Exploitation attempts of vulnerabilities found in Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) are coming into the spotlight in the cyber threat arena, like in the case of CVE-2018-6882 used in a targeted cyber-espionage campaign against Ukrainian state bodies in mid-April 2022. Throughout July and August 2022, cybersecurity researchers were investigating a series of security breaches affecting ZCS […]
Security flaws in VMware products that can be leveraged in exploit chain attacks have been in the limelight in the cyber threat arena since May 2022, when CISA issued an alert warning of known remote code execution (RCE) and privilege escalation vulnerabilities. On August 9, 2022, VMware patched another set of vulnerabilities that might be […]
SOC Prime, Inc., provider of the world’s largest and most advanced threat detection marketplace, pioneer of Detection as Code, and the biggest commercial contributor to the generic Sigma rule language, today announced the appointment of a renowned industry veteran, Paul J. “P.J.” Bihuniak, as Chief Operating Officer (COO) to strengthen the company’s executive team. Paul […]
Ransomware attacks have become a constantly growing trend in the cyber threat arena since 2020, which continues to be on the rise in 2021-2022. Cybersecurity researchers have recently uncovered a new SolidBit ransomware variant, which targets gamers and social media users. The novel malware strain is spotted in the wild, being uploaded to GitHub and […]
Gwisin ransomware targeting Korean companies in multiple industries is currently on the increase in the cyber threat arena. Attributed to the Korean-speaking threat actors, Gwisin ransomware is leveraged in targeted attacks at specific organizations rather than random individuals and does not perform malicious behaviors on its own, which makes its detection harder. The ransomware is […]
Amadey Bot, a notorious malware strain that first came to the cyber threat arena in 2018, is capable of stealing data and deploying other malicious payloads on the compromised system. It has been actively distributed across hacker forums to engage in offensive operations. Cybersecurity researchers have recently observed the distribution of a new version of […]
LockBit threat actors have been recently under the spotlight in the cyber domain. In July 2022, the hacking collective hit the headlines by introducing the first-ever bug bounty program launched by a ransomware gang. In the latest cyber-attacks, the notorious ransomware group applies Living-off-the-Land tools by abusing the legitimate Microsoft Defender’s command-line utility to deploy […]
A good threat hunt is unthinkable without useful pieces of software that help to navigate enormous pools of data. How can you tell the difference between good, bad, and benign? Analyzing all the intelligence, logs, history, and research data with one pair of eyes (even multiplied by many human Threat Hunters) would have taken years. […]
On July 27, 2022, Microsoft cybersecurity researchers published a notice observing the recently revealed malicious activity of the European private-sector offensive actor (PSOA) tracked as KNOTWEED, which leverages a set of Windows and Adobe zero-day exploits, including the newly patched CVE-2022-22047 vulnerability. According to the research, threat actors launch targeted cyber-attacks against organizations in Europe […]
In spring 2022, the notorious Russian nation-backed cyber espionage group Armageddon, also tracked as UAC-0010, launched a series of targeted phishing cyber-attacks against Ukrainian and European state bodies. On July 26, 2022, CERT-UA issued a series of new cybersecurity alerts warning the global cyber defender community of a wave of novel phishing campaigns by these […]