In ancient Greek mythology, Medusa stands as one of the most iconic and feared figures. With a head full of venomous snakes in place of hair, she had the power to turn anyone who gazed upon her into stone. This Gorgon, once a beautiful maiden, became synonymous with terror and dread. …
Tag: DISCOVERY
Executive SummaryInfamous Chisel is a collection of components targeting Android devices.
This malware is associated with Sandworm activity.
It performs periodic scanning of files and network information for exfiltration.
System and application configuration files are exfiltrated from an infected device.
Infamous Chisel provides network backdoor access via a Tor (The Onion Router) hidden service and Secure Shell (SSH).…
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Introduction
Read More In our persistent quest to decode DuckTail’s maneuvers, Zscaler ThreatLabz began an intelligence collection operation in May 2023. Through an intensive three-month period of monitoring, we obtained critical details about DuckTail’s operational framework. This expedition granted us unprecedented visibility into DuckTail’s end-to-end operations, spanning the entire kill chain from reconnaissance to post-compromise.…
Targeted attacks
Gopuram backdoor deployed through 3CX supply-chain attack
Read More Earlier this year, a Trojanized version of the 3CXDesktopApp, a popular VoIP program, was used in a high-supply-chain attack. The attackers were able to embed malicious code into the libffmpeg media processing library to download a payload from their servers.…
Security Joes Incident Response team recently became aware of a set of relatively new CVEs that were released at the end of March 2023. Surprisingly, these vulnerabilities have received little to no media coverage regarding their ease of exploitation and the potential security implications they pose to any cluster running a non-native object storage.…
Executive Summary
Read More The Key Group ransomware family was first revealed on January 6, 2023, continuing their operations since then. EclecticIQ researchers assess with high confidence, the Key Group ransomware gang is primarily a Russian speaking, financially motivated threat group using Telegram channel keygroup777Tg for the negotiation of ransoms.[1] …
Good Day ransomware, a variant within the ARCrypter family, was first observed in-the-wild in May of 2023. Between June and August of 2023, we observed an uptick in Good Day ransomware campaigns and a proliferation of new ransom note samples in public malware repositories. This new wave of Good Day attacks feature individual TOR-based victim portals for each target.…
Analysis and Report by Fabian Marquardt (@marqufabi)
Recently, Telekom Security CTI was made aware via trust groups in which we are engaged about a new malware campaign that is distributed via phishing emails. The malspam campaign used stolen email threads to lure victim users into clicking the contained hyperlink, which downloaded the malware.…
Sophos X-Ops is tracking an ongoing campaign, which is targeting Citrix NetScaler systems, conducted by threat actors linked to the FIN8 group [BleepingComputer, SOCRadar]. The hackers are exploiting the remote code execution, tracked as CVE-2023-3519, in a large-scale campaign.
The flaw CVE-2023-3519 (CVSS score: 9.8) is a code injection that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution.…
Introduction
Read More Agniane Stealer fraudulently takes credentials, system information, and session details from browsers, tokens, and file transferring tools. Agniane Stealer also heavily targets cryptocurrency extensions and wallets. Once it obtains the sensitive data, Agniane Stealer transfers that stolen data to command-and-control [C&C] servers, where threat actors can act upon the stolen information. …
ReversingLabs researchers have identified more than a dozen malicious packages on the npm public repository since the beginning of August, including multistage, malicious packages that placed Luna Grabber, an open-source information-stealing malware, on infected systems. In a replay of an attack uncovered two years ago, the malicious packages imitated the legitimate package noblox.js,…
We’ve previously reported on a Nokoyawa ransomware case in which the initial access was via an Excel macro and IcedID malware. This case, which also ended in Nokoyawa Ransomware, involved the threat actor deploying the final ransomware only 12 hours after the initial compromise.
This threat actor delivered a password protected ZIP file via HTML smuggling to organizations back in late October, early November 2022.…
This article is not an in-depth reverse-engineering analysis of a ransomware variant. Rather, it discusses the methods and different techniques used to uncover previous ransomware campaigns.
When a ransomware is successful out in the wild, it is a common to see cybercriminals use the same ransomware samples — slightly tweaking their codebase — to pilot other projects.…
The Monti ransomware collective has restarted their operations, focusing on institutions in the legal and governmental fields. Simultaneously, a new variant of Monti, based on the Linux platform, has surfaced, demonstrating notable differences from its previous Linux-based versions.
IntroductionThe Monti ransomware, which has both Windows and Linux-based variants, gained attention from cybersecurity organizations and researchers when it was first discovered in June 2022 because of its striking resemblance to the infamous Conti ransom ware — not just in name but also the tactics that the threat actors used.…
Cisco Talos discovered the North Korean state-sponsored actor Lazarus Group targeting internet backbone infrastructure and healthcare entities in Europe and the United States. This is the third documented campaign attributed to this actor in less than a year, with the actor reusing the same infrastructure throughout these operations.…
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In the Lazarus Group’s latest campaign, which we detailed in a recent blog, the North Korean state-sponsored actor is exploiting CVE-2022-47966, a ManageEngine ServiceDesk vulnerability to deploy multiple threats. In addition to their “QuiteRAT” malware, which we covered in the blog, we also discovered Lazarus Group using a new threat called “CollectionRAT.”…
Read More Multiple New Campaigns in 2023 Demonstrate The Malware Family Has Been Redeveloped to Remain a Popular And Prominent Threat
Read More EclecticIQ analysts observe the malware family targeting financial information to be used for immediate gain as well as reconnaissance functions to perform initial information gathering and establish persistence.…
Summary
Microsoft has identified a nation-state activity group tracked as Flax Typhoon, based in China, that is targeting dozens of organizations in Taiwan with the likely intention of performing espionage. Flax Typhoon gains and maintains long-term access to Taiwanese organizations’ networks with minimal use of malware, relying on tools built into the operating system, along with some normally benign software to quietly remain in these networks.…
Published On : 2023-08-23
EXECUTIVE SUMMARYAt Cyfirma, we are dedicated to providing you with up-to-date information on the most prevalent threats and tactics used by malicious actors to target both organizations and individuals. In this comprehensive analysis, we delve into an ongoing campaign orchestrated by the Remcos Remote Access Trojan (RAT).…
Executive Summary
Read More In March 2023, Lumen Black Lotus Labs reported on a complex campaign called “HiatusRAT” that infected over 100 edge networking devices globally. The campaign leveraged edge routers, or “living on the edge” access, to passively collect traffic and functioned as a covert network of command and control (C2) infrastructure. …