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
Real Intrusions by Real Attackers, The Truth Behind the Intrusion
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
In this intrusion from August 2022, we observed a compromise that was initiated with a Word document containing a malicious VBA macro, which established persistence and communication to a command … Read More
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
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
In this intrusion from May 2022, we observed a domain-wide compromise that started from a malware ridden Excel document containing the never-dying malware, Emotet. The post-exploitation started very soon after … Read More
In this intrusion from April 2022, the threat actors used BumbleBee as the initial access vector. BumbleBee is a malware loader that was first reported by Google Threat Analysis Group … Read More
In this intrusion from December 2021, the threat actors utilized IcedID as the initial access vector. IcedID is a banking trojan that first appeared in 2017, usually, it is delivered … Read More
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
In this report we will discuss a case from early August where we witnessed threat actors utilizing BazarLoader and Cobalt Strike to accomplish their mission of encrypting systems with Conti … Read More
Intro Towards the end of July, we observed an intrusion that began with IcedID malware and ended in XingLocker ransomware, a Mountlocker variant. XingLocker made its first appearance in early … Read More
Intro In our research, we expose adversarial Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) as well as the tools they use to execute their mission objectives. In most of our cases, we … Read More
Intro Although IcedID was originally discovered back in 2017, it did not gain in popularity until the latter half of 2020. We have now analyzed a couple ransomware cases in … Read More
Intro “TrickBot malware—first identified in 2016—is a Trojan developed and operated by a sophisticated group of cybercrime actors. The cybercrime group initially designed TrickBot as a banking trojan to steal … Read More
In October of 2020, the group behind the infamous botnet known as Trickbot had a bad few days. The group was under concerted pressure applied by US Cyber Command infiltrating … Read More
Intro The Ryuk group went from an email to domain wide ransomware in 29 hours and asked for over $6 million to unlock our systems. They used tools such as … Read More