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14,396	In the game of measure-countermeasure that is cybersecurity today and tomorrow, XDR is the next evolutionary step in dealing with more evasive threats.	[ { "id": 51774, "label": "SOFTWARE", "start_offset": 80, "end_offset": 83 } ]	[]	[]
4,779	Finally, we also offer the leading tools to protect important civil society actors such as journalists, human rights workers, opposition party politicians, and campaign organizations – in other words, the users who are frequently targeted by surveillance tools.	[]	[]	[]
107	This use of known, legitimate tools is not new; we call that “living off the land” and have seen this tactic pick up recently, including usage by ransomware actors.	[ { "id": 45838, "label": "tools", "start_offset": 62, "end_offset": 81 } ]	[]	[]
8,254	DiscoveryOur first inkling of this threat came when we spotted a spear-phishing email campaign targeting several embassies of various European countries.	[ { "id": 25489, "label": "location", "start_offset": 65, "end_offset": 70 }, { "id": 25490, "label": "attack-pattern", "start_offset": 71, "end_offset": 79 }, { "id": 25491, "label": "location", "start_offset": 86, "end_offset": 94 } ]	[]	[]
3,137	Attackers use them to take down websites for several reasons: About Threat Briefs are meant to help busy people understand real-world threats and how they can prevent them in their lives.	[]	[]	[]
4,233	After impersonating a fake victim of interest, we obtained a second stage payload (Detected as TROJ_DELF.XXWZ), which is a filestealer based on the Delphi programming language similar to the “svctrls” malware described in our previous blogpost.	[ { "id": 50043, "label": "malware", "start_offset": 95, "end_offset": 109 } ]	[]	[]
3,004	All apps like those from Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and others have their own passwords to connect to their service, and attackers crack and sell compromised accounts to these services.	[ { "id": 48120, "label": "SOFTWARE", "start_offset": 34, "end_offset": 40 }, { "id": 48119, "label": "SOFTWARE", "start_offset": 25, "end_offset": 32 }, { "id": 48121, "label": "SOFTWARE", "start_offset": 42, "end_offset": 46 } ]	[]	[]
4,088	While the Windows service “IKEEXT” is starting, the fake wlbsctrl.dll is loaded and executed with high privilege.	[]	[]	[]
3,532	Its apparent staying power stems from the furtive ways with which its attacks can evade traditional security solutions.	[]	[]	[]
1,693	Security awareness is critical to avoid falling victim to such an attack.	[]	[]	[]
2,207	In total, the following 14 functions are loaded during runtime:	[]	[]	[]
2,999	When we think about home entertainment, there’s really two things you need to think about with security.	[]	[]	[]
2,825	One thing reports have indicated that make this attack unique is a “killswitch” capability built into the malware.	[]	[]	[]
3,728	Tags Endpoints \| APT & Targeted Attacks \| Research \| Articles, News, Reports	[]	[]	[]
7,128	We found three new samples of the Type 1 malware family that abuses Dropbox as a secondary C&C channel, which we described in our Operation DRBControl whitepaper.	[ { "id": 22294, "label": "location", "start_offset": 34, "end_offset": 38 }, { "id": 22295, "label": "malware", "start_offset": 68, "end_offset": 75 } ]	[]	[]
1,138	However, this particular mutex was associated with only a recent subset of the Allaple family.	[ { "id": 46572, "label": "malware", "start_offset": 80, "end_offset": 87 } ]	[]	[]
10,946	SHA256 Description	[]	[]	[]
7,536	For the PowerShell script, the first part contains a variable named dragon_middle, which is an array containing a few hundred URLs ending with connection.php that serve as proxies between victim and C&C.	[ { "id": 23403, "label": "attack-pattern", "start_offset": 8, "end_offset": 18 }, { "id": 23406, "label": "location", "start_offset": 180, "end_offset": 187 }, { "id": 23407, "label": "location", "start_offset": 195, "end_offset": 198 } ]	[]	[]
1,191	However, an increasingly popular method uses premium SMS.	[]	[]	[]
9,916	simsoshop.com	[]	[]	[]
13,916	It also uses this information to determine the amount of ransom to demand, with a typical ransom demand amounting to anywhere between US$200,000 and US$2 million.	[]	[]	[]
13,044	Delivered as part of its industry-leading platform, Cloud One – Application Security provides code-level visibility and protection against the latest cyber threats.	[]	[]	[]
