Saints Turned Evil

Saints Turned Evil By Sushant Kumar Arya, Daksh Kapur and Rohan Shah · January 02, 2024 Attribution at the Bottom As technology advances, attackers are constantly developing new evasion mechanisms to bypass security products and stay one step ahead of security vendors and their products. We have...

Saints Turned Evil

Saints Turned Evil By Daksh Kapur and Rohan Shah · January 2, 2024 This blog was also written by Sushant Kumar Arya Attribution at the Bottom As technology advances, attackers are constantly developing new evasion mechanisms to bypass security products and stay one step ahead of security vendors...

New Variant of DLL Search Order Hijacking Bypasses Windows 10 and 11 Protections

Security researchers have detailed a new variant of a dynamic link library DLL search order hijacking technique that could be used by threat actors to bypass security mechanisms and achieve execution of malicious code on systems running Microsoft Windows 10 and Windows 11. The approach "leverages...

Financially motivated threat actors misusing App Installer

Since mid-November 2023, Microsoft Threat Intelligence has observed threat actors, including financially motivated actors like Storm-0569, Storm-1113, Sangria Tempest, and Storm-1674, utilizing the ms-appinstaller URI scheme App Installer to distribute malware. In addition to ensuring that...

Top 20 Most Popular Hacking Tools in 2023

As last year, this year we made a ranking with the most popular tools between January and December 2023. The tools of this year encompass a diverse range of cybersecurity disciplines, including AI-Enhanced Penetration Testing, Advanced Vulnerability Management, Stealth Communication Techniques,...

How ransomware operators try to stay under the radar

An often heard remark is that when your security solution notices a ransomware attack, it’s already too late. Theres a lot of truth in that, if you consider the encryption process to be the ransomware attack. However, these days encryption is just a part of many ransomware attacks. Some of the...

ProcessStomping - A Variation Of ProcessOverwriting To Execute Shellcode On An Executable'S Section

A variation of ProcessOverwriting to execute shellcode on an executable's section What is it For a more detailed explanation you can read my blog post Process Stomping, is a variation of hasherezade’s Process Overwriting and it has the advantage of writing a shellcode payload on a targeted sectio...

Hackers Abusing GitHub to Evade Detection and Control Compromised Hosts

Threat actors are increasingly making use of GitHub for malicious purposes through novel methods, including abusing secret Gists and issuing malicious commands via git commit messages. "Malware authors occasionally place their samples in services like Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and Discord ...

Rhadamanthys Stealer Version 0.5.0 Upgrade Overview

Summary: Rhadamanthys, the information-stealing malware, has taken a significant leap with its v0.5.0 upgrade, introducing expanded stealing features, raw syscalls, and an enhanced loader design, showcasing advanced evasion techniques. Its modular architecture allows for continuous updates,...

Cybercrooks leveraging anti automation toolkit for phishing campaigns

Cybercrooks Leveraging Anti Automation Toolkit for Phishing Campaigns By Vihar Shah and Rohan Shah · December 18, 2023 Threat actors have a track record of abusing tools hosted on GitHub for malicious purposes. Last year we showed how attackers abused Python’s tarfile module. Trellix Advanced...

Cisco Secure Endpoint for Windows Scanning Evasion (cisco-sa-secure-endpoint-dos-RzOgFKnd)

A vulnerability in the endpoint software of Cisco Secure Endpoint for Windows could allow an authenticated, local attacker to evade endpoint protection within a limited time window. This vulnerability is due to a timing issue that occurs between various software components. An attacker could...

Cybercrooks leveraging anti automation toolkit for phishing campaigns

Cybercrooks Leveraging Anti Automation Toolkit for Phishing Campaigns By Vihar Shah and Rohan Shah · December 18, 2023 Threat actors have a track record of abusing tools hosted on GitHub for malicious purposes. Last year we showed how attackers abused Python’s tarfile module. Trellix Advanced...

Russian SVR-Linked APT29 Targets JetBrains TeamCity Servers in Ongoing Attacks

Threat actors affiliated with the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service SVR have targeted unpatched JetBrains TeamCity servers in widespread attacks since September 2023. The activity has been tied to a nation-state group known as APT29, which is also tracked as BlueBravo, Cloaked Ursa, Cozy Bear,...

New Linux Krasue RAT Targeting Telecom Companies in Thailand

Summary: Krasue, a new Linux Remote Access Trojan, targets Thai organizations, primarily in telecommunications, using embedded rootkits and a unique RTSP-based communication tactic. Believed to be connected to XorDdos, it evades detection through various stealth measures, emphasizing the importan...

Star Blizzard Continues to Refine Their Tradecraft for Evasion and Stealth

Summary: The Russia-based threat actor, Star Blizzard, continues to utilize spear-phishing attacks successfully, targeting organizations and individuals across various geographical regions for information-gathering activities. Star Blizzard has improved its detection evasion capabilities since 20...

New PoolParty Process Injection Techniques Outsmart Top EDR Solutions

A new collection of eight process injection techniques, collectively dubbed PoolParty, could be exploited to achieve code execution in Windows systems while evading endpoint detection and response EDR systems. SafeBreach researcher Alon Leviev said the methods are "capable of working across all...

Users can unwrap assets in batches and avoid paying fees to protocol

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Users can unwrap their assets from The Ocean and evade paying fees to the protocol when the requested amount is smaller than the fee divisor. This happens due to a truncation of the result in the fee calculation. Proof of Concept This affects the...

Star Blizzard increases sophistication and evasion in ongoing attacks

Microsoft Threat Intelligence continues to track and disrupt malicious activity attributed to a Russian state-sponsored actor we track as Star Blizzard formerly SEABORGIUM, also known as COLDRIVER and Callisto Group. Star Blizzard has improved their detection evasion capabilities since 2022 while...

New P2PInfect Botnet MIPS Variant Targeting Routers and IoT Devices

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of an emerging botnet called P2PInfect that's capable of targeting routers and IoT devices. The latest version, per Cado Security Labs, is compiled for Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipelined Stages MIPS architecture, broadening its...

Explained: Domain fronting

Domain fronting is a technique of using different domain names on the same HTTPS connection. Put simply, domain fronting hides your traffic when connecting to a specific website. It routes traffic through a larger platform, masking the true destination in the process. The technique became popular...