Trustwave SpiderLabs in early April observed a Grandoreiro malware campaign targeting bank users from Brazil, Spain, and Mexico. The campaign exploits the tax season in target countries by sending out tax-themed phishing emails.…
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Black Basta Besting Your Network?
first appeared in April 2022. To date, this group has claimed attribution of 29 different victims across multiple industries using a double extortion strategy where the attackers not only execute ransomware but also steal data and threaten to release it publicly if the ransom demands are not met.…
This blog post on TURLA was originally published as a FLINT report (SEKOIA.IO Flash Intelligence) sent to our clients on May 11, 2022.
Executive SummarySEKOIA.IO Threat & Detection Research (TDR) Team have expanded the search on Russian-linked TURLA’s infrastructures from a Google’s TAG blog post.…
Recently Cyble researchers came across a post where a researcher mentioned about fake Proof of Concept (POC) of CVE-2022-26809. Upon further investigation, we discovered that it’s malware disguised as an Exploit. Similarly, we found a malicious sample that appears to be a fake POC of CVE-2022-24500.…
Nokoyawa is a new Windows ransomware that appeared earlier this year. The earliest samples collected by FortiGuard researchers were compiled in February 2022 and share substantial code similarities with Karma, another ransomware that traces its lineage to Nemty through a long string of variants. Nemty is a ransomware family that FortiGuard Labs researchers reported on back in 2019.…
In April 2022, ThreatLabz discovered several newly registered domains, which were created by a threat actor to spoof the official Microsoft Windows 11 OS download portal. We discovered these domains by monitoring suspicious traffic in our Zscaler cloud. The spoofed sites were created to distribute malicious ISO files which lead to a Vidar infostealer infection on the endpoint.…
Trend Micro’s Managed XDR team addressed a Kingminer botnet attack conducted through an SQL exploit. We discuss our findings and analysis in this report.
We observed malicious activities in a client’s SQL server that flagged a potential exploit in one public-facing device. A quick look at the Trend Micro Vision One™ Workbench showed that a Microsoft SQL server process created an obfuscated PowerShell command.…
This blog post was authored by Hossein Jazi and Jérôme Segura
Populations around the world—and in Europe in particular—are following the crisis in Ukraine very closely, and with events unfolding on a daily basis, people are hungry for information.
Although all countries have reasons to be concerned, the situation is Germany is more complicated than most.…
We analyze the Black Basta ransomware and examine the malicious actor’s familiar infection tactics.
Black Basta, a new ransomware gang, has swiftly risen to prominence in recent weeks after it caused massive breaches to organizations in a short span of time.
On April 20, 2022, a user named Black Basta posted on underground forums known as XSS.IS…
Emotet was first found in the wild in 2014. Back then its main functionality was stealing user banking credentials. Since then it has survived numerous transformations, started delivering other malware and finally became a powerful botnet. In January 2021 Emotet was disrupted by a joint effort of different countries’ authorities.…
In mid-March, FortiGuard Labs observed a new DDoS botnet calling itself “Enemybot” and attributing itself to Keksec, a threat group that specializes in cryptomining and DDoS attacks.
This botnet is mainly derived from Gafgyt’s source code but has been observed to borrow several modules from Mirai’s original source code.…
Introduction
Credential stealing malware is commonly observed in the landscape of cyber attacks today. Zscaler ThreatLabz team has discovered many new types of stealer malwares across different attack campaigns. Stealers are malicious programs that threat actors use to collect sensitive information with various techniques including keylogging, cookie stealing, and sending stolen information to the Command and Control Server. …
During the past month, FortiEDR detected a campaign by Deep Panda, a Chinese APT group. The group exploited the infamous Log4Shell vulnerability in VMware Horizon servers. The nature of targeting was opportunistic insofar that multiple infections in several countries and various sectors occurred on the same dates.…
By Asheer Malhotra and Justin Thattil with contributions from Kendall McKay.
Cisco Talos has observed a new Transparent Tribe campaign targeting Indian government and military entities. While the actors are infecting victims with CrimsonRAT, their well-known malware of choice, they are also using new stagers and implants.…Morphisec Labs has observed a new wave of JSSLoader infections this year. We’ve tracked JSSLoader activity since December 2020 and published a thorough report on the Russian criminal hacking group FIN7’s JSSLoader: The Evolution of the FIN7 JSSLoader. JSSLoader is a small, very capable .NET remote access trojan (RAT).…
The post-pandemic world has seen cryptocurrencies and blockchain products in general catapult in valuation and adoption. “Web3”, “DeFi”, and “NFT” have become household terms and the sector is growing so fast that people and businesses are pouring in with dollar signs in their eyes and high hopes to get a piece of the pie.…
Information stealing malware is on the rise. Cyble Research Labs recently discovered a new malware dubbed “AvD crypto stealer” on a cybercrime forum. Upon further investigation, however, we observed that this does not function as a Crypto Stealer. This is, in fact, a disguised variant of well-known Clipper malware that can read and edit any text copied by the victim i.e.…
Dragos has observed consistent network communication between Emotet Command and Control (C2) servers and numerous auto manufacturing companies. These Emotet servers are suspected to be controlled by the Conti ransomware group.
At this stage, Dragos has not yet observed any confirmed initial access methods being utilized and does not have any evidence of ransomware encryption being initiated.…