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2021-12-07 15:28:27 | Bitcoin Miner [oom_reaper] targets QNAP NAS devices (lien direct) | Taiwanese vendor QNAP warns customers of ongoing attacks targeting their NAS devices with cryptocurrency miners. Taiwanese vendor QNAP warns customers of threat actors targeting their NAS devices with cryptocurrency miners. Upon compromising the devices, the miner will create a new process named [oom_reaper] that allows threat actors to mine Bitcoin The above process could occupy […] | Threat Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2021-11-30 12:24:19 | North Korean Hackers Use New \'Chinotto\' Malware to Target Windows, Android Devices (lien direct) | Kaspersky has analyzed a new espionage campaign conducted by the threat actor named ScarCruft, and the security firm's researchers have uncovered a previously unknown malware that has been used to target Windows and Android devices. | Malware Threat Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2021-11-30 11:24:48 | Recent APT37 Activity and Chinotto, a Multi Platform Infostealer (lien direct) | FortiGuard Labs is aware of reports of recent activity from APT37. APT37 is a nation-state threat actor attributed to North Korea. The latest discovery by researchers at Kaspersky Labs has revealed a sophisticated, targeted attack that utilizes the stolen credentials from Facebook and email accounts belonging to an associate of the targeted victim.The victim was socially engineered and compelled into opening rar zipped attachments purporting to be from the trusted sender that contained a malicious Word document. The Word document is multi stage in design, and uses a malicious macro to initiate the first stage. The first stage detects the presence of AV software, and if AV is not present will initiate the second stage which is a shellcode that will download the final third stage payload.Ultimately, after several months of dwelling undetected on the infected system, the backdoor will then download the multiplatform infostealer, "Chinotto." Windows variants were sent via spearphishing emails and Android variants were sent via SMShing texts.What Operating Systems are Affected?Chinoto targets Windows and Android based operating systems.Is This Limited to Targeted Attacks?Yes.How Serious of an Issue is This?Medium.What is APT37?APT37 (also known as GROUP123 and Scarcruft), attributed to North Korean threat actors, has been in operation for several years. During that time, APT37 has been attributed to the Adobe Flash zero-day attack (CVE-2018-4878) that targeted researchers based in South Korea who were performing research on North Korea. APT37 focuses on various organizations with an interest in North Korea.APT37 is famous for exploiting vulnerabilities in the Hangul Word Processor (HWP) which is commonly used in South Korea, especially by those in the government sector. Analysis suggests that this is a very detailed and sophisticated threat actor with an arsenal of malware and exploits at their disposal that targets various verticals and organizations with specially crafted campaigns. Other vectors besides the Adobe and Hangul vulnerabilities observed were the usage of Microsoft vulnerabilities as well, specifically CVE-2017-0199 (Microsoft Office UAC bypass) and CVE-2015-2545 (Microsoft Office Encapsulated PostScript (EPS). For further details on the exploitation of HWP documents and campaigns previously analyzed, please refer to our blog here.What is the Status of Coverage?FortiGuard Labs has AV coverage in place for publicly available samples as:VBA/Agent.AAK!trW32/PossibleThreatVBA/Agent.AF3C!trW32/Agent.ACDD!trPossibleThreat.MUPossibleThreat.PALLAS.HW32/FRS.VSNTGF20!trW32/Bsymem.MSJ!trAll network IOCs are blocked by the WebFiltering client.Any Other Suggested Mitigation?Due to the ease of disruption and the potential for damage to daily operations, reputation, and unwanted release of personally identifiable information (PII), etc. it is important to keep all AV and IPS signatures up to date.It is also 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, as this campaign was sent via spearphishing and smsshing - organizations are encouraged to conduct ongoing training sessions to educate and inform personnel about the latest phishing/spearphishing/smishing 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/spearphishing/smishing 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. Si | Malware Threat Patching Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2021-11-29 10:00:31 | ScarCruft surveilling North Korean defectors and human rights activists (lien direct) | The ScarCruft group (also known as APT37 or Temp.Reaper) is a nation-state sponsored APT actor. Recently, we had an opportunity to perform a deeper investigation on a host compromised by this group. | Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2021-11-29 08:43:29 | APT37 targets journalists with Chinotto multi-platform malware (lien direct) | North Korean state hacking group APT37 targets South Korean journalists, defectors, and human rights activists in watering hole, spear-phishing emails, and smishing attacks delivering malware dubbed Chinotto capable of infecting Windows and Android devices. [...] | Malware Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2021-11-29 05:14:10 | New Chinotto Spyware Targets North Korean Defectors, Human Rights Activists (lien direct) | North Korean defectors, journalists who cover North Korea-related news, and entities in South Korea are being zeroed in on by a nation-state-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) as part of a new wave of highly-targeted surveillance attacks. Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky attributed the infiltrations to a North Korean hacker group tracked as ScarCruft, also known as APT37, Reaper | Threat Cloud | APT 37 APT 37 | |
