Earth Krahang APT Campaign Targeting Global Governments

Summary: Earth Krahang, an APT campaign since 2022, targets global government entities, employing spear phishing and server exploitation tactics. Operating independently but with potential links to Chinese threat actors, it utilizes malware like Cobalt Strike and XDealer for espionage, urging...

TeamCity Flaw Leads to Surge in Ransomware, Cryptomining, and RAT Attacks

Multiple threat actors are exploiting the recently disclosed security flaws in JetBrains TeamCity software to deploy ransomware, cryptocurrency miners, Cobalt Strike beacons, and a Golang-based remote access trojan called Spark RAT. The attacks entail the exploitation of CVE-2024-27198 CVSS score...

Mustang Panda Targets Asia with Advanced PlugX Variant DOPLUGS

The China-linked threat actor known as Mustang Panda has targeted various Asian countries using a variant of the PlugX aka Korplug backdoor dubbed DOPLUGS. "The piece of customized PlugX malware is dissimilar to the general type of the PlugX malware that contains a completed backdoor command...

Albabat Ransomware Infiltrates via Counter-Strike Cheat Utility

Summary: Albabat ransomware, made its debut in November 2023, emerging as a financially motivated threat crafted in Rust. This ransomware has targeted both corporate entities and individual consumers across diverse geographical regions. Threat Level - Red | Attack Report For a detailed threat...

Hackers Exploiting Ivanti VPN Flaws to Deploy KrustyLoader Malware

A pair of recently disclosed zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure ICS virtual private network VPN devices have been exploited to deliver a Rust-based payload called KrustyLoader that's used to drop the open-source Sliver adversary simulation tool. The security vulnerabilities, tracked as...

Bind For Cleaning Blood And Bullet Marks In Counter-Strike 2

By Owais Sultan One of the most needed functions in the CS console has always been a command that allows you… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Bind For Cleaning Blood And Bullet Marks In Counter-Strike 2...

Alert: Water Curupira Hackers Actively Distributing PikaBot Loader Malware

A threat actor called Water Curupira has been observed actively distributing the PikaBot loader malware as part of spam campaigns in 2023. "PikaBot's operators ran phishing campaigns, targeting victims via its two components — a loader and a core module — which enabled unauthorized remote access...

Turkish Hackers Exploiting Poorly Secured MS SQL Servers Across the Globe

Poorly secured Microsoft SQL MS SQL servers are being targeted in the U.S., European Union, and Latin American LATAM regions as part of an ongoing financially motivated campaign to gain initial access. "The analyzed threat campaign appears to end in one of two ways, either the selling of 'access'...

PT-2024-4006

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions PHP versions 8.1.0 through 8.1.28 PHP versions 8.2.0 through 8.2.19 PHP versions 8.3.0 through 8.3.7 Description An argument injection issue exists in PHP when running on Windows with Apache and PHP-CGI. The flaw occurs because the Windows...

PikaBot distributed via malicious search ads

During this past year, we have seen an increase in the use of malicious ads malvertising and specifically those via search engines, to drop malware targeting businesses. In fact, browser-based attacks overall have been a lot more common if we include social engineering campaigns. Criminals have...

New Hacker Group 'GambleForce' Tageting APAC Firms Using SQL Injection Attacks

A previously unknown hacker outfit called GambleForce has been attributed to a series of SQL injection attacks against companies primarily in the Asia-Pacific APAC region since at least September 2023. "GambleForce uses a set of basic yet very effective techniques, including SQL injections and th...

From Brute-Force to BlueSky Ransomware

Summary: A focused campaign directed at publicly accessible MSSQL servers unfolded, entailing malicious actors utilization of Cobalt Strike and Tor2Mine. After gaining successful network access, the adversaries deployed the BlueSky ransomware across the entire network. Threat Level - Amber | Atta...

Exploit for Cross-site Scripting in Helpsystems Cobalt_Strike

Gui-poc-test A testing tool for CobaltStrike-RCE:CVE-2022-3919...

IT threat evolution Q3 2023

IT threat evolution in Q3 2023 IT threat evolution in Q3 2023. Non-mobile statistics IT threat evolution in Q3 2023. Mobile statistics Targeted attacks Unknown threat actor targets power generator with DroxiDat and Cobalt Strike Earlier this year, we reported on a new variant of SystemBC called...

HiddenDesktop - HVNC For Cobalt Strike

Hidden Desktop often referred to as HVNC is a tool that allows operators to interact with a remote desktop session without the user knowing. The VNC protocol is not involved, but the result is a similar experience. This Cobalt Strike BOF implementation was created as an alternative to...

Update now! SysAid vulnerability is actively being exploited by ransomware affiliate

Users of SysAid on-premises should take action to deal with a vulnerability. SysAid is a widely used IT service management solution that allows IT teams to manage tasks. Microsoft discovered an ongoing exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability in the SysAid IT support software in limited attacks b...

Sandworm Hackers Caused Another Blackout in Ukraine—During a Missile Strike

Russia's most notorious military hackers successfully sabotaged Ukraine's power grid for the third time last year. And in this case, the blackout coincided with a physical attack...

CVE-2023-38312

A directory traversal vulnerability in Valve Counter-Strike 8684 allows a client with remote control access to a game server to read arbitrary files from the underlying server via the motdfile console variable...

CVE-2023-38312

A directory traversal vulnerability in Valve Counter-Strike 8684 allows a client with remote control access to a game server to read arbitrary files from the underlying server via the motdfile console variable...

Directory traversal

A directory traversal vulnerability in Valve Counter-Strike 8684 allows a client with remote control access to a game server to read arbitrary files from the underlying server via the motdfile console variable...