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	2022-09-13 15:00:00	Anomali Cyber Watch: Iran-Albanian Cyber Conflict, Ransomware Adopts Intermittent Encryption, DLL Side-Loading Provides Variety to PlugX Infections, and More (lien direct)	The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: China, Cyberespionage, Defense evasion, DDoS, Iran, Ransomware, PlugX, and Spearphishing. The IOCs related to these stories are attached to Anomali Cyber Watch and can be used to check your logs for potential malicious activity. Figure 1 - IOC Summary Charts. These charts summarize the IOCs attached to this magazine and provide a glimpse of the threats discussed. Trending Cyber News and Threat Intelligence Microsoft Investigates Iranian Attacks Against the Albanian Government (published: September 8, 2022) Microsoft researchers discovered that groups working under Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS, tracked as OilRig) attacked the government of Albania. The attackers started with initial intrusion in May 2021, proceeded with mailbox exfiltrations between October 2021 and January 2022, organized controlled leaks, and culminated on July 15, 2022, with disruptive ransomware and wiper attacks. This attack is probably a response to the June 2021 Predatory Sparrow’s anti-Iranian cyber operations promoting the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), an Iranian dissident group largely based in Albania. Analyst Comment: MOIS attack on Albania uses messaging and targeting similar to the previous MEK-associated attack on Iran. It tells us that Iran has chosen to engage in a form of direct and proportional retaliation as it sees it. Still, the attack and its attribution caused Albania to cut diplomatic ties with Iran and expel the country's embassy staff. Organizations should implement multifactor authentication (MFA) for mailbox access and remote connectivity. Anomali platform users advised to block known OilRig network indicators. MITRE ATT&CK: [MITRE ATT&CK] Exploit Public-Facing Application - T1190 \| [MITRE ATT&CK] Data Encrypted for Impact - T1486 \| [MITRE ATT&CK] Impair Defenses - T1562 \| [MITRE ATT&CK] Indicator Removal on Host - T1070 Tags: OilRig, Helix Kitten, APT34, MOIS, Ministry of Intelligence and Security, Predatory Sparrow, Wiper, CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2019-0604, CVE-2022-28799, Government, Albania, target-country:AL, Iran, source-country:IR, DEV-0842, DEV-0861, DEV-0166, DEV-0133, Europium, APT, detection:Jason, detection:Mellona BRONZE PRESIDENT Targets Government Officials (published: September 8, 2022) Secureworks researchers detected a new campaign by China-sponsored group Mustang Panda (Bronze President). In June and July 2022, the group used spearphishing to deliver the PlugX malware to government officials in Europe, the Middle East, and South America. To bypass mail-scanning antiviruses, the archived email attachment had malware embedded eight levels deep in a sequence of hidden folders named with special characters. Analyst Comment: Many advanced attacks start with basic techniques such as unwarranted email with malicious attachment that requires the user to open it and enable macros. It is important to teach your users basic online hygiene and phishing awareness. MITRE ATT&CK: [MITRE ATT&CK] Phishing - T1566 \|	Ransomware Malware Tool Vulnerability Threat Guideline	APT 27 APT 34
	2022-02-01 14:37:29	CyberheistNews Vol 12 #05 [Heads Up] DHS Sounds Alarm on New Russian Destructive Disk Wiper Attack Potential (lien direct)		Ransomware Malware Hack Tool Threat Guideline	NotPetya NotPetya Wannacry Wannacry APT 27 APT 27
	2021-10-05 18:28:00	Anomali Cyber Watch: New APT ChamelGang, FoggyWeb, VMWare Vulnerability Exploited and More (lien direct)	The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: APT, FoggyWeb, Google Chrome Bugs, Hydra Malware, NOBELIUM and Vulnerabilities. The IOCs related to these stories are attached to Anomali Cyber Watch and can be used to check your logs for potential malicious activity. Figure 1 - IOC Summary Charts. These charts summarize the IOCs attached to this magazine and provide a glimpse of the threats discussed. Trending Cyber News and Threat Intelligence Google Just Patched These Two Chrome Zero-day Bugs That Are Under Attack Right Now (published: October 1, 2021) Google has warned users of Google Chrome to update to version 94.0.4606.71, due to two new zero-days that are currently being exploited in the wild. This marks the second update in a month due to actively exploited zero-day flaws. The first of these