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2021-11-19 15:14:40 | North Korea-linked TA406 cyberespionage group activity in 2021 (lien direct) | North Korea-linked TA406 APT group has intensified its attacks in 2021, particularly credential harvesting campaigns. A report published by Proofpoint revealed that the North Korea-linked TA406 APT group (Kimsuky, Thallium, and Konni, Black Banshee, Velvet Chollima) has intensified its operations in 2021. The TA406 cyber espionage group was first spotted by Kaspersky researchers in 2013. At the end of October […] | Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2021-11-10 14:11:03 | North Korean attackers use malicious blogs to deliver malware to high-profile South Korean targets (lien direct) |
By Jung soo An and Asheer Malhotra, with contributions from Kendall McKay.
Cisco Talos has observed a new malware campaign operated by the Kimsuky APT group since June 2021.Kimsuky, also known as Thallium and Black Banshee, is a North Korean state-sponsored advanced...
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2021-08-24 17:11:00 | Anomali Cyber Watch: ProxyShell Being Exploited to Install Webshells and Ransomware, Neurevt Trojan Targeting Mexican Users, Secret Terrorist Watchlist Exposed, and More (lien direct) | The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: APT37 (InkySquid), BlueLight, Ransomware, T-Mobile Data Breach, Critical Vulnerabilities, IoT, Kalay, Neurevt, and ProxyShell. 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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Microsoft Exchange Servers Still Vulnerable to ProxyShell Exploit
(published: August 23, 2021)
Despite patches a collection of vulnerabilities (ProxyShell) discovered in Microsoft Exchange being available in the July 2021 update, researchers discovered nearly 2,000 of these vulnerabilities have recently been compromised to host webshells. These webshells allow for attackers to retain backdoor access to compromised servers for further exploitation and lateral movement into the affected organizations. Researchers believe that these attacks may be related to the recent LockFile ransomware attacks.
Analyst Comment: Organizations running Microsoft Exchange are strongly encouraged to prioritize updates to prevent ongoing exploitation of these vulnerabilities. In addition, a thorough investigation to discover and remove planted webshells should be undertaken as the patches will not remove planted webshells in their environments. A threat intelligence platform (TIP) such as Anomali Threatstream can be a valuable tool to assist organizations ingesting current indicators of compromise (IOCs) and determine whether their Exchange instances have been compromised.
MITRE ATT&CK: [MITRE ATT&CK] Exploitation for Client Execution - T1203 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Web Shell - T1100 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Hidden Files and Directories - T1158 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Source - T1153
Tags: CVE-2021-34473, CVE-2021-34523, CVE-2021-31207, Exchange, ProxyShell, backdoor
LockFile: Ransomware Uses PetitPotam Exploit to Compromise Windows Domain Controllers
(published: August 20, 2021)
A new ransomware family, named Lockfile by Symantec researchers, has been observed on the network of a US financial organization. The first known instance of this ransomware was July 20, 2021, and activity is ongoing. This ransomware has been seen largely targeting organizations in a wide range of industries across the US and Asia. The initial access vector remains unknown at this time, but the ransomware leverages the incompletely patched PetitPotam vulnerability (CVE-2021-36942) in Microsoft's Exchange Server to pivot to Domain Controllers (DCs) which are then leveraged to deploy ransomware tools to devices that connect to the DC. The attackers appear to remain resident on the network for several |
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2021-08-19 06:47:34 | NK-linked InkySquid APT leverages IE exploits in recent attacks (lien direct) | North Korea-linked InkySquid group leverages two Internet Explorer exploits to deliver a custom implant in attacks aimed at a South Korean online newspaper. Experts from cybersecurity firm Volexity reported that North Korea-linked InkySquid group (aka ScarCruft, APT37, Group123, and Reaper) leverages two Internet Explorer exploits to deliver a custom backdoor in watering hole attacks aimed at the […] | Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2021-08-18 01:33:33 | NK Hackers Deploy Browser Exploits on South Korean Sites to Spread Malware (lien direct) | A North Korean threat actor has been discovered taking advantage of two exploits in Internet Explorer to infect victims with a custom implant as part of a strategic web compromise (SWC) targeting a South Korean online newspaper.
