NewsPenguin Threat Actor Emerges with Malicious Campaign Targeting Pakistani Entities

A previously unknown threat actor dubbed NewsPenguin has been linked to a phishing campaign targeting Pakistani entities by leveraging the upcoming international maritime expo as a lure. "The attacker sent out targeted phishing emails with a weaponized document attached that purports to be an...

Researchers Find Links b/w Black Basta Ransomware and FIN7 Hackers

A new analysis of tools put to use by the Black Basta ransomware operation has identified ties between the threat actor and the FIN7 aka Carbanak group. This link "could suggest either that Black Basta and FIN7 maintain a special relationship or that one or more individuals belong to both groups,...

DKMC - Malicious Payload Evasion Tool

Don't kill my cat is a tool that generates obfuscated shellcode that is stored inside of polyglot images. The image is 100% valid and also 100% valid shellcode. The idea is to avoid sandbox analysis since it's a simple "legit" image. For now the tool rely on PowerShell the execute the final...

AntiVirus Evasion Tool: AVET

AVET is an AntiVirus Evasion Tool, which was developed for making life easier for pentesters and for experimenting with antivirus evasion techniques. What & Why: when running an exe file made with msfpayload & co, the exe file will often be recognized by the antivirus software avet is a antivirus...