Fickle Stealer Distributed via Multiple Attack Chain
Affected Platforms: Microsoft WindowsImpacted Users: Microsoft WindowsImpact: The stolen information can be used for future attackSeverity Level: High The past few years have seen a significant increase in the number of Rust developers. Rust is a programming language focused on performance and reliability. However, for an attacker, its complicated assembly code is a significant merit. In May 2024, FortiGuard […]
Info Stealing Campaign Uses DLL Sideloading Through Legitimate Cisco Webex’s Binaries for Initial Execution and Defense Evasion
Case Summary It was a quiet Monday morning in March 2024 when the EDR researchers with our Trellix Advanced Research Center identified an interesting sequence of High Confidence detections in Trellix EDR telemetry. Trellix researchers dove right into the opportunity and uncovered what appeared to be a fresh and evasive attack campaign affecting customers in […]
Infostealers Webinar – Hudson Rock
Learn about Infostealers with actual real life breaches caused by Infostealer infections with Leonid Rozenberg, Hudson Rock’s Head of Partnerships & Integrations. To discover how your organization is impacted by Infostealer infections & get a free ethical disclosure, use Hudson Rock’s free tools – www.hudsonrock.com/are-you-compromised
Almost every cyber attack begins at a key ingredient: an Infostealer
Infostealers commit close to the perfect crime. They sneak into your computer, grab your logins, passwords, and anything of value, and then delete themselves on the way out — victims don’t even know they’ve been robbed. We talk to the alleged co-founder of the Meduza infostealer and to some of the people intent on stopping […]
Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code — inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster.
I wrote a piece recently about Copilot+ Recall, a new Microsoft Windows 11 feature which — in the words of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella- takes “screenshots” of your PC constantly, and makes it into an instantly searchable database of everything you’ve ever seen. As he says, it is photographic memory of your PC life. I got […]
Iluria Stealer; a Variant of Another Discord Stealer
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY At CYFIRMA, we are committed to offering up-to-date insights into prevalent threats and tactics employed by malicious actors who target organizations and individuals. The ‘Iluria Stealer’ is a new malware variant created by the same developer behind the Nikki Stealer, who uses the alias ‘Ykg”. Both share similar code with SonicGlyde; a discord […]
Sapphire Werewolf polishes Amethyst stealer to attack over 300 companies
The adversaries use the open-source SapphireStealer to create their own Infostealer malware for collecting employee authentication data from Russian companies. Since March 2024, the BI.ZONE Threat Intelligence team has been tracking the cluster of activity dubbed Sapphire Werewolf. The threat actor targets Russia’s industries, such as education, manufacturing, IT, defense, and aerospace engineering. Over 300 attacks were […]
A Catalog of Hazardous AV Sites – A Tale of Malware Hosting
Executive summary In mid-April 2024, Trellix Advanced Research Center team members observed multiple fake AV sites hosting highly sophisticated malicious files such as APK, EXE and Inno setup installer that includes Spy and Stealer capabilities. Hosting malicious software through sites which look legitimate is predatory to general consumers, especially those who look to protect their […]
Botnets Are Dead, Long Live Infostealers (A Comparison)
The landscape of cyber threats has been shifting dramatically in recent years, with a notable transition from traditional botnets to a more insidious form of malware: Infostealers. According to Hudson Rock’s cybercrime intelligence database, which tracks historical data on Infostealer infections, there have been 27,500,000 recorded instances of these attacks. This staggering number highlights the growing […]
Analysis of APT attack cases targeting domestic companies using Dora RAT (Andariel Group)
AhnLab SEcurity intelligence Center (ASEC) recently confirmed cases of APT attacks by the Andariel group targeting domestic companies and institutions. The organizations identified as targets of the attack were domestic manufacturing companies, construction companies, and educational institutions, and backdoors as well as keyloggers, infostealers, and proxy tools were used in the attacks. It is believed […]
An Infostealer’s Brewin’: Cuckoo & AtomicStealer Get Creative
Summary So far, 2024 really has been the year of the infostealer when it comes to macOS malware. Families like AtomicStealer, Cuckoo, and CloudJump are getting dumped like crazy from search engine ads and crack sites. This post examines a particularly sneaky typosquatting campaign that’s being used to deliver both AtomicStealer and Cuckoo. It makes […]
Initial Access Brokers, Infostealers, and Everything Between Them
Introduction Hudson Rock recently shed light on how a compromised Citrix account without MFA was potentially used to deploy a devastating ransomware attack on Change Healthcare. This attack not only led to business disruption but also resulted in a ransom payment of $22 million. The likely cause was an employee being infected with Infostealing malware. To demonstrate […]
