Real Intrusions by Real Attackers, The Truth Behind the Intrusion
Key Takeaways In late December 2022, we observed threat actors exploiting a publicly exposed Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) host, leading to data exfiltration and the deployment of Trigona ransomware. On … Read More
An threat actor logged in through RDP a few days ago to run a “smtp cracker” that scans a list of IP addresses or URLs looking for misconfigured Laravel systems. … Read More
A threat actor recently brute forced a local administrator password using RDP and then dumped credentials using Mimikatz. They not only dumped LogonPasswords but they also exported all Kerberos tickets. … Read More
Intro Over the course of 8 hours the PYSA/Mespinoza threat actors used Empire and Koadic as well as RDP to move laterally throughout the environment, grabbing credentials from as many … Read More
Intro The Ryuk threat actors went from a phishing email to domain wide ransomware in 5 hours. They escalated privileges using Zerologon (CVE-2020-1472), less than 2 hours after the initial … Read More
The threat actor logged in through RDP, attempted to run a Cobalt Strike Beacon, and then dumped memory using ProcDump and Mimikatz. Next, they RDPed into a Domain Controller, minutes … Read More
Here’s another example of threat actors brute forcing RDP to install ransomware, this time the brute forced system was not using the default RDP port. The threat actors installed ransomware … Read More
Another RDP brute force ransomware strikes again, this time, Snatch Team! Snatch Team was able to go from brute forcing a Domain Administrator (DA) account via RDP, to running a … Read More
Ransomware continues unabated in the year of continually mounting pressure. But for every big game actor out there compromising Fortune listed companies there are the little guys that maybe just … Read More
RDP brute forcing continues to be a favorite entry point for ransomware actors. In this past month we saw activity from the Lockbit ransomware family. Initial Access: RDP login from … Read More
A threat actor logged into the RDP honeypot from 217[.]182[.]242[.]13 (OVH) with a hostname of WORK9F3B. Within 20 seconds they opened a command prompt and issued the following commands They … Read More
A threat actor logged into the honeypot via RDP and installed XMRig with multiple persistence mechanisms. The actor used icacls and attrib to lock down directories and files to make … Read More
An attacker logged into the honeypot via RDP from 178.239.173[.]172. Within 10 minutes the attacker went from local admin, to domain admin to installing ransomware on multiple machines. The attacker … Read More
An attacker logged into the honeypot from 93.174.95[.]73, disabled security tools, dropped their toolkit and started recon. Recon was quickly followed by an onslaught of password dumping tools such as … Read More
