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 […]
QBot, aka Qakbot, has been around since 2007, while its companion, a threat actor group tagged Black Basta, first surfaced just a few months ago – in April 2022. According to the latest insights into a partnership between Qakbot and Black Basta, the latter uses this modular information stealer to travel through the compromised system […]
A hacker group tagged POLONIUM has been observed abusing Microsoft OneDrive personal storage service to drop custom malicious implants and launch supply chain attacks. Adversaries had succeeded in targeting more than 20 Israeli organizations before they were uncovered. There is substantial evidence that the hackers behind the attacks were based in Lebanon and were supported […]
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 […]
Keksec, aka Nero and Freakout, the threat actor behind the advanced EnemyBot botnet, is expanding its reach by leveraging more exploits, compromising multiple organizations regardless of their industry vertical. The EnemyBot malware authors took all the best and left behind the obsolete of code used in other botnets such as Gafgyt, Qbot, or Mirai. The […]
Banking malware has been a true-and-tried cash cow for adversaries for a long time now. One of such efficient tools in malware distribution campaigns that target the banking sector is a remote-overlay banking trojan Grandoreiro. The trojan was first detected in 2016 (yet, some researchers claim the malware first surfaced in 2017), being used against […]
Let’s start with a short rundown of developments regarding Windows zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2022-30190), aka Follina. Back in April 2022, a research team known under the moniker CrazymanArmy warned Microsoft of a new zero-day RCE vulnerability in one of their products. The tech corporation opted not to address the issue at that point. On May 27, […]
Earlier this month, security researchers discovered a malicious package in the Python Package Index (PyPI) registry. Once in the system, PyMafka fetches a relevant Cobalt Strike beacon based on the victim’s OS. The name suggests that PyMafka is an attempt at typosquatting a PyKafka – a cluster-aware Kafka protocol client for Python. Detect PyMafka In […]