Credit to Author: Mickey Jin| Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000
More than two years ago, a researcher, A2nkF demonstrated the exploit chain from root privilege escalation to SIP-Bypass up to arbitrary kernel extension loading. In this blog entry, we will discuss how we discovered 3 more vulnerabilities from the old exploit chain.
Read moreCredit to Author: Sherif Magdy| Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000
In this blog entry, we discuss the reasons why malicious actors choose to and opt not to pursue kernel-level access in their attacks. It also provides an overview of kernel-level threats that have been publicly reported from April 2015 to October 2022.
Read moreCredit to Author: Nathaniel Morales| Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000
This year, various ransomware-as-a-service groups have developed versions of their ransomware in Rust, including Agenda. Agenda’s Rust variant has targeted vital industries like its Go counterpart. In this blog, we will discuss how the Rust variant works.
Read moreCredit to Author: Feike Hacquebord| Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Ransomware groups and their business models are expected to change from what and how we know it to date. In this blog entry, we summarize from some of our insights the triggers that spark the small changes in the short term (“evolutions”) and the bigger deviations (“revolutions”) they can redirect their criminal enterprises to in the long run.
Read moreCredit to Author: Jaromir Horejsi| Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000
This report examines the infection chain and the pieces of malware used by malicious actors in supply-chain attacks that leveraged trojanized installers of chat-based customer engagement platforms.
Read moreCredit to Author: Nick Dai| Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000
We break down the cyberespionage activities of advanced persistent threat (APT) group Earth Preta, observed in large-scale attack deployments that began in March. We also show the infection routines of the malware families they use to infect multiple sectors worldwide: TONEINS, TONESHELL, and PUBLOAD.
Read moreCredit to Author: Luis Magisa| Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Open-source applications are a practical way to save money while keeping up with your productivity. However, this can be abused by threat actors to steal your data. Find out how one app was used to gather information of Apple users.
Read moreCredit to Author: Mickey Jin| Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000
This blog entry details our investigation of CVE-2019-8561, a vulnerability that exists in the macOS PackageKit framework, a component used to install software installer packages (PKG files).
Read moreCredit to Author: Hara Hiroaki| Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000
We looked into the campaigns deployed by a new subgroup of advanced persistent threat (APT) group APT41, Earth Longzhi. This entry breaks down the technical details of the campaigns in full as presented at HITCON PEACE 2022 in August.
Read moreCredit to Author: Sunil Bharti| Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Our honeypots caught malicious cryptocurrency miner samples targeting the cloud and containers, and its routines are reminiscent of the routines employed by cybercriminal group TeamTNT, which was said to have quit in November 2021. Our investigation shows that another threat actor group, WatchDog, might be mimicking TeamTNT’s arsenal.
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