Picking Apart Remcos Botnet-In-A-Box

This blog post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin and Holger Unterbrink with contributions from Eric Kuhla and Lilia Gonzalez Medina. Overview Cisco Talos has recently observed multiple campaigns using the Remcos remote access tool RAT that is offered for sale by a company called Breaking Security...

Unique Malspam Campaign Uses MS Publisher to Drop a RAT on Banks

UPDATE A malspam campaign targeting a slew of banks is turning researchers’ heads with its unusual use of a Microsoft Office Publisher file to infect victims’ systems with a well-known backdoor. Researchers with Trustwave said that they have seen a spate of emails with a Microsoft Office Publishe...

Parasite HTTP RAT loaded with advanced detection evasion capability

By Waqas Proofpoint researchers have discovered a new remote access Trojan RAT as well as an updated version of an already identified banking Trojan and claim that both the RATs are involved in recently detected phishing campaigns targeting the retail, healthcare and IT industries. Emails...

EvilOSX - An Evil RAT (Remote Administration Tool) For macOS/OS X

An evil RAT Remote Administration Tool for macOS / OS X. Features Emulate a terminal instance Simple extendable module system No bot dependencies pure python Undetected by anti-virus OpenSSL AES-256 encrypted payloads Persistent GUI and CLI support Retrieve Chrome passwords Retrieve iCloud tokens...

Massive Malspam Campaign Finds a New Vector for FlawedAmmyy RAT

A widespread spam campaign from the well-known financial criminal group TA505 is spreading the FlawedAmmyy RAT using a brand-new vector: Weaponized PDFs containing malicious SettingContent-ms files. The SettingContent-ms file format was introduced in Windows 10; it allows a user to create...

Luminosity RAT author pleads guilty to creating & selling hacking tool

By Waqas In February this year, we informed our readers about the unceremonious closure met by the infamous hacking tool Luminosity RAT at the hands of law enforcement authorities from Australia, Europe, and North America. Users could no longer feel threatened by the dangerous RAT, which was also...

21-Year-Old Creator of LuminosityLink Hacking Tool Pleads Guilty

As it was speculated that the author of LuminosityLink RAT was arrested last year, a plea agreement made available to the public today confirmed the news. Back in September last year, Europol's European Cybercrime Centre EC3 and National Crime Agency began the crackdown on the LuminosityLink RAT,...

‘LuminosityLink RAT’ Author Pleads Guilty

A 21-year-old Kentucky man has pleaded guilty to authoring and distributing a popular hacking tool called "LuminosityLink," a malware strain that security experts say was used by thousands of customers to gain unauthorized access to tens of thousands of computers across 78 countries worldwide. Th...

Threat Roundup for June 22-29

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between June 22 and June 29. As with previous round-ups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristic...

A week in security (June 18 – June 24)

Last week, we took a deep dive into SamSam ransomware, looked at ways how to identify and delete malicious emails, recognized that there are now risks affecting job recruitment portals, analyzed a malicious Android app banking on the popularity of Fortnite, and identified causes and solutions for...

Targeted Spy Campaign Hits Russian Service Centers

A series of espionage attacks have been uncovered, targeted at service centers in Russia that provide maintenance and support for a variety of electronic goods. The payload is a commercial version of the Imminent Monitor tool, which is freely available for purchase as legitimate software. Its...

Hidden Cobra Strikes Again with Custom RAT, SMB Malware

The feds are warning that the North Korean APT group known as Hidden Cobra is mounting active attacks on U.S. businesses and others globally, including organizations in the media, aerospace, financial and critical infrastructure sectors. According to a United States Computer Emergency Readiness...

Brazilian Banking Trojan Communicates Via Microsoft SQL Server

Researchers have discovered a banking trojan making waves in Brazil with an array of tricks up its sleeve, including using an unusual command and control C&C server and a full-screen social-engineering overlay form. Researchers at IBM X-Force research on Tuesday revealed that attackers are using...

A week in security (May 21 – May 27)

Last week we told you about a Mac cryptominer using XMRig, an overview of Dreamcast related scams, part 1 of decoding Emotet, and what to do about bad coding habits that die hard. We also published the results of our second CrackMe contest. Other news How a pioneer of machine learning became one ...

Vayne-RaT - An Advanced C# .NET RAT

Vayne-RaT is Free and Open SourceRemote Administration Tool Coded In C. Features: Multi-Threaded CMD Shell File Manager Download & Upload Remote Desktop Password Recovery Assembly Builder Scan-Time Crypter FUD Requirements Stub Coded In .NET 2.0 Mono.Cecil.dll Dissembler Lib.dll BunifuUIv1.52.dll...

MassMiner Takes a Kitchen-Sink Approach to Cryptomining

Though it falls squarely into the trend of cryptominers setting their sights on the Monero virtual currency, the MassMiner malware family is adding its own special somethin’-somethin’ to the mix. It targets Windows servers with a variety of recent and well-known exploits – all within a single...

Fake Software Update Abuses NetSupport Remote Access Tool

Over the last few months, FireEye has tracked an in-the-wild campaign that leverages compromised sites to spread fake updates. In some cases, the payload was the NetSupport Manager remote access tool RAT. NetSupport Manager is a commercially available RAT that can be used legitimately by system...

New Android Malware Secretly Records Phone Calls and Steals Private Data

Security researchers at Cisco Talos have uncovered variants of a new Android Trojan that are being distributed in the wild disguising as a fake anti-virus application, dubbed "Naver Defender." Dubbed KevDroid, the malware is a remote administration tool RAT designed to steal sensitive information...

Powershell-RAT - Python Based Backdoor That Uses Gmail To Exfiltrate Data Through Attachment

Python based backdoor that uses Gmail to exfiltrate data as an e-mail attachment. This RAT will help someone during red team engagements to backdoor any Windows machines. It tracks the user activity using screen capture and sends the information to an attacker as an e-mail attachment. Note: This...

New FlawedAmmyy RAT steals data and intercepts audio chat

By Waqas The FlawedAmmyy RAT has been developed using the leaked source This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New FlawedAmmyy RAT steals data and intercepts audio chat...