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2021-04-08 09:01:17 | North Korean hackers use new Vyveva malware to attack freighters (lien direct) | The North Korean-backed Lazarus hacking group used new malware with backdoor capabilities dubbed Vyveva by ESET researchers in targeted attacks against a South African freight logistics company. [...] | Malware | APT 38 APT 28 | |
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2021-03-23 14:00:00 | Anomali Cyber Watch: APT, Malware, Vulnerabilities and More. (lien direct) | The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: BlackRock, CopperStealer, Go, Lazarus, Mirai, Mustang Panda, Rust, Tax Season, and Vulnerabilities. The IOCs related to these stories are attached to Anomali Cyber Watch and can be used to check your logs for potential malicious activity.
Figure 1 - IOC Summary Charts. These charts summarize the IOCs attached to this magazine and provide a glimpse of the threats discussed.
Trending Cyber News and Threat Intelligence
Bogus Android Clubhouse App Drops Credential-Swiping Malware
(published: March 19, 2021)
Researchers are warning of a fake version of the popular audio chat app Clubhouse, which delivers malware that steals login credentials for more than 450 apps. Clubhouse has burst on the social media scene over the past few months, gaining hype through its audio-chat rooms where participants can discuss anything from politics to relationships. Despite being invite-only, and only being around for a year, the app is closing in on 13 million downloads. The app is only available on Apple's App Store mobile application marketplace - though plans are in the works to develop one.
Analyst Comment: Use only the official stores to download apps to your devices. Be wary of what kinds of permissions you grant to applications. Before downloading an app, do some research.
MITRE ATT&CK: [MITRE ATT&CK] Remote File Copy - T1105
Tags: LokiBot, BlackRock, Banking, Android, Clubhouse
Trojanized Xcode Project Slips XcodeSpy Malware to Apple Developers
(published: March 18, 2021)
Researchers from cybersecurity firm SentinelOne have discovered a malicious version of the legitimate iOS TabBarInteraction Xcode project being distributed in a supply-chain attack. The malware, dubbed XcodeSpy, targets Xcode, an integrated development environment (IDE) used in macOS for developing Apple software and applications. The malicious project is a ripped version of TabBarInteraction, a legitimate project that has not been compromised. Malicious Xcode projects are being used to hijack developer systems and spread custom EggShell backdoors.
Analyst Comment: Researchers attribute this new targeting of Apple developers to North Korea and Lazarus group: similar TTPs of compromising developer supply chain were discovered in January 2021 when North Korean APT was using a malicious Visual Studio project. Moreover, one of the victims of XcodeSpy is a Japanese organization regularly targeted by North Korea. A behavioral detection solution is required to fully detect the presence of XcodeSpy payloads.
MITRE ATT&CK: [MITRE ATT&CK] Remote File Copy - T1105 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Security Software Discovery - T1063 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Obfuscated Files or Information - T1027
Tags: Lazarus, XcodeSpy, North Korea, EggShell, Xcode, Apple
Cybereason Exposes Campaign Targeting US Taxpayers with NetWire and Remcos Malware
(published: March 18, 2021)
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Ransomware Malware Tool Threat Patching Medical | APT 38 APT 28 | |
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2021-03-02 15:00:00 | Anomali Cyber Watch: APT Groups, Cobalt Strike, Russia, Malware, and More (lien direct) |
We are excited to announce Anomali Cyber Watch, your weekly intelligence digest. Replacing the Anomali Weekly Threat Briefing, Anomali Cyber Watch provides summaries of significant cybersecurity and threat intelligence events, analyst comments, and recommendations from Anomali Threat Research to increase situational awareness, and the associated tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to empower automated response actions proactively.
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The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: China, Emotet, Go, Masslogger, Mustang Panda, OilRig, and Vulnerabilities. The IOCs related to these stories are attached to the Weekly Threat Briefing and can be used to check your logs for potential malicious activity.
Figure 1 - IOC Summary Charts. These charts summarize the IOCs attached to this magazine and provide a glimpse of the threats discussed.
