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When AD Gets Breached: Detecting NTDS.dit Dumps and Exfiltration with Trellix NDR
When AD Gets Breached: Detecting NTDS.dit Dumps and Exfiltration with Trellix NDR By Maulik Maheta · September 25, 2025 Executive summary Active Directory AD stores the digital keys to an organization's kingdom. When attackers gain access to a network, they often target the NTDS.dit file, which...
Unmasking Hidden Threats: Spotting a DPRK IT-Worker Campaign
Unmasking Hidden Threats: Spotting a DPRK IT-Worker Campaign By Duy-Phuc Pham and John Fokker · September 23, 2025 In today's complex threat landscape, staying ahead of sophisticated adversaries is paramount. Organizations face constant pressure to identify threats that do not always involve...
Unmasking Hidden Threats: Spotting a DPRK IT-Worker Campaign
Unmasking Hidden Threats: Spotting a DPRK IT-Worker Campaign By Duy-Phuc Pham and John Fokker · September 23, 2025 In today's complex threat landscape, staying ahead of sophisticated adversaries is paramount. Organizations face constant pressure to identify threats that do not always involve...
Dark Web Roast - August 2025 Edition
Dark Web Roast - August 2025 Edition By Trellix Advanced Research Center · September 18, 2025 Executive Summary August 2025 delivered a masterclass in cybercriminal incompetence that would make amateur hour look professional. From racist social engineering recruiters who prioritize race over actu...
Dark Web Roast - August 2025 Edition
Dark Web Roast - August 2025 Edition By Trellix Advanced Research Center · September 18, 2025 Executive Summary August 2025 delivered a masterclass in cybercriminal incompetence that would make amateur hour look professional. From racist social engineering recruiters who prioritize race over actu...
Silent Pivot: Detecting Fileless Lateral Movement via Service Manager with Trellix NDR
Silent Pivot: Detecting Fileless Lateral Movement via Service Manager with Trellix NDR By Maulik Maheta and Lishoy Mathew · September 8, 2025 Executive summary The tactics of cyber adversaries continue to evolve as they attempt to bypass security vendors. Rather than traditional malware, today’s...
Silent Pivot: Detecting Fileless Lateral Movement via Service Manager with Trellix NDR
Silent Pivot: Detecting Fileless Lateral Movement via Service Manager with Trellix NDR By Maulik Maheta and Lishoy Mathew · September 8, 2025 Executive summary The tactics of cyber adversaries continue to evolve as they attempt to bypass security vendors. Rather than traditional malware, today’s...
ToolShell Unleashed: Decoding the SharePoint Attack Chain
ToolShell Unleashed: Decoding the SharePoint Attack Chain By Aniket Choukde, Aparna Aripirala, Satyajit Daulaguphu and Yadunadh · September 4, 2025 This blog was also written by Akhil Reddy Introduction A wave of active exploitation is targeting recently disclosed vulnerabilities in Microsoft...
ToolShell Unleashed: Decoding the SharePoint Attack Chain
ToolShell Unleashed: Decoding the SharePoint Attack Chain By Aniket Choukde, Aparna Aripirala, Satyajit Daulaguphu and Yadunadh · September 4, 2025 This blog was also written by Akhil Reddy Introduction A wave of active exploitation is targeting recently disclosed vulnerabilities in Microsoft...
XWorm’s Evolving Infection Chain: From Predictable to Deceptive
XWorm’s Evolving Infection Chain: From Predictable to Deceptive By Prashanth A N and Satish Chimakurthi · September 3, 2025 A sophisticated and evolving prevalent XWorm backdoor campaign has recently been identified by the Trellix Advanced Research Center, marking a significant strategic shift in...
XWorm’s Evolving Infection Chain: From Predictable to Deceptive
XWorm’s Evolving Infection Chain: From Predictable to Deceptive By Prashanth A N and Satish Chimakurthi · September 3, 2025 A sophisticated and evolving prevalent XWorm backdoor campaign has recently been identified by the Trellix Advanced Research Center, marking a significant strategic shift in...
The Bug Report – August 2025 Edition
The Bug Report – August 2025 Edition By Jonathan Omakun, Tola Olawale · August 27, 2025 Why am I here? Welcome back to The Bug Report! Did you miss us? The Trellix Advanced Research Center has been playing a high-stakes game of whack-a-mole with this month's vulnerabilities. We've dug through all...
