FBI, CISA Uncover Tactics Employed by Russian Intelligence Hackers

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, Department of Homeland Security DHS, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI on Monday published a new joint advisory as part of their latest attempts to expose the tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs adopted by the Russian...

Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Cyber Operations: Trends and Best Practices for Network Defenders

Summary The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, Department of Homeland Security DHS, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA assess Russian Foreign Intelligence Service SVR cyber actors—also known as Advanced Persistent Threat 29 APT 29, the Dukes, CozyBear, and Yttrium—will...

Defending Against the Zero Day: Analyzing Attacker Behavior Post-Exploitation of Microsoft Exchange

In recent weeks, there has been quite a lot of reporting on the exploitation of the latest disclosed vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Exchange Server by an attacker referred to as HAFNIUM. One of the major reasons these latest vulnerabilities are so dangerous and appealing to attackers is that they...

More SolarWinds News

Microsoft analyzed details of the SolarWinds attack: Microsoft and FireEye only detected the Sunburst or Solorigate malware in December, but Crowdstrike reported this month that another related piece of malware, Sunspot, was deployed in September 2019, at the time hackers breached SolarWinds...

Tritium - Password Spraying Framework

A tool to enumerate and spray valid Active Directory accounts through Kerberos Pre-Authentication. Background Although many Kerberos password spraying tools currently exist on the market, I found it difficult to find tools with the following built-in functionality: The ability to prevent users fr...

SolarWinds Hackers Also Breached Malwarebytes Cybersecurity Firm

Malwarebytes on Tuesday said it was breached by the same group who broke into SolarWinds to access some of its internal emails, making it the fourth major cybersecurity vendor to be targeted after FireEye, Microsoft, and CrowdStrike. The company said its intrusion was not the result of a SolarWin...

NCSC Releases 2020 Annual Review

The United Kingdom UK National Cyber Security Centre NCSC has released its Annual Review 2020, which focuses on its response to evolving and challenging cyber threats. Recognizing cybersecurity as a “team sport,” the publication includes highlights of NCSC’s collaboration with many partners,...

How to Prevent Pwned and Reused Passwords in Your Active Directory

Many businesses are currently looking at how to bolster security across their organization as the pandemic and remote work situation continues to progress towards the end of the year. As organizations continue to implement security measures to protect business-critical data, there is an extremely...

CVE-2020-8243

A vulnerability in the Pulse Connect Secure 9.1R8.2 admin web interface could allow an authenticated attacker to upload custom template to perform an arbitrary code execution. Recent assessments: wvu-r7 at October 07, 2020 10:52pm UTC reported: Oh dear, another Pulse Secure vuln. Let’s break this...

SharpHose - Asynchronous Password Spraying Tool In C# For Windows Environments

SharpHose is a C password spraying tool designed to be fast, safe, and usable over Cobalt Strike's execute-assembly. It provides a flexible way to interact with Active Directory using domain-joined and non-joined contexts, while also being able to target specific domains and domain controllers...

How bad bots are targeting the healthcare sector

Credential cracking, or password spraying, is one of the most effective ways for cybercriminals to get access to user accounts. It refers to the brute-force automated cracking, or pairing of usernames and passwords by using sophisticated high-speed bots. According to a National Cyber Awareness...

Inside Microsoft Threat Protection: Mapping attack chains from cloud to endpoint

The increasing pervasiveness of cloud services in today’s work environments, accelerated by a crisis that forced companies around the globe to shift to remote work, is significantly changing how defenders must monitor and protect organizations. Corporate data is spread across multiple...

Minimalistic-offensive-security-tools - A Repository Of Tools For Pentesting Of Restricted And Isolated Environments

Minimalistic SMB loginbruteforcer smblogin.ps1 A simple SMB login attack and password spraying tool. It takes a list of targets and credentials username and password as parameters and it tries to authenticate against each target using the provided credentials. Despite its minimalistic design, the...

Spray - A Password Spraying Tool For Active Directory Credentials By Jacob Wilkin(Greenwolf)

A Password Spraying tool for Active Directory Credentials by Jacob WilkinGreenwolf Getting Started These instructions will show you the requirements for and how to use Spray. Prerequisites All requirements come preinstalled on Kali Linux, to run on other flavors or Mac just make sure curlowa & ly...

MSOLSpray - A Password Spraying Tool For Microsoft Online Accounts (Azure/O365)

A password spraying tool for Microsoft Online accounts Azure/O365. The script logs if a user cred is valid, if MFA is enabled on the account, if a tenant doesn't exist, if a user doesn't exist, if the account is locked, or if the account is disabled. BE VERY CAREFUL NOT TO LOCKOUT ACCOUNTS! Why...

Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months

Networking software giant Citrix Systems says malicious hackers were inside its networks for five months between 2018 and 2019, making off with personal and financial data on company employees, contractors, interns, job candidates and their dependents. The disclosure comes almost a year after...

Remote iPhone Exploitation Part 2: Bringing Light into the Darkness -- a Remote ASLR Bypass

Posted by Samuel Groß, Project Zero This post is the second in a series about a remote, interactionless iPhone exploit over iMessage.The first blog post, which introduced the exploited vulnerability, can be found here. The initial primitive gained from the vulnerability is an absolute address...

Critical Citrix Bug Puts 80,000 Corporate LANs at Risk

Digital workspace and enterprise networks vendor Citrix has announced a critical vulnerability in the Citrix Application Delivery Controller ADC and Citrix Gateway. If exploited, it could allow unauthenticated attackers to gain remote access to a company’s local network and carry out arbitrary co...

Iranian Attacks on Industrial Control Systems

New details: At the CyberwarCon conference in Arlington, Virginia, on Thursday, Microsoft security researcher Ned Moran plans to present new findings from the company's threat intelligence group that show a shift in the activity of the Iranian hacker group APT33, also known by the names Holmium,...

Microsoft Reports Global Cyberattacks on Sporting and Anti-Doping Organizations from Russian Espionage Actors

Microsoft publicly released information revealing an uptick in cyberattacks globally targeting anti-doping authorities and sporting organizations. The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC routinely tracks malicious activity originating from the Russian advanced persistent threat APT group 2...