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First identified in 2014 (as the Geodo banking Trojan) and considered by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to be one of the “most costly and destructive malwares” in the world, Emotet appears to be back after four months of inactivity.
Indeed, the spam campaigns had come to an abrupt halt on July 13th, 2022, after being responsible for the compromise of more than one million computers worldwide.…
From September to December, we detected multiple attacks from the Royal ransomware group. In this blog entry, we discuss findings from our investigation of this ransomware and the tools that Royal ransomware actors used to carry out their attacks.
Royal ransomware may have been first observed by researchers around September 2022, but it has seasoned cybercriminals behind it: The threat actors running this ransomware — who used to be a part of Conti Team One, according to a mind map shared by Vitali Kremez — initially dubbed it Zeon ransomware, until they rebranded it to Royal ransomware.…
A malicious Python file found on the PyPI repository adds backdoor and data exfiltration features to what appears to be a legitimate SDK client from SentinelOne.
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December 14, 2022
Joshua Miller, Crista Giering and the Proofpoint Threat Research Team
Key Takeaways From at least late 2020 and through 2022, TA453 has engaged in campaigns that deviate from the group’s expected phishing techniques and target victimology. In these campaigns, TA453 has employed the use of compromised accounts, malware, and confrontational lures to go after targets with a range of backgrounds from medical researchers to realtors to travel agencies. …Cloud Atlas (or Inception) is a cyber-espionage group. Since its discovery in 2014, they have launched multiple, highly targeted attacks on critical infrastructure across geographical zones and political conflicts. The group’s tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) have remained relatively static over the years. However, since the rapid escalation of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine in 2021 and especially after the outbreak of war in February 2022, the scope of the group’s activities has narrowed significantly, with a clear focus on Russia, Belarus and conflicted areas in Ukraine and Moldova.…
ReversingLabs Malware Researcher Joseph Edwards takes a deep dive into ZetaNile, a set of open-source software trojans being used by Lazarus/ZINC.
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By Daksh Kapur · November 17, 2022This story was also written by Sparsh Jain.
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Global eyes are soon to be turned to the first global football tournament to be held in the Arab world kicking off on November 20, but malicious actors have already kicked off are World Cup-themed cyberattacks.…
Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt of a full report. To read the entire analysis with endnotes, click here to download the report as a PDF.
This report analyzes the threat landscape ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup hosted in Qatar that begins on November 20, 2022.…
We looked into the campaigns deployed by a new subgroup of advanced persistent threat (APT) group APT41, Earth Longzhi. This entry breaks down the technical details of the campaigns in full as presented at HITCON PEACE 2022 in August.
In early 2022, we investigated an incident that compromised a company in Taiwan.…
Online banking is convenient as it allows users to make money transfers, bill payments, verify their balance, and access accounts 24/7 at their fingertips. Like regular online banking customers, cybercriminals also benefit from online banking by committing financial fraud using various scams.…
Emotet malware strain was first discovered by cyber security researchers in 2014. Initially designed as banking malware to steal sensitive and private information from the victim’s system without their knowledge.
Later versions of Emotet can spam and deliver malware services that download other malware families, including banking trojans and ransomware.…
FormBook stealer is an infostealer trojan available as a malware-as-service. This malware is often used by attackers with low technical literacy and little programming knowledge. FormBook can be used to steal various information from infected machines.
Despite how easy it is to set up and use, the malware has advanced stealing and evasion functions including the ability to pull stored and recorded user input.…
This report provides defenders and security operations center teams with the technical details they need to know should they encounter the DeimosC2 C&C framework.
IntroductionWith the rise in attention to Cobalt Strike from network defenders, attackers have been looking to alternative command-and-control (C&C) frameworks Among these, Brute Ratel and Sliver are growing in popularity, having recently been featured in a number of publications.…Raccoon is an information stealer malware — a virus that threat actors use to retrieve sensitive data from infected machines. Also known as Mohazo and Racealer, this is a modern malware that was first sighted in 2019.
Although some consider this a relatively basic malware, excellent service from creators, who distribute it as malware as a service and a user-friendly, simplistic dashboard, helped make Raccoon quite popular.…
APT-36 (also known as Transparent Tribe) is an advanced persistent threat group attributed to Pakistan that primarily targets users working at Indian government organizations. Zscaler ThreatLabz has been closely monitoring the activities of this group throughout 2022. Our tracking efforts have yielded new intelligence about this APT group that has not previously been documented.…
April 2023 update – Microsoft Threat Intelligence has shifted to a new threat actor naming taxonomy aligned around the theme of weather.
DEV-0206 is now tracked as Mustard Tempest DEV-0243 is now tracked as Manatee Tempest DEV-0950 is now tracked as Lace Tempest DEV-0651 is now tracked as Storm-0651 DEV-0856 is now tracked as Storm-0856To learn about how the new taxonomy represents the origin, unique traits, and impact of threat actors, and to get a complete mapping of threat actor names, read this blog: Microsoft shifts to a new threat actor naming taxonomy.…
Our latest Brand Phishing Report for Q3 2022 highlights the brands which were most frequently imitated by criminals in their attempts to steal individuals’ personal information or payment credentials during July, August and September.
While LinkedIn was the most imitated brand in both Q1 and Q2 2022, it’s shipping company DHL that took the top spot in Q3, accounting for twenty-two percent of all phishing attempts worldwide.…
By Nati Tal (Guardio Labs) — BadEx II
TL;DRThe “Dormant Colors” is yet another vast campaign of malicious extensions with millions of active installations worldwide, this time with a color-related theme and full of deception all through the chain. It starts with the trickery malvertising campaign, continues with a crafty novel way to side-load the real malicious code without anyone noticing (until now!),…