Patch Tuesday, October 2023

October 10, 2023 | Jeannette Dickens Hale

Halloween is arriving and with it, Trustwave’s return to Patch Tuesday reports.

Amazon (AWS) S3 Bucket Take Over

September 27, 2023 | Medz Barao

Let’s try something a bit different and take a look at some of Trustwave ...

Multiple Command and Control (C2) Frameworks During Red Team Engagements

September 21, 2023 | Philip Pieterse

When conducting Red Team engagements, more than one Command and Control (C2) ...

Stealthy VBA Macro Embedded in PDF-like Header Helps Evade Detection

September 20, 2023 | Rodel Mendrez

In the ever-evolving landscape of malware threats, threat actors are ...

To OSINT and Beyond!

September 13, 2023 | Medz Barao

Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) can be valuable for an organization and ...

A Bucket of Phish: Attackers Shift Tactics with Cloudflare R2 Public Buckets

September 06, 2023 | Karla Agregado

In our previous blog, we found a lot of phishing and scam URLs abusing ...

Threat-Loaded: Malicious PDFs Never Go Out of Style

August 31, 2023 | Bernard Bautista

Introduction In the realm of cybersecurity, danger hides where we least expect ...

The Evolution of Persistent Threats: From Chernobyl to BlackLotus

August 30, 2023 | Jose Tozo

In this blog post, we will explore how the computer security landscape has ...

Think Before You Scan: The Rise of QR Codes in Phishing

August 29, 2023 | Mike Casayuran

QR Codes, the square images that contain coded information that can be scanned ...

Behind the Invite: The Rise of Google Group Fake Order Fraud Emails

August 25, 2023 | Maria Katrina Udquin and John Kevin Adriano

As the world shifted into remote work and distant learning during the pandemic ...

BEC Trends: Payroll Diversion Dominates and Sneaky Multi-Persona Attacks Emerge

August 24, 2023 | Maria Katrina Udquin

Business Email Compromise (BEC) remains a lucrative threat vector for ...

ProxyNation: The dark nexus between proxy apps and malware

August 16, 2023 | Ofer Caspi

Executive summary LevelBlue Labs researchers recently discovered a massive ...

Gootloader: Why your Legal Document Search May End in Misery

August 10, 2023 | Rodel Mendrez

Introduction Recently, we’ve seen a noticeable surge in malware cases linked to ...

WormGPT and FraudGPT – The Rise of Malicious LLMs

August 08, 2023 | Arthur Erzberger

As technology continues to evolve, there is a growing concern about the ...

Honeypot Recon: New Variant of SkidMap Targeting Redis

July 30, 2023 | Radoslaw Zdonczyk

Intro Since Redis is becoming increasingly popular around the world, we decided ...

ModSecurity v3: DoS Vulnerability in Four Transformations (CVE-2023-38285)

July 25, 2023 | SpiderLabs Researcher

ModSecurity is an open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF) engine maintained ...

Cybersecurity in the Healthcare Industry: Trustwave SpiderLabs Report

July 13, 2023 | SpiderLabs Researcher

In their latest report titled "Cybersecurity in the Healthcare Industry: ...

It’s Raining Phish and Scams – How Cloudflare Pages.dev and Workers.dev Domains Get Abused

July 11, 2023 | Karla Agregado

As they say, when it rains, it pours. Recently, we observed more than 3,000 ...

SNAPPY: Detecting Rogue and Fake 802.11 Wireless Access Points Through Fingerprinting Beacon Management Frames

June 27, 2023 | Tom Neaves

Honeypot Recon: MSSQL Server – Database Threat Overview '22/'23

June 20, 2023 | Radoslaw Zdonczyk, Mariusz Siedlecki

Introduction In a constantly connected world, protecting sensitive data in what ...

Brute-forcing ButterflyMX Virtual Keys and Hacking Time Limits

June 15, 2023 | Robert Foggia

Recently, I discovered two vulnerabilities in the ButterflyMX system which were ...

KillNet, Anonymous Sudan, and REvil Unveil Plans for Attacks on US and European Banking Systems

June 15, 2023 | SpiderLabs Researcher

In a recent development, Russian hackers have declared their intention to ...

Honeypot Recon: Global Database Threat Landscape

June 13, 2023 | Radoslaw Zdonczyk

In today's digital era, the importance of securing databases cannot be ...

Trustwave Action Response: Zero Day Vulnerability in Barracuda Email Security Gateway Appliance (ESG) (CVE-2023-2868)

June 09, 2023 | SpiderLabs Researcher

On May 19, 2023, Barracuda Networks identified a remote command injection ...

From Admin to AdminPlusPlus: Breaking Out of Sandboxed Applications Through Recon, Being Brave and Abusing SSO Domain Account Mappings

June 08, 2023 | Tom Neaves

I've been pentesting applications for nearly two decades now and throughout ...

Trustwave Action Response: Zero Day Exploitation of MOVEit (CVE-2023-34362)

June 02, 2023 | Karl Sigler

Update - June 16, 2023: The second vulnerability mentioned in the June 12 ...

Hunting For Password Reset Tokens By Spraying And Using HTTP Pipelining

May 30, 2023 | Tom Neaves

As is tradition with my blog posts, let’s start off a definition of what HTTP ...

SeroXen RAT for sale

May 30, 2023 | Fernando Martinez

This blog was jointly written with Alejandro Prada and Ofer Caspi.