Article: Bypassing MassLogger Anti-Analysis — a Man-in-the-Middle Approach - published over 4 years ago.
Content: The FireEye Front Line Applied Research & Expertise (FLARE) Team attempts to always stay on top of the most current and emerging threats. As a member of the FLARE Reverse Engineer team, I recently received a request to analyze a fairly new credential stealer identified as MassLogger. Despite the lack of novel functionalities and features, this ...
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Published: 2020 08 06 19:15:00
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Article: A Hands-On Introduction to Mandiant's Approach to OT Red Teaming - published about 4 years ago.
Content: Operational technology (OT) asset owners have historically considered red teaming of OT and industrial control system (ICS) networks to be too risky due to the potential for disruptions or adverse impact to production systems. While this mindset has remained largely unchanged for years, Mandiant's experience in the field suggests that these perspec...
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Published: 2020 08 25 09:00:00
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Article: Emulation of Malicious Shellcode With Speakeasy - published about 4 years ago.
Content: In order to enable emulation of malware samples at scale, we have developed the Speakeasy emulation framework. Speakeasy aims to make it as easy as possible for users who are not malware analysts to acquire triage reports in an automated way, as well as enabling reverse engineers to write custom plugins to triage difficult malware families. Orig...
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Published: 2020 08 26 15:00:00
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Article: A "DFUR-ent" Perspective on Threat Modeling and Application Log Forensic Analysis - published about 4 years ago.
Content: Many organizations operating in e-commerce, hospitality, healthcare, managed services, and other service industries rely on web applications. And buried within the application logs may be the potential discovery of fraudulent use and/or compromise! But, let's face it, finding evil in application logs can be difficult and overwhelming for a few reas...
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Published: 2020 09 14 16:30:00
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Article: APT41: A Dual Espionage and Cyber Crime Operation - published over 5 years ago.
Content: Today, FireEye Intelligence is releasing a comprehensive report detailing APT41, a prolific Chinese cyber threat group that carries out state-sponsored espionage activity in parallel with financially motivated operations. APT41 is unique among tracked China-based actors in that it leverages non-public malware typically reserved for espionage campai...
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Published: 2019 08 07 12:00:00
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Article: Fuzzing Image Parsing in Windows, Part One: Color Profiles - published about 4 years ago.
Content: Image parsing and rendering are basic features of any modern operating system (OS). Image parsing is an easily accessible attack surface, and a vulnerability that may lead to remote code execution or information disclosure in such a feature is valuable to attackers. In this multi-part blog series, I am reviewing Windows OS’ built-in image parsers a...
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Published: 2020 09 24 15:00:00
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Article: Detecting Microsoft 365 and Azure Active Directory Backdoors - published about 4 years ago.
Content: Mandiant has seen an uptick in incidents involving Microsoft 365 (M365) and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). Most of these incidents are the result of a phishing email coercing a user to enter their credentials used for accessing M365 into a phishing site. Other incidents have been a result of password spraying, password stuffing, or simple brute...
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Published: 2020 09 30 16:45:00
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Article: FIN11: Widespread Email Campaigns as Precursor for Ransomware and Data Theft - published about 4 years ago.
Content: Mandiant Threat Intelligence recently promoted a threat cluster to a named FIN (or financially motivated) threat group for the first time since 2017. We have detailed FIN11's various tactics, techniques and procedures in a report that is available now by signing up for Mandiant Advantage Free. In some ways, FIN11 is reminiscent of APT1; they are n...
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Published: 2020 10 14 12:00:00
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Article: Flare-On 7 Challenge Solutions - published about 4 years ago.
Content: We are thrilled to announce the conclusion of the seventh annual Flare-On challenge. This year proved to be the most difficult challenge we’ve produced, with the lowest rate of finishers. This year’s winners are truly the elite of the elite! Lucky for them, all 260 winners will receive this cyberpunk metal key. We would like to thank the challe...
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Published: 2020 10 24 00:00:00
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Article: Welcome to ThreatPursuit VM: A Threat Intelligence and Hunting Virtual Machine - published about 4 years ago.
Content: Skilled adversaries can deceive detection and often employ new measures in their tradecraft. Keeping a stringent focus on the lifecycle and evolution of adversaries allows analysts to devise new detection mechanisms and response processes. Access to the appropriate tooling and resources is critical to discover these threats within a timely and a...
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Published: 2020 10 28 15:30:00
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Article: Ransomware Protection and Containment Strategies: Practical Guidance for Endpoint Protection, Hardening, and Containment - published about 5 years ago.
