APT trends report Q2 2022

For 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 published and...

Hackers Use Evilnum Malware to Target Cryptocurrency and Commodities Platforms

The advanced persistent threat APT actor tracked as Evilnum is once again exhibiting signs of renewed activity aimed at European financial and investment entities. "Evilnum is a backdoor that can be used for data theft or to load additional payloads," enterprise security firm Proofpoint said in a...

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...

Pakistani Hackers Targeting Indian Students in Latest Malware Campaign

The advanced persistent threat APT group known as Transparent Tribe has been attributed to a new ongoing phishing campaign targeting students at various educational institutions in India at least since December 2021. "This new campaign also suggests that the APT is actively expanding its network ...

Targeted attack on Government Agencies

Targeted Attack on Government Agencies By Sushant Kumar Arya, Mohsin Dalla · July 13, 2022 Executive summary The Trellix Email Security Research Team has discovered a malicious campaign targeting government agencies of Afghanistan, India, Italy, Poland, and the United States since 2021. The attac...

Targeted attack on Government Agencies

Targeted Attack on Government Agencies By Sushant Kumar Arya, Mohsin Dalla · July 13, 2022 Executive summary The Trellix Email Security Research Team has discovered a malicious campaign targeting government agencies of Afghanistan, India, Italy, Poland, and the United States since 2021. The attac...

Hackers Used Fake Job Offer to Hack and Steal $540 Million from Axie Infinity

The $540 million hack of Axie Infinity's Ronin Bridge in late March 2022 was the consequence of one of its former employees getting tricked by a fraudulent job offer on LinkedIn, it has emerged. According to a report from The Block published last week citing two people familiar with the matter, a...

Hackers Abusing BRc4 Red Team Penetration Tool in Attacks to Evade Detection

Malicious actors have been observed abusing legitimate adversary simulation software in their attacks in an attempt to stay under the radar and evade detection. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 said a malware sample uploaded to the VirusTotal database on May 19, 2022, contained a payload associated wit...

Google Blocks Dozens of Malicious Domains Operated by Hack-for-Hire Groups

Google's Threat Analysis Group TAG on Thursday disclosed it had acted to block as many as 36 malicious domains operated by hack-for-hire groups from India, Russia, and the U.A.E. In a manner analogous to the surveillanceware ecosystem, hack-for-hire firms equip their clients with capabilities to...

Russian Hackers Exploiting Microsoft Follina Vulnerability Against Ukraine

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT-UA has cautioned of a new set of spear-phishing attacks exploiting the "Follina" flaw in the Windows operating system to deploy password-stealing malware. Attributing the intrusions to a Russian nation-state group tracked as APT28 aka Fancy Bea...

The vulnerability of the client device during the installation and preliminary configuration of new devices under Windows Autopilot of the Microsoft operating system allows attackers to perform spear-phishing attacks.

The vulnerability of the client software for installing and preliminarily configuring new devices under Windows Autopilot of the Microsoft operating system is related to information representation errors in the user interface. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to perform...

State-Sponsored Phishing Attack Targeted Israeli Military Officials

An advanced persistent threat group, with ties to Iran, is believed behind a phishing campaign targeting high-profile government and military Israeli personnel, according to a report by Check Point Software. Targets of the campaign included a senior leadership in the Israeli defense industry, the...

The vulnerability of Microsoft Edge browser, related to information representation errors in the user interface, allows attackers to perform spear-phishing attacks.

The vulnerability of Microsoft Edge is related to information representation errors in the user interface. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to perform spear-phishing attacks remotely...

Microsoft Seizes 41 Domains Used in Spear-Phishing Attacks by Bohrium Hackers

Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit DCU last week disclosed that it had taken legal proceedings against an Iranian threat actor dubbed Bohrium in connection with a spear-phishing operation. The adversarial collective is said to have targeted entities in tech, transportation, government, and education...

The vulnerability of Microsoft SharePoint Server, Microsoft SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server, and Microsoft SharePoint Foundation relates to information representation errors in the user interface, allowing attackers to perform spoofing attacks.

The vulnerability of Microsoft SharePoint Server, Microsoft SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server, and Microsoft SharePoint Foundation relates to information display errors in the user interface. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to...

SideWinder Hackers Launched Over a 1,000 Cyber Attacks Over the Past 2 Years

An "aggressive" advanced persistent threat APT group known as SideWinder has been linked to over 1,000 new attacks since April 2020. "Some of the main characteristics of this threat actor that make it stand out among the others, are the sheer number, high frequency and persistence of their attack...

Researchers Find New Malware Attacks Targeting Russian Government Entities

An unknown advanced persistent threat APT group has been linked to a series of spear-phishing attacks targeting Russian government entities since the onset of the Russo-Ukrainian war in late February 2022. "The campaigns ... are designed to implant a Remote Access Trojan RAT that can be used to...

Unknown APT group has targeted Russia repeatedly since Ukraine invasion

An unknown Advanced Persistent Threat APT group has targeted Russian government entities with at least four separate spear phishing campaigns since late February, 2022. The campaigns, discovered by the Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence team, are designed to implant a Remote Access Trojan RAT that...

Cytrox's Predator Spyware Targeted Android Users with Zero-Day Exploits

Google's Threat Analysis Group TAG on Thursday pointed fingers at a North Macedonian spyware developer named Cytrox for developing exploits against five zero-day aka 0-day flaws, four in Chrome and one in Android, to target Android users. "The 0-day exploits were used alongside n-day exploits as...

New Saitama backdoor Targeted Official from Jordan's Foreign Ministry

A spear-phishing campaign targeting Jordan's foreign ministry has been observed dropping a new stealthy backdoor dubbed Saitama. Researchers from Malwarebytes and Fortinet FortiGuard Labs attributed the campaign to an Iranian cyber espionage threat actor tracked under the moniker APT34, citing...