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Quarterly Report: Incident Response Trends in Q2 2022

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Vulnerabilities mentioned

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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2021-44228
JNDI Injection Remote Code Execution in Apache Log4j2 (Log4Shell)
10.0100%KEVRansomwarePoC ×9
KEV
CVE-2021-45046
Remote Code Execution in Apache Log4j2 via Incomplete Log4Shell Fix
9.0100%KEVRansomwarePoC
KEV

Indicators of compromise

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TypeIndicatorContext
domainbottlenuts.comunder the user profile and attempt to contact a C2 domain (bottlenuts[.]com) to retrieve a file and execute it using the Windows util
domainmega.nzo Cloud Storage Actor exfiltrated data to file sharing site mega[.]nz Collection (TA0009) T1114.003 Email Collection: Email For
domainstandwithukraine.spacewn Cobalt Strike IP addresses. Notably, one of the domains, standwithukraine[.]space, appears to be a reference to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine
ipv4209.127.19.101s the file and enables macros. We identified an IP address, 209.127.19[.]101, within a PowerShell command that would eventually downlo

From the original article

8 min read at blog.talosintelligence.com

For the first time in more than a year, ransomware was not the top threat Cisco Talos Incident Response (CTIR) responded to this quarter, as commodity malware surpassed ransomware by a narrow margin. This is likely due to several factors, including the closure of several ransomware groups, whether it be of their own volition or the actions of global law enforcement agencies and governments.

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