The hateful eight: Kaspersky’s guide to modern ransomware groups’ TTPs

These days ransomware analysis gets a lot of coverage in commercial and public reports, with vendors issuing dozens of ransomware-related publications each year. These reports provide analysis on specific malware families or new samples, describe the activities of a particular ransomware group,...

Vulnerabilities & Threats that Matter 13 June – 19 June 2022

Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 798 53 1 109 4 13 For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary The first week of June 2022 witnessed the discovery of 798 vulnerabilities out of which ...

New Qualys Research Report: Inside a Redline InfoStealer Campaign

The Qualys Threat Research Team continues its efforts to identify and document previously unseen adversary activity to better understand their tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs and defend against them. Recently we identified a new Redline InfoStealer campaign that spreads via fake cracked...

The many lives of BlackCat ransomware

The BlackCat ransomware, also known as ALPHV, is a prevalent threat and a prime example of the growing ransomware-as-a-service RaaS gig economy. It’s noteworthy due to its unconventional programming language Rust, multiple target devices and possible entry points, and affiliation with prolific...

Growling Bears Make Thunderous Noise

Growling Bears Make Thunderous Noise By Trellix · June 6, 2022 Per public attribution, Russian cybercriminal groups have always been active. Their tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs have not significantly evolved over time, although some changes have been observed. Lately, the threat...

Threat Actors Chaining Unpatched VMware Vulnerabilities for Full System Control

Summary Update June 2, 2022: This Cybersecurity Advisory CSA has been updated with additional indicators of compromise IOCs and detection signatures, as well as tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs from trusted third parties. Update End The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CIS...

Weekly Threat Digest: 16-22 May 2022

Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 466 6 2 26 10 27 For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary The third week of May 2022 witnessed the discovery of 466 vulnerabilities out of which 6...

Have you patched this actively exploited BIG-IP vulnerability?

THREAT LEVEL: Amber. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Last week, F5 patched a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-1388, soon after a successful Proof-of-conceptPoC was developed by security researchers making it susceptible to further exploitation. This authentication bypass...

Weekly Threat Digest: 18 – 24 April 2022

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 430 5 2 Worldwide 17 46 The fourth week of April 2022 witnessed the discovery of 430 vulnerabilities out of which ...

Newly patched VMware vulnerability exploited by Iranian espionage group, Rocket Kitten

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here An Iranian cyber espionage gang known as Rocket Kitten has began delivering the Core Impact penetration testing tool on susceptible computers by exploiting a newly fixed severe vulnerability in VMware Workspace ONE...

Skeletons in the Closet: Security 101 Takes a Backseat to 0-days

Rarely a month goes by without the infosec industry being plagued by a new zero-day apocalypse. Most recently in December 2021, the world was swept by a series of vulnerabilities in Log4J – a popular logging system used by thousands of systems around the world. While writing this article, the...

Weekly Threat Digest: 11 – 17 April 2022

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 765 14 1 2 6 25 The third week of April 2022 witnessed a huge spike on the discovery of 765 vulnerabilities out of...

Two Vulnerabilities discovered in AWS Client VPN

THREAT LEVEL: Amber. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Two flaws have been discovered in the AWS VPN Client. One of them CVE-2022-25166 was discovered due to a time-of-check to time-of-use TOCTOU condition, which could lead to privilege escalation. Another vulnerability...

Two actively exploited vulnerabilities affect multiple VMware products

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in VMware products. Two of these have been exploited in the wild. The first zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2022-22954, is a server-side template injection flaw. An attacker could...

Weekly Threat Digest: 4 – 10 April 2022

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 438 3 3 53 16 54 The second week of April 2022 witnessed the discovery of 438 vulnerabilities out of which 3 gaine...

Attacks on European Union and Ukrainian government entities carried out by the Armageddon group

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT-UA has issued an alert warning of an ongoing spear-phishing attempt aimed at delivering an email with a malware attachment to Ukrainian government institutions and European...

APT 10, a state-sponsored Chinese threat group, conducting a global cyber espionage operation

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here A Chinese state-sponsored advanced persistent threat APT 10 group has been attacking government, legal, religious entities and non-governmental organizations NGOs around the world in what appears to be an espionage campaign th...

Deep Panda deploys new rootkit “Fire Chili” by exploiting Log4shell in VMware horizon

THREAT LEVEL: Red For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Deep Panda, a Chinese APT group, took advantage of the well-known Log4Shell vulnerability in VMware Horizon servers to deploy a backdoor, rootkit, and steal sensitive data. This threat actor is primarily targeting firms in the...

Sharpen Your IR Capabilities With Rapid7’s Detection and Response Workshop

You’re tasked with protecting your environment, and you’ve invested significant time and resources into deploying and configuring your tools — but how do you know if the security controls you’ve put into place are effective? The challenge continues to grow as attacker tactics, techniques, and...

Conti Leaks: Examining the Panama Papers of Ransomware | Trellix

Conti Leaks: Examining the Panama Papers of Ransomware By John Fokker, Jambul Tologonov · March 31, 2022 Introduction It isn’t often the whole world gets an inside look of the business operations of a top tier cybercriminal group. Very early on in the Russian-Ukrainian Crisis the predominantly...