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2024-07-29 10:58:35 | Weekly OSINT Highlights, 29 July 2024 (lien direct) | ## Snapshot Key trends from last week\'s OSINT reporting include novel malware, such as Flame Stealer and FrostyGoop, the compromise of legitimate platforms like Discord and GitHub, and state-sponsored threat actors conducting espionage and destructive attacks. Notable threat actors, including Russian groups, Transparent Tribe, FIN7, and DPRK\'s Andariel, are targeting a wide range of sectors from defense and industrial control systems to financial institutions and research entities. These attacks exploit various vulnerabilities and employ advanced evasion techniques, leveraging both traditional methods and emerging technologies like AI-generated scripts and RDGAs, underscoring the evolving and persistent nature of the cyber threat landscape. ## Description 1. [Widespread Adoption of Flame Stealer](https://sip.security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/f610f18e): Cyfirma reports Flame Stealer\'s use in stealing Discord tokens and browser credentials. Distributed via Discord and Telegram, this malware targets various platforms, utilizing evasion techniques like DLL side-loading and data exfiltration through Discord webhooks. 2. [ExelaStealer Delivered via PowerShell](https://sip.security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/5b4a34b0): The SANS Technology Institute Internet Storm Center reported a threat involving ExelaStealer, downloaded from a Russian IP address using a PowerShell script. The script downloads two PE files: a self-extracting RAR archive communicating with "solararbx\[.\]online" and "service.exe," the ExelaStealer malware. The ExelaStealer, developed in Python, uses Discord for C2, conducting reconnaissance activities and gathering system and user details. Comments in Russian in the script and the origin of the IP address suggest a Russian origin. 3. [FrostyGoop Disrupts Heating in Ukraine](https://sip.security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/cf8f8199): Dragos identified FrostyGoop malware in a cyberattack disrupting heating in Lviv, Ukraine. Linked to Russian groups, the ICS-specific malware exploits vulnerabilities in industrial control systems and communicates using the Modbus TCP protocol. 4. [Rhysida Ransomware Attack on Private School](https://sip.security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/4cf89ad3): ThreatDown by Malwarebytes identified a Rhysida ransomware attack using a new variant of the Oyster backdoor. The attackers used SEO-poisoned search results to distribute malicious installers masquerading as legitimate software, deploying the Oyster backdoor. 5. [LLMs Used to Generate Malicious Code](https://sip.security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/96b66de0): Symantec highlights cyberattacks using Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate malware code. Phishing campaigns utilize LLM-generated PowerShell scripts to download payloads like Rhadamanthys and LokiBot, stressing the need for advanced detection against AI-facilitated attacks. 6. [Stargazers Ghost Network Distributes Malware](https://sip.security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/62a3aa28): Check Point Research uncovers a network of GitHub accounts distributing malware via phishing repositories. The Stargazer Goblin group\'s DaaS operation leverages over 3,000 accounts to spread malware such as Atlantida Stealer and RedLine, targeting both general users and other threat actors. 7. [Crimson RAT Targets Indian Election Results](https://sip.security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/dfae4887): K7 Labs identified Crimson RAT malware delivered through documents disguised as "Indian Election Results." Transparent Tribe APT, believed to be from Pakistan, targets Indian diplomatic and defense entities using macro-embedded documents to steal credentials. 8. [AsyncRAT Distributed via Weaponized eBooks](https://sip.security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/e84ee11d): ASEC discovered AsyncRAT malware distributed through weaponized eBooks. Hidden PowerShell scripts within these eBooks trigger the AsyncRAT payload, which uses obfuscation and anti-detection techniques to exfiltrate data. | Ransomware Data Breach Spam Malware Tool Vulnerability Threat Legislation Mobile Industrial Medical | APT 28 APT 36 | |
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2024-06-27 14:00:00 | Le renouveau mondial du hacktivisme nécessite une vigilance accrue des défenseurs Global Revival of Hacktivism Requires Increased Vigilance from Defenders (lien direct) |
Written by: Daniel Kapellmann Zafra, Alden Wahlstrom, James Sadowski, Josh Palatucci, Davyn Baumann, Jose Nazario
Since early 2022, Mandiant has observed the revival and intensification of threat activity from actors leveraging hacktivist tactics and techniques. This comes decades after hacktivism first emerged as a form of online activism and several years since many defenders last considered hacktivism to be a serious threat. However, this new generation of hacktivism has grown to encompass a more complex and often impactful fusion of tactics different actors leverage for their specific objectives. Today\'s hacktivists exhibit increased capabilities in both intrusion and information operations demonstrated by a range of activities such as executing massive disruptive attacks, compromising networks to leak information, conducting information operations, and even tampering with physical world processes. They have leveraged their skills to gain notoriety and reputation, promote political ideologies, and actively support the strategic interests of nation-states. The anonymity provided by hacktivist personas coupled with the range of objectives supported by hacktivist tactics have made them a top choice for both state and non-state actors seeking to exert influence through the cyber domain. This blog post presents Mandiant\'s analysis of the hacktivism threat landscape, and provides analytical tools to understand and assess the level of risk posed by these groups. Based on years of experience tracking hacktivist actors, their claims, and attacks, our insight is meant to help organizations understand and prioritize meaningful threat activity against their own networks and equities. 