Content: UPDATE (Oct. 30, 2020): We have updated the report to include additional protection and containment strategies based on front-line visibility and response efforts in combating ransomware. While the full scope of recommendations included within the initial report remain unchanged, the following strategies have been added into the report: ...
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Published: 2019 09 05 09:00:00
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Article: In Wild Critical Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Solaris Can Allow Remote Takeover — CVE-2020-14871 - published about 4 years ago.
Content: FireEye Mandiant has been investigating compromised Oracle Solaris machines in customer environments. During our investigations, we discovered an exploit tool on a customer’s system and analyzed it to see how it was attacking their Solaris environment. The FLARE team’s Offensive Task Force analyzed the exploit to determine how it worked, reproduced...
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Published: 2020 11 04 19:00:00
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Article: Live off the Land? How About Bringing Your Own Island? An Overview of UNC1945 - published about 4 years ago.
Content: Through Mandiant investigation of intrusions, the FLARE Advanced Practices team observed a group we track as UNC1945 compromise managed service providers and operate against a tailored set of targets within the financial and professional consulting industries by leveraging access to third-party networks (see this blog post for an in-depth descripti...
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Published: 2020 11 02 19:15:00
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Article: Unhappy Hour Special: KEGTAP and SINGLEMALT With a Ransomware Chaser - published about 4 years ago.
Content: Throughout 2020, ransomware activity has become increasingly prolific, relying on an ecosystem of distinct but co-enabling operations to gain access to targets of interest before conducting extortion. Mandiant Threat Intelligence has tracked several loader and backdoor campaigns that lead to the post-compromise deployment of ransomware, sometimes w...
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Published: 2020 10 28 22:00:00
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Article: WOW64!Hooks: WOW64 Subsystem Internals and Hooking Techniques - published about 4 years ago.
Content: Microsoft is known for their backwards compatibility. When they rolled out the 64-bit variant of Windows years ago they needed to provide compatibility with existing 32-bit applications. In order to provide seamless execution regardless of application bitness, the WoW (Windows on Windows) system was coined. This layer, which will be referred to as ...
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Published: 2020 11 09 19:00:00
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Article: CertUtil Qualms: They Came to Drop FOMBs - published about 5 years ago.
Content: This blog post covers an interesting intrusion attempt that Mandiant Managed Defense thwarted involving the rapid weaponization of a recently disclosed vulnerability combined with the creative use of WMI compiled “.bmf” files and CertUtil for obfuscated execution. This intrusion attempt highlights a number of valuable lessons in security, chiefly:...
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Published: 2019 10 29 18:00:00
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Article: Hard Pass: Declining APT34’s Invite to Join Their Professional Network - published over 5 years ago.
Content: Background With increasing geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, we expect Iran to significantly increase the volume and scope of its cyber espionage campaigns. Iran has a critical need for strategic intelligence and is likely to fill this gap by conducting espionage against decision makers and key organizations that may have information that ...
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Published: 2019 07 18 15:00:00
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Article: COOKIEJAR: Tracking Adversaries With FireEye Endpoint Security’s Logon Tracker Module - published over 4 years ago.
Content: During a recent investigation at a telecommunications company led by Mandiant Managed Defense, our team was tasked with rapidly identifying systems that had been accessed by a threat actor using legitimate, but compromised domain credentials. This sometimes-challenging task was made simple because the customer had enabled the Logon Tracker modu...
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Published: 2020 08 11 17:00:00
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Article: Head Fake: Tackling Disruptive Ransomware Attacks - published about 5 years ago.
Content: Within the past several months, FireEye has observed financially-motivated threat actors employ tactics that focus on disrupting business processes by deploying ransomware in mass throughout a victim’s environment. Understanding that normal business processes are critical to organizational success, these ransomware campaigns have been accompanied w...
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Published: 2019 10 01 10:00:00
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Article: Purgalicious VBA: Macro Obfuscation With VBA Purging
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Article: Election Cyber Threats in the Asia-Pacific Region - published almost 4 years ago.
Content: In democratic societies, elections are the mechanism for choosing heads of state and policymakers. There are strong incentives for adversary nations to understand the intentions and preferences of the people and parties that will shape a country's future path and to reduce uncertainty about likely winners. Mandiant Threat Intelligence regularly obs...
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Published: 2020 11 22 23:00:00
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Article: Using Speakeasy Emulation Framework Programmatically to Unpack Malware - published almost 4 years ago.
