QBot, also known as Qakbot, QuackBot, and Pinkslipbot, is a Banking Trojan that was first observed in 2007. Today, Qbot is still a vicious and persistent threat to organizations and has become one of the leading Banking Trojans globally. Over the years, it has changed its initial techniques to deliver payloads like using VBA macros, Excel 4 macros, VBS files, exploits like Follina, etc.…

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11/07: Updated article to provide clarity around hunting techniques

Key points from our research:

Following our reporting on Robin Banks in July, Cloudflare disassociated Robin Banks phishing infrastructure from its services, causing a multi-day disruption to operations. In response, Robin Banks administrators made several changes, including relocating its infrastructure to a notorious Russian provider and changing features of its kits to be more evasive.…
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Update 12.01.22: The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a joint advisory on Cuba ransomware, listing this BlackBerry blog as a resource. See Advisory. 

Summary

The threat actor known as RomCom is running a series of new attack campaigns that take advantage of the brand power of SolarWinds, KeePass, and PDF Technologies.…

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Spiking Clipper Infection Targeting Cryptocurrency Users

Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL) has continuously monitored malware campaigns that distribute different malware families, such as stealer, clipper, and ransomware.

Recently, CRIL observed a malware strain known as SmokeLoader, which carries popular malware family samples such as SystemBC and Raccoon Stealer 2.0, along with a new clipper malware dubbed Laplas Clipper that targets cryptocurrency users.…

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Introduction

This report describes several interesting incidents observed by the Kaspersky Managed Detection and Response (MDR) team. The goal of the report is to inform our customers about techniques used by attackers. We hope that learning about the attacks that took place in the wild helps you to stay up to date on the modern threat landscape and to be better prepared for attacks.…

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Executive Summary

The sophistication of threat actors’ DDoS strategy and tactics continues to evolve rapidly in response to improved mitigation-side efforts. Actors have complicated filtering and firewalling by bringing a more diverse set of vectors to the attack, attacking at multiple network layers at the same time and automating changes to the mix of vectors at attack time – perhaps even in response to the ongoing mitigation efforts.…

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In early June 2022, we observed an intrusion where a threat actor gained initial access by exploiting the CVE-2022-30190 (Follina) vulnerability which triggered a Qbot infection chain.

Qbot, also known as Qakbot or Pinksliplot is actively developed and capable of a number of functions from reconnaissance, lateral movement, data exfiltration, to delivering other payloads acting as an initial access broker.…

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Code signing certificates help us assure the file’s validity and legitimacy. However, threat actors can use that against us. In this blog, discover how QAKBOT use such tactic and learn ways how to prevent it.

A threat actor, QAKBOT, along with EMOTET, has been one of the most active threat actors over the past few years, with numerous reports regarding its actions since it was first observed in 2007.…

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April 2023 update – Microsoft Threat Intelligence has shifted to a new threat actor naming taxonomy aligned around the theme of weather.

DEV-0206 is now tracked as Mustard Tempest DEV-0243 is now tracked as Manatee Tempest DEV-0950 is now tracked as Lace Tempest DEV-0651 is now tracked as Storm-0651 DEV-0856 is now tracked as Storm-0856

To learn about how the new taxonomy represents the origin, unique traits, and impact of threat actors, and to get a complete mapping of threat actor names, read this blog: Microsoft shifts to a new threat actor naming taxonomy.…

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Our blog entry provides a look at an attack involving the LV ransomware on a Jordan-based company from an intrusion analysis standpoint

Overview

The Trend Micro research team recently analyzed an infection related to the LV ransomware group, a ransomware as a service (RaaS) operation that has been active since late 2020, and is reportedly  based on REvil (aka Sodinokibi).…

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Recently, Zscaler ThreatLabz discovered a new malware being used by the SideWinder APT threat group in campaigns targeting Pakistan: a backdoor we’ve called “WarHawk.” SideWinder APT, aka Rattlesnake or T-APT4, is a suspected Indian Threat Actor Group active since at least 2012, with a history of targeting government, military, and businesses throughout Asia, particularly Pakistan.…

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Author:  Tomer Bar, VP Security Research, SafeBreach

As part of our ongoing commitment to conducting original research to uncover new threats and ensure our Hacker’s Playbook provides the most comprehensive collection of attacks, the SafeBreach Labs research team recently discovered a new fully undetectable (FUD) PowerShell backdoor that leverages a novel approach of disguising itself as part of the Windows update process.…

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Executive Summary

Ransom Cartel is ransomware as a service (RaaS) that surfaced in mid-December 2021. This ransomware performs double extortion attacks and exhibits several similarities and technical overlaps with REvil ransomware. REvil ransomware disappeared just a couple of months before Ransom Cartel surfaced and just one month after 14 of its alleged members were arrested in Russia.…

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