Peach Sandstorm password spray campaigns enable intelligence collection at high-value targets

Since February 2023, Microsoft has observed password spray activity against thousands of organizations carried out by an actor we track as Peach Sandstorm HOLMIUM. Peach Sandstorm is an Iranian nation-state threat actor who has recently pursued organizations in the satellite, defense, and...

2023 OWASP Top-10 Series: API7:2023 Server Side Request Forgery

Welcome to the 8th post in our weekly series on the new 2023 OWASP API Security Top-10 list, with a particular focus on security practitioners. This post will focus on API7:2023 Server Side Request Forgery SSRF. In this series we are taking an in-depth look at each category – the details, the...

China-Linked Flax Typhoon Cyber Espionage Targets Taiwan's Key Sectors

A nation-state activity group originating from China has been linked to cyber attacks on dozens of organizations in Taiwan as part of a suspected espionage campaign. The Microsoft Threat Intelligence team is tracking the activity under the name Flax Typhoon, which is also known as Ethereal Panda...

MSSqlPwner - An Advanced And Versatile Pentesting Tool Designed To Seamlessly Interact With MSSQL Servers And Based On Impacket

MSSqlPwner is an advanced and versatile pentesting tool designed to seamlessly interact with MSSQL servers and based on Impacket. The MSSqlPwner tool empowers ethical hackers and security professionals to conduct comprehensive security assessments on MSSQL environments. With MSSqlPwner, users can...

New BlackCat Ransomware Variant Adopts Advanced Impacket and RemCom Tools

Microsoft on Thursday disclosed that it found a new version of the BlackCat ransomware aka ALPHV and Noberus that embeds tools like Impacket and RemCom to facilitate lateral movement and remote code execution. "The Impacket tool has credential dumping and remote service execution modules that cou...

New Report Exposes Vice Society's Collaboration with Rhysida Ransomware

Tactical similarities have been unearthed between the double extortion ransomware group known as Rhysida and Vice Society, including in their targeting of education and healthcare sectors. "As Vice Society was observed deploying a variety of commodity ransomware payloads, this link does not sugge...

LOLBAS in the Wild: 11 Living-Off-The-Land Binaries That Could Be Used for Malicious Purposes

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of 11 living-off-the-land binaries-and-scripts LOLBAS that could be maliciously abused by threat actors to conduct post-exploitation activities. "LOLBAS is an attack method that uses binaries and scripts that are already part of the system for...

ScrapPY - A Python Utility For Scraping Manuals, Documents, And Other Sensitive PDFs To Generate Wordlists That Can Be Utilized By Offensive Security Tools

ScrapPY is a Python utility for scraping manuals, documents, and other sensitive PDFs to generate targeted wordlists that can be utilized by offensive security tools to perform brute force, forced browsing, and dictionary attacks. ScrapPY performs word frequency, entropy, and metadata analysis, a...

The L in Linux Stands for Lateral Movement

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Uncover and Remediate Toxic Combinations with Attack Path Analysis

Particularly at enterprise scale, it’s not uncommon to have hundreds of thousands of resources running across your cloud environments at any given time. Of course, these resources aren’t running independently. In modern environments, these resources are all interconnected and in many cases...

Chinese Hackers Using Never-Before-Seen Tactics for Critical Infrastructure Attacks

The newly discovered Chinese nation-state actor known as Volt Typhoon has been observed to be active in the wild since at least mid-2020, with the hacking crew linked to never-before-seen tradecraft to retain remote access to targets of interest. The findings come from CrowdStrike, which is...

Chinese Hackers Exploit VMware Zero-Day to Backdoor Windows and Linux Systems

The Chinese state-sponsored group known as UNC3886 has been found to exploit a zero-day flaw in VMware ESXi hosts to backdoor Windows and Linux systems. The VMware Tools authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-20867 CVSS score: 3.9, "enabled the execution of privileged commands...

Cybercriminals Targeting Apache NiFi Instances for Cryptocurrency Mining

A financially motivated threat actor is actively scouring the internet for unprotected Apache NiFi instances to covertly install a cryptocurrency miner and facilitate lateral movement. The findings come from the SANS Internet Storm Center ISC, which detected a spike in HTTP requests for "/nifi" o...

Cybercriminals Targeting Apache NiFi Instances for Cryptocurrency Mining

A financially motivated threat actor is actively scouring the internet for unprotected Apache NiFi instances to covertly install a cryptocurrency miner and facilitate lateral movement. The findings come from the SANS Internet Storm Center ISC, which detected a spike in HTTP requests for "/nifi" o...

Privilege escalation in XXL-Job

A lateral privilege escalation vulnerability in XXL-Job v2.4.1 allows users to execute arbitrary commands on another user's account via a crafted POST request to the component /jobinfo/...

Privilege escalation

A lateral privilege escalation vulnerability in XXL-Job v2.4.1 allows users to execute arbitrary commands on another user's account via a crafted POST request to the component /jobinfo/...

CVE-2023-33779

CVE-2023-33779 affects XXL-JOB v2.4.1. A lateral privilege escalation exists where a crafted POST to the "/jobinfo/" endpoint allows a user to execute arbitrary commands on another user’s account. The PT-2023-24485 document corroborates the affected version and endpoint. No exploit code is provid...

Bridging the Security Gap: Mitigating Lateral Movement Risks from On-Premises to Cloud Environments

This blog post will discuss lateral movement risks from on-prem to the cloud. We will explain attacker TTPs, and outline best practices for cloud builders and defenders to help secure their cloud environments and mitigate risk...

Iranian Agrius Hackers Targeting Israeli Organizations with Moneybird Ransomware

The Iranian threat actor known as Agrius is leveraging a new ransomware strain called Moneybird in its attacks targeting Israeli organizations. Agrius, also known as Pink Sandstorm formerly Americium, has a track record of staging destructive data-wiping attacks aimed at Israel under the guise of...

Detecting and Visualizing Lateral Movement Attacks with Trellix XDR - Part 2

Detecting and Visualizing Lateral Movement Attacks with Trellix Helix Connect - Part 2 By Maulik Maheta · May 21, 2023 This blog was also written by Chintan Shah Executive summary In the part 1 of this series we discussed in depth about the known Lateral movement attacks like abusing weak service...