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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 ...
Pronsis Loader: A JPHP-Driven Malware Diverging from D3F@ck Loader
October 08, 2024 | Cris Tomboc and King Orande
Trustwave's Threat Intelligence team has discovered a new malware dubbed ...
What We Know So Far About Zero-Day CUPS Vulnerabilities: CVE-2024-47176, CVE-2024-47076, CVE-2024-47175, and CVE-2024-47177
September 30, 2024
On September 26, 2024, security researcher Simone Margaritellidisclosed the ...
HTML Smuggling: How Blob URLs are Abused to Deliver Phishing Content
September 24, 2024 | Mike Casayuran
HTML smuggling techniques have been around for quite some time. A previous ...
Why Do Criminals Love Phishing-as-a-Service Platforms?
September 23, 2024 | Rodel Mendrez
Phishing-as-a-Service (PaaS) platforms have become the go-to tool for ...
Spam With A Political Twist: Fraudsters Are Exploiting The Election Season
September 17, 2024 | Katrina Udquin
The US election is less than 70 days away and threat actors are busy crafting ...
Bypassing EDR through Retrosigned Drivers and System Time Manipulation
September 13, 2024 | Zachary Reichert
The Retrosigned Driver EDR Bypass is a novel modification of a technique ...
Distributed Denial of Truth (DDoT): The Mechanics of Influence Operations and The Weaponization of Social Media
September 13, 2024 | Jose Tozo
With the US election on the horizon, it’s a good time to explore the concept of ...
DNSForge – Responding with Force
September 09, 2024 | Apurva Goenka
Introducing DNSForge, a novel attacker tactic for responding to name resolution ...
Exposed and Encrypted: Inside a Mallox Ransomware Attack
August 27, 2024 | Bernard Bautista
Recently, a client enlisted the support of Trustwave to investigate an ...
Facebook Malvertising Epidemic – Unraveling a Persistent Threat: SYS01
July 15, 2024
The Trustwave SpiderLabs Threat Intelligence team's ongoing study into how ...
Search & Spoof: Abuse of Windows Search to Redirect to Malware
June 11, 2024 | Bernard Bautista
LevelBlue SpiderLabs has detected a sophisticated malware campaign that ...
Fake Advanced IP Scanner Installer Delivers Dangerous CobaltStrike Backdoor
June 05, 2024 | Rodel Mendrez
During a recent client investigation, Trustwave SpiderLabs found a malicious ...
Fake Dialog Boxes to Make Malware More Convincing
April 17, 2024 | Ram Prakash
Let’s explore how SpiderLabs created and incorporated user prompts, ...
CVE-2024-3400: PAN-OS Command Injection Vulnerability in GlobalProtect Gateway
April 12, 2024
UPDATE: Palo Alto Networks confirmed on Tuesday (4/16) that disabling device ...
DUALITY: Advanced Red Team Persistence Through Self-Reinfecting DLL Backdoors for Unyielding Control
February 12, 2024 | Faisal Tameesh
This blog post introduces the concept of DUALITY, which is a methodology and ...