Collaborate Disseminate
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This morning, an interesting phishing email hit my mailbox. It targets Metamask[1], a cryptocurrency wallet, available as a browser extension and a mobile app, that lets users store, send, and receive crypto money. It’s pretty popular, so a juicy target for criminals. In February, I already mentioned a campaign against them[2].
Continue reading Why Ask Credentials If There Are Secret Codes?, (Wed, Jul 1st)
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Apple released updates for iOS/iPadOS, macOS, and Safari on Monday. There have been no updates for other Apple operating systems (visionOS, watchOS, tvOS). Usually, Apple updates all products at the same time.
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I&#;x26;#;39;m in the throes of target host recon for another pentest, and thought I&#;x26;#;39;d share some workflow / automation stuff.
In the past, I&#;x26;#;39;ve discussed using historic DNS “mining” to collect target hosts in the domain.
Continue reading Adding some Automation to the favicon.ico method of Host Recon, (Mon, Jun 29th)
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YARA-X&#;x26;#;39;s 1.18.0 release brings 3 improvements and 2 bugfixes.
Continue reading YARA-X 1.18.0 and 1.19.0 Release, (Sun, Jun 28th)
[This is a Guest Diary by Nicole Phillips, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program]
In a previous diary, I talked about stack strings&#;x26;#;x5b;1&#;x26;#;x5d; with a practical example of them. Since my SEC670 class, I&#;x26;#;xe2;&#;x26;#;x80;&#;x26;#;x99;m even more interested&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0;in malware obfuscation techniques. I had&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0;a look at process names. When you list running processes on a computer, can you trust what you see&#;x26;#;x3f; If you&#;x26;#;39;re facing a rootkit, malicious processes can be simply hidden (the API calls or commands to list processed have been tampered). But a malicious process&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0;can also mimic a non-suspicious name by masquerading their name. This technique (T1036 in the MITRE ATT&#;x26;CK framework&#;x26;#;x5b;2&#;x26;#;x5d;) has been used by attackers in many campaigns. A good example of the Velvet Ant Chinese group&#;x26;#;x5b;3&#;x26;#;x5d;. The goal is to hide the &#;x26;#;xe2;&#;x26;#;x80;œmalware&#;x26;#;xe2;&#;x26;#;x80; process name by replacing it with something&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0;that won&#;x26;#;xe2;&#;x26;#;x80;&#;x26;#;x99;t attract the Security Analyst&#;x26;#;xe2;&#;x26;#;x80;&#;x26;#;x99;s eyes or defeat security controls.
Continue reading Linux Process Name Masquerading, (Wed, Jun 24th)