Threat Bounty Content In January, the members of the Threat Bounty Program were very active in submitting detections for review by SOC Prime’s content verification team. After the verification and examination of the suggested rules, 44 detections were published to the Threat Detection Marketplace, although some rules required minor changes and were returned to the […]

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Throughout 2023, the frequency and sophistication of attacks have increased along with the swift evolution and adoption of AI technology. Defenders are just starting to grasp and leverage the potential of generative AI for defensive purposes to outpace adversaries, while the offensive forces don’t fall behind. Hackers have been abusing AI-powered technologies, like ChatGPT, to […]

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The infamous North Korean state-sponsored hacking group Kimsuky APT has been spotted leveraging a newly discovered Golang-based information stealer tracked as Troll Stealer along with GoBear malware strains in recent attacks against South Korea. The novel malware is capable of stealing user data, network-related data, system information, and other types of data from compromised systems. […]

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State-sponsored hackers acting on behalf of the Beijing government have been organizing offensive operations aimed at collecting intelligence and launching destructive campaigns against the US and global organizations for years, with multiple observed attacks being related to such groups as Mustang Panda or APT41. The latest joint alert by the intelligence agencies of the US, […]

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Cybersecurity researchers recently unveiled a new variant of a stealthy info-stealing malware known as Mispadu Stealer. Adversaries behind the latest attacks against Mexican users leveraging Mispadu banking Trojan have been observed exploiting a recently fixed Windows SmartScreen vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-36025. Detect Mispadu Stealer  With dozens of new malware samples emerging in the cyber domain […]

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In addition to the rising frequency of cyber attacks by the infamous UAC-0050 group targeting Ukraine, other hacking collectives are actively trying to infiltrate the systems and networks of Ukrainian organizations. At the turn of February 2024, defenders identified over 2,000 computers infected with DIRTYMOE (PURPLEFOX) malware as a result of a massive cyber attack […]

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Threat Bounty Content Acceptance Since the launch of the Threat Bounty Program, SOC Prime has been providing skilled and enthusiastic detection engineers to align their skills with the actual and real-time demand for threat detection content. During the year 2023, we continued to align the efforts of the Threat Bounty members with the Platform evolution, […]

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Hot on the heels of the critical CVE-2024-0204 vulnerability disclosure in Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT software, another critical flaw arrests the attention of cyber defenders. Recently, Jenkins developers have addressed nine security bugs affecting the open-source automation server, including a critical vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-23897 that can lead to RCE upon its successful exploitation. With PoCs […]

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Another day, another critical vulnerability on the radar. This time, it’s a critical authentication bypass (CVE-2024-0204) affecting Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT software, which is largely used by enterprises globally for secure file transfer purposes. Hot on the heels of the nefarious flaw in Atlassian’s Confluence Server and Data Center, CVE-2024-0204 might be promptly added to the […]

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Adversaries carry out high-profile in-the-wild attacks by weaponizing RCE vulnerabilities impacting Atlassian Confluence servers. A newly uncovered RCE vulnerability in the Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server has been observed under active exploitation just a few days after its discovery. The critical flaw tracked as CVE-2023-22527 with the highest possible CVSS score of 10.0 affects […]

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