October ‘22 Publications In October, the members of Threat Bounty Program actively contributed detections for critical emerging threats. After the SOC Prime validation, 256 detections were successfully released on the Platform and thus were included into monetization based on the client’s activities. Read Blog Explore Detections However, 375 rules were rejected to be published. SOC […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In May 2022, Cuba ransomware maintainers resurfaced marking their loud entrance into the cyber threat arena by leveraging a novel custom remote access Trojan called ROMCOM (or RomCom) RAT. On October 22, 2010, CERT-UA warned the global cyber defender community of the ongoing phishing campaigns targeting Ukrainian officials with the email sender masquerading as the […]
Threat actors don’t sleep, and cyber defenders cannot sleep a wink either to keep up with emerging threats. In 2022, a wave of critical “shell” vulnerabilities has been flooding the cyber threat arena, starting with the loud appearance of Log4Shell at the turn of the year, followed by Spring4Shell in March, then ProxyNotShell just one […]
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 […]
September ‘22 Publications In September, members of the Threat Bounty Community submitted 441 rules for review by the SOC Prime team via the Developer Portal and Sigma rules Slack Bot. However, only 183 rules have successfully passed the verification and were approved for publication on the SOC Prime Platform. When creating new rules and submitting […]