Case Study: A Cryptomining Attack — With an Assist From Advanced Malware Techniques

In Carbon Black's Quarterly Incident Response Threat Report QIRTR, some of the world’s leading incident response IR professionals reported seeing an uptick in lateral movement, counter incident response, and island-hopping attacks from motivated nation-states. In the case study below, Kroll notes...

NCCIC Webinar Series on Russian Government Cyber Activity

NCCIC is holding a webinar on Russian government cyber activity against critical infrastructure as detailed in NCCIC Alert TA18-074A today from 1–2:30 p.m. ET. The webinar will feature NCCIC subject matter experts discussing recent cybersecurity incidents, mitigation techniques, and resources tha...

A mining multitool

Recently, an interesting miner implementation appeared on Kaspersky Lab's radar. The malware, which we dubbed PowerGhost, is capable of stealthily establishing itself in a system and spreading across large corporate networks infecting both workstations and servers. This type of hidden consolidati...

Unicorn Suspicious Evasion Technique

Known exploits could potentially bypass security products by using Unicorn tool obfuscation techniques. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow execution of arbitrary code on a vulnerable system...

PoshRat Command Control Attempt

PoshRat is an open source tool that uses evasions techniques for reverse interactive PowerShell. A remote attacker can send malicious file that triggers the vulnerability...

Road navigation systems can be spoofed using $223 equipment

By Waqas Researchers from a number of renowned institutions including Virginia Tech, the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and Microsoft Research have concluded that it is possible to spoof GPS signals and send people in the wrong direction. The ironic part is that such an...

The Trickster Hackers – Backdoor Obfuscation and Evasion Techniques

A backdoor is a method for bypassing the normal authentication or encryption of a system. Sometimes developers construct backdoors to their own programs for various reasons. For example, to provide easy maintenance, developers introduce a backdoor that enables them to restore the manufacturer’s...

Top 5 my own security audit fails

I have been in application security since 2009. Since that time I was involved in more than 300 different projects and sometimes even discovered new things like SSRF or the first XXE OOB FTP exploitation. Today I’d like to talk about my fails during my 300+ projects to ensure you don’t repeat my...

Security Bulletin: Incorrect certficate validation vulnerability in IBM MQ.NET Managed Client (CVE-2018-1543)

Summary IBM MQ Managed .NET Client could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the failure to properly validate the SSL certificate. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information using man in the middle techniques Vulnerability Details...

Mylobot Botnet Emerges with Rare Level of Complexity

An unusual botnet dubbed Mylobot has emerged, percolating up from the Dark Web – and displaying a never-before-seen level of complexity in terms of the sheer breadth of its various tools, especially evasion techniques. According to an analysis posted on Tuesday by Tom Nipravsky, a security...

Prowli Malware Targeting Servers, Routers, and IoT Devices

After the discovery of massive VPNFilter malware botnet, security researchers have now uncovered another giant botnet that has already compromised more than 40,000 servers, modems and internet-connected devices belonging to a wide number of organizations across the world. Dubbed Operation Prowli,...

DejaVU - Open Source Deception Framework

Deception techniques if deployed well can be very effective for organizations to improve network defense and can be a useful arsenal for blue teams to detect attacks at very early stage of cyber kill chain. But the challenge we have seen is deploying, managing and administering decoys across larg...

CVE-2018-4990 Adobe Reader code execution exploit analysis-exploit warning-the black bar safety net

2018 5 on 15 September, ESET released the article“A tale of two zero-days”, the article disclosed this year 3 month ESET in malware scan engine VirusTotal on the capture of the one used to attack the test PDF document. The PDF document contains a sample of two pieces of 0-day Vulnerability,...

Despite Ringleader’s Arrest, Cobalt Group Still Active

Evidence has surfaced that the Cobalt Group – the threat actors behind widespread attacks on banks and ATM jackpotting campaigns across Europe – is continuing to operate, despite the arrest of its accused ringleader in March. The Cobalt Group, first burst on the scene in 2016: in a single night,...

techniques-ingenieur.fr XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-622822 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| techniques-ingenieur.fr Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Phishing Spy Campaign Targets Top Mideast Officials

Researchers have discovered a phishing campaign that infected Android devices with custom surveillance-ware bent on extracting data from top officials, primarily in the Middle East. Researchers at Lookout Security told Threatpost that the tool, dubbed Stealth Mango, has been used to collect over ...

Secrets of the Wiper: Inside the World's Most Destructive Malware

Shamoon, Black Energy, Destover, ExPetr/Not Petya and Olympic Destroyer: All of these wiper malwares, and others like them, have a singular purpose of destroying systems and/or data, usually causing great financial and reputational damage to victim companies. However, the threat actors behind thi...

AutoTTP - Automated Tactics Techniques & Procedures

Automated Tactics Techniques & Procedures. Re-running complex sequences manually for regression tests, product evaluations, generate data for researchers & so on can be tedious. I toyed with the idea of making it easier to script Empire or any frameworks/products/toolkits that provide APIs like...

Phishing in the Wild: A New Threat Research Paper

Phishing is an extremely common attack vector that has been used for many years, and the potential impact and risks involved are well known to most Internet users. Despite this, phishing is still a highly relevant attack method being used in the wild, affecting many people. The question is, how c...

Invoke-ATTACKAPI - A PowerShell Script To Interact With The MITRE ATT& CK Framework Via Its Own API

A PowerShell script to interact with the MITRE ATT&CK Framework via its own API in order to gather information about techniques, tactics, groups, software and references provided by the MITRE ATT&CK Team @MITREattack. Goals Provide an easy way to interact with the MITRE ATT&CK Framework via its o...