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PhaaS the Secrets: The Hidden Ties Between Tycoon2FA and Dadsec's Operations

May 28, 2025 | Cris Tomboc and King Orande

Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platforms have significantly reshaped the ...

The Blind Spots of Multi-Agent Systems: Why AI Collaboration Needs Caution

May 23, 2025 | Muhammad Ahmad

Multi-agent systems (MAS) are reshaping industries from IT services to ...

Lights Out and Stalled Factories: Using M.A.T.R.I.X to Learn About Modbus Vulnerabilities

May 06, 2025 | Karl Biron

Let’s explore the critical role of Modbus in energy and manufacturing systems, ...

Bring Your Own Installer: Bypassing EDR Through Agent Version Change Interruption

May 05, 2025 | John Ailes and Tim Mashni

Bring Your Own Installer is a technique which can be used by threat actors to ...

Yet Another NodeJS Backdoor (YaNB): A Modern Challenge

April 29, 2025 | Reegun Jayapaul

During an Advanced Continual Threat Hunt (ACTH) investigation conducted in ...

Proton66 Part 2: Compromised WordPress Pages and Malware Campaigns

April 17, 2025 | Pawel Knapczyk, Dawid Nesterowicz

Earlier this year SpiderLabs observed an increase in mass scanning, credential ...

Proton66 Part 1: Mass Scanning and Exploit Campaigns

April 14, 2025 | Pawel Knapczyk, Dawid Nesterowicz

Trustwave SpiderLabs continuously tracks a range of malicious activities ...

Tycoon2FA New Evasion Technique for 2025

April 10, 2025 | Rodel Mendrez

The Tycoon 2FA phishing kit has adopted several new evasion techniques aimed at ...

Babuk2 Bjorka: The Evolution of Ransomware for ‘Data Commoditization’

April 01, 2025 | John Basmayor

An investigation that started with a tip from one of our threat intel sources ...

Fort Knox for Your Data: How Elasticsearch X-Pack Locks Down Your Cluster – Part 1

March 19, 2025 | Karl Biron

Picture this: an always-awake, never-tired, high-speed librarian that instantly ...

DNSForge – Relaying with Force

March 12, 2025 | Apurva Goenka

Introducing a new attack mode for greater flexibility and customization.

A Deep Dive into Strela Stealer and how it Targets European Countries

March 06, 2025 | Dawid Nesterowicz

Infostealers have dominated the malware landscape due to the ease of threat ...

The Rise of Email Marketing Platforms for Business Email Compromise Attacks

February 18, 2025 | Maria Katrina Udquin

In a statistical report published in September 2024 by the Federal Bureau of ...

Beyond the Chatbot: Meta Phishing with Fake Live Support

February 04, 2025 | Mike Casayuran and John Kevin Adriano

In a previous Trustwave SpiderLabs’ blog, we explored how cybercriminals ...

LevelBlue SpiderLabs 2025 Risk Radar Report: Energy and Utilities Sector

January 22, 2025

The energy sector plays a crucial role in national security by ensuring the ...

The New Face of Ransomware: Key Players and Emerging Tactics of 2024

January 21, 2025 | Serhii Melnyk

As we step into 2025, the high-impact, financially motivated ransomware ...

The Database Slayer: Deep Dive and Simulation of the Xbash Malware

January 14, 2025 | Karl Biron

In the world of malware, common ransomware schemes aim to take the data within ...

The State of Magecart: A Persistent Threat to E-Commerce Security

January 09, 2025 | Rodel Mendrez

Trustwave SpiderLabs first blogged about Magecart back in 2019; fast forward ...

Email Bombing: Why You Need to be Concerned

December 18, 2024 | Phil Hay

Over the last few months, the topic of email bombing has been brought to our ...

When User Input Lines Are Blurred: Indirect Prompt Injection Attack Vulnerabilities in AI LLMs

December 10, 2024 | Tom Neaves

It was a cold and wet Thursday morning, sometime in early 2006. There I was ...

Emerging Risks in Third-Party AI Solutions and How to Help Address Them

December 04, 2024 | Scott Swanson and Kris Kimmerle

As the cyber threat landscape changes due the introduction of new threat ...

Rockstar 2FA Phishing-as-a-Service (PaaS): Noteworthy Email Campaigns

November 27, 2024 | Diana Solomon and John Kevin Adriano

Welcome to the second part of our investigation into the Rockstar kit, please ...

CVE-2024-11477: 7-Zip Flaw Allows Remote Code Execution

November 27, 2024 | Pauline Bolaños

On November 20th, 2024, Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) researchers disclosed a ...

Rockstar 2FA: A Driving Force in Phishing-as-a-Service (PaaS)

November 26, 2024 | Diana Solomon and John Kevin Adriano

Trustwave SpiderLabs has been actively monitoring the rise of ...

The Mounted Guest EDR Bypass

November 11, 2024 | Colin Meek

The Mounted Guest EDR Bypass is a tactic used in cyber attacks to evade ...

Hooked by the Call: A Deep Dive into The Tricks Used in Callback Phishing Emails

October 21, 2024 | Katrina Udquin

Introduction Previously, Trustwave SpiderLabs covered a massive fake order spam ...

How Threat Actors Conduct Election Interference Operations: An Overview

October 18, 2024 | Pauline Bolaños

The major headlines that arose from the three most recent US presidential ...

Feline Hackers Among Us? (A Deep Dive and Simulation of the Meow Attack)

October 17, 2024 | Karl Biron

Introduction In the perpetually evolving field of cybersecurity, new threats ...