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Threat Brief: Office Documents Can Be Dangerous (But We’ll Continue to Use Them Anyway)
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How Ransomware Gangs Use Automation, and How You Can Beat It
Recorded Future outlines ten automation strategies ransomware gangs use, from credential marketplaces to bulletproof hosting, urging intelligence-led defense.
A Recorded Future blog post promoting an Insikt Group report and webinar describes how ransomware gangs leverage automation across their attack cycles. The Insikt Group identified ten key strategies, including selling breached credential databases on underground forums, checkers and brute-forcers for validating stolen credentials, loaders and crypters for evading antivirus, banking injects, exploit kits, spam and phishing services, bulletproof hosting services, sniffers, and automated marketplaces for selling stolen credentials and digital fingerprints. The post argues defenders should adopt intelligence-led automation to counter the speed and scale of automated criminal tooling.
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Threat Brief: Maze Ransomware
Unit 42 issued a threat brief on Maze ransomware, noting an uptick across industries and exploitation of Pulse VPN and IE flaws for initial access.
Palo Alto Networks detected an uptick in Maze ransomware samples across finance, healthcare, government, and other sectors. Maze, a variant of ChaCha ransomware first seen in May 2019, is distributed via weaponized Word/Excel attachments and the Spelevo exploit kit leveraging CVE-2018-15982 and CVE-2018-4878, and has used CVE-2019-11510 (Pulse VPN) and CVE-2018-8174 (Internet Explorer). Operators establish a foothold, escalate privileges, move laterally, and exfiltrate files before encryption for extortion leverage.
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