- Cadet Blizzard emerges as a novel and distinct Russian threat actor
June 14, 2023
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues into its second year and Microsoft continues to collaborate with global partners in response, the exposure of destructive cyber capabilities and information operations provide greater clarity into the tools and techniques used by Russian state-sponsored threat actors. Throughout the conflict, Russian threat actors have deployed a variety of destructive capabilities ...
- VMware ESXi Zero-Day Used by Chinese Espionage Actor to Perform Privileged Guest Operations on Compromised Hypervisors
June 13, 2023
As Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions improve malware detection efficacy on Windows and Linux systems, certain state-sponsored threat actors have shifted to developing and deploying malware on systems that do not generally support EDR such as network appliances, SAN arrays, and VMware ESXi hosts. In late 2022, Mandiant published details surrounding a novel malware system deployed ...
- North Korea Using Social Engineering to Enable Hacking of Think Tanks, Academia, and Media
June 1, 2023
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the U.S. Department of State, and the National Security Agency (NSA), together with the Republic of Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS), National Police Agency (NPA), and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), are jointly issuing this advisory to highlight the use of social engineering by Democratic People’s Republic of Korea ...
- Operation Triangulation: iOS devices targeted with previously unknown malware
June 1, 2023
While monitoring its own corporate Wi-Fi network dedicated for mobile devices using the Kaspersky Unified Monitoring and Analysis Platform (KUMA), Kaspersky researchers noticed suspicious activity that originated from several iOS-based phones. Since it is impossible to inspect modern iOS devices from the inside, researchers created offline backups of the devices in question, inspected them using the ...
- Lazarus hackers target Windows IIS web servers for initial access
May 29, 2023
The notorious North Korean state-backed hackers, known as the Lazarus Group, are now targeting vulnerable Windows Internet Information Services (IIS) web servers to gain initial access to corporate networks. Lazarus is primarily financially motivated, with many analysts believing that the hackers’ malicious activities help fund North Korea’s weapons development programs. However, the group has also been ...
- Volt Typhoon targets US critical infrastructure with living-off-the-land techniques
May 24, 2023
Microsoft has uncovered stealthy and targeted malicious activity focused on post-compromise credential access and network system discovery aimed at critical infrastructure organizations in the United States. The attack is carried out by Volt Typhoon, a state-sponsored actor based in China that typically focuses on espionage and information gathering. Microsoft assesses with moderate confidence that this Volt ...
- New PowerExchange malware backdoors Microsoft Exchange servers
May 24, 2023
A new PowerShell-based malware dubbed PowerExchange was used in attacks linked to APT34 Iranian state hackers to backdoor on-premise Microsoft Exchange servers. After infiltrating the mail server via a phishing email containing an archived malicious executable, the threat actors deployed a web shell named ExchangeLeech (first observed by the Digital14 Incident Response team in 2020) that ...
- Meet the GoldenJackal APT group. Don’t expect any howls
May 23, 2023
GoldenJackal is an APT group, active since 2019, that usually targets government and diplomatic entities in the Middle East and South Asia. Despite the fact that they began their activities years ago, this group is generally unknown and, as far as Kaspersky understands, has not been publicly described. Their researchers started monitoring the group in mid-2020 ...
- CloudWizard APT: the bad magic story goes on
May 19, 2023
In March 2023, Kaspersky researchers uncovered a previously unknown APT campaign in the region of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict that involved the use of PowerMagic and CommonMagic implants. However, at the time it was not clear which threat actor was behind the attack. Since the release of Kaspersky report about CommonMagic, Kaspersky researchers have been looking for ...
- The distinctive rattle of APT SideWinder
May 17, 2023
In February 2023, Group-IB’s Threat Intelligence team released a technical report about previously unknown phishing attacks conducted by the APT group SideWinder: Old Snake, New Skin: Analysis of SideWinder APT activity between June and November 2021. As always, Group-IB customers and partners were the first to get access to the report through the interface of ...