DoubleGun Group Builds Massive Botnet Using Cloud Services

An operation from the China-based cybercrime gang known as DoubleGun Group has been disrupted, which had amassed hundreds of thousands of bots that were controlled via public cloud services, including Alibaba and Baidu Tieba. NetLab 360 researchers, in a recent posting, said that it noticed DNS...

Silent Night Banking Trojan Charges Top Dollar on the Underground

A descendant of the infamous Zeus banking trojan, dubbed Silent Night by the malware’s author, has emerged on the scene, with a host of functionalities available in a spendy malware-as-a-service MaaS model. Custom builds can run as much as $4,000 per month to use, which researchers say is now...

Shining a light on “Silent Night” Zloader/Zbot

When it comes to banking Trojans, ZeuS is probably the most famous one ever released. Since its source code originally leaked in 2011, several new variants proliferated online. That includes a past fork called Terdot Zbot/Zloader, which we extensively covered in 2017. But recently, we observed...

Sphinx Malware Returns to Riddle U.S. Targets, with Modifications

The Zeus Sphinx banking trojan has seen a recent resurgence in the United States, sporting some modifications and using COVID-19 spam as a lure. Sphinx re-emerged in December but saw a big spike in March via the use of coronavirus themes. Since April, it has been seen attacking U.S. targets with ...

Lazarus Group Hides macOS Spyware in 2FA Application

The North Korea-linked cyberthreat group known as Lazarus Group has added a new variant of the Dacls remote-access trojan RAT to its arsenal of spy gear, designed specifically for the Mac operating system. Dacls was first discovered last December targeting Windows and Linux platforms. The new...

New Android Malware Targets PayPal, CapitalOne App Users

An Android mobile malware has been uncovered that steals payment data from users of popular financial apps like PayPal, Barclays, CapitalOne and more. The infostealer, called EventBot, has targeted users of more than 200 different banking, money-transfer services and general cryptocurrency wallet...

‘Black Rose Lucy’ is Back, Now Pushing Ransomware

Cybercriminals behind the Android-based dropper malware Black Rose Lucy have shifted attacks from info-stealing to ransomware – with a sextortion twist. The malware family, operated by the Lucy Gang, encrypts targeted Android devices and delivers a spoofed FBI message. The ransom note claims the...

Malicious USB Drives Infect 35,000 Computers With Crypto-Mining Botnet

Cybersecurity researchers from ESET on Thursday said they took down a portion of a malware botnet comprising at least 35,000 compromised Windows systems that attackers were secretly using to mine Monero cryptocurrency. The botnet, named "VictoryGate," has been active since May 2019, with infectio...

VMware Carbon Black TAU Threat Analysis: The Evolution of Lazarus

On February 14, 2020 the U.S. Department of Homeland Security DHS released a Malware Analysis Report MAR-10271944-1.v1 which provided information about a trojan they referred to as HotCroissant. DHS attributed the trojan to a threat group based in North Korea, often referred to as Hidden Cobra...

TA505 Crime Gang Deploys SDBbot for Corporate Network Takeover

The TA505 cybercrime group has ramped up its attacks lately, with a set of campaigns bent on spreading the persistent SDBbot remote-access trojan RAT laterally throughout an entire corporate environment, researchers said. SDBbot RAT is a custom job that has been observed in TA505 attacks since at...

Overlay Malware Exploits Chrome Browser, Targets Banks and Heads to Spain

Researchers are warning of a remote overlay malware attack that leverages a fake Chrome browser plugin to target the accounts of banking customers in Spain. Grandoreiro is a type of remote overlay banking trojan, designed to help attackers overtake devices and display a full-screen overlay image...

Ps-Tools - An Advanced Process Monitoring Toolkit For Offensive Operations

Having a good technical understanding of the systems we land on during an engagement is a key condition for deciding what is going to be the next step within an operation. Collecting and analysing data of running processes from compromised systems gives us a wealth of information and helps us to...

Unique P2P Architecture Gives DDG Botnet 'Unstoppable' Status

The coin-mining botnet known as DDG has seen a flurry of activity since the beginning of the year, releasing 16 different updates over the course of the past three months. Most notably, its operators have adopted a proprietary peer-to-peer P2P mechanism that has turned the DDG into a highly...

Holy water: ongoing targeted water-holing attack in Asia

On December 4, 2019, we discovered watering hole websites that were compromised to selectively trigger a drive-by download attack with fake Adobe Flash update warnings. This campaign has been active since at least May 2019, and targets an Asian religious and ethnic group. The threat actor's...

Zeus Sphinx Banking Trojan Arises Amid COVID-19

The Zeus Sphinx banking trojan is back after being off the scene for nearly three years. According to researchers Amir Gandler and Limor Kessem at IBM X-Force, Sphinx a.k.a. Zloader or Terdot began resurfacing in December. However, the researchers observed a significant increase in volume in Marc...

UPDATE: Octopus v1.0

Octopus v1.0 is now available. A brief mention about this tool can be found in my previous post titled List of Open Source C2 Post-Exploitation Frameworks. This is the first stable version of Octopus C2 which now supports Cobalt Strike deployment, auto kill functionality, command logging, bug fix...

Ninja - Open Source C2 Server Created For Stealth Red Team Operations

Ninja C2 is an Open source C2 server created by Purple Team to do stealthy computer and Active directoty enumeration without being detected by SIEM and AVs , Ninja still in beta version and when the stable version released it will contains many more stealthy techinques and anti-forensic to create...

Unknown 'WildPressure' Malware Campaign Lets Off Steam in Middle East

A malware campaign that shares no known similarities to previous attacks has been uncovered, targeting organizations in the Middle East. Dubbed “WildPressure,” the campaign used a previously unknown malware that researchers named Milum, after the C++ class names inside the code. According to...

TrickBot Now Exploits Infected PCs to Launch RDP Brute Force Attacks

A new module for TrickBot banking Trojan has recently been discovered in the wild that lets attackers leverage compromised systems to launch brute-force attacks against selected Windows systems running a Remote Desktop Protocol RDP connection exposed to the Internet. The module, dubbed...

UPDATE: FudgeC2 0.5.5

FudgeC2 0.5.5 was released recently. As you may remember, this awesome adversary emulation system was listed in my older post titled – List of Open Source C2 Post-Exploitation Frameworks and FudgeC2 0.5.4. This newer version allows you to screenshot the desktop of any hosts with an implant. What ...