Authored by Anuradha and Preksha Introduction PikaBot is a malicious backdoor that has been active since early 2023. Its modular design is comprised of a
esterday Andres Freund emailed oss-security@ informing the community of the discovery of a backdoor in xz/liblzma, which affected OpenSSH server (huge respect for noticing and investigating this). Andres' email is an amazing summary of the whole drama, so I'll skip that. While admittedly most juicy and interesting part is the obfuscated binary with the backdoor, the part that caught my attention – and what this blogpost is about – is the initial part in bash and the simple-but-clever obfuscation methods used there. Note that this isn't a full description of what the bash stages do, but rather a write down of how each stage is obfuscated and extracted.
The ASEC analysis team recently discovered that a Linux malware developed with Shc has been installing a CoinMiner. It is presumed that after successful authentication through a dictionary attack on inadequately managed Linux SSH servers, various malware were installed on the target system. Among those installed were the Shc downloader, XMRig CoinMiner installed through the former, and DDoS IRC Bot, developed with Perl.
On May 10, 2022, Zimbra released versions 9.0.0 patch 24 and 8.8.15 patch 31 to address multiple vulnerabilities in Zimbra Collaboration Suite, including CVE-2…
BRATA is evolving into an Advanced Persistent Threat
Here we go with another episode about our (not so) old friend, BRATA. In almost one year, threat actors (TAs) have further improved the capabilities of this malware. In our previous blog post [1] we defined three main BRATA variants, which appeared during two different waves detected by our telemetries at the very end of 2021. However, during the last months we have observed a change in the attack pattern commonly used.
ASyncRat surpasses Dridex, TrickBot and Emotet to become dominant email threat
Earlier this year Malwarebytes released its 2022 Threat Review, a review of the most important threats and cybersecurity trends of 2021, and what they could mean for 2022. Among other things it covers the year’s alarming rebound in malware detections, and a significant shift in the balance of email threats.
Online security is extremely important for people in Ukraine and the surrounding region right now. Government agencies, independent newspapers and public service providers need it to function and individuals need to communicate safely. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has been working around the clock, focusing on the safety and security of our users and the platforms that help them access and share important information.
Lass Security's recent research on AI Package Hallucinations extends the attack technique to GPT-3.5-Turbo, GPT-4, Gemini Pro (Bard), and Coral (Cohere).
We unravel the details of two large-scale StrelaStealer campaigns from 2023 and 2024. This email credential stealer has a new variant delivered through zipped JScript. #2024 #Campaign #EN #JScript #StrelaStealer #analysis #paloaltonetworks
Interesting Multi-Stage StopCrypt Ransomware Variant Propagating in the Wild
Overview The SonicWall Capture Labs threat research team recently observed an interesting variant of StopCrypt ransomware. The ransomware executes its malicious activities by utilizing multi-stage shellcodes before launching a final payload that contains the file […]
NoName057(16) DDoSia project: 2024 updates and behavioural shifts
Learn about NoName057(16), a pro-Russian hacktivist group behind Project DDoSia targeting entities supporting Ukraine. Discover an overview of the changes made by the group, both from the perspective of the software shared by the group to generate DDoS attacks and the specifics of the evolution of the C2 servers. It also provides an overview of the country and sectors targeted by the group for 2024.
The ASEC analysis team recently discovered that a Linux malware developed with Shc has been installing a CoinMiner. It is presumed that after successful authentication through a dictionary attack on inadequately managed Linux SSH servers, various malware were installed on the target system. Among those installed were the Shc downloader, XMRig CoinMiner installed through the former, and DDoS IRC Bot, developed with Perl.
On May 10, 2022, Zimbra released versions 9.0.0 patch 24 and 8.8.15 patch 31 to address multiple vulnerabilities in Zimbra Collaboration Suite, including CVE-2…
BRATA is evolving into an Advanced Persistent Threat
Here we go with another episode about our (not so) old friend, BRATA. In almost one year, threat actors (TAs) have further improved the capabilities of this malware. In our previous blog post [1] we defined three main BRATA variants, which appeared during two different waves detected by our telemetries at the very end of 2021. However, during the last months we have observed a change in the attack pattern commonly used.
ASyncRat surpasses Dridex, TrickBot and Emotet to become dominant email threat
Earlier this year Malwarebytes released its 2022 Threat Review, a review of the most important threats and cybersecurity trends of 2021, and what they could mean for 2022. Among other things it covers the year’s alarming rebound in malware detections, and a significant shift in the balance of email threats.
Online security is extremely important for people in Ukraine and the surrounding region right now. Government agencies, independent newspapers and public service providers need it to function and individuals need to communicate safely. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has been working around the clock, focusing on the safety and security of our users and the platforms that help them access and share important information.
Code injection or backdoor: A new look at Ivanti’s CVE-2021-44529
In 2021, Ivanti patched a vulnerability that they called “code injection”. Rumors say it was a backdoor in an open source project. Let’s find out what actually happened!