Year: 2022 - RH-ISAC Blog

Key Takeaways On October 25, 2022, Cisco Talos Incident Response (CTIR) researchers published their Quarterly Report: Incident Response Trends in Q3 2022. Key findings include: Ransomware was the top threat this quarter, a slight change from last quarter where commodity trojans surpassed ransomware by a narrow margin. Several high-profile ransomware groups appeared in CTIR engagements…

Context On October 22, 2022, Bleeping Computer reported the technical details of a new Windows zero-day vulnerability that “allows threat actors to use malicious stand-alone JavaScript files to bypass Mark-of-the-Web security warnings.” Bleeping Computer assesses that the zero-day was leveraged by ransomware threat actors to deliver the Magniber ransomware in a recent campaign. Technical Details…

Context On October 18, 2022, Symentec researchers reported an extension to the Operation CuckooBees campaign leveraging the Spyder Loader to target government organizations in Hong Kong. Community Impact Operation CuckooBees is publicly attributed to APT41 (also known as Winnti), a Chinese state-backed threat group based on tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). The campaign was initially…

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, an opportunity for organizations to spend a little extra effort educating their non-security staff on security best practices. This training generally focuses on basics such as enabling MFA, strengthening passwords, and teaching the warning signs of phishing. While these actions can improve your security posture when successfully adopted, training is…

The RH-ISAC is officially launching a community Malware Information Sharing Platform (MISP) instance for our core members. By utilizing an open-source threat intelligence platform (TIP) like MISP, we can share, store, enrich, vet, correlate, and analyze our shared intelligence. MISP includes many galaxy clusters containing the MITRE ATT&CK framework, Threat Actors, and Tools, to name…

A new campaign is targeting home users using impersonated software updates leveraging JavaScript to deliver the Magniber Ransomware. Context On October 13, 2022, HP security researchers reported the technical details of a current campaign leveraging JavaScript files impersonating legitimate Windows Security updates to infect home users with the single-client Magniber ransomware. Technical Details HP researchers…

On October 10, 2022, the threat group “KillNet” claimed a number of denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against websites of several major airports in the U.S. Context Airport sites targeted in the campaign include the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), the Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD), the Orlando International Airport (MCO),…

On October 6, 2022, CISA released a joint advisory advising telecommunications, defense, and critical infrastructure organizations to patch and mitigate the most prevalent Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) leveraged by suspected Chinese state-sponsored cyber threat actors since 2020. Context According to the report, “PRC state-sponsored cyber actors continue to target government and critical infrastructure networks…

Context On October 4, 2022, DCSO CyTec security researchers reported the technical details of a new backdoor malware targeting Microsoft SQL servers they dubbed “Maggie.” According to researchers, the Maggie backdoor can bruteforce logins to other MSSQL servers and add a new hardcoded backdoor user after bruteforcing administrator logins. Researchers did not investigate if and…

The annual RH-ISAC Cyber Intelligence Summit was held in Plano, Texas on September 20-21, 2022. Summit is the premier event for cybersecurity practitioners in the retail, hospitality, and travel industries. This year’s event had nearly 400 attendees for two days full of presentations and networking. The post-conference report is now available to download. It includes details about…