Malware Analysis: Trickbot

In this day and age, we are not dealing with roughly pieced together, homebrew type of viruses anymore. Malware is an industry, and professional developers are found to exchange, be it by stealing one's code or deliberate collaboration. Attacks are multi-layer these days, with diverse sophisticat...

Phony Call Centers Tricking Users Into Installing Ransomware and Data-Stealers

An ongoing malicious campaign that employs phony call centers has been found to trick victims into downloading malware capable of data exfiltration as well as deploying ransomware on infected systems. The attacks — dubbed "BazaCall" — eschew traditional social engineering techniques that rely on...

Detecting Post-Compromise Threat Activity in Microsoft Cloud Environments

Summary This Advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT &CK® framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques. Updated April 15, 2021: The U.S. Government attributes this activity to the Russian Foreign...

Using Aviary to Analyze Post-Compromise Threat Activity in M365 Environments

Aviary is a new dashboard that CISA and partners developed to help visualize and analyze outputs from its Sparrow detection tool released in December 2020. Sparrow helps network defenders detect possible compromised accounts and applications in Azure/Microsoft O365 environments. CISA created...

Using CHIRP to Detect Post-Compromise Threat Activity in On-Premises Environments

CISA Hunt and Incident Response Program CHIRP is a new forensics collection tool that CISA developed to help network defenders find indicators of compromise IOCs associated with the SolarWinds and Active Directory/M365 Compromise. CHIRP is freely available on the CISA GitHub repository. Similar t...

Researchers Discover Raindrop — 4th Malware Linked to the SolarWinds Attack

Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a fourth new malware strain—designed to spread the malware onto other computers in victims' networks—which was deployed as part of the SolarWinds supply chain attack disclosed late last year. Dubbed "Raindrop" by Broadcom-owned Symantec, the malware joins...

Ransomware Against the Machine: How Adversaries are Learning to Disrupt Industrial Production by Targeting IT and OT

Since at least 2017, there has been a significant increase in public disclosures of ransomware incidents impacting industrial production and critical infrastructure organizations. Well-known ransomware families like WannaCry, LockerGoga, MegaCortex, Ryuk, Maze, and now SNAKEHOSE a.k.a. Snake /...