On a bi-weekly basis, FortiGuard Labs gathers data on ransomware variants of interest that have been gaining traction within our datasets and the OSINT community. The Ransomware Roundup report aims to provide readers with brief insights into the evolving ransomware landscape and the Fortinet solutions that protect against those variants.…
Tag: RUSSIA
Avaddon, a notorious Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) that emerged in early 2019 was known for its double-extortion tactics. It not only encrypted victims’ files but also threatened to release stolen data publicly. Avaddon’s modus operandi involved targeting a diverse range of sectors, including healthcare, government, financial services, legal, hospitality, education, and retail.…
Executive Summary
Read More eSentire, a top global Managed Detection and Response (MDR) security services provider, intercepted and shut down three separate ransomware attacks launched by affiliates of the notorious, Russia-linked LockBit Ransomware Gang. The FBI estimates that the LockBit operators and their affiliates have collected approximately $91 million since the group’s inception, and that is just U.S.…
UPDATE 13.09.2023. Free Download Manager team issued an official statement regarding this incident.
Over the last few years, Linux machines have become a more and more prominent target for all sorts of threat actors. According to our telemetry, 260,000 unique Linux samples appeared in the first half of 2023.…
Key Takeaways
Read More • Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL) came across Python malware capturing screenshots and sending them over FTP to remote attackers.• Proofpoint has observed similar campaigns in the recent past targeting the United States and Germany, with the perpetrator tracked as “TA866”.• This particular campaign targets Tatar language-speaking users who primarily reside in a particular region of Russia.•…
Researchers from Kaspersky discovered a free download manager site that has been compromised to serve Linux malware. While investigating a set of suspicious domains, the experts identified that the domain in question has a deb.fdmpkg[.]org subdomain.
Visiting the subdomain with the browser, the researchers noticed a page claiming that the domain is hosting a Linux Debian repository of software named ‘Free Download Manager’.…
New Hive0117 phishing campaign imitates conscription summons to deliver DarkWatchman malware
phishing campaign likely conducted by Hive0117 delivering the fileless malware DarkWatchman, directed at individuals associated with major energy, finance, transport, and software security industries based in Russia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, and Estonia. DarkWatchman malware is capable of keylogging, collecting system information, and deploying secondary payloads.…
By Aleksandar Milenkoski and Tom Hegel
Executive SummarySentinelLabs has identified suspected-Chinese malware and infrastructure potentially involved in China-associated operations directed at the gambling sector within Southeast Asia. The threat actors drop Adobe Creative Cloud, Microsoft Edge, and McAfee VirusScan executables vulnerable to DLL hijacking to deploy Cobalt Strike beacons.…Threat actors constantly take notice of the work and takedown efforts initiated by security researchers. In this constant game of cat and mouse chasing, tactics and techniques keep evolving from simple to more complex, and more covert.
This is a trend we have observed time and time again, no matter the playing field, from exploit kits to credit card skimmers.…
Published On : 2023-08-11
EXECUTIVE SUMMARYThe Cyfirma Research team has recently discovered a disguised Stealthy MSI Loader being advertised in underground forums by Russian threat actor, showcasing its remarkable ability to evade detection by both Virus Total scan and Windows Defender. Additionally, through our investigation, we have established a link between this MSI Loader and the BatLoader campaign observed in March 2023, highlighting potential coordination between these threats.…
A Data-Driven Approach Based on Analysis of Network Telemetry
In this blog post, we will provide an update on our high-level analysis of QakBot infrastructure, following on from our previous blog post. We will pick up the timeline from where we left it, basing our findings on data collected between 1 May and 20 July 2023.…
By Tom Hegel and Aleksandar Milenkoski
Executive SummarySentinelLabs identified an intrusion into the Russian defense industrial base, specifically a missile engineering organization NPO Mashinostroyeniya.Our findings identify two instances of North Korea related compromise of sensitive internal IT infrastructure within this same Russian DIB organization, including a specific email server, alongside use of a Windows backdoor dubbed OpenCarrot.…Executive Summary
Read More EclecticIQ analysts assess with high confidence that two observed PDF documents are part of an ongoing campaign targeting Ministries of Foreign Affairs of NATO aligned countries. The PDF files masquerade as coming from the German embassy and contained two diplomatic invitation lures.
One of the PDFs delivered a variant of Duke – a malware that has been linked to Russian state-sponsored cyber espionage activities of APT29.…
Insikt Group has been tracking the threat activity group BlueCharlie, associated with the Russia-nexus group Callisto/Calisto, COLDRIVER, and Star Blizzard/SEABORGIUM. BlueCharlie, a Russia-linked threat group active since 2017, focuses on information gathering for espionage and hack-and-leak operations. BlueCharlie has evolved its tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and built new infrastructure, indicating sophistication in adapting to public disclosures and improving operations security.…
On a bi-weekly basis, FortiGuard Labs gathers data on ransomware variants of interest that have been gaining traction within our datasets and the OSINT community. The Ransomware Roundup report aims to provide readers with brief insights into the evolving ransomware landscape and the Fortinet solutions that protect against those variants.…
Introduction
In this blog post, we will provide an update on our continued analysis and tracking of infrastructure associated with IcedID’s BackConnect (BC) protocol; a continuation of the analysis we shared in late-December 2022, which you can read here, in addition to our campaign metrics and infrastructure tracking blog posts.…
Trustwave SpiderLabs discovered a new version of the Rilide Stealer extension targeting Chromium-based browsers such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, and Opera. This malware uses a creative way to work around the Chrome Extension Manifest V3 from Google which is aimed at blocking the installation of malicious extensions for chromium browsers.…
Recorded Future’s Insikt Group has been monitoring the activities of Russian state actors who are intensifying their efforts to hide command-and-control network traffic using legitimate internet services (LIS) and expanding the range of services misused for this purpose. BlueBravo is a threat group tracked by Insikt Group, whose actions align with those of the Russian advanced persistent threat (APT) groups APT29 and Midnight Blizzard, both attributed to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).…
Microsoft Threat Intelligence has identified highly targeted social engineering attacks using credential theft phishing lures sent as Microsoft Teams chats by the threat actor that Microsoft tracks as Midnight Blizzard (previously tracked as NOBELIUM). This latest attack, combined with past activity, further demonstrates Midnight Blizzard’s ongoing execution of their objectives using both new and common techniques.…
The threat actor behind the RomCom RAT has been particularly active since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Since its discovery, we have carefully followed its campaigns and referred to it as an unattributed threat actor, although for the purposes of this report we’ve referred to it simply as RomCom.…