REvil Ransomware gang behind the Kaseya VSA Supply-Chain attack

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. The REvil ransomware group was successful in carrying out a supply chain attack by exploiting the zero-day vulnerability CVE-2021-30116 in the Kaseya VSA server and delivering a malicious script to all the computer devices...

Misconfigured Certificate Template Finder

This module allows users to query a LDAP server for vulnerable certificate templates and will print these certificates out in a table along with which attack they are vulnerable to and the SIDs that can be used to enroll in that certificate template. Additionally the module will also print out a...

Researchers Demonstrate 2 New Hacks to Modify Certified PDF Documents

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two new attack techniques on certified PDF documents that could potentially enable an attacker to alter a document's visible content by displaying malicious content over the certified content without invalidating its signature. "The attack idea exploits the...

Carbanak and FIN7 Attack Techniques

What happens in Carbanak and FIN7 attacks? Here are some techniques used by these financially motivated threat groups that target banks, retail stores, and other establishments...

Researchers uncover a new Iranian malware used in recent cyberattacks

An Iranian threat actor has unleashed a new cyberespionage campaign against a possible Lebanese target with a backdoor capable of exfiltrating sensitive information from compromised systems. Cybersecurity firm Check Point attributed the operation to APT34, citing similarities with previous...

Unified SaaS Application Security, Detection, and Response

Organizations are rapidly embracing Software as a Service SaaS applications for scalability, ease & flexibility of use, and the benefits of not using their own infrastructure. To maintain their focus on business objectives during the new ‘remote workforce normalcy’, organizations have fast-tracke...

Simplifying Proactive Defense With Threat Playbooks

Security defense strategy can be extremely complex, with security teams grappling with tens of thousands of information points and evolving attacker techniques, said Derek Manky, Chief of Security Insights & Global Threat Alliances at Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs. Derek Manky FortiGuard Labs has...

CrimeOps of the KashmirBlack Botnet – Part I

Introduction Being in a research team exposes us to a variety of attacks on different platforms, of different types, scope, and volume. It also gives us the opportunity to select particularly interesting attacks that target our customers and to analyze them. This blog will give you a taste of the...

Microsoft Security—detecting empires in the cloud

Microsoft consistently tracks the most advanced threat actors and evolving attack techniques. We use these findings to harden our products and platform and share them with the security community to help defenders everywhere better protect the planet. Recently, the Microsoft Threat Intelligence...

Report Looks at COVID-19’s Massive Impact on Cybersecurity

Most cybersecurity professionals fully anticipated that cybercriminals would leverage the fear and confusion surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic in their cyberattacks. Of course, malicious emails would contain subjects relating to COVID-19. Of course, malicious downloads would be COVID-19 related...

New Report Explains COVID-19's Impact on Cyber Security

Most cybersecurity professionals fully anticipated that cybercriminals would leverage the fear and confusion surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic in their cyberattacks. Of course, malicious emails would contain subjects relating to Covid-19, and malicious downloads would be Covid-19 related. This is...

Product Overview: Cynet Takes Cyber Threat Protection Automation to the Next Level with Incident Engine

We have all heard of the “cybersecurity skills gap” – the inability of firms to hire and retain high-level cybersecurity talent. This gap has been manifesting in two ways. First, companies that want to hire cybersecurity talent simply cannot find candidates with sufficient skills. Second, compani...

Prometei botnet and its quest for Monero

By Vanja Svajcer. NEWS SUMMARYWe are used to ransomware attacks and big-game hunting making the headlines, but there are still methods adversaries use to monetize their efforts in less intrusive ways.Cisco Talos recently discovered a cryptocurrency-mining botnet attack we're calling "Prometei"...

MITRE ATT&CK APT 29 evaluation proves Microsoft Threat Protection provides deeper end to end view of advanced threats

As attackers use more advanced techniques, it’s even more important that defenders have visibility not just into each of the domains in their environment, but also across them to piece together coordinated, targeted, and advanced attacks. This level of visibility will allow us to get ahead of...

Threat Analysis: CVE-2020-0796 – EternalDarkness (ghostSMB)

On March 10, 2020 analysis of a SMB vulnerability was inadvertently shared, under the assumption that Microsoft was releasing a patch for that vulnerability CVE-2020-0796. As of March 12, Microsoft has since released a patch for CVE-2020-0796, which is a vulnerability specifically affecting SMB3...

Magecart Groups Attack Simultaneous Sites in Card-Theft Frenzy

In an interesting development on the financial cybercrime scene, different Magecart groups have been spotting stepping over each other and attacking the same sites. Magecart is an umbrella term encompassing several different threat groups who all use the same modus operandi: They compromise...

Cisco Talos helps CISOs get back to basics with advisory series

At Cisco Talos, we try to build detections for every threat we see to provide customers with a portfolio capable of identifying and stopping threats at various stages of an attack's lifecycle. Deploying the best suite of layered security tools is an integral part of protecting an organization. Bu...

CB TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: Smominru Botnet Leverages New Attack Techniques

Carbon Black’s Threat Analysis Unit TAU and CB ThreatSight discovered the resurgence of a previously active crypytomining botnet campaign called Smominru. This campaign has evolved since its original discovery in the latter half of 2017, leveraging new techniques including LOLbins, polymorphic...

DEF CON 2019: New Class of SQLite Exploits Open Door to iPhone Hack

LAS VEGAS – Researchers at Check Point have identified a new class of vulnerabilities targeting SQLite, outside the context of a browser for the first time. The new attack techniques exploit memory-corruption issues in the SQLite engine itself — leading to a host of new hacks, including code...

Detecting credential theft through memory access modelling with Microsoft Defender ATP

Stealing user credentials is a key step for attackers to move laterally across victim networks. In today’s attacks, we see a range of tools used to achieve credential theft, requiring protections that target the root behavior and not just individual known tools as is often done by traditional...