Attackers Use Event Logs to Hide Malware

Researchers have discovered a malicious campaign utilizing a never-before-seen technique for quietly planting fileless malware on target machines. The technique involves injecting shellcode directly into Windows event logs. This allows adversaries to use the Windows event logs as a cover for...

Iron Rain: What Defines a Cyber Insurgency?

“A fool pulls the leaves. A brute chops the trunk. A sage digs the roots.” - Pierce Brown The western world is currently grappling with a cyber insurgency. The widespread adoption of the “kill-chain” coupled with the use of memory resident malware has fueled the cyber-attack wild fire. The securi...

Tools Used by Lamberts APT Found in Vault 7 Dumps

Links have emerged connecting targeted attacks going back a decade against high-profile government, industrial and financial targets around the world to hacking tools and documents leaked in the Vault 7 dump. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab today published a technical report on the activities of a...