The Uptycs threat research team regularly monitors the TTPs (tactics, techniques and procedures) of the latest malware using our threat intelligence sources and systems. Organisations can use this bulletin as a tool to evaluate and form a more robust detection and protection posture against the latest threats in Windows, Linux and macOS platforms.
The threat bulletin covers several aspects, such as:
- Techniques used by the malware samples in our threat intel sources
- Commonly abused commands and utilities in Windows, Linux and macOS platforms
- Top prevalent malware families in the wild for Windows, Linux and macOS platforms
- Uptycs Threat Research articles published by the threat research team
- Threat actors observed for the quarter
- Malware/targeted attacks for the quarter
- Vulnerabilities/exploits in Windows, Linux and macOS platforms
- General recommendations based on our observations
The key highlights of our recently published Q3 threat bulletin are:
- In this quarter, we have observed the following prevalent malware
- Formbook and IcedID are the prevalent malware in Q4 for Windows platforms, taking that spot from Loki and Warzone RAT in Q3
- Tsunami and Mirai were seen in large numbers in Q4 mainly due to the log4j post exploitation attempts
- Shlayer continues its evergreen in action on macOS.
- Regsvr32.exe and Rundll32.exe are the most abused utilities for Windows platform and Crontab has been observed for Linux platform
- Apache Log4j, was plagued with a series of vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-45105, CVE-2021-45046, CVE-2021-44832, CVE-2021-44228) during the month of December 2021. These vulnerabilities were leveraged by threat actors to deploy different malicious payloads in the vulnerable machines
- Threat actor activity of MuddyWater, BlackByte, MosesStaff and Lazarus have been reported.
- We identified attackers deploying malicious container images on Docker Hub for performing coin mining operations.
- We came across reports on the return of the infamous Emotet malware.
An excerpt of the Commonly abused commands and utilities in Windows, Linux and macOS platforms (during October - December 2021) is shown below.
For a more detailed report of our key highlights of the Q4 Threat Bulletin, click below to download the report.