Stories from the SOC Part 2: MSIX Installer Utilizes Telegram Bot to Execute IDAT Loader

Rapid7’s Managed Detection and Response MDR team continuously monitors our customers' environments, identifying emerging threats and developing new detections. In August 2023, Rapid7 identified a new malware loader named the IDAT Loader. Malware loaders are a type of malicious software designed t...

Domain Squatting and Brand Hijacking: A Silent Threat to Digital Enterprises

By Waqas Domain squatting can lead you to malicious websites, and it might be too late to realize what actually happened. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Domain Squatting and Brand Hijacking: A Silent Threat to Digital Enterprises...

Cybercrime Takes Advantage of 2023-Recession with Job-Themed Scams

Cybercrime Takes Advantage of 2023 Recession with Job-Themed Scams By Daksh Kapur · February 28, 2023 Figure 1 image from freepik.com and flaticon.com The current economic climate globally is grim because of the ongoing recession. In this environment, job-themed emails have become a prime target...

Cybercrime Takes Advantage of 2023-Recession with Job-Themed Scams

Cybercrime Takes Advantage of 2023 Recession with Job-Themed Scams By Daksh Kapur · February 28, 2023 Figure 1 image from freepik.com and flaticon.com The current economic climate globally is grim because of the ongoing recession. In this environment, job-themed emails have become a prime target...

A week in security (September 19 – 25)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Hookup site targeted by typo-squatters American Airlines suffers data breach after phishing incident Grand Theft Auto 6 suffers grand theft EDR vs MDR vs XDR - Whats the Difference? Scammers send fake 'Energy Bills Support Scheme' texts Tax refund phish logs...

Hookup site targeted by typo-squatters

Ethical hacker and security researcher Kody Kinzie shared with BleepingComputer a list of over 50 domains of which many are spelling variations of the brand name Sniffies. Sniffies identifies itself as a "modern, map-based, meetup app for gay, bi, and curious guys." Kody used an open source tool...

CVE-2022-31156 Gradle's dependency verification can ignore checksum verification when signature verification cannot be performed

Gradle is a build tool. Dependency verification is a security feature in Gradle Build Tool that was introduced to allow validation of external dependencies either through their checksum or cryptographic signatures. In versions 6.2 through 7.4.2, there are some cases in which Gradle may skip that...

CVE-2022-31156

CVE-2022-31156 : Gradle’s dependency verification can skip checksum verification when signature verification cannot be performed. Affected versions: 6.2–7.4.2. If verification metadata contains only a gpg element (no checksum) or if there is no signature file on the remote repo, Gradle may accept...

CVE-2022-31156 Gradle's dependency verification can ignore checksum verification when signature verification cannot be performed

Gradle is a build tool. Dependency verification is a security feature in Gradle Build Tool that was introduced to allow validation of external dependencies either through their checksum or cryptographic signatures. In versions 6.2 through 7.4.2, there are some cases in which Gradle may skip that...

Researchers Uncover Malicious NPM Packages Stealing Data from Apps and Web Forms

A widespread software supply chain attack has targeted the NPM package manager at least since December 2021 with rogue modules designed to steal data entered in forms by users on websites that include them. The coordinated attack, dubbed IconBurst by ReversingLabs, involves no fewer than two doze...

Cargo prior to Rust 1.26.0 may download the wrong dependency

Cargo prior to Rust 1.26.0 may download the wrong dependency if your package.toml file uses the package configuration key. Usage of the package key to rename dependencies in Cargo.toml is ignored in Rust 1.25.0 and prior. When Rust 1.25.0 and prior is used Cargo may download the wrong dependency,...

openSquat - Detection Of Phishing Domains And Domain Squatting. Supports Permutations Such As Homograph Attack, Typosquatting And Bitsquatting

What is openSquat openSquat is an opensource Intelligence OSINT security tool to identify cyber squatting threats to specific companies or domains, such as: Phishing campaigns Domain squatting Typo squatting Bitsquatting IDN homograph attacks Doppenganger domains Other brand/domain related scams ...

Name squatting

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Creating profiles through LensHub/PublishingLogic.createProfile does not cost anything and will therefore result in "name squatting". A whitelisted profile creator will create many handles that are in demand, even if they don't need them, just to flip th...

Rewards squatting - setting rewards in different ERC20 tokens opens various economic attacks.

Handle moose-code Vulnerability details Impact Users have essentially have an option to either claim currently earned reward amounts on future rewards tokens, or the current rewards token. Although stated on line 84, it does not take into account the implications and lock in this contract will ha...

GHSA-MMPH-WP49-R48H Malicious Package in experss

All versions of experss typosquatted a popular package of similar name and tracked users who had installed the incorrect package. The package uploaded information to a remote server including: name of the downloaded package, name of the intended package, the Node version and whether the process w...

URLCrazy - Generate And Test Domain Typos And Variations To Detect And Perform Typo Squatting, URL Hijacking, Phishing, And Corporate Espionage

URLCrazy is an OSINT tool to generate and test domain typos or variations to detect or perform typo squatting, URL hijacking, phishing, and corporate espionage. Homepage: https://www.morningstarsecurity.com/research/urlcrazy Use Cases Detect typo squatters profiting from typos on your domain name...

CVE-2019-16760

Cargo prior to Rust 1.26.0 may download the wrong dependency if your package.toml file uses the package configuration key. Usage of the package key to rename dependencies in Cargo.toml is ignored in Rust 1.25.0 and prior. When Rust 1.25.0 and prior is used Cargo may download the wrong dependency,...

Malicious Package

Overview All versions of requeest typosquatted a popular package of similar name and tracked users who had installed the incorrect package. The package uploaded information to a remote server including: name of the downloaded package, name of the intended package, the Node version and whether the...

Malicious Typo-Squatting

jquey is a maliciously typo-squatting package. During the installation of this package, the user’s private SSH key and bash history are set to a third party server...

Malicious Typo-Squatting

coffescript is a maliciously typo-squatting package. During the installation of these packages, the user’s private SSH key and bash history are set to a third party server...