Cybersecurity firm Volexity attributed the attacks to a threat actor it tracks as InkySquid, and more widely known by the monikers ScarCruft and APT37. Daily NK, the |
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2021-02-11 11:00:00 | UN Links North Korea to $281m Crypto Exchange Heist (lien direct) | Most funds recovered but attack bears hallmarks of hermit kingdom | Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2021-01-08 01:54:44 | ALERT: North Korean hackers targeting South Korea with RokRat Trojan (lien direct) | A North Korean hacking group has been found deploying the RokRat Trojan in a new spear-phishing campaign targeting the South Korean government.
Attributing the attack to APT37 (aka Starcruft, Ricochet Chollima, or Reaper), Malwarebytes said it identified a malicious document last December that, when opened, executes a macro in memory to install the aforementioned remote access tool (RAT).
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2021-01-06 15:14:45 | Retrohunting APT37: North Korean APT used VBA self decode technique to inject RokRat (lien direct) |
A North Korean threat group has swapped the usual Hangul Office lures for a cleverly packed Office macro.
Categories: Social engineeringThreat analysis
Tags: APT37HangulkoreaOfficerokratVBA
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2021-01-05 11:55:57 | North Korean software supply chain attack targets stock investors (lien direct) | North Korean hacking group Thallium aka APT37 has been targeting a private stock investment messenger service in a supply chain attack, as reported this week. [...] | Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2020-11-03 03:49:37 | New Kimsuky Module Makes North Korean Spyware More Powerful (lien direct) | A week after the US government issued an advisory about a "global intelligence gathering mission" operated by North Korean state-sponsored hackers, new findings have emerged about the threat group's spyware capabilities.
The APT - dubbed "Kimsuky" (aka Black Banshee or Thallium) and believed to be active as early as 2012 - has been now linked to as many as three hitherto undocumented malware, |
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2020-11-02 16:40:03 | North Korea-Linked APT Group Kimsuky spotted using new malware (lien direct) | North Korea-linked APT group Kimsuky was recently spotted using a new piece of malware in attacks on government agencies and human rights activists. North Korea-linked cyber espionage group Kimsuky (aka Black Banshee, Thallium, Velvet Chollima) was recently observed using a new malware in attacks aimed at government agencies and human rights activists. The Kimsuky APT […] | Malware Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2020-08-18 04:35:04 | US Army report says many North Korean hackers operate from abroad (lien direct) | US Army says many North Korean hackers are actually located outside the hermit kingdom, in countries like Belarus, China, India, Malaysia, and Russia. | Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2020-04-29 14:00:00 | 6 Best Board Games You Can Play With Friends Over Zoom (Video Chat) (lien direct) | Don't let the Covid-19 quarantine turn you into a hermit. Video chat with some friends and play a game together. | Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2020-01-03 10:40:14 | Microsoft helps shutter domains run by North Korean cybergang Thallium (lien direct) | A U.S. district court issued an order enabling Microsoft to take over 50 domains used by a North Korea-based cybercrime gang to conduct spear phishing campaigns. Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit and the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center took down the domains controlled by a group it named Thallium after researching the malicious actors activity and filing […] | Threat Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2019-12-31 02:39:43 | Microsoft élimine 50 noms de domaine exploités par de redoutables hackers nord-coréens (lien direct) | Le groupe Thallium s'en servait pour infiltrer des institutions américaines, japonaises et sud-coréennes. Pour y parvenir, Microsoft a reçu une ordonnance des autorités américaines.  |
