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 […]
Information stealing attacks that leverage the phishing email attack vector against Ukrainian organizations are currently on the rise, such as the malicious campaign less than one week ago spreading AgentTesla spyware and targeting Ukrainian state bodies. On July 25, 2022, CERT-UA released a new heads-up warning the global cyber defender community of an ongoing email […]
Spyware dubbed DevilsTongue is causing a fair share of trouble for journalists and free speech advocates in the Middle East, especially those Lebanon-based. Adversaries exploit a Chrome zero-day assigned CVE-2022-2294 that Google patched earlier this month to achieve shellcode execution, elevate privileges, and gain file-system permissions on the breached device’s memory. Researchers discovered that the […]
Security experts have revealed a new variant of an information stealer and banking trojan known under the moniker QBot (aka QakBot, QuackBot, or Pinkslipbot). The trojan was first detected in the late 2000s, mostly used in financially motivated attacks aimed at stealing victims’ passwords. Its operators regularly resurface with new tricks up their sleeves, adopting […]
Due to the global cyber war fueled by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the attacks in the cyber domain against Ukrainian government entities are continuously on the rise. A week after the phishing campaign by the UAC-0056 group delivering Cobalt Strike Beacon, another cyber-attack targeting Ukrainian officials using information-stealing malware comes on the scene. On […]
SessionManager backdoor first surfaced around Spring 2021, targeting Microsoft IIS Servers. The malware samples were first investigated only in early 2022. The recently exposed backdoor has affected more than 20 governmental and non-governmental entities across Africa, South Asia, South America, the Middle East, and Europe. Security researchers speculate that some artifacts indicate that the attacks […]
Hot on the heels of the cyber-attack on July 5 targeting Ukrainian state bodies and attributed to the notorious UAC-0056 hacking collective, yet another malicious campaign launched by this group causes a stir in the cyber domain. On July 11, 2022, cybersecurity researchers at CERT-UA warned the global community of an ongoing phishing attack leveraging […]
The notorious Cobalt Strike Beacon malware has been actively distributed by multiple hacking collectives in spring 2022 as part of the ongoing cyber war against Ukraine, mainly leveraged in targeted phishing attacks on Ukrainian state bodies. On July 6, 2022, CERT-UA released an alert warning of a new malicious email campaign targeting Ukrainian government entities. […]
The notorious Raccoon Stealer, which was earlier distributed under the Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) model, comes back to the cyber threat arena as a new version 2.0 enriched with more advanced capabilities. Raccoon Stealer malware was previously reported to have been replaced with Dridex Trojan by the RIG exploit kit as part of an ongoing campaign that […]
Matanbuchus first surfaced in early 2021 as a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) project at a rental price of $2,500. Matanbuchus is a loader that uses two DLLs during the malware’s run cycle. This year the malware is delivered in phishing attacks aimed at deploying Cobalt Strike beacons. Detect Matanbuchus Malware For an efficient Matanbuchus malware detection, use […]