Cobalt Group

Cobalt Group is a financially motivated threat group that has primarily targeted financial institutions since at least 2016. The group has conducted intrusions to steal money via targeting ATM systems, card processing, payment systems and SWIFT systems. Cobalt Group has mainly targeted banks in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia. One of the alleged leaders was arrested in Spain in early 2018, but the group still appears to be active. The group has been known to target organizations in order to use their access to then compromise additional victims. Reporting indicates there may be links between Cobalt Group and both the malware Carbanak and the group Carbanak.

This Cyber News was published on attack.mitre.org. Publication date: Thu, 07 Dec 2023 22:12:07 +0000


Cyber News related to Cobalt Group

International Operation Takes Down 593 Malicious Cobalt Strike Servers - Law enforcement agencies from around the world have successfully shut down 593 rogue servers running unauthorized versions of Cobalt Strike, a tool often misused by cybercriminals. Cobalt Strike, developed in 2012 by Raphael Mudge and now owned by ...
8 months ago Cybersecuritynews.com
Malicious use of Cobalt Strike down 80% after crackdown, Fortra says | The Record from Recorded Future News - Microsoft, the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC) and Fortra, which bought Cobalt Strike in 2020, have worked since 2023 to address the longstanding issue of pirated and unlicensed versions of the software being downloaded ...
2 days ago Therecord.media
Key Group uses leaked builders of ransomware and wipers | Securelist - The first discovered sample of Key Group, the Xorist ransomware, established persistence in the system by changing file extension associations. The .huis_bn extension added to encrypted files in the early versions of Key Group samples, Xorist and ...
5 months ago Securelist.com
Cobalt Group - Cobalt Group is a financially motivated threat group that has primarily targeted financial institutions since at least 2016. The group has conducted intrusions to steal money via targeting ATM systems, card processing, payment systems and SWIFT ...
1 year ago Attack.mitre.org Carbanak Cobalt Group
CVE-2022-48895 - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ...
2 months ago
Europol Announces Crackdown on Cobalt Strike Servers Used by Cybercriminals - European law enforcement agency Europol on Wednesday announced a global crackdown against the use of legitimate security tools by cybercriminals, including the takedown of nearly 600 Cobalt Strike servers linked to criminal activity. The agency said ...
8 months ago Securityweek.com
security and privacy in Facebook groups - Having found myself roped into assisting as co-administrator a couple of Facebook groups with security/privacy issues, I thought I should, perhaps, share what little I know about defending your group against scam and spam posts and comments by ...
1 year ago Securityboulevard.com
Identifying Misuse of Cobalt Strike Systems - Google Cloud recently identified 34 cracked versions of Cobalt Strike and released YARA Rules to detect them. The goal is to make it harder for malicious actors to abuse the tool. IronNet believes that a proactive approach to Cobalt Strike server ...
2 years ago Ironnet.com
Malware Takedowns Show Progress, But Fight Against Cybercrime Not Over - Takedown of malware infrastructure by law enforcement has proven to have an impact, albeit limited, on cybercriminal activity, according to threat intelligence provider Recorded Future. The Emotet takedown, led by Europol and Eurojust in 2021. The ...
1 year ago Infosecurity-magazine.com
NCC Group records the most ransomware victims ever in 2023 - While coordinated law enforcement action and government initiatives helped in the fight against ransomware last year, NCC Group still recorded an 84% increase in attacks during 2023. The report included data from NCC Group's Cyber Incident Response ...
1 year ago Techtarget.com Rocke 8base LockBit BianLian Medusa
New 'GambleForce' Threat Actor Behind String of SQL Injection Attacks - Researchers have spotted a new threat actor targeting organizations in the Asia-Pacific region with SQL injection attacks using nothing more than publicly available, open source penetration-testing tools. The GambleForce Campaign In a report this ...
1 year ago Darkreading.com
How workforce reductions affect cybersecurity postures - In its State of Pentesting Report, Cobalt reveals an industry struggling to balance the use of AI and protecting against it, while facing significant resource and staffing constraints. Pentesting plays a key role in addressing this challenge, ...
