2022 Year in Review
As we move into the new year, it’s important to reflect on some of the key changes and developments we observed and reported on in 2022. This year’s year-in-review report … Read More
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ShareFinder: How Threat Actors Discover File Shares
Many of our reports focus on adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) along with the tools associated with them. After gaining a foothold in an environment, one challenge for all … Read More
Emotet Strikes Again – LNK File Leads to Domain Wide Ransomware
In June of 2022, we observed a threat actor gaining access to an environment via Emotet and operating over a eight day period. During this time period, multiple rounds of … Read More
BumbleBee Zeros in on Meterpreter
In this intrusion from May 2022, the threat actors used BumbleBee as the initial access vector from a Contact Forms campaign. We have previously reported on two BumbleBee intrusions (1, … Read More
Quantum Ransomware
In one of the fastest ransomware cases we have observed, in under four hours the threat actors went from initial access, to domain wide ransomware. The initial access vector for … Read More
PHOSPHORUS Automates Initial Access Using ProxyShell
In December 2021, we observed an adversary exploiting the Microsoft Exchange ProxyShell vulnerabilities to gain initial access and execute code via multiple web shells. The overlap of activities and tasks … Read More
Diavol Ransomware
In the past, threat actors have used BazarLoader to deploy Ryuk and Conti ransomware, as reported on many occasions. In this intrusion, however, a BazarLoader infection resulted in deployment of … Read More
Exchange Exploit Leads to Domain Wide Ransomware
In late September 2021, we observed an intrusion in which initial access was gained by the threat actor exploiting multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange. The threat actors in this case … Read More
From Zero to Domain Admin
Intro This report will go through an intrusion from July that began with an email, which included a link to Google’s Feed Proxy service that was used to download a … Read More
WebLogic RCE Leads to XMRig
Intro This report will review an intrusion where, the threat actor took advantage of a WebLogic remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2020–14882) to gain initial access to the system before installing … Read More