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2019-12-30 21:57:04 | Microsoft sued North Korea-linked Thallium group (lien direct) | Microsoft sued Thallium North Korea-linked APT for hacking into its customers’ accounts and networks via spear-phishing attacks. Microsoft sued a North Korea-linked cyber espionage group tracked as Thallium for hacking into its customers’ accounts and networks via spear-phishing attacks. The hackers target Microsoft users impersonating the company, according to a lawsuit unsealed Dec. 27 in […] | Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2019-12-30 21:53:41 | Microsoft takes down 50 domains operated by North Korean hackers (lien direct) | Microsoft takes control of 50 domains operated by Thallium (APT37), a North Korean cyber-espionage group. | Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2019-12-30 13:01:33 | Microsoft Takes North Korean Hacking Group Thallium to Court (lien direct) | Microsoft sued a cyber-espionage group with North Korean links tracked as Thallium for breaking into its customers' accounts and networks via spear-phishing attacks with the end goal of stealing sensitive information, as shown by a complaint unsealed on December 27. [...] | Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2019-05-14 12:48:00 | North Korea-linked ScarCruft APT adds Bluetooth Harvester to its arsenal (lien direct) | The North Korea-linked APT group ScarCruft (aka APT37 and Group123) continues to expand its arsenal by adding a Bluetooth Harvester. North Korea-linked APT group ScarCruft (aka APT37, Reaper, and Group123) continues to expand its arsenal by adding a Bluetooth Harvester. ScarCruft has been active since at least 2012, it made the headlines in early February […] | Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2019-05-13 15:29:00 | North Korea-Linked \'ScarCruft\' Adds Bluetooth Harvester to Toolkit (lien direct) | A North Korea-linked threat group tracked as ScarCruft, APT37 and Group123 continues to evolve and expand its toolkit, Kaspersky Lab reported on Monday. | Threat Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2018-10-01 11:00:00 | Report Ties North Korean Attacks to New Malware, Linked by Word Macros (lien direct) | Newly discovered malware from the world of cyberespionage connects the dots between the tools and operations of the little-known Reaper group believed to act on behalf of the North Korean government. [...] | Malware Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2018-08-15 12:30:04 | July\'s Most Wanted Malware: Attacks Targeting IoT and Networking doubled since May 2018 (lien direct) | Three IoT vulnerabilities entered July's top ten most exploited vulnerabilities list, as threat actors have doubled their attacks on these Mirai and Reaper-related vulnerabilities since May 2018. During July 2018, three IoT vulnerabilities entered the Top 10 most exploited list: MVPower DVR router Remote Code Execution at #5; D_Link DSL-2750B router Remote Command Execution… | Threat Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2018-08-10 16:15:03 | The analysis of the code reuse revealed many links between North Korea malware (lien direct) | Security researchers at Intezer and McAfee have conducted a joint investigation that allowed them to collect evidence that links malware families attributed to North Korean APT groups such as the notorious Lazarus Group and Group 123. The experts focused their analysis on the code reuse, past investigations revealed that some APT groups share portions of code […] | Malware Medical Cloud | APT 38 APT 37 | |
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2018-08-09 13:00:01 | Examining Code Reuse Reveals Undiscovered Links Among North Korea\'s Malware Families (lien direct) | 
This research is a joint effort by Jay Rosenberg, senior security researcher at Intezer, and Christiaan Beek, lead scientist and senior principal engineer at McAfee. Intezer has also posted this story. Attacks from the online groups Lazarus, Silent Chollima, Group 123, Hidden Cobra, DarkSeoul, Blockbuster, Operation Troy, and 10 Days of Rain are believed to …
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2018-07-21 12:00:00 | Space Photos of the Week: Sweeping the Clouds Away on Titan (lien direct) | With infrared eyes, astronomers are more than scratching the surface of Saturn's hazy moon. | Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2018-07-12 14:35:00 | Military documents about MQ-9 Reaper drone leaked on dark web (lien direct) | Hackers have put up for sale on the dark web sensitive military documents, some associated with the U.S. military’s MQ-9 Reaper drone aircraft, one of its most lethal and technologically advanced drones, security research firm Recorded Future recently discovered. The firms’ Insikt Group on June 1 observed a bad actor trying to sell...Read the whole entry... _!fbztxtlnk!