RedPeanut - A Small RAT Developed In .Net Core 2 And Its Agent In .Net 3.5/4.0

RedPeanut is a small RAT developed in .Net Core 2 and its agent in .Net 3.5 / 4.0. RedPeanut code execution is based on shellcode generated with DonutCS. It is therefore a hybrid, although developed in .Net it does not rely solely on the Assembly.Load. This increases the detection surface, but...

McAfee ATR Analyzes Sodinokibi aka REvil Ransomware-as-a-Service - Crescendo

McAfee ATR Analyzes Sodinokibi aka REvil Ransomware-as-a-Service – Crescendo By Jessica Saavedra-Morales · October 20, 2019 Episode 4: Crescendo This is the final installment of the McAfee Advanced Threat Research ATR analysis of Sodinokibi and its connections to GandGrab, the most prolific...

Defense Takeaways from Three Adversary Playbooks

In these days of advanced threats, the perimeter defense strategy – though still useful and necessary – is incomplete. IT security teams need as much information about existing threats as possible, so they know what to look for and how to position proactive countermeasures. Creating and using...

The language of InfoSec

As the cybersecurity industry has evolved, one dynamic has remained consistent: our industry-"speak". We use a language that is very unique, difficult for new folks to understand, and oftentimes just plain sensationalistic. While any industry has its own technical terms, our language can also be ...

Apache Superset 0.23 Remote Code Execution

Exploit Title: Apache Superset 0.23 - Remote Code Execution Date: 2018-05-17 Exploit Author: David May [email protected] Vendor Homepage: https://superset.apache.org/ Software Link: https://github.com/apache/incubator-superset Version: Any before 0.23 Tested on: Ubuntu 18.04 CVE-ID:...

Apache Superset 0.23 - Remote Code Execution Exploit

Exploit for linux platform in category web applications Exploit Title: Apache Superset 0.23 - Remote Code Execution Exploit Author: David May email protected Vendor Homepage: https://superset.apache.org/ Software Link: https://github.com/apache/incubator-superset Version: Any before 0.23 Tested o...

Gmail Glitch Enables Anonymous Messages in Phishing Attacks

A Gmail bug has been discovered that allows a hacker to tinker with the “from” header in an email and ultimately leave the sender display blank, rendering the email anonymous. The trick could be weaponized for phishing attacks that purport to be official warnings or system messages. Software...

Not So Cozy: An Uncomfortable Examination of a Suspected APT29 Phishing Campaign

Introduction FireEye devices detected intrusion attempts against multiple industries, including think tank, law enforcement, media, U.S. military, imagery, transportation, pharmaceutical, national government, and defense contracting. The attempts involved a phishing email appearing to be from the...

Don't Believe Everything You See About the Migrant Caravan

A migrant caravan traveling through Mexico is the latest news event to be weaponized online...

FELIXROOT Backdoor Resurfaces in Environmental Spam Campaign

After a few months of absence, the FELIXROOT backdoor malware has been spotted in a fresh malspam campaign. The campaign uses weaponized lure documents claiming to contain seminar information on environmental protection efforts. This backdoor has a range of functions, including the ability to...

Highly Sophisticated Parasite RAT Emerges on the Dark Web

Researchers are tracking a remote access trojan RAT on underground markets that, so far, has only been attributed to one small malicious email campaign. However, the RAT, dubbed Parasite HTTP by the Proofpoint researchers that discovered it, has an impressive list of sophisticated features –...

Microsoft Office Vulnerabilities Used to Distribute FELIXROOT Backdoor in Recent Campaign

Campaign Details In September 2017, FireEye identified the FELIXROOT backdoor as a payload in a campaign targeting Ukrainians and reported it to our intelligence customers. The campaign involved malicious Ukrainian bank documents, which contained a macro that downloaded a FELIXROOT payload, being...

Massive Malspam Campaign Finds a New Vector for FlawedAmmyy RAT

A widespread spam campaign from the well-known financial criminal group TA505 is spreading the FlawedAmmyy RAT using a brand-new vector: Weaponized PDFs containing malicious SettingContent-ms files. The SettingContent-ms file format was introduced in Windows 10; it allows a user to create...

When combining exploits for added effect goes wrong

IntroductionSince public disclosure in April 2017, CVE-2017-0199 has been frequently used within malicious Office documents. The vulnerability allows attackers to include Ole2Link objects within RTF documents to launch remote code when HTA applications are opened and parsed by Microsoft Word.In...

ShadowBrokers' Leak Has 'Strong Connection' to Equation Group

A high-stakes game of attribution started by a group claiming to have a cache of exploits belonging to the Equation Group took a somewhat definitive turn Tuesday afternoon. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab yesterday confirmed a connection between the tools currently up for auction by the ShadowBroker...

Linux/MIPS Kernel NetUSB - Remote Code Execution Exploit

Exploit for multiple platform in category remote exploits !/usr/bin/env python Source: http://haxx.in/blasty-vs-netusb.py CVE-2015-3036 - NetUSB Remote Code Execution exploit Linux/MIPS =========================================================================== This is a weaponized exploit for th...

Weaponized Drones For Police Now Legal In North Dakota

Drones also known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UAVs have contributed enormously by acting as an interface for conducting surveillance operations, or delivering products, or attacking a war site to name a few. We have seen Drones like 'Snoopy' that are capable to intercept data from your Smartphone...

Hacking Team and Boeing Built Cyber Weaponized Drones to Spy on Targets

The leaked internal emails from the Italian surveillance software company Hacking Team have revealed that the spyware company developed a robotic aircraft designed to attack computers and smartphone devices through Wi-Fi networks. Over a year ago, some security researchers developed a drone calle...

Pwn2Own, Pwnium Attract Dollars and 0-Days by the Bushel

The new year is barely two months old and it’s already been a brutal one for the disclosure of new vulnerabilities. Java, Adobe Reader, Flash, Google Chrome and a number of other widely deployed applications have all been hit with a slew of serious bugs in just the last few weeks. And that’s like...

A Doomsday Worm - The Sputnik of 2011

We had an Interesting Article by "Paul F Renda" in our The Hacker News Magazine's November Edition. We would Like to share this article with our website readers also. You can Download November Issue Here. This is a theoretical prima to bring out a discussion about whether an Internet doomsday wor...