SEKOIA.IO presents its Ransomware threat landscape for the first semester of 2022, with the following key points:
While many ransomware groups come and go, LockBit seems to be the one that persists. First discovered in September 2019 using the name ABCD, and then gaining notoriety as LockBit in April 2020, the group has outlasted many of their competitors
In June 2022, LockBit revealed version 3.0 of its ransomware. In this blog entry, we discuss the findings from our own technical analysis of this variant and its behaviors, many of which are similar to those of the BlackMatter ransomware
MSTIC and MSRC disclose technical details of a private-sector offensive actor (PSOA) tracked as KNOTWEED using multiple Windows and Adobe 0-day exploits, including one for the recently patched CVE-2022-22047, in limited and targeted attacks against European and Central American customers.
The US Justice Department seized approximately half a million dollars that North Korean government-backed hackers had either extorted from US health care organizations or used to launder ransom payments, deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said Tuesday as she touted an aggressive US strategy to claw back money for victims of ransomware attacks.
Low-level crimeware gang has been exploiting misconfigured and publicly accessible Docker and other cloud instances with roaring success.
This report discusses new ransomware, that targets Windows, Linux and ESXi systems: Luna written in Rust and Black Basta.
We recently discovered a zero-day vulnerability in Google Chrome (CVE-2022-2294) when it was exploited in the wild in an attempt to attack Avast users in the Middle East. The vulnerability was a memory corruption in WebRTC that was abused to achieve shellcode execution in Chrome’s renderer process. We reported this vulnerability to Google, who patched it on July 4, 2022.
The White House is investigating the telecoms equipment maker over concerns sensitive data could be transmitted to China.
In our previous article Yet another bug into Netfilter, I presented a vulnerability found within the netfilter subsystem of the Linux kernel. During my investigation, I found a weird comparison that does not fully protect a copy within a buffer. It led to a heap buffer overflow that was exploited to obtain root privileges on Ubuntu 22.04.
Scammers go mainstream by hijacking top Google searches and replacing them with malicious ads.
Google researchers said the app was designed to figure out who may want to use this kind of app.
Declaration by the Minister for Foreign Affairs on behalf of the Belgian Government urging Chinese authorities to take action against malicious cyber activities undertaken by Chinese actors.
ESET uncovers CloudMensis, a macOS backdoor that spies on users of Mac devices and communicates with its operators via public cloud storage services.
Forensic analysis by CitizenLab says government is the likeliest perpetrator.
Hackad hacker outlines why a browser is so vital in the cybercrime ecosystem and what CISOs can do to protect employees against browser hacks
Joker, Facestealers and Banker swarming Google Play store
Making Software I am a programmer by nature. I now had root access to a cool new linux box so now I must develop software for it. The Goal While looking through many of the IVI’s files, I found tons of really cool C++ header files relating to ccOS in /usr/include. ccOS is the Connected Car Operating System, an OS developed by Nvidia and Hyundai which is supposed to power all Hyundai vehicles from 2022 onwards, but I guess some of the underlying system was in previous Hyundai vehicles for quite some time.
A group of actors originating from North Korea that MSTIC tracks as DEV-0530 has been developing and using ransomware in attacks since June 2021. This group, which calls itself H0lyGh0st, utilizes a ransomware payload with the same name.
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) is a well-known vulnerability that has been around for a long time and can be used to steal sessions, create fake logins and carry out actions as someone else, etc.
In addition, many users are unaware of the potential dangers associated with their browser’s credential autofill feature. This attack vector is not new, but it is unknown to many people and as we investigated further we found that the dangers were extensive. In this post, the GoSecure Titan Labs team will demonstrate that using a browser password manager with autofill could expose your credentials in a web application vulnerable to XSS.
