December 22, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Merry Christmas” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! December 22, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Fileless Malware Attack...

Process Doppelgänging: New Malware Evasion Technique Works On All Windows Versions

A team of security researchers has discovered a new malware evasion technique that could help malware authors defeat most of the modern antivirus solutions and forensic tools. Dubbed Process Doppelgänging, the new fileless code injection technique takes advantage of a built-in Windows function an...

November 7, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Election Day” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! November 7, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: CRN Exclusive: Carbon...

Fileless Malware: A Hidden Threat

Malware is advancing at an unprecedented rate, with four new strains discovered every minute, Slate reported. This is already a lot for businesses to worry about and it doesn't even cover the other threats that haven't been detected. Many attackers have evolved their techniques to evade common...

Windows Defender Exploit Guard: Reduce the attack surface against next-generation malware

Windows Defender Exploit Guard is a new set of intrusion prevention capabilities that ships with the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. The four components of Windows Defender Exploit Guard are designed to lock down the device against a wide variety of attack vectors and block behaviors commonly us...

Cerber ransomware delivered in format of a different order of Magnitude

As a follow up to our study into the Magnitude exploit kit and its gate which we profiled in a previous blog post, we take a look at an interesting technique used to distribute the Cerber ransomware. Exploit kits are a very effective means of serving malicious payloads and an important aspect is...

This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

New Fileless Ransomware with Code Injection Ability Detected in the Wild

It is no secret that hackers and cybercriminals are becoming dramatically more adept, innovative, and stealthy with each passing day. While new forms of cybercrime are on the rise, traditional activities seem to be shifting towards more clandestine techniques that come with limitless attack vecto...

FIN7 Hitting Restaurants with Fileless Malware

FIN7, closely associated with the notorious Carbanak group, is behind a targeted phishing campaign singling out restaurants with fileless malware that is difficult to detect. The recent campaign incorporates, “never before seen evasive techniques that allow malware to bypass most security...

WMI Event Subscription Interval Persistence

This module will create a permanent WMI event subscription to achieve file-less persistence using an event filter that triggers the payload after the specified CALLBACKINTERVAL. If the persistence is not installed, it will keep triggering payloads to spawn. Additionally a custom command can be...

WMI Event Subscription Logon Timer Persistence

This module will create a permanent WMI event subscription to achieve file-less persistence using an event filter that will trigger the payload after the system has a certain uptime. Payloads will trigger every minute until the set end time. Additionally a custom command can be specified to run...

This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

Supply Chain Update Software Unknowingly Used in Attacks

Microsoft said a recent attack it calls Operation WilySupply utilized the update mechanism of an unnamed software editing tool to infect targets in the finance and payment industries with in-memory malware. The unnamed editing tool was used to send unsigned malicious updates to users in targeted...

Researchers Struggle to Get A Grip On Fileless Malware

The future of client-side malware attacks is fileless. And it would appear the future has arrived with a growing number of attacks using fileless or in-memory malware to pose a threat to business that’s increasingly difficult to neutralize. “There has been an unequivocal uptick in the use of...

Hackers stole $800,000 from ATMs using Fileless Malware

Hackers targeted at least 8 ATMs in Russia and stole $800,000 in a single night, but the method used by the intruders remained a complete mystery with CCTV footage just showing a lone culprit walking up to the ATM and collecting cash without even touching the machine. Even the affected banks coul...

Fileless Banking Malware Attackers Break In, Cash Out, Disappear

SINT MAARTEN—Cybercriminals who used fileless, memory-based malware to carry out attacks on nearly 150 enterprises worldwide earlier this year were onto something. The attackers already had remote access to the bank’s networks through the malware, described in February, but once they were inside,...

Fileless UAC Bypass Uses Windows Backup and Restore Utility

One nugget buried in a recent Vault 7 dump was a bypass of User Account Controls in Windows 7 that allows applications to execute code without triggering the familiar prompt to the user that something may be afoot. Microsoft has not, in the past, considered UAC bypasses a security boundary that...

Fileless Malware Campaigns Tied to Same Attacker

Two recent fileless malware campaigns targeting financial institutions, government agencies and other enterprises have been linked to the same attack group. The campaigns, disclosed by Kaspersky Lab and Cisco’s Talos research outfit in the last five weeks, made extensive use of fileless malware a...

New Fileless Malware Uses DNS Queries To Receive PowerShell Commands

It is no secret that cybercriminals are becoming dramatically more adept, innovative, and stealthy with each passing day. While new forms of cybercrime are on the rise, traditional activities seem to be shifting towards more clandestine techniques that involve the exploitation of standard system...

New Fileless Attack Using DNS Queries to Carry Out PowerShell Commands

A unique attack called DNSMessenger uses DNS queries to carry out malicious PowerShell commands on compromised computers, a method that researchers said makes it difficult to detect that a remote access Trojan is being dropped onto targeted systems. According to experts at Cisco’s security resear...