CIRT

This post explores some of the TTPs employed by a threat actor who were observed deploying LockBit 3.0 ransomware during an incident response engagement.

In the Threat Pulse released in November 2021 we touched on Everest Ransomware group. This latest blog documents the TTPs employed by a group who were observed deploying Everest ransomware during a recent incident response engagement.

This blog post documents some of the TTPs employed by a threat actor group who were observed deploying Black Basta ransomware during a recent incident response engagement, as well as a breakdown of the executable file which performs the encryption.

MetaStealer is a new information stealer variant designed to fill the void following Racoon stealer suspending operations in March of this year.

This blog post documents some of the actions taken during the initial access phase for an attack attributed to Lazarus, along with analysis of the malware that was utilised during this phase.

BUMBLEBEE is a new malicious loader that is being used by several threat actors and has been observed to download different malicious samples. This post provides our initial analysis

This post describes the techniques, tactics and procedures we observed during recent LAPSUS$ incidents.

This post describes the methods and techniques we observed during recent incidents that took place after the Coni data leaks.

Category:  Detection and Threat Hunting What is WMIC? The Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Command-Line Utility (WMIC) is a command-line utility that allows users to perform WMI operations from a command prompt. WMI is an interface providing a variety of Windows management functions. Applications and WMI scripts can be deployed to…

NCC Group’s Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT) have responded to several extortion cases recently involving the threat actor Karakurt.  During these investigations NCC Group CIRT have identified some key indicators that the threat actor has breached an environment and want to share this information to assist the cyber security community.

NCC Group’s global Cyber Incident Response Team has observed an increase in Clop ransomware victims in the past weeks. The surge can be traced back to a vulnerability in SolarWinds Serv-U that is being abused by the TA505 threat actor. TA505 is a known cybercrime threat actor, who is known…

Category:  Detection/Reduction/Prevention Overview Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is how users of Microsoft Windows systems can get a remote desktop on systems remotely to manage one or more workstations and/or servers.  With the increase of organizations opting for remote work, so to has RDP usage over the internet increased. However, RDP was…

Over the past few months NCC Group has observed an increasing number of data breach extortion cases, where the attacker steals data and threatens to publish said data online if the victim decides not to pay. Given the current threat landscape, most notable is the absence of ransomware or any…

Overview During the week of July 19th, 2021, information security researchers published a proof of concept tool named “PetitPotam” that exploits a flaw in Microsoft Windows Active Directory Certificate Servers with an NTLM relay attack.  The flaw allows an attacker to gain administrative privileges of an Active Directory Certificate Server…

Category:  Detection and Threat Hunting Overview During the week of June 21st, 2021, information security researchers from G Data discovered that a driver for Microsoft Windows named “netfilter.sys” had a backdoor added by a 3rd party that Microsoft then signed as a part of the Microsoft OEM program.  The malicious…

NCC Group’s Incident Response team observed a new variant of the FiveHands ransomware, deployed by an affiliate leveraging publicly available tools to progress their attack. This blog post aims to describe the developments in the ransomware variant and the techniques used by the affiliate.