Content: Andrew Davis recently announced the public release of his new Windows emulation framework named Speakeasy. While the introductory blog post focused on using Speakeasy as an automated malware sandbox of sorts, this entry will highlight another powerful use of the framework: automated malware unpacking. I will demonstrate, with code exampl...
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Published: 2020 12 01 20:30:00
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Article: Unauthorized Access of FireEye Red Team Tools - published almost 4 years ago.
Content: Overview A highly sophisticated state-sponsored adversary stole FireEye Red Team tools. Because we believe that an adversary possesses these tools, and we do not know whether the attacker intends to use the stolen tools themselves or publicly disclose them, FireEye is releasing hundreds of countermeasures with this blog post to enable the broader ...
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Published: 2020 12 08 21:00:00
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Article: Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain to Compromise Multiple Global Victims With SUNBURST Backdoor - published almost 4 years ago.
Content: Executive Summary We have discovered a global intrusion campaign. We are tracking the actors behind this campaign as UNC2452. FireEye discovered a supply chain attack trojanizing SolarWinds Orion business software updates in order to distribute malware we call SUNBURST.  The attacker’s post compromise activity leverages multiple techniq...
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Published: 2020 12 13 22:00:00
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Article: SUNBURST Additional Technical Details - published almost 4 years ago.
Content: FireEye has discovered additional details about the SUNBURST backdoor since our initial publication on Dec. 13, 2020. Before diving into the technical depth of this malware, we recommend readers familiarize themselves with our blog post about the SolarWinds supply chain compromise, which revealed a global intrusion campaign by a sophisticated thr...
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Published: 2020 12 24 20:15:00
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Article: Excelerating Analysis – Tips and Tricks to Analyze Data with Microsoft Excel - published almost 5 years ago.
Content: Incident response investigations don’t always involve standard host-based artifacts with fully developed parsing and analysis tools. At FireEye Mandiant, we frequently encounter incidents that involve a number of systems and solutions that utilize custom logging or artifact data. Determining what happened in an incident involves taking a dive into ...
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Published: 2019 12 03 16:00:00
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Article: Emulation of Kernel Mode Rootkits With Speakeasy - published almost 4 years ago.
Content: In August 2020, we released a blog post about how the Speakeasy emulation framework can be used to emulate user mode malware such as shellcode. If you haven’t had a chance, give the post a read today. In addition to user mode emulation, Speakeasy also supports emulation of kernel mode Windows binaries. When malware authors employ kernel mode mal...
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Published: 2021 01 20 16:45:00
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Article: Training Transformers for Cyber Security Tasks: A Case Study on Malicious URL Prediction - published almost 4 years ago.
Content: Highlights        Perform a case study on using Transformer models to solve cyber security problems Train a Transformer model to detect malicious URLs under multiple training regimes Compare our model against other deep learning methods, and show it performs on-par with other top-scoring models Identify issues with applying generative p...
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Published: 2021 01 21 17:30:00
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Article: Phishing Campaign Leverages WOFF Obfuscation and Telegram Channels for Communication - published almost 4 years ago.
Content: FireEye Email Security recently encountered various phishing campaigns, mostly in the Americas and Europe, using source code obfuscation with compromised or bad domains. These domains were masquerading as authentic websites and stole personal information such as credit card data. The stolen information was then shared to cross-platform, cloud-bas...
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Published: 2021 01 26 20:45:00
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Article: FLARE VM Update - published about 6 years ago.
Content: FLARE VM is the first of its kind reverse engineering and malware analysis distribution on Windows platform. Since its introduction in July 2017, FLARE VM has been continuously trusted and used by many reverse engineers, malware analysts, and security researchers as their go-to environment for analyzing malware. Just like the ever-evolving securi...
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Published: 2018 11 14 20:00:00
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Article: A Totally Tubular Treatise on TRITON and TriStation - published over 6 years ago.
Content: Introduction In December 2017, FireEye's Mandiant discussed an incident response involving the TRITON framework. The TRITON attack and many of the publicly discussed ICS intrusions involved routine techniques where the threat actors used only what is necessary to succeed in their mission. For both INDUSTROYER and TRITON, the attackers moved from t...
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Published: 2018 06 07 14:00:00
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Article: Shining a Light on SolarCity: Practical Exploitation of the X2e IoT Device (Part Two) - published almost 4 years ago.
Content: In this post, we continue our analysis of the SolarCity ConnectPort X2e Zigbee device (referred to throughout as X2e device). In Part One, we discussed the X2e at a high level, performed initial network-based attacks, then discussed the hardware techniques used to gain a remote shell on the X2e device as a non-privileged system user. In this se...
