Tag: GOVERNMENT

UNC2165 Overlaps with Evil Corp Activity

OFAC sanctions against Evil Corp in December 2019 were announced in conjunction with the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) unsealing of indictments against individuals for their roles in the Bugat malware operation, updated versions of which were later called DRIDEX. DRIDEX was believed to operate under an affiliate model with multiple actors involved in the distribution of the malware.…

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Users of WSO2 products are advised to update their respective products and platforms or to apply the temporary mitigation steps immediately.

We observed vulnerability CVE-2022-29464 being exploited in the wild since April, allowing unrestricted file uploads resulting to arbitrary remote code execution (RCE). Disclosed and patched in April, the security gap was ranked Critical at 9.8 and affects a number of WSO2 products.…

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An unknown Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group has targeted Russian government entities with at least four separate spear phishing campaigns since late February, 2022.

The campaigns, discovered by the Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence team, are designed to implant a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) that can be used to surveil the computers it infects, and run commands on them remotely.…

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Update 05.27.22: An unknown APT group is targeting Russian government entities with at least four separate spear-phishing campaigns since the beginning of the Ukraine conflict. Source: Security Affairs.

It’s not often that we get to observe the behind-the-scenes drama that can accompany the creation of new malware, but when we do, it gives us a fascinating glimpse into how threat actors operate.…

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In the past two months, we observed multiple APT groups attempting to leverage the Russia and Ukraine war as a lure for espionage operations. It comes as no surprise that Russian entities themselves became an attractive target for spear-phishing campaigns that are exploiting the sanctions imposed on Russia by western countries.…

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ITG23 Crypters Highlight Cooperation Between Cybercriminal Groups

cybercriminal group ITG23, also known as Wizard Spider, DEV-0193, or simply the “Trickbot Group”. The results of this research, along with evidence gained from the disclosure of internal ITG23 chat logs (“Contileaks”), provide new insight into the connections and cooperation between prominent cybercriminal groups whose attacks often lead to ransomware.…

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Key Findings Proofpoint has analyzed a novel malware variant which utilizes significant anti-analysis and anti-reversing capabilities. The malware, written in the Go programming language, uses multiple open-source Go libraries for conducting malicious activities. The malware, called Nerbian remote access trojan (RAT) leverages COVID-19 and World Health Organization themes to spread.…
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Broadcom Software, has observed the North Korea-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as Lazarus conducting an espionage campaign targeting organizations operating within the chemical sector. The campaign appears to be a continuation of Lazarus activity dubbed Operation Dream Job, which was first observed in August 2020.…

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Over the last several years, the Cybereason Nocturnus Team has been tracking different APT groups operating in the Middle East region, including two main sub-groups of the Hamas cyberwarfare division: Molerats and APT-C-23. Both groups are Arabic-speaking and politically-motivated that operate on behalf of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic-fundamentalist movement and a terrorist organization that has controlled the Gaza strip since 2006.…

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As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, new wiper malware has surfaced attacking Ukrainian infrastructure. Caddywiper was first detected on March 14, 2022. It destroys user data, partitions information from attached drives, and has been spotted on several dozen systems in a limited number of organizations. CaddyWiper has been deployed via GPO, suggesting the attackers had initially compromised the target’s Active Directory server.…

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Geopolitical tensions often make headlines and present a golden opportunity for threat actors to exploit the situation, especially those targeting high-profile victims. In the past month while the Russian invasion of Ukraine was unfolding, Check Point Research (CPR) has observed advanced persistent threat (APT) groups around the world launching new campaigns, or quickly adapting ongoing ones to target victims with spear-phishing emails using the war as a lure.…

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