Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL) discovered a new Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform called “Cinoshi”. Cinoshi’s arsenal consists of a stealer, botnet, clipper, and cryptominer. Currently, this MaaS platform is offering stealer and web panel for free, and such free services are rarely seen.…
By Pham Duy Phuc, Max Kersten and Tomer Shloman · March 23, 2023
Another day, another ransomware gang. The Dark Power ransomware gang is new on the block, and is trying to make a name for itself. This blog dives into the specifics of the ransomware used by the gang, as well as some information regarding their victim naming and shaming website, filled with non-paying victims and stolen data.…
By Aleksandar Milenkoski, Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, and Joey Chen, in collaboration with QGroup
Executive Summary In Q1 of 2023, SentinelLabs observed initial phases of attacks against telecommunication providers in the Middle East. We assess that this activity represents an evolution of tooling associated with Operation Soft Cell.…Earth Preta has actively been changing its tools, tactics, and procedures (TTPs) to bypass security solutions. In this blog entry, we will introduce and analyze the tools and malware used by the threat actor in its most recent campaigns.
In our previous research, we disclosed and analyzed a new campaign initiated by the threat actor group Earth Preta (aka Mustang Panda).…
Threat actors often compete for the same resources, and this couldn’t be further from the truth when it comes to website compromises. After all, if a vulnerability exists one can expect that it will be exploited more than once.
In the past, we have seen such occurrences with Magecart threat actors for example in the breach of the Umbro website.…
SideCopy APT is a Threat Actor(TA) from Pakistan that has been active since 2019, focusing on targeting South Asian nations, especially India and Afghanistan. The SideCopy APT gets its name from the infection chain, which imitates that of the SideWinder APT.…
At Zscaler ThreatLabz, we have been closely monitoring the tools, techniques and procedures (TTPs) of APT37 (also known as ScarCruft or Temp.Reaper) – a North Korea-based advanced persistent threat actor. This threat actor has been very active in February and March 2023 targeting individuals in various South Korean organizations.…
Since June 2022, Mandiant has been tracking a campaign targeting Western Media and Technology companies from a suspected North Korean espionage group tracked as UNC2970. In June 2022, Mandiant Managed Defense detected and responded to an UNC2970 phishing campaign targeting a U.S.-based technology company. During this operation, Mandiant observed UNC2970 leverage three new code families: TOUCHMOVE, SIDESHOW, and TOUCHSHIFT.…
Following a bank run on its deposits, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) experienced a failure on March 10, 2023, and has garnered significant media attention. As SVB has traditionally been the preferred banking partner for many startups worldwide, its failure is expected to significantly impact this community.…
Affected Platforms: FortiOSImpacted Users: Government & large organizationsImpact: Data loss and OS and file corruptionSeverity Level: High
Fortinet published a CVSS Medium PSIRT Advisory (FG-IR-22-369 / CVE-2022-41328) on March 7th, 2023. The following write-up details our initial investigation into the incident that led to the discovery of this vulnerability and additional IoCs identified during our ongoing analysis.…
AhnLab Security Emergency response Center (ASEC) has recently discovered the distribution of the Mallox ransomware during the team’s monitoring. As covered before, Mallox, which targets vulnerable MS-SQL servers, has historically been distributed at a consistently high rate based on AhnLab’s statistics.
Figure 1. Ransomware statistics for Q4 2022The malware disguised as a program related to DirectPlay is a file built in .NET…
ESET researchers discovered a campaign that we attribute with high confidence to the APT group Tick. The incident took place in the network of an East Asian company that develops data-loss prevention (DLP) software.
The attackers compromised the DLP company’s internal update servers to deliver malware inside the software developer’s network, and trojanized installers of legitimate tools used by the company, which eventually resulted in the execution of malware on the computers of the company’s customers.…
AhnLab Security Emergency response Center (ASEC) has recently discovered a CHM malware which is assumed to have been created by the Kimsuky group. This malware type is the same as the one covered in the following ASEC blog posts and the analysis report on the malware distributed by the Kimsuky group, its goal being the exfiltration of user information.…
By Pham Duy Phuc, John Fokker J.E., Alejandro Houspanossian and Mathanraj Thangaraju · March 07, 2023This blog was also written by Raghav Kapoor
Qakbot (aka QBot, QuakBot, and Pinkslipbot) is a sophisticated piece of malware that has been active since at least 2007. Since the end of January 2023, there has been an upsurge in the number of Qakbot campaigns using a novel delivery technique: OneNote documents for malware distribution.…
In 2021, Check Point Research published a report on a previously undisclosed toolset used by Sharp Panda, a long-running Chinese cyber-espionage operation targeting Southeast Asian government entities. Since then, we have continued to track the use of these tools across several operations in multiple Southeast Asian countries, in particular nations with similar territorial claims or strategic infrastructure projects such as Vietnam, Thailand, and Indonesia.…
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Executive SummaryUnit 42 researchers have uncovered a malware distribution campaign that is delivering the LokiBot information stealer via business email compromise (BEC) phishing emails. This malware is designed to steal sensitive information from victims’ systems, such as passwords and banking information, as well as other sensitive data.…
Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL) came across a new malware strain called “WhiteSnake” Stealer. The stealer was first identified on cybercrime forums at the beginning of this month. It is designed to extract sensitive information from the victim’s computer.…
SCARLETEEL: Operation leveraging Terraform, Kubernetes, and AWS for data theft | Sysdig
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The Sysdig Threat Research Team recently discovered a sophisticated cloud operation in a customer environment, dubbed SCARLETEEL, that resulted in stolen proprietary data. The attacker exploited a containerized workload and then leveraged it to perform privilege escalation into an AWS account in order to steal proprietary software and credentials.…
ESET researchers have analyzed MQsTTang, a new custom backdoor that we attribute to the Mustang Panda APT group. This backdoor is part of an ongoing campaign that we can trace back to early January 2023. Unlike most of the group’s malware, MQsTTang doesn’t seem to be based on existing families or publicly available projects.…