How ScarCruft APT group enhances its toolkit with a powerful Dolphin backdoor

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary ScarCurft aka Reaper, APT 37, Ricochet Chollima is North Korean espionage group, active since 2012. ScarCruft has targeted South Korea Newspaper with a watering hole attack in the last year. In this...

Iranian Government-Sponsored APT Actors Compromise Federal Network, Deploy Crypto Miner, Credential Harvester

Summary From mid-June through mid-July 2022, CISA conducted an incident response engagement at a Federal Civilian Executive Branch FCEB organization where CISA observed suspected advanced persistent threat APT activity. In the course of incident response activities, CISA determined that cyber...

Chinese APT Earth Preta runs spearphishing campaigns

Threat Level Actors Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Earth Preta, an APT gang, staged a large-scale cyber espionage campaign in which the malware was transmitted via spear-phishing emails. The actors use various strategies to avoid detection and analysis,...

ICS cyberthreats in 2023 – what to expect

Cybersecurity incidents were plentiful in 2022, causing many problems for industrial infrastructure owners and operators. However, luckily, we did not see any sudden or catastrophic changes in the overall threat landscape – none that were difficult to handle, despite many colorful headlines in th...

PT-2022-6232 · Apple +1 · Mdnsresponder.Exe +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: mDNSResponder.exe affected versions not specified Audinate Dante Application Library version le1.2.0 Description: The issue is related to a DLL Sideloading attack, where the executable improperly specifies how to load the DLL, from which fold...

CISA and FBI Release Advisory on Iranian Government-Sponsored APT Actors Compromising Federal Network

Today, CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI published a joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA, Iranian Government-Sponsored APT Actors Compromise Federal Network, Deploy Crypto Miner, Credential Harvester. The CSA provides information on an incident at a Federal Civilian Executive Branch...

Deep Packet Inspection vs. Metadata Analysis of Network Detection & Response (NDR) Solutions

Today, most Network Detection and Response NDR solutions rely on traffic mirroring and Deep Packet Inspection DPI. Traffic mirroring is typically deployed on a single-core switch to provide a copy of the network traffic to a sensor that uses DPI to thoroughly analyze the payload. While this...

Researchers Say China State-backed Hackers Breached a Digital Certificate Authority

A suspected Chinese state-sponsored actor breached a digital certificate authority as well as government and defense agencies located in different countries in Asia as part of an ongoing campaign since at least March 2022. Symantec, by Broadcom Software, linked the attacks to an adversarial group...

Advanced threat predictions for 2023

It is fair to say that since last years predictions, the world has dramatically changed. While the geopolitical landscape has durably shifted, cyberattacks remain a constant threat and show no signs of receding – quite the contrary. No matter where they are, people around the world should be...

Russian Hacktivist Group Targets Political Websites with DDOS Attacks

A Russian hacktivist group calling itself “The People’s Cyberarmy” called on its members to target the American Democratic party website at with DDOS Distributed Denial of Service attacks this morning, November 8th, 2022, which is Election Day in the United States. A post in their Telegram channe...

Robin Banks Phishing Service for Cybercriminals Returns with Russian Server

A phishing-as-a-service PhaaS platform known as Robin Banks has relocated its attack infrastructure to DDoS-Guard, a Russian provider of bulletproof hosting services. The switch comes after "Cloudflare disassociated Robin Banks phishing infrastructure from its services, causing a multi-day...

Researchers Detail New Malware Campaign Targeting Indian Government Employees

The Transparent Tribe threat actor has been linked to a new campaign aimed at Indian government organizations with trojanized versions of a two-factor authentication solution called Kavach. "This group abuses Google advertisements for the purpose of malvertising to distribute backdoored versions ...

Indian Government targeted by APT-36

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary APT 36, also known as Transparent Tribe, is an information theft and espionage gang that was last active in mid-July 2022. Recently, invasive advertising and the data exfiltration tool LimePad were used t...

OPERA1ER APT Hackers Targeted Dozens of Financial Organizations in Africa

A French-speaking threat actor dubbed OPERA1ER has been linked to a series of more than 30 successful cyber attacks aimed at banks, financial services, and telecom companies across Africa, Asia, and Latin America between 2018 and 2022. According to Singapore-headquartered cybersecurity company...

Experts Warn of SandStrike Android Spyware Infecting Devices via Malicious VPN App

A previously undocumented Android spyware campaign has been found striking Persian-speaking individuals by masquerading as a seemingly harmless VPN application. Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky is tracking the campaign under the moniker SandStrike. It has not been attributed to any particular...

APT trends report Q3 2022

For more than five years, the Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT at Kaspersky has been publishing quarterly summaries of advanced persistent threat APT activity. These summaries are based on our threat intelligence research; and they provide a representative snapshot of what we have publishe...

SideWinder APT group’s new arsenal named WarHawk

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The SideWinder APT gang operates espionage campaigns against government, military, and business sectors throughout Asia, primarily Pakistan, by employing the WarHawk backdoor to exfiltrate vulnerable syst...

SideWinder APT Using New WarHawk Backdoor to Target Entities in Pakistan

SideWinder, a prolific nation-state actor mainly known for targeting Pakistan military entities, compromised the official website of the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority NEPRA to deliver a tailored malware called WarHawk. "The newly discovered WarHawk backdoor contains various malicio...

Hackers Using New Version of FurBall Android Malware to Spy on Iranian Citizens

The Iranian threat actor known as Domestic Kitten has been attributed to a new mobile campaign that masquerades as a translation app to distribute an updated variant of an Android malware known as FurBall. "Since June 2021, it has been distributed as a translation app via a copycat of an Iranian...

Text2Shell: Vulnerability like Log4Shell in Apache Common Texts

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary A new vulnerability in Apache Commons Text has been named text2shell. The vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to remotely execute code on servers running affected applications. Due to t...