Hunting COM Objects (Part Two)

Background As a follow up to Part One in this blog series on COM object hunting, this post will talk about taking the COM object hunting methodology deeper by looking at interesting COM object methods exposed in properties and sub-properties of COM objects. What is a COM Object? According to...

It's alive: Threat actors cobble together open-source pieces into monstrous Frankenstein campaign

This blog was authored by Danny Adamitis, David Maynor and Kendall McKay. Executive summary Cisco Talos recently identified a series of documents that we believe are part of a coordinated series of cyber attacks that we are calling the "Frankenstein" campaign. We assess that the attackers carried...

New Linux Malware ‘HiddenWasp’ Borrows from Mirai, Azazel

A new strain of malware targeting Linux systems has been identified by researchers. The malware, dubbed HiddenWasp, is believed to be used as part of a second-stage attack against already-compromised systems and is composed of a rootkit, trojan and deployment script. “The ratio of Linux threats h...

Graffiti - A Tool To Generate Obfuscated One Liners To Aid In Penetration Testing

NOTE : Never upload payloads to online checkers Graffiti is a tool to generate obfuscated oneliners to aid in penetration testing situations. Graffiti accepts the following languages for encoding: Python Perl Batch Powershell PHP Bash Graffiti will also accept a language that is not currently on...

Recent MuddyWater-associated BlackWater campaign shows signs of new anti-detection techniques

This blog was authored by Danny Adamitis, David Maynor, and Kendall McKay Executive summary Cisco Talos assesses with moderate confidence that a campaign we recently discovered called "BlackWater" is associated with suspected persistent threat actor MuddyWater. Newly associated samples from April...

Another Intel Chip Flaw

Remember the Spectre and Meltdown attacks from last year? They were a new class of attacks against complex CPUs, finding subliminal channels in optimization techniques that allow hackers to steal information. Since their discovery, researchers have found additional similar vulnerabilities. A whol...

Used to bypass the posture formed SSRF acquiring India's biggest stock broker company AWS password credentials-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Hello everyone, today share of it is the author in response to India's biggest stock broker company for security testing, by different levels of the bypassing techniques Bypass, and eventually acquired the company AWS password credentials in the process. Where to WAF bypassing, as well as further...

Latest Bypassing Techniques Beats SOAP/XML API Protection

Latest Bypassing Techniques Beat SOAP/XML API Protection It is impossible to protect APIs unless you take a deep dive into the protocols implemented over the standard HTTP. Most security tools are not protecting data where it’s most vulnerable, inside the XML schema itself. These encoding attacks...

Chinese Hackers Behind 2015 Anthem Data Breach Indicted

Two Chinese nationals have been charged in the massive 2015 data breach of health insurer Anthem that impacted more than 78 million people. Fujie Wang, 32, and another Chinese man, who remains unnamed, were allegedly part of a China-based hacking group that was behind the breach of Indiana-based...

Detecting credential theft through memory access modelling with Microsoft Defender ATP

Stealing user credentials is a key step for attackers to move laterally across victim networks. In today’s attacks, we see a range of tools used to achieve credential theft, requiring protections that target the root behavior and not just individual known tools as is often done by traditional...

I know what you did last summer, MuddyWater blending in the crowd

Introduction MuddyWater is an APT with a focus on governmental and telco targets in the Middle East Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon and also a few other countries in nearby regions Azerbaijan, Pakistan and Afghanistan. MuddyWater first surfaced in 2017 and has been active...

GoDaddy Shutters 15,000 Subdomains Tied to 'Snake Oil' Scams

Researchers at the security firm Palo Alto Networks worked with domain registrar and web hosting firm GoDaddy to shut down 15,000 subdomains pitching ‘snake oil’ products and other scams. The takedowns are linked to affiliate marketing campaigns peddling everything from weight-loss solutions and...

Towards an Information Operations Kill Chain

Cyberattacks don't magically happen; they involve a series of steps. And far from being helpless, defenders can disrupt the attack at any of those steps. This framing has led to something called the "cybersecurity kill chain": a way of thinking about cyber defense in terms of disrupting the...

FBI: BEC Scam Losses Almost Double To Reach $1.2 Billion

Business email compromise BEC scams are squeezing more money than ever out of victims, with losses from the attacks almost doubling year-over-year in 2018 to reach $1.2 billion. That’s according to the FBI’s annual Internet Crime Report IC3 for 2018, which records the number of complaints, losses...

One_gadget and UAF combined with the use of a heap overflow vulnerability research-exploit warning-the black bar safety net

! Overview: through a simple ROP topics understanding Onegadget works, then use it to provide the ROP chain to achieve a heap of UAF vulnerabilities. Stack Overflow as a CTF pwn a big question, very worthy of study. The present article is for a certain Stack Overflow, and the stack use of the...

Malspam Campaigns Distribute HawkEye Keylogger, Post Ownership Change

The HawkEye malware kit and information-stealer has been spotted in a newfound slew of campaigns after a recent ownership change. While the keylogger has been in continuous development since 2013, in December a thread on a hacking site noted an ownership change, after which posts on hacking forum...

Pick-Six: Intercepting a FIN6 Intrusion, an Actor Recently Tied to Ryuk and LockerGoga Ransomware

Summary Recently, FireEye Managed Defense detected and responded to a FIN6 intrusion at a customer within the engineering industry, which seemed out of character due to FIN6’s historical targeting of payment card data. The intent of the intrusion was initially unclear because the customer did not...

Using Semmle QL vulnerability out Part2-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

First part of this series introduced the Semmle QL, as well as the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC how to use it to review to our report the vulnerability. This article discusses a How do we take the initiative to use it examples, including Azure firmware component of a security audit. Th...

Malware Payloads Hide in Images: Steganography Gets a Reboot

One of the challenges of cybersecurity is that overfocusing on one threat trend means that another one can sneak up on you. This is especially problematic as our networks and the attack surface expands. Beyond threat vectors, though, we also need to pay attention to the entire spectrum of threat...

Dissecting a NETWIRE Phishing Campaign's Usage of Process Hollowing

Introduction Malware authors attempt to evade detection by executing their payload without having to write the executable file on the disk. One of the most commonly seen techniques of this "fileless" execution is code injection. Rather than executing the malware directly, attackers inject the...