Today, we want to draw your attention to another ransomware targeting at Italian-speaking users. First spotted by the researchers back in 2013, FTCode is PowerShell based ransomware that is distributed via spam. In the recent attacks, the FTCode ransomware was delivered to the victim machines with an email containing an attachment pretending to be an […]
Last week, researchers published details of the attacks targeted at Middle Eastern telecommunications carried out by APT34 (aka OilRig and Helix Kitten), and updated tools in the arsenal of this group. Of course, participants in the Threat Bounty Program did not pass by and published a couple of rules for detecting RDAT Backdoor, but more […]
Today’s post is about fresh versions of Hancitor trojan and a couple of rules released by Threat Bounty Program participants which enables security solutions to detect them. Hancitor Trojan (Evasion Technique) community rule by Emir Erdogan: https://tdm.socprime.com/tdm/info/GwJ4Y7k7tzaz/1rBKXHMBSh4W_EKGF2on/?p=1 Hancitor infection with Ursnif exclusive rule by Osman Demir: https://tdm.socprime.com/tdm/info/DXrFgt0kTBg1/Z9TBUXMBPeJ4_8xc-IFm/ This malware appeared in 2013 and at the […]
Today we introduce a special digest of content that helps to detect exploitation of a critical vulnerability in Windows DNS Servers. The vulnerability became known only two days ago, but since then, both the SOC Prime team (represented by Nate Guagenty) and the Threat Bounty Program participants have published 10+ rules for detecting various ways […]
In today’s digest, we want to highlight the content provided by members of the Threat Bounty Program that will help security solutions to detect Saefko RAT, Ursa trojan, and a pack of actively spreading ransomware strains. The Saefko RAT is a relatively fresh remote-access trojan written in .NET that was first spotted in the midst […]
Today in the Rule of the Week section, we suggest paying attention to the rule published by Emir Erdogan. The new rule helps detect Thanos ransomware, which weaponized RIPlace tactic to bypass anti-ransomware solutions: https://tdm.socprime.com/tdm/info/QvmZLqPG91bq/LYA4D3MBSh4W_EKGVfTV/?p=1 Thanos ransomware first appeared at the end of last year, and its authors advertised it in underground forums and closed […]
And again, we want to highlight the content for detecting QBot malware in the Rule of the Week section. About a month ago, a simple but effective rule from Emir Erdogan was already published in this section. But the twelve-year-old Trojan continues to evolve, and just a couple of days ago, fresh samples of this […]
Hello everyone, we are back with five fresh rules submitted this week by participants of the Threat Bounty Program. You can check our previous digests here, and if you have any questions, then welcome to the chat. Pykspa worm-like malware can install itself to maintain persistence, listen to incoming port for additional commands, and drop […]
Today, under the Threat Hunting Content column, we are heightening your interest in AsyncRAT Detection (Sysmon Behavior) community rule by Emir Erdogan. The rule enables the detection of AsyncRat by using sysmon logs. According to the author of the project on GitHub, AsyncRat is a Remote Access Tool designed to remotely monitor and control other […]
Nowadays, during the lockdown, many organizations continue to use Zoom at the corporate level to conduct conference meetings, despite the security issues found in this application. Attackers have been exploiting the increased popularity of this application for several months, and you can partially protect your organization from attacks by hardening Zoom service. But this will […]