DOUBLEPULSAR Payload Execution and Neutralization

This module executes a Metasploit payload against the Equation Group's DOUBLEPULSAR implant for SMB as popularly deployed by ETERNALBLUE. While this module primarily performs code execution against the implant, the "Neutralize implant" target allows you to disable the implant...

China's APT3 Pilfers Cyberweapons from the NSA

The advanced persistent threat APT group known as APT3, which researchers across the board link to the Chinese government, has built a full in-house battery of exploits and cybertools collectively dubbed “UPSynergy.” An analysis of the toolkit has uncovered a geopolitical cat-and-mouse spy game: ...

Chinese Spies Stole NSA Cyberweapons Long Before Shadow Brokers Leak

Hacking tools allegedly developed by the National Security Agency NSA were being used in the wild by at least one APT long before the Shadow Brokers released the now-infamous trove of U.S. cyberweapons, new analysis suggests. According to researchers at Symantec, an attack group affiliated with t...

Chinese Hackers Used NSA Hacking Tools Before Shadow Brokers Leaked Them

In a shocking revelation, it turns out that a hacking group believed to be sponsored by Chinese intelligence had been using some of the zero-day exploits linked to the NSA's Equation Group almost a year before the mysterious Shadow Brokers group leaked them. According to a new report published by...

Thousands of firms hit by Beapy malware using NSA hacking tools

By Ryan De Souza EternalBlue and DoublePulsar hacking tools are back in action. Symantec security researchers have identified that cybercriminals are still utilizing the classified exploits/hacking tools of the National Security Agency NSA, which were stolen about two years back. The new malware...

NSA-Inspired Vulnerability Found in Huawei Laptops

This is an interesting story of a serious vulnerability in a Huawei driver that Microsoft found. The vulnerability is similar in style to the NSA's DOUBLEPULSAR that was leaked by the Shadow Brokers -- believed to be the Russian government -- and it's obvious that this attack copied that techniqu...

For a driver to mention the right vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

One, Foreword As Microsoft is constantly reinforcing core safety, enhance the native kernel components of the exploit difficulty, and now third party kernel drivers are gradually becoming the attacker's preferred target, is security analysts the focus of the study. Signed third-party driver...

MassMiner Takes a Kitchen-Sink Approach to Cryptomining

Though it falls squarely into the trend of cryptominers setting their sights on the Monero virtual currency, the MassMiner malware family is adding its own special somethin’-somethin’ to the mix. It targets Windows servers with a variety of recent and well-known exploits – all within a single...

Simple IOC and Incident Response Scanner: Loki

LOKI is a free and simple IOC scanner, a complete rewrite of main analysis modules of our full featured APT Scanner THOR. IOC stands for „Indicators of Compromise“. These indicators can be derived from published incident reports, forensic analyses or malware sample collections in your Lab. LOKI...

roxysploit - Penetration Testing Suite

roxysploit is a community-supported, open-source and penetration testing suite that supports attacks for numerous scenarios. conducting attacks in the field. Some containing Plugins in roxysploit Scan is a automated Information gathering plugin it gives the user the ability to have a rest while t...

Petya-like ransomworm: Leveraging InsightVM and Nexpose for visibility into MS17-010

A Petya-like ransomworm struck on June 27th 2017 and spread throughout the day, affecting organizations in several European countries and the US. It is believed that the ransomworm achieved its initial infection via a compromised software update, and that it then leverages the EternalBlue and...

All this EternalPetya stuff makes me WannaCry

Another week goes by and yet again we have another ransomware outbreak initially dropped by a malicious software update and eventually spreading within internal networks using several methods - including EternalBlue - the leaked exploit from the ShadowBrokers group. Security researchers can’t see...

Exploring the crypt: Analysis of the WannaCrypt ransomware SMB exploit propagation

Note: Read our latest comprehensive report on ransomware: Ransomware 1H 2017 review: Global outbreaks reinforce the value of security hygiene. On May 12, there was a major outbreak of WannaCrypt ransomware. WannaCrypt directly borrowed exploit code from the ETERNALBLUE exploit and the DoublePulsa...

Petya-like ransomworm: Leveraging InsightVM and Nexpose for visibility into MS17-010

A Petya-like ransomworm struck on June 27th 2017 and spread throughout the day, affecting organizations in several european countries and the US. It is believed that the ransomworm may achieve its initial infection via a malicious document attached to a phishing email, and then leverages the...

Second Global Ransomware Outbreak Under Way

Join Kaspersky Lab and Comae Technologies Thursday June 29, 2017 at 10 a.m. Eastern time for a webinar “The Inside Story of the Petya/ExPetr Ransomware.” Click here to attend. A global WannaCry-like ransomware outbreak–which began in Russia and Ukraine and spread across Europe–is being reported...

Protecting against DoublePulsar infection with InsightVM and Nexpose

After WannaCry hit systems around the world last month, security experts warned that the underlying vulnerabilities that allowed the ransomworm to spread are still unpatched in many environments, rendering those systems vulnerable to other hacking tools from the same toolset. Rapid7s Project...

NSA's EternalBlue Exploit Ported to Windows 10

The NSA’s EternalBlue exploit has been ported to Windows 10 by white hats, meaning that every unpatched version of the Microsoft operating system back to Windows XP—and likely earlier—can be affected by one of the most powerful attacks ever made public. Researchers at RiskSense, among the first t...

Cisco Coverage for Adylkuzz, Uiwix, and EternalRocks

When the WannaCry attack was launched a little over a week ago, it was one of the first large scale attacks leveraging the data that was leaked by the Shadow Brokers. At the time the real concern was how quickly we would begin to see other threats leverage the same vulnerabilities. Over the past...

Newly Found Malware Uses 7 NSA Hacking Tools, Where WannaCry Uses 2

A security researcher has identified a new strain of malware that also spreads itself by exploiting flaws in Windows SMB file sharing protocol, but unlike the WannaCry Ransomware that uses only two leaked NSA hacking tools, it exploits all the seven. Last week, we warned you about multiple hackin...

Visualizing WannaCry & Shadow Brokers with Dashboards

To assess infections from WannaCry ransomware and threat exposure from the Shadow Brokers vulnerabilities across an entire IT environment, it's helpful to visualize your exposure via dynamic dashboards. Using Qualys AssetView and ThreatPROTECT, I created a single-pane incident response dashboard...