Meet SockDetour fileless backdoor targeting U.S. Defense contractors

By Deeba Ahmed Researchers suspect that the SockDetour backdoor is used in attacks carried out by an APT advanced persistent threat… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Meet SockDetour fileless backdoor targeting U.S. Defense contractors...

StayKit - Cobalt Strike Kit For Persistence

StayKit is an extension for Cobalt Strike persistence by leveraging the executeassembly function with the SharpStay .NET assembly. The aggressor script handles payload creation by reading the template files for a specific execution type. IMPORTANT: To use the script a user will only need to load...

New "SockDetour" Fileless, Socketless Backdoor Targets U.S. Defense Contractors

Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps off a previously undocumented and stealthy custom malware called SockDetour that targeted U.S.-based defense contractors with the goal of being used as a secondary implant on compromised Windows hosts. "SockDetour is a backdoor that is designed to...

Chinese APT group targets financial institutions in the campaign “Operation Cache Panda”

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Chinese threat actor APT10 conducted a series of large-scale supply chain attacks that exclusively targeted the financial software systems of Taiwanese financial institutions from the end of November 2021 until the middle of...

Chinese Experts Uncover Details of Equation Group's Bvp47 Covert Hacking Tool

Researchers from China's Pangu Lab have disclosed details of a "top-tier" backdoor put to use by the Equation Group, an advanced persistent threat APT with alleged ties to the cyber-warfare intelligence-gathering unit of the U.S. National Security Agency NSA. Dubbed "Bvp47" owing to numerous...

Backdoor.Win32.Acropolis.10 Insecure Permissions

Discovery / credits: Malvuln - malvuln.com c 2022 Original source: https://malvuln.com/advisory/c3e2bbe5dca96687422f2b4e8c80f4ce.txt Contact: [email protected] Media: twitter.com/malvuln Threat: Backdoor.Win32.Acropolis.10 Vulnerability: Insecure Permissions Description: The malware writes a PE...

Backdoor.Win32.FTP.Ics Man-In-The-Middle

Discovery / credits: Malvuln - malvuln.com c 2022 Original source: https://malvuln.com/advisory/584bc06128469423f9e50e8a359d18acC.txt Contact: [email protected] Media: twitter.com/malvuln Threat: Backdoor.Win32.FTP.Ics Vulnerability: Port Bounce Scan MITM Description: The malware listens on TCP...

WordPress plugin AccessPress Themes has an unspecified vulnerability

WordPress is the Wordpress Foundation's suite of blogging platforms developed using the PHP language. The platform supports personal blogging sites on PHP and MySQL servers. WordPress plugin AccessPress Themes has a security vulnerability that stems from the existence of a backdoor in the vendor...

Gaming, Banking Trojans Dominate Mobile Malware Scene

The number of cyberattacks launched against mobile users was down last year, researchers have found — but don’t pop the champagne just yet. The decline was offset by jacked-up, more sophisticated, more nimble mobile nastiness. In a Monday report, Kaspersky said that its researchers have observed ...

Backdoor.Win32.Dsocks.10 Hardcoded Password

Discovery / credits: Malvuln - malvuln.com c 2022 Original source: https://malvuln.com/advisory/3a505e7ea1beee556860488e34db8da6.txt Contact: [email protected] Media: twitter.com/malvuln Threat: Backdoor.Win32.Dsocks.10 Vulnerability: Hardcoded Cleartext Password Description: The malware Coded ...

CVE-2021-24867

CVE-2021-24867 relates to backdoored AccessPress Themes plugins/themes distributed via the vendor site (not from wordpress.org). The vulnerability was exploited in the wild to deploy web shells and site defacements, observed by Talos IR as part of initial access through exploitation of a WordPres...

WordPress plugin AccessPress 安全漏洞

WordPress is the Wordpress Foundation's suite of blogging platforms developed using the PHP language. The platform supports personal blogging sites on PHP and MySQL servers. WordPress plugin AccessPress Themes has a security vulnerability that stems from the existence of a backdoor in the vendor...

Researchers Warn of a New Golang-based Botnet Under Continuous Development

Cybersecurity researchers have unpacked a nascent Golang-based botnet called Kraken that's under active development and features an array of backdoor capabilities to siphon sensitive information from compromised Windows hosts. "Kraken already features the ability to download and execute secondary...

[WP-H0] DEFAULT_ADMIN_ROLE of BribeVault can steal tokens from users' wallets

Lines of code Vulnerability details The current design/implementation allows the DEFAULTADMINROLE of BribeVault to steal funds from any address that approved this contract up to allowance: As a DEFAULTADMINROLE, the attack is simply do the following steps: 1. grantDepositorRole to self; 2...

New MyloBot Malware Variant Sends Sextortion Emails Demanding $2,732 in Bitcoin

A new version of the MyloBot malware has been observed to deploy malicious payloads that are being used to send sextortion emails demanding victims to pay $2,732 in digital currency. MyloBot, first detected in 2018, is known to feature an array of sophisticated anti-debugging capabilities and...

Iranian Hackers Using New Marlin Backdoor in 'Out to Sea' Espionage Campaign

An advanced persistent threat APT group with ties to Iran has refreshed its malware toolset to include a new backdoor dubbed Marlin as part of a long-running espionage campaign that started in April 2018. Slovak cybersecurity company ESET attributed the attacks — codenamed "Out to Sea" — to a...

Exploit for Out-of-bounds Write in Polkit_Project Polkit

PwnKit-go-LPE CVE-2021-4034 A golang based exp for CVE-2021...

Iranian state-sponsored APT group MuddyWater targeting organizations via malicious executables

THREAT LEVEL: Red. United States Cyber Command USCYBERCOM has warned of an ongoing cyber attack by Iranian state sponsored actor named as MuddyWater. This APT group is currently targeting Middle Eastern countries and has also targeted European and North American nations. The Iranian-backed...

Chinese Hackers Target Taiwanese Financial Institutions with a new Stealthy Backdoor

A Chinese advanced persistent threat APT group has been targeting Taiwanese financial institutions as part of a "persistent campaign" that lasted for at least 18 months. The intrusions, whose primary intent was espionage, resulted in the deployment of a backdoor called xPack, granting the adversa...

GO-2022-0563 Cross-site request forgery in github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/v2

A Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability exists in Filebrowser that allows attackers to create a backdoor user with admin privilege and get access to the filesystem via a malicious HTML webpage that is sent to the victim...