Ransomware Group FIN12 Aggressively Going After Healthcare Targets

An "aggressive" financially motivated threat actor has been identified as linked to a string of RYUK ransomware attacks since October 2018, while maintaining close partnerships with TrickBot-affiliated threat actors and using a publicly available arsenal of tools such as Cobalt Strike Beacon...

Open Game Panel Remote Code Execution

Exploit Title: Open Game Panel - Remote Code Execution RCE Authenticated Google Dork: intext:"Open Game Panel 2021" Date: 08/14/2021 Exploit Author: prey Vendor Homepage: https://www.opengamepanel.org/ Software Link: https://github.com/OpenGamePanel/OGP-Website Version: before 14 Aug patch...

Open Game Panel - Remote Code Execution (RCE) (Authenticated)

Exploit Title: Open Game Panel - Remote Code Execution RCE Authenticated Google Dork: intext:"Open Game Panel 2021" Date: 08/14/2021 Exploit Author: prey Vendor Homepage: https://www.opengamepanel.org/ Software Link: https://github.com/OpenGamePanel/OGP-Website Version: before 14 Aug patch...

Conti Ransomware Expands Ability to Blow Up Backups

Good at identifying and obliterating backups? Speak Russian? The notorious Conti ransomware group may find you a fine hiring prospect. That’s according to a report published on Wednesday by cyber-risk prevention firm Advanced Intelligence, which details how Conti has honed its backup destruction ...

New Mac malware masquerades as iTerm2, Remote Desktop and other apps

Last week, security researcher Patrick Wardle released details of a new piece of malware masquerading as the legitimate app iTerm2. The malware was discovered earlier the same day by security researcher Zhi @CodeColorist on Twitter, and detailed on a Chinese-language blog. For those who dont spea...

The Ransomware Killchain: How It Works, and How to Protect Your Systems

Much ado has been made by this very author on this very blog! about the incentives for attackers and defenders around ransomware. There is also a wealth of information on the internet about how to protect yourself from ransomware. One thing we want to avoid losing sight of, however, is just how w...

Windows MSHTML 0-Day Exploited to Deploy Cobalt Strike Beacon in Targeted Attacks

Microsoft on Wednesday disclosed details of a targeted phishing campaign that leveraged a now-patched zero-day flaw in its MSHTML platform using specially-crafted Office documents to deploy Cobalt Strike Beacon on compromised Windows systems. "These attacks used the vulnerability, tracked as...

Analyzing attacks that exploit the CVE-2021-40444 MSHTML vulnerability

In August, Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC identified a small number of attacks less than 10 that attempted to exploit a remote code execution vulnerability in MSHTML using specially crafted Microsoft Office documents. These attacks used the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-40444, as...

Analyzing attacks that exploit the CVE-2021-40444 MSHTML vulnerability

In August, Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC identified a small number of attacks less than 10 that attempted to exploit a remote code execution vulnerability in MSHTML using specially crafted Microsoft Office documents. These attacks used the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-40444, as...

Linux Implementation of Cobalt Strike Beacon Targeting Organizations Worldwide

Researchers on Monday took the wraps off a newly discovered Linux and Windows re-implementation of Cobalt Strike Beacon that's actively set its sights on government, telecommunications, information technology, and financial institutions in the wild. The as-yet undetected version of the penetratio...

FBI Releases Indicators of Compromise Associated with OnePercent Group Ransomware

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released a Flash report detailing indicators of compromise IOCs associated with ransomware attacks by the OnePercent Group, a cyber-criminal organization known since November 2020 for using Cobalt Strike in phishing attacks against U.S. companies. CISA...

REW-sploit - Emulate And Dissect MSF And *Other* Attacks

REW-sploit The tool has been presented at Black-Hat Arsenal USA 2021 https://www.blackhat.com/us-21/arsenal/schedule/index.htmlrew-sploit-dissecting-metasploit-attacks-24086 Slides of presentation are available at https://github.com/REW-sploit/REW-sploitdocs Need help in analyzing Windows shellco...

InkySquid State Actor Exploiting Known IE Bugs

The InkySquid advanced persistent threat APT group, which researchers have linked to the North Korean government, was caught launching watering hole attacks against a South Korean newspaper using known Internet Explorer vulnerabilities. New analysis from Volexity reported its team of researchers...

NK Hackers Deploy Browser Exploits on South Korean Sites to Spread Malware

A North Korean threat actor has been discovered taking advantage of two exploits in Internet Explorer to infect victims with a custom implant as part of a strategic web compromise SWC targeting a South Korean online newspaper. Cybersecurity firm Volexity attributed the watering hole attacks to a...

New Trickbot attack setup fake 1Password installer to extract data

By Waqas The fake 1Password installer is used to launch Cobalt Strike helping the attackers collect information about multiple systems in the network. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New Trickbot attack setup fake 1Password installer to extract data...

Cobalt Strike Vulnerability Affects Botnet Servers

Cobalt Strike is a security tool, used by penetration testers to simulate network attackers. But its also used by attackers -- from criminals to governments -- to automate their own attacks. Researchers have found a vulnerability in the product. The main components of the security tool are the...

CVE-2021-36798

A Denial-of-Service DoS vulnerability was discovered in Team Server in HelpSystems Cobalt Strike 4.2 and 4.3. It allows remote attackers to crash the C2 server thread and block beacons' communication with it...

CVE-2021-36798

A Denial-of-Service DoS vulnerability was discovered in Team Server in HelpSystems Cobalt Strike 4.2 and 4.3. It allows remote attackers to crash the C2 server thread and block beacons' communication with it...

CVE-2021-36798

A Denial-of-Service DoS vulnerability was discovered in Team Server in HelpSystems Cobalt Strike 4.2 and 4.3. It allows remote attackers to crash the C2 server thread and block beacons' communication with it...

Denial of service

A Denial-of-Service DoS vulnerability was discovered in Team Server in HelpSystems Cobalt Strike 4.2 and 4.3. It allows remote attackers to crash the C2 server thread and block beacons' communication with it...