The Bug Report – August 2025 Edition
The Bug Report – August 2025 Edition By Jonathan Omakun, Tola Olawale · August 27, 2025 Why am I here? Welcome back to The Bug Report! Did you miss us? The Trellix Advanced Research Center has been playing a high-stakes game of whack-a-mole with this month's vulnerabilities. We've dug through all...
The Silent, Fileless Threat of VShell
The Silent, Fileless Threat of VShell By Sagar Bade · August 21, 2025 Introduction Linux environments are often seen as bastions of security, favored by developers, sysadmins, and security professionals for their stability, transparency, and resistance to malware. Compared to Windows, the attack...
The Silent, Fileless Threat of VShell
The Silent, Fileless Threat of VShell By Sagar Bade · August 21, 2025 Introduction Linux environments are often seen as bastions of security, favored by developers, sysadmins, and security professionals for their stability, transparency, and resistance to malware. Compared to Windows, the attack...
Dark Web Roast - July 2025 Edition
Dark Web Roast - July 2025 Edition By Trellix Advanced Research Center · August 19, 2025 Executive Summary July 2025 delivered a masterclass in cybercriminal mediocrity that would make even the most charitable threat intelligence analyst weep into their coffee. After extensive hunts across the da...
Dark Web Roast - July 2025 Edition
Dark Web Roast - July 2025 Edition By Trellix Advanced Research Center · August 19, 2025 Executive Summary July 2025 delivered a masterclass in cybercriminal mediocrity that would make even the most charitable threat intelligence analyst weep into their coffee. After extensive hunts across the da...
The Coordinated Embassy Hunt: Unmasking the DPRK-linked GitHub C2 Espionage Campaign
The Coordinated Embassy Hunt: Unmasking the DPRK-linked GitHub C2 Espionage Campaign By Pham Duy Phuc and Alex Lanstein · August 18, 2025 The Trellix Advanced Research Center uncovered a sophisticated espionage operation targeting diplomatic missions across several regions in South Korea during...
The Coordinated Embassy Hunt: Unmasking the DPRK-linked GitHub C2 Espionage Campaign
The Coordinated Embassy Hunt: Unmasking the DPRK-linked GitHub C2 Espionage Campaign By Pham Duy Phuc and Alex Lanstein · August 18, 2025 The Trellix Advanced Research Center uncovered a sophisticated espionage operation targeting diplomatic missions across several regions in South Korea during...
A Comprehensive Analysis of HijackLoader and its Infection Chain
A Comprehensive Analysis of HijackLoader and Its Infection Chain By Ryan Weil · August 14, 2025 Initial contact Dodi Repacks is a website that distributes pirated games. The site is listed as safe/trusted on various piracy forums, and users say that "as long as you have an adblocker installed suc...
A Comprehensive Analysis of HijackLoader and its Infection Chain
A Comprehensive Analysis of HijackLoader and Its Infection Chain By Ryan Weil · August 14, 2025 Initial contact Dodi Repacks is a website that distributes pirated games. The site is listed as safe/trusted on various piracy forums, and users say that "as long as you have an adblocker installed suc...
Exposing PathWiper: DCOM Abuse and Network Erasure
Exposing PathWiper: A Deep Dive into DCOM Abuse and Network Erasure With Trellix NDR By Maulik Maheta and Lishoy Mathew · August 12, 2025 Executive summary Ukraine’s national energy and telecommunications infrastructure was the primary targets of the PathWiper attack in 2025. The attack was...
Exposing PathWiper: DCOM Abuse and Network Erasure
Exposing PathWiper: A Deep Dive into DCOM Abuse and Network Erasure With Trellix NDR By Maulik Maheta and Lishoy Mathew · August 12, 2025 Executive summary Ukraine’s national energy and telecommunications infrastructure was the primary targets of the PathWiper attack in 2025. The attack was...
The Bug Report - July 2025 Edition
The Bug Report – July 2025 Edition By Jonathan Omakun and Tola Olawale · August 6, 2025 Why am I here? July usually means barbecues, fireworks and pool parties—but this year, it brought something far more explosive: unauthenticated remote code execution, deserialization chaos, and an old-school...
The Bug Report - July 2025 Edition
The Bug Report – July 2025 Edition By Jonathan Omakun and Tola Olawale · August 6, 2025 Why am I here? July usually means barbecues, fireworks and pool parties—but this year, it brought something far more explosive: unauthenticated remote code execution, deserialization chaos, and an old-school...
