ZeroFox Daily Intelligence Brief

ZeroFox Daily Intelligence Brief - May 28, 2025

ZeroFox Intelligence collects, curates, and analyzes information derived from open and proprietary sources. Here is today’s daily roundup to give you and your clients an advantage over the adversary.

Brief Highlights

Individual Pleads Guilty for Robbinhood Ransomware Attack
CISA’s Guidance for SIEM and SOAR Implementation
ZeroFox Intelligence Flash Report - What Next in the India-Pakistan Conflict

Individual Pleads Guilty for Robbinhood Ransomware Attack

Source: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/iranian-man-pleaded-guilty-role-robbinhood-ransomware

What we know: A foreign national has pleaded guilty in the United States for participating in a May 2019 international Robbinhood ransomware attack that resulted in massive losses to victims.

Context: Baltimore was one of the most impacted U.S. cities in the ransomware attack, which cost the city USD 19 million in losses. The attack compromised and disrupted computer systems of various public entities.

Analyst note: Other Robbinhood ransomware operatives operating under the cover of virtual private server (VPS) accounts based in various countries and residing outside the targeted country are also likely to be held.

CISA’s Guidance for SIEM and SOAR Implementation

Source: https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/guidance-siem-and-soar-implementation

What we know: CISA has released guidance for organizations seeking to procure Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platforms. It provides recommendations to improve threat detection and response, streamline incident workflows, and more.

Context: SIEM platforms collect, centralize, and analyze log data from sources within a network or system. SOAR platforms detect anomalous activity on a network and automates a response.

Analyst note: Organisations and governments with a vast digital infrastructure with multiple endpoints are likely to benefit from SIEM and SOAR platforms by centralizing and analyzing security data, enabling early identification of malicious activity, reducing response time, and limiting damage.

ZeroFox Intelligence Flash Report - What Next in the India-Pakistan Conflict

Source: https://www.zerofox.com/advisories/33413/

ZeroFox discusses what is next in the India-Pakistan conflict and the possibilities of tensions between India and Pakistan simmering in the short term, with sporadic violations of the ceasefire agreement across the northern and western border regions of India. India is likely to strike Pakistani government and military infrastructure rather than only remote terrorist infrastructure, as it has done in the past. India is very likely to use the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) with Pakistan as a weapon of conflict—or at least leverage it—in future relations with Pakistan. India and Pakistan are likely to see developments in existing trade arrangements with each other and their trading partners in countries such as China, Turkey, and the United States.

DEEP AND DARK WEB INTELLIGENCE

Exploit user ChickenPizza77: ZeroFox has observed that untested threat actor “ChickenPizza77” advertised data associated with crypto company Binance. The data reportedly involves 17,400 lines of personally identifiable information (PII) from the United States, including names, phone numbers, transaction details, and more. If the claim is true, interested buyers could use PII to ensnare victims in financial fraud, conduct unauthorised transactions, and steal their identities.

VULNERABILITY AND EXPLOIT INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2024-57727, CVE-2024-57728, and CVE-2024-57726: DragonForce ransomware group has compromised a managed service provider by exploiting a series of older vulnerabilities in the SimpleHelp remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform. The attackers used its access to the platform to exfiltrate data and deploy ransomware. This breach will likely lead to operational disruption, financial losses, and data exposure for affected organizations.

Affected products: SimpleHelp versions 5.5.7 and earlier