Earth Simnavaz Levies Advanced Cyberattacks Against UAE and Gulf Regions

Credit to Author: Mohamed Fahmy| Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Trend Micro’s investigation into the recent activity of Earth Simnavaz provides new insights into the APT group’s evolving tactics and the immediate threat it poses to critical sectors in the UAE.

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How Ransomhub Ransomware Uses EDRKillShifter to Disable EDR and Antivirus Protections

Credit to Author: Kyle Philippe Yu| Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Trend Micro tracked this group as Water Bakunawa, behind the RansomHub ransomware, employs various anti-EDR techniques to play a high-stakes game of hide and seek with security solutions.

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Vulnerabilities in Cellular Packet Cores Part IV: Authentication

Credit to Author: Richard Y Lin| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Our research reveals two significant vulnerabilities in Microsoft Azure Private 5G Core (AP5GC). The first vulnerability (CVE-2024-20685) allows a crafted signaling message to crash the control plane, leading to potential service outages. The second (ZDI-CAN-23960) disconnects and replaces attached base stations, disrupting network operations. While these issues are implementation-specific, their exploitation is made possible by a systemic weakness: the lack of mandatory authentication procedures between base stations and packet-cores.

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Protecting Against RCE Attacks Abusing WhatsUp Gold Vulnerabilities

Credit to Author: Hitomi Kimura| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In this blog entry, we provide an analysis of the recent remote code execution attacks related to Progress Software’s WhatsUp Gold that possibly abused the vulnerabilities CVE-2024-6670 and CVE-2024-6671.

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Earth Preta Evolves its Attacks with New Malware and Strategies

Credit to Author: Lenart Bermejo| Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In this blog entry, we discuss our analysis of Earth Preta’s enhancements in their attacks by introducing new tools, malware variants and strategies to their worm-based attacks and their time-sensitive spear-phishing campaign.

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TIDRONE Targets Military and Satellite Industries in Taiwan

Credit to Author: Pierre Lee| Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Our research reveals that an unidentified threat cluster we named TIDRONE have shown significant interest in military-related industry chains, particularly in the manufacturers of drones.

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Banking Trojans: Mekotio Looks to Expand Targets, BBTok Abuses Utility Command

Credit to Author: Mhica Romero| Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Notorious Mekotio and BBTok are having a resurgence targeting Latin American users. Mekotio’s latest variant suggests the gang behind it is broadening their target, while BBTok is seen abusing MSBuild.exe to evade detection.

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Threat Actors Target the Middle East Using Fake Palo Alto GlobalProtect Tool

Credit to Author: Mohamed Fahmy| Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Threat actors are targeting users in the Middle East by distributing sophisticated malware disguised as the Palo Alto GlobalProtect tool.

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