GHSA-M5P4-7WF9-6W99 Malicious Package in regenrator

All versions of regenrator are considered malicious. The package is malware designed to take advantage of users making a mistake when typing the name of a module to install. When executed, the package calls home to a Command and Control server to execute arbitrary commands. Recommendation This...

GHSA-WPFC-3W63-G4HM Malicious Package in axois

All versions of axois are considered malicious. The package is malware designed to take advantage of users making a mistake when typing the name of a module to install. When executed, the package calls home to a Command and Control server to execute arbitrary commands. Recommendation This package...

Malicious Package in axois

All versions of axois are considered malicious. The package is malware designed to take advantage of users making a mistake when typing the name of a module to install. When executed, the package calls home to a Command and Control server to execute arbitrary commands. Recommendation This package...

GHSA-322M-P39J-R5M2 npm-script-demo is malware

The npm-script-demo package is a piece of malware that opens a connection to a command and control server and executed the instructions it is given. It has been removed from the npm registry. Recommendation Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully...

Revamped Qbot Trojan Packs New Punch: Hijacks Email Threads

Attacks attributed to the Qbot trojan, known as the “Swiss Army knife” of malware, are on the uptick with a reported 100,000 recent infections, according to researchers. Qbot, an ever-evolving information-stealing trojan that’s been around since 2008, has shifted tactics again and adopted a bevy ...

APT Hackers Exploit Autodesk 3ds Max Software for Industrial Espionage

It's one thing for APT groups to conduct cyber espionage to meet their own financial objectives. But it's an entirely different matter when they are used as "hackers for hire" by competing private companies to make away with confidential information. Bitdefender's Cyber Threat Intelligence Lab...

APT Hackers Exploit Autodesk 3ds Max Software for Industrial Espionage

It's one thing for APT groups to conduct cyber espionage to meet their own financial objectives. But it's an entirely different matter when they are used as "hackers for hire" by competing private companies to make away with confidential information. Bitdefender's Cyber Threat Intelligence Lab...

Mac Users Targeted by Spyware Spreading via Xcode Projects

A campaign aimed at Mac users is spreading the XCSSET suite of malware, which has the capability to hijack the Safari web browser and inject various JavaScript payloads that can steal passwords, financial data and personal information, deploy ransomware and more. Infections are propagating via...

CactusPete APT Hones Toolset, Resurfaces with New Espionage Targets

The China-based APT known as CactusPete has returned with a new campaign aimed at military and financial targets in Eastern Europe, which is a new geography for the group’s victimology, according to researchers. The group also used a fresh variant of the Bisonal backdoor, which allows the attacke...

UPDATE: Covenant v0.6

Covenant v0.6, a major update was released a couple of days ago. My last post about this open source, collaborative .NET C2 framework for red teamers was about Covenant v0.5. It includes a set of new features such as streaming output, newer UI themes, a tabbed terminal view and lots of bug fixes...

DeimosC2 - A Golang Command And Control Framework For Post-Exploitation

DeimosC2 is a post-exploitation Command & Control C2 tool that leverages multiple communication methods in order to control machines that have been compromised. DeimosC2 server and agents works on, and has been tested on, Windows, Darwin, and Linux. It is entirely written in Golang with a front e...

Undetectable Linux Malware Targeting Docker Servers With Exposed APIs

Cybersecurity researchers today uncovered a completely undetectable Linux malware that exploits undocumented techniques to stay under the radar and targets publicly accessible Docker servers hosted with popular cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, and Alibaba Cloud. Docker is a popular...

Lazarus Group Surfaces with Advanced Malware Framework

The North Korea-linked APT known as Lazarus Group has debuted an advanced, multipurpose malware framework, called MATA, to target Windows, Linux and macOS operating systems. Kaspersky researchers uncovered a series of attacks utilizing MATA so-called because the malware authors themselves call...

Mac Cryptocurrency Traders Targeted by Trojanized Apps

Mac users are being targeted by trojanized cryptocurrency trading apps, which once downloaded actually drain victims’ cryptocurrency wallets, researchers warn. The four fake applications in question, Cointrazer, Cupatrade, Licatrade and Trezarus, claim to be rebranded copies of an actual...

New Android Malware Now Steals Passwords For Non-Banking Apps Too

BlackRock does the data collection by abusing Android's Accessibility Service privileges, for which it seeks users' permissions under the guise of fake Google updates when it's launched for the first time on the device, as shown in the shared screenshots. Subsequently, it goes on to grant itself...

SCANdalous! (External Detection Using Network Scan Data and Automation)

Real Quick In case you’re thrown by that fantastic title, our lawyers made us change the name of this project so we wouldn’t get sued. SCANdalous—a.k.a. Scannah Montana a.k.a. Scanny McScanface a.k.a. “Scan I Kick It? Yes You Scan”—had another name before today that, for legal reasons, we’re...

DarkCrewFriends Returns with Botnet Strategy

The hackers-for-hire group DarkCrewFriends has resurfaced and is targeting content management systems to build a botnet. The botnet can be marshalled into service to carry out a variety of criminal activities, including distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks, command execution, information...

Self-Propagating Lucifer Malware Targets Windows Systems

Security experts have identified a self-propagating malware, dubbed Lucifer, that targets Windows systems with cryptojacking and distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks. The never-before-seen malware initially tries to infect PCs by bombarding them with exploits in hopes of taking advantage of...

Google Yanks 106 ‘Malicious’ Chrome Extensions

Google removed 106 Chrome browser extensions Thursday from its Chrome Web Store in response to a report that they were being used to siphon sensitive user data. In the research, also published Thursday, Awake Security alleged millions of Chrome users have been targeted by threat actors. The...

Espionage Group Hits U.S. Utilities with Sophisticated Spy Tool

The APT known as TA410 has added a modular remote-access trojan RAT to its espionage arsenal, deployed against Windows targets in the United States’ utilities sector. According to researchers at Proofpoint, the RAT, called FlowCloud, can access installed applications and control the keyboard,...