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Credit to Author: Feike Hacquebord| Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000
Almost a year after Void Rabisu shifted its targeting from opportunistic ransomware attacks with an emphasis on cyberespionage, the threat actor is still developing its main malware, the ROMCOM backdoor.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Trent Bessell| Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000
We detail an ongoing campaign abusing messaging platforms Skype and Teams to distribute the DarkGate malware to targeted organizations. We also discovered that once DarkGate is installed on the victim’s system, additional payloads were introduced to the environment.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Aliakbar Zahravi| Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000
This entry delves into threat actors’ intricate methods to implant malicious payloads within seemingly legitimate applications and codebases.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Mohamed Fahmy| Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000
We observed and tracked the advanced persistent threat (APT) APT34 group with a new malware variant accompanying a phishing attack comparatively similar to the SideTwist backdoor malware. Following the campaign, the group abused a fake license registration form of an African government agency to target a victim in Saudi Arabia.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Salim S.I.| Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000
Crafted packets from cellular devices such as mobile phones can exploit faulty state machines in the 5G core to attack cellular infrastructure. Smart devices that critical industries such as defense, utilities, and the medical sectors use for their daily operations depend on the speed, efficiency, and productivity brought by 5G. This entry describes CVE-2021-45462 as a potential use case to deploy a denial-of-service (DoS) attack to private 5G networks.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Joseph C Chen| Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000
While monitoring Earth Lusca, we discovered an intriguing, encrypted file on the threat actor’s server — a Linux-based malware, which appears to originate from the open-source Windows backdoor Trochilus, which we’ve dubbed SprySOCKS due to its swift behavior and SOCKS implementation.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Hitomi Kimura| Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000
In this blog, we investigate how threat actors used information-stealing malware with EV code signing certificates and later delivered ransomware payloads to its victims via the same delivery method.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Ed Cabrera| Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000
Discover what the increased regulatory risk due to recent US and UK sanctions imposed on TrickBot and Conti cybercriminals mean for CISOs and board members.
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