The Festive Complexities of SIGINT-Capable Threat Actors

To read the full paper and learn more about this, refer to "Walking in Your Enemy's Shadow: When Fourth-Party Collection Becomes Attribution Hell" Attribution is complicated under the best of circumstances. Sparse attributory indicators and the possibility of overt manipulation have proven enough...

Iranian APT33 Targets U.S. Firms with Destructive Malware

The Iranian group known as APT33 is believed to be behind a cyberespionage campaign targeting aerospace, petrochemical and energy sector firms located in the United States, Saudi Arabia and South Korea. The group’s latest attack leverages a dropper called DropShot that is tied to the StoneDrill...

Oilrig / Cleaver Malicious Scheduled Task Detection

This script tries to detect several indicators for malicious tools used by Iranian APT group SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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...

Turla APT Used WhiteBear Espionage Tools Against Defense Industry, Embassies

A toolset belonging to the Russian-speaking Turla APT has been publicly disclosed, and along with it details on its capabilities and indicators of compromise. The tools, called WhiteBear, were used to attack defense organizations as recently as June, and diplomatic targets in Europe, Asia and Sou...

Introducing WhiteBear

As a part of our Kaspersky APT Intelligence Reporting subscription, customers received an update in mid-February 2017 on some interesting APT activity that we called WhiteBear. Much of the contents of that report are reproduced here. WhiteBear is a parallel project or second stage of the Skipper...

Gazer: A New Backdoor Targets Ministries and Embassies Worldwide

Security researchers at ESET have discovered a new malware campaign targeting consulates, ministries and embassies worldwide to spy on governments and diplomats. Active since 2016, the malware campaign is leveraging a new backdoor, dubbed Gazer, and is believed to be carried out by Turla advanced...

August 21, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Solar Eclipse” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! August 21, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Trump increases status of...

IT threat evolution Q2 2017

Targeted attacks and malware campaigns Back to the future: looking for a link between old and new APTs This year's Security Analyst Summit SAS included interesting research findings on several targeted attack campaigns. For example, researchers from Kaspersky Lab and King's College London present...

Mamba Ransomware Returns, APT Trends, And More

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week including the return of the Mamba ransomware, Kaspersky Lab’s Q2 APT report, Bugcrowd’s 250K mystery bounty, and a high schooler’s $10K bug bounty from Google. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapAugust112017.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves Show notes...

See my how-to the Apache fuzzing and dig to a value of 1500 knife of vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Target In the AFL in the view of the Apache httpd server's crash logs, I found a lot of problems. For example, some crash testing with example in fuzz testing tools internal collapse, but also affect the test program stability. In this article, I will talk to you to explain the test case to crash...

APT Group Uses Catfish Technique To Ensnare Victims

LAS VEGAS–Meet Mia Ash, a 20-something London-based photographer, amateur model, social media butterfly with a keen interest in tech-savvy guys with ties to the oil and gas industry. You guessed it. Mia Ash doesn’t exist. Ash, according to Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit, is a virtual person...

Spring Dragon – Updated Activity

Spring Dragon is a long running APT actor that operates on a massive scale. The group has been running campaigns, mostly in countries and territories around the South China Sea, since as early as 2012. The main targets of Spring Dragon attacks are high profile governmental organizations and...

Motivation Mystery Behind WannaCry, ExPetr

If two is a coincidence and three is a trend, maybe we’re not quite there yet in officially calling WannaCry and ExPetr a new movement among APT attacks. But for now, it’s close enough. Researchers are starting to examine the real motivations behind each global outbreak and whether these attacks...

Researchers Find BlackEnergy APT Links in ExPetr Code

Researchers have found links between the BlackEnergy APT group and threat actors behind the ExPetr malware used in last month’s global attacks. According to researchers at Kaspersky Lab, there are strong similarities between older versions of BlackEnergy’s KillDisk ransomware compared to ExPetr...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3901-1 (libgcrypt20 - security update)

Daniel J. Bernstein, Joachim Breitner, Daniel Genkin, Leon Groot Bruinderink, Nadia Heninger, Tanja Lange, Christine van Vredendaal and Yuval Yarom discovered that Libgcrypt is prone to a local side-channel attack allowing full key recovery for RSA-1024. See https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/627 for...

From BlackEnergy to ExPetr

Much has been written about the recent ExPetr/NotPetya/Nyetya/Petya outbreak - you can read our findings here:Schroedinger's Petya and ExPetr is a wiper, not ransomware. As in the case of Wannacry, attribution is very difficult and finding links with previously known malware is challenging. In th...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3887-1 (glibc - security update)

The Qualys Research Labs discovered various problems in the dynamic linker of the GNU C Library which allow local privilege escalation by clashing the stack. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb3887.nasl 6618 2017-07-07 14:17:52Z cfischer $ Auto-generated from advisory DSA 3887-1 using nvtgen 1.0...

Someone Failed to Contain WannaCry

Coding and implementation mistakes made by the WannaCry developers may have spared a good chunk of the world some grief on May 12, but they also lend credence to the theory that the ransomware wasn’t contained properly and spread before it was meant to be unleashed. Malware expert Jake Williams,...

Metadata Analysis Draws its Own Conclusions on WannaCry Authors

The most intriguing mystery that remains about WannaCry is the identity of the attacker. The theory with the best legs is that North Korea’s Lazarus APT is the entity behind the worldwide ransomware outbreak given the discovery of shared code samples in the malware with older Lazarus attacks. Tha...

Advanced, Targeted Threats: What do They Mean for Your Bottom Line?

Too often, we are so focused on our day-to-day that we neglect to consider the bigger picture. I have been writing about recursive DNS and threat intelligence, Domain Generation Algorithms DGAs, and DNS-based data exfiltration assuming that the vast majority of readers are familiar with the...