Black Basta Ransomware Gang Infiltrates networks via QAKBOT, Brute Ratel, and Cobalt Strike

Credit to Author: Ian Kenefick| Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

We analyzed a QAKBOT-related case leading to a Brute Ratel C4 and Cobalt Strike payload that can be attributed to the threat actors behind the Black Basta ransomware.

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How Water Labbu Exploits Electron-Based Applications

Credit to Author: Joseph C Chen| Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

In the second part of our Water Labbu blog series, we explore how the threat actor exploits Electron-based applications using Cobalt Strike to deploy backdoors.

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Tracking Earth Aughisky’s Malware and Changes

Credit to Author: CH Lei| Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

For over 10 years, security researchers have been observing and keeping tabs of APT group Earth Aughisky’s malware families and the connections, including previously documented malware that have yet to be attributed.

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Water Labbu Abuses Malicious DApps to Steal Cryptocurrency

Credit to Author: Joseph C Chen| Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The parasitic Water Labbu capitalizes on the social engineering schemes of other scammers, injecting malicious JavaScript code into their malicious decentralized application websites to steal cryptocurrency.

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How Underground Groups Use Stolen Identities and Deepfakes

Credit to Author: Vladimir Kropotov| Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The growing appearance of deepfake attacks is significantly reshaping the threat landscape. These fakes brings attacks such as business email compromise (BEC) and identity verification bypassing to new levels.

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Atlassian Confluence Vulnerability CVE-2022-26134 Abused For Cryptocurrency Mining, Other Malware

Credit to Author: Sunil Bharti| Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Users are advised to patch immediately: We found exploit samples abusing the Atlassian Confluence vulnerability (CVE-2022-26134) in the wild for malicious cryptocurrency mining.

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Security Risks in Logistics APIs Used by E-Commerce Platforms

Credit to Author: Ryan Flores| Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Our research examines the security flaws that we found in the logistics API implementation of e-commerce platforms that can potentially expose the consumers’ personal information. We discuss the security risks that such flaws present for software engineers, e-commerce platform providers, and consumers.

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A Post-exploitation Look at Coinminers Abusing WebLogic Vulnerabilities

Credit to Author: Sunil Bharti| Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

This blog entry details how Trend Micro Cloud One™ – Workload Security and Trend Micro Vision One™ effectively detected and blocked the abuse of the CVE-2020-14882 WebLogic vulnerability in affected endpoints.

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