_ https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/557965066/0/thesecurityledger -->» | Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2018-07-11 11:49:04 | Hacker offered for sale US Military Reaper Drone documents for $200 (lien direct) | Researchers at threat intelligence firm Recorded Future have reported that a hacker was trying to sell US Military Reaper drone documents for less than $200. The news is disconcerting, the hackers may have obtained the documents related to the Reaper drone by hacking into at least two computers belonging to U.S. military personnel. “Specifically, an English-speaking hacker claimed […] | Threat Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2018-06-04 16:54:00 | (Déjà vu) US-North Korea Summit News Used as Lure In New Malware Campaign (lien direct) | Previously known threat actor Group 123 likely behind NavRAT malware, security vendor says. | Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2018-06-04 16:54:00 | US-North Korea Summit News Being Used as Lure In New Malware Campaign (lien direct) | Previously known threat actor Group 123 likely behind NavRAT malware, security vendor says. | Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2018-05-08 20:27:00 | Sierra Wireless Patches Critical Vulns in Range of Wireless Routers (lien direct) | The flaws would leave the enterprise devices helpless to a range of remote threats, including the charms of the Reaper IoT botnet. | Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2018-04-06 19:24:04 | Mirai Variant Targets Financial Sector With IoT DDoS Attacks (lien direct) | Researchers said a Mirai botnet variant, possibly linked to the IoTroop or Reaper botnet, was leveraged in attacks against the financial sector. | Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2018-04-06 17:15:05 | Reaper Botnet (lien direct) | The ISBuzz Post: This Post Reaper Botnet | Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2018-04-06 14:54:05 | Researchers Link New Android Backdoor to North Korean Hackers (lien direct) | The recently discovered KevDroid Android backdoor is tied to the North Korean hacking group APT37, Palo Alto Networks researchers say. | Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2018-04-06 12:08:04 | New Strain of ATM Jackpotting Malware Discovered (lien direct) | >A new type of ATM jackpotting malware has been discovered. Dubbed ATMJackpot, the malware appears to be still under development, and to have originated in Hong Kong. There are no current details of any deployment or use. ATMJackpot was discovered and analyzed by Netskope Threat Research Labs. It has a smaller footprint than earlier strains of jackpotting malware, but serves the same purpose: to steal money from automated teller machines (ATMs). ATM jackpotting -- also known as a logical attack -- is the use of malware to control cash dispensing from individual ATMs. The malware can be delivered locally to each ATM via a USB port, or remotely by compromising the ATM operator network. Jackpotting has become an increasing problem in recent years, originally and primarily in Europe and Asia. In 2017, Europol warned that ATM attacks were increasing. "The malware being used has evolved significantly and the scope and scale of the attacks have grown proportionately," said Steven Wilson, head of Europol's EC3 cybercrime center. The first attacks against ATMs in the U.S. were discovered in January 2018 following an alert issued by the Secret Service. In March 2018, the alleged leader of the Carbanak group was arrested in Spain. Carbanak is believed to have stolen around $1.24 million over the preceding years. Its method was to compromise the servers controlling ATM networks by spear-phishing bank employers, and then use foot soldiers (mules) to collect money dispensed from specific ATMs at specific times. It is not clear whether the ATMJackpot malware discovered by Netskope is intended to be manually installed via USB on individual ATMs, or downloaded from a compromised network. Physical installation on an ATM is not always difficult. In July 2017, IOActive described how its researchers could gain access to the Diebold Opteva ATM. It was achieved by inserting a metal rod through a speaker hole and raising a metal locking bar. From there they were able to reverse engineer software to get access to the money vault. Jackpotting malware is designed to avoid the need to physically break into the vault. It can be transferred via a USB port to the computer part of the ATM that controls the vault. Most ATMs use a version of Windows that is well understood by criminals. ATMJackpot malware first registers the windows class name 'Win' with a procedure for the malware activity. The malware then populates the options on the window and initiates a connection with the XFS manager. The XFS subsystem provides a common API to access and manipulate the ATM devices from different vendors. The malware then opens a session with the service providers and registers to monitor events. It opens a session with the cash dispenser, the card reader and the PIN pad servic | Guideline Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2018-04-05 16:59:01 | Financial Services DDoS Attacks Tied to Reaper Botnet (lien direct) | >Recorded Future's "Insikt" threat intelligence