From December 19, 2022 to Jan 1, 2023, NSFOCUS Security Labs found activity clues of 61 APT groups, 3 malware families (Zbot botnet, SpicyHotPot Trojan, and Banload Trojan), and 490 threat actors targeting critical infrastructure. APT Groups Among the 61 APT groups discovered, the APT28 affected the most significant number...
Author: NSFOCUS
Analysis of Cyber Attack of APT Organization Confucius against Pakistan’s Intelligence-Based Operation
Overview Affected by many factors, Pakistan has long suffered from serious local terrorism threats. The country has also taken counter-terrorism as an important national security strategy. In the second half of 2022, the Pakistani security forces carried out many intelligence-based operations (IBO) in Baluchistan, Khyber and North Waziristan, and killed...
NIPS V5.6R10 Rule Types
NIPS V5.6R10 has five types of rules to detect DDoS attacks, local privilege elevation, information gathering, suspicious network behaviors, and network monitoring events, respectively. They are described as follows. 1. Information gathering Information gathering is the first step of network intrusion. Attackers use various methods to scan and probe target...
Relationship Between Security Concept and Security Assessment for Software Supply Chain
The three concepts, transparency of software supply chain, assessable capabilities of software supply chain security, and trusted software supply chain, are closely related to the ability of end users to conduct security checks and assessments for the software supply chain, including: 1. Basic assessment of software composition security Upstream and...
Exchange Server OWASSRF Vulnerability (CVE-2022-41080/CVE-2022-41082) Alert
Overview Recently, NSFOCUS CERT found that security teams overseas publicly disclosed the technical details of the exploit chain for Exchange Server vulnerabilities. An authenticated remote attacker exploits an Exchange Server privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2022-41080) to gain permission to execute PowerShell in the context of the system on an endpoint Outlook...
NTA Traffic Troubleshooting
Common Problems (1) Choose Monitor > Router, and find that no data is displayed or the router traffic data size is greatly different from that in the real situation.(2) The traffic of some region IP addresses is not monitored.(3) Before upgrading to NTA V4.5R90F02SP06, the router can monitor traffic data,...
