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Threat Intelligence

The Nearest Neighbor Attack: How A Russian APT Weaponized Nearby Wi-Fi Networks for Covert Access

November 22, 2024

Sean Koessel, Steven Adair, and Tom Lancaster

In early February 2022, notably just ahead of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Volexity made a discovery that led to one of the most fascinating and complex incident investigations Volexity had […]

Memory Forensics

Detecting Compromise of CVE-2024-3400 on Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect Devices

May 15, 2024

Volexity Threat Research

Last month, Volexity reported on its discovery of zero-day, in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2024-3400 in the GlobalProtect feature of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS by a threat actor Volexity tracks as UTA0218. Palo […]

Threat Intelligence

Zero-Day Exploitation of Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in GlobalProtect (CVE-2024-3400)

April 12, 2024

Volexity Threat Research

Volexity would like to thank Palo Alto Networks for their partnership, cooperation, and rapid response to this critical issue. Their research can be found here. On April 10, 2024, Volexity […]

Memory Forensics

How Memory Forensics Revealed Exploitation of Ivanti Connect Secure VPN Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

February 1, 2024

Andrew Case, Michael Hale Ligh, and Volexity Volcano Team

In a recent series of blog posts related to two zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure VPN, Volexity shared details of active in-the-wild exploitation; provided an update on how exploitation […]

Threat Intelligence

Ivanti Connect Secure VPN Exploitation: New Observations

January 18, 2024

Matthew Meltzer, Sean Koessel, and Steven Adair

On January 15, 2024, Volexity detailed widespread exploitation of Ivanti Connect Secure VPN vulnerabilities CVE-2024-21887 and CVE-2023-46805. In that blog post, Volexity detailed broader scanning and exploitation by threat actors […]

Threat Intelligence

Ivanti Connect Secure VPN Exploitation Goes Global

January 15, 2024

Cem Gurkok, Paul Rascagneres, Sean Koessel, Steven Adair, and Tom Lancaster

Important: If your organization uses Ivanti Connect Secure VPN and you have not applied the mitigation, then please do that immediately! Organizations should immediately review the results of the built-in […]

Threat Intelligence

Active Exploitation of Two Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure VPN

January 10, 2024

Matthew Meltzer, Robert Jan Mora, Sean Koessel, Steven Adair, and Tom Lancaster

Volexity has uncovered active in-the-wild exploitation of two vulnerabilities allowing unauthenticated remote code execution in Ivanti Connect Secure VPN devices. An official security advisory and knowledge base article have been […]

Threat Intelligence

EvilBamboo Targets Mobile Devices in Multi-year Campaign

September 22, 2023

Callum Roxan, Paul Rascagneres, and Tom Lancaster

Volexity has identified several long-running and currently active campaigns undertaken by the threat actor Volexity tracks as EvilBamboo (formerly named Evil Eye) targeting Tibetan, Uyghur, and Taiwanese individuals and organizations. […]

Threat Intelligence

Mass Exploitation of (Un)authenticated Zimbra RCE: CVE-2022-27925

August 10, 2022

Volexity Threat Research

[Note: Volexity has reported all findings in this post to Zimbra. Where an existing contact was known, Volexity has notified local CERTs of compromised Zimbra instances in their constituency. The […]

Threat Intelligence

DriftingCloud: Zero-Day Sophos Firewall Exploitation and an Insidious Breach

June 15, 2022

Steven Adair, Tom Lancaster, and Volexity Threat Research

Volexity frequently works with individuals and organizations heavily targeted by sophisticated, motivated, and well-equipped threat actors from around the world. Some of these individuals or organizations are attacked infrequently or […]