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New UAC-0056 activity: There’s a Go Elephant in the room
This blog post was authored by Ankur Saini, Roberto Santos and Hossein Jazi. UAC-0056 also known as SaintBear, UNC2589 and TA471 is a cyber espionage actor that has been active since early 2021 and has mainly targeted Ukraine and Georgia. The group is known to have performed a wiper attack in...
New Dell BIOS Bugs Affect Millions of Inspiron, Vostro, XPS, Alienware Systems
Five new security weaknesses have been disclosed in Dell BIOS that, if successfully exploited, could lead to code execution on vulnerable systems, joining the likes of firmware vulnerabilities recently uncovered in Insyde Software's InsydeH2O and HP Unified Extensible Firmware Interface UEFI...
Iranian Hackers Targeting Turkey and Arabian Peninsula in New Malware Campaign
The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as MuddyWater has been attributed to a new swarm of attacks targeting Turkey and the Arabian Peninsula with the goal of deploying remote access trojans RATs on compromised systems. "The MuddyWater supergroup is highly motivated and can use unauthoriz...
WIRTE’s campaign in the Middle East ‘living off the land’ since at least 2019
Overview This February, during our hunting efforts for threat actors using VBS/VBA implants, we came across MS Excel droppers that use hidden spreadsheets and VBA macros to drop their first stage implant. The implant itself is a VBS script with functionality to collect system information and...
PickleC2 - A Post-Exploitation And Lateral Movements Framework
PickleC2 is a post-exploitation and lateral movements framework. Documentation ReadTheDocs Overview PickleC2 is a simple C2 framework written in python3 used to help the community in Penetration Testers in their red teaming engagements. PickleC2 has the ability to import your own PowerShell modul...
LuminousMoth APT: Sweeping attacks for the chosen few
APT actors are known for the frequently targeted nature of their attacks. Typically, they will handpick a set of targets that in turn are handled with almost surgical precision, with infection vectors, malicious implants and payloads being tailored to the victims identities or environment. Its no...
Pakistan-Linked Hackers Added New Windows Malware to Its Arsenal
Cybercriminals with suspected ties to Pakistan continue to rely on social engineering as a crucial component of its operations as part of an evolving espionage campaign against Indian targets, according to new research. The attacks have been linked to a group called Transparent Tribe, also known ...
Paragon - Red Team Engagement Platform With The Goal Of Unifying Offensive Tools Behind A Simple UI
Paragon is a Red Team engagement platform. It aims to unify offensive tools behind a simple UI, abstracting much of the backend work to enable operators to focus on writing implants and spend less time worrying about databases and css. The repository also provides some offensive tools already...
LuckyMouse Hackers Target Banks, Companies and Governments in 2020
An adversary known for its watering hole attacks against government entities has been linked to a slew of newly detected intrusions targeting various organizations in Central Asia and the Middle East. The malicious activity, collectively named "EmissarySoldier," has been attributed to a threat...
Hackers are implanting multiple backdoors at industrial targets in Japan
Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed details of a sophisticated campaign that deploys malicious backdoors for the purpose of exfiltrating information from a number of industry sectors located in Japan. Dubbed "A41APT" by Kaspersky researchers, the findings delve into a new slew of attac...
Researchers Discover Raindrop — 4th Malware Linked to the SolarWinds Attack
Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a fourth new malware strain—designed to spread the malware onto other computers in victims' networks—which was deployed as part of the SolarWinds supply chain attack disclosed late last year. Dubbed "Raindrop" by Broadcom-owned Symantec, the malware joins...
TrickBot Returns with a Vengeance, Sporting Rare Bootkit Functions
The TrickBot malware has morphed once again, this time implementing functionality designed to inspect the UEFI/BIOS firmware of targeted systems. It marks a serious resurgence following an October takedown of the malware’s infrastructure by Microsoft and others. The Windows Unified Extensible...
North Korean Hackers Used 'Torisma' Spyware in Job Offers-based Attacks
A cyberespionage campaign aimed at aerospace and defense sectors in order to install data gathering implants on victims' machines for purposes of surveillance and data exfiltration may have been more sophisticated than previously thought. The attacks, which targeted IP-addresses belonging to...
charlestondentalimplants.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability
Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1176144 Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has:       a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence;       b. notified the website...
Proton Framework - A Windows Post Exploitation Framework Similar To Other Penetration Testing Tools Such As Meterpreter And Powershell Invader Framework
About Proton Framework Proton Framework is a Windows post exploitation framework similar to other penetration testing tools such as Meterpreter and Powershell Invader Framework. The major difference is that the Proton Framework does most of its operations using Windows Script Host a.k.a...
Guarding against supply chain attacks—Part 2: Hardware risks
The challenge and benefit of technology today is that it’s entirely global in nature. This reality is brought into focus when companies assess their supply chains, and look for ways to identify, assess, and manage risks across the supply chain of an enterprise. Part 2 of the “Guarding against...
IT threat evolution Q3 2019
Targeted attacks and malware campaigns Mobile espionage targeting the Middle East At the end of June we reported the details of a highly targeted campaign that we dubbed 'Operation ViceLeaker' involving the spread of malicious Android samples via instant messaging. The campaign affected several...
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VM appliance lack of root file system integrity check may allow an attacker with read/write access to the VM image before it is booted up to inject malicious implants in the image...
FudgeC2 - A Collaborative C2 Framework For Purple-Teaming Written In Python3, Powershell And .NET
FudgeC2 is a campaign orientated Powershell C2 framework built on Python3/Flask - Designed for team collaboration, client interaction, campaign timelining, and usage visibility. Note: FudgeC2 is currently in alpha stage, and should be used with caution in non-test environments. Setup Installation...
Nuages - A Modular C2 Framework
Nuages is a modular C2 framework. Refer to the Wiki for documentation, do not hesitate to open issues for help, bug reports or feature requests Introduction Nuages aims at being a C2 framework in which back end elements are open source, whilst implants and handlers must be developed ad hoc by...