4,536	We welcome recent steps taken by the government in applying sanctions to the NSO Group and Candiru, and we believe other governments should consider expanding these restrictions.	[ { "id": 50330, "label": "threat-actor", "start_offset": 77, "end_offset": 86 }, { "id": 50331, "label": "threat-actor", "start_offset": 91, "end_offset": 98 } ]	[]	[]
10,756	Snapshots of Daserf’s steganographic code generated by their toolkit MitigationSteganography is a particularly useful technique in purposeful cyberattacks: the longer their malicious activities stay undetected, the more they can steal and exfiltrate data.	[ { "id": 32875, "label": "tools", "start_offset": 13, "end_offset": 19 }, { "id": 32876, "label": "location", "start_offset": 225, "end_offset": 228 }, { "id": 32877, "label": "location", "start_offset": 235, "end_offset": 238 } ]	[]	[]
1,498	The terms remote administration tool (RAT) and trojan downloader are often used synonymously with such implants.	[]	[]	[]
13,987	XDR fills in those gaps.	[ { "id": 48777, "label": "SOFTWARE", "start_offset": 0, "end_offset": 4 } ]	[]	[]
6,014	While TAG has previously observed this technique being used by multiple government-backed actors, the media picked up on this blog post, publishing several stories highlighting this phishing capability.	[ { "id": 18560, "label": "location", "start_offset": 102, "end_offset": 107 }, { "id": 18561, "label": "location", "start_offset": 131, "end_offset": 135 }, { "id": 18562, "label": "attack-pattern", "start_offset": 182, "end_offset": 190 } ]	[]	[]
1,777	One such module leverages the fact that the length of a vector object is always consistent with memory allocation, which means we can deduce the memory usage from the sum of the length of all allocated vectors.	[]	[]	[]
14,150	Gone are the days in which these attacks only target the endpoint, and as such, an expanded connected threat defense is paramount.	[]	[]	[]
11,396	In December 2021, we released research about novel techniques used by NSO Group to compromise iMessage users.	[]	[]	[]
795	Time will tell.	[]	[]	[]
5,058	These campaigns were sent using newly created Gmail accounts to non-Google accounts, so the success rate of these campaigns is unknown.	[ { "id": 51163, "label": "SOFTWARE", "start_offset": 46, "end_offset": 51 } ]	[]	[]
2,043	Querying VirusTotal with this string led to the discovery of eight files, six of which could be directly attributed to x4k through their own VirusTotal graph mapping out their infrastructure.	[ { "id": 45229, "label": "SOFTWARE", "start_offset": 9, "end_offset": 19 }, { "id": 45230, "label": "threat-actor", "start_offset": 119, "end_offset": 122 }, { "id": 45231, "label": "SOFTWARE", "start_offset": 141, "end_offset": 151 } ]	[]	[]
2,730	Upgrade Cortex XDR and Traps agents for protection against this vulnerability regardless of whether your systems have installed the relevant security update from Microsoft.	[ { "id": 45677, "label": "SOFTWARE", "start_offset": 8, "end_offset": 18 }, { "id": 45678, "label": "identity", "start_offset": 162, "end_offset": 171 } ]	[]	[]
2,760	The good news is that this vulnerability was disclosed responsibly and patches are available for most platforms on the day of the public disclosure.	[]	[]	[]
635	After the system is compromised the victim is asked to send US $300 in Bitcoin to a specific Bitcoin address and then send an e-mail with the victim’s bitcoin wallet ID to wowsmith123456@posteo[.]net to retrieve their individual decryption key.	[ { "id": 46226, "label": "SOFTWARE", "start_offset": 94, "end_offset": 101 }, { "id": 46224, "label": "EMAIL", "start_offset": 173, "end_offset": 200 }, { "id": 46225, "label": "SOFTWARE", "start_offset": 72, "end_offset": 79 } ]	[]	[]
13,180	The decoy file first drops a flash_en.inf DLL file, which is a USBferry loader, and tries to load the encrypted USBferry malware	[ { "id": 41126, "label": "location", "start_offset": 5, "end_offset": 10 }, { "id": 41127, "label": "tools", "start_offset": 64, "end_offset": 72 }, { "id": 41128, "label": "location", "start_offset": 81, "end_offset": 84 }, { "id": 41129, "label": "location", "start_offset": 94, "end_offset": 98 }, { "id": 41130, "label": "malware", "start_offset": 113, "end_offset": 121 } ]	[]	[]
14,330	Figure 17.	[]	[]	[]
9,917	6/2/16	[]	[]	[]
13,472	We continue to see attacks from groups like Charming Kitten on medical and healthcare professionals, including World Health Organization (WHO) employees.	[ { "id": 51544, "label": "threat-actor", "start_offset": 44, "end_offset": 59 }, { "id": 51545, "label": "identity", "start_offset": 111, "end_offset": 142 } ]	[ { "id": 1101, "from_id": 51544, "to_id": 51545, "type": "targets" } ]	[]
