Kaspersky continue to share details on the malicious techniques and toolsets used by the ToddyCat APT group. In the first part of this report, they examined the group’s attacks aimed at stealing data from browsers, as well as from local and cloud email services. The methods used in that campaign indicated that ToddyCat was attempting to access corporate correspondence while evading monitoring tools. However, all of the group’s methods Kaspersky described previously are effectively detected by EPP and EDR solutions.
The attackers continued their search for ways to bypass security solutions and developed a new tool to gain access to a victim’s cloud account via the Google API. Armed with this tool, the group automated all stages of the attack and managed to remain undetected by monitoring systems.
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Source: Kaspersky
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