Meet a novel player in the cyber threat arena! Starting from late 2020 security experts are tracking a new APT collective, dubbed ToddyCat, which was spotted targeting Microsoft Exchange servers in Europe and Asia to deploy custom malware samples. Among the malicious strains distributed by the ToddyCat are previously unknown Samurai backdoor and Ninja Trojan […]
The notorious CVE-2021-44228 Apache Log4j vulnerability aka Log4Shell is still haunting cyber defenders along with reports about its active in-the-wild exploitations. Starting from December 2021, the nefarious Log4Shell flaw on unpatched VMware Horizon and Unified Access Gateway (UAG) servers has been widely weaponized by threat actors enabling them to gain initial access to targeted systems. […]
Brace yourself for a new PetitPotam-like NTLM relay attack enabling complete Windows domain takeover via Microsoft’s Distributed File System (MS-DFSNM) abuse. The new attack method, dubbed DFSCoerce, allows adversaries to coerce Windows servers into authentication with a relay under hackers’ control. Domain Controllers (DC) are also vulnerable, which poses a significant risk of the entire […]
On June 20, 2022, CERT-UA issued two separate alerts that warn the global cybersecurity community of a new wave of cyber-attacks on Ukrainian organizations weaponizing the nefarious zero-day vulnerability actively exploited in the wild and tracked as CVE-2022-30190 aka Follina. In the CERT-UA#4842 alert, cybersecurity researchers unveiled the malicious activity by a hacking group identified […]
Cybersecurity researchers have recently shed light on a wave of new cyber attacks by the Iranian nation-backed APT group acting under the moniker “Lyceum” also known as HEXANE. Lyceum actors have been operating in the cyber threat arena since 2017 mainly targeting Middle East organizations in the energy and telecom industry sectors. In the latest […]
Cybersecurity researchers have observed the activity of a more advanced version of a fully-functional malware loader dubbed PureCrypter that has been actively distributing remote access Trojans (RATs) and information stealers since March 2021. Notorious malware samples delivered using PureCrypter include AsyncRAT, LokiBot, Remcos, Warzone RAT, NanoCore, Arkei Stealer, and RedLine Stealer. The updated features of […]
In May 2022, the members of SOC Prime Threat Bounty Program contributed 184 unique detections to the Detection as Code platform. The published detections help the global cyber community timely detect emerging threats such as the APT29 phishing campaign, BlackByte Ransomware attack, Microsoft SharePoint RCE (CVE-2022-29108), and many others. The information about the recent detections […]
The notorious Microsoft Office zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-30190 aka Follina is still being actively exploited by multiple hacking organizations across the world. On June 10, 2022, CERT-UA released a new alert warning of ongoing cyber-attacks targeting Ukrainian media organizations. Threat actors continue to leverage the CVE-2022-30190 vulnerability in the latest malicious email campaign aimed […]
Meet SVCReady, a new malicious loader on the arena! The novel strain is heavily distributed via phishing campaigns since April 2022, leveraging an unusual infection routine. According to experts, SVCReady relies on shellcode hidden within the properties of the Microsoft Office document allowing it to fly under the radar of security solutions. Since malware is […]
Steel yourself for new vulnerabilities revealed in the open-source observability platform leveraged by millions of users from across the globe, which in 2021 was in the spotlight in the cyber threat arena due to a notorious CVE-2021-43798 zero-day flaw actively exploited in the wild. Grafana, the open-source analytics and monitoring platform leveraged by global organizations […]