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 […]
APT29 is a Russian state-sponsored espionage group also referred to by cybersecurity experts as Nobelium APT. The breadth of their attacks corresponds to Russia’s present geopolitical goals. Their latest attacks are characterized by utilizing BEATDROP and BEACON loaders to deploy BOOMMIC (VaporRage) malware. Security analysts report that the latest phishing campaigns were crafted to target […]
SOC Prime Launches New Subscription Plans to Accelerate Threat Detection with Customized, On-Demand Content In general, detection engineering suffers from the need to continuously hunt for aggressive, damaging, current and long-impactful cyber threats. The need for automated, systematic, repeatable, predictable and shareable approaches is glaring. Especially for most detection engineers that must function as threat […]
On April 28, 2022, CERT-UA published a heads-up notifying of the latest phishing cyber-attack on Ukrainian government entities using the Metasploit framework. The malicious activity can be attributed to the adversary behavior patterns of a group tracked as UAC-0098. Moreover, this most recent attack is believed to be traced to the activity of the TrickBot […]
On April 26, Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team discovered a couple of novel vulnerabilities collectively dubbed Nimbuspwn, enabling adversaries to escalate privileges on multiple Linux desktop environments. The newly detected Nimbuspwn flaws have been identified as CVE-2022-29799 and CVE-2022-29800. Once chained together, these flaws give hackers the green light to obtain root privileges, lead to […]
Overview and Analysis, Top Data Sources, and Relevant Sigma Rules to Detect Lateral Movement SOC Prime operates the world’s largest and most advanced platform for collaborative cyber defense that enables threat-centric selection of detection content backed by particular adversary tactics, techniques, and sub-techniques as per the MITRE ATT&CK® framework v.10. In this blog article, we […]
Overview and Analysis, Top Data Sources, and Relevant Sigma Rules to Detect Execution SOC Prime’s Detection as Code platform provides access to a constantly growing library of 180,000+ context-enriched detection and response algorithms aligned with the MITRE ATT&CK® framework v.10. The newly released On Demand subscription tiers for SOC Prime’s platform provide curated Sigma rules […]
Overview and Analysis, Top Data Sources, and Relevant Sigma Rules to Detect Privilege Escalation SOC Prime cultivates collaboration from a global cybersecurity community and curates the most up-to-date Sigma rules aligned with the MITRE ATT&CK® framework enabling teams to focus on threats they anticipate most. With the recently released On Demand subscriptions for SOC Prime’s […]
Quantum ransomware has been in the limelight since late summer 2021, being involved in high-speed and dynamically escalating intrusions that left cyber defenders only a short window to timely detect and mitigate threats. According to the DFIR cybersecurity research, the latest Quantum ransomware attack observed ranks as one of the fastest cases that has taken […]
Cybersecurity researchers have revealed a security hole in the Microsoft’s Windows Active Directory (AD) allowing active users to add machines to the domain even without Admin privileges, which exposes to the machine to risk of privilege escalation attacks. According to the default settings, an AD user can add up to ten workstations to the domain. […]