SocGholish’s Intrusion Techniques Facilitate Distribution of RansomHub Ransomware

Trend Research analyzed SocGholish’s MaaS framework and its role in deploying RansomHub ransomware through compromised websites, using highly obfuscated JavaScript loaders to evade detection and execute various malicious tasks...

Unmasking Lumma Stealer: Analyzing Deceptive Tactics with Fake CAPTCHA

Summary Lumma Stealer is an information-stealing malware available through a Malware-as-a-Service MaaS. It specializes in stealing sensitive data such as passwords, browser information, and cryptocurrency wallet details. The attacker has advanced its tactics, moving from traditional phishing to...

Water Makara Uses Obfuscated JavaScript in Spear Phishing Campaign, Targets Brazil With Astaroth Malware

Trend Micro researchers have uncovered a surge of malicious activities involving a threat actor group that we track as Water Makara. This group is targeting enterprises in Brazil, deploying banking malware using obfuscated JavaScript to slip past security defenses...

Chinese Hackers Using SugarGh0st RAT to Target South Korea and Uzbekistan

A suspected Chinese-speaking threat actor has been attributed to a malicious campaign that targets the Uzbekistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and South Korean users with a remote access trojan called SugarGh0st RAT. The activity, which commenced no later than August 2023, leverages two different...

Gootkit Malware Adopts New Tactics to Attack Healthcare and Finance Firms

The Gootkit malware is prominently going after healthcare and finance organizations in the U.S., U.K., and Australia, according to new findings from Cybereason. The cybersecurity firm said it investigated a Gootkit incident in December 2022 that adopted a new method of deployment, with the actors...

Over 4,500 WordPress Sites Hacked to Redirect Visitors to Sketchy Ad Pages

A massive campaign has infected over 4,500 WordPress websites as part of a long-running operation that's been believed to be active since at least 2017. According to GoDaddy-owned Sucuri, the infections involve the injection of obfuscated JavaScript hosted on a malicious domain named...

Masslogger Trojan Upgraded to Steal All Your Outlook, Chrome Credentials

A credential stealer infamous for targeting Windows systems has resurfaced in a new phishing campaign that aims to steal credentials from Microsoft Outlook, Google Chrome, and instant messenger apps. Primarily directed against users in Turkey, Latvia, and Italy starting mid-January, the attacks...

Widespread Malvertising Campaign Hijacks 300 Million Sessions

A massive malvertising campaign targeting iOS devices hijacked a whopping 300 million browser sessions in just 48 hours. Researchers at Confiant recorded the campaign Nov. 12, and said that the threat actor behind the campaign is still active to this day. A malicious landing page According to...

EternalBlue Exploit Used in Retefe Banking Trojan Campaign

Criminals behind the Retefe banking Trojan have added a new component to their malware that uses the NSA exploit EternalBlue. The update makes Retefe the latest malware family to adopt the SMBv1 attack against a patched Windows vulnerability, and could signal an emerging trend, said researchers a...

Rotten Apples: Resurgence

In June 2016, we published a blog about a phishing campaign targeting the Apple IDs and passwords of Chinese Apple users that emerged in the first quarter of 2016 referred to as the “Zycode” phishing campaign. At FireEye Labs we have an automated system designed to proactively detect newly...

Rotten Apples: Apple-like Malicious Phishing Domains

At FireEye Labs we have an automated system designed to proactively detect newly registered malicious domains. This system observed some phishing domains registered in the first quarter of 2016 that were designed to appear as legitimate Apple domains. These phony Apple domains were involved in...

Surge in Spam Campaign Delivering Locky Ransomware Downloaders

FireEye Labs is detecting a significant spike in Locky ransomware downloaders due to a pair of concurrent email spam campaigns impacting users in over 50 countries. Some of the top affected countries are depicted in Figure 1. Figure 1. Affected countries As seen in Figure 2, the steep spike start...

New Google Drive Phishing Scam Uncovered

Phishers have again leveraged users’ trust in Google with a newly discovered campaign designed to steal credentials that grant access to the multitude of Google’s online services. New phishing pages hosted on Google Drive were discovered by researcher Aditya K. Sood of Elastica Cloud Threat Labs...

Potentially Malicious Web Site

Some Web sites include heavily-obfuscated JavaScript code, hidden redirection iframe, and other methods to cause unintended browser behavior. This protection blocks such potentially-malicious code from being downloaded to the user's browser...

PDF Containing Obfuscated JavaScript Code (CVE-2010-0188; CVE-2010-2883)

New exploits were released for several remote code execution vulnerabilities that were discovered in the way Adobe Acrobat Reader and Foxit Reader handle specially crafted PDF files. Although various security products provide coverage against many malformed PDF files vulnerabilities, these new...

RelateIQ: RelateIQ GWT based application visible to unauthenticated users

When a legitimate user authenticates to the RelateIQ application, since it is a GWT based application, a request is sent to the URL https://app.relateiq.com/app/app.nocache.js. This detects the browser and then a corresponding request is sent to the URL...

TP-Link Cross Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

This write up goes into detail about how real world cross site request forgery attacks can be used to hijack DNS on TP-Link routers. I. Introduction Today the majority of wired Internet connections is used with an embedded NAT router, which allows using the same Internet connection with several...

New Clickjacking Scam Uses Facebook, Javascript, Our Primate Brain To Spread

A researcher at Kaspersky Lab is warning of a new scam that pastes racy photos to victims’ Facebook pages while forcing them to view Web-based advertisements promoted by the scammers. Writing on the Securelist blog, Kaspersky Lab Expert David Jacoby said that the scam was circulating among Facebo...

Storm Botnet Returns as Part of New Year's Attacks

A new spam campaign that appeared shortly before the New Year is part of a new effort by the crew behind the Storm/Waledac botnet and is using some rather elementary tactics–in combination with fast-flux–to attempt to compromise unsuspecting users. The new attack emerged late last week and is...

30,000 legit websites hit by malware infection

From The Register Dan Goodin A nasty infection that attempts to install a potent malware cocktail on the machines of end users has spread to about 30,000 websites run by businesses, government agencies and other organizations, researchers warned Friday websense.com. The infection sneaks malicious...