Hashcat’s GPU-accelerated Gauss encryption cracker
Yesterday, Jens atom Steube, which most people know as the author of hashcat – a GPU accelerated password recovery tool, released his Gauss cracker as open source software under a GPL license
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Sunburst backdoor – code overlaps with Kazuar
While looking at the Sunburst backdoor, we discovered several features that overlap with a previously identified backdoor known as Kazuar. Our observations shows that Kazuar was used together with Turla tools during multiple breaches in past years.
Lazarus covets COVID-19-related intelligence
As the COVID-19 crisis grinds on, some threat actors are trying to speed up vaccine development by any means available. We have found evidence that the Lazarus group is going after intelligence that could help these efforts by attacking entities related to COVID-19 research.
Sunburst: connecting the dots in the DNS requests
We matched private and public DNS data for the SUNBURST-malware root C2 domain with the CNAME records, to identify who was targeted for further exploitation. In total, we analyzed 1722 DNS records, leading to 1026 unique target name parts and 964 unique UIDs.
What did DeathStalker hide between two ferns?
While tracking DeathStalker’s Powersing-based activities in May 2020, we detected a previously unknown implant that leveraged DNS over HTTPS as a C2 channel, as well as parts of its delivery chain. We named this new malware “PowerPepper”.
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