common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs), CVE-2021-37975, is a high severity flaw in the V8 JavaScript engine, which has been notoriously difficult to protect and could allow attackers to create malware that is resistant to hardware mitigations. Analyst Comment: Users and organizations are recommended to regularly check for and apply updates to the software applications they use, especially web browsers that are increasingly used for a variety of tasks. Organizations can leverage the capabilities of Anomali Threatstream to rapidly get information about new CVEs that need to be mitigated through their vulnerability management program. Tags: CVE-2021-37975, CVE-2021-37976, chrome, zero-day Hydra Malware Targets Customers of Germany's Second Largest Bank (published: October 1, 2021) A new campaign leveraging the Hydra banking trojan has been discovered by researchers. The malware containing an Android application impersonates the legitimate application for Germany's largest bank, Commerzbank. While Hydra has been seen for a number of years, this new campaign incorporates many new features, including abuse of the android accessibility features and permissions which give the application the ability to stay running and hidden with basically full administrator privileges over a victim's phone. It appears to be initially spread via a website that imitates the official Commerzbank website. Once installed it can spread via bulk SMS messages to a user's contacts. Analyst Comment: Applications, particularly banking applications, should only be installed from trusted and verified sources and reviewed for suspicious permissions they request. Similarly, emails and websites should be verified before using. Tags: Banking and Finance, EU, Hydra, trojan New APT ChamelGang Targets Russian Energy, Aviation Orgs (published: October 1, 2021) A new Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group dubbed “ChamelGang” has been identified to be targeting the fuel and energy complex and aviation industry in Russia, exploiting known vulnerabilities like Microsoft Exchange Server’s ProxyShell and leveraging both new and existing malware to compromise networks. Researchers at Positive Technologies have been tracking the group since March 2017, and have observed that they have attacked targets in 10 countries so far. The group has been able to hi	Ransomware Malware Tool Vulnerability Threat Guideline	Solardwinds Solardwinds APT 27
	2021-08-17 17:56:00	Anomali Cyber Watch: Anomali Cyber Watch: Aggah Using Compromised Websites to Target Businesses Across Asia, eCh0raix Targets Both QNAP and NAS, LockBit 2.0 Targeted Accenture, and More (lien direct)	The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: China, Critical Infrastructure, Data Storage, LockBit, Morse Code, Ransomware, and Vulnerabilities. . The IOCs related to these stories are attached to Anomali Cyber Watch and can be used to check your logs for potential malicious activity. Figure 1 - IOC Summary Charts. These charts summarize the IOCs attached to this magazine and provide a glimpse of the threats discussed. Trending Cyber News and Threat Intelligence Colonial Pipeline Reports Data Breach After May Ransomware Attack (published: August 16, 2021) Colonial Pipeline, the largest fuel pipeline in the United States, is sending notification letters to 5,810 individuals affected by the data breach resulting from the DarkSide ransomware attack. During the incident, which occurred during May this year, DarkSide also stole roughly 100GB of files in about two hours. Right after the attack Colonial Pipeline took certain systems offline, temporarily halted all pipeline operations, and paid $4.4 million worth of cryptocurrency for a decryptor, most of it later recovered by the FBI. The DarkSide ransomware gang abruptly shut down their operation due to increased level of attention from governments, but later resurfaced under new name BlackMatter. Emsisoft CTO Fabian Wosar confirmed that both BlackMatter RSA and Salsa20 implementation including their usage of a custom matrix comes from DarkSide. Analyst Comment: BlackMatter (ex DarkSide) group added "Oil and Gas industry (pipelines, oil refineries)" to their non-target list, but ransomware remains a significant threat given profitability and the growing number of ransomware threat actors with various levels of recklessness. Double-extortion schemes are adding data exposure to a company's risks. Stopping ransomware affiliates requires defense in depth including: patch management, enhancing your Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) tools with ThreatStream, the threat