Gang Wars: Breaking Trust Among Cyber Criminals
Gang Wars: Breaking Trust Among Cyber Criminals By John Fokker and Jambul Tologonov · August 5, 2025 Introduction In the final, unforgettable scene of the film Reservoir Dogs , a group of criminals — once united by a common goal — stand in a Mexican standoff, guns drawn, hearts pounding. Suspicio...
Gang Wars: Breaking Trust Among Cyber Criminals
Gang Wars: Breaking Trust Among Cyber Criminals By John Fokker and Jambul Tologonov · August 5, 2025 Introduction In the final, unforgettable scene of the film Reservoir Dogs , a group of criminals — once united by a common goal — stand in a Mexican standoff, guns drawn, hearts pounding. Suspicio...
Let’s Be Objective: A Deep Dive into 0bj3ctivityStealer's Features
Let’s Be Objective: A Deep Dive into 0bj3ctivityStealer's Features By Ernesto Fernández Provecho · July 28, 2025 The infostealer landscape keeps evolving year over year, and we are beginning to observe new features, targeting more applications and data, and the implementation of new obfuscation a...
Let’s Be Objective: A Deep Dive into 0bj3ctivityStealer's Features
Let’s Be Objective: A Deep Dive into 0bj3ctivityStealer's Features By Ernesto Fernández Provecho · July 28, 2025 The infostealer landscape keeps evolving year over year, and we are beginning to observe new features, targeting more applications and data, and the implementation of new obfuscation a...
Critical SharePoint Vulnerabilities Under Active Exploitation
Critical SharePoint Vulnerabilities Under Active Exploitation By Jeffrey Sman, Mo Cashman and Marc Bolz Robinson · July 23, 2025 On-premises Microsoft SharePoint servers are currently facing high-impact, ongoing threat activity due to a set of critical vulnerabilities, notably CVE-2025-49704,...
Critical SharePoint Vulnerabilities Under Active Exploitation
Critical SharePoint Vulnerabilities Under Active Exploitation By Jeffrey Sman, Mo Cashman and Marc Bolz Robinson · July 23, 2025 On-premises Microsoft SharePoint servers are currently facing high-impact, ongoing threat activity due to a set of critical vulnerabilities, notably CVE-2025-49704,...
Dark Web Roast - June 2025 Edition
Dark Web Roast - June 2025 Edition By Trellix Advanced Research Center · July 21, 2025 Executive Summary Welcome to the very first Dark Web Roast! Each month, we're going to take a peek into the shadowy world of cybercrime and playfully "roast" some of its characters, all with a little help from...
Dark Web Roast - June 2025 Edition
Dark Web Roast - June 2025 Edition By Trellix Advanced Research Center · July 21, 2025 Executive Summary Welcome to the very first Dark Web Roast! Each month, we're going to take a peek into the shadowy world of cybercrime and playfully "roast" some of its characters, all with a little help from...
Detecting and Visualizing Lateral Movement Attacks with Trellix XDR
Detecting and Visualizing Lateral Movement Attacks with Trellix Helix Connect By Maulik Maheta and Adithya Chandra · July 17, 2025 Executive summary This blog marks the third installment in our series on detecting and visualizing lateral movement attacks with Trellix Helix Connect. A lateral...
Detecting and Visualizing Lateral Movement Attacks with Trellix Helix Connect
Detecting and Visualizing Lateral Movement Attacks with Trellix Helix Connect By Maulik Maheta and Adithya Chandra · July 17, 2025 Executive summary This blog marks the third installment in our series on detecting and visualizing lateral movement attacks with Trellix Helix Connect. A lateral...
Detecting and Visualizing Lateral Movement Attacks with Trellix Helix Connect
Detecting and Visualizing Lateral Movement Attacks with Trellix Helix Connect By Maulik Maheta and Adithya Chandra · July 17, 2025 Executive summary This blog marks the third installment in our series on detecting and visualizing lateral movement attacks with Trellix Helix Connect. A lateral...
Detecting and Visualizing Lateral Movement Attacks with Trellix XDR
Detecting and Visualizing Lateral Movement Attacks with Trellix Helix Connect By Maulik Maheta and Adithya Chandra · July 17, 2025 Executive summary This blog marks the third installment in our series on detecting and visualizing lateral movement attacks with Trellix Helix Connect. A lateral...
Threat Analysis: SquidLoader - Still Swimming Under the Radar
Threat Analysis: SquidLoader - Still Swimming Under the Radar By Charles Crofford · July 15, 2025 Executive summary A new wave of SquidLoader malware samples are actively targeting financial services institutions in Hong Kong. This sophisticated malware exhibits significant evasion capabilities,...
