Chrome & Edge Enhanced Spellcheck Features Expose PII, Even Your Passwords
Some of the largest websites in the world have exposure to sending Google and Microsoft sensitive user PII, including username, email, and passwords
Unflattening ConfuserEx .NET Code in IDA
we’re studying the ConfuserEx1 obfuscation mechanism of a Ginzo .NET sample. This class of obfuscator is known as code flatteners. We describe how it can dealt with it using a Python script within IDA Pro2, a famous reverse-engineering tool.
Revolut hack exposes data of 50,000 users, fuels new phishing wave
Revolut is sending out notices of a data breach to a small percentage of impacted users, informing them of a security incident where an unauthorized third party accessed internal data.
Credential Gathering From Third-Party Software
Users often store passwords in third-party software for convenience – but credential gathering techniques can target this behavior.
Malvertising on Microsoft Edge's News Feed pushes tech support scams
We uncovered a campaign on the Microsoft Edge home page where malicious ads are luring victims into tech support scams.
Ermittlungserfolg gegen Ransomware-Gruppierung
In the context of an internationally coordinated operation against a ransomware group, the Zurich Public Prosecutor’s Office is leading criminal proceedings against an accused person. At the same time, cyber investigators of the Zurich Cantonal Police have been intensively analysing the data storage devices seized from that person in the past months. This analysis has revealed numerous private keys. They enable the aggrieved companies to recover their encrypted data.
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GTA 6 gameplay leaks online in 90 videos
A massive GTA VI leak appears to line up with previous reports.
Security update
Updates on security incident
Get root on macOS 12.3.1: proof-of-concepts for Linus Henze’s CoreTrust and DriverKit bugs (CVE-2022-26766, CVE-2022-26763)
Here are two proof-of-concepts for CVE-2022-26766 (CoreTrust allows any root certificate) and CVE-2022-26763 (IOPCIDevice::_MemoryAccess not checking bounds at all), two issues discovered by @LinusHenze and patched in macOS 12.4 / iOS 15.5.
Uber Investigating Breach of Its Computer Systems
The company said on Thursday that it was looking into the scope of the apparent hack.
Iran’s cyberwar goes global
Its targets include not only Israel but at least one NATO member
Webworm: Espionage Attackers Testing and Using Older Modified RATs
The attackers are working on a number of malware threats, some of which have been used in attacks while others are in pre-deployment or testing stages. Symantec, by Broadcom Software, has gained insight into the current activities of a group we call Webworm. The group has developed customized versions of three older remote access Trojans (RATs), including Trochilus, Gh0st RAT, and 9002 RAT. At least one of the indicators of compromise (IOCs) observed by Symantec was used in an attack against an IT service provider operating in multiple Asian countries, while others appear to be in pre-deployment or testing stages.
RedLine spreads through ads for cheats and cracks on YouTube
An unusual malicious bundle (a collection of malicious programs distributed in the form of a single installation file, self-extracting archive or other file with installer-type functionality) recently caught our eye. Its main payload is the widespread RedLine stealer. Discovered in March 2020, RedLine is currently one of the most common Trojans used to steal passwords and credentials from browsers, FTP clients and desktop messengers. It is openly available on underground hacker forums for just a few hundred dollars, a relatively small price tag for malware.
Undermining Microsoft Teams Security by Mining Tokens
In August 2022, the Vectra Protect team identified an attack path that enables malicious actors with file system access to steal credentials for any Microsoft Teams user who is signed in.
How Human Traffickers Force Victims Into Cyberscamming
Traffickers in Southeast Asia force thousands of people into perpetrating cyberscams that defraud Americans out of millions of dollars. Here’s how they do it.
Charming Kitten: “Can We Have A Meeting?”
Our recent investigation at Certfa Lab, the APT42 has been running multiple phishing campaigns since late 2021 and some of them are ongoing and still active.
Breach of software maker used to backdoor as many as 200,000 servers
Hack of FishPig distribution server used to install Rekoobe on customer systems.
New Wave of Espionage Activity Targets Asian Governments
Governments and state-owned organizations are the latest targets of a well-established threat actor. A distinct group of espionage attackers who were formerly associated with the ShadowPad remote access Trojan (RAT) has adopted a new, diverse toolset to mount an ongoing campaign against a range of government and state-owned organizations in a number of Asian countries. The attacks, which have been underway since at least early 2021, appear to have intelligence gathering as their main goal.
