Attack Signals Possible Return of Genesis Market, Abuses Node.js, and EV Code Signing

Credit to Author: Hitomi Kimura| Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The Trend Micro Managed XDR team encountered malicious operations that used techniques similar to the ones used by Genesis Market, a website for facilitating fraud that was taken down in April 2023.

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CVE-2023-46604 (Apache ActiveMQ) Exploited to Infect Systems With Cryptominers and Rootkits

Credit to Author: Peter Girnus| Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We uncovered the active exploitation of the Apache ActiveMQ vulnerability CVE-2023-46604 to download and infect Linux systems with the Kinsing malware (also known as h2miner) and cryptocurrency miner.

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Cerber Ransomware Exploits Atlassian Confluence Vulnerability CVE-2023-22518

Credit to Author: Sophia Nilette Robles| Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We encountered the Cerber ransomware exploiting the Atlassian Confluence vulnerability CVE-2023-22518 in its operations.

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Threat Actors Leverage File-Sharing Service and Reverse Proxies for Credential Harvesting

Credit to Author: Buddy Tancio| Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We analyzed a phishing campaign involving malicious emails containing a link to a file-sharing solution, which further leads to a PDF document with a secondary link designed to steal login info and session cookies.

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Attacks on 5G Infrastructure From User Devices: ASN.1 Vulnerabilities in 5G Cores

Credit to Author: Salim S.I.| Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In the second part of this series, we will examine how attackers can trigger vulnerabilities by sending control messages masquerading as user traffic to cross over from user plane to control plane.

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Beware: Lumma Stealer Distributed via Discord CDN

Credit to Author: Carl Malipot| Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This blog discusses how threat actors abuse Discord’s content delivery network (CDN) to host and spread Lumma Stealer, and talks about added capabilities to the information stealing malware.

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Void Rabisu Targets Female Political Leaders with New Slimmed-Down ROMCOM Variant

Credit to Author: Feike Hacquebord| Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Almost a year after Void Rabisu shifted its targeting from opportunistic ransomware attacks with an emphasis on cyberespionage, the threat actor is still developing its main malware, the ROMCOM backdoor.

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Exposing Infection Techniques Across Supply Chains and Codebases

Credit to Author: Aliakbar Zahravi| Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This entry delves into threat actors’ intricate methods to implant malicious payloads within seemingly legitimate applications and codebases.

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Earth Lusca Employs New Linux Backdoor, Uses Cobalt Strike for Lateral Movement

Credit to Author: Joseph C Chen| Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

While monitoring Earth Lusca, we discovered an intriguing, encrypted file on the threat actor’s server — a Linux-based malware, which appears to originate from the open-source Windows backdoor Trochilus, which we’ve dubbed SprySOCKS due to its swift behavior and SOCKS implementation.

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