The State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection of Ukraine (SSSCIP) recently issued an analytical report covering russia’s cyber aggression against Ukraine in 2022 The report provides insights into the primary hacking collectives that have been in the limelight since the outbreak of the full-scale war in Ukraine, analyzes adversary TTPs to execute intrusions, […]
Old dog, new tricks! Security researchers revealed PlugX remote access Trojan (RAT) is masquerading as a popular open-source Windows debugger tool dubbed x65dbg. Relying on DLL side-loading for this spoofing trick, nefarious RAT is able to slip past security controls and gain full control over the targeted instance. PlugX Remote Access Trojan Detection The PlugX […]
Approaching the date of one-year anniversary of the outbreak of full-fledged war in Ukraine, cyber defenders addressed the risks of potential attacks against Ukraine and its allies by russian offensive forces. On February 23, CERT-UA cybersecurity researchers revealed the malicious activity attributed to the UAC-0056 hacking group, which was observed in malicious campaigns against Ukraine […]
February 2023 can be marked as a month of ongoing adversary campaigns against Ukraine, exploiting the phishing attack vector and leveraging remote access software. Close on the heels of phishing attacks spreading Remcos RAT and abusing Remote Utilities software, another mass email distribution targeting Ukrainian organizations garners attention from cyber defenders. The latest CERT-UA#6011 alert […]
Threat actors are constantly enriching their offensive toolkits while experimenting with new sophisticated malware variants to expand the scope of attacks. Cyber defenders have observed a new Mirai botnet variant called V3G4 come into the spotlight in the cyber threat landscape. The novel malware variant has been leveraged in multiple adversary campaigns threatening targeted users […]
Stay alert! Threat actors once again set eyes on Microsoft Windows Exchange servers, attempting to compromise them by exploiting infamous ProxyShell vulnerabilities. Cybersecurity researchers have observed a new evasive malicious campaign dubbed “ProxyShellMiner” that exploits two Microsoft Exchange ProxyShell flaws tracked as CVE-2021-34473 and CVE-2021-34523 to deliver cryptocurrency miners. Detect ProxyShellMiner Attacks Exploiting Microsoft Exchange […]
Threat Bounty Publications The first month of 2023 has brought invaluable contributions from our Threat Bounty members to the global cyber community. The SOC Prime team received 626 rules for examination and review submitted by our detection content experts. As a result, 144 rules successfully passed the verification and were published to the SOC Prime […]
Hot on the heels of the massive email distribution in the recent malicious campaign targeting Ukrainian state bodies and leveraging Remcos (Remote Control and Surveillance) Trojan, threat actors exploit another remote administration software dubbed Remote Utilities to hit Ukrainian organizations. CERT-UA warns the global cyber defender community of ongoing phishing attacks attributed to the UAC-0096 […]
Remcos Trojan (Remote Control and Surveillance) is frequently delivered by threat actors leveraging phishing attack vectors. The malware currently reemerges in the cyber threat arena to target Ukrainian government entities. On February 6, 2023, cybersecurity researchers released a new CERT-UA#5926 alert detailing the mass email distribution impersonating the Ukrtelecom JSC aimed to spread Remcos malware […]
Since the outbreak of the global cyber war, state bodies of Ukraine and its allies have become targets of diverse malicious campaigns launched by multiple hacking collectives. Threat actors frequently leverage phishing attack vectors to perform their adversary campaigns, like in December 2022’s cyber attacks distributing DolphinCape and FateGrab/StealDeal malware. On February 1, 2023, CERT-UA […]