Meet a novel player in the cyber threat arena! Starting from late 2020 security experts are tracking a new APT collective, dubbed ToddyCat, which was spotted targeting Microsoft Exchange servers in Europe and Asia to deploy custom malware samples. Among the malicious strains distributed by the ToddyCat are previously unknown Samurai backdoor and Ninja Trojan […]
To enhance global collaborative cyber defense by enabling Detection as Code practices, SOC Prime continuously broadens the support for open-source cybersecurity solutions. We are thrilled to announce a new integration with OpenCTI, an open-source modular Cyber Threat Intelligence platform that aggregates and visualizes information on cyber threats. Through contribution to this CTI platform, SOC Prime […]
ShadowPad is a modular backdoor highly popular among China-located threat actors, including such clusters of espionage activity as BRONZE UNIVERSITY, BRONZE RIVERSIDE, BRONZE STARLIGHT, and BRONZE ATLAS. The malware is used to download further malicious payloads, opening the way to wider exploitation potential. According to the research data, the malware traces its roots back to […]
A notorious Chinese APT group known under the moniker “DriftingCloud” targets a cybersecurity firm Sophos. Namely, the threat actor is believed to be behind the active exploitation of a security hole in Sophos firewall. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-1040, scores 9.8 in severity and has been affecting Sophos Firewall versions 18.5 MR3 and older since […]
Brace yourself for a new PetitPotam-like NTLM relay attack enabling complete Windows domain takeover via Microsoft’s Distributed File System (MS-DFSNM) abuse. The new attack method, dubbed DFSCoerce, allows adversaries to coerce Windows servers into authentication with a relay under hackers’ control. Domain Controllers (DC) are also vulnerable, which poses a significant risk of the entire […]
On June 20, 2022, CERT-UA issued two separate alerts that warn the global cybersecurity community of a new wave of cyber-attacks on Ukrainian organizations weaponizing the nefarious zero-day vulnerability actively exploited in the wild and tracked as CVE-2022-30190 aka Follina. In the CERT-UA#4842 alert, cybersecurity researchers unveiled the malicious activity by a hacking group identified […]
A rather peculiar type of malware has recently hit the headlines. The new strain is dubbed GoodWill ransomware, and its novelty lies in the nature of the demands that victims have to fulfill to get the decryption key. The ransomware operators, claiming that they are “hungry for kindness”, expect their targets to support those in […]
Cybersecurity researchers have recently shed light on a wave of new cyber attacks by the Iranian nation-backed APT group acting under the moniker “Lyceum” also known as HEXANE. Lyceum actors have been operating in the cyber threat arena since 2017 mainly targeting Middle East organizations in the energy and telecom industry sectors. In the latest […]
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, […]
Cybersecurity researchers have observed the activity of a more advanced version of a fully-functional malware loader dubbed PureCrypter that has been actively distributing remote access Trojans (RATs) and information stealers since March 2021. Notorious malware samples delivered using PureCrypter include AsyncRAT, LokiBot, Remcos, Warzone RAT, NanoCore, Arkei Stealer, and RedLine Stealer. The updated features of […]