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Living off the land in a victim’s network

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Living off the land in a victim’s network

In January of this year, the directors of the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) appeared before a committee on Capitol Hill. During their testimonies, they attested to the present and growing cyber threat that Chinese state-sponsored cyber attackers, such as Volt Typhoon, pose to U.S. critical national infrastructure (CNI) — primarily communications, energy, transportation systems and water and wastewater systems sectors.  The…

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Attackers Use Containers for Profit via TrafficStealer

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Attackers Use Containers for Profit via TrafficStealer

Attackers Use Containers for Profit via TrafficStealer Cloud We found TrafficStealer abusing open container APIs in order to redirect traffic to specific websites and manipulate engagement with ads. By: Alfredo Oliveira April 26, 2023 Read time:  ( words) Our team deploys containers and containerized honeypots to monitor any unwanted activities, as well as to reinforce cloud security solutions and recommendations. While these honeypots frequently capture cryptocurrency miners trying to exploit computational resources, we recently discovered…

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Mac Malware MacStealer Spreads as Fake P2E Apps

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Mac Malware MacStealer Spreads as Fake P2E Apps

Conclusion While not new, P2E games are enjoying a renewed interest and rise in popularity, and so will the efforts of threat actors aiming to take advantage of this growing trend. MacStealer malware is just one of many to take advantage of P2Es’ traction. P2E gamers, in particular, are lucrative targets because the economic model of these games requires them to adopt cryptocurrencies and wallets. Security researchers can find investigating the delivery of the malware…

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Earth Preta’s Cyberespionage Campaign Hits Over 200

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Earth Preta’s Cyberespionage Campaign Hits Over 200

This mix of traditional intelligence trade craft and cyber techniques could mean that these groups have access to advanced resources and support from nation states, since such techniques are not typically available to independent hackers. Moreover, this approach could signify the growing convergence of cyber- and physical security as cyberattacks continue to move beyond digital systems and into the physical world. Operation groups While this is not a comprehensive list, we summarize and attribute the…

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Patch CVE-2023-23397 Immediately: What You Need To Know and Do

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Patch CVE-2023-23397 Immediately: What You Need To Know and Do

How is CVE-2023-23397 exploited? The attacker sends a message to the victim with an extended Message Application Program Interface (MAPI) property with a Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path to a remote attacker-controlled Server Message Block (SMB, via TCP 445). Share-hosted on a server controlled by the attacker, the vulnerability is exploited whether the recipient has seen the message or not. The attacker remotely sends a malicious calendar invite represented by .msg — the message format…

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Iron Tiger’s SysUpdate Reappears, Adds Linux Targeting

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Iron Tiger’s SysUpdate Reappears, Adds Linux Targeting

The persistence is ensured by copying a script similarly named as the current filename to the /usr/lib/systemd/system/ directory, and creating a symlink to this file in the /etc/ystem/system/multi-user.target.wants/ directory. Thus, this method only works if the current process has root privileges. The content of the script is: [Unit]Description=xxx[Service]Type=forkingExecStart=<path to current file> -xExecStop=/usr/bin/id[Install]WantedBy=multi-user.target After running the code dependent on the parameters, if the operator has not chosen a GUID with the “-f” parameter, the malware generates…

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2022 Review: Trend Transforms to SaaS Cybersecurity

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2022 Review: Trend Transforms to SaaS Cybersecurity

2022 Review: Trend Transforms to SaaS Cybersecurity Cyber Threats Transformation to a SaaS-based cybersecurity vendor By: Lonny Huffar February 24, 2023 Read time:  ( words) Welcome to Trend Micro 3.0! What’s that you say? Trend Micro is a leader in the cyber security market and not just an Anti-malware company? Shocker for some of you I know, but we believe our acknowledgment and recognition from Gartner, Forrester and AWS say just that. If you haven’t…

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Invitation to a Secret Event: Uncovering Earth Yako’s Campaigns

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Invitation to a Secret Event: Uncovering Earth Yako’s Campaigns

Technical perspectives Based on the arsenals and TTPs, we believe Earth Yako may be related to a number of existing groups. However, since we could only observe partial technical overlaps between Earth Yako and the following groups, we note that this is not our final attribution. We found the overlaps similar with the following groups: 1.      Darkhotel Darkhotel (a.k.a. DUBNIUM) is a threat actor observed to frequently target Japanese organizations in the past. Earth Yako’s…

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Hijacking Your Bandwidth How Proxyware Apps Open You Up to Risk

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Hijacking Your Bandwidth How Proxyware Apps Open You Up to Risk

But is this true? To examine and understand the kind of risks a potential user might be exposed to by joining such programs, we recorded and analyzed network traffic from a large number of exit nodes of several different network bandwidth sharing services (exit nodes are computers who had these network bandwidth sharing services installed).   From January to September 2022, we recorded traffic coming from exit nodes of some of these passive income companies…

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Bolstering defenses amid evolving threats & cyber pro burnout

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Bolstering defenses amid evolving threats & cyber pro burnout

Bolstering defenses amid evolving threats & cyber pro burnout | Security Magazine This website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. By visiting this website, certain cookies have already been set, which you may delete and block. By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to the use of cookies. Visit our updated privacy and cookie policy to learn more. This…

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