SOC Prime Threat Bounty Program has been connecting skilled freelance detection engineers for over three years and has undergone many changes and improvements. Today, the Program is a unique opportunity to improve Detection Engineering skills, monetize the created detections, and make a personal portfolio with the leading Detection as Code platform. Introduction to Threat Bounty […]
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 […]
According to the latest SOC Prime’s Detection as Code Innovation report, proactive detection of vulnerability exploitation remains one of the top 3 security use cases throughout 2021-2022, which resonates with a growing number of revealed vulnerabilities affecting open-source products. The cybersecurity researcher has recently revealed a new vulnerability in Apache Spark, an open-source unified analytics […]
Cybersecurity researchers have revealed a wave of new activity of the notorious BlackCat ransomware group deploying custom malware binaries for more sophisticated intrusions. In the latest attacks, threat actors have been leveraging Cobalt Strike beacons and a new penetration testing tool dubbed Brute Ratel, installing the latter as a Windows service on the compromised machines. […]
New day, the headache for cyber defenders! Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) Â reports a new ransomware strain attacking small to middle-sized businesses across the globe since June 2021. Dubbed H0lyGh0st, the malware has been initially developed by an emerging North Korean APT tracked under the DEV-0530 moniker. The ransomware attacks are explicitly financially motivated, targeting […]
On July 6, 2022, SOC Prime introduced a Smoking Guns Sigma Rules list enabling the organization of any scale to proactively detect cyber-attacks, perform Threat Hunting for the latest adversarial TTPs, and get a tactical defense advantage for their business during the global cyber war. SOC Prime’s Detection as Code platform users are now equipped […]
Brace yourself for the new ransomware threat! On July 6, 2022, the FBI, CISA, and the Department of Treasury issued a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to warn about Maui ransomware actively leveraged by the North Korean APT group to target organizations in the U.S. healthcare and public health sectors. The attacks have been observed since […]
June ‘22 Updates This June we introduced several significant updates related to SOC Prime’s Threat Bounty Program to acknowledge the contribution of the Program members and smooth their experience with Sigma rules creation. Now, all SOC Prime users can access detailed information about Threat Bounty authors’ achievements on a dedicated page. Also, the beta version […]
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. […]