Earth Preta Spear-Phishing Governments Worldwide

We break down the cyberespionage activities of advanced persistent threat APT group Earth Preta, observed in large-scale attack deployments that began in March. We also show the infection routines of the malware families they use to infect multiple sectors worldwide: TONEINS, TONESHELL, and PUBLO...

Chinese Hackers Targeting Online Casinos with GamePlayerFramework Malware

An advanced persistent threat APT group of Chinese origin codenamed DiceyF has been linked to a string of attacks aimed at online casinos in Southeast Asia for years. Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky said the activity aligns with another set of intrusions attributed to Earth Berberoka aka...

New Chinese Cyberespionage Group Targeting IT Service Providers and Telcos

Telecommunications and IT service providers in the Middle East and Asia are being targeted by a previously undocumented Chinese-speaking threat group dubbed WIP19. The espionage-related attacks are characterized by the use of a stolen digital certificate issued by a Korean company called DEEPSoft...

North Korean Hackers Weaponizing Open-Source Software in Latest Cyber Attacks

A "highly operational, destructive, and sophisticated nation-state activity group" with ties to North Korea has been weaponizing open source software in their social engineering campaigns aimed at companies around the world since June 2022. Microsoft's threat intelligence teams, alongside LinkedI...

ZINC weaponizing open-source software

In recent months, Microsoft has detected a wide range of social engineering campaigns using weaponized legitimate open-source software by an actor we track as ZINC. Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC observed activity targeting employees in organizations across multiple industries includi...

APT Lazarus Targets Engineers with macOS Malware

North Korean APT Lazarus is up to its old tricks with a cyberespionage campaign targeting engineers with a fake job posting that attempt to spread macOS malware. The malicious Mac executable used in the campaign targets both Apple and Intel chip-based systems. The campaign, identified by...

Targeted attack on industrial enterprises and public institutions

In January 2022, Kaspersky ICS CERT experts detected a wave of targeted attacks on military industrial complex enterprises and public institutions in several countries. In the course of our research, we were able to identify over a dozen of attacked organizations. The attack targeted industrial...

Russian Hackers Using DropBox and Google Drive to Drop Malicious Payloads — The Hacker News

The Russian state-sponsored hacking collective known as APT29 has been attributed to a new phishing campaign that takes advantage of legitimate cloud services like Google Drive and Dropbox to deliver malicious payloads on compromised systems. "These campaigns are believed to have targeted several...

Journalists Emerge as Favored Attack Target for APTs

Targeted phishing attacks are traced to multiple threat actors who have each independently focused on stealing credentials and sensitive data and tracking the geolocation of journalists. In a Thursday report by Proofpoint, researchers outline individual efforts by advance persistent threat APT...

Chinese 'Gallium' Hackers Using New PingPull Malware in Cyberespionage Attacks

A Chinese advanced persistent threat APT known as Gallium has been observed using a previously undocumented remote access trojan in its espionage attacks targeting companies operating in Southeast Asia, Europe, and Africa. Called PingPull, the "difficult-to-detect" backdoor is notable for its use...

Old Hacks Die Hard: Ransomware, Social Engineering Top Verizon DBIR Threats – Again

Ransomware and social engineering continue to dominate challenges facing cybersecurity professionals, according to Verizon’s 15th annual Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR. In general, the results of DBIR merely confirm well-established trends, such as the growing threats of ransomware – up 1...

The Mystery of China’s Sudden Warnings About US Hackers

The Chinese government recently began saber-rattling about American cyberespionage. The catch? It’s all old news...

Chinese Hackers Caught Stealing Intellectual Property from Multinational Companies

An elusive and sophisticated cyberespionage campaign orchestrated by the China-backed Winnti group has managed to fly under the radar since at least 2019. Dubbed "Operation CuckooBees" by Israeli cybersecurity company Cybereason, the massive intellectual property theft operation enabled the threa...

Chinese Hackers Caught Exploiting Popular Antivirus Products to Target Telecom Sector

A Chinese-aligned cyberespionage group has been observed striking the telecommunication sector in Central Asia with versions of malware such as ShadowPad and PlugX. Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne tied the intrusions to an actor it tracks under the name "Moshen Dragon," with tactical overlaps...

Chinese "Override Panda" Hackers Resurface With New Espionage Attacks

A Chinese state-sponsored espionage group known as Override Panda has resurfaced in recent weeks with a new phishing attack with the goal of stealing sensitive information. "The Chinese APT used a spear-phishing email to deliver a beacon of a Red Team framework known as 'Viper,'" Cluster25 said i...

Cyberespionage APT Now Identified as Three Separate Actors

A threat group responsible for sophisticated cyberespionage attacks against U.S. utilities is actually comprised of three subgroups, all with their own toolsets and targets, that have been operating globally since 2018, researchers have found. TA410 is a cyberespionage umbrella group loosely link...

Cyberattacks Rage in Ukraine, Support Military Operations

Cyberattacks against Ukraine have been used strategically to support ground campaigns, with five state-sponsored advanced persistent threat APT groups behind attacks that began in February. According to research published by Microsoft on Wednesday, the APTs involved in the campaigns are...

Experts Detail 3 Hacking Teams Working Under the Umbrella of TA410 Group

A cyberespionage threat actor known for targeting a variety of critical infrastructure sectors in Africa, the Middle East, and the U.S. has been observed using an upgraded version of a remote access trojan with information stealing capabilities. Calling TA410 an umbrella group comprised of three...

Chinese APT Combines Fresh Hodur RAT with Complex Anti-Detection

The Chinese advanced persistent threat APT Mustang Panda a.k.a. Temp.Hex, HoneyMyte, TA416 or RedDelta has upgraded its espionage campaign against diplomatic missions, research entities and internet service providers ISPs – largely in and around Southeast Asia. For one thing, the APT has deployed...

Mustang Panda targets European diplomats using enhanced PlugX backdoor

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Mustang Panda, a Chinese cyberespionage group, has been targeting European diplomats with a revised version of the PlugX backdoor in an ongoing campaign linked to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. The group, also known as...