Microsoft Uncovers Sandworm Subgroup's Global Cyber Attacks Spanning 15+ Countries

A subgroup within the infamous Russian state-sponsored hacking group known as Sandworm has been attributed to a multi-year initial access operation dubbed BadPilot that stretched across the globe. "This subgroup has conducted globally diverse compromises of Internet-facing infrastructure to enabl...

Changing the tide: Reflections on threat data from 2024

"Enough Ripples, And You Change The Tide. For The Future Is Never Truly Set." X-Men: Days of Future Past In January, I dedicated some time to examine threat data from 2024, comparing it with the previous years to identify anomalies, spikes, and changes. As anticipated, the number of Common...

CVE-2024-53704

An Improper Authentication vulnerability in the SSLVPN authentication mechanism allows a remote attacker to bypass authentication. Recent assessments: remmons-r7 at January 28, 2025 3:26pm UTC reported: On January 7, 2025, SonicWall announced an authentication bypass affecting SonicOS, the...

Analysis of Cyber Anarchy Squad attacks targeting Russian and Belarusian organizations

About C.A.S C.A.S Cyber Anarchy Squad is a hacktivist group that has been attacking organizations in Russia and Belarus since 2022. Besides data theft, its goal is to inflict maximum damage, including reputational. To this end, the group's attacks exploit vulnerabilities in publicly available...

Investigating a SharePoint Compromise: IR Tales from the Field

Executive summary Rapid7’s Incident Response team recently investigated a Microsoft Exchange service account with domain administrator privileges. Our investigation uncovered an attacker who accessed a server without authorization and moved laterally across the network, compromising the entire...

Hacktivist Group Twelve Targets Russian Entities with Destructive Cyber Attacks

A hacktivist group known as Twelve has been observed using an arsenal of publicly available tools to conduct destructive cyber attacks against Russian targets. "Rather than demand a ransom for decrypting data, Twelve prefers to encrypt victims' data and then destroy their infrastructure with a...

Researchers Uncover Flaws in Windows Smart App Control and SmartScreen

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered design weaknesses in Microsoft's Windows Smart App Control and SmartScreen that could enable threat actors to gain initial access to target environments without raising any warnings. Smart App Control SAC is a cloud-powered security feature introduced by...

Cyber Threat Intelligence: Illuminating the Deep, Dark Cybercriminal Underground

Learn about critical threats that can impact your organization and the bad actors behind them from Cybersixgill's threat experts. Each story shines a light on underground activities, the threat actors involved, and why you should care, along with what you can do to mitigate risk. The deep and dar...

New HardBit Ransomware 4.0 Uses Passphrase Protection to Evade Detection

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new version of a ransomware strain called HardBit that comes packaged with new obfuscation techniques to deter analysis efforts. "Unlike previous versions, HardBit Ransomware group enhanced the version 4.0 with passphrase protection," Cybereason...

Info Stealing Campaign Uses DLL Sideloading Through Legitimate Cisco Webex’s Binaries for Initial Execution and Defense Evasion

Info Stealing Campaign Uses DLL Sideloading Through Legitimate Cisco Webex’s Binaries for Initial Execution and Defense Evasion By Ale Houspanossian · June 17, 2024 Case Summary It was a quiet Monday morning in March 2024 when the EDR researchers with our Trellix Advanced Research Center identifi...

Microsoft Warns of Surge in Cyber Attacks Targeting Internet-Exposed OT Devices

Microsoft has emphasized the need for securing internet-exposed operational technology OT devices following a spate of cyber attacks targeting such environments since late 2023. "These repeated attacks against OT devices emphasize the crucial need to improve the security posture of OT devices and...

PT-2024-12934 · Undefined · Undefined

OSINT CTI Qlik Sense Users - Adversary Tactics: - Initial Access: CVE-2023-412662, CVE-2023-412653 - RMMs: ManageEngine UEMS, Zoho Assist, DWAgent - Lateral Mov: RDP & PuTTY Link8 - Exfil: WizTree & Rclone - Impact: Cactus Ransomware https://t.co/gt0dhuFniS...

PT-2024-12933 · Undefined · Undefined

OSINT CTI Qlik Sense Users - Adversary Tactics: - Initial Access: CVE-2023-412662, CVE-2023-412653 - RMMs: ManageEngine UEMS, Zoho Assist, DWAgent - Lateral Mov: RDP & PuTTY Link8 - Exfil: WizTree & Rclone - Impact: Cactus Ransomware https://t.co/gt0dhuFniS...

Top MITRE ATT&CK Tactics and Techniques Leveraged in 2023

The Qualys Threat Research Unit has mapped vulnerabilities and misconfigurations to the MITRE ATT&CK framework tactics and techniques to help you get the attacker’s view. They have also analyzed vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across all our customers to find the top tactics and techniques...

SVR Cyber Actors Adapt Tactics for Initial Cloud Access

How SVR-Attributed Actors are Adapting to the Move of Government and Corporations to Cloud Infrastructure OVERVIEW This advisory details recent tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs of the group commonly known as APT29, also known as Midnight Blizzard, the Dukes, or Cozy Bear. The UK National...

Introducing the Cloud Threat Landscape, a new TI resource for cloud defenders

The Cloud Threat Landscape is a threat intelligence database that summarizes cloud incidents and offers insights into targeting patterns and initial access methods...

CVE-2023-29444

An uncontrolled search path element vulnerability DLL hijacking has been discovered that could allow a locally authenticated adversary to escalate privileges to SYSTEM. Alternatively, they could host a trojanized version of the software and trick victims into downloading and installing their...

Path traversal

An uncontrolled search path element vulnerability DLL hijacking has been discovered that could allow a locally authenticated adversary to escalate privileges to SYSTEM. Alternatively, they could host a trojanized version of the software and trick victims into downloading and installing their...

CVE-2023-29444 Uncontrolled Search Path Element in PTC's Kepware KEPServerEX

An uncontrolled search path element vulnerability DLL hijacking has been discovered that could allow a locally authenticated adversary to escalate privileges to SYSTEM. Alternatively, they could host a trojanized version of the software and trick victims into downloading and installing their...

Microsoft disables ms-appinstaller after malicious use

In what might be conceived as one of Microsoft’s new year resolutions, it has disclosed that its turned off the ms-appinstaller protocol handler by default. The change is designed to make installing apps easier, but it also makes installing malware easier. Typically, an app needs to be on a devic...