12,341	We haven’t seen any evidence of such attempts being successful.	[]	[]	[]
2,251	The following commands are supported: Once again, using the previous example, the malware will first ensure that the command was not previously parsed/executed.	[]	[]	[]
13,805	If yes, it modifies the process ID, which should open on another Windows Service PID.	[]	[]	[]
1,127	Full automation is always the ideal but it isn’t always necessary.	[]	[]	[]
11,966	We terminated 123 YouTube channels as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Russia.	[]	[]	[]
14,157	The X could be network data, email or web data, data from cloud instances, and others.	[]	[]	[]
3,314	Additional Findings on BIOPASS RAT	[ { "id": 10040, "label": "malware", "start_offset": 23, "end_offset": 34 } ]	[]	[]
6,243	Based on the number of “likes” the malware had generated, Faghani estimated that over 100,000 users had been infected with the malware.	[]	[]	[]
3,936	copy premium.aspx "\\{hostname}\d$\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\FrontEnd\HttpProxy\owa\auth\15.1.2044\scripts\premium	[ { "id": 49778, "label": "FILEPATH", "start_offset": 19, "end_offset": 132 }, { "id": 49779, "label": "FILEPATH", "start_offset": 5, "end_offset": 17 } ]	[]	[]
14,348	The next variant appeared quickly, and it added the following abilities to its routines: Steal information about the device’s clipboard, phone number, installed app list, and accounts.	[]	[]	[]
14,064	Another surprising similarity in the TTPs related to both campaigns is the path pointing to “udel_ok.ipp,” as shown in Figure 7.	[ { "id": 47241, "label": "FILEPATH", "start_offset": 93, "end_offset": 107 } ]	[]	[]
5,815	So cyber is still critical as we become more hyper-connected.	[]	[]	[]
4,451	TAG actively monitors threat actors and the evolution of their tactics and techniques.	[ { "id": 50228, "label": "identity", "start_offset": 0, "end_offset": 3 } ]	[]	[]
607	To do this, they make the spam look like something that requires you to click and download something like and invoice, a message, or a delivery notification.	[]	[]	[]
5,432	It’s also important to set reminders to check if devices such as routers, cameras, network-attached storage (NAS) devices, and other IoT devices have been patched or otherwise.	[]	[]	[]
11,496	The Sandworm campaign used compromised government accounts to send links to Microsoft Office documents hosted on compromised domains, primarily targeting media organizations in Ukraine.	[ { "id": 35161, "label": "threat-actor", "start_offset": 4, "end_offset": 12 }, { "id": 35162, "label": "location", "start_offset": 13, "end_offset": 21 }, { "id": 35164, "label": "location", "start_offset": 154, "end_offset": 159 } ]	[]	[]
9,455	Stage 3: BasicLoader	[]	[]	[]
1,709	CryptoWall is one of multiple ransomware families that generated income for the attacker by encrypting files on the infected PC with a private key that is in the control of the attacker.	[ { "id": 5075, "label": "malware", "start_offset": 0, "end_offset": 10 } ]	[]	[]
12,566	In contrast, a 0-day is a vulnerability with no available patch which makes it harder to defend against.	[]	[]	[]
11,754	During the pandemic, we also uncovered attackers posing as news providers with a “Covid19 news software.”	[]	[]	[]
11,337	The browser then navigates to Gmail to begin the data collection.	[]	[]	[]
14,131	The “X” axis represents the hour of the day (in 24 hours).	[]	[]	[]
2,157	Then the code loops through the files within a .rar archive looking for a CAB file (TVNDRgAAAA base64 decodes to MSCF, which is the magic header of a CAB file).	[]	[]	[]
3,694	After a series of malicious behavior, attackers need to remain stealthy and undetected by using security solutions that can remove threats out of the system.	[]	[]	[]
5,397	This is in line with the increasing number of brute-force attacks performed by other APT groups such as Pawn Storm, a group that has compromised numerous assets like email addresses and email servers of targets that are typically not aligned with Pawn Storm’s objectives.	[ { "id": 51395, "label": "threat-actor", "start_offset": 104, "end_offset": 114 }, { "id": 51396, "label": "threat-actor", "start_offset": 247, "end_offset": 257 } ]	[]	[]