Trending Cyber News and Threat Intelligence
Hypervisor Jackpotting: CARBON SPIDER and SPRITE SPIDER Target ESXi Servers With Ransomware to Maximize Impact
(published: February 26, 2021)
Recent reporting indicates that two prolific cybercrime threat groups, CARBON SPIDER and SPRITE SPIDER, have begun targeting ESXi, a hypervisor developed by VMWare to run and manage virtual machines. SPRITE SPIDER uses PyXie's LaZagne module to recover vCenter credentials stored in web browsers and runs Mimikatz to steal credentials from host memory. After authenticating to vCenter, SPRITE SPIDER enables ssh to permit persistent access to ESXi devices. In some cases, they also change the root account password or the host’s ssh keys. Before deploying Defray 777, SPRITE SPIDER’s ransomware of choice, they terminate running VMs to allow the ransomware to encrypt files associated with those VMs. CARBON SPIDER has traditionally targeted companies operating POS devices, with initial access being gained using low-volume phishing campaigns against this sector. But throughout 2020 they were observed shifting focus to “Big Game Hunting” with the introduction of the Darkside Ransomware. CARBON SPIDER gains access to ESXi servers using valid credentials and reportedly also logs in over ssh using the Plink utility to drop the Darkside
Recommendation: Both CARBON SPIDER and SPRITE SPIDER likely intend to use ransomware targeting ESXi to inflict greater harm – and hopefully realize larger profits – than traditional ransomware operations against Windows systems. Should these campaigns continue and prove to be profitable, we would expect more threat actors to imitate these activities.
MITRE ATT&CK: [MITRE ATT&CK] Data Encrypted for Impact - T1486 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Hidden Files and Directories - T1158 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Process Discovery - T1057 | [MITRE ATT&CK] File Deletion - T1107 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Remote Services - T1021 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Scheduled Transfer - T1029 | |
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2021-02-25 10:00:53 | Lazarus targets defense industry with ThreatNeedle (lien direct) | In mid-2020, we realized that Lazarus was launching attacks on the defense industry using the ThreatNeedle cluster, an advanced malware cluster of Manuscrypt (a.k.a. NukeSped). While investigating this activity, we were able to observe the complete life cycle of an attack, uncovering more technical details and links to the group's other campaigns. | Malware | APT 38 APT 28 | |
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2020-12-25 18:45:15 | (Déjà vu) North Korea-linked Lazarus APT targets the COVID-19 research (lien direct) | The North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group has recently launched cyberattacks against at least two organizations involved in COVID-19 research. The North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus has recently launched cyberattacks against two entities involved in COVID-19 research. The activity of the Lazarus APT group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks. […] | Malware | APT 38 APT 28 | |
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2020-12-10 12:14:06 | Russia-linked APT28 uses COVID-19 lures to deliver Zebrocy malware (lien direct) | Russia-link cyberespionage APT28 leverages COVID-19 as phishing lures to deliver the Go version of their Zebrocy (or Zekapab) malware. Russia-linked APT28 is leveraging COVID-19 as phishing lures in a new wave of attacks aimed at distributing the Go version of their Zebrocy (or Zekapab) malware. The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear, Pawn Storm, Sofacy Group, Sednit, and STRONTIUM) has been active since at least 2007 and it has […] | Malware | APT 28 | |
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2020-12-09 07:11:49 | Russian APT28 Hackers Using COVID-19 as Bait to Deliver Zebrocy Malware (lien direct) | A Russian threat actor known for its malware campaigns has reappeared in the threat landscape with yet another attack leveraging COVID-19 as phishing lures, once again indicating how adversaries are adept at repurposing the current world events to their advantage.
Linking the operation to a sub-group of APT28 (aka Sofacy, Sednit, Fancy Bear, or STRONTIUM), cybersecurity firm Intezer said the |
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2020-09-15 15:00:00 | Weekly Threat Briefing: APT Group, Malware, Ransomware, and Vulnerabilities (lien direct) |
The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Weekly Threat Briefing discuss the following topics: APT, Conti Ransomware, Cryptominers, Emotet, Linux, US Election, and Vulnerabilities. The IOCs related to these stories are attached to the Weekly Threat Briefing and can be used to check your logs for potential malicious activity. 
Figure 1 - IOC Summary Charts. These charts summarize the IOCs attached to this magazine and provide a glimpse of the threats discussed.
