In Q1 2024, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups from China, North Korea, Iran, and russia demonstrated significantly enhanced and innovative offensive capabilities to proceed with sophisticated cyber-espionage campaigns. This surge in activity has posed considerable challenges to the global cybersecurity landscape. Recently, security experts revealed the activity of the China-linked Velvet Ant group infiltrating F5 […]
The China-linked cyber-espionage group Velvet Ant has been infiltrating F5 BIG-IP devices for about three years, using them as internal C2 servers, deploying malware, and gaining persistence to smartly evade detection and steal sensitive data. Detect Velvet Ant Attacks In Q1 2024, APT groups from various regions, including China, North Korea, Iran, and Russia, demonstrated […]
The TellYouThePass ransomware operators have been spotted behind a novel adversary campaign leveraging the PHP-CGI vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-4577. Adversaries weaponize the flaw to upload web shells and distribute TellYouThePass ransomware on compromised instances. Detect TellYouThePass Ransomware Campaign In light of the newly uncovered PHP-CGI bug being swiftly weaponized for in-the-wild attacks, facilitating the distribution […]
Hot on the heels of the disclosure of CVE-2024-29849 and its PoC release, another security flaw is creating a buzz in the cyber threat landscape. Successful exploitation of CVE-2024-4577, which affects Windows-based PHP servers, could lead to RCE. The security bug is a CGI argument injection vulnerability that impacts all versions of PHP on the […]
Make the Most of Advanced Threat Detection at No Extra Cost In today’s rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape, where both rogue actors and well-funded state-sponsored entities continuously devise sophisticated attacks, maintaining relevant and up-to-date detection capabilities is more critical than ever. In Q1 2024, APT groups from various global regions, such as China, North Korea, Iran, […]
The Vermin hacking group, also known as UAC-0020, resurfaces, targeting the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In the latest “SickSync” campaign uncovered by CERT-UA in collaboration with the Cybersecurity Center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, adversaries once again employ SPECTR malware, which has been part of their adversary toolkit since 2019. SickSync Campaign Targeting the […]
Since the onset of the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022, there has been a significant rise in offensive operations, highlighting the profound impact of geopolitical tensions on global enterprises. Multiple hacking groups continue to use Ukraine as a testing ground to extend their attack surface into European and U.S. political arenas. CERT-UA has been lately reported […]
In mid-April 2024, CERT-UA warned defenders of repeated adversary attempts to compromise Ukrainian organizations using COOKBOX malware. Defenders observed the ongoing phishing campaign targeting Ukraine and took measures to disrupt the offensive attempts. The identified russia-linked malicious activity is tracked under the moniker FlyingYeti and overlaps with the UAC-0149 operation covered in the CERT-UA#9522 alert. […]
There is a growing interest among hacking collectives in exploiting remote-access VPN environments by commony abusing zero-day vulnerabilities as entry points and attack vectors into enterprises. A novel critical zero-day vulnerability in Check Point Network Security gateway products tracked as CVE-2024-24919 has hit the headlines. Since April 2024, the flaw has been exploited in in-the-wild […]
Threat actors frequently leverage remote management tools in cyber attacks via the phishing attack vector. For instance, the Remote Utilities software has been largely exploited in offensive campaigns against Ukraine. CERT-UA, in conjunction with CSIRT-NB, has recently identified a targeted cyber attack attributed to the UAC-0188 employing remote management software. Adversaries were observed gaining unauthorized […]