Crossing the Narrow Sea

Tom Kellermann, Head of Cybersecurity Strategy at VMware and Member of the Cyber Investigations Advisory Board of the United States Secret Service. “The Greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn’t exist.” -Keyser Sose Cyberspace is not a pacific environment. According...

Acronis: Possible LDAP username and password disclosed on Github

Summary The file hosted at https://github.com/mlanin/go/blob/3dbd856c3f542c54e512a295ac498c79cd952ed6/.env.testing contains the following information: LDAPDOMAIN=███ LDAPBASEDN=███ LDAPADMINUSER=███████ LDAPADMINPASSWORD=██████ Recommendations Verify if credentials are still in use if so remove t...

Insecure RDP

There are active attack campaigns as of October 2020 targeting RDP servers without multi-factor authentication enabled. Recent assessments: zeroSteiner at October 09, 2020 6:36pm UTC reported: Over the past couple of years 2018-2020 attacks against RDP have become more and more common. Recent...

Industrial Cyberattacks Get Rarer but More Complex

Cyberattacks against the oil and gas industry inched up only slightly compared to the second half of 2019. Security experts say they are encouraged by the anemic growth, but at the same time are expressing concern that attacks are now becoming more potent, targeted and complex. According to new...

WMIHACKER - A Bypass Anti-virus Software Lateral Movement Command Execution Tool

中文版Chinese version Disclaimer: The technology involved in this project is only for security learning and defense purposes, illegal use is prohibited! Bypass anti-virus software lateral movement command execution test tool（No need 445 Port） Introduction: The common WMIEXEC, PSEXEC tool execution...

VMware Carbon Black First to Block Hidden Malicious Commands in Obfuscated Scripts

For a long time now, our Threat Analysts have flagged the growing threat of script-based attacks, especially from Microsoft PowerShell and Windows Management Interface script commands, and their ability to escape notice in many antivirus solutions. Increasingly, these types of attacks have become...

Stopping Active Directory attacks and other post-exploitation behavior with AMSI and machine learning

When attackers successfully breach a target network, their typical next step is to perform reconnaissance of the network, elevate their privileges, and move laterally to reach specific machines or spread as widely as possible. For these activities, attackers often probe the affected network’s...

UPDATE: PoshC2 v6.0

PoshC2 v6.0 was released a couple of months ago which includes a number of significant and exciting features. Additionally it contains a lot of bug fixes and small improvements as well! What is PoshC2? PoshC2 is a proxy aware C2 framework in Python3, used to aid penetration testers with red...

COOKIEJAR: Tracking Adversaries With FireEye Endpoint Security’s Logon Tracker Module

During a recent investigation at a telecommunications company led by Mandiant Managed Defense, our team was tasked with rapidly identifying systems that had been accessed by a threat actor using legitimate, but compromised domain credentials. This sometimes-challenging task was made simple becaus...

Chalumeau - Automated, Extendable And Customizable Credential Dumping Tool

Chalumeau is automated,extendable and customizable credential dumping tool based on powershell and python. Main Features Write your own Payloads In-Memory execution Extract Password List Dashboard reporting / Web Interface Parsing Mimikatz Dumping Tickets Screenshots Known Issues Parsing Mimikatz...

Black Hat USA 2020: VMware Carbon Black Releases Global Incident Response Threat Report Detailing Surge in Cyberattacks Amid COVID-19

At Black Hat USA this week, VMware Carbon Black unveils findings from the fifth installment of the semiannual Global Incident Response Threat Report, entitled: “COVID-19 Continues to Create a Larger Surface Area for Cyberattacks,” based on an online survey in April 2020 of forty-nine incident...

Lateral Movement – Services

Services with elevated privileges typically were used in the past as method of privilege escalation or persistence. However a service could be utilized for lateral… Continue reading - Lateral Movement - Services...

GlassWire: Uncontrolled Search Path Element allows DLL hijacking for priv esc to SYSTEM

GlassWire contains a DLL hijacking vulnerability that could allow an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the targeted system. The vulnerability exists due to GlassWire loading DLL files from the PATH environment variable without verification. The machine should have at least one...

WastedLocker Goes "Big-Game Hunting" in 2020

By Ben Baker, Edmund Brumaghin, JJ Cummings and Arnaud Zobec. Threat summary After initially compromising corporate networks, the attacker behind WastedLocker performs privilege escalation and lateral movement prior to activating ransomware and demanding ransom payment.The use of "dual-use" tools...

Publicly Available Tools Seen in Cyber Incidents Worldwide

Summary This report is a collaborative research effort by the cyber security authorities of five nations: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.12345 In it we highlight the use of five publicly available tools, which have been used for malicious purposes in...

Sodinokibi Ransomware Now Scans Networks For PoS Systems

Cybercriminals behind recent Sodinokibi ransomware attacks are now upping their ante and scanning their victims’ networks for credit card or point of sale PoS software. Researchers believe this is a new tactic designed to allow attackers to get the biggest bang for their buck – ransom payments an...

Broad, Ongoing Cyberattacks Targeting Australia Underscore Need for Behavioral-Based Cybersecurity

On Friday the Australian Federal Government detailed sustained ‘copy-paste’ threats on government and business throughout the country. According to the Government: “‘Copy-paste compromises’ is derived from … heavy use of proof-of-concept exploit code, web shells and other tools copied almost...

InvisiMole Hackers Target High-Profile Military and Diplomatic Entities

Cybersecurity researchers today uncovered the modus operandi of an elusive threat group that hacks into the high-profile military and diplomatic entities in Eastern Europe for espionage. The findings are part of a collaborative analysis by cybersecurity firm ESET and the impacted firms, resulting...

InvisiMole Group Resurfaces Touting Fresh Toolset, Gamaredon Partnership

The InvisiMole threat group has resurfaced in a new campaign, revealing a new toolset and a strategic collaboration with the high-profile Gamaredon advanced persistent threat APT group. InvisiMole was first uncovered by ESET in 2018, with cyberespionage activity dating back to 2013 in operations ...

The science behind Microsoft Threat Protection: Attack modeling for finding and stopping evasive ransomware

The linchpin of successful cyberattacks, exemplified by nation state-level attacks and human-operated ransomware, is their ability to find the path of least resistance and progressively move across a compromised network. Determining the full scope and impact of these attacks is one the most...