Stealer’s World of Drama Previously, I wrote a blog going through some of MetaStealer’s functionalities and did a brief comparison with Redline since they are both very similar but, at the same time, different. You might say that all stealers are the same because they have one purpose – to steal. However, each of them […]
In December 2022, we observed an intrusion on a public-facing MSSQL Server, which resulted in BlueSky ransomware. First discovered in June 2022, BlueSky ransomware has code links to Conti and Babuk ransomware. While other reports point to malware downloads as initial access, in this report the threat actors gained access via a MSSQL brute force attack. They then leveraged Cobalt […]
Known to be supported by North Korea, the Kimsuky threat group has been active since 2013. At first, they attacked North Korea-related research institutes in South Korea before attacking a South Korean energy corporation in 2014. Since 2017, attacks targeting countries other than South Korea have also been observed. [1] The group usually launches spear phishing attacks […]
On the 31 Dec 2023, after trying multiple username/password combination, actor using IP 194.30.53.68 successfully loging to the honeypot and uploaded eight files where 2 of them are protected with a 7zip password (updates1.7z & updates2.7z). Some of these files have been identified to be related to the Prometei trojan by Virustotal. The file sqhost.exe [6] was last found by Talos [7] […]
