North Korea's Lazarus Group Launders $900 Million in Cryptocurrency

As much as $7 billion in cryptocurrency has been illicitly laundered through cross-chain crime, with the North Korea-linked Lazarus Group linked to the theft of roughly $900 million of those proceeds between July 2022 and July of this year. "As traditional entities such as mixers continue to be...

Chinese Hackers Target Semiconductor Firms in East Asia with Cobalt Strike

Threat actors have been observed targeting semiconductor companies in East Asia with lures masquerading as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company TSMC that are designed to deliver Cobalt Strike beacons. The intrusion set, per EclecticIQ, leverages a backdoor called HyperBro, which is then use...

Guyana Governmental Entity Hit by DinodasRAT in Cyber Espionage Attack

A governmental entity in Guyana has been targeted as part of a cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation Jacana. The activity, which was detected by ESET in February 2023, entailed a spear-phishing attack that led to the deployment of a hitherto undocumented implant written in C++ called...

TAG-74’s Multi-Year Campaign Targets South Korean Organizations

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary TAG-74 is a state-sponsored cyber-espionage group that has been attributed to Chinese military intelligence. This threat actor has been involved in a multi-year campaign primarily targeting organizations ...

Deadglyph Malware Emerges as a Game Changer for Stealth Falcon

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The cyber espionage group Stealth Falcon commenced covert operations and employed advanced backdoor malware called "Deadglyph" primarily to infiltrate Middle Eastern government entities. To receive...

Chinese Hackers TAG-74 Targets South Korean Organizations in a Multi-Year Campaign

A "multi-year" Chinese state-sponsored cyber espionage campaign has been observed targeting South Korean academic, political, and government organizations. Recorded Future's Insikt Group, which is tracking the activity under the moniker TAG-74, said the adversary has been linked to "Chinese...

Deadglyph: A New Backdoor Linked to Stealth Falcon APT in the Middle East

By Waqas Stealth Falcon APT group is notorious for its cyber-espionage campaigns in the Middle East. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Deadglyph: A New Backdoor Linked to Stealth Falcon APT in the Middle East...

New Report Uncovers 3 Distinct Clusters of China-Nexus Attacks on Southeast Asian Government

An unnamed Southeast Asian government has been targeted by multiple China-nexus threat actors as part of espionage campaigns targeting the region over extended periods of time. "While this activity occurred around the same time and in some instances even simultaneously on the same victims'...

Sandman APT Strikes the Telecom Sector with the LuaDream Backdoor

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Sandman APT, an espionage group of unknown origins that surfaced mysteriously in August, is orchestrating a sophisticated campaign aimed squarely at telecommunications providers spanning the Middle East,...

Deadglyph: New Advanced Backdoor with Distinctive Malware Tactics

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously undocumented advanced backdoor dubbed Deadglyph employed by a threat actor known as Stealth Falcon as part of a cyber espionage campaign. "Deadglyph's architecture is unusual as it consists of cooperating components – one a native x64 binary,...

Mysterious 'Sandman' Threat Actor Targets Telecom Providers Across Three Continents

A previously undocumented threat actor dubbed Sandman has been attributed to a set of cyber attacks targeting telecommunication providers in the Middle East, Western Europe, and the South Asian subcontinent. Notably, the intrusions leverage a just-in-time JIT compiler for the Lua programming...

Earth Lusca’s Sneaky Moves Unleashes New Linux Backdoor

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Earth Lusca, a highly sophisticated Chinese threat actor, is believed to have resumed its operations in the first half of 2023. This cyber espionage group utilizes the SprySOCKS backdoor, primarily...

China Accuses U.S. of Decade-Long Cyber Espionage Campaign Against Huawei Servers

China's Ministry of State Security MSS has accused the U.S. of breaking into Huawei's servers, stealing critical data, and implanting backdoors since 2009, amid mounting geopolitical tensions between the two countries. In a message posted on WeChat, the government authority said U.S. intelligence...

Redfly Targets Critical Infrastructure in Asia with ShadowPad Trojan

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Redfly, an espionage group, targeted Asian critical infrastructure, compromising a national grid for six months using ShadowPad. This underscores a rising trend in such attacks, raising global concerns...

Earth Lusca's New SprySOCKS Linux Backdoor Targets Government Entities

The China-linked threat actor known as Earth Lusca has been observed targeting government entities using a never-before-seen Linux backdoor called SprySOCKS. Earth Lusca was first documented by Trend Micro in January 2022, detailing the adversary's attacks against public and private sector entiti...

APT 33 Uses Password Spray Campaigns to Infiltrate Organizations

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary APT 33 aka Peach Sandstorm is an Iranian nation-state threat actor that was first identified in 2013. This group is notorious for conducting cyber espionage campaigns and has been associated with various...

Iranian Nation-State Actors Employ Password Spray Attacks Targeting Multiple Sectors

Iranian nation-state actors have been conducting password spray attacks against thousands of organizations globally between February and July 2023, new findings from Microsoft reveal. The tech giant, which is tracking the activity under the name Peach Sandstorm formerly Holmium, said the adversar...

Fake Signal and Telegram Apps in the Google Play Store

Google removed fake Signal and Telegram apps from its Play store. An app with the name Signal Plus Messenger was available on Play for nine months and had been downloaded from Play roughly 100 times before Google took it down last April after being tipped off by security firm ESET. It was also...

Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Actors 28 August to 3 September 2023

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForce Labs recently made several significant discoveries related to cybersecurity threats. Over the past week, the fact that there were a total of six attacks executed, one vulnerability, and two different adversaries highlights...

Researchers Warn of Cyber Weapons Used by Lazarus Group's Andariel Cluster

The North Korean threat actor known as Andariel has been observed employing an arsenal of malicious tools in its cyber assaults against corporations and organizations in the southern counterpart. "One characteristic of the attacks identified in 2023 is that there are numerous malware strains...