Microsoft 365 (M365) is leveraged by over a million global companies, which can pose severe threats to the customers relying on this popular software in case of compromise. Since it possesses a set of default configurations, adversaries can set their eyes on them and exploit the latter exposing affected users to significant security risks, which […]
Hard on the heels of a new surge in the long-running Balada Injector campaign exploiting CVE-2023-3169, another critical security bug in popular software products comes to the spotlight. A new privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Cisco IOS XE software is actively exploited in the wild to help install implants on the impacted devices. The uncovered zero-day […]
Meet the new Threat Bounty Program digest that covers the recent news and updates of SOC Prime’s crowdsourced detection engineering initiative. Threat Bounty Content Submissions In September, the members of the Threat Bounty Program submitted 629 rules for review by the SOC Prime team before the publication for monetization. After the review and quality assessment, […]
CERT-UA researchers notify defenders of the persistent malicious campaign impacting more than 11 telecom providers. The UAC-0165 group behind these destructive attacks has been targeting the Ukrainian telecom sector for a period of over 5 months aiming to cripple the critical infrastructure, which fuels the need for thorough research among defenders to preempt potential threats. […]
Over a month ago, defenders warned the peer community of CVE-2023-4634, a critical WordPress vulnerability actively exploited in the wild and impacting an overwhelming number of WordPress sites across the globe. Following that campaign, another malicious operation comes to the forefront. A fresh surge in the long-lasting Balada Injector malware campaign has already impacted over […]
How Automation Technology is Reshaping Stress Management in Security Operations Before getting into cybersecurity, did you think of yourself as a stress-resilient individual and now you realize that you are pushed to your limits? Well, it might not be just your problem. Recent research among 1,027 members of security teams in the U.S. and Europe […]
Novel LostTrust ransomware emerged in the cyber threatscape in early spring 2023. However, the adversary campaign hit the headlines only in September when ransomware operators were observed leveraging data leak sites and payloads quite similar to the offensive tools used by the MetaEncryptor gang. Defenders are raising concerns in response to the growing threats as […]
Atlassian has recently notified defenders of a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in its Confluence software. The uncovered issue identified as CVE-2023-22515 poses severe risks to impacted Confluence installations as it is actively weaponized by attackers. Detect CVE-2023-22515 Exploits With the ever-increasing numbers of CVEs leveraged in real-world attacks, proactive detection of vulnerability exploitation remains one […]
Part 2: Environment-Dependent Terms Overview of Series This is part 2 of a multi-part series that will cover frequent mistakes SOC Prime observes regularly in SIGMA. We will cover everything from common rule logic errors to common schema problems, and even some more obscure “gotchas” to think about. Some of these ideas will extend beyond […]
Threat actors frequently set eyes on Microsoft SharePoint Server products by weaponizing a set of RCE vulnerabilities, such as CVE-2022-29108 and CVE-2022-26923. In the early summer of 2023, Microsoft issued a patch for the newly discovered SharePoint Server elevation of privilege vulnerability known as CVE-2023-29357 and considered critical. With the CVE-2023-29357 PoC exploit recently released, […]