235	We detected 11,637 cybersquatting newly registered domains (NRDs) during February and March.	[ { "id": 45935, "label": "TIME", "start_offset": 73, "end_offset": 81 }, { "id": 45936, "label": "TIME", "start_offset": 86, "end_offset": 91 } ]	[]	[]
12,910	Technique: A detection on technique means the detection can be attributed to a specific adversarial action (e.g. credential dumping).	[ { "id": 40191, "label": "location", "start_offset": 36, "end_offset": 41 }, { "id": 40192, "label": "location", "start_offset": 56, "end_offset": 59 }, { "id": 40193, "label": "location", "start_offset": 100, "end_offset": 106 }, { "id": 40194, "label": "attack-pattern", "start_offset": 113, "end_offset": 131 } ]	[]	[]
3,786	Latest News \| Exploits & Vulnerabilities \| Cyber Threats \| Connected Car \| APT & Targeted Attacks \| Endpoints \| IoT \| Video	[]	[]	[]
834	One key thing that research into these security incidents shows is that these attacks used a relatively new and unknown technique called kernel APC attacks as part of their toolkit.	[ { "id": 44878, "label": "attack-pattern", "start_offset": 138, "end_offset": 156 } ]	[]	[]
6,794	Connect with “hxxp:// kristom[.]hopto[.]org /{computer name}_{hexadecimal volume serious number}/help_05_03[.]php” (MITRE ATT&CK framework IDs T1043, T1071, T1082)	[]	[]	[]
3,732	Multiple writeups detailing exploitation scenarios for the aforementioned two vulnerabilities were published in the last week of April, finally followed by a CISA Alert on May 18.	[ { "id": 49537, "label": "TIME", "start_offset": 117, "end_offset": 135 }, { "id": 49538, "label": "identity", "start_offset": 159, "end_offset": 163 }, { "id": 49539, "label": "TIME", "start_offset": 173, "end_offset": 179 } ]	[]	[]
400	Existing Xpanse customers can log into Expander and identify their enumerated Atlassian Confluence devices by filtering by “Atlassian Confluence Server” in the Services tab.	[ { "id": 46099, "label": "SOFTWARE", "start_offset": 10, "end_offset": 16 }, { "id": 46101, "label": "SOFTWARE", "start_offset": 125, "end_offset": 152 }, { "id": 46100, "label": "SOFTWARE", "start_offset": 79, "end_offset": 99 } ]	[]	[]
13,145	Articles, News, Reports	[]	[]	[]
4,685	PipeCommunication pipeCommunication = new PipeCommunication(true, text); bool flag = false; while (!flag)	[]	[]	[]
3,064	Figure 4 Hard-coded fake threat detection results	[]	[]	[]
6,388	After validating that badger_x64.exe and OneDrive.Update were both BRc4 payloads, we set to work analyzing the employment of this second sample.	[ { "id": 19807, "label": "location", "start_offset": 38, "end_offset": 41 }, { "id": 19808, "label": "tools", "start_offset": 68, "end_offset": 72 }, { "id": 19810, "label": "location", "start_offset": 138, "end_offset": 144 } ]	[]	[]
13,360	The C&C server 104[.]233[.]224[.]227 was hosted under a small hosting service with only 64 IPs under it.	[ { "id": 41555, "label": "IPV4", "start_offset": 15, "end_offset": 36 }, { "id": 41556, "label": "location", "start_offset": 56, "end_offset": 61 } ]	[]	[]
7,041	Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) will be used to run dlpumgr32.exe with arguments “-up -run -x” and it will exit the current process.	[ { "id": 22079, "label": "attack-pattern", "start_offset": 0, "end_offset": 34 }, { "id": 22080, "label": "location", "start_offset": 41, "end_offset": 45 }, { "id": 22081, "label": "location", "start_offset": 104, "end_offset": 107 }, { "id": 22082, "label": "location", "start_offset": 111, "end_offset": 115 } ]	[]	[]
12,994	Recently observed Turla domains: COLDRIVER, a Russian-based threat actor sometimes referred to as Callisto, continues to use Gmail accounts to send credential phishing emails to a variety of Google and non-Google accounts.	[ { "id": 40471, "label": "attack-pattern", "start_offset": 159, "end_offset": 167 }, { "id": 40473, "label": "location", "start_offset": 198, "end_offset": 201 } ]	[]	[]
7,689	Figure 3.	[]	[]	[]
198	On Feb. 15, the Cyberpolice of Ukraine reported that residents were actively receiving fake SMS text messages.	[ { "id": 45894, "label": "TIME", "start_offset": 3, "end_offset": 10 }, { "id": 44614, "label": "identity", "start_offset": 16, "end_offset": 38 }, { "id": 44615, "label": "attack-pattern", "start_offset": 77, "end_offset": 109 } ]	[]	[]
1,406	In this case the e-mails claim to contain a document about a court case.	[]	[]	[]
2,644	In some cases, LockBit 2.0 operators have performed DDoS attacks on the victims' infrastructure as well as using a leak site.	[ { "id": 47831, "label": "malware", "start_offset": 16, "end_offset": 27 }, { "id": 47832, "label": "attack-pattern", "start_offset": 53, "end_offset": 65 } ]	[]	[]
