A C2 platform called “Dark Utilities” was released in early 2022 and is currently getting traction among adversaries. Dark Utilities, a C2-as-a-Service (C2aaS), provides an affordable (at a starting price of just EUR 9,99) way of setting up an anonymous C&C infrastructure. The service allows for remote access, DDoS attacks, command execution, and cryptojacking. Security […]
Security analysts report an increasing number of cases of adversarial abuse of software called ‘proxyware’. Users can install proxyware (operated via the client application) and become bandwidth donors by sharing their internet connection via services like Peer2Profit and IPRoyal. The hosts, incentivized with monetary rewards, enable other users to access the web from their location […]
New CloudMensis malware springs into action with highly targeted attacks. Researchers have yet to establish the techniques attackers used to gain initial access to victims’ devices; however, the small number of documented attacks happened since February indicate that the CloudMensis malware was deployed to exfiltrate information as part of a targeted campaign aimed at a […]
With a mounting number of cyber criminal operations pursuing the illicit installation of crypto mining software on victim devices and systems, increasing awareness of crypto-jacking is paramount. Earlier this Summer, US-CERT released a malware analysis report related to XMRig coin miner, detailing new approaches to hijacking victims’ devices and leveraging them for crypto mining. CISA […]
The operations of Evilnum hackers have been watched closely by security analysts since 2020, with the threat actors’ activity traced back as early as 2018. The APT group is predominantly associated with the attacks on the FinTech sector in Europe, often classified as a financially motivated group. Sources claimed that the most recent spear phishing […]
Blue Mockingbird cybercrime group has been on the cybersecurity radar for about two years now. In the current campaign, the threat actor exploits the vulnerabilities discovered in 2019 in a popular Telerik UI suite for ASP.NET AJAX that includes around 120 components. The major vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-18935 with a critical severity level of 9.8, […]
Chaos graphical user interface (GUI) builder has been on the market for less than a year, allowing adversaries to craft new ransomware strains. A new ransomware variant dubbed Yashma is its 6th version, available from May 2022. Yashma is the most refined version of this GUI ransomware builder that is known for its flexibility and […]
On February 23, 2022, CISA launched an alert stating that the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have detected the use of a novel malicious strain known as Cyclops Blink. As a replacement of the […]
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 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 […]