GhostEmperor: From ProxyLogon to kernel mode

Download GhostEmperors technical details PDF While investigating a recent rise of attacks against Exchange servers, we noticed a recurring cluster of activity that appeared in several distinct compromised networks. This cluster stood out for its usage of a formerly unknown Windows kernel mode...

PayloadsAllTheThings

It is an offensive tool for Web Application Security. The repository, PayloadsAllTheThings, contains a list of useful payloads and bypass techniques for web application security and penetration testing/CTF. The provided code snippet is a GitHub funding model configuration file .github/FUNDING.yml...

Kodex - A Privacy And Security Engineering Toolkit: Discover, Understand, Pseudonymize, Anonymize, Encrypt And Securely Share Sensitive And Personal Data: Privacy And Security As Code

Kodex Community Edition - CE is an open-source toolkit for privacy and security engineering. It helps you to automate data security and data protection measures in your data engineering workflows. It offers the following functionality: Read data items from a variety of sources such as files,...

New Android Malware Steals Financial Data from 378 Banking and Wallet Apps

The operators behind the BlackRock mobile malware have surfaced back with a new Android banking trojan called ERMAC that targets Poland and has its roots in the infamous Cerberus malware, according to the latest research. "The new trojan already has active distribution campaigns and is targeting...

A New Jupyter Malware Version is Being Distributed via MSI Installers

Cybersecurity researchers have charted the evolution of Jupyter, a .NET infostealer known for singling out healthcare and education sectors, which make it exceptional at defeating most endpoint security scanning solutions. The new delivery chain, spotted by Morphisec on September 8, underscores...

Examining the Cring Ransomware Techniques

In this entry, we look at the techniques typically employed by the Cring ransomware, as well as the most affected regions and industries...

BlackMatter Ransomware Analysis; The Dark Side Returns

ARCHIVED STORY BlackMatter Ransomware Analysis; The Dark Side Returns By Alexandre Mundo and Marc Elias · September 22, 2021 BlackMatter is a new ransomware threat discovered at the end of July 2021. This malware started with a strong group of attacks and some advertising from its developers that...

Detecting Credential Stealing Attacks Through Active In-Network Defense

ARCHIVED STORY Detecting Credential Stealing Attacks Through Active In-Network Defense By Chintan Shah · September 22, 2021 Executive Summary Today, enterprises tend to use multiple layers of security defenses, ranging from perimeter defense on network entry points to host based security solution...

BlackMatter Ransomware Analysis; The Dark Side Returns

ARCHIVED STORY BlackMatter Ransomware Analysis; The Dark Side Returns By Alexandre Mundo and Marc Elias · September 22, 2021 BlackMatter is a new ransomware threat discovered at the end of July 2021. This malware started with a strong group of attacks and some advertising from its developers that...

DDoS Attacks: A Flourishing Business for Cybercrooks – Podcast

Distributed denial-of-service DDoS started out as an inconvenience: They were a roadblock that kept customers from getting at systems. That’s bad enough. Keeping availability away from customers via DDoS can have a painful impact on businesses as they find their doors blocked to customers, keepin...

BoobSnail - Allows Generating Excel 4.0 XLM Macro

BoobSnail allows generating XLM Excel 4.0 macro. Its purpose is to support the RedTeam and BlueTeam in XLM macro generation. Features: various infection techniques; various obfuscation techniques; translation of formulas into languages other than English; can be used as a library - you can easily...

Afternoon Cyber Tea: Learn how to stop misinformation threats from nation-state bad actors

Information has long been wielded as an instrument of national power and influence. In today’s digital world, misinformation can also be just as powerful. On a special episode of Afternoon Cyber Tea with Ann Johnson, Sandra Joyce, Executive Vice President and Head of Mandiant Intelligence at...

Afternoon Cyber Tea: Learn how to stop misinformation threats from nation-state bad actors

Information has long been wielded as an instrument of national power and influence. In today’s digital world, misinformation can also be just as powerful. On a special episode of Afternoon Cyber Tea with Ann Johnson, Sandra Joyce, Executive Vice President and Head of Mandiant Intelligence at...

Ragnar Locker Gang Warns Victims Not to Call the FBI

All that the FBI/ransomware negotiators/investigators do is muck things up, so we’re going to publish your stuff if you call for help, the Ragnar Locker ransomware gang announced on its darknet data-leak site. In an announcement posted this week and seen by Bleeping Computer, the ransomware...

How to Exploit SQL Server Using OLE Automation

As part of the Imperva Research Labs we have the opportunity to examine various security scenarios. In this post, we will consider database security on SQL Server. One standard method that security practitioners use to protect databases is deploying honeypots and waiting for hackers to take the...

GoPurple - Yet Another Shellcode Runner Consists Of Different Techniques For Evaluating Detection Capabilities Of Endpoint Security Solutions

This project is a simple collection of various shell code injection techniques, aiming to streamline the process of endpoint detection evaluation, beside challenging myself to get into Golang world. Installation 1 - Requires go installed. 2 - Build the application from the project's directory: go...

This New Malware Family Using CLFS Log Files to Avoid Detection

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details about a new malware family that relies on the Common Log File System CLFS to hide a second-stage payload in registry transaction files in an attempt to evade detection mechanisms. FireEye's Mandiant Advanced Practices team, which made the discovery...

403Bypasser - Automates The Techniques Used To Circumvent Access Control Restrictions On Target Pages

403bypasser automates the techniques used to circumvent access control restrictions on target pages. 403bypasser will continue to be improved and it is open to contributions. Installation 1. Clone the repository to your machine. git clone https://github.com/yunemse48/403bypasser.git 2. Install...

LockFile Ransomware Uses Never-Before Seen Encryption to Avoid Detection

Researchers discovered a novel ransomware emerging on the heels of the ProxyShell vulnerabilities discovery in Microsoft Exchange servers. The threat, dubbed LockFile, uses a unique “intermittent encryption” method as a way to evade detection as well as adopting tactics from previous ransomware...

FBI Releases Indicators of Compromise Associated with Hive Ransomware

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released a Flash report detailing indicators of compromise IOCs and tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs associated with ransomware attacks by Hive, a likely Ransomware-as-a-Service organization consisting of a number of actors using multiple...