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Social Media

How Underground Groups Use Stolen Identities and Deepfakes

The growing appearance of deepfake attacks is significantly reshaping the threat landscape. These fakes brings attacks such as business email compromise (BEC) and identity verification bypassing to new levels.

Research Sep 27, 2022

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Research Sep 27, 2022

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Exploits & Vulnerabilities

Atlassian Confluence Vulnerability CVE-2022-26134 Abused For Cryptocurrency Mining, Other Malware

Users are advised to patch immediately: We found exploit samples abusing the Atlassian Confluence vulnerability (CVE-2022-26134) in the wild for malicious cryptocurrency mining.

Sep 21, 2022

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Sep 21, 2022

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Security Risks in Logistics APIs Used by E-Commerce Platforms

Our research examines the security flaws that we found in the logistics API implementation of e-commerce platforms that can potentially expose the consumers’ personal information. We discuss the security risks that such flaws present for software engineers, e-commerce platform providers, and consumers.

Research Sep 20, 2022

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Research Sep 20, 2022

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Ransomware

The Risk of Ransomware Supply Chain Attacks

Over the years, ransomware has become a major threat and it can put supply chains in deep trouble.

Research Sep 20, 2022

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Research Sep 20, 2022

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A Post-exploitation Look at Coinminers Abusing WebLogic Vulnerabilities

This blog entry details how Trend Micro Cloud One™ – Workload Security and Trend Micro Vision One™ effectively detected and blocked the abuse of the CVE-2020-14882 WebLogic vulnerability in affected endpoints.

Research Sep 14, 2022

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Research Sep 14, 2022

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Cloud

Security Breaks: TeamTNT’s DockerHub Credentials Leak

One of our honeypots based on exposed Docker REST APIs showed cybercriminal group TeamTNT’s potential attack scenario and leak of container registry credentials for docker-abuse malware. The full version of this research will be presented at the c0c0n XV Hacking and Cyber Security Conference in September 2022.

Sep 12, 2022

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Sep 12, 2022

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Cloud

How Malicious Actors Abuse Native Linux Tools in Attacks

Through our honeypots and telemetry, we were able to observe instances in which malicious actors abused native Linux tools to launch attacks on Linux environments. In this blog entry, we discuss how these utilities were used and provide recommendations on how to minimize their impact.

Research Sep 08, 2022

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Research Sep 08, 2022

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Cloud

Enhancing Cloud Security by Reducing Container Images Through Distroless Techniques

We analyzed the Distroless technique for reducing the size of container images and explored its capabilities to address security concerns. We provide an alternative approach to Distroless that reduces the attack surface for malicious actors targeting cloud-native applications while optimizing cloud resources.

Research Sep 07, 2022

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Research Sep 07, 2022

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Ransomware

Play Ransomware's Attack Playbook Similar to that of Hive, Nokoyawa

Play is a new ransomware that takes a page out of Hive and Nokoyawa's playbook. The many similarities among them indicate that Play, like Nokoyawa, are operated by the same people.

Research Sep 06, 2022

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Research Sep 06, 2022

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Malware

Buzzing in the Background: BumbleBee, a New Modular Backdoor Evolved From BookWorm

In March 2021, we investigated a backdoor with a unique modular architecture and called it BumbleBee due to a string embedded in the malware. However, in our recent investigations, we have discovered a controller application that expands its capabilities.

Research Sep 02, 2022

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Research Sep 02, 2022

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