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 […]
Matanbuchus first surfaced in early 2021 as a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) project at a rental price of $2,500. Matanbuchus is a loader that uses two DLLs during the malware’s run cycle. This year the malware is delivered in phishing attacks aimed at deploying Cobalt Strike beacons. Detect Matanbuchus Malware For an efficient Matanbuchus malware detection, use […]
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 […]
A new phishing campaign is on the rise, impacting a wide range of industries and organizations in the U.S., including critical infrastructures such as security, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, the military, and also manufacturing supply chain. The scam began sweeping across the U.S. in May 2022 and is still going on. The targets receive a phishing […]
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 […]
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, […]
New kernel rootkit named Syslogk is getting traction, terrorizing the Linux OS users. The novel rootkit malware is believed to be based on another Linux rootkit dubbed Adore-Ng – a loadable module used to infect the Linux OS kernel. While Syslogk’s operators are currently invested in its development, enhancing the functionality of the new rootkit, […]
New ransomware variant follows in the footsteps of the GonnaCope ransomware, the first strain in the family of CMD-based ransomware that first surfaced in April 2022. Other similar samples that were uploaded to VirusTotal in May 2022 are known as Kekpop and Kekware. The rising player is dubbed YourCyanide and presumably has all it takes […]
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 […]
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 […]