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HTML Smuggling and IceID Trojan: A Guide to Corporate Defense

In March, Fortgale detected a significant increase in malicious activity targeting Italian companies associated with the spread of the Trojan IceID malware. The most relevant activity was identified in the March 16 campaign in which the criminal actor manipulated previous conversations of the victims by inserting a malicious attachment with theHTML Smuggling technique: A company … Read more

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·Malware Analysis

TrueBot Malware Analysis (16-06-2023)

After recent online publications regarding the TrueBot malware (VMware, Bleeping and THN), we have decided to contributing with our analysis of this potential new threat. At the end, you will find the indicators of compromise and a Yara rule to identify it. Before starting with the technical analysis of the malware, we believe it is … Read more

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·Malware Analysis

StrelaStealer Malware Analysis

Fortgale has identified an offensive campaign targeting Italian business systems, carried out via malicious email containing the StrelaStealer malware. During the compromise, several techniques are observed including: Its purpose is usually to collect information about Outlook and ThunderBird accounts, as also confirmed by our technical analysis. The attention of these Threat Actors is focusing on … Read more

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·Defence

Eradicating WannaMine and Restoring Corporate Security

In 2021, Fortgale conducted an Incident Response operation to eradicate the WannaMine malware from the systems of an Italian company operating in the industrial sector. The malware proliferated across several hundred systems, exploiting a variety of propagation techniques. Upon installation, WannaMine initiates cryptocurrency mining activities, leading to substantial disruptions in the company’s operations due to … Read more

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·Uncategorized

Malware Qakbot – Compromissioni Marzo 2022

In questi giorni, come già sottolineato in precedenza (approfondimenti) è evidente un aumento generale delle attività di compromissione. I gruppi criminali utilizzano i malware per diversi scopi, fra questi l’esecuzione di attacchi Ransomware, l’esfiltrazione di informazioni sensibili, la cattura di credenziali. Il malware Qakbot viene spesso utilizzato per questo genere ti attività, malware noto ormai … Read more

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