The risk of distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) has never been greater. Over the past several years, organizations have encountered a deluge of DDoS extortion, novel threats, state-sponsored hacktivism, and unprecedented innovation in the threat landscape.
SEKOIA.IO presents its Ransomware threat landscape for the first semester of 2022, with the following key points: Ransomware victimology – recent evolutions A busy first half of the year – several newcomers in the ransomware neighborhood Cross-platform ransomware features trend New extortion techniques State-nexus groups carrying out ransomware campaigns Ransomware threat groups’ Dark Web activities * A shift towards extortion without encryption?
LockBit Implements New Technique by Leaking Victim Negotiations
While many ransomware groups come and go, LockBit seems to be the one that persists. First discovered in September 2019 using the name ABCD, and then gaining notoriety as LockBit in April 2020, the group has outlasted many of their competitors
The Return of Candiru: Zero-days in the Middle East - Avast Threat Labs
We recently discovered a zero-day vulnerability in Google Chrome (CVE-2022-2294) when it was exploited in the wild in an attempt to attack Avast users in the Middle East. The vulnerability was a memory corruption in WebRTC that was abused to achieve shellcode execution in Chrome’s renderer process. We reported this vulnerability to Google, who patched it on July 4, 2022.
China: Declaration by the Minister for Foreign Affairs on behalf of the Belgian Government urging Chinese authorities to take action against malicious cyber activities undertaken by Chinese actors
Declaration by the Minister for Foreign Affairs on behalf of the Belgian Government urging Chinese authorities to take action against malicious cyber activities undertaken by Chinese actors.
European Central Bank head targeted in hacking attempt
BERLIN (AP) — The European Central Bank said Tuesday that its president, Christine Lagarde, was targeted in a hacking attempt but no information was compromised. The attempt took place “recently,” the Frankfurt-based central bank for the 19 countries that use the euro said in an emailed response to a query about a report by Business Insider.
THREAT ALERT: Raspberry Robin Worm Abuses Windows Installer and QNAP Devices
Raspberry Robin involves a worm that spreads over USB devices or shared folders, leveraging compromised QNAP (Network Attached Storage or NAS) devices as stagers and an old but still effective method of using “LNK” shortcut files to lure its victims...
'I can fight with a keyboard': How one Ukrainian IT specialist exposed a notorious Russian ransomware gang
As Russian artillery began raining down on his homeland last month, one Ukrainian computer researcher decided to fight back the best way he knew how -- by sabotaging one of the most formidable ransomware gangs in Russia.
Flubot: the evolution of a notorious Android Banking Malware
Flubot is an Android based malware that has been distributed in the past 1.5 years in Europe, Asia and Oceania affecting thousands of devices of mostly unsuspecting victims. Like the majority of Android banking malware, Flubot abuses Accessibility Permissions and Services in order to steal the victim’s credentials, by detecting when the official banking application is open to show a fake web injection, a phishing website similar to the login form of the banking application. An important part of the popularity of Flubot is due to the distribution strategy used in its campaigns, since it has been using the infected devices to send text messages, luring new victims into installing the malware from a fake website. In this article we detail its development over time and recent developments regarding its disappearance, including new features and distribution campaigns.
ZuoRAT Hijacks SOHO Routers to Silently Stalk Networks
Black Lotus Labs, is currently tracking elements of what appears to be a sophisticated campaign leveraging infected SOHO routers to target predominantly NA and European networks of interest.
Unrar Path Traversal Vulnerability affects Zimbra Mail
We discovered a vulnerability in Zimbra Enterprise Email that allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker fully take over Zimbra instances via a flaw in unrar.
LockBit 3.0 introduces the first ransomware bug bounty program
The LockBit ransomware operation has released 'LockBit 3.0,' introducing the first ransomware bug bounty program and leaking new extortion tactics and Zcash cryptocurrency payment options.
Windows RPC enumeration, discovery, and auditing via NtObjectManager. We will audit the vulnerable RPC interfaces that lead to PetitPotam, discover how they have changed over the past year, and overcome some common RPC auditing pitfalls.
Conti ransomware finally shuts down data leak, negotiation sites
The Conti ransomware operation has finally shut down its last public-facing infrastructure, consisting of two Tor servers used to leak data and negotiate with victims, closing the final chapter of the notorious cybercrime brand.
7-zip now supports Windows ‘Mark-of-the-Web’ security feature
7-zip has finally added support for the long-requested 'Mark-of-the-Web' Windows security feature, providing better protection from malicious downloaded files.
Spyware vendor targets users in Italy and Kazakhstan
Today, alongside Google’s Project Zero, we are detailing capabilities provided by RCS Labs, an Italian vendor that uses a combination of tactics, including atypical drive-by downloads as initial infection vectors to target mobile users on both iOS and Android.