4,163	We found some special mutexes that are encoded by the layout of the Chinese Zhuyin keyboard in ChiserClient.	[ { "id": 49969, "label": "malware", "start_offset": 95, "end_offset": 107 } ]	[]	[]
4,272	Some of these samples were several years old and had left the original name of the bit-flip decryption algorithm, which was “EnDecrypt”.	[]	[]	[]
1,567	This Unit 42 blog post provides an update on the threat situation surrounding the Bad Rabbit ransomware attacks.	[ { "id": 4684, "label": "identity", "start_offset": 5, "end_offset": 12 }, { "id": 4686, "label": "malware", "start_offset": 82, "end_offset": 92 } ]	[]	[]
2,004	cmd.exe /C ping 1.1.1[.]1 -n 1 -w 3000 > Nul & Del /f /q "C:\Users\admin\Desktop\xd.exe"	[ { "id": 45219, "label": "FILEPATH", "start_offset": 59, "end_offset": 88 }, { "id": 45220, "label": "FILEPATH", "start_offset": 1, "end_offset": 8 }, { "id": 5931, "label": "tools", "start_offset": 12, "end_offset": 16 }, { "id": 5932, "label": "IPV4", "start_offset": 17, "end_offset": 26 } ]	[]	[]
5,226	Android malware like ransomware exemplify how the platform can be lucrative for cybercriminals.	[ { "id": 51259, "label": "SOFTWARE", "start_offset": 0, "end_offset": 7 } ]	[]	[]
3,436	This post is also available in: 日本語 (Japanese) On May 4, 2022, F5 released a security advisory for a remote code execution vulnerability in the iControlREST component of its BIG-IP product tracked in CVE-2022-1388.	[ { "id": 49195, "label": "vulnerability", "start_offset": 206, "end_offset": 219 }, { "id": 49196, "label": "vulnerability", "start_offset": 107, "end_offset": 142 }, { "id": 49193, "label": "TIME", "start_offset": 53, "end_offset": 67 }, { "id": 49194, "label": "identity", "start_offset": 69, "end_offset": 71 }, { "id": 49197, "label": "tools", "start_offset": 150, "end_offset": 162 } ]	[ { "id": 750, "from_id": 49196, "to_id": 49195, "type": "duplicate-of" }, { "id": 751, "from_id": 49197, "to_id": 49195, "type": "has" } ]	[]
3,931	expand {filename}.ex_ {filename}.dat expand {filename}.ex_ {filename}.exe	[]	[]	[]
567	Figure 6 is a screenshot of a recently captured Virlock ransom note.	[ { "id": 44781, "label": "malware", "start_offset": 48, "end_offset": 55 } ]	[]	[]
10,514	To help protect users against these kinds of tracks, our Advanced Protection Program (APP) utilizes hardware security keys and provides the strongest protections available against phishing and account hijackings.	[ { "id": 31984, "label": "location", "start_offset": 66, "end_offset": 76 }, { "id": 31985, "label": "location", "start_offset": 109, "end_offset": 117 }, { "id": 31986, "label": "location", "start_offset": 123, "end_offset": 126 }, { "id": 31987, "label": "attack-pattern", "start_offset": 180, "end_offset": 188 }, { "id": 31988, "label": "location", "start_offset": 189, "end_offset": 192 } ]	[]	[]
13,761	Offset 0xAC, Size 0x02: Port Offset 0xAE, Size 0x5A: Reserved bytes Table:	[]	[]	[]
11,693	af[.]org	[]	[]	[]
10,401	Connect to the C&C server every 10 seconds to download, save, and execute script files containing the commands.	[ { "id": 31646, "label": "TIME", "start_offset": 26, "end_offset": 42 }, { "id": 31647, "label": "location", "start_offset": 56, "end_offset": 60 }, { "id": 31648, "label": "location", "start_offset": 62, "end_offset": 65 } ]	[]	[]
3,772	Presently, customers may leverage the following to block or detect the threats communicated throughout this publication:	[]	[]	[]
11,530	Russia	[]	[]	[]
2,595	This included the soon-to-be de rigueur data exfiltration and deletion technique, and also redirection of some DNS records.	[]	[]	[]
7,653	Using Kronos and SmokeLoader (v2019) TA505 previously used Amadey to distribute the FlawedAmmyy downloader before, so the use of Kronos and SmokeLoader can’t be considered strong evidence of false attribution.	[ { "id": 23802, "label": "location", "start_offset": 13, "end_offset": 16 }, { "id": 23803, "label": "malware", "start_offset": 17, "end_offset": 28 }, { "id": 23808, "label": "location", "start_offset": 136, "end_offset": 139 }, { "id": 23810, "label": "location", "start_offset": 172, "end_offset": 178 } ]	[]	[]
4,842	Some hack-for-hire attackers openly advertise their products and services to anyone willing to pay, while others operate more discreetly selling to a limited audience.	[ { "id": 50798, "label": "attack-pattern", "start_offset": 5, "end_offset": 18 } ]	[]	[]

