the energy and industrial sectors. Companies attacked by Energetic Bear/Crouching Yeti are geographically distributed worldwide with a more...

WHP - Microsoft Windows Hacking Pack

M$ Windows Hacking Pack =========== Tools here are from different sources. The repo is generally licensed with WTFPL, but some content may be not eg. sysinternals. "pes" means "PE Scambled". It's useful sometimes. Remote Exploits =========== Windows 2000 / XP SP1 MS05-039 Microsoft Plug and Play...

Perspectives on Russian hacking

Russia is an endlessly fascinating subject both in and around infosec. Recent years have shifted attention away from pure malware capabilities, to psyops, social engineering, and an endless slew of mind games designed to destabilize and keep nations ever-so-slightly off balance. Security firms in...

Google Play Boots Three Malicious Apps From Marketplace Tied to APTs

Two advanced persistent threat groups managed to sneak apps onto the Google Play marketplace earlier this year. Both were designed to conduct surveillance on targets located in the Middle East region, according to Lookout security researchers. One of the groups, identified as APT-C-23 also known ...

List of Adversary Emulation Tools

PenTestIT RSS Feed Every once in a while, the security industry brings forth a new buzz word and introduces terminologies that sound über cool and generate lot's of interest. One such word going around now-a-days is automated "adversary emulation". Let's first understand what this really means...

Your new friend, KLara

While doing threat research, teams need a lot of tools and systems to aid their hunting efforts – from systems storing Passive DNS data and automated malware classification to systems allowing researchers to pattern-match a large volume of data in a relatively short period of time. These tools ar...

A Closer Look at APT Group Sofacy’s Latest Targets

Threatpost talks to Kaspersky Lab researcher Kurt Baumgartner who was instrumental in tracking the latest activities of the Russian-speaking Sofacy APT gang. Research shows a continual march toward Far East targets and overlapping of activities with other groups such as Lamberts, Turla and Danti...

APT Hackers Infect Routers to Covertly Implant Slingshot Spying Malware

Security researchers at Kaspersky have identified a sophisticated APT hacking group that has been operating since at least 2012 without being noticed due to their complex and clever hacking techniques. The hacking group used a piece of advanced malware—dubbed Slingshot—to infect hundreds of...

The Slingshot APT FAQ

While analysing an incident which involved a suspected keylogger, we identified a malicious library able to interact with a virtual file system, which is usually the sign of an advanced APT actor. This turned out to be a malicious loader internally named 'Slingshot', part of a new, and highly...

Sofacy APT Adopts New Tactics and Far East Targets

CANCUN, Mexico – A new analysis of the Russian-speaking Sofacy APT gang shows a continual march toward Far East targets and overlapping of activities with other groups such as Lamberts, Turla and Danti. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab this morning at its Security Analyst Summit, released their updat...

The devil’s in the Rich header

In our previous blog, we detailed our findings on the attack against the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics. For this investigation, our analysts were provided with administrative access to one of the affected servers, located in a hotel based in Pyeongchang county, South Korea. In addition, we...