ToddyCat is making holes in your infrastructure

We continue covering the activities of the APT group ToddyCat. In our previous article, we described tools for collecting and exfiltrating files LoFiSe and PcExter. This time, we have investigated how attackers obtain constant access to compromised infrastructure, what information on the hosts th...

Fortinet FortiSandbox OS Command Injection Vulnerability (CNVD-2024-20429)

Fortinet FortiSandbox is an APT Advanced Persistent Threat protection appliance from Fortinet. The appliance offers dual sandboxing technology, dynamic threat intelligence system, real-time control panel and reporting. Fortinet FortiSandbox suffers from an operating system command injection...

Russian APT Deploys New 'Kapeka' Backdoor in Eastern European Attacks

A previously undocumented "flexible" backdoor called Kapeka has been "sporadically" observed in cyber attacks targeting Eastern Europe, including Estonia and Ukraine, since at least mid-2022. The findings come from Finnish cybersecurity firm WithSecure, which attributed the malware to the...

Fortinet FortiSandbox OS Command Injection Vulnerability (CNVD-2024-20784)

Fortinet FortiSandbox is an APT Advanced Persistent Threat protection appliance from Fortinet. The appliance offers dual sandboxing technology, dynamic threat intelligence system, real-time control panel and reporting. The Fortinet FortiSandbox is vulnerable to an operating system command injecti...

PT-2024-2715

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Windows versions prior to April 2024 Patch Tuesday Description This issue is a security feature bypass vulnerability affecting the SmartScreen Prompt Security Feature in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability allows attackers to bypass...

Earth Krahang APT Campaign Targeting Global Governments

Summary: Earth Krahang, an APT campaign since 2022, targets global government entities, employing spear phishing and server exploitation tactics. Operating independently but with potential links to Chinese threat actors, it utilizes malware like Cobalt Strike and XDealer for espionage, urging...

The Updated APT Playbook: Tales from the Kimsuky threat actor group

Co-authors are Christiaan Beek and Raj Samani Within Rapid7 Labs we continually track and monitor threat groups. This is one of our key areas of focus as we work to ensure that our ability to protect customers remains constant. As part of this process, we routinely identify evolving tactics from...

Earth Krahang Exploits Intergovernmental Trust to Launch Cross-Government Attacks

Since early 2022, we have been monitoring an APT campaign that targets several government entities worldwide, with a strong focus in Southeast Asia, but also seen targeting Europe, America, and Africa...

Exploit for File Descriptor Leak in Linuxfoundation Runc

PoC of CVE-2024-21626 Read my full article for detailed explan...

CVE-2024-21412: DarkGate Operators Exploit Microsoft Windows SmartScreen Bypass in Zero-Day Campaign

In addition to our Water Hydra APT zero day analysis, the Zero Day Initiative ZDI observed a DarkGate campaign which we discovered in mid-January 2024 where DarkGate operators exploited CVE-2024-21412...

New Leak Shows Business Side of China’s APT Menace

A new data leak that appears to have come from one of Chinas top private cybersecurity firms provides a rare glimpse into the commercial side of Chinas many state-sponsored hacking groups. Experts say the leak illustrates how Chinese government agencies increasingly are contracting out foreign...

TinyTurla-NG in-depth tooling and command and control analysis

Cisco Talos, in cooperation with CERT.NGO, has discovered new malicious components used by the Turla APT. New findings from Talos illustrate the inner workings of the command and control C2 scripts deployed on the compromised WordPress servers utilized in the compromise we previously disclosed...

A first analysis of the i-Soon data leak

Data from a Chinese cybersecurity vendor that works for the Chinese government has exposed a range of hacking tools and services. Although the source is not entirely clear, it seems that a disgruntled staff member of the group leaked the information on purpose. The vendor, i-Soon aka Anxun is...

Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Actors 12 to 18 February 2024

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForce Labs recently made several significant discoveries in the realm of cybersecurity threats. In the past week alone, a total of eight attacks were executed, five vulnerabilities were uncovered, and three active adversaries we...

Water Hydra Exploits CVE-2024-21412 to Target Financial Traders

Summary: Water Hydra exploited CVE-2024-21412 to bypass Microsoft Defender SmartScreen, targeting financial traders with DarkMe malware through sophisticated spearphishing tactics. This underscores the persistent threat of APT groups and highlights the challenge of defending against evolving atta...

TinyTurla Next Generation - Turla APT spies on Polish NGOs

Cisco Talos has identified a new backdoor authored and operated by the Turla APT group, a Russian cyber espionage threat group. This new backdoor were calling "TinyTurla-NG" TTNG is similar to Turlas previously disclosed implant, TinyTurla, in coding style and functionality implementation. Talos...

Ubuntu 'command-not-found' Tool Could Trick Users into Installing Rogue Packages

Cybersecurity researchers have found that it's possible for threat actors to exploit a well-known utility called command-not-found to recommend their own rogue packages and compromise systems running Ubuntu operating system. "While 'command-not-found' serves as a convenient tool for suggesting...

FBI and CISA publish guide to Living off the Land techniques

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, National Security Agency NSA, Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, and other authoring agencies have released a joint guidance about common living off the land LOTL techniques and common gaps in cyber defense capabilities. Living Off The...

CISA: Disconnect vulnerable Ivanti products TODAY

In an emergency directive, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has ordered all federal agencies to disconnect all instances of Ivanti Connect Secure and Policy Secure solution products from agency networks no later than 11:59PM on Friday February 2, 2024. Besides the Ivanti...

FBI removes malware from hundreds of routers across the US

The FBI has used a court order to remove malware from hundreds of routers across the US, and alter the routers’ settings to prevent reinfection. The routers are malware-infected NetGear and Cisco small office/home office SOHO devices that no longer receive updates because they have reached their...