Figure 1: Sample of imagery used by hacktivists to promote their threat activity
Proactive Monitoring of Hacktivist Threats Necessary for Defenders to Anticipate Cyberattacks
Mandiant considers activity to be hacktivism when actors claim to or conduct attacks with the publicly stated intent of engaging in political or social activism. The large scale of hacktivism\'s resurgence presents a critical challenge to defenders who need to proactively sift through the noise and assess the risk posed by a multitude of actors with ranging degrees of sophistication. While in many cases hacktivist activity represents a marginal threat, in the most significant hacktivist operations Mandiant has tracked, threat actors have deliberately layered multiple tactics in hybrid operations in such a way that the effect of each component magnified the others. In some cases, hacktivist tactics have been deliberately employed by nation-state actors to support hybrid operations that can seriously harm victims. As the volume and complexity of activity grows and new actors leverage hacktivist tactics, defenders must determine how to filter, assess, and neutralize a range of novel and evolving threats. The proactive moni |
Malware Tool Threat Legislation Industrial Cloud Commercial | APT 38 | ★★★ |
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2024-04-25 10:00:00 | Pole Voûte: cyber-menaces aux élections mondiales Poll Vaulting: Cyber Threats to Global Elections (lien direct) |
Written by: Kelli Vanderlee, Jamie Collier
Executive Summary The election cybersecurity landscape globally is characterized by a diversity of targets, tactics, and threats. Elections attract threat activity from a variety of threat actors including: state-sponsored actors, cyber criminals, hacktivists, insiders, and information operations as-a-service entities. Mandiant assesses with high confidence that state-sponsored actors pose the most serious cybersecurity risk to elections. Operations targeting election-related infrastructure can combine cyber intrusion activity, disruptive and destructive capabilities, and information operations, which include elements of public-facing advertisement and amplification of threat activity claims. Successful targeting does not automatically translate to high impact. Many threat actors have struggled to influence or achieve significant effects, despite their best efforts. When we look across the globe we find that the attack surface of an election involves a wide variety of entities beyond voting machines and voter registries. In fact, our observations of past cycles indicate that cyber operations target the major players involved in campaigning, political parties, news and social media more frequently than actual election infrastructure. Securing elections requires a comprehensive understanding of many types of threats and tactics, from distributed denial of service (DDoS) to data theft to deepfakes, that are likely to impact elections in 2024. It is vital to understand the variety of relevant threat vectors and how they relate, and to ensure mitigation strategies are in place to address the full scope of potential activity. Election organizations should consider steps to harden infrastructure against common attacks, and utilize account security tools such as Google\'s Advanced Protection Program to protect high-risk accounts. Introduction The 2024 global election cybersecurity landscape is characterized by a diversity of targets, tactics, and threats. An expansive ecosystem of systems, administrators, campaign infrastructure, and public communications venues must be secured against a diverse array of operators and methods. Any election cybersecurity strategy should begin with a survey of the threat landscape to build a more proactive and tailored security posture. The cybersecurity community must keep pace as more than two billion voters are expected to head to the polls in 2024. With elections in more than an estimated 50 countries, there is an opportunity to dynamically track how threats to democracy evolve. Understanding how threats are targeting one country will enable us to better anticipate and prepare for upcoming elections globally. At the same time, we must also appreciate the unique context of different countries. Election threats to South Africa, India, and the United States will inevitably differ in some regard. In either case, there is an opportunity for us to prepare with the advantage of intelligence. |
Ransomware Malware Hack Tool Vulnerability Threat Legislation Cloud Technical | APT 40 APT 29 APT 28 APT 43 APT 31 APT 42 | ★★★ |
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2024-03-28 22:20:00 | La Finlande blâme le groupe de piratage chinois Apt31 pour la cyberattaque du Parlement Finland Blames Chinese Hacking Group APT31 for Parliament Cyber Attack (lien direct) |
La police de Finlande (alias Poliisi) a officiellement accusé un acteur chinois de l'État-nation suivi comme APT31 pour avoir orchestré une cyberattaque ciblant le Parlement du pays en 2020.
L'intrusion, selon les autorités, se serait produite entre l'automne 2020 et le début de 2021. L'agence a décrit la sonde criminelle en cours comme à la fois exigeante et longue, impliquant une analyse approfondie de A "
The Police of Finland (aka Poliisi) has formally accused a Chinese nation-state actor tracked as APT31 for orchestrating a cyber attack targeting the country\'s Parliament in 2020. The intrusion, per the authorities, is said to have occurred between fall 2020 and early 2021. The agency described the ongoing criminal probe as both demanding and time-consuming, involving extensive analysis of a " |
Legislation | APT 31 | ★★★ |
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2024-03-26 17:23:54 | La Finlande confirme les pirates pirates de l'APT31 derrière la violation du Parlement en 2021 Finland confirms APT31 hackers behind 2021 parliament breach (lien direct) |
La police finlandaise a confirmé mardi que le groupe de piratage de l'APT31 lié au ministère chinois de la sécurité de l'État (MSS) était à l'origine d'une violation du Parlement du pays divulgué en mars 2021. [...]
The Finnish Police confirmed on Tuesday that the APT31 hacking group linked to the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) was behind a breach of the country\'s parliament disclosed in March 2021. [...] |
Legislation | APT 31 | ★★★ |
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