14,396

In the game of measure-countermeasure that is cybersecurity today and tomorrow, XDR is the next evolutionary step in dealing with more evasive threats.

[ { "id": 51774, "label": "SOFTWARE", "start_offset": 80, "end_offset": 83 } ]

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Finally, we also offer the leading tools to protect important civil society actors such as journalists, human rights workers, opposition party politicians, and campaign organizations – in other words, the users who are frequently targeted by surveillance tools.

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This use of known, legitimate tools is not new; we call that “living off the land” and have seen this tactic pick up recently, including usage by ransomware actors.

[ { "id": 45838, "label": "tools", "start_offset": 62, "end_offset": 81 } ]

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DiscoveryOur first inkling of this threat came when we spotted a spear-phishing email campaign targeting several embassies of various European countries.

[ { "id": 25489, "label": "location", "start_offset": 65, "end_offset": 70 }, { "id": 25490, "label": "attack-pattern", "start_offset": 71, "end_offset": 79 }, { "id": 25491, "label": "location", "start_offset": 86, "end_offset": 94 } ]

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Attackers use them to take down websites for several reasons: About Threat Briefs are meant to help busy people understand real-world threats and how they can prevent them in their lives.

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After impersonating a fake victim of interest, we obtained a second stage payload (Detected as TROJ_DELF.XXWZ), which is a filestealer based on the Delphi programming language similar to the “svctrls” malware described in our previous blogpost.

[ { "id": 50043, "label": "malware", "start_offset": 95, "end_offset": 109 } ]

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All apps like those from Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and others have their own passwords to connect to their service, and attackers crack and sell compromised accounts to these services.

[ { "id": 48120, "label": "SOFTWARE", "start_offset": 34, "end_offset": 40 }, { "id": 48119, "label": "SOFTWARE", "start_offset": 25, "end_offset": 32 }, { "id": 48121, "label": "SOFTWARE", "start_offset": 42, "end_offset": 46 } ]

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While the Windows service “IKEEXT” is starting, the fake wlbsctrl.dll is loaded and executed with high privilege.

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Its apparent staying power stems from the furtive ways with which its attacks can evade traditional security solutions.

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Security awareness is critical to avoid falling victim to such an attack.

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In total, the following 14 functions are loaded during runtime:

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2,999

When we think about home entertainment, there’s really two things you need to think about with security.

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2,825

One thing reports have indicated that make this attack unique is a “killswitch” capability built into the malware.

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Tags Endpoints | APT & Targeted Attacks | Research | Articles, News, Reports

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We found three new samples of the Type 1 malware family that abuses Dropbox as a secondary C&C channel, which we described in our Operation DRBControl whitepaper.

[ { "id": 22294, "label": "location", "start_offset": 34, "end_offset": 38 }, { "id": 22295, "label": "malware", "start_offset": 68, "end_offset": 75 } ]

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However, this particular mutex was associated with only a recent subset of the Allaple family.

