Unit 42 researchers have observed phishing activity that we track as TGR-UNK-0011. They assess with high confidence that this cluster overlaps with the threat actor group JavaGhost.
The threat actor group JavaGhost has been active for over five years and continues to target cloud environments to send out phishing campaigns to unsuspecting targets. According to website defacement lists such as DefacerID, the group focused historically on defacing websites. However, according to our telemetry, in 2022, they pivoted to sending out phishing emails for financial gain. Between 2022-24, Unit 42 has performed multiple investigations relating to the group JavaGhost, which targeted organizations’ AWS environments. The group focuses on sending phishing campaigns and has not been seen stealing data for extortion during their time in organizations’ AWS environments.
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Source: Palo Alto Unit 42
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