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Published: 2021 02 17 13:00:00
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Article: Mandiant Exposes APT1 – One of China's Cyber Espionage Units & Releases 3,000 Indicators - published almost 12 years ago.
Content: Today, The Mandiant® Intelligence Center™ released an unprecedented report exposing APT1's multi-year, enterprise-scale computer espionage campaign. APT1 is one of dozens of threat groups Mandiant tracks around the world and we consider it to be one of the most prolific in terms of the sheer quantity of information it has stolen. Highlig...
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Published: 2013 02 19 07:00:45
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Article: Shining a Light on SolarCity: Practical Exploitation of the X2e IoT Device (Part One) - published almost 4 years ago.
Content: In 2019, Mandiant’s Red Team discovered a series of vulnerabilities present within Digi International’s ConnectPort X2e device, which allows for remote code execution as a privileged user. Specifically, Mandiant’s research focused on SolarCity’s (now owned by Tesla) rebranded ConnectPort X2e device, which is used in residential solar installations....
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Published: 2021 02 17 13:00:00
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Article: Cyber Criminals Exploit Accellion FTA for Data Theft and Extortion - published over 3 years ago.
Content: Starting in mid-December 2020, malicious actors that Mandiant tracks as UNC2546 exploited multiple zero-day vulnerabilities in Accellion’s legacy File Transfer Appliance (FTA) to install a newly discovered web shell named DEWMODE. The motivation of UNC2546 was not immediately apparent, but starting in late January 2021, several organizations that h...
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Published: 2021 02 22 14:00:00
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Article: So Unchill: Melting UNC2198 ICEDID to Ransomware Operations - published over 3 years ago.
Content: Mandiant Advanced Practices (AP) closely tracks the shifting tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of financially motivated groups who severely disrupt organizations with ransomware. In May 2020, FireEye released a blog post detailing intrusion tradecraft associated with the deployment of MAZE. As of publishing this post, we track 11 disti...
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Published: 2021 02 25 16:00:00
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Article: Fuzzing Image Parsing in Windows, Part Two: Uninitialized Memory - published over 3 years ago.
Content: Continuing our discussion of image parsing vulnerabilities in Windows, we take a look at a comparatively less popular vulnerability class: uninitialized memory. In this post, we will look at Windows’ inbuilt image parsers—specifically for vulnerabilities involving the use of uninitialized memory. The Vulnerability: Uninitialized Memory In unman...
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Published: 2021 03 03 19:30:00
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Article: New SUNSHUTTLE Second-Stage Backdoor Uncovered Targeting U.S.-Based Entity; Possible Connection to UNC2452 - published over 3 years ago.
Content: Executive Summary In August 2020, a U.S.-based entity uploaded a new backdoor that we have named SUNSHUTTLE to a public malware repository. SUNSHUTTLE is a second-stage backdoor written in GoLang that features some detection evasion capabilities. Mandiant observed SUNSHUTTLE at a victim compromised by UNC2452, and have indications that ...
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Published: 2021 03 04 17:00:00
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Article: Detection and Response to Exploitation of Microsoft Exchange Zero-Day Vulnerabilities - published over 3 years ago.
Content: Beginning in January 2021, Mandiant Managed Defense observed multiple instances of abuse of Microsoft Exchange Server within at least one client environment. The observed activity included creation of web shells for persistent access, remote code execution, and reconnaissance for endpoint security solutions. Our investigation revealed that the file...
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Published: 2021 03 04 22:30:00
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Article: Remediation and Hardening Strategies for Microsoft 365 to Defend Against UNC2452 - published almost 4 years ago.
Content: UPDATE (Mar. 18): Mandiant recently observed targeted threat actors modifying mailbox folder permissions of user mailboxes to maintain persistent access to the targeted users' email messages. This stealthy technique is not usually monitored by defenders and provides threat actors a way to access the desired email messages using any com...
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Published: 2021 01 19 14:00:00
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Article: Monitoring ICS Cyber Operation Tools and Software Exploit Modules To Anticipate Future Threats - published over 4 years ago.
Content: There has only been a small number of broadly documented cyber attacks targeting operational technologies (OT) / industrial control systems (ICS) over the last decade. While fewer attacks is clearly a good thing, the lack of an adequate sample size to determine risk thresholds can make it difficult for defenders to understand the threat environment...
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Published: 2020 03 23 12:00:00
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Article: Back in a Bit: Attacker Use of the Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service - published over 3 years ago.
Content: In this blog post we will describe: How attackers use the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) Forensic techniques for detecting attacker activity with data format specifications Public release of the BitsParser tool A real-world example of malware using BITS persistenc...
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Published: 2021 03 31 15:00:00
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Topic: Cyber Security

