Attacks with the novel Domino malware developed by the FIN7 hacking group and former members of the now-defunct Conti ransomware operation have been targeting corporate networks since February, BleepingComputer reports.
IBM researchers discovered that the Domino malware family has been distributed using the "Dave Loader" malware loader previously used for Emotet deployment. Such a loader would drop the "Domino Backdoor," which would then prompt the installation of the "Domino Loader" that would then plant the .NET information stealer "Nemesis Project" and a Cobalt Strike beacon.
"The Domino Backdoor is designed to contact a different C2 address for domain-joined systems, suggesting a more capable backdoor, such as Cobalt Strike, will be downloaded on higher value targets instead of Project Nemesis," said IBM researchers Charlotte Hammond and Ole Villadsen.
Significant overlaps between Domino and the Lizar post-exploitation toolkit, also known as Tirion and DiceLoader, have prompted the new malware's attribution to FIN7.
Domino malware was also found to have been deployed through the "NewWorldOrder" loader also used in FIN7 attacks.
Golden Chickens malware developer unmasked SecurityWeek reports that Golden Chickens malware, which has been used by the Russian Cobalt Group and FIN6 cybercrime operations, had its second developer identified by eSentire to be a Romanian named Jack, also known as Lucky and badbullzvenom. Password stealers were Jack's main specialty when he began engaging in cybercrime as a teen, releasing the Voyer malware tool for exfiltrating Yahoo instant messages between 2007 and 2008, followed by the FlyCatcher tool for keystroke logging between 2008 and 2009, and the Con password stealer for browser, instant messenger, VPN, and FTP app credential theft in 2010, according to the eSentire report. Jack was noted by researchers to have met with Golden Chickens co-developer 'Chuck from Montreal' in the dark web from late 2012 to October 2013, before proceeding to release Multiplier and VenomKit in 2015 and 2017, respectively, which were later consolidated into Golden Chickens. "Security experts assert that in 2017 the Cobalt Group used badbullzvenoms (aka: Lucky) VenomKit to deploy Cobalt Strike in attacks on banks and then they used it again in 2018," said eSentire, which noted that the malware suite was leveraged by FIN6 in 2019, the same year when the suite included the PureLocker ransomware plugin.
Different information-stealing malware strains have been distributed in separate campaigns leveraging websites masquerading as the TikTok video editor CapCut, according to BleepingComputer.
Open source password manager KeePass is being impacted by a security flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-32784, which could be exploited to facilitate master password retrieval from program memory, SecurityWeek reports. "The memory dump can be a KeePass process dump, swap file (pagefile.sys), hibernation file (hiberfil.sys), or RAM dump of the entire system.