- RedDawn Espionage Campaign Shows Mobile APTs on the Rise
May 18, 2018
A sophisticated and targeted mobile espionage campaign has been found targeting North Korean defectors. Mounted by a relatively new APT actor known as Sun Team, the offensive used Google Play and Facebook as attack vectors; and overall, it shows how quickly the mobile threat landscape is evolving as APTs shift tactics to focus on this ...
- Phishing Spy Campaign Targets Top Mideast Officials
May 15, 2018
Researchers have discovered a phishing campaign that infected Android devices with custom surveillance-ware bent on extracting data from top officials, primarily in the Middle East. Researchers at Lookout Security told Threatpost that the tool, dubbed Stealth Mango, has been used to collect over 30 gigabytes of compromised data on attacker infrastructure, including call records, audio recordings, device ...
- ThaiCERT Seizes Hidden Cobra Server Linked to GhostSecret, Sony Attacks
April 27, 2018
Thailand’s Computer Emergency Response Team (ThaiCERT) has seized a server operated by the North Korea-linked Hidden Cobra APT, which is used to control the global GhostSecret espionage campaign. The campaign is still ongoing. ThaiCERT said in an alert on Wednesday that it is working with McAfee and law enforcement to analyze the control server, which was located at ...
- Kaspersky Lab Discovers Russian Hacker Infrastructure
April 23, 2018
Compromised servers used by Crouching Yeti/Energetic Bear hacker group found by Kaspersky Lab A hacker collective known for attacking industrial companies around the world have had some of their infrastructure identified by Russian security specialists. Kaspersky Lab said that it has discovered a number of servers compromised by the group, belonging to different organisations based in Russia, ...
- Gold Galleon Hacking Group Plunders Shipping Industry
April 18, 2018
Researchers have identified the hacking group behind several widescale business email compromise (BEC) attacks gouging the maritime shipping industry millions of dollars since last year. Attackers are taking advantage of the industry’s lax security and the use of outdated computers, according to a report released here at the RSA Conference Wednesday. Researchers from the Dell SecureWorks Counter ...
- New MacOS Backdoor Linked to OceanLotus Found
April 4, 2018
We identified a MacOS backdoor (detected by Trend Micro as OSX_OCEANLOTUS.D) that we believe is the latest version of a threat used by OceanLotus (a.k.a. APT 32, APT-C-00, SeaLotus, and Cobalt Kitty). OceanLotus was responsible for launching targeted attacks against human rights organizations, media organizations, research institutes, and maritime construction firms. The attackers behind OSX_OCEANLOTUS.D target MacOS computers which have ...
- A Closer Look at APT Group Sofacy’s Latest Targets
March 23, 2018
Threatpost talks to Kaspersky Lab researcher Kurt Baumgartner who was instrumental in tracking the latest activities of the Russian-speaking Sofacy APT gang. Research shows a continual march toward Far East targets and overlapping of activities with other groups such as Lamberts, Turla and Danti. Baumgartner, a researcher with Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team, presented his ...
- OceanLotus APT campaign debuts new backdoor that resembles old Korplug RAT
March 14, 2018
The suspected Vietnamese APT group OceanLotus has added a new backdoor to its repertoire of malicious tools – one that includes capabilities for enabling file, registry and process manipulation, and also downloading more malicious files. According a Mar. 13 blog post by ESET researcher Tomas Foltyn, the hackers appears to be delivering the malware via spear phishing and watering hole ...
- Cyber Espionage Group Targets Asian Countries With Bitcoin Mining Malware
February 7, 2018
Security researchers have discovered a custom-built piece of malware that’s wreaking havoc in Asia for past several months and is capable of performing nasty tasks, like password stealing, bitcoin mining, and providing hackers complete remote access to compromised systems. Dubbed Operation PZChao, the attack campaign discovered by the security researchers at Bitdefender have been targeting organizations in the government, ...
- Undetectable CrossRAT malware targets Windows, MacOS, and Linux systems
January 28, 2018
Are you using Linux or Mac OS? If you think your system is not prone to viruses, then you should read this. Wide-range of cybercriminals are now using a new piece of ‘undetectable’ spying malware that targets Windows, macOS, Solaris and Linux systems. Just last week we published a detailed article on the report from EFF/Lookout that revealed a ...