Notorious Cyber Gang FIN7 Returns With Cl0p Ransomware in New Wave of Attacks

The notorious cybercrime group known as FIN7 has been observed deploying Cl0p aka Clop ransomware, marking the threat actor's first ransomware campaign since late 2021. Microsoft, which detected the activity in April 2023, is tracking the financially motivated actor under its new taxonomy Sangria...

Nighthawk Likely to Become Hackers' New Post-Exploitation Tool After Cobalt Strike

A nascent and legitimate penetration testing framework known as Nighthawk is likely to gain threat actors' attention for its Cobalt Strike-like capabilities. Enterprise security firm Proofpoint said it detected the use of the software in mid-September 2022 by a red team with a number of test emai...

Critical RCE Vulnerability Discovered in Popular Cobalt Strike Hacking Software

HelpSystems, the company behind the Cobalt Strike software platform, has released an out-of-band security update to address a remote code execution vulnerability that could allow an attacker to take control of targeted systems. Cobalt Strike is a commercial red-team framework that's mainly used f...

Researchers Uncover New Attempts by Qakbot Malware to Evade Detection

The operators behind the Qakbot malware are transforming their delivery vectors in an attempt to sidestep detection. "Most recently, threat actors have transformed their techniques to evade detection by using ZIP file extensions, enticing file names with common formats, and Excel XLM 4.0 to trick...

Details Disclosed On Critical Flaws Affecting Nagios IT Monitoring Software

Cybersecurity researchers disclosed details about 13 vulnerabilities in the Nagios network monitoring application that could be abused by an adversary to hijack the infrastructure without any operator intervention. "In a telco setting, where a telco is monitoring thousands of sites, if a customer...

mimikatz 2.1.1 - A Post-Exploitation Tool to Extract Plaintexts Passwords, Hash, PIN Code from Memory

Mimikatz is a post-exploitation tool written by Benjamin Delpy gentilkiwi. After the initial exploitation phase, attackers may want to get a firmer foothold on the computer/network. Doing so often requires a set of complementary tools. Mimikatz is an attempt to bundle together some of the most...

WinPirate - Automated Sticky Keys Hack. Post Exploitation It Grabs Browser Passwords, History, And Network Passwords

Here's the plan. We create a way to automate doing the sticky keys windows hack from a bootable USB. Then, we automate getting as many saved passwords as possible, drop a listener, and delete all traces that we were there. All without being detected by antivirus we should add a mimikittenz option...

PowerShell Runspace Portable Post Exploitation Tool: PowerOPS

PowerShell Runspace Portable Post Exploitation Tool aimed at making Penetration Testing with PowerShell “easier” PowerOPS is an application written in C that does not rely on powershell.exe but runs PowerShell commands and functions within a powershell runspace environment .NET. It intends to...