Wireshark-Forensics-Plugin - A cross-platform Wireshark plugin that correlates network traffic data with threat intelligence, asset categorization & vulnerability data

Wireshark is the most widely used network traffic analyzer. It is an important tool for both live traffic analysis & forensic analysis for forensic/malware analysts. Even though Wireshark provides incredibly powerful functionalities for protocol parsing & filtering, it does not provide any...

SEC Filing Reveals Fortune 500 Firm Targeted in Ransomware Attack

Fortune 500 integrated services firm R.R.Donnelley & Sons RRD is the latest victim of the hacking collective known as the Conti Group. According to regulatory disclosures RRD was the victim of a network breach that resulted in stolen data in December. RRD, a global firm with 33,000 employees,...

Snap-Scraper - Snap Scraper Enables Users To Download Media Uploaded To Snapchat's Snap Map Using A Set Of Latitude And Longitude Coordinates

Snap Scraper is an open source intelligence tool which enables users to download media uploaded to Snapchat's Snap Map using a set of latitude and longitiude co-ordinates. This project is in no way affiliated with, authorized, maintained, sponsored or endorsed by Snap inc. or any of its affiliate...

Rizin buffer overflow vulnerability

Rizin is a free open source reverse engineering framework from the Rizin organization. It is used to analyze binaries, disassemble code, debug programs, as a forensic tool, as a command-line hex editor that can open disk files that can be scripted, etc. Rizin 0.3.1 and earlier versions have a...

Arrest in ‘Ransom Your Employer’ Email Scheme

In August, KrebsOnSecurity warned that scammers were contacting people and asking them to unleash ransomware inside their employers network, in exchange for a percentage of any ransom amount paid by the victim company. This week, authorities in Nigeria arrested a suspect in connection with the...

Androidqf - (Android Quick Forensics) Helps Quickly Gathering Forensic Evidence From Android Devices, In Order To Identify Potential Traces Of Compromise

androidqf Android Quick Forensics is a portable tool to simplify the acquisition of relevant forensic data from Android devices. It is the successor of Snoopdroid, re-written in Go and leveraging official adb binaries. androidqf is intended to provide a simple and portable cross-platform utility ...

Chinese Hackers Used a New Rootkit to Spy on Targeted Windows 10 Users

A formerly unknown Chinese-speaking threat actor has been linked to a long-standing evasive operation aimed at South East Asian targets as far back as July 2020 to deploy a kernel-mode rootkit on compromised Windows systems. Attacks mounted by the hacking group, dubbed GhostEmperor by Kaspersky,...

GhostEmperor: From ProxyLogon to kernel mode

Download GhostEmperors technical details PDF While investigating a recent rise of attacks against Exchange servers, we noticed a recurring cluster of activity that appeared in several distinct compromised networks. This cluster stood out for its usage of a formerly unknown Windows kernel mode...

[Security Nation] Rob Graham on Mike Lindell's Cyber Symposium

!\Security Nation\ Rob Graham on Mike Lindell's Cyber Symposiumhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/09/securitynationlogo-1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Rob Graham of Errata Security about his experience attending pillow magnate Mike Lindell's Cyber...

Too Log; Didn't Read — Unknown Actor Using CLFS Log Files for Stealth

The Mandiant Advanced Practices team recently discovered a new malware family we have named PRIVATELOG and its installer, STASHLOG. In this post, we will share a novel and especially interesting technique the samples use to hide data, along with detailed analysis of both files that was performed...

Researchers Uncover FIN8's New Backdoor Targeting Financial Institutions

A financially motivated threat actor notorious for setting its sights on retail, hospitality, and entertainment industries has been observed deploying a completely new backdoor on infected systems, indicating the operators are continuously retooling their malware arsenal to avoid detection and st...

Radare2 - UNIX-like Reverse Engineering Framework And Command-Line Toolset

r2 is a rewrite from scratch of radare. It provies a set of libraries, tools and plugins to ease reverse engineering tasks. The radare project started as a simple command-line hexadecimal editor focused on forensics, over time more features were added to support a scriptable command-line low leve...

RdpCacheStitcher - RdpCacheStitcher Is A Tool That Supports Forensic Analysts In Reconstructing Useful Images Out Of RDP Cache Bitmaps

RdpCacheStitcher is a tool that supports forensic analysts in reconstructing useful images out of RDP cache bitmaps. Using raw RDP cache tile bitmaps extracted by tools like e.g. ANSSI's BMC-Tools https://github.com/ANSSI-FR/bmc-tools as input, it provides a graphical user interface and several...

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Were growing and we need to fill these 5 UK based roles: PHP Full-Stack Developer Pen Testing Consultant Red Team Support Digital Forensic Analyst IT Support Technician You can find all the details here. We think were a good bunch and there are some really good perks. If you have the skills and...

IRTriage - Incident Response Triage - Windows Evidence Collection For Forensic Analysis

Scripted collection of system information valuable to a Forensic Analyst. IRTriage will automatically "Run As ADMINISTRATOR" in all Windows versions except WinXP. The original source was Triage-ir v0.851 an Autoit script written by Michael Ahrendt. Unfortunately Michael's last changes were posted...

Columbo - A Computer Forensic Analysis Tool Used To Simplify And Identify Specific Patterns In Compromised Datasets

Columbo is a computer forensic analysis tool used to simplify and identify specific patterns in compromised datasets. It breaks down data to small sections and uses pattern recognition and machine learning models to identify adversaries behaviour and their possible locations in compromised Window...

CISA Releases Supplemental Guidance on Emergency Directive for Microsoft Exchange Server Vulnerabilities

CISA has issued supplemental direction to Emergency Directive ED 21-02: Mitigate Microsoft Exchange On-Premises Product Vulnerabilities providing additional forensic triage and server hardening, requirements for federal agencies. Specifically, this update directs federal departments and agencies ...

Back in a Bit: Attacker Use of the Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service

In this blog post we will describe: How attackers use the Background Intelligent Transfer Service BITS Forensic techniques for detecting attacker activity with data format specifications Public release of the BitsParser tool A real-world example of malware using BITS persistence --- Introduction...

CISA Releases Supplemental Direction on Emergency Directive for Microsoft Exchange Server Vulnerabilities

CISA has issued supplemental direction to Emergency Directive ED 21-02: Mitigate Microsoft Exchange On-Premises Product Vulnerabilities providing additional forensic triage and server hardening, requirements for federal agencies. Specifically, this update directs federal departments and agencies ...

MDR Vendor Must-Haves, Part 1: Deep Observation of Real-Time Endpoint Data

This blog post is part of an ongoing series about evaluating Managed Detection and Response MDR providers. For more insights, check out our guide, “10 Things Your MDR Service Must Do.” Assessing Managed Detection and Response MDR vendors is no easy task. However, evaluating each based on...