research group has linked the Mirai variant IoTroop (aka Reaper) botnet with attacks on the Netherlands financial sector in January 2018. The existence of IoTroop was first noted by Check Point in October 2017. At that point the botnet had not been used to deliver any known DDoS attacks, and its size was disputed. What was clear, however, was its potential for growth. In January 2018, the financial services sector in the Netherlands was hit by a number of DDoS attacks. Targets included ABN Amro, Rabobank and Ing; but at that time the source of the attack was unknown. Insikt researchers now report that at least one these financial services attacks -- and possibly more -- was the first known use of IoTroop to deliver a DDoS attack. "IoTroop is a powerful internet of things (IoT) botnet," reports Insikt, "primarily comprised of compromised home routers, TVs, DVRs, and IP cameras exploiting vulnerabilities in products from major vendors including MikroTik, Ubiquity and GoAhead." The attack itself was not excessively high by modern standards. "The initial attack was a DNS amplification attack with traffic volumes peaking at 30Gb/s," reports Insikt -- far short of the 1.7Tb/s attack that occurred in February. If the IoTroop assumption is correct, it is clear the botnet has evolved extensively since its discovery last year. Fortinet's SVP products and solutions reported last month, "the Reaper [IoTroop] exploit was built using a flexible Lua engine and scripts, which means that instead of being limited to the static, pre-programmed attacks of previous exploits, its code can be easily updated on the fly, allowing massive, in-place botnets to run new and more malicious attacks as soon as they become available." Insikt reports that the malware can use at least a dozen vulnerabilities and can be updated by the attackers as new vulnerabilities are exposed. "Our analysis," it says, "shows the botnet involved in the first company attack was 80% comprised of compromised MikroTik routers with the remaining 20% composed of various IoT devices ranging from vulnerable Apache and IIS web servers to routers from Ubiquity, Cisco and ZyXEL. We also discovered Webcams, TVs and DVRs among the 20% of IoT devices, which included products from major vendors such as MikroTik, GoAhead, Ubiquity, Linksys, TP-Link and Dahua." This list adds new devices now vulnerable to IoTroop in addition to those noted in the original October 2017 research -- which suggests, says Insikt, "a widespread and rapidly evolving botnet that appears to be leveraging publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in many IoT devices." | Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2018-04-03 18:30:03 | New KevDroid Android Backdoor Discovered (lien direct) | >Security researchers have discovered a new Android Remote Access Trojan (RAT) that can steal a great deal of information from infected devices. Dubbed KevDroid, the mobile threat can steal contacts, messages, and phone history, while also able to record phone calls, Talos reports. Two variants of the malware have been identified so far. One of the variants exploits CVE-2015-3636 to gain root access, but both implement the same call recording capabilities, taken from an open-source project on GitHub. Once it has infected a device, the first KevDroid variant can gather and siphon information such as installed applications, phone number, phone unique ID, location, stored contacts information, stored SMS, call logs, stored emails, and photos. | Guideline Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2018-03-21 11:29:00 | (Déjà vu) 5 Fun Facts About the 2018 Singapore Cybersecurity Statute (lien direct) | An orchard of cybersecurity law is growing in Asia. Now based in Singapore, your intrepid reporter is bumping into these cyber laws not as a participant (yet) but as an interested observer. Like the data-protection laws recently passed throughout the region, these cybersecurity regulations have a lot in common with each other. Singaporeans are known for their discipline, so you can expect that their cybersecurity law will be among the best in the region. Let your intrepid reporter summarize the statute, and also highlight 5 fun facts found within it. The Singapore Cybersecurity Statute On January 8, 2018, the Singapore government published Bill No. 2/2018, referred to as “the Cybersecurity Bill.” Local infosec professionals consider it, overall, a good bill, covering exactly the topics one would expect to see from the Singaporean government. After a first draft, lively debate ensued during the public commentary period, and the government folded the best suggestions into its final bill. The administration of the statute will be completed by a Cybersecurity Commissioner. This person will define many of the finer