Adversary Emulation

    Response to CISA Advisory (AA24-326A): Enhancing Cyber Resilience: Insights from CISA Red Team Assessment of a US Critical Infrastructure Sector Organization

    November 22, 2024
    In response to the recently published CISA Advisory (AA24-326A) which highlights the CISA Red Team’s simulation of real-world malicious cyber operations, AttackIQ has provided actionable recommendations to help organizations emulate these attacks. These guidelines enable organizations to emulate tactics and techniques, helping to assess and improve their defenses against similar adversarial behaviors.
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    Response to CISA Advisory (AA24-317A): 2023 Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities

    November 13, 2024
    In response to the recently published CISA Advisory (AA24-317A) that disseminates the top routinely exploited vulnerabilities from 2023, AttackIQ has proposed a multitude of recommendations that customers can take to emulate these prevalent vulnerabilities.
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    Emulating the Destructive WhisperGate Malware

    November 12, 2024
    AttackIQ has released a new attack graph that seeks to emulate the Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) associated with the destructive WhisperGate malware.
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    Response to CISA Advisory (AA24-290A): Iranian Cyber Actors’ Brute Force and Credential Access Activity Compromises Critical Infrastructure Organizations

    October 17, 2024
    AttackIQ has released a new assessment template in response to the CISA Advisory (AA24-290A), published on October 16, 2024. The advisory highlights that since October 2023, Iranian cyber actors have used password spraying and multifactor authentication (MFA) ‘push bombing’ to compromise user accounts and gain access to organizations across various critical infrastructure sectors.
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    Emulating the Opportunistic and Lightweight Lumma Stealer

    October 15, 2024
    AttackIQ has released a new assessment template that addresses the numerous post-compromise Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) associated with the subscription-based information stealer known as Lumma Stealer.
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    Emulating the Surging Hadooken Malware

    October 3, 2024
    AttackIQ has released a new attack graph that emulates the behaviors exhibited by the Hadooken malware during intrusions that abused misconfigurations and critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities on public-facing Oracle Weblogic Servers.
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    Emulating the Petrifying Medusa Ransomware

    September 19, 2024
    AttackIQ has released a new attack graph that emulates the behaviors exhibited by Medusa ransomware since the beginning of its activities in June 2021. Medusa is predominantly propagated through the exploitation of vulnerable services, such as public-facing assets or applications with known unpatched vulnerabilities, and the hijacking of legitimate accounts, often using Initial Access Brokers (IABs) for infiltration.
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    Emulating the Persistent and Stealthy Ebury Linux Malware

    September 12, 2024
    AttackIQ has released a new attack graph that seeks to emulate the Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) associated with Ebury Linux malware. Despite previous arrests and actions against key perpetrators, Ebury continues to evolve, and its operations remain active.
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    Response to CISA Advisory (AA24-249A): Russian Military Cyber Actors Target US and Global Critical Infrastructure

    September 10, 2024
    AttackIQ has released a new assessment template in response to the CISA Advisory (AA24-249A) published on September 5, 2024, that assesses cyber actors affiliated with the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) 161st Specialist Training Center (Unit 29155), who are responsible for computer network operations against global targets for the purposes of espionage, sabotage, and reputational harm since at least 2020.
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    Response to CISA Advisory (AA24-242A): #StopRansomware: RansomHub Ransomware

    September 5, 2024
    AttackIQ has released a new assessment template in response to the CISA Advisory (AA24-207A) published on August 29, 2024, that disseminates known RansomHub ransomware IOCs and TTPs that have been identified through FBI threat response activities and third-party reporting as recently as August 2024.
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    Emulating the Extortionist Mallox Ransomware

    August 30, 2024
    AttackIQ has released a new attack graph that emulates the behaviors exhibited by Mallox ransomware since the beginning of its activities in June 2021. Mallox primarily gains access to victim networks through dictionary brute-force attacks against unsecured MS-SQL servers.
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    Response to CISA Advisory (AA24-241A): Iran-based Cyber Actors Enabling Ransomware Attacks on US Organizations

    August 29, 2024
    AttackIQ has released a new assessment template in response to the CISA Advisory (AA24-241A) published on August 28, 2024. The advisory outlines espionage activity associated with a specific group of Iranian cyber actors that have conducted a high volume of intrusion attempts against US organizations since 2017 and as recently as August 2024
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