Operation North Star: Summary Of Our Latest Analysis | McAfee Blogs

Operation North Star: Summary Of Our Latest Analysis By Trellix · NOV 05, 2020 McAfee’s Advanced Threat Research ATR today released research that uncovers previously undiscovered information on how Operation North Star evaluated its prospective victims and launched attacks on organizations in...

QBot Trojan delivered via malspam campaign exploiting US election uncertainties

This blog post was authored by Jérôme Segura and Hossein Jazi. The 2020 US elections have been the subject of intense scrutiny and emotions, while happening in the middle of a global pandemic. As election night ended and uncertainty regarding the results began to creep in, threat actors decided t...

Browser Bugs Exploited to Install 2 New Backdoors on Targeted Computers

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details about a new watering hole attack targeting the Korean diaspora that exploits vulnerabilities in web browsers such as Google Chrome and Internet Explorer to deploy malware for espionage purposes. Dubbed "Operation Earth Kitsune" by Trend Micro, the...

TrickBot Linux Variants Active in the Wild Despite Recent Takedown

Efforts to disrupt TrickBot may have shut down most of its critical infrastructure, but the operators behind the notorious malware aren't sitting idle. According to new findings shared by cybersecurity firm Netscout, TrickBot's authors have moved portions of their code to Linux in an attempt to...

Unhappy Hour Special: KEGTAP and SINGLEMALT With a Ransomware Chaser

Throughout 2020, ransomware activity has become increasingly prolific, relying on an ecosystem of distinct but co-enabling operations to gain access to targets of interest before conducting extortion. Mandiant Threat Intelligence has tracked several loader and backdoor campaigns that lead to the...

Awesome-Red-Teaming

This is a list of resources for Red Teaming, a list that will be updated regularly with the latest adversarial tactics and techniques based on the Mitre ATT&CK framework. The list covers various topics such as Initial Access, Execution, Persistence, Privilege Escalation, Defense Evasion, Credenti...

GravityRAT: The spy returns

In 2018, researchers at Cisco Talos published a post on the spyware GravityRAT, used to target the Indian armed forces. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team CERT-IN first discovered the Trojan in 2017. Its creators are believed to be Pakistani hacker groups. According to our information, t...

Microsoft and Other Tech Companies Take Down TrickBot Botnet

Days after the US Government took steps to disrupt the notorious TrickBot botnet, a group of cybersecurity and tech companies has detailed a separate coordinated effort to take down the malware's back-end infrastructure. The joint collaboration, which involved Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit,...

Microsoft and Other Tech Companies Take Down TrickBot Botnet

Days after the US Government took steps to disrupt the notorious TrickBot botnet, a group of cybersecurity and tech companies has detailed a separate coordinated effort to take down the malware's back-end infrastructure. The joint collaboration, which involved Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit,...

Tenda Router Zero-Days Emerge in Spyware Botnet Campaign

Two former Tenda router zero-days are anchoring the spread of a Mirai-based botnet called Ttint. In addition to denial-of-service DoS attacks, this variant also has remote-access trojan RAT and spyware capabilities. According to 360Netlab, the botnet is unusual in a few ways. For one, on the RAT...

Microsoft Kills 18 Azure Accounts Tied to Nation-State Attacks

Microsoft has suspended 18 Azure Active Directory applications that were being leveraged for command-and-control C2 infrastructure by what it says is a Chinese nation-state actor. While Microsoft services like Azure Active Directory AD – its cloud-based identity and access management service – ar...

GRAT2 - Command And Control (C2) Project For Learning Purpose

GRAT2 is a Command and Control C2 tool written in python3 and the client in .NET 4.0. The main idea came from Georgios Koumettou who initiated the project. Why we developed GRAT2 ? We are aware that there are numerous C2 tools out there but, we developed this tool due to curiosity of how C2 and...

Zeppelin Ransomware Returns with New Trojan on Board

The Zeppelin ransomware has sailed back into relevance, after a hiatus of several months. A wave of attacks were spotted in August by Juniper Threatlab researchers, making use of a new trojan downloader. These, like an initial Zeppelin wave observed in late 2019, start with phishing emails with...

Malicious Package

regenrator contains to malicious code. Taking advantage of user's mistake in the module name at the time of installation, the code when executed, invokes home to a Command and Control server to execute arbitrary commands...

Malicious Package

axois is a malicious package. Taking advantage of user's mistake in the module name at the time of installation, the code when executed, invokes home to a Command and Control server to execute arbitrary commands...

Malicious Package

regenraotr contains to malicious code. Taking advantage of user's mistake in the module name at the time of installation, the code when executed, invokes home to a Command and Control server to execute arbitrary commands...

Malicious Package

soket.jc is a malicious package. When installed, the package opens a backdoor to the Command and Control server that allows remote code execution...

GHSA-FGFJ-RJ24-MJ7Q Malicious Package in kraken-api

Version 0.1.8 of kraken-api contains malicious code as a postinstall script. When installed, the package calls home to a Command and Control server to execute arbitrary commands. Recommendation Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All...

Malicious Package in kraken-api

Version 0.1.8 of kraken-api contains malicious code as a postinstall script. When installed, the package calls home to a Command and Control server to execute arbitrary commands. Recommendation Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All...

Malicious Package in tensorplow

All versions of tensorplow contain malicious code as a preinstall script. When installed, the package calls home to a Command and Control server to execute arbitrary commands. Recommendation Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secret...