points of policy, which have been purposely left out of the framework. The bill comprises three main themes: 1. Critical Infrastructure. The Cybersecurity Bill defines the criteria by which the commissioner should identify critical infrastructure (sections 7–9). These include 11 groupings of “essential services,” including aviation, banking, and healthcare. Fun Fact #1: The Philippine government is working on a similar project, called the “National Cybersecurity Plan 2022”, and word is that they copied the groupings, in order, from the Singaporean version. Nothing wrong with that, though. The local cybersecurity community applauds the Singapore bill's requirements for bi-annual audits and regular penetration tests. That's just good policy, so it might as well be a law; after all, this is Singapore. 2. Incident Response. Sections 19–23 define the powers the commissioner has to investigate, prevent, and respond to cybersecurity incidents. Fun Fact #2: Of interest is that the bill allows the designation of temporary technical experts, who will be issued cards identifying themselves as such. Your reporter personally finds this pretty cool, and would be tickled to be a card-carrying Singaporean crime fighter (temporarily) someday. He imagines himself holding up a badge and saying, with authority, “Everyone calm down, I'm here to help.” 3. Cybersecurity Service Providers. Sections 24–35 describe the governance of so-called cybersecurity service providers-penetration testers and security operations centers (SOCs). Perhaps the most significant aspect of the bill is Fun Fact #3: Provid | Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2018-03-14 15:56:03 | Combatting the Transformation of Cybercrime (lien direct) | The volume of cyberattacks is growing at an unprecedented rate, increasing as much as nearly 80% for some organizations during the final quarter of 2017. One reason for this acceleration in the attack cycle is that in order for malware to succeed today it needs to spread further and faster than even before. This allows cybercriminals to stay a step ahead of new efforts by vendors to improve their delivery of updated signatures and patches. But it's not just about volume. These attacks are also increasingly sophisticated, often spanning across malware families and using advanced techniques to simultaneously target multiple attack vectors. This enhanced focus on innovation, combined with the increased speed and volume at which new threat variants are being released into the wild, is successfully catching far too many organizations unprepared. To keep your organization ahead of the threat curve, here are five recent trends you should be aware of: Cryptojacking Cryptojacking is an important new trend among cybercriminals. The latest iteration involves injecting malicious JavaScript into vulnerable websites, or delivering it via phishing campaigns. Simply browsing an infected site can enable attackers to hijack CPU cycles to perform cryptomining on behalf of a cybercriminal. While such attacks initially hijacked all available CPU, causing machines to become virtually unusable, new, more sophisticated attacks, now monitor device CPU and rate limit the amount of processing power they leverage, often using 50% or less of available processing power at any given moment in order to evade detection. Cryptojacking can result in everything from annoying side effects such browser hang-ups and system crashes, to degraded network performance, sophisticated data theft, and increasingly, even the delivery of ransomware. IoT Botnets IoT-based botnets also continue to dominate the threat landscape. But unlike the first generation of IoT attacks, which focused on exploiting a single vulnerability, new IoT botnets such as Reaper and Hajime simultaneously target multiple vulnerabilities, making them much harder to combat. Even worse, because many IoT manufacturers don't have a PSIRT team in place, many of these attacks target known IoT vulnerabilities for which no CVE has been named, which means there is little opportunity to even report vulnerabilities when they are discovered, let alone prepare for them. To complicate things further, the Reaper exploit was built using a flexible Lua engine and scripts, which means that instead of being limited to the static, pre-programmed attacks of previous exploits, its code can be easily updated on the fly, allowing massive, in-place botnets to run new and more malicious attacks as soon as they become available. Ransomware | Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2018-02-27 18:54:05 | Recently patched CVE-2018-4878 Adobe Flash Player flaw now exploited by cybercriminals (lien direct) | Security researchers at Morphisec have uncovered a massive hacking campaign that is exploiting the recently patched