Multistage RA World Ransomware Uses Anti-AV Tactics, Exploits GPO
The Trend Micro threat hunting team came across an RA World attack involving multistage components designed to ensure maximum impact. Read More HERE…
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Earth Lusca Uses Geopolitical Lure to Target Taiwan Before Elections
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. Read More HERE…
LockBit Attempts to Stay Afloat With a New Version
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. Read More HERE…
Earth Preta Campaign Uses DOPLUGS to Target Asia
In this blog entry, we focus on Earth Preta’s campaign that employed a variant of the DOPLUGS malware to target Asian countries. Read More HERE…
SmartScreen Vulnerability: CVE-2024-21412 Facts and Fixes
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. Read More HERE…
CVE-2024-21412: Water Hydra Targets Traders with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen Zero-Day
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 Initiative. Read More HERE…
Unveiling Atlassian Confluence Vulnerability CVE-2023-22527: Understanding and Mitigating Remote Code Execution Risks
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. Read More HERE…
Pawn Storm Uses Brute Force and Stealth Against High-Value Targets
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. Read More HERE…
Kasseika Ransomware Deploys BYOVD Attacks, Abuses PsExec and Exploits Martini Driver
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. Read More HERE…
CVE-2023-36025 Exploited for Defense Evasion in Phemedrone Stealer Campaign
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. Read More HERE…