Targeted Attacks In The Middle East

This blog post is authored by Paul Rascagneres with assistance of Martin Lee. Executive Summary Talos has identified a targeted attacks affecting the Middle East. This campaign contains the following elements, which are described in detail in this article. The use of allegedly confidential decoy...

New Flash Player zero-day comes inside Office document

Update 2018-02-06: Adobe has released a patch for this vulnerability. More information is available here. We tested this zero-day with a proof-of concept that was made available. Rather than launching it from within Office, we turned it into a drive-by download attack. The animation below shows...

Software Defined Radio Attack Tool: RFCrack

RFCrack is my personal RF test bench, it was developed for testing RF communications between any physical device that communicates over sub Ghz frequencies. IoT devices, Cars, Alarm Systems etc… Testing was done with the Yardstick One on OSX, but RFCrack should work fine in linux. Current support...

4 Predictions for the Cybersecurity Landscape in 2018

Targeted attacks are on the rise, and the dark web isn’t helping curb that trend. To compound this, the recent revelations on Shadow Brokers and CIA Vault 7, as well as burgeoning nation-state cyber capabilities aren’t helping either. It’s only a matter of time before more attack methods are...

Excerpts from The Ransomware Economy: Projections

Carbon Black recently published an investigative report on the Dark Web marketplace for ransomware. This is the final excerpt from that report, which you can find here. For more information about the rise of ransomware, and what you can do about it, check out the Ransomware Epidemic: Stop Bad...

Silence Gang Borrows From Carbanak To Steal From Banks

A cybercrime outfit stealing from as many as 10 banks in Russia, Armenia and Malaysia has borrowed heavily from one of the kingpins in this realm, Carbanak, which is alleged to have stolen possibly as much as $1 billion worldwide from financial organizations. The new group has been called Silence...

Analyzing an exploit for СVE-2017-11826

The latest Patch Tuesday 17 October brought patches for 62 vulnerabilities, including one that fixed СVE-2017-11826 – a critical zero-day vulnerability used to launch targeted attacks – in all versions of Microsoft Office. The exploit for this vulnerability is an RTF document containing a DOCX...

Google’s ‘Advanced Protection’ Tools Trade Ease-of-Use for Security

Government officials and journalists who use Google services were the first to be invited to use advanced Gmail account security services announced Tuesday. Experts say it’s no security panacea, but tools provided under the Google banner called Advanced Protection empower any private Google users...

MGASA-2017-0377 Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix security vulnerability

Adobe Flash Player 27.0.0.170 addresses a critical type confusion vulnerability that could lead to code execution CVE-2017-11292. Adobe is aware of a report that an exploit for CVE-2017-11292 exists in the wild, and is being used in limited, targeted attacks against users running Windows...

CVE-2017-15361

The Infineon RSA library 1.02.013 in Infineon Trusted Platform Module TPM firmware, such as versions before 0000000000000422 - 4.34, before 000000000000062b - 6.43, and before 0000000000008521 - 133.33, mishandles RSA key generation, which makes it easier for attackers to defeat various...

BlackOasis APT and new targeted attacks leveraging zero-day exploit

More information about BlackOasis APT is available to customers of Kaspersky Intelligence Reporting Service. Contact: [email protected] Introduction Kaspersky Lab has always worked closely with vendors to protect users. As soon as we find new vulnerabilities we immediately inform the...

FormBook—Cheap Password Stealing Malware Used In Targeted Attacks

It seems sophisticated hackers have changed the way they conduct targeted cyber operations—instead of investing in zero-days and developing their malware; some hacking groups have now started using ready-made malware just like script kiddies. Possibly, this could be a smart move for state-sponsor...

EternalBlue Exploit Used in Retefe Banking Trojan Campaign

Criminals behind the Retefe banking Trojan have added a new component to their malware that uses the NSA exploit EternalBlue. The update makes Retefe the latest malware family to adopt the SMBv1 attack against a patched Windows vulnerability, and could signal an emerging trend, said researchers a...

7 Predictions for Ransomware’s Evolution

During the past six months, the Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit TAU analyzed more than 1,000 ransomware samples, categorizing them into 150 families, and found attackers are looking to make quick, easy money with unsophisticated malware, combined with sophisticated delivery methods. Our samplin...

PSA: New Microsoft Word 0day used in the wild

Microsoft has just patched an important vulnerability in Microsoft Word during its latest patch Tuesday cycle. According to the security firm that found it 1, this new zero-day CVE-2017-8759 was used in targeted attacks to install a piece of malware known as FinFisher. Microsoft Office has been i...

IDN Homograph Attack Spreading Betabot Backdoor

An IDN homograph attack leveraging Adobe’s brand has been discovered, with the malicious site spreading the Betabot backdoor and ultimately infecting compromised machines with cryptocurrency-mining and data-stealing malware. Attacks using internationalized domain name homographs rely on users...

This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

Neutralization reaction

Incident Response Guide PDF Despite there being no revolutionary changes to the cyberthreat landscape in the last few years, the growing informatization of business processes provides cybercriminals with numerous opportunities for attacks. They are focusing on targeted attacks and learning to use...

Targeted Attack Landscape: A Continuing Threat

When planning the cyber defenses of an organization, it's important to factor in the total threat landscape - including continuing threats as well as emerging security issues. In this way, organizations can create a more holistic data protection posture. While not seen in many headlines currently...

IT threat evolution Q2 2017

Targeted attacks and malware campaigns Back to the future: looking for a link between old and new APTs This year's Security Analyst Summit SAS included interesting research findings on several targeted attack campaigns. For example, researchers from Kaspersky Lab and King's College London present...