Researchers in the Dark on Powerful LightNeuron Malware for Years

LightNeuron, a backdoor specifically designed to target Microsoft Exchange mail servers, has flown under the radar since at least 2014, despite being the malware linchpin at the center of several targeted campaigns. A fresh analysis of the recently uncovered code shows that it’s the first publicl...

What stealthy attacks are hiding in API data — and why do most WAF miss them?!

Is JSON really more secure than other data encoding formats? JSON is a serialization format that allows users to 1 send objects as strings and then 2 it sends applications to recover objects from those strings. So, the short answer is that the JSON format as dangerous as other serialization...

The Fileless, Non-Malware Menace

There’s an old expression: if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck. What happens, though, if the duck in question is malware that doesn’t behave like typical malware? Namely, it doesn’t drop a file on your disk to infect your computer, hijack...

Stealthy Malware Disguises Itself as a WordPress License Key

UPDATE A spam-injecting malware is targeting WordPress site owners by disguising itself as a legitimate license key for a WordPress design theme. According to analysis from Sucuri, a customer opened a malware removal ticket reporting “some weird spam URLs injected onto their WordPress website.”...

Bad Actors Sizing Up Systems Via Lightweight Recon Malware

Well-known financial crime gang Cobalt Group and other threat actors have recently shifted tactics to incorporate lightweight modular downloaders that “vet” target machines for their attractiveness before proceeding with a full-fledged attack. The emergence of the AdvisorsBot and Marap malwares, ...

New Android Malware Framework Turns Apps Into Powerful Spyware

Security researchers have uncovered a new, powerful Android malware framework that is being used by cybercriminals to turn legitimate apps into spyware with extensive surveillance capabilities—as part of what seems to be a targeted espionage campaign. Legitimate Android applications when bundled...

New Trickbot Variant Touts Stealthy Code-Injection Trick

Trickbot has been around since 2016 – but a new variant of the infamous financial trojan has caught the eyes of researchers with a stealthy code-injection technique. Researchers at Cyberbit this week said that they have found a new Trickbot iteration that features a sneaky method of performing...

Researchers Developed Artificial Intelligence-Powered Stealthy Malware

Artificial Intelligence AI has been seen as a potential solution for automatically detecting and combating malware, and stop cyber attacks before they affect any organization. However, the same technology can also be weaponized by threat actors to power a new generation of malware that can evade...

PROPagate Code Injection Seen in the Wild

Last year, researchers wrote about a new Windows code injection technique called PROPagate. Last week, it was first seen in malware: This technique abuses the SetWindowsSubclass function -- a process used to install or update subclass windows running on the system -- and can be used to modify the...

Cryptomining is all the rage among hackers, as DDoS amplification attacks continue

In this week’s InfoSec news review we’ll dive into cryptomining, get the latest on DDoS amplification, go over recent data breaches, and check out another vendor claiming it can crack iPhones. I, me, mine The freight train that’s cryptomining shows no sign of slowing down, and the cyber security...

Dr0p1t-Framework 1.3.2.1 - A Framework That Creates An Advanced FUD Dropper With Some Tricks

Have you ever heard about trojan droppers ? In short dropper is type of malware that downloads other malwares and Dr0p1t gives you the chance to create a stealthy dropper that bypass most AVs and have a lot of tricks. Features + Generated executable properties: The executable size is smaller...

WhatWeb v0.4.9 - Next Generation Web Scanner

WhatWeb identifies websites. Its goal is to answer the question, “What is that Website?”. WhatWeb recognises web technologies including content management systems CMS, blogging platforms, statistic/analytics packages, JavaScript libraries, web servers, and embedded devices. WhatWeb has over 1700...

Dr0p1t Framework 1.3 - A Framework That Creates An Advanced FUD Dropper With Some Tricks

Have you ever heard about trojan droppers ? In short dropper is type of trojans that downloads other malwares and Dr0p1t gives you the chance to create a stealthy dropper that bypass most AVs and have a lot of tricks! Features Generated executable properties: The executable size is smaller compar...

Freedom Fighting - A collection of scripts which may come in handy during your freedom fighting activities

Freedom Fighting scripts This repository contains scripts which may come in handy during your freedom fighting activities. It will be updated occasionally, when I find myself in need of something I can't find online. Everything here is distributed under the terms of the GPL v3 License. nojail.py ...

InfectPE - Inject Custom Code into PE File

Using this tool you can inject x-code/shellcode into PE file. InjectPE works only with 32-bit executable files. Why you need InjectPE? You can test your security products. Use in a phishing campaign. Learn how PE injection works. ...and so on. In the project, there is hardcoded x-code of...

Inject Custom Code Into PE File: InfectPE

Inject Custom Code Into PE File Using this tool you can inject x-code/shellcode into PE file. InjectPE works only with 32-bit executable files. Why you need InjectPE? You can test your security products. Use in a phishing campaign. Learn how PE injection works. …and so on. In the project, there i...

Dissecting One of APT29’s Fileless WMI and PowerShell Backdoors (POSHSPY)

Mandiant has observed APT29 using a stealthy backdoor that we call POSHSPY. POSHSPY leverages two of the tools the group frequently uses: PowerShell and Windows Management Instrumentation WMI. In the investigations Mandiant has conducted, it appeared that APT29 deployed POSHSPY as a secondary...

Dissecting One of APT29’s Fileless WMI and PowerShell Backdoors (POSHSPY)

Mandiant has observed APT29 using a stealthy backdoor that we call POSHSPY. POSHSPY leverages two of the tools the group frequently uses: PowerShell and Windows Management Instrumentation WMI. In the investigations Mandiant has conducted, it appeared that APT29 deployed POSHSPY as a secondary...

Widespread Email Scam Targets Github Developers with Dimnie Trojan

Open source developers who use the popular code-sharing site GitHub were put on alert after the discovery of a phishing email campaign that attempts to infect their computers with an advanced malware trojan. Dubbed Dimnie, the reconnaissance and espionage trojan has the ability to harvest...

APT29 Domain Fronting With TOR

Mandiant has observed Russian nation-state attackers APT29 employing domain fronting techniques for stealthy backdoor access to victim environments for at least two years. There has been considerable discussion about domain fronting following the release of a paper detailing these techniques...