Article: M-Trends 2021: A View From the Front Lines - published over 3 years ago.
Content: We are thrilled to launch M-Trends 2021, the 12th edition of our annual FireEye Mandiant publication. The past year has been unique, as we witnessed an unprecedented combination of global events. Business operations shifted in response to the worldwide pandemic and threat actors continued to escalate the sophistication and aggressiveness of th...
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Published: 2021 04 13 13:45:00
Received: 2021 06 06 09:05:11
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Category: Cyber Security
Topic: Cyber Security

Article: Hacking Operational Technology for Defense: Lessons Learned From OT Red Teaming Smart Meter Control Infrastructure - published over 3 years ago.
Content: High-profile security incidents in the past decade have brought increased scrutiny to cyber security for operational technology (OT). However, there is a continued perception across critical infrastructure organizations that OT networks are isolated from public networks—such as the Internet. In Mandiant’s experience, the concept of an ‘air gap’ sep...
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Published: 2021 04 13 15:00:00
Received: 2021 06 06 09:05:11
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Category: Cyber Security
Topic: Cyber Security

Article: Abusing Replication: Stealing AD FS Secrets Over the Network - published over 3 years ago.
Content: Organizations are increasingly adopting cloud-based services such as Microsoft 365 to host applications and data. Sophisticated threat actors are catching on and Mandiant has observed an increased focus on long-term persistent access to Microsoft 365 as one of their primary objectives. The focus on developing novel and hard to detect methods to ach...
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Published: 2021 04 27 17:00:00
Received: 2021 06 06 09:05:11
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Category: Cyber Security
Topic: Cyber Security

