While tracking the activities of 4BID Kaspersky researchers uncovered a new string of campaigns that appear to be the work of several interconnected actors. While politically motivated groups generally limit their scope to specific nations – for 4BID and its peers, primarily Russian and occasionally Belarusian organizations – the latest findings reveal a shift. The actual geographic footprint of these attacks became broader than expected, striking companies across Kazakhstan, the UAE, Syria, and Egypt.
What triggered Kaspersky’s investigation was spotting a cluster of indicators of compromise within a breached Russian organization’s infrastructure. The researchers used these footprints to successfully track down other environments hit by the same threat actors and piece together the bigger picture.
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Source: Kaspersky
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