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Research Saturday

Every Saturday, we sit down with cybersecurity researchers to talk shop about the latest threats, vulnerabilities, and technical discoveries.

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18:48

Exploits and vulnerabilities.

Research Saturday ·

2023/12/02

Ryan from Bishop Fox joins to describe their work on "Building an Exploit for FortiGate Vulnerability CVE-2023-27997." After Lexfo published details of a pre-authentication remote code injection vulnerability in the Fortinet SSL VPN, Bishop Fox worked up a proof of concept demo. This research share how they were able to create that proof-of-concept exploit, step by step. The researchers state "Our debugging environment consisted of a FortiGate 7.2.4 virtual machine which we modified to disable

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19:25

Encore: Another infection with new malware.

Research Saturday ·

2023/11/25

Larry Cashdollar, Principal Security Intelligence Response Engineer from Akamai Technologies, joins Dave to talk about their research on "KmsdBot: The Attack and Mine Malware." Akamai's Security Research team has found a new malware that infected their honeypot, which they have dubbed KmsdBot. The research states "The malware attacks using UDP, TCP, HTTP POST, and GET, along with a command and control infrastructure (C2), which communicates over TCP." The botnet targets weak login credentials and

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16:35

The malicious YoroTrooper in disguise.

Research Saturday ·

2023/11/18

Asheer Malhotra from Cisco Talos discussing their research and findings on "Kazakhstan-associated YoroTrooper disguises origin of attacks as Azerbaijan." Cisco Talos' research team, released research attributing the work of the espionage-focused threat actor, YoroTrooper, to individuals based in Kazakhstan. The research states "YoroTrooper attempts to obfuscate the origin of their operations, employing various tactics to make its malicious activity appear to emanate from Azerbaijan, such as using

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24:19

Encore: Old malware returns in a new way.

Research Saturday ·

2023/11/11

Jeremy Kennelly and Sulian Lebegue from Mandiant sit down with Dave to discuss their research "From RM3 to LDR4: URSNIF Leaves Banking Fraud Behind? One of the oldest and most successful banking fraud malwares, URSNIF, which caused an estimated “tens of millions of dollars in losses”, has been discovered by researchers to have been re-tooled into a generic backdoor, dubbed “LDR4”. This new variant was first observed in June 2022. Mandiant researchers believe that the same threat actors who operated

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22:58

Sandman doesn't slow malware down.

Research Saturday ·

2023/11/04

Aleksandar Milenkoski and JAGS from SentinelOne sits down to share their work on "Sandman APT | A Mystery Group Targeting Telcos with a LuaJIT Toolkit." After observing a new threat activity cluster by an unknown threat actor in August of this year, SentinelLabs dubbed it Sandman. The research states "Sandman has been primarily targeting telecommunication providers in the Middle East, Western Europe, and the South Asian subcontinent." Sandman has deployed a novel modular backdoor utilizing the

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23:01

No rest for the wicked HiatusRAT.

Research Saturday ·

2023/10/28

Danny Adamitis from Lumen's Black Lotus Labs sits down to discuss their work on "No Rest For The Wicked: HiatusRAT Takes Little Time Off In A Return To Action." Last March Lumen's Black Lotus Lab researchers discovered a novel malware called HiatusRAT that targeted business-grade routers. The research states "In the latest campaign, we observed a shift in reconnaissance and targeting activity; in June we observed reconnaissance against a U.S. military procurement system, and targeting of

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17:37

AMBERSQUID hides in the depths.

Research Saturday ·

2023/10/21

Sysdig's Alessandro Brucato and Michael Clark join Dave to discuss their work on "AWS's Hidden Threat: AMBERSQUID Cloud-Native Cryptojacking Operation." Attackers are targeting what are typically considered secure AWS services, like AWS Fargate and Amazon SageMaker. This means that defenders generally aren’t as concerned with their security from end-to-end. The research states "The AMBERSQUID operation was able to exploit cloud services without triggering the AWS requirement for approval of more

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17:21

Unwanted guests harvest your information.

Research Saturday ·

2023/10/14

Amit Malik from Uptycs joins us to discuss their research titled "Unwanted Guests: Mitigating Remote Access Trojan Infection Risk." Uptycs threat research team identified a new threat referred to as QwixxRAT. The Uptycs team discovered this tool being widely distributed by the threat actor through Telegram and Discord platforms. The research states "QwixxRAT is meticulously designed to harvest an expansive range of information from browser histories and credit card details, to keylogging insights."

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15:28

Targets from DuckTail.

Research Saturday ·

2023/10/07

Deepen Desai from Zscaler joins to take a look into their research about "DuckTail." In May of 2023, Zscaler ThreatLabz began an intelligence collection operation to decode DuckTail’s maneuvers. Through an intensive three-month period of monitoring, Zscaler was able obtain unprecedented visibility into DuckTail’s end-to-end operations, spanning the entire kill chain from reconnaissance to post-compromise. The research states "DuckTail threat actors primarily target users working in the digital

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17:29

Downloading cracked software.

Research Saturday ·

2023/09/30

David Liebenberg from Cisco Talos joins to discussing Talos' discovery of cracked Microsoft Windows software being downloaded by enterprise users across the globe. Downloading and running this compromised software not only serves as an entry point for threat actors, but can serve as a gateway to access control systems and establish backdoors. Talos identified additional malware, including RATs, on endpoints running this cracked software, which allows an attacker to gain unauthorized remote access to

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14:32

Behind the Google shopping ad masks.

