Due to a constantly evolving number of vulnerabilities affecting open-source software products, proactive detection of vulnerability exploitation remains one of the most common security use cases according to the latest SOC Prime’s Detection as Code Innovation report. At the turn of November 2022, a couple of new vulnerabilities in the OpenSSL software library identified as […]
Another day, another exploit emerges in the wild to cause a headache for security practitioners. VMware warns of a public exploit code available for a recently-patched critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability (CVE-2021-39144) in VMware Cloud Foundation and NSX Manager. Leveraging this flaw, unauthenticated threat actors might execute the malicious code with the highest system […]
With crypto mining attacks significantly increasing over the past couple of years, increasing awareness of cryptojacking is of paramount importance. Cybersecurity researchers have recently uncovered a massive cryptojacking campaign abusing free CI/CD service providers, with over 30 GitHub, 2,000 Heroku, and 900 Buddy accounts compromised. Dubbed PURPLEURCHIN, the malicious operation applies sophisticated obfuscation techniques and […]
On April 4, 2022, SOC Prime launched Sigma2SaveLives charity subscription with 100% of revenue going to the Come Back Alive Foundation, the largest non-governmental Ukrainian organization that uses funds to supply technology, training, and accouterments to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Until now, SOC Prime’s customers from all over the world helped us to accumulate […]
In May 2022, Cuba ransomware maintainers resurfaced marking their loud entrance into the cyber threat arena by leveraging a novel custom remote access Trojan called ROMCOM (or RomCom) RAT. On October 22, 2010, CERT-UA warned the global cyber defender community of the ongoing phishing campaigns targeting Ukrainian officials with the email sender masquerading as the […]
Threat actors don’t sleep, and cyber defenders cannot sleep a wink either to keep up with emerging threats. In 2022, a wave of critical “shell” vulnerabilities has been flooding the cyber threat arena, starting with the loud appearance of Log4Shell at the turn of the year, followed by Spring4Shell in March, then ProxyNotShell just one […]
SOC Prime Threat Bounty Program keeps uniting enthusiastic and keen detection content developers who joined the community to contribute to collective cyber defense and monetize their exclusive detections on the SOC Prime Platform. Please meet Wirapong Petshagun who joined the Threat Bounty community in June 2022 and has been regularly publishing high-quality rules to help […]
Throughout 2021-2022, ransomware continues to be one of the dominant trends in the cyber threat landscape, illustrated by the increasing sophistication of intrusions and a rapidly growing number of ransomware affiliates. Cybersecurity researchers warn of the ongoing malicious campaigns, which target Windows users and distribute Magniber ransomware disguised as software updates. Detect Magniber Ransomware Magniber […]
Heads up! A new critical vulnerability is on the radar. Fortinet has recently disclosed an authentication bypass vulnerability in its FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager appliances. The security flaw tracked as CVE-2022-40684 is actively exploited in the wild, posing a serious risk to Fortinet’s customers leveraging vulnerable product instances. Detect CVE-2022-40684 Exploitation Attempts In view of […]
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