GSocket Gambling Scavenger – How Hackers Use PHP Backdoors and GSocket to Facilitate Illegal Gambling in Indonesia
Since 1974, gambling has been officially illegal in Indonesia. However, the digital revolution of the 2000s introduced a new challenge: the rapid growth of online gambling platforms. This technological shift has created enforcement gaps, compelling the Indonesian government to intensify its efforts to combat illegal online gambling. Recent government crackdowns ... Read More
New Sysrv Botnet Variant Makes Use of Google Subdomain to Spread XMRig Miner
Sysrv is a well-documented botnet first identified in 2020, with the main payload being a worm written in Golang. It drops a cryptominer onto infected hosts before attempting to propagate itself using various methods, including network vulnerabilities. Over the past few years, the botnet has evolved and adapted and has ... Read More
Attackers Quick to Weaponize CVE-2023-22527 for Malware Delivery
On January 16, 2024, Atlassian disclosed a critical vulnerability affecting Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server, tracked as CVE-2023-22527. The vulnerability is an unauthenticated OGNL injection bug, allowing unauthenticated attackers to execute Java expressions, invoke methods, navigate object relationships, and access properties—essentially enabling arbitrary code execution on the vulnerable server ... Read More
Imperva Detects Undocumented 8220 Gang Activities
Imperva Threat Research has detected previously undocumented activity from the 8220 gang, which is known for the mass deployment of malware using a variety of continuously evolving TTPs. This threat actor has been known to target both Windows and Linux web servers with cryptojacking malware. In this blog, we will ... Read More
Imperva Protects from New Spring Framework Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
New zero-day Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities were discovered in Spring Framework, an application development framework and inversion of control container for the Java platform. The vulnerability potentially leaves millions of applications at risk of compromise. In two separate disclosures, zero-day RCE vulnerabilities were revealed in the Cloud and Core ... Read More
Imperva Observes Hive of Activity Following Hafnium Microsoft Exchange Disclosures
Introduction On 2 March 2021, Microsoft and Veloxity produced disclosures outlining the discovery of four zero day vulnerabilities affecting multiple versions of Microsoft Exchange Server. Each of the vulnerabilities have been attributed a severity rating from high to critical, however the most impactful statement from both Microsoft and Veloxity was ... Read More
Australian Cyber Attack Vectors Blocked Out of the Box by Imperva Cloud WAF
On June 18, 2020, the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) released a disclosure detailing a ‘sophisticated’ and sustained attack against Australian government bodies and companies. The disclosure was covered by several mainstream media outlets including the BBC, and the Guardian. The following day, the Australian prime minister made a statement ... Read More
