Malwarebytes Labs Cybercrime Tactics and Techniques Report (CTNT) shows shift to business targets in Q3

Once again, it's that time of year: time for the quarterly Malwarebytes Labs Cybercrime Tactics and Techniques Report. Strap in your seat belts, folks, because the third quarter of 2018 was quite a wild ride. After a sleepy first two quarters, cybercriminals shook out the cobwebs and revved up...

MuddyWater expands operations

Summary MuddyWater is a relatively new APT that surfaced in 2017. It has focused mainly on governmental targets in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, according to past telemetry. However, the group behind MuddyWater has been known to target other countries in the Middle East, Europe and the US. We recently...

Virus Bulletin 2018: Turla APT Changes Shape with New Code and Targets

MONTREAL – The Turla APT group’s extensive activities have diversified this year, representing a mix of old code, new code and fresh targets. Perhaps most interesting, this sophisticated group is branching into using scripts and open-source code in its malware development – a marked departure for...

Cybersecurity Researchers Spotted First-Ever UEFI Rootkit in the Wild

Cybersecurity researchers at ESET have unveiled what they claim to be the first-ever UEFI rootkit being used in the wild, allowing hackers to implant persistent malware on the targeted computers that could survive a complete hard-drive wipe. Dubbed LoJax , the UEFI rootkit is part of a malware...

Threat Landscape for Industrial Automation Systems in H1 2018

For many years, Kaspersky Lab experts have been uncovering and researching cyberthreats that target a variety of information systems – those of commercial and government organizations, banks, telecoms operators, industrial enterprises, and individual users. In this report, Kaspersky Lab Industria...

badKarma - Advanced Network Reconnaissance Toolkit

badKarma is a python3 GTK+ network infrastructure penetration testing toolkit. badKarma aim to help the tester in all the penetration testing phases information gathering, vulnerability assessment,exploitation,post-exploitation and reporting. It allow the tester to save time by having...

Dark Tequila: A Distilled Threat for Mexican Targets

Researchers have been tracking an ongoing malicious campaign targeting victims in Mexico, with a highly crafted tool built to steal financial information and login credentials for popular websites. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab said today that the campaign, dubbed Dark Tequila, and its supporting...

Dicoogle PACS 2.5.0 Web Server Directory Traversal Exploit

This module exploits an unauthenticated directory traversal vulnerability in the Dicoogle PACS Web Server v2.5.0 and possibly earlier, allowing an attacker to read arbitrary files with the web server privileges. While the application is java based, the directory traversal was only successful...

IT threat evolution Q2 2018

Targeted attacks and malware campaigns Operation Parliament In April, we reported the workings of Operation Parliament, a cyber-espionage campaign aimed at high-profile legislative, executive and judicial organizations around the world – with its main focus in the MENA Middle East and North Afric...

How a man hacked his victims’ SIM cards to steal millions of dollars

By Waqas Californian Authorities have arrested and charged a 20-year old college student Joel Ortiz for being part of a mobile phone hijacking group who hacked SIM cards. According to reports the detainee managed to hijack over 40 phone numbers and stole $5 million as well from high-profile targe...

Immunity Canvas: SHOW_TIMER_LEAK

Name| showtimerleak ---|--- CVE| CVE-2017-18344 Exploit Pack| CANVAS Description| showtimerleak Notes| CVE Name: CVE-2017-18344 NOTES: This module gives an unpriviledged user the ability to dump a file from the kernel memory. A common scenario is to dump the /etc/shadow or kerberos tickets. Note:...

Google Chrome - Swiftshader Texture Allocation Integer Overflow

Google Chrome - Swiftshader Texture Allocation Integer Overflow There's a remotely triggerable memory corruption issue in SwiftShader that's reachable from WebGL, resulting from an integer overflow issue. In the GPU process there is validation on the sizes passed to texture creation functions to...

Hackers Used Malicious MDM Solution to Spy On 'Highly Targeted' iPhone Users

Security researchers have uncovered a "highly targeted" mobile malware campaign that has been operating since August 2015 and found spying on 13 selected iPhones in India. The attackers, who are also believed to be operating from India, were found abusing mobile device management MDM protocol—a...

Dicoogle PACS Web Server Directory Traversal

This module exploits an unauthenticated directory traversal vulnerability in the Dicoogle PACS Web Server v2.5.0 and possibly earlier, allowing an attacker to read arbitrary files with the web server privileges. While the application is java based, the directory traversal was only successful...

Chinese Espionage Group TEMP.Periscope Targets Cambodia Ahead of July 2018 Elections and Reveals Broad Operations Globally

Introduction FireEye has examined a range of TEMP.Periscope activity revealing extensive interest in Cambodia's politics, with active compromises of multiple Cambodian entities related to the country’s electoral system. This includes compromises of Cambodian government entities charged with...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: ant-1.10.1-10.fc27

Apache Ant is a Java library and command-line tool whose mission is to drive processes described in build files as targets and extension points dependent upon each other. The main known usage of Ant is the build of Java applications. Ant supplies a number of built-in tasks allowing to compile,...

New Malware Family Uses Custom UDP Protocol for C&C Communications

Security researchers have uncovered a new highly-targeted cyber espionage campaign, which is believed to be associated with a hacking group behind KHRAT backdoor Trojan and has been targeting organizations in South East Asia. According to researchers from Palo Alto, the hacking group, which they...

Olympic Destroyer Returns to Target Biochemical Labs

Olympic Destroyer, the threat actor that caused a crippling sabotage attack on the networks supporting this year’s Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, has resurfaced with a spy campaign – and with a wider target range. The new campaign began last month and is ongoing, employing spear-phishi...

Metateta - Automated Tool For Scanning And Exploiting Network Protocols Using Metasploit

Metateta Automated Tool For Scanning And Exploiting Network Protocols Using Metasploit For faster pen testing for large networks What You Can Do Scanning with all metasploit modules for specific network Protocol like smb,smtp,snmp Run all Auxiliary modules against specific network Protocol Run al...

Destructive and MiTM Capabilities of VPNFilter Malware Revealed

It turns out that the threat of the massive VPNFilter botnet malware that was discovered late last month is beyond what we initially thought. Security researchers from Cisco's Talos cyber intelligence have today uncovered more details about VPNFilter malware, an advanced piece of IoT botnet malwa...