A Brief History of Russian Hackers' Evolving False Flags

Most hackers know how to cover their tracks. But Russia’s elite groups are working at a whole other level...

Olympic Destroyer Returns to Target Biochemical Labs

Olympic Destroyer, the threat actor that caused a crippling sabotage attack on the networks supporting this year’s Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, has resurfaced with a spy campaign – and with a wider target range. The new campaign began last month and is ongoing, employing spear-phishi...

Hackers Who Hit Winter Olympics 2018 Are Still Alive and Kicking

Remember the 'Olympic Destroyer' cyber attack? The group behind it is still alive, kicking and has now been found targeting biological and chemical threat prevention laboratories in Europe and Ukraine, and a few financial organisation in Russia. Earlier this year, an unknown group of notorious...

Olympic Destroyer: A False Flag Confusion Bomb

CANCUN, Mexico – A postmortem of the Olympic Destroyer malware used in the PyeongChang Olympics attack reveals a deliberate attempt by adversaries to plant a false flags when it comes to attribution, according to researchers. Days after the crippling attack on the backend networks tied to the...

Beers with Talos EP23 - Eternal Fauxmance: Attribution Easter Eggs

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Episode 23 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing: www.talosintelligence.com/podcast EP23 Show Notes: Recorded 2/16/18 - This week, Mitch learns about starting a show without Matt with no...

FIN10: Anatomy of a Cyber Extortion Operation

FireEye has identified a set of financially motivated intrusion operations being carried out by a threat actor we have dubbed FIN10. FIN10 is known for compromising networks, stealing sensitive data, and directly engaging victim executives and board members in an attempt to extort them into payin...

Vermont Grid 'Hack' Latest Tumble Down Attribution Rabbit Hole

A Vermont utility was for a brief moment last week at the center of a geopolitical scandal in which the Russian government was implicated in an attack against a U.S. electric grid. As it turns out, a laptop at Burlington Electric Department was infected with the Neutrino Exploit Kit. There was no...

On Virus Bulletin, APT False Flags, and the NSA Contractor Arrest

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss this week’s Virus Bulletin conference in Denver and CNBC’s Cambridge Cyber Summit at MIT, the NSA contractor arrest, APT false flags, and more. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapOctober72016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade and Brian Bartholomew on APT False Flags and Attribution

Mike Mimoso talks to Kaspersky Lab Global Research and Analysis Team researchers Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade and Brian Bartholomew about a paper released at Virus Bulletin on deception tactics and false flags flown by APT groups to frustrate analysis. Download their paper presented at Virus...

CanSecWest 2016 Attack Attribution False Flags

With every APT report there comes the gnawing question of whodunit. Just this week, a Reuters report linked a spree of ransomware attacks against U.S. companies to state-sponsored hacker groups in China. Most reports, however, offer no tangible evidence other than technological footprints that ca...