Spear Phishing Techniques Used in Attacks Targeting the Mongolian Government

Introduction FireEye recently observed a sophisticated campaign targeting individuals within the Mongolian government. Targeted individuals that enabled macros in a malicious Microsoft Word document may have been infected with Poison Ivy, a popular remote access tool RAT that has been used for...

Spear Phishing Techniques Used in Attacks Targeting the Mongolian Government

Introduction FireEye recently observed a sophisticated campaign targeting individuals within the Mongolian government. Targeted individuals that enabled macros in a malicious Microsoft Word document may have been infected with Poison Ivy, a popular remote access tool RAT that has been used for...

Fileless Memory-Based Malware Plagues 140 Banks, Enterprises

Attackers have been using well-known, standard utilities to carry out attacks on organizations around the world, and covering their tracks by wiping their activity from the machine’s memory before its rebooted. The attackers, who may be connected to the GCMAN and Carbanak groups, aren’t using...

New “Fileless Malware” Targets Banks and Organizations Spotted in the Wild

More than a hundred banks and financial institutions across the world have been infected with a dangerous sophisticated, memory-based malware that's almost undetectable, researchers warned. Newly published report by the Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab indicates that hackers are targeting bank...

Microsoft Windows - Fileless UAC Protection Bypass Privilege Escalation (Metasploit)

Exploit for windows platform in category local exploits This module requires Metasploit: http://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'msf/core' class Metasploit3 'Windows Escalate UAC Protection Bypass with Fileless', 'Description' = %q Th...

New Angler Exploits Bypass EMET Mitigations

New Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Flash exploits that bypass Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET have found their way into an updated version of the Angler Exploit Kit. EMET is a suite of freely available tools for Windows machines that mitigate memory-based attacks. The...

PowerWare Ransomware Uses PowerShell for Fileless Infections

Attackers are not through testing the limits of what they can do with new features in ransomware samples. That latest found in the wild is called PowerWare and it was discovered a week ago targeting a company in the healthcare industry, researchers at Carbon Black told Threatpost. What sets...

Kaspersky finds Malware that resides in your RAM

Kaspersky finds Malware that resides in your RAM Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered a drive-by download attack that evades hard-drive checkers by installing malware that lives in the computer's memory. The 'fileless' bot is more difficult for antivirus software to detect, and resides in...