Hackers Can Abuse Legitimate GitHub Codespaces Feature to Deliver Malware

New research has found that it is possible for threat actors to abuse a legitimate feature in GitHub Codespaces to deliver malware to victim systems. GitHub Codespaces is a cloud-based configurable development environment that allows users to debug, maintain, and commit changes to a given codebas...

IcedID Malware Strikes Again: Active Directory Domain Compromised in Under 24 Hours

A recent IcedID malware attack enabled the threat actor to compromise the Active Directory domain of an unnamed target less than 24 hours after gaining initial access, while also borrowing techniques from other groups like Conti to meet its goals. "Throughout the attack, the attacker followed a...

Malicious Package

Overview firefoxupdate is a malicious package. This is a "dependency confusion" package, which means the package name is based on existing repositories, namespaces, or components. It aims to trick users into downloading the package which contains obfuscated malicious code and initiates connection...

Evolution of BazarCall Social Engineering Tactics

Evolution of BazarCall Social Engineering Tactics By Daksh Kapur · October 6, 2022 What is BazarCall? As nicely defined in this article by Microsoft: BazarCall campaigns forgo malicious links or attachments in email messages in favor of phone numbers that recipients are misled into calling. It’s ...

CVE-2021-41556

sqclass.cpp in Squirrel through 2.2.5 and 3.x through 3.1 allows an out-of-bounds read in the core interpreter that can lead to Code Execution. If a victim executes an attacker-controlled squirrel script, it is possible for the attacker to break out of the squirrel script sandbox even if all...

Threat Actors Pivot Around Microsoft’s Macro-Blocking in Office

Threat actors are finding their way around Microsoft’s default blocking of macros in its Office suite, using alternative files to host malicious payloads now that a primary channel for threat delivery is being cut off, researchers have found. The use of macros-enabled attachments by threat actors...

GHSA-VMQ9-CM7M-4P8P Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation in Dojo Dojo Objective Harness

Dojo Dojo Objective Harness DOH version prior to version 1.14 contains a Cross Site Scripting XSS vulnerability in unit.html and testsDOH/base/loader/i18n-exhaustive/i18n-test/unit.html and testsDOH/base/i18nExhaustive.js in the DOH that can result in Victim attacked through their browser - deliv...

Open redirect vulnerability via endpoint authorize_and_redirect/?redirect=

Description Posthog application is vulnerable to open redirect which can be exploited by adding authorizeandredirect/?redirect=https://evil.com endpoint. Proof of Concept 1.Open the link https://app.posthog.com/login?next=/authorizeandredirect/%3Fredirect%3Dhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fevil.com...

Russian threat actor UAC-0056 targets European countries

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. The Governmental Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT-UA has released an alert about a Russian threat actor UAC-0056 SaintBear, UNC2589, TA471 delivering malwares using email attachments. UNC2589 is a cyber...

Palestine-Aligned Hackers Use New NimbleMamba Implant in Recent Attacks

An advanced persistent threat APT hacking group operating with motives that likely align with Palestine has embarked on a new campaign that takes advantage of a previously undocumented implant called NimbleMamba. The intrusions leveraged a sophisticated attack chain targeting Middle Eastern...

BazarLoader Adds Compromised Installers, ISO to Arrival and Delivery Vectors

We observed BazarLoader adding two new arrival mechanisms to their current roster of malware delivery techniques...

Emotet Resurfaces on the Back of TrickBot After Nearly a Year

Emotet, one of the most prolific and disruptive botnet malware-delivery systems, appears to be making a comeback after nearly a year of inactivity, researchers have found. A team of researchers from Cryptolaemus, G DATA and AdvIntel recently observed the TrickBot trojan launching what appears to ...

Evasive maneuvers: HTML smuggling explained

Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC last week disclosed “a highly evasive malware delivery technique that leverages legitimate HTML5 and JavaScript features” that it calls HTML smuggling. HTML smuggling has been used in targeted, spear-phishing email campaigns that deliver banking Trojans...

HTML smuggling surges: Highly evasive loader technique increasingly used in banking malware, targeted attacks

HTML smuggling, a highly evasive malware delivery technique that leverages legitimate HTML5 and JavaScript features, is increasingly used in email campaigns that deploy banking malware, remote access Trojans RATs, and other payloads related to targeted attacks. Notably, this technique was observe...

Fake Installers Drop Malware and Open Doors for Opportunistic Attackers

We recently spotted fake installers of popular software being used to deliver bundles of malware onto victims’ devices. These installers are widely used lures that trick users into opening malicious documents or installing unwanted applications...

Hiding Malware in ML Models

Interesting research: "EvilModel: Hiding Malware Inside of Neural Network Models". Abstract: Delivering malware covertly and detection-evadingly is critical to advanced malware campaigns. In this paper, we present a method that delivers malware covertly and detection-evadingly through neural...

Microsoft Warns of LemonDuck Malware Targeting Windows and Linux Systems

An infamous cross-platform crypto-mining malware has continued to refine and improve upon its techniques to strike both Windows and Linux operating systems by setting its sights on older vulnerabilities, while simultaneously latching on to a variety of spreading mechanisms to maximize the...

MosaicLoader Malware Delivers Facebook Stealers, RATs

A never-before-documented Windows malware strain dubbed MosaicLoader is spreading worldwide, acting as a full-service malware-delivery platform that’s being used to infect victims with remote-access trojans RATs, Facebook cookie stealers and other threats. That’s according to Bitdefender...

NoxPlayer Supply-Chain Attack is Likely the Work of Gelsemium Hackers

A new cyber espionage group named Gelsemium has been linked to a supply chain attack targeting the NoxPlayer Android emulator that was disclosed earlier this year. The findings come from a systematic analysis of multiple campaigns undertaken by the APT crew, with evidence of the earliest attack...

CVE-2021-27612

In specific situations SAP GUI for Windows until and including 7.60 PL9, 7.70 PL0, forwards a user to specific malicious website which could contain malware or might lead to phishing attacks to steal credentials of the victim...