xDedic Market Spilling Over With School Servers, PCs

Nearly two-thirds of servers and PCs peddled on the xDedic underground marketplace belong to schools and universities, and most are based in the United States. In a recent analysis of xDedic, Flashpoint found that besides the education sector, PC and servers tied to healthcare and legal firms mak...

PoshC2 - Powershell C2 Server and Implants

PoshC2 is a proxy aware C2 framework written completely in PowerShell to aid penetration testers with red teaming, post-exploitation and lateral movement. The tools and modules were developed off the back of our successful PowerShell sessions and payload types for the Metasploit Framework...

WMI Based Agentless Post-Exploitation PowerShell RAT: WMImplant

WMImplant is a PowerShell based tool that leverages WMI to both perform actions against targeted machines, but also as the C2 channel for issuing commands and receiving results. WMImplant will likely require local administrator permissions on the targeted machine. It is designed to run both...

New Clues Surface on Shamoon 2's Destructive Behavior

Researchers on Monday reported progress in piecing together some of the missing pieces of the Shamoon 2 puzzle that have been eluding them when it comes to lateral network movement and execution of the Disttrack malware component used in past campaigns. Shamoon 2 uses a combination of legitimate...

WinAPI User Hunter: hunter

WinAPI User Hunter During Red Team engagements it is common to track/hunt specific users. Assuming we already have access to a desktop as a normal user no matter how, always “assume compromise” in a Windows Domain and we want to spread laterally. We want to know where the user is logged on, if he...

PT-2025-41460

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions AVTECH devices affected versions not specified Description AVTECH devices that include the CloudSetup.cgi management endpoint are susceptible to authenticated OS command injection. The exefile parameter within the ''CloudSetup.cgi'' endpoint i...

Unraveling Turla APT Attack Against Swiss Defense Firm

Ever since hackers targeted Swiss defense contractor RUAG, government officials have been tight lipped about the breach. But on Monday Switzerland’s CERT Computer Emergency Readiness Team spilled the beans on the attack against the firm and the how perpetrators pulled it off. While Monday’s repor...

Shared Host Integrated Password System: SHIPS

SHIPS is a solution to provide unique and rotated local super user or administrator passwords for environments where it is not possible or not appropriate to disable these local accounts for both Windows and Linux. Clients may be configured to rotate passwords automatically. Stored passwords can ...

Outlook Web Access Targeted Attack

Attackers aiming for lateral movement inside an enterprise network have done well in the past to target domain controller credentials. Researchers at Cybereason, however, have uncovered a targeted attack in which hackers were able to burrow onto the corporate network and steal thousands of...

Emissary Panda APT Group Gets Selective About Data it Steals

LAS VEGAS – The Emissary Panda APT group has a long history of invading Western organizations—be they enterprises, government or political outfits—hungry for reams of intellectual property. Lately the group, however, has become a little more selective about what it steals. Researchers at Dell...

FBI: Banned Security Researcher Admitted to Hacking Plane In-Flight

A security researcher who was pulled out from a United Airlines flight last month had previously admitted to Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI that he had taken control of an airplane and made it fly briefly sideways. Chris Roberts, the founder of One World Labs, was recently detained, question...

Microsoft LAPS Tool Addresss Local Admin Password Problem

Microsoft’s release last week of the Local Administrator Password Solution LAPS takes some steps to address an old question of what to do with local admin passwords, but doesn’t provide a complete answer, experts said. Windows admins have long used a common local account with the same password on...

Regin Cyberespionage Malware Platform Modules Disclosed

The Regin malware platform used to steal secrets from government agencies, banks and GSM network operators caught the attention of security experts who called it one of the most advanced attack platforms that has been studied, surpassing Flame, Duqu, even Stuxnet. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab sai...

Information disclosure

The Water Lateral Sizer aka com.wWaterLateralSizer application 1.2 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

CVE-2014-7582

The CVE-2014-7582 entry concerns the Water Lateral Sizer Android app (package com.wWaterLateralSizer) version 1.2, which fails to verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers. This logic flaw enables man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and exfiltrate sensitive information via crafted certi...

Google Compute Engine Lateral Compromise

A user who creates a GCE VM with compute-rw privileges, who subsequently has that single VM compromised, can lead to a global compromise of all VMs inside of the account. VMs created in the web UI, by default, come with compute-rw privileges. Google’s account manager fetches ssh keys from the...

AIX 7.1 TL 0 : ldapauth (IV19098)

AIX could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by an error in the getpwnam function when customer extended LDAP user filtering is configured. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain lateral or elevated privileges on the system. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Despite Intrusions, Chances Of U.S.-China Cyber War Are Small

SAN FRANCISCO – A panel of security and policy experts said that, despite dire warnings about the information warfare capabilities of China and other developing nations, the risk of an all-out cyber war is remote, and that the U.S. still holds many of the cards. Despite widespread portrayals of...

Greg Hoglund

In his presentation on Friday, “Lateral Movement and Other APT Interaction Patterns within the Enterprise,” HBGary CEO Greg Hoglund reviewed a multitude of modern day Advanced Persistent Threats APTs while breaking down the four stages of an attack...

CVE-2009-1567

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the Lateral Arts Photobox uploader ActiveX control 1.x before 1.3, and 2.2.0.6, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long URL string for the 1 LogURL, 2 ConnectURL, 3 SkinURL, 4 AlbumCreateURL, 5 ErrorURL, or 6 httpsinglehost property val...