Turla Turns Kazuar Backdoor Into Modular P2P Botnet for Persistent Access

The Russian state-sponsored hacking group known as Turla has transformed its custom backdoor Kazuar into a modular peer-to-peer P2P botnet that's engineered for stealth and persistent access to compromised hosts. Turla, per the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, is assess...

Russian Hackers Gamaredon and Turla Collaborate to Deploy Kazuar Backdoor in Ukraine

Cybersecurity researchers have discerned evidence of two Russian hacking groups Gamaredon and Turla collaborating together to target and co-comprise Ukrainian entities. Slovak cybersecurity company ESET said it observed the Gamaredon tools PteroGraphin and PteroOdd being used to execute Turla...

The Kremlin’s Most Devious Hacking Group Is Using Russian ISPs to Plant Spyware

The FSB cyberespionage group known as Turla seems to have used its control of Russia’s network infrastructure to meddle with web traffic and trick diplomats into infecting their computers...

Russia-Linked Turla Exploits Pakistani Hackers' Servers to Target Afghan and Indian Entities

The Russia-linked advanced persistent threat APT group known as Turla has been linked to a previously undocumented campaign that involved infiltrating the command-and-control C2 servers of a Pakistan-based hacking group named Storm-0156 to conduct its own operations since 2022. The activity, firs...

Turla’s Tiny Backdoor Exploits MSBuild to Evade Detection

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LunarWeb and LunarMail: The Secret Weapons of the Turla APT

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Turla Group Deploys LunarWeb and LunarMail Backdoors in Diplomatic Missions

An unnamed European Ministry of Foreign Affairs MFA and its three diplomatic missions in the Middle East were targeted by two previously undocumented backdoors tracked as LunarWeb and LunarMail. ESET, which identified the activity, attributed it with medium confidence to the Russia-aligned...

Russia Hackers Using TinyTurla-NG to Breach European NGO's Systems

The Russia-linked threat actor known as Turla infected several systems belonging to an unnamed European non-governmental organization NGO in order to deploy a backdoor called TinyTurla-NG TTNG. "The attackers compromised the first system, established persistence and added exclusions to antivirus...

New details on TinyTurla’s post-compromise activity reveal full kill chain

Cisco Talos is providing an update on its two recent reports on a new and ongoing campaign where Turla, a Russian espionage group, deployed their TinyTurla-NG TTNG implant. We now have new information on the entire kill chain this actor uses, including the tactics, techniques and procedures TTPs...

RedCurl Cybercrime Group Abuses Windows PCA Tool for Corporate Espionage

The Russian-speaking cybercrime group called RedCurl is leveraging a legitimate Microsoft Windows component called the Program Compatibility Assistant PCA to execute malicious commands. "The Program Compatibility Assistant Service pcalua.exe is a Windows service designed to identify and address...

TinyTurla-NG in-depth tooling and command and control analysis

Cisco Talos, in cooperation with CERT.NGO, has discovered new malicious components used by the Turla APT. New findings from Talos illustrate the inner workings of the command and control C2 scripts deployed on the compromised WordPress servers utilized in the compromise we previously disclosed...

Turla Expands Their Arsenal with Next-Generation Malwares

Summary: In December 2023, a new backdoor dubbed TinyTurla-NG was deployed by the Russia-affiliated threat actor Turla as part of a three-month campaign targeting Polish non-governmental organizations NGOs. The threat actor utilized malicious PowerShell scripts hosted on various websites,...

Russian Turla Hackers Target Polish NGOs with New TinyTurla-NG Backdoor

The Russia-linked threat actor known as Turla has been observed using a new backdoor called TinyTurla-NG as part of a three-month-long campaign targeting Polish non-governmental organizations in December 2023. "TinyTurla-NG, just like TinyTurla, is a small 'last chance' backdoor that is left behi...

TinyTurla Next Generation - Turla APT spies on Polish NGOs

Cisco Talos has identified a new backdoor authored and operated by the Turla APT group, a Russian cyber espionage threat group. This new backdoor were calling "TinyTurla-NG" TTNG is similar to Turlas previously disclosed implant, TinyTurla, in coding style and functionality implementation. Talos...

Turla Updates Kazuar Backdoor with Advanced Anti-Analysis to Evade Detection

The Russia-linked hacking crew known as Turla has been observed using an updated version of a known second-stage backdoor referred to as Kazuar. The new findings come from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, which is tracking the adversary under its constellation-themed moniker Pensive Ursa. "As the code...

Pro-Russian Hackers Exploiting Recent WinRAR Vulnerability in New Campaign

Pro-Russian hacking groups have exploited a recently disclosed security vulnerability in the WinRAR archiving utility as part of a phishing campaign designed to harvest credentials from compromised systems. "The attack involves the use of malicious archive files that exploit the recently discover...

2023 MITRE ATT&CK® Evaluation results: Malwarebytes earns high marks for detection, blocks initial malware executions

MITRE Engenuity released its 2023 ATT&CK Evaluation results, with Malwarebytes blocking initial malware executions and earning high marks for detection. The evaluation tested 30 vendor solutions against Turla, a sophisticated Russia-based advanced persistent threat APT group with victims in over ...

How to Interpret the 2023 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation Results

Thorough, independent tests are a vital resource as cybersecurity leaders and their teams evaluate vendors' abilities to guard against increasingly sophisticated threats to their organization. And perhaps no assessment is more widely trusted than the annual MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluations:...

Examining the Activities of the Turla APT Group

We examine the campaigns of the cyberespionage group known as Turla over the years, with a special focus on the key MITRE techniques and the corresponding IDs associated with the threat actor group...

Decoding Turla: Trend Micro's MITRE Performance

This year, the MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK evaluation tested cybersecurity vendors against simulated attack scenarios mimicking the adversary group “Turla.” Learn about Trend Micro's 100% successful protection performance...