intelligence platform (TIP), and utilizing data loss prevention systems (DLP). MITRE ATT&CK: [MITRE ATT&CK] Data Encrypted for Impact - T1486 Tags: Darkside, BlackMatter, Colonial Pipeline, Oil and Gas, Ransomware, Salsa20, Data Breach, USA Indra — Hackers Behind Recent Attacks on Iran (published: August 14, 2021) Check Point Research discovered that a July 2021 cyber attack against Iranian railway system was committed by Indra, a non-government group. The attackers had access to the targeted networks for a month and then deployed a previously unseen file wiper called Meteor effectively disrupting train service throughout the country. Previous versions of the Indra wiper named Stardust and Comet were seen in Syria, where Indra was attacking oil, airline, and financial sectors at least since 2019. Analyst Comment: It is concerning that even non-government threat actors can damage a critical infrastructure in a large country. Similar to ransomware protection, with regards to wiper attacks organizations should improve their intrusion detection methods and have a resilient backup system. MITRE ATT&CK: [MITRE ATT&CK] Data Destruction - T1485 \| [MITRE ATT&CK] File Deletion - T1107 \|	Ransomware Data Breach Malware Hack Tool Vulnerability Threat Guideline	APT 27 APT 27
	2021-08-10 17:39:00	Anomali Cyber Watch: GIGABYTE Hit By RansomEXX Ransomware, Seniors\' Data Exposed, FatalRat Analysis, and More (lien direct)	The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: Chinese state hackers, Data leak, Ransomware, RAT, Botnets, and Vulnerabilities. The IOCs related to these stories are attached to Anomali Cyber Watch and can be used to check your logs for potential malicious activity. Figure 1 - IOC Summary Charts. These charts summarize the IOCs attached to this magazine and provide a glimpse of the threats discussed. Trending Cyber News and Threat Intelligence Actively Exploited Bug Bypasses Authentication On Millions Of Routers (published: August 7, 2021) The ongoing attacks were discovered by Juniper Threat Labs researchers exploiting recently discovered vulnerability CVE-2021-20090. This is a critical path traversal vulnerability in the web interfaces of routers with Arcadyan firmware that could allow unauthenticated remote attackers to bypass authentication. The total number of devices exposed to attacks likely reaches millions of routers. Researchers identified attacks originating from China and are deploying a variant of Mirai botnet on vulnerable routers. Analyst Comment: Attackers have continuous and automated routines to look out for publicly accessible vulnerable routers and exploit them as soon as the exploit is made public. To reduce the attack surface, routers management console should only be accessible from specific public IP addresses. Also default password and other security policies should be changed to make it more secure. Tags: CVE-2021-20090, Mirai, China Computer Hardware Giant GIGABYTE Hit By RansomEXX Ransomware (published: August 7, 2021) The attack occurred late Tuesday night into Wednesday and forced the company to shut down its systems in Taiwan. The incident also affected multiple websites of the company, including its support site and portions of the Taiwanese website. Attackers have threatened to publish 112GB of stolen data which they claim to include documents under NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement) from companies including Intel, AMD, American Megatrends unless a ransom is paid. Analyst Comment: At this point no official confirmation from GIGABYTE about the attack. Also no clarity yet on potential vulnerabilities or attack vectors used to carry out this attack. Tags: RansomEXX, Defray, Ransomware, Taiwan Millions of Senior Citizens' Personal Data Exposed By Misconfiguration (published: August 6, 2021) The researchers have discovered a misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket owned by the Senior Advisor website which hosts ratings and reviews for senior care services across the US and Canada. The bucket contained more than one million files and 182 GB of data containing names, emails, phone numbers of senior citizens from North America. This exposed data was not encrypted and did not require a password or login credentials to access. Analyst Comment: Senior citizens are at high risk of online frauds. Their personal information and context regarding appointments getting leaked can lead to targeted phishing scams. Tags: Data Leak, Phishing, North America, AWS	Malware Vulnerability Threat Guideline	APT 41 APT 41 APT 30 APT 27 APT 23

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