Chinese Hackers Caught Stealing Intellectual Property from Multinational Companies

An elusive and sophisticated cyberespionage campaign orchestrated by the China-backed Winnti group has managed to fly under the radar since at least 2019. Dubbed "Operation CuckooBees" by Israeli cybersecurity company Cybereason, the massive intellectual property theft operation enabled the threa...

O365-Doppelganger - A Quick Handy Script To Harvest Credentials Off Of A User During A Red Team And Get Execution Of A File From The User

O365-Doppelganger is NOT a replacement for hardcore phishing activities. There are several other tools which perform OAuth and OTA capture which is not the aim of O365-Doppelganger. O365-Doppelganger is a quick handy script to harvest credentials of a user during Red Teams. This repository is a...

Tarrask malware uses scheduled tasks for defense evasion

As Microsoft continues to track the high-priority state-sponsored threat actor HAFNIUM, new activity has been uncovered that leverages unpatched zero-day vulnerabilities as initial vectors. The Microsoft Detection and Response Team DART in collaboration with the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Cent...

Finding Attack Paths in Cloud Environments

The mass adoption of cloud infrastructure is fully justified by innumerable advantages. As a result, today, organizations' most sensitive business applications, workloads, and data are in the cloud. Hackers, good and bad, have noticed that trend and effectively evolved their attack techniques to...

ScheduleRunner - A C# Tool With More Flexibility To Customize Scheduled Task For Both Persistence And Lateral Movement In Red Team Operation

Scheduled task is one of the most popular attack technique in the past decade and now it is still commonly used by hackers/red teamers for persistence and lateral movement. A number of C tools were already developed to simulate the attack using scheduled task. I have been playing around with some...

Muhstik botnet adds another vulnerability exploit to its arsenal

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Muhstik malware has begun attacking Redis Servers by exploiting a recently reported vulnerability, CVE-2022-0543. This flaw can be found in several Redis Debian packages. The attack began on March 11, 2022, and was carried out...

New Report on Okta Hack Reveals the Entire Episode LAPSUS$ Attack

An independent security researcher has shared what's a detailed timeline of events that transpired as the notorious LAPSUS$ extortion gang broke into a third-party provider linked to the cyber incident at Okta in late January 2022. In a set of screenshots posted on Twitter, Bill Demirkapi publish...

North Korean state-sponsored threat actor Lazarus Group exploiting Chrome Zero-day vulnerability

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here For more than a month before a fix was available, North Korean state hackers known as Lazarus group exploited a zero-day, remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2022-0609 in Google Chromes web browser. The attack mainly targe...

Russian threat actors leveraging misconfigured multifactor authentication to exploit PrintNightmare vulnerability

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have issued an alert for enterprises that Russian state-sponsored cyber attackers have obtained network access by exploiting...

Attackers Escape Kubernetes Containers using “cr8escape” Vulnerability in CRI-O

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. A flaw in CRI-O, an open-source Linux implementation of Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface CRI, was discovered that may allow an attacker to gain remote control of servers and potentially poison the container with attack...

WMEye - A Post Exploitation Tool That Uses WMI Event Filter And MSBuild Execution For Lateral Movement

WMEye is an experimental tool that was developed when exploring about Windows WMI. The tool is developed for performing Lateral Movement using WMI and remote MSBuild Execution. It uploads the encoded/encrypted shellcode into remote targets WMI Class Property, create an event filter that when...

Microsoft Addresses 3 Zero-Days & 3 Critical Bugs for March Patch Tuesday

Microsoft has addressed 71 security vulnerabilities in its scheduled March Patch Tuesday update – only three of which are rated critical in severity. The other 68 are all rated “important.” Three of the bugs are listed as publicly known zero-days, but none of them are listed as having been...

Multiple government entities targeted by China-linked Daxin malware

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here A technologically advanced and previously undocumented malware Daxin was used as the advanced persistent threat APT weapon by China-linked actor against government critical infrastructures across the globe. This malware can re...

Microsoft Exchange Server Bugs Exploited by ‘Cuba’ Ransomware Gang

The ransomware gang known as “Cuba” is increasingly shifting to exploiting Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities – including ProxyShell and ProxyLogon – as initial infection vectors, researchers have found. The group has likely been prying open these chinks in victims’ armor as early as last August,...

CVE-2020-10370

A lateral-movement denial of service vulnerability was found in resource-sharing Bluetooth hardware. By obtaining code execution on the Bluetooth or Wifi chip, an attacker can perform a lateral denial of service attack on a chip's shared memory resources, impacting the system's availability...

Iranian state-sponsored APT group MuddyWater targeting organizations via malicious executables

THREAT LEVEL: Red. United States Cyber Command USCYBERCOM has warned of an ongoing cyber attack by Iranian state sponsored actor named as MuddyWater. This APT group is currently targeting Middle Eastern countries and has also targeted European and North American nations. The Iranian-backed...

Hackers Backdoored Systems at China's National Games Just Before Competition

Systems hosting content pertaining to the National Games of China were successfully breached last year by an unnamed Chinese-language-speaking hacking group. Cybersecurity firm Avast, which dissected the intrusion, said that the attackers gained access to a web server 12 days prior to the start o...

wmiexec-RegOut - Modify Version Of Impacket Wmiexec.Py, Get Output(Data,Response) From Registry, Don'T Need SMB Connection, Also Bypassing Antivirus-Software In Lateral Movement Like WMIHACKER

Modify version of impacket wmiexec.py,wmipersist.py. Got outputdata,response from registry, don't need SMB connection, but I'm in the bad code : Specially Thanks to: @rootclay, wechat: xiangshan Overview In original wmiexec.py, it get response from smb connection port 445,139. Unfortunately, some...

Domain Escalation – Machine Accounts

The pass the hash technique is not new and it was usually used for lateral movement on the network in scenarios where the administrator password… Continue reading - Domain Escalation - Machine Accounts...

Hackers Using Device Registration Trick to Attack Enterprises with Lateral Phishing

Microsoft has disclosed details of a large-scale, multi-phase phishing campaign that uses stolen credentials to register devices on a victim's network to further propagate spam emails and widen the infection pool. The tech giant said the attacks manifested through accounts that were not secured...