Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: How SOC Prime Helps Ukraine Thwart Aggressor’s Cyber Attacks This article is based on the interview conducted by our partner AIN.UA and covered in the corresponding article. In this write-up within a series covering SOC Prime’s Business Continuity Plan (BCP), SOC Prime’s Founder, CEO, and Chairman, Andrii Bezverkhyi, shares insights about the […]
Threat Bounty Publications The first month of 2023 has brought invaluable contributions from our Threat Bounty members to the global cyber community. The SOC Prime team received 626 rules for examination and review submitted by our detection content experts. As a result, 144 rules successfully passed the verification and were published to the SOC Prime […]
Hot on the heels of the massive email distribution in the recent malicious campaign targeting Ukrainian state bodies and leveraging Remcos (Remote Control and Surveillance) Trojan, threat actors exploit another remote administration software dubbed Remote Utilities to hit Ukrainian organizations. CERT-UA warns the global cyber defender community of ongoing phishing attacks attributed to the UAC-0096 […]
Remcos Trojan (Remote Control and Surveillance) is frequently delivered by threat actors leveraging phishing attack vectors. The malware currently reemerges in the cyber threat arena to target Ukrainian government entities. On February 6, 2023, cybersecurity researchers released a new CERT-UA#5926 alert detailing the mass email distribution impersonating the Ukrtelecom JSC aimed to spread Remcos malware […]
Since the outbreak of the global cyber war, state bodies of Ukraine and its allies have become targets of diverse malicious campaigns launched by multiple hacking collectives. Threat actors frequently leverage phishing attack vectors to perform their adversary campaigns, like in December 2022’s cyber attacks distributing DolphinCape and FateGrab/StealDeal malware. On February 1, 2023, CERT-UA […]
Microsoft documents have fallen prey to phishing attacks, and adversaries are continuously looking for new ways to disseminate malicious strains. Security vulnerabilities compromising Microsoft products frequently cause a stir in the cyber threat arena, affecting a broad number of users, like in the case Follina zero-day flaw and CVE-2022-22005. Security researchers inform the global cyber […]
The russia-linked Sandworm APT group (aka UAC-0082) has been continuously targeting Ukrainian public systems and critical infrastructure for at least a decade. This group is responsible for massive blackouts throughout the country in 2015-2016 caused by the infamous BlackEnergy malware. That was followed by the NotPetya campaign in 2017, which eventually ended up creating a […]
Security experts have shed light on a novel malicious sample hiding in the malicious arena, an evasive stealer dubbed Rhadamanthys. The malware is commonly distributed via Google ads redirecting compromised users to phishing webpages disguised as widely-used legitimate software. Detect Rhadamanthys Malware In view of the increasing popularity of Rhadamanthys stealer being broadly distributed in […]
Stay alert! Security researchers are warning the global cyber defender community of a zero-day vulnerability in FortiOS SSL-VPN, which was patched in December 2022. The security flaw tracked as CVE-2022-42475 and resulting in unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) has been exploited in targeted attacks against government agencies and large organizations across the globe. Detect CVE-2022-42475: […]
December ‘22 Publications During the last month of the year 2022, Threat Bounty developers managed to submit 441 rules to review by SOC Prime Team for a chance of publication to the Platform for monetization. The submitted rules were reviewed by a team of seasoned engineers, and based on the collective decisions, 126 rules were […]