Armenian Entities Hit by New Version of OxtaRAT Spying Tool

Entities in Armenia have come under a cyber attack using an updated version of a backdoor called OxtaRAT that allows remote access and desktop surveillance. "The tool capabilities include searching for and exfiltrating files from the infected machine, recording the video from the web camera and...

New Threat Actor WIP26 Targeting Telecom Service Providers in the Middle East

Telecommunication service providers in the Middle East are being targeted by a previously undocumented threat actor as part of a suspected intelligence gathering mission. Cybersecurity firms SentinelOne and QGroup are tracking the activity cluster under the former's work-in-progress moniker WIP26...

Hackers Exploit Vulnerabilities in Sunlogin to Deploy Sliver C2 Framework

Threat actors are leveraging known flaws in Sunlogin software to deploy the Sliver command-and-control C2 framework for carrying out post-exploitation activities. The findings come from AhnLab Security Emergency response Center ASEC, which found that security vulnerabilities in Sunlogin, a remote...

PY#RATION: New Python-based RAT Uses WebSocket for C2 and Data Exfiltration

Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a new attack campaign that leverages a Python-based remote access trojan RAT to gain control over compromised systems since at least August 2022. "This malware is unique in its utilization of WebSockets to avoid detection and for both command-and-control C...

PY#RATION: New Python-based RAT Uses WebSocket for C2 and Data Exfiltration

Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a new attack campaign that leverages a Python-based remote access trojan RAT to gain control over compromised systems since at least August 2022. "This malware is unique in its utilization of WebSockets to avoid detection and for both command-and-control C...

Threat Actors Turn to Sliver as Open Source Alternative to Popular C2 Frameworks

The legitimate command-and-control C2 framework known as Sliver is gaining more traction from threat actors as it emerges as an open source alternative to Cobalt Strike and Metasploit. The findings come from Cybereason, which detailed its inner workings in an exhaustive analysis last week. Sliver...

Dark Pink APT Group Targets Governments and Military in APAC Region

Government and military organizations in the Asia-Pacific region are being targeted by a previously unknown advanced persistent threat APT actor, per latest research conducted by Albert Priego of Group-IB The Singapore-headquartered company, in a report shared with The Hacker News, said it's...

The Evolving Tactics of Vidar Stealer: From Phishing Emails to Social Media

The notorious information-stealer known as Vidar is continuing to leverage popular social media services such as TikTok, Telegram, Steam, and Mastodon as an intermediate command-and-control C2 server. "When a user creates an account on an online platform, a unique account page that can be accesse...

Raspberry Robin Worm Evolves to Attack Financial and Insurance Sectors in Europe

Financial and insurance sectors in Europe have been targeted by the Raspberry Robin worm, as the malware continues to evolve its post-exploitation capabilities while remaining under the radar. "What is unique about the malware is that it is heavily obfuscated and highly complex to statically...

The vulnerability of the FsCreateDir function in the Ajax web interface for managing WLAN client software Hirschmann BAT-C2 allows a hacker to execute arbitrary commands.

The vulnerability of the FsCreateDir function in the Ajax web interface for managing WLAN client software Hirschmann BAT-C2 is related to insufficient checking of arguments passed in the command. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary commands using the dir...

Qualys Threat Research Unit: Threat Thursdays, December 2022

Welcome to the fourth edition of the Qualys Threat Research Unit’s TRU “Threat Research Thursday”, where we collect and curate notable new tools, techniques, procedures, threat intelligence, cybersecurity news, malware attacks, and more. This also happens to be the last edition for the year...

The vulnerability of the RSA KeyPassWD parameter in the web interface for managing Hirschmann BAT-C2 WLAN-client microprogramming software allows a hacker to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the RSA KeyPassWD parameter in the web interface for managing WLAN client micro-programming software Hirschmann BAT-C2 exists due to the failure to take measures to neutralize the special elements used in the operating system command. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a...

The vulnerability in the web interface of Hirschmann BAT-C2’s WLAN-client microprogramming software allows a hacker to perform arbitrary actions.

The vulnerability of the web interface for managing WLAN client micro-programming software Hirschmann BAT-C2 exists due to the failure to take measures to neutralize special elements used in the operating system command. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary...

Havoc - Modern and malleable post-exploitation command and control framework

Havoc is a modern and malleablepost-exploitation command and control framework, created by @C5pider. Havoc is in an early state of release. Breaking changes may be made to APIs/core structures as the framework matures. Support Consider supporting C5pider on Patreon/Github Sponsors. Additional...

Godfather Android banking malware is on the rise

Researchers at Cyble Research & Intelligence Labs CRIL have found a new version of the Android banking Trojan called Godfather. The new version of Godfather uses an icon and name similar to a legitimate application named MYT Music, which is hosted on the Google Play Store with over 10 million...

Beware: Cybercriminals Launch New BrasDex Android Trojan Targeting Brazilian Banking Users

The threat actors behind the Windows banking malware known as Casbaneiro has been attributed as behind a novel Android trojan called BrasDex that has been observed targeting Brazilian users as part of an ongoing multi-platform campaign. BrasDex features a "complex keylogging system designed to...

KmsdBot Botnet Suspected of Being Used as DDoS-for-Hire Service

An ongoing analysis of the KmsdBot botnet has raised the possibility that it's a DDoS-for-hire service offered to other threat actors. This is based on the different industries and geographies that were attacked, web infrastructure company Akamai said. Among the notable targets included FiveM and...

Dissecting the Empire C2 Framework

Introduction In this blog we will be taking a quick dive into Empire, a popular open-source post-exploitation framework. Empire provides an adversary with the capability to expand his foothold in a victim’s environment by leveraging hundreds of modules, RATs in multiple languages and stealthy C2...

Researchers Uncover New Drokbk Malware that Uses GitHub as a Dead Drop Resolver

The subgroup of an Iranian nation-state group known as Nemesis Kitten has been attributed as behind a previously undocumented custom malware dubbed Drokbk that uses GitHub as a dead drop resolver to exfiltrate data from an infected computer, or to receive commands. "The use of GitHub as a virtual...

Russian Courts Targeted by New CryWiper Data Wiper Malware Posing as Ransomware

A new data wiper malware called CryWiper has been found targeting Russian government agencies, including mayor's offices and courts. "Although it disguises itself as a ransomware and extorts money from the victim for 'decrypting' data, it does not actually encrypt, but purposefully destroys data ...