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January 2023 patch roundup: Microsoft tees up 98 updates

January 10, 2023 0 Comments 3d builder, adobe reader, cve-2023-21531, cve-2023-21552, cve-2023-21559, cve-2023-21674, cve-2023-21678, cve-2023-21743, exp/2321552-a, exp/2321674-a, featured, Microsoft, Patch Tuesday, sharepoint, sophos x-ops, threat research, Windows, windows 7, x-ops

Credit to Author: Angela Gunn| Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 02:05:40 +0000

Adobe greets the new year with patches for 18 vulns in Reader, Acrobat, and others; sun sets on the last of Win7, 8, RT support

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The scammers who scam scammers on cybercrime forums: Part 4

December 28, 2022 0 Comments breachforums, Exploit, featured, marketplaces, scams, sophos x-ops, threat research, XSS

Credit to Author: Matt Wixey| Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2022 12:00:01 +0000

A shadowy sub-economy is more than just a curiosity – it’s booming business, and also an opportunity for defenders. In the fourth and final part of our series, we look at how scammers scamming scammers can benefit researchers

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The scammers who scam scammers on cybercrime forums: Part 3

December 21, 2022 0 Comments dread, featured, genesis, marketplaces, scams, sophos x-ops, threat research

Credit to Author: Matt Wixey| Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 11:00:08 +0000

A shadowy sub-economy is more than just a curiosity – it’s booming business, and also an opportunity for defenders. In the third part of our series, we look at the curious case of twenty fake marketplaces.

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The scammers who scam scammers on cybercrime forums: Part 2

December 14, 2022 0 Comments breachforums, Exploit, marketplaces, RaidForums, scams, sophos x-ops, threat research, XSS

Credit to Author: Matt Wixey| Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 12:00:20 +0000

A shadowy sub-economy is more than just a curiosity – it’s booming business, and also an opportunity for defenders. In the second part of our series, we look at the different flavors of scams prevalent on criminal forums

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2022 Patch Tuesday cycle wraps with 48 CVEs, one advisory

December 13, 2022 0 Comments cve-2022-44690, cve-2022-44693, cve-2022-44698, cve-2022-44710, driver certificate deprecation, driver signature enforcement, drivers, Microsoft, Patch Tuesday, threat research, x-ops

Credit to Author: Angela Gunn| Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 18:00:22 +0000

Windows-heavy collection closes out a year of elevation-of-privilege vulnerabilities; no Exchange patches in sight

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Signed driver malware moves up the software trust chain

December 13, 2022 0 Comments 2022-12, adv220005, burntcigar, byovd, cuba ransomware, driver signature enforcement, drivers, featured, Patch Tuesday, sbom, security operations, signed drivers, sophos x-ops, supply chain compromise, threat research, whcp, whql, Windows, x-ops

Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 18:00:15 +0000

The criminals signed their AV-killer malware, closely related to one known as BURNTCIGAR, with a legitimate WHCP certificate

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The scammers who scam scammers on cybercrime forums: Part 1

December 7, 2022 0 Comments aaas, breachforums, Exploit, featured, marketplaces, RaidForums, scams, sophos x-ops, threat research, XSS

Credit to Author: Matt Wixey| Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2022 17:00:36 +0000

A shadowy sub-economy is more than just a curiosity – it’s booming business, and also an opportunity for defenders. In the first of a four-part series, we look at the forums involved, and how they deal with scammers scamming scammers

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LockBit 3.0 ‘Black’ attacks and leaks reveal wormable capabilities and tooling

November 30, 2022 0 Comments 0xabababab, blackmatter, featured, lockbit, lockbit black, Ransomware, sophos x-ops, threat research

Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 12:00:17 +0000

Reverse-engineering reveals close similarities to BlackMatter ransomware, with some improvements

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Detection Tools and Human Analysis Lead to a Security Non-Event

November 30, 2022 0 Comments mdr, sophos mdr, sophos x-ops, spearphishing, threat research

Credit to Author: Angela Gunn| Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 12:00:13 +0000

A look at how MDR turned a targeted attack into a non-event, in which no high-value credentials are compromised and several dozen employees are not tricked into letting a bad guy get boots on the ground

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Sophos 2023 Threat Report: the continued evolution of “Crime-as-a-Service”

November 17, 2022 0 Comments annual threat report, featured, sophos x-ops, threat research

Credit to Author: gallagherseanm| Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 12:00:05 +0000

Maturing marketplaces, capabilities-for-hire continue to proliferate professional tools, techniques and practices across the threat spectrum.