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Cyberespionage Group Earth Hundun’s Continuous Refinement of Waterbear and Deuterbear

Cyberespionage Group Earth Hundun’s Continuous Refinement of Waterbear and Deuterbear 2024-04-11 at 13:16 By Our blog entry provides an in-depth analysis of Earth Hundun’s Waterbear and Deuterbear malware. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this headline:

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Unveiling the Fallout: Operation Cronos’ Impact on LockBit Following Landmark Disruption

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Unveiling the Fallout: Operation Cronos’ Impact on LockBit Following Landmark Disruption 2024-04-03 at 14:31 By Our new article provides key highlights and takeaways from Operation Cronos’ disruption of LockBit’s operations, as well as telemetry details on how LockBit actors operated post-disruption. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original

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Earth Freybug Uses UNAPIMON for Unhooking Critical APIs

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Earth Freybug Uses UNAPIMON for Unhooking Critical APIs 2024-04-02 at 09:01 By This article provides an in-depth look into two techniques used by Earth Freybug actors: dynamic-link library (DLL) hijacking and application programming interface (API) unhooking to prevent child processes from being monitored via a new malware we’ve discovered and dubbed UNAPIMON. This article is

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Agenda Ransomware Propagates to vCenters and ESXi via Custom PowerShell Script

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Agenda Ransomware Propagates to vCenters and ESXi via Custom PowerShell Script 2024-03-26 at 10:31 By This blog entry discusses the Agenda ransomware group’s use of its latest Rust variant to propagate to VMWare vCenter and ESXi servers. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this

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Jenkins Args4j CVE-2024-23897: Files Exposed, Code at Risk

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Jenkins Args4j CVE-2024-23897: Files Exposed, Code at Risk 2024-03-19 at 10:04 By Jenkins, a popular open-source automation server, was discovered to be affected by a file read vulnerability, CVE-2024-23897. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this headline:

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Earth Krahang Exploits Intergovernmental Trust to Launch Cross-Government Attacks

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Earth Krahang Exploits Intergovernmental Trust to Launch Cross-Government Attacks 2024-03-18 at 12:02 By Since early 2022, we have been monitoring an APT campaign that targets several government entities worldwide, with a strong focus in Southeast Asia, but also seen targeting Europe, America, and Africa. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and

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Multistage RA World Ransomware Uses Anti-AV Tactics, Exploits GPO

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Multistage RA World Ransomware Uses Anti-AV Tactics, Exploits GPO 2024-03-04 at 11:05 By The Trend Micro threat hunting team came across an RA World attack involving multistage components designed to ensure maximum impact. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this headline:

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Earth Lusca Uses Geopolitical Lure to Target Taiwan Before Elections

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Earth Lusca Uses Geopolitical Lure to Target Taiwan Before Elections 2024-02-26 at 08:42 By During our monitoring of Earth Lusca, we noticed a new campaign that used Chinese-Taiwanese relations as a social engineering lure to infect selected targets. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to

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LockBit Attempts to Stay Afloat With a New Version

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LockBit Attempts to Stay Afloat With a New Version 2024-02-22 at 10:02 By This research is the result of our collaboration with the National Crime Agency in the United Kingdom, who took action against LockBit as part of Operation Cronos, an international effort resulting in the undermining of its operations. This article is an excerpt

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Earth Preta Campaign Uses DOPLUGS to Target Asia

Earth Preta Campaign Uses DOPLUGS to Target Asia 2024-02-20 at 11:55 By In this blog entry, we focus on Earth Preta’s campaign that employed a variant of the DOPLUGS malware to target Asian countries. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this headline:

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SmartScreen Vulnerability: CVE-2024-21412 Facts and Fixes

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SmartScreen Vulnerability: CVE-2024-21412 Facts and Fixes 2024-02-13 at 22:16 By This entry aims to provide additional context to CVE-2024-21412, how it can be used by threat actors, and how Trend protects customers from this specific vulnerability. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this headline:

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

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CVE-2024-21412: Water Hydra Targets Traders with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen Zero-Day 2024-02-13 at 22:16 By The APT group Water Hydra has been exploiting the zero-day Microsoft Defender SmartScreen vulnerability (CVE-2024-21412) in its campaigns targeting financial market traders. This vulnerability, which has now been patched by Microsoft, was discovered and disclosed by the Trend Micro Zero Day

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

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Unveiling Atlassian Confluence Vulnerability CVE-2023-22527: Understanding and Mitigating Remote Code Execution Risks 2024-02-07 at 11:33 By In this blog entry, we discuss CVE-2023-22527, a vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence that has a CVSS score of 10 and could allow threat actors to perform remote code execution. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News

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

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Pawn Storm Uses Brute Force and Stealth Against High-Value Targets 2024-01-31 at 10:02 By Based on our estimates, from approximately April 2022 until November 2023, Pawn Storm attempted to launch NTLMv2 hash relay attacks through different methods, with huge peaks in the number of targets and variations in the government departments that it targeted. This

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

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Kasseika Ransomware Deploys BYOVD Attacks, Abuses PsExec and Exploits Martini Driver  2024-01-23 at 10:16 By In this blog, we detail our investigation of the Kasseika ransomware and the indicators we found suggesting that the actors behind it have acquired access to the source code of the notorious BlackMatter ransomware.   This article is an excerpt from

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

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CVE-2023-36025 Exploited for Defense Evasion in Phemedrone Stealer Campaign 2024-01-12 at 09:46 By This blog delves into the Phemedrone Stealer campaign’s exploitation of CVE-2023-36025, the Windows Defender SmartScreen Bypass vulnerability, for its defense evasion and investigates the malware’s payload. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React

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Decoding CVE-2023-50164: Unveiling the Apache Struts File Upload Exploit

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Decoding CVE-2023-50164: Unveiling the Apache Struts File Upload Exploit 15/12/2023 at 10:50 By In this blog entry, we discuss the technical details of CVE-2023-50164, a critical vulnerability that affects Apache Struts 2 and enables unauthorized path traversal. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this

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Analyzing AsyncRAT’s Code Injection into aspnet_compiler.exe Across Multiple Incident Response Cases

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Analyzing AsyncRAT’s Code Injection into aspnet_compiler.exe Across Multiple Incident Response Cases 11/12/2023 at 12:17 By This blog entry delves into MxDR’s unraveling of the AsyncRAT infection chain across multiple cases, shedding light on the misuse of aspnet_compiler.exe, a legitimate Microsoft process originally designed for precompiling ASP.NET web applications. This article is an excerpt from Trend

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Opening Critical Infrastructure: The Current State of Open RAN Security

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Opening Critical Infrastructure: The Current State of Open RAN Security 01/12/2023 at 11:17 By The Open Radio Access Network (ORAN) architecture provides standardized interfaces and protocols to previously closed systems. However, our research on ORAN demonstrates the potential threat posed by malicious xApps that are capable of compromising the entire Ran Intelligent Controller (RIC) subsystem.

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ParaSiteSnatcher: How Malicious Chrome Extensions Target Brazil

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ParaSiteSnatcher: How Malicious Chrome Extensions Target Brazil 23/11/2023 at 11:31 By We detail the modular framework of malicious Chrome extensions that consist of various highly obfuscated components that leverage Google Chrome API to monitor, intercept, and exfiltrate victim data. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React

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