QakBot technical analysis

Main description QakBot, also known as QBot, QuackBot and Pinkslipbot, is a banking Trojan that has existed for over a decade. It was found in the wild in 2007 and since then it has been continually maintained and developed. In recent years, QakBot has become one of the leading banking Trojans...

Advantech WebAccess

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.8 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Advantech Equipment: WebAccess Vulnerability: Stack-based Buffer Overflow 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow remote code execution. 3. TECHNICAL DETAILS 3.1...

Detecting Embedded Content in OOXML Documents

On Advanced Practices, we are always looking for new ways to find malicious activity and track adversaries over time. Today we’re sharing a technique we use to detect and cluster Microsoft Office documents—specifically those in the Office Open XML OOXML file format. Additionally, we’re releasing ...

Defending Against Malicious Cyber Activity Originating from Tor

Summary This advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT &CK® and Pre-ATT&CK framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise and Pre-ATT&CK frameworks for referenced threat actor techniques. This advisory—written by the Cybersecurity Security and Infrastructure...

Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures of Indicted APT40 Actors Associated with China’s MSS Hainan State Security Department

Summary This Joint Cybersecurity Advisory was written by the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA to provide information on a Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat APT group known in open-source reporting as APT40. This advisory provides...

Mitigate Microsoft Exchange Server Vulnerabilities

Summary Updated July 19, 2021: The U.S. Government attributes this activity to malicious cyber actors affiliated with the People's Republic of China PRC Ministry of State Security MSS. Additional information may be found in astatement from the White House. For more information on Chinese maliciou...

IndigoZebra APT Hacking Campaign Targets the Afghan Government

Cybersecurity researchers are warning of ongoing attacks coordinated by a suspected Chinese-speaking threat actor targeting the Afghanistan government as part of an espionage campaign that may have had its provenance as far back as 2014. Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point Research attributed...

The Adaptive Security Engine -- A Quantum Leap Forward for Application and API Protection

At Akamai, our mission is to make application and API security highly effective and easy. As part of that effort, we are excited to announce the Adaptive Security Engine -- a new core technology powering Akamai's application and API protection offerings, designed to enable a hands-off approach to...

Monitor Windows Registry Changes with Qualys File Integrity Monitoring

With Windows registries storing a large number of programs and OS security settings and a large amount of raw data, threat actors have begun to use those registries as a data store for their malicious activity. It is therefore imperative for organizations to monitor changes in Windows registries ...

Johnson Controls Sensormatic Tyco AI

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.0 Vendor: Sensormatic Electronics, LLC, a subsidiary of Johnson Controls Equipment: Tyco AI Vulnerability: Off-by-one Error 2. RISK EVALUATION Under specific circumstances, a local attacker could use this vulnerability to obtain super-user access to the underlying...

Over 25% Of Tor Exit Relays Spied On Users' Dark Web Activities

An unknown threat actor managed to control more than 27% of the entire Tor network exit capacity in early February 2021, a new study on the dark web infrastructure revealed. "The entity attacking Tor users is actively exploiting tor users since over a year and expanded the scale of their attacks ...

Advantech WISE-PaaS RMM

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.1 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Advantech Equipment: WISE-PaaS/RMM Vulnerability: Use of Hard-coded Credentials 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information...

Delta Electronics CNCSoft ScreenEditor

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.8 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Delta Electronics Equipment: CNCSoft ScreenEditor Vulnerability: Out-of-bounds Write 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could crash the device, and an out-of-bounds write...

CISA Updates Alert on Pulse Connect Secure

CISA has updated Alert AA21-110A: Exploitation of Pulse Connect Secure Vulnerabilities, originally released April 20. This update adds a new Detection section providing information on Impossible Travel and Transport Layer Security TLS Fingerprinting that may be useful in identifying malicious...

3 Zero-Day Exploits Hit SonicWall Enterprise Email Security Appliances

SonicWall has addressed three critical security vulnerabilities in its hosted and on-premises email security ES product that are being actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2021-20021 and CVE-2021-20022, the flaws were discovered and reported to the company by FireEye's Mandiant subsidia...

SAP warns of malicious activity targeting unpatched systems

A timely warning to keep systems patched has appeared, via a jointly-released report from Onapsis and SAP. The report details how threat actors are “targeting and potentially exploiting unprotected mission-critical SAP applications”. Some of the vulnerabilities used were weaponised fewer than 72...

The leap of a Cycldek-related threat actor

Introduction In the nebula of Chinese-speaking threat actors, it is quite common to see tools and methodologies being shared. One such example of this is the infamous "DLL side-loading triad": a legitimate executable, a malicious DLL to be sideloaded by it, and an encoded payload, generally dropp...

CISA Issues Emergency Directive and Alert on Microsoft Exchange Vulnerabilities

CISA has issued Emergency Directive ED 21-02 and Alert AA21-062A addressing critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange products. Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities allows an attacker to access on-premises Exchange servers, enabling them to gain persistent system access and contr...

ProSoft Technology ICX35

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 8.2 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: ProSoft Technology Equipment: ICX35-HWC-A and ICX35-HWC-E Vulnerability: Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an...

Talkin’ SMAC: Alert Labeling and Why It Matters

If you’ve ever worked in a Security Operations Center SOC, you know that it’s a special place. Among other things, the SOC is a massive data-labeling machine, and generates some of the most valuable data in the cybersecurity industry. Unfortunately, much of this valuable data is often rendered...