Threat Analysis: SquidLoader - Still Swimming Under the Radar
Threat Analysis: SquidLoader - Still Swimming Under the Radar By Charles Crofford · July 15, 2025 Executive summary A new wave of SquidLoader malware samples are actively targeting financial services institutions in Hong Kong. This sophisticated malware exhibits significant evasion capabilities,...
From Click to Compromise: Unveiling the Sophisticated Attack of DoNot APT Group on Southern European Government Entities
From Click to Compromise: Unveiling the Sophisticated Attack of DoNot APT Group on Southern European Government Entities By Aniket Choukde, Aparna Aripirala, Alisha Kadam, Pham Duy Phuc and Alex Lanstein · July 8, 2025 This blog was also written by Akhil Reddy Introduction The DoNot APT group, al...
From Click to Compromise: Unveiling the Sophisticated Attack of DoNot APT Group on Southern European Government Entities
From Click to Compromise: Unveiling the Sophisticated Attack of DoNot APT Group on Southern European Government Entities By Aniket Choukde, Aparna Aripirala, Alisha Kadam, Pham Duy Phuc and Alex Lanstein · July 8, 2025 This blog was also written by Akhil Reddy Introduction The DoNot APT group, al...
Automagic Reverse Engineering
Automagic Reverse Engineering By Trellix · July 1, 2025 This blog was written by Max Kersten Over the last few years, I have looked into methods to improve the reverse engineering process. This saves essential time during the analysis, which helps while defending from well prepared threat actors...
Automagic Reverse Engineering
Automagic Reverse Engineering By Trellix · July 1, 2025 This blog was written by Max Kersten Over the last few years, I have looked into methods to improve the reverse engineering process. This saves essential time during the analysis, which helps while defending from well prepared threat actors...
The Bug Report - June 2025 Edition
The Bug Report - June 2025 Edition By Jonathan Omakun · July 1, 2025 Why am I here? Welcome to the June 2025 edition of The Bug Report from the Trellix Advanced Research Center, where the only thing hotter than your CPU fan is the vulnerability feed. As the temperature rises and the air condition...
The Bug Report - June 2025 Edition
The Bug Report - June 2025 Edition By Jonathan Omakun · July 1, 2025 Why am I here? Welcome to the June 2025 edition of The Bug Report from the Trellix Advanced Research Center, where the only thing hotter than your CPU fan is the vulnerability feed. As the temperature rises and the air condition...
The Democratization of Phishing: Popularity of PhaaS platforms on the rise
The Democratization of Phishing: Popularity of PhaaS Platforms on the Rise By Ryan Slaney · June 30, 2025 The phishing industry is being profoundly reshaped by the surge of Phishing-as-a-Service PhaaS platforms. These accessible, often Artificial Intelligence AI-powered, offerings are democratizi...
OneClik: A ClickOnce-Based APT Campaign Targeting Energy, Oil and Gas Infrastructure
OneClik: A ClickOnce-Based Red Team Campaign Simulating APT Tactics in Energy Infrastructure By Nico Paulo Yturriaga and Pham Duy Phuc · Updated : June 30, 2025 The Trellix Advanced Research Center previously uncovered what appeared to be a sophisticated APT malware campaign, which we dubbed...
The Democratization of Phishing: Popularity of PhaaS platforms on the rise
The Democratization of Phishing: Popularity of PhaaS Platforms on the Rise By Ryan Slaney · June 30, 2025 The phishing industry is being profoundly reshaped by the surge of Phishing-as-a-Service PhaaS platforms. These accessible, often Artificial Intelligence AI-powered, offerings are democratizi...
OneClik: A ClickOnce-Based APT Campaign Targeting Energy, Oil and Gas Infrastructure
OneClik: A ClickOnce-Based Red Team Campaign Simulating APT Tactics in Energy Infrastructure By Nico Paulo Yturriaga and Pham Duy Phuc · Updated : June 30, 2025 The Trellix Advanced Research Center previously uncovered what appeared to be a sophisticated APT malware campaign, which we dubbed...
OneClik: A ClickOnce-Based APT Campaign Targeting Energy, Oil and Gas Infrastructure
OneClik: A ClickOnce-Based APT Campaign Targeting Energy, Oil and Gas Infrastructure By Nico Paulo Yturriaga and Pham Duy Phuc · June 24, 2025 The Trellix Advanced Research Center has uncovered a sophisticated APT malware campaign that we’ve dubbed OneClik. It specifically targets the energy, oil...