FruityArmor Apt Exploits Yet Another Windows Graphics Kernel Flaw

A just-patched zero-day vulnerability in win32k.sys – the Windows graphics kernel component – is at the heart of a probable sighting of the FruityArmor APT group – an under-the-radar cyberespionage gang active in the Middle East. A recent campaign uncovered by Kaspersky Lab led researchers to the...

NOKKI Malware Sports Mysterious Link to Reaper APT Group

The Reaper APT group, suspected of being affiliated with North Korea, turns out to have a link to the recently uncovered NOKKI malware family. Palo Alto’s Unit 42 recently observed NOKKI-laden attacks targeted Russian- and Cambodian-speaking individuals with political lures. NOKKI is a backdoor,...

Threat Landscape for Industrial Automation Systems in H1 2018

For many years, Kaspersky Lab experts have been uncovering and researching cyberthreats that target a variety of information systems – those of commercial and government organizations, banks, telecoms operators, industrial enterprises, and individual users. In this report, Kaspersky Lab Industria...

DNC: Highly Publicized ‘Phishing Attempt’ Was Only a Security Test

A day after the Democratic National Committee riled up security researchers and the press, it’s walking back an assertion that there was an attempt to compromise its voter database. Though it seemed like the event was the latest in a series of malicious efforts designed to harvest credentials...

IT threat evolution Q2 2018

Targeted attacks and malware campaigns Operation Parliament In April, we reported the workings of Operation Parliament, a cyber-espionage campaign aimed at high-profile legislative, executive and judicial organizations around the world – with its main focus in the MENA Middle East and North Afric...

VPNFilter Malware Impact Larger Than Previously Thought

Researchers say the impact of the VPNFilter malware discovered last month is larger than originally reported. On Wednesday, Cisco Talos researchers said they now believe the malware has infected twice the number of router brands than previously stated. They added that VPNFilter also delivers a mo...

Energetic Bear/Crouching Yeti: attacks on servers

Energetic Bear/Crouching Yeti is a widely known APT group active since at least 2010. The group tends to attack different companies with a strong focus on the energy and industrial sectors. Companies attacked by Energetic Bear/Crouching Yeti are geographically distributed worldwide with a more...

December 22, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Merry Christmas” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! December 22, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Fileless Malware Attack...

Latest Sofacy Campaign Targeting Security Researchers

Sofacy, the Russian-speaking APT group connected to interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, has been targeting researchers, admins and others interested in cybersecurity. Cisco’s security research arm Talos published a report on Sunday describing a campaign linked to Sofacy, also kno...

Iranian APT33 Targets U.S. Firms with Destructive Malware

The Iranian group known as APT33 is believed to be behind a cyberespionage campaign targeting aerospace, petrochemical and energy sector firms located in the United States, Saudi Arabia and South Korea. The group’s latest attack leverages a dropper called DropShot that is tied to the StoneDrill...

Oilrig / Cleaver Malicious Scheduled Task Detection

This script tries to detect several indicators for malicious tools used by Iranian APT group SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only...

IT threat evolution Q2 2017

Targeted attacks and malware campaigns Back to the future: looking for a link between old and new APTs This year's Security Analyst Summit SAS included interesting research findings on several targeted attack campaigns. For example, researchers from Kaspersky Lab and King's College London present...

APT Group Uses Catfish Technique To Ensnare Victims

LAS VEGAS–Meet Mia Ash, a 20-something London-based photographer, amateur model, social media butterfly with a keen interest in tech-savvy guys with ties to the oil and gas industry. You guessed it. Mia Ash doesn’t exist. Ash, according to Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit, is a virtual person...

Shamoon Collaborator Greenbug Adopts New Communication Tool

Researchers have identified a possible new collaborator in the continued Shamoon attacks against Saudi organizations. Called Greenbug, this group is believed to be instrumental in helping Shamoon steal user credentials of targets ahead of Shamoon’s destructive attacks. However, researchers know...

Destructive StoneDrill Wiper Malware On The Loose

There have been a handful of wiper malware attacks in the wild in the last decade with Shamoon’s destruction of more than 35,000 workstations at Saudi Aramco in 2012 and the Dark Seoul attacks on Sony Pictures Entertainment the most high profile. However, since last fall, Shamoon has resurfaced...

Microsoft Says Russian APT Group Behind Zero-Day Attacks

Microsoft has singled out Sofacy, an APT group long thought to have ties to Russia’s military intelligence arm GRU, as the entity behind targeted attacks leveraging Windows kernel and Adobe Flash zero days in targeted attacks. The group, which Microsoft calls Strontium, is also known as APT28, Ts...

FruityArmor APT Group Used Recently Patched Windows Zero Day

One of the four zero-day vulnerabilities Microsoft patched last week was being used by an APT group called FruityArmor to carry out targeted attacks, escape browser-based sandboxes, and execute malicious code in the wild. Anton Ivanov, a researcher at Kaspersky Lab, was credited by Microsoft for...

Adobe Patches Flash Zero Day Under Attack by APT Group

Adobe on Thursday patched a zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player that has been used in targeted attacks carried out by a new APT group operating primarily against high-profile victims in Russia and Asia. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab privately disclosed the flaw to Adobe after exploits against t...

APT Group Sends Spear Phishing Emails to Indian Government Officials

Introduction On May 18, 2016, FireEye Labs observed a suspected Pakistan-based APT group sending spear phishing emails to Indian government officials. This threat actor has been active for several years and conducting suspected intelligence collection operations against South Asian political and...

APT Group Sends Spear Phishing Emails to Indian Government Officials

Introduction On May 18, 2016, FireEye Labs observed a suspected Pakistan-based APT group sending spear phishing emails to Indian government officials. This threat actor has been active for several years and conducting suspected intelligence collection operations against South Asian political and...