Leveraging Threat Intelligence in Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Part 2

You can use public Cisco Talos blogs and third-party threat intelligence data with Cisco Secure Network Analytics to build custom security events.

SOC Findings Report From RSA Conference 2024

Discover key insights from the SOC Findings Report at RSA Conference 2024, co-released by Cisco and NetWitness for Cybersecurity Awareness Month.

Leveraging Threat Intelligence in Cisco Secure Network Analytics

Cisco Secure Network Analytics provides pervasive network visibility and security analytics for advanced protection across the extended network and cloud. The purpose of this blog is to review two methods of using threat intelligence in Secure Network Analytics. First, we will cover the threat intelligence feed, and then we will look at using your own […]

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Governmental entities in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia are the target of a Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) group as part of an ongoing cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation Diplomatic Specter since at least late 2022. "An analysis of this threat actor’s activity reveals long-term espionage operations against at least seven governmental entities," Palo Alto Networks

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously undocumented threat group called Unfading Sea Haze that's believed to have been active since 2018. The intrusion singled out high-level organizations in South China Sea countries, particularly military and government targets, Bitdefender said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "The investigation revealed a troubling

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Polish government institutions have been targeted as part of a large-scale malware campaign orchestrated by a Russia-linked nation-state actor called APT28. "The campaign sent emails with content intended to arouse the recipient's interest and persuade him to click on the link," the computer emergency response team, CERT Polska, said in a Wednesday bulletin. Clicking on the link

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Hackers Increasingly Abusing Microsoft Graph API for Stealthy Malware Communications

Threat actors have been increasingly weaponizing Microsoft Graph API for malicious purposes with the aim of evading detection. This is done to "facilitate communications with command-and-control (C&C) infrastructure hosted on Microsoft cloud services," the Symantec Threat Hunter Team, part of Broadcom, said in a report shared with The Hacker News.

How to Make Your Employees Your First Line of Cyber Defense

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Hackers Exploiting WP-Automatic Plugin Bug to Create Admin Accounts on WordPress Sites

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eScan Antivirus Update Mechanism Exploited to Spread Backdoors and Miners

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C2-Tracker - Live Feed Of C2 Servers, Tools, And Botnets

Free to use IOC feed for various tools/malware. It started out for just C2 tools but has morphed into tracking infostealers and botnets as well. It uses shodan.io/">Shodan searches to collect the IPs. The most recent collection is always stored in data; the IPs are broken down by tool and there is an all.txt.

The feed should update daily. Actively working on making the backend more reliable

Honorable Mentions

Many of the Shodan queries have been sourced from other CTI researchers:

• BushidoToken
• Michael Koczwara
• ViriBack
• Gi7W0rm
• @Glacius_

Huge shoutout to them!

Thanks to BertJanCyber for creating the KQL query for ingesting this feed

And finally, thanks to Y_nexro for creating C2Live in order to visualize the data

What do I track?

• C2's
  • Cobalt Strike
  • Metasploit Framework
  • Covenant
  • Mythic
  • Brute Ratel C4
  • Posh
  • Sliver
  • Deimos
  • PANDA
  • NimPlant C2
  • Havoc C2
  • Caldera
  • Empire
  • Ares
• Malware
  • AcidRain Stealer
  • Misha Stealer (AKA Grand Misha)
  • Patriot Stealer
  • RAXNET Bitcoin Stealer
  • Titan Stealer
  • Collector Stealer
  • Mystic Stealer
  • Gotham Stealer
  • Meduza Stealer
  • Quasar RAT
  • ShadowPad
  • AsyncRAT
  • DcRat
  • BitRAT
  • DarkComet Trojan
  • XtremeRAT Trojan
  • NanoCore RAT Trojan
  • Gh0st RAT Trojan
  • DarkTrack RAT Trojan
  • njRAT Trojan
  • Remcos Pro RAT Trojan
  • Poison Ivy Trojan
  • Orcus RAT Trojan
  • ZeroAccess Trojan
  • HOOKBOT Trojan
• Tools
  • XMRig Monero Cryptominer
  • GoPhish
• Botnets
  • 7777 Botnet

Running Locally

If you want to host a private version, put your Shodan API key in an environment variable called SHODAN_API_KEY

echo SHODAN_API_KEY=API_KEY >> ~/.bashrc
bash
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
python3 tracker.py

Contributing

I encourage opening an issue/PR if you know of any additional Shodan searches for identifying adversary infrastructure. I will not set any hard guidelines around what can be submitted, just know, fidelity is paramount (high true/false positive ratio is the focus).

References

• Hunting C2 with Shodan by Michael Koczwara
• Hunting Cobalt Strike C2 with Shodan by Michael Koczwara
• https://twitter.com/MichalKoczwara/status/1591750513238118401?cxt=HHwWgsDUiZGqhJcsAAAA
• BushidoToken's OSINT-SearchOperators
• https://twitter.com/MichalKoczwara/status/1641119242618650653
• https://twitter.com/MichalKoczwara/status/1641676761283850241
• https://twitter.com/_montysecurity/status/1643164749599834112
• https://twitter.com/ViriBack/status/1713714868564394336
• https://gi7w0rm.medium.com/the-curious-case-of-the-7777-botnet-86e3464c3ffd
• https://twitter.com/Glacius_/status/1731699013873799209

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The Russia-linked nation-state threat actor tracked as APT28 weaponized a security flaw in the Microsoft Windows Print Spooler component to deliver a previously unknown custom malware called GooseEgg. The post-compromise tool, which is said to have been used since at least June 2020 and possibly as early as April 2019, leveraged a now-patched flaw that allowed for

Pentera's 2024 Report Reveals Hundreds of Security Events per Week, Highlighting the Criticality of Continuous Validation

Over the past two years, a shocking 51% of organizations surveyed in a leading industry report have been compromised by a cyberattack. Yes, over half.  And this, in a world where enterprises deploy an average of 53 different security solutions to safeguard their digital domain.  Alarming? Absolutely. A recent survey of CISOs and CIOs, commissioned by Pentera and

Palo Alto Networks Discloses More Details on Critical PAN-OS Flaw Under Attack

Palo Alto Networks has shared more details of a critical security flaw impacting PAN-OS that has come under active exploitation in the wild by malicious actors. The company described the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-3400 (CVSS score: 10.0), as "intricate" and a combination of two bugs in versions PAN-OS 10.2, PAN-OS 11.0, and PAN-OS 11.1 of the software. "In

Critical Update: CrushFTP Zero-Day Flaw Exploited in Targeted Attacks

Users of the CrushFTP enterprise file transfer software are being urged to update to the latest version following the discovery of a security flaw that has come under targeted exploitation in the wild. "CrushFTP v11 versions below 11.1 have a vulnerability where users can escape their VFS and download system files," CrushFTP said in an advisory released Friday.

BlackTech Targets Tech, Research, and Gov Sectors New 'Deuterbear' Tool

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Hackers Target Middle East Governments with Evasive "CR4T" Backdoor

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OfflRouter Malware Evades Detection in Ukraine for Almost a Decade

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How to Conduct Advanced Static Analysis in a Malware Sandbox

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TA558 Hackers Weaponize Images for Wide-Scale Malware Attacks

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Identity in the Shadows: Shedding Light on Cybersecurity's Unseen Threats

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Palo Alto Networks Releases Urgent Fixes for Exploited PAN-OS Vulnerability

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Iranian MuddyWater Hackers Adopt New C2 Tool 'DarkBeatC2' in Latest Campaign

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Zero-Day Alert: Critical Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Flaw Under Active Attack

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