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Georg Lauenstein

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211 detections

Detects emails with PDF attachments containing code of conduct
themed content as observed in multi-stage phishing campaigns. These PDFs contain
malicious links that redirect users through CAPTCHA and staging pages to credential
harvesting sites with AiTM token compromise capabilities.
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Georg Lauenstein@gsec
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SecOps Signals
6 months ago
30300
Detects HTTP requests to CAPTCHA and intermediate staging pages used in code of conduct phishing campaigns. These pages filter out automated defenses and reinforce legitimacy before redirecting to AiTM authentication flows.
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Georg Lauenstein@gsec
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SecOps Signals
6 months ago
00114
Detects common LOLBins spawned by Microsoft Office applications, indicating potential macro-based initial access leading to execution
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Georg Lauenstein@gsec
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SecOps Signals
7 months ago
2078
Detects exploitation attempts targeting CVE-2023-33538 vulnerability in TP-Link routers. Identifies HTTP GET requests to the /userRpm/WlanNetworkRpm endpoint with command injection payloads attempting to download and execute Mirai-like botnet malware.
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Georg Lauenstein@gsec
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SecOps Signals
7 months ago
10178
Detects non-Defender processes accessing mpasbase.vdm signature definition files. The BlueHammer exploit acquires a batch oplock on this file to freeze Defender mid-read, then swaps the underlying junction target to redirect SYSTEM-context reads to the SAM hive in a VSS snapshot.
Non-Defender access to VDM files has zero legitimate use cases.
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Georg Lauenstein@gsec
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SecOps Signals
7 months ago
2312,023
Detects loading of offreg.dll (Microsoft offline registry library)
by non-standard processes. BlueHammer uses offreg.dll to parse the SAM, SYSTEM, and SECURITY hives extracted from a VSS snapshot, recovering the boot key and decrypting NTLM hashes without touching the locked live registry.
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Georg Lauenstein@gsec
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SecOps Signals
7 months ago
180869
Detects potential DLL sideloading attack where msimg32.dll is loaded from non-system directories, a technique used by Qilin ransomware
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Georg Lauenstein@gsec
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SecOps Signals
7 months ago
110279
Detects FoxitPDFReader.exe spawning suspicious child processes which may indicate DLL sideloading exploitation used by Qilin ransomware
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Georg Lauenstein@gsec
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SecOps Signals
7 months ago
70183
Detects potential Event Tracing for Windows tampering through suspicious access to ntdll.dll memory regions, a technique used by Qilin ransomware to suppress telemetry
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Georg Lauenstein@gsec
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SecOps Signals
7 months ago
50126
Detects network communication to IP addresses associated with BRICKSTORM malware operations targeting vSphere environments. These IPs have been observed in active campaigns compromising VMware vCenter and ESXi infrastructure.
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Georg Lauenstein@gsec
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SecOps Signals
7 months ago
10111
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