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 […]
Fujitsu Eternus CS8000 (Control Center) V8.1. was deemed vulnerable to privilege escalation attacks in early April 2022, with the Fujitsu PSIRT (Product Security Incident Response Team) releasing an official security notice on June 1, 2022. Security researchers reported two security holes in the vendor’s Control Center software that enabled unauthorized attackers to gain remote code […]
In May 2022, the members of SOC Prime Threat Bounty Program contributed 184 unique detections to the Detection as Code platform. The published detections help the global cyber community timely detect emerging threats such as the APT29 phishing campaign, BlackByte Ransomware attack, Microsoft SharePoint RCE (CVE-2022-29108), and many others. The information about the recent detections […]
The notorious Microsoft Office zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-30190 aka Follina is still being actively exploited by multiple hacking organizations across the world. On June 10, 2022, CERT-UA released a new alert warning of ongoing cyber-attacks targeting Ukrainian media organizations. Threat actors continue to leverage the CVE-2022-30190 vulnerability in the latest malicious email campaign aimed […]
Another zero-day security flaw in the Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) nicknamed DogWalk comes hard on the heels of its actively exploited counterpart, a remote code execution vulnerability Follina, tracked as CVE-2022-30190. Just like in the case of Follina, a big security issue affecting MSDT, Microsoft troubleshooters ignored the bug when it was first brought […]
Meet SVCReady, a new malicious loader on the arena! The novel strain is heavily distributed via phishing campaigns since April 2022, leveraging an unusual infection routine. According to experts, SVCReady relies on shellcode hidden within the properties of the Microsoft Office document allowing it to fly under the radar of security solutions. Since malware is […]
Steel yourself for new vulnerabilities revealed in the open-source observability platform leveraged by millions of users from across the globe, which in 2021 was in the spotlight in the cyber threat arena due to a notorious CVE-2021-43798 zero-day flaw actively exploited in the wild. Grafana, the open-source analytics and monitoring platform leveraged by global organizations […]
In December 2019, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the Russia-linked cybercriminal gang tracked as Evil Corp (aka Dridex, INDRIK SPIDER) that stood behind the deployment and distribution of the notorious Dridex malware targeting banks and financial institutions for nearly a decade. In an attempt to evade sanctions, threat actors […]
Adversaries launch headline-making attacks against vulnerable Confluence Servers worldwide. Atlassian alerts their users to the security risks associated with an RCE flaw detected in all supported versions of Confluence (Server and Data Center). The bug is tracked as CVE-2022-26134, with the vendor rating it to be of the highest severity level. As of the 3d […]
Just two days after the nefarious CVE-2022-30190 aka Follina was revealed, security researchers report in-the-wild attacks leveraging the exploits to target state institutions of Ukraine. On June 2, 2022, CERT-UA issued a heads-up warning of an ongoing campaign spreading Cobalt Strike Beacon malware by exploiting Windows CVE-2021-40444 and CVE-2022-30190 zero-day vulnerabilities, which have been recently in […]