Trending Cyber News and Threat Intelligence
China’s ‘Hybrid War’: Beijing’s Mass Surveillance of Australia and the World for Secrets and Scandal
(published: September 14, 2020)
A database containing 2.4 million people has been leaked from a Shenzhen company, Zhenhua Data, believed to have ties to the Chinese intelligence service. The database contains personal information on over 35,000 Australians and prominent figures, and 52,000 Americans. This includes addresses, bank information, birth dates, criminal records, job applications, psychological profiles, and social media. Politicians, lawyers, journalists, military officers, media figures, and Natalie Imbruglia are among the records of Australians contained in the database. While a lot of the information is public, there is also non-public information contributing to claims that China is developing a mass surveillance system.
Recommendation: Users should always remain vigilant about the information they are putting out into the public, and avoid posting personal or sensitive information online.
Tags: China, spying
US Criminal Court Hit by Conti Ransomware; Critical Data at Risk
(published: September 11, 2020)
The Fourth District Court of Louisiana, part of the US criminal court system, appears to have become the latest victim of the Conti ransomware. The court's website was attacked and used to steal numerous court documents related to defendants, jurors, and witnesses, and then install the Conti ransomware. Evidence of the data theft was posted to the dark web. Analysis of the malware by Emsisoft’s threat analyst, Brett Callow, indicates that the ransomware deployed in the attack was Conti, which has code similarity to another ransomware strain, Ryuk. The Conti group, believed to be behind this ransomware as a service, is sophisticated and due to the fact that they receive a large portion of the ransoms paid, they are motivated to avoid detections and continue to develop advanced attacking tools. This attack also used the Trickbot malware in its exploit chain, similar to that used by Ryuk campaigns.
Recommendation: Defense in Depth, including vulnerability remediation and scanning, monitoring, endpoint protection, backups, etc. is key to thwarting increasingly sophisticated attacks. Ransomware attacks are particularly attractive to attackers due to the fact that each successful ransomware attack allows for multiple streams of income. The attackers can not only extort a ransom to decrypt the victim's files (especially in cases where the victim finds they do not have appropriate disaster recovery plans), but they can also monetize the exfiltrated data directly and/or use the data to aid in future attacks. This technique is increasingly used in supply chain compromises to build difficult to detect spearphishing attacks.
Tags: conti, ryuk, ransomware
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Ransomware Malware Tool Vulnerability Threat Conference | APT 35 APT 28 APT 31 | ★★★ |
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2020-09-09 16:24:00 | Weekly Threat Briefing: Skimmer, Ransomware, APT Group, and More (lien direct) | The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Weekly Threat Briefing discuss the following topics: APT, Baka, DDoS, Netwalker, PyVil, Windows Defender, TA413, and Vulnerabilities. The IOCs related to these stories are attached to the Weekly Threat Briefing and can be used to check your logs for potential malicious activity.
Figure 1 - IOC Summary Charts. These charts summarize the IOCs attached to this magazine and provide a glimpse of the threats discussed.
Trending Cyber News and Threat Intelligence
‘Baka’ Javascript Skimmer Identified
(published: September 6, 2020)
Visa have issued a security alert based on identification of a new skimmer, named “Baka”. Based on analysis by Visa Payment Fraud Disruption, the skimmer appears to be more advanced, loading dynamically and using an XOR cipher for obfuscation. The attacks behind Baka are injecting it into checkout pages using a script tag, with the skimming code downloading from the Command and Control (C2) server and executing in memory to steal customer data.
Recommendation: eCommerce site owners must take every step necessary to secure their data and safeguard their payment card information. Visa has also released best practices in the security advisory.
Tags: Baka, Javascript, Skimmer
Netwalker Ransomware Hits Argentinian Government, Demands $4 Million
(published: September 6, 2020)
The Argentinian immigration agency, Dirección Nacional de Migaciones suffered a ransomware attack that shut down border crossings. After receiving many tech support calls, the computer networks were shut down to prevent further spread of the ransomware, which led to a cecission in border crossings until systems were up again. The ransomware used in this attack is Netwalker ransomware, that left a ransom note demanding initalling $2 million, however when this wasn’t paid in the first week, the ransom increased to $4 million.
Recommendation: Ransomware can potentially be blocked by using endpoint protection solutions (HIDS). Always keep your important files backed up following the 3-2-1 rule: have at least 3 different copies, on 2 different mediums, with 1 off-site. In the case of ransomware infection, the affected system must be wiped and reformatted. Other devices on the network should be checked for similar infections. Always check for a decryptor before considering payment; avoid payment at all costs. Ransomware should be reported to law enforcement agencies who are doing their best to track these actors and prevent ransom from being a profitable business for cyber criminals.
