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From the beginning of August, CERT Polska, as the only institution in Poland and one of 7 CERTs in Europe, can assign CVE numbers, which are used to identify, define, and catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

In late April we observed a malspam campaign delivering a previously unseen PowerShell malware. We decided to provide an overview of the campaign and some of the malware capabilities. We're also dubbing this malware family as "PowerDash" because of the "/dash" path on C2 server, used as a gateway for bots.

For the past two years we've been tinkering with a proof-of-concept decryptor for the Phobos family ransomware. It works, but is impractical to use for reasons we'll explain here. Consequently, we've been unable to use it to help a real-world victim so far. We've decided to publish our findings and tools, in hope that someone will find it useful, interesting or will continue our research. We will describe the vulnerability, and how we improved our decryptor computational complexity and performance to reach an almost practical implementation.

The Artemis vulnerability scanner is now open source! Artemis is a tool developed by the CERT Polska team and initiated by the KN Cyber science club of Warsaw University of Technology. The tool is built to find website misconfigurations and vulnerabilities on a large scale. Thanks to its modular architecture, it can combine the results of various other tools in a single place.

The New Year has brought more solutions to improve the security of the Polish Internet. One of them is Artemis, a tool developed by the CERT Polska team and initiated by the KN Cyber science club of Warsaw University of Technology. Artemis was designed to look for websites misconfigurations and vulnerabilities on a mass scale. We use it to verify infrastructure of entities for which, according to the National Cyber Security System Act, incident handling is coordinated by CSIRT NASK.

While working on our automatic configuration extractors, we came across a rather strange-looking Vidar sample. The decrypted strings included domain names of such organizations as the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, Border Guard of Poland, Estonia and Latvia, and Ministry of the Interior of Lithuania. Automatically extracted strings from …

Guest post by our Google Summer of Code student, Manorit Chawdhry Project proposal: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#6209067233574912 Motivation Wait, what? Malware on Linux? Yup, you read it right. Linux malware isn't given much importance in our community, as Windows is the most targeted operating system for malicious attacks …

Guest post by our Google Summer of Code student, Jan Gruber Project proposal: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#6703931754807296 Overview My project for GSoC 2021 was to realize an undetectable simulation of human behaviour in the VMI-based sandbox DRAKVUF, which resulted in the contribution of a plugin named hidsim - short …

Why SECURE? Do you value hard work and facing challenges? Do you want to meet people like you, share your job results, look for inspiration or partners to mutual projects? You can find it all in October on our conference. We invite you to contribute to the agenda of the …

Table of contents Getting Started Your first karton Malware extraction with malduck Introduction Today we'll continue topics started in the first part of the tutorial. We'll learn about malduck, what can it do and how to write your own modules. Later we'll also show how to integrate it with Karton …