defcon33_silence_kill_edr

🛡️ DEFCON Workshop: Putting EDRs in Their Place 💀 Killing and Silencing EDR Agents Like an Adversary Setup EDR Killing Custom EDR Evasion 🎯 What You’ll Do Each student will be provisioned their own lab environment to: 🔍 Investigate a live EDR agent: discover its hooks, logs, and reach ⚔️ Compile &...

Operation Endgame Disrupts SocGholish Malware Infrastructure

International law enforcement dismantled TA569's SocGholish infrastructure, taking down over 100 C2 servers and remediating nearly 15,000 compromised websites...

TeamPCP Used Mini Shai-Hulud Worm to Poison Over 400 npm and PyPI Packages

Research reveals that TeamPCP hijacked OIDC tokens to poison hundreds of TanStack, Mistral AI, and UiPath packages with the self-propagating Mini Shai-Hulud worm...

Konni Deploys EndRAT Through Phishing, Uses KakaoTalk to Propagate Malware

North Korean threat actors have been observed sending phishing to compromise targets and obtain access to a victim's KakaoTalk desktop application to distribute malicious payloads to certain contacts. The activity has been attributed by South Korean threat intelligence firm Genians to a hacking...

Starkiller Phishing Suite Uses AitM Reverse Proxy to Bypass Multi-Factor Authentication

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new phishing suite called Starkiller that proxies legitimate login pages to bypass multi-factor authentication MFA protections. It's advertised as a cybercrime platform by a threat group calling itself Jinkusu, granting customers access to a...

Infy Hackers Resume Operations with New C2 Servers After Iran Internet Blackout Ends

The elusive Iranian threat group known as Infy aka Prince of Persia has evolved its tactics as part of efforts to hide its tracks, even as it readied new command-and-control C2 infrastructure coinciding with the end of the widespread internet blackout the regime imposed at the start of January...

Hackers Still Using Patched WinRAR Flaw for Malware Drops, Warns Google

The Google Threat Intelligence Group GTIG warns that nation-state actors and financially motivated threat actors are exploiting a…...

Silver Fox Targets Indian Users With Tax-Themed Emails Delivering ValleyRAT Malware

The threat actor known as Silver Fox has turned its focus to India, using income tax-themed lures in phishing campaigns to distribute a modular remote access trojan called ValleyRAT aka Winos 4.0. "This sophisticated attack leverages a complex kill chain involving DLL hijacking and the modular...

Iranian Hackers Use DEEPROOT and TWOSTROKE Malware in Aerospace and Defense Attacks

Suspected espionage-driven threat actors from Iran have been observed deploying backdoors like TWOSTROKE and DEEPROOT as part of continued attacks aimed at aerospace, aviation, and defense industries in the Middle East. The activity has been attributed by Google-owned Mandiant to a threat cluster...

Chinese Threat Group 'Jewelbug' Quietly Infiltrated Russian IT Network for Months

A threat actor with ties to China has been attributed to a five-month-long intrusion targeting a Russian IT service provider, marking the hacking group's expansion to the country beyond Southeast Asia and South America. The activity, which took place from January to May 2025, has been attributed ...

Chinese Threat Group 'Jewelbug' Quietly Infiltrated Russian IT Network for Months

A threat actor with ties to China has been attributed to a five-month-long intrusion targeting a Russian IT service provider, marking the hacking group's expansion to the country beyond Southeast Asia and South America. The activity, which took place from January to May 2025, has been attributed ...

Chinese APT Phantom Taurus Targeted MS Exchange Servers Over 3 Years

Cybersecurity researchers at Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 say Chinese APT Phantom Taurus breached Microsoft Exchange servers for years using a backdoor to spy on diplomats and defense data...

China-Linked PlugX and Bookworm Malware Attacks Target Asian Telecom and ASEAN Networks

Telecommunications and manufacturing sectors in Central and South Asian countries have emerged as the target of an ongoing campaign distributing a new variant of a known malware called PlugXaka Korplug or SOGU. "The new variant's features overlap with both the RainyDay and Turian backdoors,...

Russian APT29 Exploits Gmail App Passwords to Bypass 2FA in Targeted Phishing Campaign

Threat actors with suspected ties to Russia have been observed taking advantage of a Google account feature called application specific passwords or app passwords as part of a novel social engineering tactic designed to gain access to victims' emails. Details of the highly targeted campaign were...

Google Exposes Vishing Group UNC6040 Targeting Salesforce with Fake Data Loader App

Google has disclosed details of a financially motivated threat cluster that it said "specializes" in voice phishing aka vishing campaigns designed to breach organizations' Salesforce instances for large-scale data theft and subsequent extortion. The tech giant's threat intelligence team is tracki...

NSIS Abuse and sRDI Shellcode: Anatomy of the Winos 4.0 Campaign

Co-authored byAnna Širokova and Ivan Feigl Executive summary Rapid7 has been tracking a malware campaign that uses fake software installers disguised as popular apps like VPN and QQBrowser—to deliver Winos v4.0, a hard-to-detect malware that runs entirely in memory and gives attackers remote...

Unpacking Diicot - Evolving Campaign Targeting Linux Environments

Wiz Threat Research uncovered a new malware campaign targeting Linux environments attributed to the Diicot threat group...

North Korean Hackers Target Energy and Aerospace Industries with New MISTPEN Malware

A North Korea-linked cyber-espionage group has been observed leveraging job-themed phishing lures to target prospective victims in energy and aerospace verticals and infect them with a previously undocumented backdoor dubbed MISTPEN. The activity cluster is being tracked by Google-owned Mandiant...

TIDRONE Espionage Group Targets Taiwan Drone Makers in Cyber Campaign

A previously undocumented threat actor with likely ties to Chinese-speaking groups has predominantly singled out drone manufacturers in Taiwan as part of a cyber attack campaign that commenced in 2024. Trend Micro is tracking the adversary under the moniker TIDRONE, stating the activity is...

Earth Lusca Uses KTLVdoor Backdoor for Multiplatform Intrusion

While monitoring Earth Lusca, we discovered the threat group’s use of KTLVdoor, a highly obfuscated multiplatform backdoor, as part of a large-scale attack campaign...