Security experts from Kaspersky uncovered a sophisticated cyber-espionage campaign that leverages a zero-day bug in Windows (CVE-2021-40449) to attack IT firms, military contractors, and diplomatic institutions. The campaign was attributed to a China-backed APT group tracked as IronHusky. The hacker collective exploited a recently-discovered CVE-2021-40449 to infect systems with a previously unknown remote access Trojan […]
Ransomware actors attempt to stay at the forefront of the malicious trends in their strive for bigger profits. Recently, security researchers spotted a new threat actor leveraging a critical vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence (CVE-2021-26084) to proceed with ransomware infections. Dubbed Atom Silo, the gang relies on CVE-2021-26084 alongside several novel evasion techniques to fly under […]
In April 2019, SOC Prime announced a crowdsourcing initiative to unite the cyber security community to withstand emerging threats. Since the launch of the Threat Bounty Program, SOC Prime welcomed 300+ participants who published 2300+ Sigma rules, 100+ YARA rules, 25+ Snort Rules to Threat Detection Marketplace repository of the SOC Prime Platform. More than […]
On October 4, 2021, Facebook – and all the major services Facebook owns – went down for approximately six hours. The social media “blackout” started at 11:40 Eastern Time (ET) right after Facebook Domain Name System (DNS) records had become unavailable. The incident analysis from Cloudflare details that DNS names for Facebook just stopped resolving, […]
Microsoft has recently uncovered yet another piece of malware leveraged by the infamous NOBELIUM APT group since spring 2021. The new threat, dubbed FoggyWeb, acts as a post-exploitation backdoor able to exfiltrate information from Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) servers. Malware has been used in targeted attacks against multiple organizations globally while staying unnoticed […]
Last week security researchers identified a severe security hole affecting Apache HTTP Server. The flaw (CVE-2021-41773) enables unauthorized adversaries to access the sensitive data stored on the web server via a path traversal attack. The vulnerability immediately drove the attention of hackers being massively exploited in the wild despite the patch released on October 5, […]
Notorious Zloader banking Trojan is back with a brand new attack routine and evasive capabilities. Latest Zloader campaigns leverage a new infection vector switching from spam and phishing to malicious Google ads. Furthermore, a sophisticated mechanism to disable Microsoft Defender modules helps Zloader to fly under the radar. According to the researchers, the latest shift […]
With the release of the SOC Prime Platform for collaborative cyber defense, threat hunting, and threat discovery, the capabilities to fully automate detection content streaming have been also taken to a new level. Now, the Continuous Content Management module is available to all users registered on the SOC Prime Platform with a corporate email address, […]
On September 24, 2021, CISA issued an alert warning about multiple exploitation attempts for а critical vulnerability (CVE-2021-22005) in VMware vCenter Server. A heavy number of scans for the vulnerable servers broke forth after the Vietnamese security researcher Jang published an incomplete exploit for CVE-2021-2205. Jang’s technical notes were enough for experienced hackers to produce […]
Thousands of Microsoft Exchange servers remain vulnerable to ProxyShell remote code execution vulnerabilities despite the patches issued in April-May. To make things even worse, security researchers are observing a significant spike in scans for vulnerable Exchange servers, after the technical overview of the ProxyShell attack was revealed at the Black Hat conference on August 4-5, […]