Author: Securonix
Over the past seven months, SophosLabs has monitored a series of new efforts to distribute SolarMarker, an information stealer and backdoor (also known as Jupyter or Polazert). First detected in 2020, the .NET malware usually delivered by a PowerShell installer has information harvesting and backdoor capabilities.…
These websites host Smokeloader payloads as part of three categories named “pab1”, “pab2” and “pab3”. These are not necessarily linked to the analogous “pub*” affiliate IDs, since we have seen some “pab2” payloads with the “555” affiliate ID. While tracking PrivateLoader, we only received links to download the “pab2” payloads from these websites.…
In August 2021, a disgruntled CONTI affiliate leaked training documents, playbooks, and tools used to assist in CONTI ransomware operations. Mandiant has determined that some of the activity listed above overlaps with techniques in the playbooks disclosed in August.
At this time, due to the public release of this information, other unaffiliated actors may be replicating the techniques for their own motives and objectives.…
case study below, Antlion compromised the networks of at least two other organizations in Taiwan, including another financial organization and a manufacturing company. The activity the group carried out on those networks was largely similar to the activity that is detailed in the case study, with the xPack backdoor frequently deployed and a lot of evidence of credential dumping.…
Qbot (aka QakBot, Quakbot, Pinkslipbot ) has been around for a long time having first been observed back in 2007. More info on Qbot can be found at the following links: Microsoft & Red Canary
In this case, from October 2021, we will break down how Qbot quickly spread across all workstations in an environment, while stealing browser information and emails.…
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Lazarus has targeted its victims using job opportunities documents for companies such as LockHeed Martin, BAE Systems, and Boeing. In this case, the threat actor has targeted people that are looking for jobs at Boeing using a document called Boeing BDS MSE.docx (https://twitter.com/ShadowChasing1/status/1455489336850325519). The malware extracts the hostname, username, network information, a list of processes, and other information that will be exfiltrated to one out of the four C2 servers.…
February 3, 2022
[UPDATE] On February 4, 2022, Zimbra provided an update regarding this zero-day exploit vulnerability and reported that a hotfix for 8.8.15 P30 would be available on February 5, 2022. This vulnerability was later assigned CVE-2022-24682 and was fixed in version 8.8.15P30 Update 2 of Zimbra Collaboration Suite.…
Cisco Talos has observed a new wave of Delphi malware called Micropsia developed and operated by the Arid Viper APT group since 2017.
This campaign targets Palestinian entities and activists using politically themed lures. The latest iteration of the implant contains multiple RAT and information-gathering capabilities.…A new phishing campaign is using specially crafted CSV text files to infect users’ devices with the BazarBackdoor malware.
A comma-separated values (CSV) file is a text file containing lines of text with columns of data separated by commas. In many cases, the first line of text is the header, or description, for each column.…
Analysis of a new malware called Mars Stealer, which is a further development of Oski Stealer.
It has been noticed that Oski support stopped answering its customers and deleted its telegram account and bot around July 2, 2020. This disappearance has raised eyebrows, as major projects like KPOT Stealer and Predator The Thief don’t usually just go away.…
Over the past months, the Cybereason Nocturnus Team has been tracking the Iranian hacker group known as Moses Staff. The group was first spotted in October 2021 and claims their motivation is to harm Israeli companies by leaking sensitive, stolen data. …
By: Joshua Platt, Jonathan Mccay and Jason Reaves
An actor recently has been starting up a RaaS solution that appears to primarily focus on individual computers instead of entire enterprises but is also reusing objects from other ransomware families. Not a lot has been discussed about this ransomware but we did find a tweet mentioning one of the samples[3] during our research.…
Over the past months, the Cybereason Nocturnus Team observed an uptick in the activity of the Iranian attributed group dubbed Phosphorus (AKA Charming Kitten, APT35), known for previously attacking medical research organizations in the US and Israel in late 2020, and for targeting academic researchers from the US, France, and the Middle East region back in 2019.…
Cisco Talos has observed a new campaign targeting Turkish private organizations alongside governmental institutions.
Talos attributes this campaign with high confidence to MuddyWater — an APT group recently attributed to Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) by the U.S. Cyber Command. This campaign utilizes malicious PDFs, XLS files and Windows executables to deploy malicious PowerShell-based downloaders acting as initial footholds into the target’s enterprise.…Broadcom Software, has found evidence of attempted attacks against a number of organizations in the country.
Active since at least 2013, Shuckworm specializes in cyber-espionage campaigns mainly against entities in Ukraine. The group is known to use phishing emails to distribute either freely available remote access tools, including Remote Manipulator System (RMS) and UltraVNC, or customized malware called Pterodo/Pteranodon to targets.…
This blog was authored by Ankur Saini and Hossein Jazi
Lazarus Group is one of the most sophisticated North Korean APTs that has been active since 2009. The group is responsible for many high profile attacks in the past and has gained worldwide attention. The Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence team is actively monitoring its activities and was able to spot a new campaign on Jan 18th 2022.…
The Belarusian Cyber Partisans have shared documents related to another hack, and explained that Curated Intel member, SttyK, would “understand some of the methods used.”
Written by @BushidoToken and edited by @SteveD3
On Monday 24 January 2022, a Belarusian hacktivist group going by the name Belarusian Cyber-Partisans claimed responsibility for a limited attack against the national railway company.…