Credit to Author: Mohamed Fahmy| Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000
We analyze an infection campaign targeting organizations in the Middle East for cyberespionage in December 2022 using a new backdoor malware. The campaign abuses legitimate but compromised email accounts to send stolen data to external mail accounts controlled by the attackers.
Read moreCredit to Author: David Fiser| Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000
In this proof of concept, we look into one of several attack vectors that can be abused to attack the supply chain: targeting the developer. With a focus on the local integrated developer environment (IDE), this proof considers the execution of malicious build scripts via injecting commands when the project or build is incorrectly “trusted”.
Read moreCredit to Author: Christopher So| Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000
We found samples of the Raspberry Robin malware spreading in telecommunications and government office systems beginning September. The main payload itself is packed with more than 10 layers for obfuscation and is capable of delivering a fake payload once it detects sandboxing and security analytics tools.
Read moreCredit to Author: Feike Hacquebord| Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Ransomware groups and their business models are expected to change from what and how we know it to date. In this blog entry, we summarize from some of our insights the triggers that spark the small changes in the short term (“evolutions”) and the bigger deviations (“revolutions”) they can redirect their criminal enterprises to in the long run.
Read moreCredit to Author: Nick Dai| Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000
We break down the cyberespionage activities of advanced persistent threat (APT) group Earth Preta, observed in large-scale attack deployments that began in March. We also show the infection routines of the malware families they use to infect multiple sectors worldwide: TONEINS, TONESHELL, and PUBLOAD.
Read moreCredit to Author: Hara Hiroaki| Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000
We looked into the campaigns deployed by a new subgroup of advanced persistent threat (APT) group APT41, Earth Longzhi. This entry breaks down the technical details of the campaigns in full as presented at HITCON PEACE 2022 in August.
Read moreCredit to Author: Mohamed Fahmy| Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Our blog entry provides a look at an attack involving the LV ransomware on a Jordan-based company from an intrusion analysis standpoint
Read moreCredit to Author: Joseph C Chen| Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000
In the second part of our Water Labbu blog series, we explore how the threat actor exploits Electron-based applications using Cobalt Strike to deploy backdoors.
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