Aqua Nautilus discovered a new campaign that exploits the Openfire vulnerability (CVE-2023-32315), that was disclosed in May of this year, to deploy Kinsing malware and a cryptominer. This vulnerability leads to a path traversal attack, which grants an unauthenticated user access to the Openfire setup environment.…
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In this entry, we discuss how a threat actor abuses paid Facebook promotions featuring LLMs to spread malicious code, with the goal of installing a malicious browser add-on and stealing victims’ credentials.
Large language models (LLMs) are currently a hot topic nowadays, drawing much attention as the emergence of general artificial intelligence seems to near.…
On August 29, 2023, U.S. law enforcement announced a multinational operation that disrupted the Qakbot botnet (also known as Qbot) and associated infrastructure. Secureworks® Counter Threat Unit™ (CTU) researchers have long maintained active monitoring of the botnet and detected the disruption activity on August 25.
During the takedown, law enforcement identified over 700,000 infected computers and seized more than $8.6 million USD in illicit profits.…
QR Codes, the square images that contain coded information that can be scanned by a smartphone, are becoming increasingly popular. With the number of smartphone users reaching 6.92 billion this year, access to the information within these ingenious images is within reach by around 86% of the world’s population.…
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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. …
In May 2023, a vulnerability affecting RocketMQ servers (CVE-2023-33246), which allows remote code execution, was publicly disclosed. In a recent blog post, Juniper Threat Labs provided a detailed explanation of how an exploit targeting this vulnerability works.
This vulnerability opened the gates for hackers to exploit the RocketMQ platform, leading to a series of attacks.…
AhnLab Security Emergency response Center (ASEC) has recently discovered cases of proxyjacking targeting poorly managed MS-SQL servers. Publicly accessible MS-SQL servers with simple passwords are one of the main attack vectors used when targeting Windows systems. Typically, threat actors target poorly managed MS-SQL servers and attempt to gain access through brute force or dictionary attacks.…
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Around early-mid August, we noticed an increase in MacOS malware detections, specifically AdLoad and UpdateAgent in IronDome, in the education sector. This timing correlates with students returning to school, therefore bringing their personal (infected) devices to school networks, and is likely the cause of this increase.…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.…
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Read More This report is provided “as is” for informational purposes only. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) does not provide any warranties of any kind regarding any information contained herein. The DHS does not endorse any commercial product or service referenced in this bulletin or otherwise.…
By Trellix · August 17, 2023 This story was also written by Phelix Oluoch
Executive SummaryScattered Spider, also referred to as UNC3944, Scatter Swine, and Muddled Libra, is a financially motivated threat actor group that has been active since May 2022. Scattered Spider has largely been observed targeting telecommunications and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) organizations.…
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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).…
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 By Aleksandar Milenkoski and Tom Hegel
Executive SummarySentinelLabs has identified suspected-Chinese malware and infrastructure potentially involved in China-associated operations directed at the gambling sector within Southeast Asia. The threat actors drop Adobe Creative Cloud, Microsoft Edge, and McAfee VirusScan executables vulnerable to DLL hijacking to deploy Cobalt Strike beacons.…
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XWorm: Technical Analysis of a New Malware Version
Read More In this article, we will take a look at the latest version of an XWorm sample — a widespread malicious program that is advertised for sale on underground forums.
We will analyze the functionality of our sample, as well as extract its configuration. …
In this blogpost, ESET researchers take a look at Spacecolon, a small toolset used to deploy variants of the Scarab ransomware to victims all over the world. It probably finds its way into victim organizations by its operators compromising vulnerable web servers or via brute forcing RDP credentials.…
LABRAT: Stealthy Cryptojacking and Proxyjacking Campaign Targeting GitLab | Sysdig
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The Sysdig Threat Research Team (TRT) recently discovered a new, financially motivated operation, dubbed LABRAT. This operation set itself apart from others due to the attacker’s emphasis on stealth and defense evasion in their attacks.…
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ESET researchers have observed a new phishing campaign targeting users of the Zimbra Collaboration email server.
Viktor Šperka
17 Aug 2023 • , 5 min. read
ESET researchers have uncovered a mass-spreading phishing campaign, aimed at collecting Zimbra account users’ credentials, active since at least April 2023 and still ongoing.…
Gozi strikes again, targeting banks, cryptocurrency and more
formgrabber module and was often classified as Ursnif/Snifula due to the shared codebase. With these capabilities, Gozi CRM quickly gained attention in the cybercriminal community.
In September 2010, a significant event occurred that would shape the future of Gozi.…