Water Orthrus Targets Chinese Users with CopperStealth and CopperPhish

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Water Orthrus has recently launched two new campaigns, CopperStealth and CopperPhish, where CopperStealth employs rootkit techniques, while CopperPhish globally distributes a phishing kit through PPI...

CopperStealer Malware Crew Resurfaces with New Rootkit and Phishing Kit Modules

The threat actors behind the CopperStealer malware resurfaced with two new campaigns in March and April 2023 that are designed to deliver two novel payloads dubbed CopperStealth and CopperPhish. Trend Micro is tracking the financially motivated group under the name Water Orthrus. The adversary is...

CopperStealer Malware Crew Resurfaces with New Rootkit and Phishing Kit Modules

The threat actors behind the CopperStealer malware resurfaced with two new campaigns in March and April 2023 that are designed to deliver two novel payloads dubbed CopperStealth and CopperPhish. Trend Micro is tracking the financially motivated group under the name Water Orthrus. The adversary is...

Lancefly APT Group Deploys Custom Backdoor ‘Merdoor’ in Targeted Attacks

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The Lancefly APT group targets South and Southeast Asia using the Merdoor backdoor and an updated ZXShell rootkit. Their attack chain involves credential theft, lateral movement, file staging, and...

Researchers Uncover Powerful Backdoor and Custom Implant in Year-Long Cyber Campaign

Government, aviation, education, and telecom sectors located in South and Southeast Asia have come under the radar of a new hacking group as part of a highly-targeted campaign that commenced in mid-2022 and continued into the first quarter of 2023. Symantec, by Broadcom Software, is tracking the...

Researchers Uncover Powerful Backdoor and Custom Implant in Year-Long Cyber Campaign

Government, aviation, education, and telecom sectors located in South and Southeast Asia have come under the radar of a new hacking group as part of a highly-targeted campaign that commenced in mid-2022 and continued into the first quarter of 2023. Symantec, by Broadcom Software, is tracking the...

Water Orthrus's New Campaigns Deliver Rootkit and Phishing Modules

Water Orthrus has been active recently with two new campaigns. CopperStealth uses a rootkit to install malware on infected systems, while CopperPhish steals credit card information. This blog will provide the structure of the campaign and how they work...

Threat Roundup for May 5 to May 12

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats weve observed between May 5 and May 12. As with previous roundups, this post isnt meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats weve observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,...

Protecting your business with Wazuh: The open source security platform

Today, businesses face a variety of security challenges like cyber attacks, compliance requirements, and endpoint security administration. The threat landscape constantly evolves, and it can be overwhelming for businesses to keep up with the latest security trends. Security teams use processes an...

Mélofée: Researchers Uncover New Linux Malware Linked to Chinese APT Groups

An unknown Chinese state-sponsored hacking group has been linked to a novel piece of malware aimed at Linux servers. French cybersecurity firm ExaTrack, which found three samples of the previously documented malicious software that date back to early 2022, dubbed it Mélofée. The newest of the thr...

Mélofée: Researchers Uncover New Linux Malware Linked to Chinese APT Groups

An unknown Chinese state-sponsored hacking group has been linked to a novel piece of malware aimed at Linux servers. French cybersecurity firm ExaTrack, which found three samples of the previously documented malicious software that date back to early 2022, dubbed it Mélofée. The newest of the thr...

Icarus a Versatile Infostealer with Rootkit and hVNC Capabilities

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The Icarus Stealer malware is equipped with a Hidden Virtual network computing hVNC feature, which enables the attacker to generate a concealed desktop and traverse the compromised system without any...

SUSE CVE-2005-1270

The 1 checkupdate.sh and 2 rkhunter script in Rootkit Hunter before 1.2.3-r1 create temporary files with predictable file names, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack...

Sandfly-Entropyscan - Tool To Detect Packed Or Encrypt ed Binaries Related To Malware, Finds Malicious Files And Linux Processes And Gives Output With Cryptographic Hashes

What is sandfly-entropyscan? sandfly-entropyscan is a utility to quickly scan files or running processes and report on their entropy measure of randomness and if they are a Linux/Unix ELF type executable. Some malware for Linux is packed or encrypted and shows very high entropy. This tool can...

Kinsing Crypto Malware Hits Kubernetes Clusters via Misconfigured PostgreSQL

The threat actors behind the Kinsing cryptojacking operation have been spotted exploiting misconfigured and exposed PostgreSQL servers to obtain initial access to Kubernetes environments. A second initial access vector technique entails the use of vulnerable images, Sunders Bruskin, security...

Judge Orders U.S. Lawyer in Russian Botnet Case to Pay Google

In December 2021, Google filed a civil lawsuit against two Russian men thought to be responsible for operating Glupteba, one of the Internets largest and oldest botnets. The defendants, who initially pursued a strategy of counter suing Google for interfering in their sprawling cybercrime business...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2022-26522

Avast Anti Rootkit kernel driver user controlled length in aswArPot+0xc4a3...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2022-26523

Avast Anti Rootkit kernel driver user controlled length in aswArPot+0xbb94...

IT threat evolution Q3 2022

IT threat evolution in Q3 2022 IT threat evolution in Q3 2022. Non-mobile statistics IT threat evolution in Q3 2022. Mobile statistics Targeted attacks CosmicStrand: discovery of a sophisticated UEFI rootkit In July, we reported a rootkit that we found in modified Unified Extensible Firmware...

TripleCross - A Linux eBPF Rootkit With A Backdoor, C2, Library Injection, Execution Hijacking, Persistence And Stealth Capabilities.

TripleCross is a Linux eBPF rootkit that demonstrates the offensive capabilities of the eBPF technology. TripleCross is inspired by previous implant designs in this area, notably the works of Jeff Dileo at DEFCON 271, Pat Hogan at DEFCON 292, Guillaume Fournier and Sylvain Afchain also at DEFCON...