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Mandiant.webp 2024-05-22 14:00:00 Extinction de l'IOC?Les acteurs de cyber-espionnage de Chine-Nexus utilisent des réseaux orbes pour augmenter les coûts des défenseurs
IOC Extinction? China-Nexus Cyber Espionage Actors Use ORB Networks to Raise Cost on Defenders
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Written by: Michael Raggi
  Mandiant Intelligence is tracking a growing trend among China-nexus cyber espionage operations where advanced persistent threat (APT) actors utilize proxy networks known as “ORB networks” (operational relay box networks) to gain an advantage when conducting espionage operations. ORB networks are akin to botnets and are made up of virtual private servers (VPS), as well as compromised Internet of Things (IoT) devices, smart devices, and routers that are often end of life or unsupported by their manufacturers. Building networks of compromised devices allows ORB network administrators to easily grow the size of their ORB network with little effort and create a constantly evolving mesh network that can be used to conceal espionage operations.  By using these mesh networks to conduct espionage operations, actors can disguise external traffic between command and control (C2) infrastructure and victim environments including vulnerable edge devices that are being exploited via zero-day vulnerabilities.  These networks often use both rented VPS nodes in combination with malware designed to target routers so they can grow the number of devices capable of relaying traffic within compromised networks.  Mandiant assesses with moderate confidence that this is an effort to raise the cost of defending an enterprise\'s network and shift the advantage toward espionage operators by evading detection and complicating attribution. Mandiant believes that if network defenders can shift the current enterprise defense paradigm away from treating adversary infrastructure like indicators of compromise (IOCs) and instead toward tracking ORB networks like evolving entities akin to APT groups, enterprises can contend with the rising challenge of ORB networks in the threat landscape. IOC Extinction and the Rise of ORB Networks The cybersecurity industry has reported on the APT practice of ORB network usage in the past as well as on the functional implementation of these networks. Less discussed are the implications of broad ORB network usage by a multitude of China-nexus espionage actors, which has become more common over recent years. The following are three key points and paradigm shifting implications about ORB networks that require enterprise network defenders to adapt the way they think about China-nexus espionage actors: ORB networks undermine the idea of “Actor-Controlled Infrastructure”: ORB networks are infrastructure networks administered by independent entities, contractors, or administrators within the People\'s Republic of China (PRC). They are not controlled by a single APT actor. ORB networks create a network interface, administer a network of compromised nodes, and contract access to those networks to multiple APT actors that will use the ORB networks to carry out their own distinct espionage and reconnaissance. These networks are not controlled by APT actors using them, but rather are temporarily used by these APT actors often to deploy custom tooling more conventionally attributable to known China-nexus adversaries. ORB network infrastructure has a short lifesp
Malware Tool Vulnerability Threat Prediction Cloud Commercial APT 15 APT 5 APT 31 ★★★
Mandiant.webp 2017-06-06 17:30:00 Privilèges et références: phisés à la demande de conseil
Privileges and Credentials: Phished at the Request of Counsel
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Résumé En mai et juin 2017, Fireeye a observé une campagne de phishing ciblant au moins sept sociétés mondiales de droit et d'investissement.Nous avons associé cette campagne à APT19, un groupe que nous évaluons est composé de pigistes, avec un certain degré de parrainage par le gouvernement chinois. APT19 a utilisé trois techniques différentes pour tenter de compromettre les cibles.Début mai, les leurres de phishing ont exploité les pièces jointes RTF qui ont exploité la vulnérabilité Microsoft Windows décrite dans CVE 2017-0199.Vers la fin de mai, APT19 est passé à l'utilisation de documents Microsoft Excel (XLSM) compatibles avec macro.Dans le
Summary In May and June 2017, FireEye observed a phishing campaign targeting at least seven global law and investment firms. We have associated this campaign with APT19, a group that we assess is composed of freelancers, with some degree of sponsorship by the Chinese government. APT19 used three different techniques to attempt to compromise targets. In early May, the phishing lures leveraged RTF attachments that exploited the Microsoft Windows vulnerability described in CVE 2017-0199. Toward the end of May, APT19 switched to using macro-enabled Microsoft Excel (XLSM) documents. In the
Vulnerability APT 19 ★★★★
Mandiant.webp 2015-07-13 08:31:00 Démontrant Hustle, les groupes de l'APT chinois utilisent rapidement une vulnérabilité zéro-jour (CVE-2015-5119) après une fuite d'équipe de piratage
Demonstrating Hustle, Chinese APT Groups Quickly Use Zero-Day Vulnerability (CVE-2015-5119) Following Hacking Team Leak
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Le Fireeye en tant qu'équipe de service a détecté des campagnes de phishing indépendantes menées par deux groupes de menace persistante avancés chinois (APT) que nous suivons, APT3 et APT18.Chaque groupe de menaces a rapidement profité d'une vulnérabilité zéro-jour (CVE-2015-5119), qui a été divulguée dans la divulgation des données internes de l'équipe de piratage.Adobe a publié un patch pour la vulnérabilité le 8 juillet 2015. Avant ce patcha été publié, les groupes ont lancé des campagnes de phishing contre plusieurs sociétés de l'aérospatiale et de la défense, de la construction et de l'ingénierie, de l'éducation, de l'énergie
  The FireEye as a Service team detected independent phishing campaigns conducted by two Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) groups that we track, APT3 and APT18. Each threat group quickly took advantage of a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2015-5119), which was leaked in the disclosure of Hacking Team\'s internal data. Adobe released a patch for the vulnerability on July 8, 2015. Before that patch was released, the groups launched phishing campaigns against multiple companies in the aerospace and defense, construction and engineering, education, energy
Vulnerability Threat APT 18 APT 3 ★★★★
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