Trends are interesting since they could tell you where things are going. I do believe in studying history and behaviors in order to figure out where things are going on, so that every Year my colleagues from Yoroi and I spend several weeks to study and to write what we observed during the past months […]
Read more "Cybersecurity Trends"Introduction Today I’d like to share a quick analysis of an interesting attack targeting precision engineering companies based in Italy. Precision engineering is a very important business market in Europe, it includes developing mechanical equipment for: automotive, railways, heavy industries and military grade technology . The attacker pretended to be a customer and sent to […]
Read more "SWEED Targeting Precision Engineering Companies in Italy"Introduction The group behind Emotet malware is getting smarter and smarter in the way the deliver such a Malware. While the infection schema looks alike from years; the way the group tries to infect victims improves from day to day.Today I’d like to share a quick analysis resulted by a very interesting email which claimed […]
Read more "Is Emotet gang targeting companies with external SOC?"Nowadays one of the most frequent cybersecurity threat comes from Malicious (office) document shipped over eMail or Instant Messaging. Some analyzed threats examples include: Step By Step Office Dropper Dissection, Spreading CVS Malware over Google, Microsoft Powerpoint as Malware Dropper, MalHIDE, Info Stealing: a New Operation in the Wild, Advanced All in Memory CryptoWorm, etc. […]
Read more "Frequent VBA Macros used in Office Malware"Many state sponsored groups have been identified over time, many of them have different names (since discovered by different organizations) and there is no an agreed standardization on the topic but many victims and some interests look very tight together. From here the idea to compare the leaked source code of two different state sponsored […]
Read more "Similarities and differences between MuddyWater and APT34"The APT34 Glimpse project is maybe the most complete APT34 project known so far. Indeed we might observe a File based command and control (quite unusual solution) structure, a VBS launcher, a PowerShell Payload and a covert channel over DNS engine. This last feature is the most appreciated characteristics attributed to APT34. But let’s move […]
Read more "APT34: Glimpse project"When an unknown sender suggests me to click on a super wired url, dropping a ZIP file straight in my box, by saying it’s getting the next targeted attack on a huge company, well I kinda looking forward to it ! So I clicked on the link (see IOC section) and I’ve downloaded a “pik.zip” […]
Read more "Ransomware, Trojan and Miner together against “PIK-Group”"On January 19th we downloaded Collectoin #1 to make statistics on its content (you might find more information here). During these days we finished the two main activities to be able to answer some more questions about it data: (i) ELK import and (ii) building of simple views to visualise desired informations. The following image shows […]
Read more "“Collection #I” Data Breach Analysis – Part 2"Nowadays Microsoft office documents are often used to propagate Malware acting like dynamic droppers. Microsoft Excel within macros or Microsoft Word with user actions (like links or external OLE objects) are the main player in this “Office Dropping Arena”. When I figured out that a Microsoft Powerpoint was used to drop and to execute a […]
Read more "Microsoft Powerpoint as Malware Dropper"Today I’d like to share an interesting analysis of a Targeted Attack found and dissected by Yoroi (technical details are available here). The victim was one of the most important leader in the field of security and defensive military grade Naval ecosystem in Italy. Everything started from a well crafted email targeting the right office […]
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