In April, the Threat Bounty Program members contributed to the defense of the global community against the most recent cyber threats. Notably, the keen members of the Threat Bounty community have contributed detections helping to withstand recent FIN7 attacks, the TraderTraitor Malware, Quantum Ransomware, and many others. Read More Go to Platform April ‘22 Results […]
Iranian hackers known as APT34 have launched a spear-phishing campaign distributing a novel backdoor named Saitama. This time, APT34 targets officials from Jordan’s Foreign Ministry. APT34 is associated with other monikers, such as OilRig, Cobalt Gypsy IRN2, and Helix Kitten, and has been active since at least 2014, mostly attacking entities in finance and government, […]
Another day, another RAT is sniffing its way into systems of hackers’ interest. This time the trojan called Nerbian RAT is in the limelight, leveraging Covid-19 and World’s Health Organization lures to proceed with targeted attacks against users in Italy, Spain, and the UK. The newly-discovered threat is written in Go, making the malware OS-agnostic […]
Adversaries utilize the PrivateLoader pay-per-install (PPI) malware distribution platform to spread a new malware framework dubbed NetDooka. This comprehensive malware framework possesses several components, such as a loader, a dropper, a kernel-mode process, a file protection driver, and a remote access trojan (RAT). The launching element of the infection chain of the NetDooka framework is […]
Bad luck for Linux-based system maintainers – security experts have revealed a sophisticated surveillance implant that has flown under the radars of endpoint protection vendors for five years, secretly infecting thousands of Linux environments. Dubbed BPFDoor, the malware abuses the Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) to act as a backdoor and proceed with reconnaissance. This makes […]
A wave of new phishing cyber-attacks has recently swept Ukraine. Hard on the heels of an attack by the APT28 threat actors spreading the CredoMap_v2 info-stealing malicious software, another hacking group has recently distributed phishing emails deploying malware called Jester Stealer, as CERT-UA reports. This latest malicious activity has been tracked as UAC-0104 based on […]
F5 Networks, a company that specializes in the development and distribution of software and hardware solutions, has released a Security Advisory on May 4, 2022, addressing a number of issues in their products. Shortly after, the BIG-IP family of products was hit with multiple exploitations in the wild following the publicly published proof-of-concept for a […]
Over the course of an ongoing cyber war, Russia-linked hacking collectives are looking for new ways to cripple the Ukrainian organizations in the cyber domain. On May 6, 2022, CERT-UA issued an alert warning of yet another phishing attack targeting Ukrainian state bodies. The cyber-attack has been attributed to the malicious activity of notorious Russian […]
BlackByte ransomware targeting critical infrastructures in the U.S. and across the globe since mid-summer 2021 has recently morphed into a more advanced variant. Adversaries are known to exfiltrate data before deploying ransomware and then threaten organizations to leak the stolen data if a ransom is not paid. The ransomware samples were originally written in C# […]
Recent cybersecurity research has uncovered AvosLocker ransomware samples abusing the Avast Anti-Rootkit Driver file to disable anti-virus, which allows adversaries to evade detection and block defense. AvosLocker is known to represent a relatively novel ransomware family that appeared in the cyber threat arena to replace the infamous REvil, which was one of the most active […]