Hackers Targeting Myanmar Use Domain Fronting to Hide Malicious Activities

A malicious campaign has been found leveraging a technique called domain fronting to hide command-and-control traffic by leveraging a legitimate domain owned by the Myanmar government to route communications to an attacker-controlled server with the goal of evading detection. The threat, which wa...

Attackers use domain fronting technique to target Myanmar with Cobalt Strike

By Chetan Raghuprasad, Vanja Svajcer and Asheer Malhotra. News Summary Cisco Talos discovered a new malicious campaign using a leaked version of Cobalt Strike in September 2021. This shows that Cobalt Strike, although it was originally created as a legitimate tool, continues to be something... Th...

A multi-stage PowerShell based attack targets Kazakhstan

This blog post was authored by Hossein Jazi. On November 10 we identified a multi-stage PowerShell attack using a document lure impersonating the Kazakh Ministry of Health Care, leading us to believe it targets Kazakhstan. A threat actor under the user name of DangerSklif perhaps in reference to...

TrickBot Operators Partner with Shathak Attackers for Conti Ransomware

The operators of TrickBot trojan are collaborating with the Shathak threat group to distribute their wares, ultimately leading to the deployment of Conti ransomware on infected machines. "The implementation of TrickBot has evolved over the years, with recent versions of TrickBot implementing...

CVE-2021-37158

An issue was discovered in OpenGamePanel OGP-Agent-Linux through 2021-08-14. An authenticated attacker could inject OS commands by starting a Counter-Strike server and using the map field to enter a Bash command...

CVE-2021-37158

An issue was discovered in OpenGamePanel OGP-Agent-Linux through 2021-08-14. An authenticated attacker could inject OS commands by starting a Counter-Strike server and using the map field to enter a Bash command...

Command injection

An issue was discovered in OpenGamePanel OGP-Agent-Linux through 2021-08-14. An authenticated attacker could inject OS commands by starting a Counter-Strike server and using the map field to enter a Bash command...

Open Game Panel 操作系统命令注入漏洞

Open Game Panel is an open source game server control panel. It uses a web interface PHP/MySQL to control the agent Perl running on the server hosting the game. It is used to start/stop/monitor game server instances. A security vulnerability exists in Open Game Panel OGP-Agent-Linux, which stems...

CVE-2021-37158

OpenGamePanel OGP-Agent-Linux (affected through 2021-08-14) is vulnerable to an authenticated command-injection where an attacker can start a Counter-Strike server and inject OS commands by entering a Bash command in the map field. The issue is described consistently across multiple sources (e.g....

CVE-2021-37158

An issue was discovered in OpenGamePanel OGP-Agent-Linux through 2021-08-14. An authenticated attacker could inject OS commands by starting a Counter-Strike server and using the map field to enter a Bash command...

Zebra2104 Initial Access Broker Supports Rival Malware Gangs, APTs

Three separate threat groups are all using a common initial access broker IAB to enable their cyberattacks, according to researchers – a finding that has revealed a tangled web of related attack infrastructure underpinning disparate and in some cases rival malware campaigns. The BlackBerry Resear...

10-Strike Network Inventory Explorer Pro 9.31 Unquoted Service Path

Exploit Title: 10-Strike Network Inventory Explorer Pro 9.31 - 'srvInventoryWebServer' Unquoted Service Path Discovery by: Brian Rodriguez Date: 04-11-2021 Vendor Homepage: https://www.10-strike.com/ Software Link: https://www.10-strike.com/networkinventoryexplorer/network-inventory-pro-setup.exe...

DCOM abuse and lateral movement with Cobalt Strike

Introduction When researching lateral movement techniques I came across a post from Raphael Mudge of Cobalt Strike fame. He details scripting an Aggressor Script for Matt Nelson’s MMC20.Application Lateral Movement technique. Reading that post spurred me to make my own DCOM based lateral movement...

10-Strike Network Inventory Explorer Pro 9.31 - Buffer Overflow (SEH)

Exploit Title: 10-Strike Network Inventory Explorer Pro 9.31 - Buffer Overflow SEH Date: 2021-10-31 Exploit Author: ro0k Vendor Homepage: https://www.10-strike.com/ Software Link: https://www.10-strike.com/networkinventoryexplorer/network-inventory-pro-setup.exe Version: 9.31 Tested on: Windows 1...

Hackers Using Squirrelwaffle Loader to Deploy Qakbot and Cobalt Strike

A new spam email campaign has emerged as a conduit for a previously undocumented malware loader that enables the attackers to gain an initial foothold into enterprise networks and drop malicious payloads on compromised systems. "These infections are also used to facilitate the delivery of...

SQUIRRELWAFFLE Leverages malspam to deliver Qakbot, Cobalt Strike

By Edmund Brumaghin, Mariano Graziano and Nick Mavis. Executive summary Recently, a new threat, referred to as "SQUIRRELWAFFLE" is being spread more widely via spam campaigns, infecting systems with a new malware loader. This is a malware family that's been spread with increasing regularity and...

SquirrelWaffle Loader Malspams, Packs Qakbot, Cobalt Strike

SquirrelWaffle, a new malware loader, is mal-spamming malicious Microsoft Office documents to deliver Qakbot malware and the penetration-testing tool Cobalt Strike – two of the most common threats regularly observed targeting organizations around the world. Cisco Talos researchers said on Tuesday...

PortBender - TCP Port Redirection Utility

PortBender is a TCP port redirection utility that allows a red team operator to redirect inbound traffic destined for one TCP port e.g., 445/TCP to another TCP port e.g., 8445/TCP. PortBender includes an aggressor script that operators can leverage to integrate the tool with Cobalt Strike. Howeve...

TA551 Shifts Tactics to Install Sliver Red-Teaming Tool

The criminal threat group known as TA551 has added the Sliver red-teaming tool to its bag of tracks – a move that may signal ramped up ransomware attacks ahead, researchers said. According to Proofpoint researchers, TA551 aka Shathak has been mounting cyberattacks that start with email thread...

Squirrel Bug Lets Attackers Execute Code in Games, Cloud Services

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the Squirrel programming language lets attackers break out of sandbox restrictions and execute arbitrary code within a Squirrel virtual machine VM, thus giving a malicious actor complete access to the underlying machine. Given where Squirrel lives – in games...