Aurora campaign: Attacking Azerbaijan using multiple RATs

This post was authored by Hossein Jazi As tensions between Azerbaijan and Armenia continue, we are still seeing a number of cyber attacks taking advantage of this situation. On March 5th 2021, we reported an actor that used steganography to drop a new .Net Remote Administration Trojan. Since that...

Experts Uncover Malware Attacks Against Colombian Government and Companies

Cybersecurity researchers took the wraps off an ongoing surveillance campaign directed against Colombian government institutions and private companies in the energy and metallurgical industries. In a report published by ESET on Tuesday, the Slovak internet security company said the attacks — dubb...

PowerPoint 2003/2007/2010 Silent Builder Exploit

The exploit allows you to convert EXE & JAR to .PPS its coded 100% from scratch and used by private method to assure a great stability and lasting FUD time. You are able to attach it to the most e-mail providers nowadays everyone uses Microsoft Office so it gives a huge chance of success. This...

Watch Out! New Android Banking Trojan Steals From 112 Financial Apps

Four months after security researchers uncovered a "Tetrade" of four Brazilian banking Trojans targeting financial institutions in Brazil, Latin America, and Europe, new findings show that the criminals behind the operation have expanded their tactics to infect mobile devices with spyware...

Lock and Code S1Ep6: Recognizing facial recognition’s flaws with Chris Boyd

This week on Lock and Code, we discuss the top security headlines generated right here on Labs and around the Internet. In addition, we talk to Chris Boyd, lead malware intelligence analyst at Malwarebytes, about facial recognition technology—its early history, its proven failures at accuracy, an...

Upgraded Aggah malspam campaign delivers multiple RATs

By Asheer Malhotra Cisco Talos has observed an upgraded version of a malspam campaign known to distribute multiple remote access trojans RATs.The infection chain utilized in the attacks is highly modularized.The attackers utilize publicly available infrastructure such as Bitly and Pastebin spread...

les-rats-de-gout.e-monsite.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1141872 Security Researcher g0bl1nsec Helped patch 3768 vulnerabilities Received 4 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 3 recommendations , a holder of 4 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting...

WARNING: Hackers Install Secret Backdoor on Thousands of Microsoft SQL Servers

Cybersecurity researchers today uncovered a sustained malicious campaign dating back to May 2018 that targets Windows machines running MS-SQL servers to deploy backdoors and other kinds of malware, including multi-functional remote access tools RATs and cryptominers. Named "Vollgar" after the...

Double Vision: Stealthy Malware Dropper Delivers Dual RATs

A newly discovered initial-stage malware dropper has been discovered sneaking by antivirus products, with the ultimate goal of delivering a double-pronged whammy of RevengeRAT and WSH RAT payloads onto targeted Windows machines. A FortiGuard Labs team recently captured a sample file that had been...

Trump, Putin and Politics Name-Dropped to Peddle Malware

With the U.S. presidential elections looming, bad actors are tapping into the political craze with several malware distribution campaigns, using high-profile political names to tap into victims’ emotions and convince them to click on malicious links. Researchers have uncovered hundreds of...

How adversaries use politics for compromise

By Nick Biasini and Edmund Brumaghin. Executive Summary With the U.S. presidential primaries just around the corner, even malware authors can't help but get behind the frenzy. Cisco Talos recently discovered several malware distribution campaigns where the adversaries were utilizing the names and...

Panda Threat Group Mines for Monero With Updated Payload, Targets

The Panda threat group, best known for launching the widespread and successful 2018 “MassMiner” cryptomining malware campaign, has continued to use malware to mine cryptocurrency in more recent attacks. A fresh analysis of the group reveals Panda has adopted a newly-updated infrastructure, payloa...

Cryptocurrency miners aren’t dead yet: Documenting the voracious but simple “Panda”

By Christopher Evans and David Liebenberg. Executive summary A new threat actor named "Panda" has generated thousands of dollars worth of the Monero cryptocurrency through the use of remote access tools RATs and illicit cryptocurrency-mining malware. This is far from the most sophisticated actor...

Smominru Cryptominer Scrapes Credentials for Half-Million Machines

A commodity cryptomining botnet campaign that has infected a half-million computers is now tapping a lucrative secondary moneymaking opportunity in selling access to victim machines, according to researchers. An analysis of the known Smominru cryptomining campaign, which uses a modified version o...

Nation-State Actors Go All-In on Mobile Malware

APTs, including a range of nation-state groups operating in China, North Korea, Pakistan and Russia, are shifting their malware development focus to target mobile users for intelligence gathering, financial gain and disruption of national rivals. That’s according to CrowdStrike’s Mobile Threat...

MuddyWater APT Hones an Arsenal of Custom Tools

An array of customized attack tools are helping the MuddyWater advanced persistent threat APT group to successfully exfiltrate data from its governmental and telco targets in the Middle East; an analysis of this toolset reveals a moderately sophisticated threat actor at work – with the potential ...

Gaza Cybergang Group1, operation SneakyPastes

Gaza Cybergangs is a politically motivated Arabic-language cyberthreat actor, actively targeting the MENA Middle East North Africa region, especially the Palestinian Territories. The confusion surrounding Gaza Cybergang's activities, separation of roles and campaigns has been prevalent in the cyb...

RSA Conference 2019: Emotet Takes Aim at Latin America

SAN FRANCISCO – Remote access trojans RATs can be a scourge for corporate systems, giving backdoor access to cybercriminals that are looking to carry out espionage activities, do recon for future phishing efforts, or lift data to sell on the underground. They often serve as a key pivot point to...

Necurs Botnet Evolves to Hide in the Shadows, with New Payloads

Necurs, the prolific and globally dispersed spam and malware distribution botnet, has been spotted using a fresh hiding technique to avoid detection while quietly adding more bots to its web. According to research from Black Lotus Labs, which is telecom and ISP provider CenturyLink’s network...

RSAC 2019: Bronze Union APT Updates Remote Access Trojans in Fresh Wave of Attacks

The notorious Chinese-linked threat group, dubbed Bronze Union, has been spotted in a widespread 2018 campaign updating its arsenal of cyberweapons by breathing new life into old tools. The threat group was spotted in 2018 using updated source code to target data owned by political, technology,...