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.…
Tag: CVE
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.…
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.…The BlackBerry Research & Intelligence and Incident Response (IR) teams have found evidence correlating attacks by the Initial Access Broker (IAB) group Prophet Spider with exploitation of the Log4j vulnerability in VMware Horizon. This article highlights the recent indicators of compromise (IoCs) that we’ve observed.
Defenders concerned that they may have been a victim of these attacks can make use of these IoCs and detection methods to identify evidence of compromise within their environment.…
On November 11th, Google TAG published a blogpost about watering-hole attacks leading to exploits for the Safari web browser running on macOS. ESET researchers had been investigating this campaign the week before that publication, uncovering additional details about the targets and malware used to compromise its victims.…
Donot Team (also known as APT-C-35 and SectorE02) is a threat actor operating since at least 2016 and known for targeting organizations and individuals in South Asia with Windows and Android malware. A recent report by Amnesty International links the group’s malware to an Indian cybersecurity company that may be selling the spyware or offering a hackers-for-hire service to governments of the region.…
BlueNoroff is the name of an APT group coined by Kaspersky researchers while investigating the notorious attack on Bangladesh’s Central Bank back in 2016. A mysterious group with links to Lazarus and an unusual financial motivation for an APT. The group seems to work more like a unit within a larger formation of Lazarus attackers, with the ability to tap into its vast resources: be it malware implants, exploits, or infrastructure.…
A cybercrime article from 2011 named as “Cybercrime: is it out of control?” on the website of Guardian has been found to be serving up the Angler Exploit Kit.
The Angler Exploit Kit is a Web-based utility toolbelt that hackers use to test the defenses of a user’s computer.…
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