[ { "id": 46572, "label": "malware", "start_offset": 80, "end_offset": 87 } ]

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SHA256 Description

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For the PowerShell script, the first part contains a variable named dragon_middle, which is an array containing a few hundred URLs ending with connection.php that serve as proxies between victim and C&C.

[ { "id": 23403, "label": "attack-pattern", "start_offset": 8, "end_offset": 18 }, { "id": 23406, "label": "location", "start_offset": 180, "end_offset": 187 }, { "id": 23407, "label": "location", "start_offset": 195, "end_offset": 198 } ]

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However, an increasingly popular method uses premium SMS.

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simsoshop.com

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It also uses this information to determine the amount of ransom to demand, with a typical ransom demand amounting to anywhere between US$200,000 and US$2 million.

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Delivered as part of its industry-leading platform, Cloud One – Application Security provides code-level visibility and protection against the latest cyber threats.

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We welcome recent steps taken by the government in applying sanctions to the NSO Group and Candiru, and we believe other governments should consider expanding these restrictions.

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Snapshots of Daserf’s steganographic code generated by their toolkit MitigationSteganography is a particularly useful technique in purposeful cyberattacks: the longer their malicious activities stay undetected, the more they can steal and exfiltrate data.

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The terms remote administration tool (RAT) and trojan downloader are often used synonymously with such implants.

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XDR fills in those gaps.

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While TAG has previously observed this technique being used by multiple government-backed actors, the media picked up on this blog post, publishing several stories highlighting this phishing capability.

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One such module leverages the fact that the length of a vector object is always consistent with memory allocation, which means we can deduce the memory usage from the sum of the length of all allocated vectors.

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Gone are the days in which these attacks only target the endpoint, and as such, an expanded connected threat defense is paramount.

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In December 2021, we released research about novel techniques used by NSO Group to compromise iMessage users.

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Time will tell.

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These campaigns were sent using newly created Gmail accounts to non-Google accounts, so the success rate of these campaigns is unknown.

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Querying VirusTotal with this string led to the discovery of eight files, six of which could be directly attributed to x4k through their own VirusTotal graph mapping out their infrastructure.

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Upgrade Cortex XDR and Traps agents for protection against this vulnerability regardless of whether your systems have installed the relevant security update from Microsoft.

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The good news is that this vulnerability was disclosed responsibly and patches are available for most platforms on the day of the public disclosure.

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After the system is compromised the victim is asked to send US $300 in Bitcoin to a specific Bitcoin address and then send an e-mail with the victim’s bitcoin wallet ID to wowsmith123456@posteo[.]net to retrieve their individual decryption key.

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The decoy file first drops a flash_en.inf DLL file, which is a USBferry loader, and tries to load the encrypted USBferry malware

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Figure 17.

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We continue to see attacks from groups like Charming Kitten on medical and healthcare professionals, including World Health Organization (WHO) employees.

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We haven’t seen any evidence of such attempts being successful.

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The following commands are supported: Once again, using the previous example, the malware will first ensure that the command was not previously parsed/executed.

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If yes, it modifies the process ID, which should open on another Windows Service PID.

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Full automation is always the ideal but it isn’t always necessary.

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We terminated 123 YouTube channels as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Russia.

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The X could be network data, email or web data, data from cloud instances, and others.

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Additional Findings on BIOPASS RAT

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Based on the number of “likes” the malware had generated, Faghani estimated that over 100,000 users had been infected with the malware.

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copy premium.aspx "\\{hostname}\d$\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\FrontEnd\HttpProxy\owa\auth\15.1.2044\scripts\premium

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The next variant appeared quickly, and it added the following abilities to its routines: Steal information about the device’s clipboard, phone number, installed app list, and accounts.

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Another surprising similarity in the TTPs related to both campaigns is the path pointing to “udel_ok.ipp,” as shown in Figure 7.

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So cyber is still critical as we become more hyper-connected.

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TAG actively monitors threat actors and the evolution of their tactics and techniques.

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To do this, they make the spam look like something that requires you to click and download something like and invoice, a message, or a delivery notification.

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It’s also important to set reminders to check if devices such as routers, cameras, network-attached storage (NAS) devices, and other IoT devices have been patched or otherwise.

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The Sandworm campaign used compromised government accounts to send links to Microsoft Office documents hosted on compromised domains, primarily targeting media organizations in Ukraine.

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Stage 3: BasicLoader

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CryptoWall is one of multiple ransomware families that generated income for the attacker by encrypting files on the infected PC with a private key that is in the control of the attacker.