Article: Ghostwriter Update: Cyber Espionage Group UNC1151 Likely Conducts Ghostwriter Influence Activity - published over 3 years ago.
Content: In July 2020, Mandiant Threat Intelligence released a public report detailing an ongoing influence campaign we named “Ghostwriter.” Ghostwriter is a cyber-enabled influence campaign which primarily targets audiences in Lithuania, Latvia and Poland and promotes narratives critical of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) presence in ...
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Published: 2021 04 28 10:00:00
Received: 2021 06 06 09:05:11
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Category: Cyber Security
Topic: Cyber Security

Article: Zero-Day Exploits in SonicWall Email Security Lead to Enterprise Compromise - published over 3 years ago.
Content: In March 2021, Mandiant Managed Defense identified three zero-day vulnerabilities in SonicWall’s Email Security (ES) product that were being exploited in the wild. These vulnerabilities were executed in conjunction to obtain administrative access and code execution on a SonicWall ES device. The adversary leveraged these vulnerabilities, with intima...
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Published: 2021 04 20 21:00:00
Received: 2021 06 06 09:05:11
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Category: Cyber Security
Topic: Cyber Security

Article: UNC2447 SOMBRAT and FIVEHANDS Ransomware: A Sophisticated Financial Threat - published over 3 years ago.
Content: Mandiant has observed an aggressive financially motivated group, UNC2447, exploiting one SonicWall VPN zero-day vulnerability prior to a patch being available and deploying sophisticated malware previously reported by other vendors as SOMBRAT. Mandiant has linked the use of SOMBRAT to the deployment of ransomware, which has not been previously repo...
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Published: 2021 04 29 21:00:00
Received: 2021 06 06 09:05:11
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Category: Cyber Security
Topic: Cyber Security

Article: The UNC2529 Triple Double: A Trifecta Phishing Campaign - published over 3 years ago.
Content: In December 2020, Mandiant observed a widespread, global phishing campaign targeting numerous organizations across an array of industries. Mandiant tracks this threat actor as UNC2529. Based on the considerable infrastructure employed, tailored phishing lures and the professionally coded sophistication of the malware, this threat actor appears expe...
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Published: 2021 05 04 14:00:00
Received: 2021 06 06 09:05:11
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Category: Cyber Security
Topic: Cyber Security

Article: Check Your Pulse: Suspected APT Actors Leverage Authentication Bypass Techniques and Pulse Secure Zero-Day - published over 3 years ago.
Content: Executive Summary Mandiant recently responded to multiple security incidents involving compromises of Pulse Secure VPN appliances. This blog post examines multiple, related techniques for bypassing single and multifactor authentication on Pulse Secure VPN devices, persisting across upgrades, and maintaining access through webshells. The i...
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Published: 2021 04 20 14:00:00
Received: 2021 06 06 09:05:11
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Category: Cyber Security
Topic: Cyber Security

Article: Shining a Light on DARKSIDE Ransomware Operations - published over 3 years ago.
Content: Update (May 14): Mandiant has observed multiple actors cite a May 13 announcement that appeared to be shared with DARKSIDE RaaS affiliates by the operators of the service. This announcement stated that they lost access to their infrastructure, including their blog, payment, and CDN servers, and would be closing their service. Decrypter...
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Published: 2021 05 11 21:30:00
Received: 2021 06 06 09:05:11
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Category: Cyber Security
Topic: Cyber Security

Article: Crimes of Opportunity: Increasing Frequency of Low Sophistication Operational Technology Compromises - published over 3 years ago.
Content: Attacks on control processes supported by operational technology (OT) are often perceived as necessarily complex. This is because disrupting or modifying a control process to cause a predictable effect is often quite difficult and can require a lot of time and resources. However, Mandiant Threat Intelligence has observed simpler attacks, where acto...
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Published: 2021 05 25 14:00:00
Received: 2021 06 06 09:05:11
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Category: Cyber Security
Topic: Cyber Security

Article: Re-Checking Your Pulse: Updates on Chinese APT Actors Compromising Pulse Secure VPN Devices - published over 3 years ago.
Content: On April 20, 2021, Mandiant published detailed results of our investigations into compromised Pulse Secure devices by suspected Chinese espionage operators. This blog post is intended to provide an update on our findings, give additional recommendations to network defenders, and discuss potential implications for U.S.-China strategic relations. ...
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Published: 2021 05 27 17:00:00
Received: 2021 06 06 09:05:11
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Category: Cyber Security
Topic: Cyber Security