Both BLISTER and SocGholish are loaders known for their evasion tactics. Our report details what these loaders are capable of and our investigation into a campaign that uses both to deliver the LockBit ransomware.
The Trend MicroTM Managed XDR team has made a series of discoveries involving the BLISTER loader and SocGholish.…
Malicious email and phishing scams are usually topical and follow a pattern of current events, and they typically are crafted around calendar and/or trending issues as attackers realize that victims are interested in all things relevant to the moment. Threat actors are aware that not all recipients will bite, but some will, hence the origin of the term “phishing.”…
Key Takeaways: An in-depth analysis of Midas and trends across other Thanos ransomware variants reveals how ransomware groups shifted tactics in 2021 to:
lower sunk costs by using RaaS builders to reduce development time increase payouts with double extortion tactics by using their own data leak sites extend the length and effectiveness of campaigns to get the highest investment returns by updating payloads and/or rebranding their own ransomware groupAdvertised on the darkweb for Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS), Thanos ransomware was first identified in February 2020.…
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 conflict in Ukraine. Source: Security Affairs.
OverviewBlackBerry Threat Intelligence has identified a new Ransomware-as-a-Service (Raas) family, and tracked its lineage to its probable beta stage release.…
In March 2022, we came across evidence that another, relatively unknown, ransomware known as Nokoyawa is likely connected with Hive, as the two families share some striking similarities in their attack chain, from the tools used to the order in which they execute various steps.
Hive, which is one of the more notable ransomware families of 2021, made waves in the latter half of the year after breaching over 300 organizations in just four months — allowing the group to earn what could potentially be millions of US dollars in profit.…
On February 4th, 2022, the FBI issued a flash report on LockBit 2.0 ransomware and its indicators of compromise (IOCs). Although Picus Labs updated the Picus Threat Library with attack simulations for LockBit 2.0 back in August 2021, the increasing number of attacks led us to write this blog post.…
By: Joshua Platt, Jonathan Mccay and Jason Reaves
An actor recently has been starting up a RaaS solution that appears to primarily focus on individual computers instead of entire enterprises but is also reusing objects from other ransomware families. Not a lot has been discussed about this ransomware but we did find a tweet mentioning one of the samples[3] during our research.…
BlackCat (aka AlphaVM, AlphaV) is a newly established RaaS (Ransomware as a Service) with payloads written in Rust. While BlackCat is not the first ransomware written in the Rust language, it joins a small (yet growing) sliver of the malware landscape making use of this popular cross-platform language.…