Research Saturday ·

2023/09/23

Maxim Zavodchik from Akamai joins Dave to discuss their research on "Xurum: New Magento Campaign Discovered." Akamai researchers have discovered an ongoing server-side template injection campaign that is exploiting digital commerce websites. This campaign targets Magento 2 shops, and was dubbed Xurum in reference to the domain name of the attacker’s command and control (C2) server. The research states "The attacker uses an advanced web shell named “wso-ng” that is activated only when the attacker

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40:15

A look into the emotions and anxieties of the highest...

Research Saturday ·

2023/09/16

Guest Manuel Hepfer from ISTARI shares his research on cyber resilience which includes discussions with 37 CEOs to gain insight into how they manage cybersecurity risk. ISTARI and Oxford University's Saïd Business School dive into the minds and experiences of CEOs on how they manage cybersecurity risk. Ask any CEO to name the issues that keep them awake at night and cybersecurity risk is likely near the top of the list – with good reason. With the accelerating digitalisation of business models comes

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17:18

No honor in being a criminal.

Research Saturday ·

2023/09/09

This week, our guest is Reece Baldwin from Kasada discussing their work on "No Honour Amongst Thieves: Unpacking a New OpenBullet Malware Campaign." The Kasada Threat Intelligence team has recently identified a malware campaign targeting users of OpenBullet, a tool popular within criminal communities to conduct credential stuffing attacks. This malware campaign was first uncovered when the team was digging around in a Telegram channel setup to share OpenBullet configurations. Reading through a few

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30:05

Thwarting Muddled Libra.

Research Saturday ·

2023/09/02

Kristopher Russo and Stephanie Regan from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 join Dave to talk about Threat Group Assessment: Muddled Libra. With an intimate knowledge of enterprise information technology, this threat group presents a significant risk even to organizations with well-developed legacy cyber defenses. Posing threats to organizations in the software automation, BPO, telecommunications and technology industries, Muddled Libra is a threat group that favors targeting large outsourcing firms

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17:07

Google's not being ghosted from vulnerabilities.

Research Saturday ·

2023/08/26

Tal Skverer from Astrix Security joins to discuss their work on "GhostToken – Exploiting GCP application infrastructure to create invisible, unremovable trojan app on Google accounts." Astrix’s Security Research Group revealed a 0-day flaw in Google’s Cloud Platform (GCP) on June 19, 2022, which was found to affect all Google users. The research states "The vulnerability, dubbed “GhostToken”, could allow threat actors to change a malicious application to be invisible and unremovable, effectively

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22:48

Politicians targeted by RomCom.

Research Saturday ·

2023/08/19

Dmitry Bestuzhev from Blackberry joins to discuss their work on "RomCom Resurfaces: Targeting Politicians in Ukraine and U.S.-Based Healthcare Providing Aid to Refugees from Ukraine." Research suggests that the RomCom threat team has been tracked carefully following the geopolitical events surrounding the war in Ukraine, and are now targeting politicians in Ukraine who are working closely with Western countries. This group is different from others in that their focus is more on secrets or

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18:10

It's raining credentials.

Research Saturday ·

2023/08/12

Alex Delamotte from SentinelLabs joins Dave to discuss their work on "Cloudy With a Chance of Credentials | AWS-Targeting Cred Stealer Expands to Azure, GCP." As actors find more ways to profit from compromising services, SentinelLabs finds that cloud service credentials are becoming increasingly targeted. The lack of threats explicitly targeting Azure and GCP credentials up to this point means there are likely many fresh targets. The research states "These campaigns share similarity with tools

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16:26

Who is that stealing my credentials?

Research Saturday ·

2023/08/05

Aleksandar Milenkoski from SentinelOne joins to discuss their work on "Kimsuky Strikes Again | New Social Engineering Campaign Aims to Steal Credentials and Gather Strategic Intelligence." Researchers have been tracking the North Korean APT group Kimsuky and their attempt at a social engineering campaign targeting experts in North Korean affairs. The research states "The campaign has the objective of stealing Google and subscription credentials of a reputable news and analysis service focusing on

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19:30

Phishing for leeches.

Research Saturday ·

2023/07/29

Ashlee Benge from ReversingLabs discussing their research titled "Operation Brainleeches: Malicious npm packages fuel supply chain and phishing attacks." Researchers recently discovered over a dozen malicious packages published to the npm open source repository. These packages are targeting Microsoft 365 users and appear to target application end users while also supporting email phishing campaigns. Research supports that the malicious campaign encompassed more than a dozen files designed to steal

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18:32

Welcome to New York, it's been waitin' for you.

Research Saturday ·

2023/07/22

Joshua Miller from Proofpoint joins Dave to discuss findings on "Welcome to New York: Exploring TA453's Foray into LNKs and Mac Malware." In mid May, TA453, also known as Charming Kitten, APT42, Mint Sandstorm, and Yellow Garuda, was found sending a benign conversation lure masquerading as a senior fellow with the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) to the public media contact for a nuclear security expert at a US-based think tank focused on foreign affairs. The research states that "the email

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