Wreaking havoc in cyberspace: threat actors experiment with pentest tools


In recent months, adversaries have increasingly opted for the Havoc post‑exploitation framework. The tool is less popular compared to Cobalt Strike, Metasploit, and Sliver.

According to BI.ZONE Threat Intelligence, this C2 framework is employed in an attempt to evade cybersecurity systems that may not flag an unknown program as malicious. For instance, such was the approach of the Mysterious Werewolf cluster that leveraged the Mythic framework in one of its campaigns. In this research, we explore two campaigns based on the Havoc framework.

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Source: BI.ZONE


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