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An unknown Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group has targeted Russian government entities with at least four separate spear phishing campaigns since late February, 2022.
The campaigns, discovered by the Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence team, are designed to implant a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) that can be used to surveil the computers it infects, and run commands on them remotely.…
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.…
Update 05.27.22: An unknown APT group is targeting Russian government entities with at least four separate spear-phishing campaigns since the beginning of the Ukraine conflict. Source: Security Affairs.
It’s not often that we get to observe the behind-the-scenes drama that can accompany the creation of new malware, but when we do, it gives us a fascinating glimpse into how threat actors operate.…
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.…
In the past two months, we observed multiple APT groups attempting to leverage the Russia and Ukraine war as a lure for espionage operations. It comes as no surprise that Russian entities themselves became an attractive target for spear-phishing campaigns that are exploiting the sanctions imposed on Russia by western countries.…
ITG23 Crypters Highlight Cooperation Between Cybercriminal Groups
cybercriminal group ITG23, also known as Wizard Spider, DEV-0193, or simply the “Trickbot Group”. The results of this research, along with evidence gained from the disclosure of internal ITG23 chat logs (“Contileaks”), provide new insight into the connections and cooperation between prominent cybercriminal groups whose attacks often lead to ransomware.…
Since the beginning of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine War, some ransomware and hacking groups have publicly declared which side they are on. Such actions have created tension internally within the threat actor groups as it has caused dissension, and externally, as organizations fear being targeted due to the political nature of the war.…
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.…
Published On : 2022-05-12
Onyx Ransomware ReportSuspected Malware: onyx RansomwareFunction: RansomwareRisk Score: 8Confidence Level: HighThreat actor Associations: Unknown
Executive Summary:The activity of new ransomware named “Onyx” was first observed in the second half of April 2022. This ransomware group has seven victims listed on its data leak page[.onion…
The Quantum Locker is a ransomware strain that was first discovered in July 2021. Since then, the ransomware was observed used in fast ransomware attacks, in some cases even Time-to-Ransom (TTR) of less than 4 hours, leaving defenders little time to react.
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Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs captured a phishing campaign that was delivering three fileless malware onto a victim’s device. Once executed, they are able to steal sensitive information from that device.
In this analysis, I’ll reveal how the phishing campaign manages to transfer the fileless malware to the victim’s device, what mechanism it uses to load, deploy, and execute the fileless malware in the target process, and how it maintains persistence on the victim’s device.…
Secureworks® Counter Threat Unit™ (CTU) researchers are investigating attacks by the Iranian COBALT MIRAGE threat group, which has been operating since at least June 2020. COBALT MIRAGE is linked to the Iranian COBALT ILLUSION threat group, which predominantly uses persistent phishing campaigns to obtain initial access.…
Ursnif (aka Gozi, Dreambot, ISFB) is one of the most widespread banking trojans. It has been observed evolving over the past few years. Ursnif has shown incredible theft capabilities. In 2020 Ursnif rose to prominence becoming one of the top ten most prolific pieces of malware.…
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…
It started with a seemingly benign email, dealing with the purchase of a vehicle, and ended in a reveal of a months’ long campaign targeting German organizations. Most of the targets are related to the German auto-industry sector and the attacks were designed to deploy various types of info-stealing malware.…
Cynet’s Threat Research and Intelligence team recently discovered a new malware campaign called BumbleBee. The campaign is unique in its use of Initial Access Brokers’ (IAB) tactics to gain access to victims’ machines. In this post, we will cover what this campaign is, and how the IAB distributes the BumbleBee malware and its TTPs.…
Emotet is a malware family that steals sensitive and private information from victims’ computers. The malware has infected more than a million devices and is considered one of the most dangerous threats of the decade.
In addition to analyzing threats, FortiGuard Labs also focuses on how malware spreads.…