Tag: SOC Prime Platform

SOC Prime’s Cyber Monday Deal 2022: Get Bonus Sigma Rules of Your Choice & Unlimited Hunting Capabilities 
SOC Prime’s Cyber Monday Deal 2022: Get Bonus Sigma Rules of Your Choice & Unlimited Hunting Capabilities 

We are thrilled to announce our Cyber Monday promotion to help our committed SOC Prime users enhance their cyber defense capabilities. As part of this special offer, each SOC Prime user who purchases our On Demand subscription gains a brilliant opportunity to receive an exclusive Cyber Monday offer for 20% more premium detection content on […]

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Somnia Malware Detection: UAC-0118 aka FRwL Launches Cyber Attacks Against Organizations in Ukraine Using Enhanced Malware Strains
Somnia Malware Detection: UAC-0118 aka FRwL Launches Cyber Attacks Against Organizations in Ukraine Using Enhanced Malware Strains

Since the outbreak of the global cyber war, cyber attacks against Ukraine and its allies leveraging info-stealers and malicious payloads have been causing a stir in the cyber threat arena. In the latest cyber attack on the Ukrainian organization, threat actors have applied a diverse offensive toolkit, including the Vidar info-stealer and the notorious Cobalt […]

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Armageddon APT Hacker Group aka UAC-0010 Spreads Phishing Emails Masquerading as the State Special Communications Service of Ukraine
Armageddon APT Hacker Group aka UAC-0010 Spreads Phishing Emails Masquerading as the State Special Communications Service of Ukraine

The russia-linked Armageddon APT aka Gamaredon or UAC-0010 has been launching a series of cyber attacks on Ukraine since the outbreak of the global cyber war. On November 8, 2022, CERT-UA released the latest alert detailing the ongoing spearphishing campaign of this russia-backed cyber-espionage hacking collective, in which adversaries massively distribute spoofed emails masquerading as […]

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Black Basta Ransomware Attack Detection: Recent Malicious Campaigns Using New Custom Tools Attributed to the FIN7 Group
Black Basta Ransomware Attack Detection: Recent Malicious Campaigns Using New Custom Tools Attributed to the FIN7 Group

The Black Basta ransomware group emerged in the cyber threat arena in April 2022. Although the hacking collective can be considered relatively new to the cyber offensive domain, they have already gained a notorious reputation for rapidly evolving its adversary toolkit and adapting more sophisticated tools. Cybersecurity researchers tie the latest activity of Black Basta […]

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CVE-2022-3602 & CVE-2022-3786: New High-Severity OpenSSL Vulnerabilities 
CVE-2022-3602 & CVE-2022-3786: New High-Severity OpenSSL Vulnerabilities 

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 […]

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Detect CVE-2021-39144: Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in VMware Cloud Foundation via XStream Open Source Library
Detect CVE-2021-39144: Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in VMware Cloud Foundation via XStream Open Source Library

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 […]

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PURPLEURCHIN Campaign Detection: A New Crypto Mining Operation Massively Abuses GitHub Actions and Other Popular Free CI/CD Service Accounts  
PURPLEURCHIN Campaign Detection: A New Crypto Mining Operation Massively Abuses GitHub Actions and Other Popular Free CI/CD Service Accounts  

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 […]

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SOC Prime Achieves SOC 2 Type II Compliance for the Second Year in a Row
SOC Prime Achieves SOC 2 Type II Compliance for the Second Year in a Row

Independent Audit Once Again Verifies SOC Prime’s Compliance with the SOC 2® Requirements  We are thrilled to announce that SOC Prime has once again successfully completed the SOC 2 Type II audit conducted by I.S. Partners, LLC, one of the industry-leading internal controls attestation firms certified by the PCI Council as a Qualified Security Assessor. […]

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Interview with Threat Bounty Developer: Wirapong Petshagun
Interview with Threat Bounty Developer: Wirapong Petshagun

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 […]

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Magniber Ransomware Detection: Threat Actors Spread JavaScript Files Targeting Windows Users
Magniber Ransomware Detection: Threat Actors Spread JavaScript Files Targeting Windows Users

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 […]

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