Volexity has identified several long-running and currently active campaigns undertaken by the threat actor Volexity tracks as EvilBamboo (formerly named Evil Eye) targeting Tibetan, Uyghur, and Taiwanese individuals and organizations. These targets represent three of the Five Poisonous Groups of Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Volexity has tracked the activities of EvilBamboo for more than five years and continues to observe new campaigns from this threat actor.…
The deployment of file-encrypting ransomware by organized cybercriminal gangs is one of the largest cybersecurity risks facing organizations. A network breach that culminates with a ransomware infection often starts with an infection with a type of malware called a loader. This malware acts as a foothold into an organization’s network and is subsequently used to install other payloads such as malware or tools.…
• Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL) came across Python malware capturing screenshots and sending them over FTP to remote attackers.• Proofpoint has observed similar campaigns in the recent past targeting the United States and Germany, with the perpetrator tracked as “TA866”.• This particular campaign targets Tatar language-speaking users who primarily reside in a particular region of Russia.•…
By Oleg Zaytsev (Guardio Labs)
Facebook’s Messenger platform has been heavily abused in the past month to spread endless messages with malicious attachments from a swarm of fake and hijacked personal accounts.…
Affected platforms: Microsoft WindowsImpacted parties: Windows UsersImpact: Collects sensitive information from a victim’s computerSeverity level: Critical
Our FortiGuard Labs captured a phishing campaign that spreads a new Agent Tesla variant. This well-known malware family uses a .Net-based Remote Access Trojan (RAT) and data stealer to gain initial access.…
On June 15, 2023, Mandiant released a blog post detailing an 8-month-long global espionage campaign conducted by a Chinese-nexus threat group tracked as UNC4841. In this follow-up blog post, we will detail additional tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) employed by UNC4841 that have since been uncovered through Mandiant’s incident response engagements, as well as through collaborative efforts with Barracuda Networks and our International Government partners. …
In this entry, we summarize the security analyses and investigations done on phishing-as-a-service 16shop through the years. We also outline the partnership between Trend Micro and Interpol in taking down the main administrators and servers of this massive phishing campaign.
Phishing has always been one of the most prevalent and relentless cyberthreats.…
Resecurity has identified a large-scale smishing campaign targeting US Citizens. Previous incidents have impacted victims from the U.K, Poland, Sweden, Italy, Indonesia, Japan, and other countries. The threat group behind the campaign was skillfully impersonating the Royal Mail, New Zealand Postal Service (NZPOST), Correos (Spain), PostNord, Poste Italiane and the Italian Revenue Service (Agenzia delle Entrate).…
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.…
EclecticIQ analysts observe the malware family targeting financial information to be used for immediate gain as well as reconnaissance functions to perform initial information gathering and establish persistence.…
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SummaryBlackBerry has discovered and documented new tools used by the Cuba ransomware threat group.
Cuba ransomware is currently into the fourth year of its operation and shows no sign of slowing down.…
• The blog highlights a new infection technique for distributing STRRAT version 1.6. It involves a spam email with a PDF attachment that, when opened, downloads a zip file containing the malicious JavaScript, which drops STRRAT.• STRRAT version 1.6 employs two string obfuscation techniques: “Zelix KlassMaster (ZKM)” and “Allatori”, making it more challenging for security researchers to analyze and detect the malware.•…
Authored by: Lakshya Mathur and Yashvi Shah
As the Back-to-School season approaches, scammers are taking advantage of the opportunity to deceive parents and students with various scams. With the increasing popularity of online shopping and digital technology, people are more inclined to make purchases online. Scammers have adapted to this trend and are now using social engineering tactics, such as offering high discounts, free school kits, online lectures, and scholarships, to entice unsuspecting individuals into falling for their schemes. …
By Oleg Zaytsev, Nati Tal (Guardio Labs)
Guardio’s Email Protection has detected a sophisticated email phishing campaign exploiting a 0-day vulnerability in Salesforce’s legitimate email services and SMTP servers. Guardio Labs’ research team has uncovered an actively exploited vulnerability enabling threat actors to craft targeted phishing emails under the Salesforce domain and infrastructure.…
Remcos is a remote access trojan – a malware used to take remote control over infected PCs. This malicious software has been operational since 2016 when it first became available for sale in the underground hacker communities on the dark web.
Remcos RAT has been receiving substantial updates throughout its lifetime.…
Last week, my spam trap caught an e-mail with LNK attachment, which turned out to be quite interesting.
The e-mail message was the usual malspam fare trying to appear as a purchase order sent to the recipient…
…however, the attachment, named “Purchase%20Order%20PO007289.pdf.zip”, was somewhat more intriguing.…
Introduction
In this blog post, we will provide an update on our continued analysis and tracking of infrastructure associated with IcedID’s BackConnect (BC) protocol; a continuation of the analysis we shared in late-December 2022, which you can read here, in addition to our campaign metrics and infrastructure tracking blog posts.…
RedLine Stealer or RedLine is malware that can collect users’ confidential information and deliver other malicious programs. The availability and flexibility of the stealer cause financial loss, data leakage, targeting both enterprise and personal devices. Healthcare and manufacturing sectors suffer the most from these attacks.…