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In contrast, a 0-day is a vulnerability with no available patch which makes it harder to defend against.

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During the pandemic, we also uncovered attackers posing as news providers with a “Covid19 news software.”

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The browser then navigates to Gmail to begin the data collection.

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The “X” axis represents the hour of the day (in 24 hours).

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Then the code loops through the files within a .rar archive looking for a CAB file (TVNDRgAAAA base64 decodes to MSCF, which is the magic header of a CAB file).

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After a series of malicious behavior, attackers need to remain stealthy and undetected by using security solutions that can remove threats out of the system.

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This is in line with the increasing number of brute-force attacks performed by other APT groups such as Pawn Storm, a group that has compromised numerous assets like email addresses and email servers of targets that are typically not aligned with Pawn Storm’s objectives.

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We detected 11,637 cybersquatting newly registered domains (NRDs) during February and March.

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Technique: A detection on technique means the detection can be attributed to a specific adversarial action (e.g. credential dumping).

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One key thing that research into these security incidents shows is that these attacks used a relatively new and unknown technique called kernel APC attacks as part of their toolkit.

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Connect with “hxxp:// kristom[.]hopto[.]org /{computer name}_{hexadecimal volume serious number}/help_05_03[.]php” (MITRE ATT&CK framework IDs T1043, T1071, T1082)

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Multiple writeups detailing exploitation scenarios for the aforementioned two vulnerabilities were published in the last week of April, finally followed by a CISA Alert on May 18.

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Existing Xpanse customers can log into Expander and identify their enumerated Atlassian Confluence devices by filtering by “Atlassian Confluence Server” in the Services tab.

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Articles, News, Reports

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PipeCommunication pipeCommunication = new PipeCommunication(true, text); bool flag = false; while (!flag)

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Figure 4 Hard-coded fake threat detection results

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After validating that badger_x64.exe and OneDrive.Update were both BRc4 payloads, we set to work analyzing the employment of this second sample.

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The C&C server 104[.]233[.]224[.]227 was hosted under a small hosting service with only 64 IPs under it.

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Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) will be used to run dlpumgr32.exe with arguments “-up -run -x” and it will exit the current process.

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Recently observed Turla domains: COLDRIVER, a Russian-based threat actor sometimes referred to as Callisto, continues to use Gmail accounts to send credential phishing emails to a variety of Google and non-Google accounts.

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Figure 3.

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On Feb. 15, the Cyberpolice of Ukraine reported that residents were actively receiving fake SMS text messages.

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In this case the e-mails claim to contain a document about a court case.

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In some cases, LockBit 2.0 operators have performed DDoS attacks on the victims' infrastructure as well as using a leak site.

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We found some special mutexes that are encoded by the layout of the Chinese Zhuyin keyboard in ChiserClient.

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Some of these samples were several years old and had left the original name of the bit-flip decryption algorithm, which was “EnDecrypt”.

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This Unit 42 blog post provides an update on the threat situation surrounding the Bad Rabbit ransomware attacks.

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cmd.exe /C ping 1.1.1[.]1 -n 1 -w 3000 > Nul & Del /f /q "C:\Users\admin\Desktop\xd.exe"

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Android malware like ransomware exemplify how the platform can be lucrative for cybercriminals.

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This post is also available in: 日本語 (Japanese) On May 4, 2022, F5 released a security advisory for a remote code execution vulnerability in the iControlREST component of its BIG-IP product tracked in CVE-2022-1388.

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expand {filename}.ex_ {filename}.dat expand {filename}.ex_ {filename}.exe

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Figure 6 is a screenshot of a recently captured Virlock ransom note.

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To help protect users against these kinds of tracks, our Advanced Protection Program (APP) utilizes hardware security keys and provides the strongest protections available against phishing and account hijackings.

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Offset 0xAC, Size 0x02: Port Offset 0xAE, Size 0x5A: Reserved bytes Table:

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af[.]org

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Connect to the C&C server every 10 seconds to download, save, and execute script files containing the commands.

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Presently, customers may leverage the following to block or detect the threats communicated throughout this publication:

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Russia

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This included the soon-to-be de rigueur data exfiltration and deletion technique, and also redirection of some DNS records.

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Using Kronos and SmokeLoader (v2019) TA505 previously used Amadey to distribute the FlawedAmmyy downloader before, so the use of Kronos and SmokeLoader can’t be considered strong evidence of false attribution.

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Some hack-for-hire attackers openly advertise their products and services to anyone willing to pay, while others operate more discreetly selling to a limited audience.

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