UAC-0099 Using WinRAR Exploit to Target Ukrainian Firms with LONEPAGE Malware

The threat actor known as UAC-0099 has been linked to continued attacks aimed at Ukraine, some of which leverage a high-severity flaw in the WinRAR software to deliver a malware strain called LONEPAGE. "The threat actor targets Ukrainian employees working for companies outside of Ukraine,"...

Command Execution Vulnerability in RG-UAC Ruijie Unified Internet Behavior Management and Audit System of Beijing StarNet Ruijie Network Technology Co. Ltd (CNVD-2024-0589958)

RG-UAC Ruijie Unified Internet Behavior Management and Auditing System is an Internet behavior management and auditing product. A command execution vulnerability exists in the RG-UAC Ruijie Unified Internet Behavior Management and Audit System of Beijing StarNet Ruijie Network Technology Co. Ltd,...

A deep dive into Phobos ransomware, recently deployed by 8Base group

Cisco Talos has recently observed an increase in activity conducted by 8Base, a ransomware group that uses a variant of the Phobos ransomware and other publicly available tools to facilitate their operations. Most of the groups Phobos variants are distributed by SmokeLoader, a backdoor trojan. Th...

Elevationstation - Elevate To SYSTEM Any Way We Can! Metasploit And PSEXEC Getsystem Alternative

Elevation Station Stealing and Duplicating SYSTEM tokens for fun & profit! We duplicate things, make twin copies, and then ride away. You have used Metasploit's getsystem and SysInternals PSEXEC for getting system privs, correct? Well, here's a similar standalone version of that...but without the...

Nation State Hackers Exploiting Zero-Day in Roundcube Webmail Software

The threat actor known as Winter Vivern has been observed exploiting a zero-day flaw in Roundcube webmail software on October 11, 2023, to harvest email messages from victims' accounts. "Winter Vivern has stepped up its operations by using a zero-day vulnerability in Roundcube," ESET security...

CERT-UA Reports: 11 Ukrainian Telecom Providers Hit by Cyberattacks

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT-UA has revealed that threat actors "interfered" with at least 11 telecommunication service providers in the country between May and September 2023. The agency is tracking the activity under the name UAC-0165, stating the intrusions led to servi...

Ukrainian Military Targeted in Phishing Campaign Leveraging Drone Manuals

Ukrainian military entities are the target of a phishing campaign that leverages drone manuals as lures to deliver a Go-based open-source post-exploitation toolkit called Merlin. "Since drones or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UAVs have been an integral tool used by the Ukrainian military, malware-lace...

KRBUACBypass - UAC Bypass By Abusing Kerberos Tickets

This POC is inspired by James Forshaw @tiraniddo shared at BlackHat USA 2022 titled “ Taking Kerberos To The Next Level ” topic, he shared a Demo of abusing Kerberos tickets to achieve UAC bypass. By adding a KERB-AD-RESTRICTION-ENTRY to the service ticket, but filling in a fake MachineID, we can...

New NodeStealer Variant Targeting Facebook Business Accounts and Crypto Wallets

Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a Python variant of a stealer malware NodeStealer that's equipped to fully take over Facebook business accounts as well as siphon cryptocurrency. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 said it detected the previously undocumented strain as part of a campaign that...

Casbaneiro Banking Malware Goes Under the Radar with UAC Bypass Technique

The financially motivated threat actors behind the Casbaneiro banking malware family have been observed making use of a User Account Control UAC bypass technique to gain full administrative privileges on a machine, a sign that the threat actor is evolving their tactics to avoid detection and...

Chinese Hackers Deploy Microsoft-Signed Rootkit to Target Gaming Sector

Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a novel rootkit signed by Microsoft that's engineered to communicate with an actor-controlled attack infrastructure. Trend Micro has attributed the activity cluster to the same actor that was previously identified as behind the FiveSys rootkit, which came ...

MULTI#STORM Campaign Targets India and U.S. with Remote Access Trojans

A new phishing campaign codenamed MULTISTORM has set its sights on India and the U.S. by leveraging JavaScript files to deliver remote access trojans on compromised systems. "The attack chain ends with the victim machine infected with multiple unique RAT remote access trojan malware instances, su...

Cyber Attacks Strike Ukraine's State Bodies in Espionage Operation

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT-UA has warned of cyber attacks targeting state bodies in the country as part of an espionage campaign. The intrusion set, attributed to a threat actor tracked by the authority as UAC-0063 since 2021, leverages phishing lures to deploy a variety...

Nimbo-C2 - Yet Another (Simple And Lightweight) C2 Framework

About Nimbo-C2 is yet another simple and lightweight C2 framework. Nimbo-C2 agent supports x64 Windows & Linux. It's written in Nim, with some usage of .NET on Windows by dynamically loading the CLR to the process. Nim is powerful, but interacting with Windows is much easier and robust using...

CERT-UA Warns of SmokeLoader and RoarBAT Malware Attacks Against Ukraine

An ongoing phishing campaign with invoice-themed lures is being used to distribute the SmokeLoader malware in the form of a polyglot file, according to the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT-UA. The emails, per the agency, are sent using compromised accounts and come with a ZIP...

Stealthy DBatLoader Malware Loader Spreading Remcos RAT and Formbook in Europe

A new phishing campaign has set its sights on European entities to distribute Remcos RAT and Formbook via a malware loader dubbed DBatLoader. "The malware payload is distributed through WordPress websites that have authorized SSL certificates, which is a common tactic used by threat actors to eva...

Researchers Uncover Chinese Nation State Hackers' Deceptive Attack Strategies

A recent campaign undertaken by Earth Preta indicates that nation-state groups aligned with China are getting increasingly proficient at bypassing security solutions. The threat actor, active since at least 2012, is tracked by the broader cybersecurity community under Bronze President, HoneyMyte,...

Microsoft User Account Control Nuances Vulnerability

This write up is an overview of how Microsoft's attempts to manage elevated access to executables via registry entries has added over complexity that still allows for escalation. Hi @ll, with Windows 2000, Microsoft virtualised the HKEYCLASSESROOT registry branch: what was just an alias for...

Phishing Attack Uses UAC Bypass to Drop Remcos RAT Malware

By Deeba Ahmed Currently, scammers are using DBatLoader malware loader to distribute Remcos RAT to businesses and institutions across Eastern Europe. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Phishing Attack Uses UAC Bypass to Drop Remcos RAT Malware...

ForceAdmin - Create Infinite UAC Prompts Forcing A User To Run As Admin

ForceAdmin is a c payload builder, creating infinate UAC pop-ups until the user allows the program to be ran. The inputted commands are ran via powershell calling cmd.exe and should be using the batch syntax. Why use? Well some users have UAC set to always show, so UAC bypass techniques are not...