GoSecure Blog
TrickBot Leverages Zoom Work from Home Interview Malspam, Heaven’s Gate and… Spamhaus?
The team of expert analysts at GoSecure Titan labs have reverse-engineered a new TrickBot cleverly hidden in a Zoom job interview email through a sample obtained from GoSecure Titan Inbox Detection and Response (IDR). The email message contained a shortcut (LNK) file entitled Interview_details.lnk and that LNK file downloads a loader which will be examined in this blog. GoSecure Titan Labs named the loader TrickGate because it uses the Heaven’s Gate technique to load TrickBot, one of the world’s most prevalent botnets.
GoSecure Investigates Abusing Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) to Enable NTLM Relaying Attacks
In part three of a series, GoSecure ethical hackers have found another way to exploit insecure Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) configurations. By taking advantage of the authentication provided by the Windows update client and relaying it to other domain services, we found this can lead to remote code execution. In this blog, we’ll share our findings and recommend mitigations.
New Malware “Gameloader” in Discord Malspam Campaign Identified by GoSecure Titan Labs
The expert investigators at GoSecure Titan Labs have found, analyzed and created signatures to detect a new malware that they call Gameloader – since it and its variants contain numerous strings that attempt to disguise themselves as video games. The file Titan Labs used for their research was a Rich Text Format (RTF) file entitled New Purchase Order from Alibaba.doc provided by the GoSecure Titan Inbox Detection and Response (IDR) team. The RTF file downloads a 32-bit .NET loader, which loads FormBook Stealer. The following is an in-depth analysis of the Gameloader.
A Scientific Notation Bug in MySQL left AWS WAF Clients Vulnerable to SQL Injection
GoSecure ethical hackers found a bug in MySQL that has security consequences. As a result, AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) customers were left unprotected to SQL injection. Our research team further confirmed modsecurity to be affected, but protection is within reach as described in this blog.
Join GoSecure at Hacktoberfest 2021
For the fifth year, GoSecure is encouraging everyone to join Hacktoberfest – a month-long celebration of open-source software. GoSecure has multiple projects open to external contributions. For this event, we have tagged issues that are accessible to newcomers with the official tag [hacktoberfest].
