Malicious Software Infrastructure Easier to Get and Deploy Than Ever
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Quote:Simple to use and deploy offensive security tools, making it easier than ever for criminals with little technical know-how to get in on cybercrime are seeing a significant rise, researchers say.
 
Recorded Future just released findings from its regular year-end observations of malicious infrastructure, identifying more than 10,000 unique command and control (C2) servers, across 80 malware families — nearly all linked to advanced persistent threat (APT) groups or “high-end financial actors.”
 
Recorded Future’s 2020 Adversary Infrastructure Report explained that researchers anticipate increased adoption of open-source tools because they’re easy to use and accessible to criminals without deep technical expertise.
 
“Over the next year, Recorded Future expects further adoption of open-source tools that have recently gained popularity, specifically Covenant, Octopus C2, Sliver and Mythic,” the report said. “Three of these tools have graphical user interfaces, making them easier to use for less experienced operators and all four have verbose documentation on their uses.”

“The most commonly observed families were dominated by open-source or commercially available tooling,” the report said. “Detections of unaltered Cobalt Strike deployments (the pre-configured TLS certificate, Team Server administration port, or telltale HTTP headers) represented 13.5 percent of the total C2 servers identified. Metasploit and PupyRAT represented the other top open-source command-and-control servers identified by Recorded Future.”

Read more: https://threatpost.com/malicious-softwar...oy/162913/
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