Redfly: Espionage Actors Continue to Target Critical Infrastructure

Espionage actors are continuing to mount attacks on critical national infrastructure (CNI) targets, a trend that has become a source of concern for governments and CNI organizations worldwide. Symantec’s Threat Hunter Team has found evidence that a threat actor group Read More …

Operation CuckooBees: Deep-Dive into Stealthy Winnti Techniques

In 2021, the Cybereason Nocturnus Incident Response Team investigated multiple intrusions targeting technology and manufacturing companies located in Asia, Europe and North America. Based on the findings of our investigation, it appears that the goal behind these intrusions was to Read More …

Chinese hackers Deep Panda return with Log4Shell exploits, new Fire Chili rootkit

Deep Panda has launched new attacks this month that exploit Log4Shell to deploy the new Fire Chili rootkit. Deep Panda is a Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) hacking group that has been active for at least a decade. The APT Read More …

New MoonBounce UEFI malware used by APT41 in targeted attacks

Security analysts have discovered and linked MoonBounce, “the most advanced” UEFI firmware implant found in the wild so far, to the Chinese-speaking APT41 hacker group (also known as Winnti). APT41 is a notorious hacking group that has been active for Read More …

Earth Lusca Employs Sophisticated Infrastructure, Varied Tools and Techniques

Since mid-2021, Trend Micro researchers have been investigating a rather elusive threat actor called Earth Lusca that targets organizations globally via a campaign that uses traditional social engineering techniques such as spear phishing and watering holes. The group’s primary motivation Read More …

US Media, Retailers Targeted by New SparklingGoblin APT

An emerging international cybergang is broadening its targets to include North American media firms, universities and one computer retailer. The advanced persistent threat (APT) group is new, according to researchers who dubbed it SparklingGoblin. Also new is a novel backdoor Read More …