Abusing a GitHub Codespaces Feature For Malware Delivery

Credit to Author: Nitesh Surana| Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Proof of Concept (POC): We investigate one of the GitHub Codespaces’ real-time code development and collaboration features that attackers can abuse for cloud-based trusted malware delivery. Once exploited, malicious actors can abuse legitimate GitHub accounts to create a malware file server.

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Gootkit Loader Actively Targets Australian Healthcare Industry

Credit to Author: Hitomi Kimura| Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We analyzed the infection routine used in recent Gootkit loader attacks on the Australian healthcare industry and found that Gootkit leveraged SEO poisoning for its initial access and abused legitimate tools like VLC Media Player.

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IcedID Botnet Distributors Abuse Google PPC to Distribute Malware

Credit to Author: Ian Kenefick| Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

We analyze the latest changes in IcedID botnet from a campaign that abuses Google pay per click (PPC) ads to distribute IcedID via malvertising attacks.

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Detecting Windows AMSI Bypass Techniques

Credit to Author: Jiri Sykora| Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

We look into some of the implementations that cybercriminals use to bypass the Windows Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI) and how security teams can detect threats attempting to abuse it for compromise with Trend Micro Vision One™.

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Conti Team One Splinter Group Resurfaces as Royal Ransomware with Callback Phishing Attacks

Credit to Author: Ivan Nicole Chavez| Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

From September to December, we detected multiple attacks from the Royal ransomware group. In this blog entry, we discuss findings from our investigation of this ransomware and the tools that Royal ransomware actors used to carry out their attacks.

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A Technical Analysis of CVE-2022-22583 and CVE-2022-32800

Credit to Author: Mickey Jin| Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

This blog entry discusses the technical details of how we exploited CVE-2022-22583 using a different method. We also tackle the technical details of CVE-2022-32800, another SIP-bypass that we discovered more recently, in this report.

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Trend Micro Joins Google’s App Defense Alliance

Credit to Author: Jon Clay| Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Trend Micro will be joining Google’s App Defense Alliance (ADA) to help improve their ability to identify malicious apps before they are published to the Google Play store.

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