CRAT wants to plunder your endpoints

By Asheer Malhotra. Cisco Talos has observed a new version of a remote access trojan RAT family known as CRAT.Apart from the prebuilt RAT capabilities, the malware can download and deploy additional malicious plugins on the infected endpoint.One of the plugins is a ransomware known as "Hansom."CR...

Leonidas - Automated Attack Simulation In The Cloud, Complete With Detection Use Cases

Leonidas is a framework for executing attacker actions in the cloud. It provides a YAML-based format for defining cloud attacker tactics, techniques and procedures TTPs and their associated detection properties. These definitions can then be compiled into: A web API exposing each test case as an...

ShowStopper - Anti-Debug tricks exploration tool

The ShowStopper project is a tool to help malware researchers explore and test anti-debug techniques or verify debugger plugins or other solutions that clash with standard anti-debug methods. With this tool, you can attach a debugger to its process and research the debugger’s behavior for the...

Oracle Solaris Zero-Day Attack Revealed

A previously known threat group, called UNC1945, has been compromising telecommunications companies and targeting financial and professional consulting industries, by exploiting a security flaw in Oracle’s Solaris operating system. Researchers said that the group was exploiting the bug when it wa...

Live off the Land? How About Bringing Your Own Island? An Overview of UNC1945

Through Mandiant investigation of intrusions, the FLARE Advanced Practices team observed a group we track as UNC1945 compromise managed service providers and operate against a tailored set of targets within the financial and professional consulting industries by leveraging access to third-party...

Unhappy Hour Special: KEGTAP and SINGLEMALT With a Ransomware Chaser

Throughout 2020, ransomware activity has become increasingly prolific, relying on an ecosystem of distinct but co-enabling operations to gain access to targets of interest before conducting extortion. Mandiant Threat Intelligence has tracked several loader and backdoor campaigns that lead to the...

Malicious Cyber Actor Use of Network Tunneling and Spoofing to Obfuscate Geolocation

Summary This Activity Alert uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT &CK™ and Pre-ATT&CK frameworks. See the MITRE ATT&CK for Enterprise and Pre-ATT&CK frameworks for referenced threat actor techniques. Attributing malicious cyber activity that uses network tunneli...

CrimeOps of the KashmirBlack Botnet – Part I

Introduction Being in a research team exposes us to a variety of attacks on different platforms, of different types, scope, and volume. It also gives us the opportunity to select particularly interesting attacks that target our customers and to analyze them. This blog will give you a taste of the...

NSA Releases Advisory on Chinese State-Sponsored Actors Exploiting Publicly Known Vulnerabilities

The National Security Agency NSA has released a cybersecurity advisory on Chinese state-sponsored malicious cyber activity. This advisory provides 25 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVEs known to be recently leveraged, or scanned-for, by Chinese state-sponsored cyber actors to enable...

SQLInjectionWiki

This is a comprehensive wiki on SQL injection, a type of web application security vulnerability. The wiki is maintained by NetSPI and is available in both English and Chinese versions. The wiki covers various aspects of SQL injection, including detection, exploitation, and mitigation. The wiki...

APT Attack Injects Malware into Windows Error Reporting

A campaign that injects malware into the Windows Error Reporting WER service to evade detection is potentially the work of a Vietnamese APT group, researchers said. The attack, discovered on Sept. 17 by researchers at Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence Team, lures its victims with a phishing campai...

Egregor Ransomware Threatens 'Mass-Media' Release of Corporate Data

A freshly discovered family of ransomware called Egregor has been spotted in the wild, using a tactic of siphoning off corporate information and threatening a “mass-media” release of it before encrypting all files. Egregor is an occult term meant to signify the collective energy or force of a gro...

LIVE Webinar on Zerologon Vulnerability: Technical Analysis and Detection

I am sure that many of you have by now heard of a recently disclosed critical Windows server vulnerability—called Zerologon—that could let hackers completely take over enterprise networks. For those unaware, in brief, all supported versions of the Windows Server operating systems are vulnerable t...

Microsoft Security—detecting empires in the cloud

Microsoft consistently tracks the most advanced threat actors and evolving attack techniques. We use these findings to harden our products and platform and share them with the security community to help defenders everywhere better protect the planet. Recently, the Microsoft Threat Intelligence...

GRAT2 - Command And Control (C2) Project For Learning Purpose

GRAT2 is a Command and Control C2 tool written in python3 and the client in .NET 4.0. The main idea came from Georgios Koumettou who initiated the project. Why we developed GRAT2 ? We are aware that there are numerous C2 tools out there but, we developed this tool due to curiosity of how C2 and...

This Week in Security News: AWS Outposts Ready Launches With 32 Validated Partners and Staples Hit by a Data Breach

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about how solutions from 32 Amazon Web Services partners – including Trend Micro – are now available for AWS customers to use with the...

Report Looks at COVID-19’s Massive Impact on Cybersecurity

Most cybersecurity professionals fully anticipated that cybercriminals would leverage the fear and confusion surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic in their cyberattacks. Of course, malicious emails would contain subjects relating to COVID-19. Of course, malicious downloads would be COVID-19 related...

New Report Explains COVID-19's Impact on Cyber Security

Most cybersecurity professionals fully anticipated that cybercriminals would leverage the fear and confusion surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic in their cyberattacks. Of course, malicious emails would contain subjects relating to Covid-19, and malicious downloads would be Covid-19 related. This is...

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Product Overview: Cynet Takes Cyber Threat Protection Automation to the Next Level with Incident Engine

We have all heard of the “cybersecurity skills gap” – the inability of firms to hire and retain high-level cybersecurity talent. This gap has been manifesting in two ways. First, companies that want to hire cybersecurity talent simply cannot find candidates with sufficient skills. Second, compani...