Bumblebee Returns with New Infection Technique
Delivers Payload Using Post Exploitation Framework During our routine threat-hunting exercise, Cyble Research & Intelligence Labs (CRIL) came across a Twitter post wherein a researcher mentioned an interesting infection chain of the Bumblebee loader malware being distributed via spam campaigns. Bumblebee is a replacement for the BazarLoader malware, which acts as a downloader and delivers known attack frameworks and open-source tools such as Cobalt Strike, Shellcode, Sliver, Meterpreter, etc. It also downloads other types of malware such as ransomware, trojans, etc.
Lampion Trojan Utilizes New Delivery through Cloud-Based Sharing
Analysts at the Cofense Phishing Defense Center (PDC) have recently analyzed an email asking users to download a “Proof of Payment” as well as other documents. While it is important to never click on the link(s) or download the attachment(s) of any suspicious email, if the recipient interacts with the link, it downloaded the malware Lampion.
Dead or Alive? An Emotet Story
In this intrusion from May 2022, we observed a domain-wide compromise that started from a malware ridden Excel document containing the never-dying malware, Emotet. The post-exploitation started ver…
The Curious Case of “Monti” Ransomware: A Real-World Doppelganger
While working a recent ransomware incident, BlackBerry identified a group whose name and TTPs mimicked the long-standing, popular ransomware crew Conti. Furthermore, the encryptor payload used in the attack was taken from the original group and modified for use with this new group. Who was this doppelganger?
Inside Fog Data Science, the Secretive Company Selling Mass Surveillance to Local Police
A data broker has been selling raw location data about individual people to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, EFF has learned. This personal data isn’t gathered from cell phone towers or tech giants like Google — it’s obtained by the broker via thousands of different apps on Android and iOS app stores as part of the larger location data marketplace.
Likely Iranian Threat Actor Conducts Politically Motivated Disruptive Activity Against Albanian Government Organizations
Mandiant attributes the ransomware attack against the Albanian government network in July of 2022 to an Iranian threat actor.
Microsoft investigates Iranian attacks against the Albanian government
Shortly after the destructive cyberattacks on the Albanian government in mid-July, the Microsoft Detection and Response Team (DART) was engaged to lead an investigation into the attacks.
Crimeware Trends | Ransomware Developers Turn to Intermittent Encryption to Evade Detection
Partially encrypting victims' files improves ransomware speed and aids evasion. First seen in LockFile, the technique is now being widely adopted.
Conti vs. Monti: A Reinvention or Just a Simple Rebranding?
Whether Conti has rebranded as Monti in a bid to mock the former strain or it is just another new ransomware variant on the block.
PSA: Nearly 5 Million Attacks Blocked Targeting 0-Day in BackupBuddy Plugin
Late evening, on September 6, 2022, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team was alerted to the presence of a vulnerability being actively exploited in BackupBuddy, a WordPress plugin we estimate has around 140,000 active installations. This vulnerability makes it possible for unauthenticated users to download arbitrary files from the affected site which can include sensitive information. ...Read More
MagicRAT: Lazarus’ latest gateway into victim networks
- Cisco Talos has discovered a new remote access trojan (RAT) we're calling "MagicRAT," developed and operated by the Lazarus APT group, which the U.S. government believes is a North Korean state-sponsored actor. * Lazarus deployed MagicRAT after the successful exploitation of vulnerabilities in VMWare Horizon platforms. * We've also found links between MagicRAT and another RAT known as "TigerRAT," disclosed and attributed to Lazarus by the Korean Internet & Security Agency (KISA) recently. * TigerRAT has evolved over the past year to include new functionalities that we illustrate in this blog.
Good game, well played: an overview of gaming-related cyberthreats in 2022
The gaming industry went into full gear during the pandemic, as many people took up online gaming as their new hobby to escape the socially-distanced reality. Since then, the industry has never stopped growing. According to the analytical agency Newzoo, in 2022, the global gaming market will exceed $ 200 billion, with 3 billion players globally. Such an engaged, solvent and eager-to-win audience becomes a tidbit for cybercriminals, who always find ways to fool their victims. One of the most outstanding examples involves $2 million‘s worth of CS:GO skins stolen from a user’s account, which means that losses can get truly grave. Besides stealing personal credentials and funds, hackers can affect the performance of gaming computers, infecting these with unsolicited miner files.