Earth Lusca Uses Geopolitical Lure to Target Taiwan Before Elections

Credit to Author: Cedric Pernet| Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

During our monitoring of Earth Lusca, we noticed a new campaign that used Chinese-Taiwanese relations as a social engineering lure to infect selected targets.

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LockBit Attempts to Stay Afloat With a New Version

Credit to Author: Trend Micro Research| Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This research is the result of our collaboration with the National Crime Agency in the United Kingdom, who took action against LockBit as part of Operation Cronos, an international effort resulting in the undermining of its operations.

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SmartScreen Vulnerability: CVE-2024-21412 Facts and Fixes

Credit to Author: Trend Micro Research| Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This entry aims to provide additional context to CVE-2024-21412, how it can be used by threat actors, and how Trend protects customers from this specific vulnerability.

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CVE-2024-21412: Water Hydra Targets Traders with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen Zero-Day

Credit to Author: Peter Girnus| Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The APT group Water Hydra has been exploiting the zero-day Microsoft Defender SmartScreen vulnerability (CVE-2024-21412) in its campaigns targeting financial market traders. This vulnerability, which has now been patched by Microsoft, was discovered and disclosed by the Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative.

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Unveiling Atlassian Confluence Vulnerability CVE-2023-22527: Understanding and Mitigating Remote Code Execution Risks

Credit to Author: Jagir Shastri| Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In this blog entry, we discuss CVE-2023-22527, a vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence that has a CVSS score of 10 and could allow threat actors to perform remote code execution.

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Pawn Storm Uses Brute Force and Stealth Against High-Value Targets

Credit to Author: Feike Hacquebord| Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Based on our estimates, from approximately April 2022 until November 2023, Pawn Storm attempted to launch NTLMv2 hash relay attacks through different methods, with huge peaks in the number of targets and variations in the government departments that it targeted.

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Kasseika Ransomware Deploys BYOVD Attacks, Abuses PsExec and Exploits Martini Driver 

Credit to Author: Emmanuel Panopio| Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In this blog, we detail our investigation of the Kasseika ransomware and the indicators we found suggesting that the actors behind it have acquired access to the source code of the notorious BlackMatter ransomware.  

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CVE-2023-36025 Exploited for Defense Evasion in Phemedrone Stealer Campaign

Credit to Author: Peter Girnus| Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This blog delves into the Phemedrone Stealer campaign’s exploitation of CVE-2023-36025, the Windows Defender SmartScreen Bypass vulnerability, for its defense evasion and investigates the malware’s payload.

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