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BlackCat Ransomware (ALPHV)

Jason Hill

Jason Hill

Varonis has observed the ALPHV (BlackCat) ransomware, actively recruiting new affiliates and targeting organizations across multiple sectors worldwide.

Mixed Messages: Busting Box’s MFA Methods

Tal Peleg

Tal Peleg

Varonis Threat Labs discovered a way to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) for Box accounts that use an SMS code for login verification.

Bypassing Box's Time-based One-Time Password MFA

Tal Peleg

Tal Peleg

The Varonis research team discovered a way to bypass Box's Time-based One-Time Password MFA for Box accounts that use authenticator applications.

No Time to REST: Check Your Jira Permissions for Leaks

Omri Marom

Omri Marom

Varonis researchers enumerated a list of 812 subdomains and found 689 accessible Jira instances. We found 3,774 public dashboards, 244 projects, and 75,629 issues containing email addresses, URLs, and IP...

Einstein's Wormhole: Capturing Outlook & Google Calendars via Salesforce Guest User Bug

Nitay Bachrach

Nitay Bachrach

If your organization uses Salesforce Communities and Einstein Activity Capture, you might have unknowingly exposed your administrator's Outlook or Google calendar events to the internet due to a bug called...

BlackMatter Ransomware: In-Depth Analysis & Recommendations

Dvir Sason

Dvir Sason

CISA has issued a security bulletin regarding the BlackMatter 'big game hunter' ransomware group following a sharp increase in cases targeting U.S. businesses. To mitigate these attacks, it is recommended...

Abusing Misconfigured Salesforce Communities for Recon and Data Theft

Nitay Bachrach

Nitay Bachrach

Our research team has discovered numerous publicly accessible Salesforce Communities that are misconfigured and expose sensitive information.

Good for Evil: DeepBlueMagic Ransomware Group Abuses Legit Encryption Tools

Jason Hill

Jason Hill

A group known as "DeepBlueMagic" is suspected of launching a ransomware attack against Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Israel, violating a loose "code of conduct" that many ransomware groups operate...

Lessons from the Twitch Data Leak

Dvir Sason

Dvir Sason

What happened? Increasingly covered by the mainstream press throughout Wednesday, October 6, 2021, the impact of the recent Twitch leak will undoubtedly grow as bad actors take advantage of the...

Return of the Darkside: Analysis of a Large-Scale Data Theft Campaign

Snir Ben Shimol

Snir Ben Shimol

Our team has recently led several high-profile investigations of attacks attributed to an up-and-coming cybercrime group, Darkside ransomware

How to Unpack Malware with x64dbg

Neil Fox

Neil Fox

This article is an x64dbg tutorial in which reverse engineering malware methodology will be explained and demonstrated.

February 2021 Malware Trends Report

Ben Zion Lavi

Ben Zion Lavi

This Februrary 2021 malware trends report is intended to help you better understand the evolving threat landscape and adapt your defenses accordingly.  

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