CVE-2018-4878 Adobe Flash Player vulnerability. Threat actors are exploiting the use-after-free flaw to deliver malware. The CVE-2018-4878 vulnerability was fixed by Adobe on February 6, after security experts discovered it was used by North Korea-linked APT37 group in targeted […] | Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2018-02-21 15:20:05 | North Korea Cyber Threat \'More Aggressive Than China\': US Firm (lien direct) | North Korean hackers are becoming more aggressive than their Chinese counterparts, a leading US cybersecurity firm warned Tuesday, as it identified a Pyongyang-linked group as an "advanced persistent threat". | Guideline Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2018-02-21 14:07:03 | Reaper: Little-known North Korean hacker group steps up attacks in Vietnam, Japan and Middle East (lien direct) | A lesser-known North Korean cyberespionage group has been rapidly widening its scope and skills to step up attacks beyond the Korean Peninsula to include Japan, Vietnam and the Middle East in 2017, security researchers have said. According to cybersecurity firm FireEye, the shadowy hacker group dubbed APT37 or Reaper has been active since 2012 and ... | Cloud | APT 37 | ★★★★ |
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2018-02-21 06:34:04 | North Korean APT Group tracked as APT37 broadens its horizons (lien direct) | Researchers at FireEye speculate that the APT group tracked as APT37 (aka Reaper, Group123, ScarCruft) operated on behalf of the North Korean government. Here we are to speak about a nation-state actor dubbed APT37 (aka Reaper, Group123, ScarCruft) that is believed to be operating on behalf of the North Korean government. APT37 has been active since at least […] | Cloud | APT 37 | |
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2018-02-20 18:05:00 | Un nouveau rapport FireEye : APT37 (Reaper) (lien direct) |  FireEye a publié aujourd'hui une nouvelle étude qui met en lumière les activités d'une importante menace de cyber espionnage : l'APT37 de Corée du Nord. |
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2017-12-15 14:00:00 | Things I Hearted This Week 15th December 2017 (lien direct) |
Continuing the trend from last week, I’ll continue trying to put a positive spin on the week’s security news.
Why? I hear you ask. Well, I’ve been mulling over the whole optimist thing, and glass half full analogy and it does work wonders. Side note, a tweet about half full / empty glasses and infosec took on a life of its own a few days ago.
But I’m reminded of the ending monologue by Morgan Freeman in “The Shawshank Redemption”, in which he starts off by saying, “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
So the thought of the week is, “Get busy securing, or get busy insecuring.” Hmm doesn’t quite have the same ring to it. Will have to think of a better word – but you catch my drift. Let’s jump into this week’s interesting security bits
Mirai Mirai on the wall
I picture Brian Krebs as being a Liam Neeson type – he sees that his website is under attack by a never-before seen DDoS attack. He mutters to himself, “I don’t know who you are, but I will hunt you, I will find you, and I will blog about it until you get arrested, prosecuted, and thrown in jail.”
It so happens that this week the hackers behind the Mirai botnet and a series of DDoS attacks pled guilty.
The Hackers Behind Some of the Biggest DDoS Attacks in History Plead Guilty | Motherboard
Mirai IoT Botnet Co-Authors Plead Guilty | KrebsonSecurity
Botnet Creators Who Took Down the Internet Plead Guilty | Gizmondo
Bug Laundering Bounties
Apparently, HBO negotiated with hackers. Paying them $250,000 under the guise of a bug bounty as opposed to a ransom.
Maybe in time, it will be found that HBO acted above board, maybe it was a sting operation, maybe it was a misconstrued email.
The worrying fact is that any payment exchange system can be used to launder money. However, bug bounty providers don’t (as far as I can tell) have financial services obligations. Does the bug bounty industry need more regulation (shudder)?
Leaked email shows HBO negotiating with hackers | Calgary Herald
Remember the 'Game of Thrones' leak? An Iranian hacker was charged with stealing HBO scripts to raise bitcoin | USA Today
Uber used bug bounty program to launder blackmail payment to hacker | ars Technica
Inside a low budget consumer hardware espionage implant
I’m not much of a hardware expert – actually, I’m not much of a hardware novice either. But this writeup by Mich is awesome. I didn’t even know there were so many ways to sniff, intercept and basically mess around with stuff at such small scale. It’s extremely detailed and I’ve permanently bookmarked it for future reference.
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