December ‘21 Results In December 2021, Threat Bounty Program developers contributed 219 new detections to the SOC Prime Platform. To ensure the continuous quality enhancement of the published content, 231 rules earlier released by Threat Bounty authors were improved and updated. SOC Prime Threat Bounty results for the previous month are available in NOVEMBER ‘21 […]
Overview, Analysis, and Lessons Learned On January 13, 2021, a massive data-wiping cyber-attack hit Ukraine, taking down the online assets of the country’s government. As of January 17, 2021, up to 70 websites experienced temporary performance issues due to the intrusion, including the Cabinet, seven ministries, the Treasury, the National Emergency Service, and the state […]
Zloader (aka Terdot and DELoader) is raging worldwide, evading banking systems’ defenses. Not something one expects to find under their Christmas trees, especially accompanied by the calamitous Log4j Vulnerability, but these are some crazy times we live in. According to the researchers, Zloader attack routines are growing in scale and sophistication, adopting diversified techniques and […]
New Year, fresh start! And for threat actors as well. Meet a brand-new backdoor malware that has been increasingly hitting the cyber domain throughout the last couple of months. Dubbed SysJoker, the threat obtains powerful evasion capabilities while being able to target major operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and macOS. SysJoker Malware Analysis SysJocker malware […]
Yet another splitting headache for SOC teams — beware of the hottest Log4j vulnerability CVE-2021-45046! The cybersecurity world has just been shaken by an increasing amount of exploitation attempts for CVE-2021-44228, a critical zero-day vulnerability affecting the Apache Log4j Java logging library, while another high-severity Log4j RCE flaw tracked as CVE-2021-45046 comes on the scene. […]
Adversaries have found a way to obtain full admin rights to the Active Directory (AD) domains by weaponizing CVE-2021-42287 and CVE-2021-42278 vulnerabilities. The nefarious exploitation chain enables Active Directory domain impersonation in just a couple of clicks. A batch of vulnerabilities tied to this exploitation chain drove the attention of security professionals in November 2021. […]
Brace yourself for the new zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild. A recently-disclosed flaw affects Grafana, multi-platform open source analytics and interactive visualization app used by organizations globally to track and understand the metrics of their data. After the vulnerability details were occasionally leaked online, the multitude of proof-of-concept exploits spread over Twitter and GitHub, […]
Stay alert! Threat actors are actively leveraging the new zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2021-44515) in Zoho ManageEngine Desktop Central products to attack businesses worldwide. The flaw is a critical authentication bypass issue that enables hackers to gain unauthorized access and execute arbitrary code on vulnerable servers. CVE-2021-44515 Description Zoho ManageEngine Desktop Central is a widely-used management utility […]
Cyber Monday is over, but not the hot deals from SOC Prime. In December 2021, we launch the Cyber Threat Intelligence Promo to break the limits on Community content views for SOC Prime users for the remainder of the year! Powered by its Detection as Code Platform, SOC Prime curates Threat Detection Marketplace, the world’s […]
Another day —  another major challenge for security practitioners. Meet BlackByte, a new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) ring that is hard forging the way to the top of the threat list. First incidents attributed to the BlackByte collective were detected in July 2021, and since then adversaries evolved their tactics and tools significantly. Currently, security researchers observe […]