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2024-05-28 17:37:40 | Faits saillants hebdomadaires, 28 mai 2024 Weekly OSINT Highlights, 28 May 2024 (lien direct) |
## Snapshot Last week\'s OSINT reporting reveals a diverse array of sophisticated cyber threats targeting various sectors, including financial institutions, government entities, and academic organizations. The reports highlight a variety of attack types such as banking trojans, stealers, crypto mining malware, ransomware, and remote access trojans (RATs). Attack vectors include malspam campaigns, spear-phishing emails, search engine advertisements, and trojanized software packages. Threat actors range from financially motivated groups like UAC-0006 and Ikaruz Red Team to state-sponsored entities such as the Chinese-linked "Unfading Sea Haze" and the Iranian Void Manticore. These actors employ advanced techniques like fileless malware, DLL sideloading, and custom keyloggers to achieve persistence and data exfiltration. The targets of these attacks are geographically widespread, encompassing North and South America, the South China Sea region, the Philippines, and South Korea, underscoring the global reach and impact of these threats. ## Description 1. **[Metamorfo Banking Trojan Targets North and South America](https://security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/72f52370)**: Forcepoint reports that the Metamorfo (Casbaneiro) banking trojan spreads through malspam campaigns, using HTML attachments to initiate system metadata collection and steal user data. This malware targets banking users in North and South America by employing PowerShell commands and various persistence mechanisms. 2. **[Unfading Sea Haze Targets South China Sea Military and Government Entities](https://security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/c95e7fd5)**: Bitdefender Labs identified a Chinese-linked threat actor, "Unfading Sea Haze," using spear-phishing emails and fileless malware to target military and government entities in the South China Sea region. The campaign employs tools like SerialPktdoor and Gh0stRAT to exfiltrate data and maintain persistence. 3. **[Acrid, ScarletStealer, and Sys01 Stealers](https://security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/8ca39741)**: Kaspersky describes three stealers-Acrid, ScarletStealer, and Sys01-targeting various global regions. These stealers focus on stealing browser data, cryptocurrency wallets, and credentials, posing significant financial risks by exfiltrating sensitive user information. 4. **[REF4578 Crypto Mining Campaign](https://security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/c2420a77)**: Elastic Security Labs reports on REF4578, an intrusion set leveraging vulnerable drivers to disable EDRs for deploying Monero crypto miners. The campaign\'s GHOSTENGINE module ensures persistence and termination of security agents, targeting systems for crypto mining. 5. **[SmokeLoader Malware Campaign in Ukraine](https://security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/7bef5f52)**: CERT-UA observed the UAC-0006 threat actor distributing SmokeLoader malware via phishing emails in Ukraine. The campaign downloads additional malware like Taleshot and RMS, targeting remote banking systems and increasing fraud schemes. 6. **[Ikaruz Red Team Targets Philippines with Modified Ransomware](https://security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/624f5ce1)**: The hacktivist group Ikaruz Red Team uses leaked LockBit 3 ransomware builders to attack Philippine organizations, aligning with other hacktivist groups like Turk Hack Team. The group engages in politically motivated data leaks and destructive actions. 7. **[Grandoreiro Banking Trojan Campaign](https://security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/bc072613)**: IBM X-Force tracks the Grandoreiro banking trojan, which operates as Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) and targets over 1500 global banks. The malware uses advanced evasion techniques and spreads through phishing emails, aiming to commit banking fraud worldwide. 8. **[Void Manticore\'s Destructive Wiping Attacks](https://security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/articles/d5d5c07f)**: Check Point Research analyzes the Iranian threat actor Void Manticore, conducting destructive wip | Ransomware Malware Hack Tool Threat | APT 34 | ★★★ |
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