10 months ago Helpnetsecurity.com
SQL Brute Force leads to Bluesky Ransomware - In December 2022, we observed an intrusion on a public-facing MSSQL Server, which resulted in BlueSky ransomware. First discovered in June 2022, BlueSky ransomware has code links to Conti and Babuk ransomware. While other reports point to malware ...
1 year ago Thedfirreport.com CVE-2023-27350 BianLian
Cobalt's New Report Uncovers a Big Shift in Cybersecurity Strategy - PRESS RELEASE. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ - Cobalt, the pioneers of Pentest as a Service, empowering businesses to operate fearlessly and innovate securely, has today announced the release of the inaugural OffSec Shift Report. ...
1 year ago Darkreading.com
Imperva Detects Undocumented 8220 Gang Activities - Imperva Threat Research has detected previously undocumented activity from the 8220 gang, which is known for the mass deployment of malware using a variety of continuously evolving TTPs. This threat actor has been known to target both Windows and ...
1 year ago Imperva.com CVE-2017-3506 CVE-2021-44228 CVE-2020-14883 CVE-2020-14882
Cybercrime experts reveal how to infiltrate ransomware gangs The Register - Though it happens rarely, it's always a good day when a ransomware group is taken down by law enforcement. Singapore-based Group-IB celebrated its 20th anniversary in the cybersecurity industry this year, and during this time its researchers have ...
1 year ago Go.theregister.com Qilin
Russia hacking: 'FSB in years-long cyber attacks on UK', says government - The UK is accusing Russia's Security Service, the FSB, of a sustained cyber-hacking campaign, targeting politicians and others in public life. The government said one group stole data through cyber-attacks, which was later made public, including ...
1 year ago Bbc.com
Cybercrime experts reveal how to infiltrate ransomware gangs The Register - Though it happens rarely, it's always a good day when a ransomware group is taken down by law enforcement. Singapore-based Group-IB celebrated its 20th anniversary in the cybersecurity industry this year, and during this time its researchers have ...
1 year ago Theregister.com Qilin
'ChamelGang' APT Disguises Espionage Activities With Ransomware - A likely China-backed advanced persistent threat group has been systematically using ransomware to disguise its relatively prolific cyber-espionage operations for the past three years, at least. The threat actor, who researchers at SentinelOne are ...
8 months ago Darkreading.com APT41
Europol shutters ransomware operation with kingpin arrests The Register - International law enforcement investigators have made a number of high-profile arrests after tracking a major cybercrime group for more than four years. A joint investigation team, spearheaded by French authorities, formed in 2019 to bring down a ...
1 year ago Theregister.com LockBit Rhysida
Cypher Queries in BloodHound Enterprise - Our first use case is identifying Domain Trusts that exist within an environment. Our specific query here, Map Domain Trusts can be selected which automatically populates the search window with the built-in query. Selecting Search will then return a ...
1 year ago Securityboulevard.com
New Hacker Group Uses SQL Injection to Hack Companies - A new threat actor has been discovered to be using SQL injection attacks to gain unauthorized access to organizations in the APAC region. Among the 20, the threat actor successfully infiltrated six organizations with the legacy SQL injection attack. ...
1 year ago Cybersecuritynews.com
Water Curupira Hackers Launch Pikabot Malware Attack Windows - Pikabot is a loader malware that is active in spam campaigns and has been used by the threat group Water Curupira, which has been paused from June to September 2023 after Qakbot's takedown. The surge in Pikabot phishing campaigns was noted recently ...
1 year ago Gbhackers.com Black Basta
State-Sponsored APT Groups Use Ransomware Tactics for Intelligence Gathering and Sabotage - State-sponsored threat groups are increasingly using ransomware-like tactics to hide more insidious activities. Russian APT group Sandworm has used ransomware programs to destroy data multiple times in the past six months, while North Korea's Lazarus ...
2 years ago Csoonline.com Andariel APT3 APT37 APT38 Kimsuky Lazarus Group BianLian
CVE-2024-26773 - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: avoid allocating blocks from corrupted group in ext4_mb_try_best_found() Determine if the group block bitmap is corrupted before using ac_b_ex in ext4_mb_try_best_found() to ...
11 months ago Tenable.com

Cyber Trends (last 7 days)