MITRE ATT&CK: [MITRE ATT&CK] Data Encrypted for Impact - T1486
Tags: Argentina, Government, Netwalker, Ransomware
No Rest for the Wicked: Evilnum Unleashes PyVil RAT
(published: September 3, 2020)
Researchers on the Cybereason Nocturnus team have published their research tracking the threat actor group known as Evilnum, and an ongoing change in their tooling and attack procedures. This includes a new Remote Access Trojan (RAT), written in python that they have begun to use. The actor group attacks targets in the financial services sector using highly targeted spearphishing. The phishing lures leverage "Know Your Customer" (KY |
Ransomware Malware Tool Vulnerability Threat Medical | APT 38 APT 28 | ★★★★ |
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2020-08-14 08:19:05 | APT28 : malware découvert par NSA/FBI - commentaire McAfee (lien direct) | La NSA et le FBI ont découvert ''Drovorub'', une nouvelle campagne de malware du groupe russe APT28 (ou Fancy Bear) ciblant les machines Linux. Plus d'informations dans le rapport conjoint des deux agences. Voici le commentaire de Steve Grobman, Chief Technology Officer de McAfee : " Drovorub est un véritable couteau suisse qui permet à l'attaquant d'exécuter un large panel d'actions, allant du vol de fichiers au contrôle à distance de l'ordinateur de la victime. Les détails techniques publiés (...) - Malwares | Malware | APT 28 | |
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2020-08-13 18:19:06 | On Drovorub: Linux Kernel Security Best Practices (lien direct) | 
Intro In a U.S. government cyber security advisory released today, the National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation warn of a previously undisclosed piece of Linux rootkit malware called Drovorub and attribute the threat to malicious actor APT28. The report is incredibly detailed and proposes several complementary detection techniques to effectively identify Drovorub malware […]
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2020-08-13 18:07:18 | FBI and NSA joint report details APT28\'s Linux malware Drovorub (lien direct) | The FBI and NSA issue joint alert related to new Linux malware dubbed Drovorub that has been used by the Russia-linked APT28 group. The FBI and NSA have published a joint security alert containing technical details about a new piece of Linux malware, tracked as Drovorub, allegedly employed by Russia-linked the APT28 group. The name […] | Malware | APT 28 | |
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2020-08-13 13:25:00 | NSA & FBI Disclose New Russian Cyberespionage Malware (lien direct) | APT 28, aka Fancy Bear, is deploying the Drovorub malware designed for Linux systems as part of cyber-espionage operations. | Malware | APT 28 | |
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2019-09-24 09:34:10 | Political targets at risk as Fancy Bear returns with refreshed backdoor malware (lien direct) | The threat group's attack chain is now even heavier with a string of malicious payloads. | Malware Threat | APT 28 | |
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2019-07-25 13:00:00 | Can you trust threat intelligence from threat sharing communities? | AT&T ThreatTraq (lien direct) | Every week the AT&T Chief Security Office produces a series called ThreatTraq with helpful information and news commentary for InfoSec practitioners and researchers. I really enjoy them; you can subscribe to the Youtube channel to stay updated. This is a transcript of a recent feature on ThreatTraq. The video features Jaime Blasco, VP and Chief Scientist, AlienVault, Stan Nurilov, Lead Member of Technical Staff, AT&T, and Joe Harten, Director Technical Security. Stan: Jaime. I think you have a very interesting topic today about threat intelligence. Jaime: Yes, we want to talk about how threat intelligence is critical for threat detection and incident response, but then when this threat intelligence and the threat actors try to match those indicators and that information that is being shared, it can actually be bad for companies. So we are going to share some of the experiences we have had with managing the Open Threat Exchange (OTX) - one of the biggest threat sharing communities out there. Stan: Jaime mentioned that they have so many threat indicators and so much threat intelligence as part of OTX, the platform. Jaime: We know attackers monitor these platforms and are adjusting tactics and techniques and probably the infrastructure based on public reaction to cyber security companies sharing their activities in blog posts and other reporting. An example is in September 2017, we saw APT28, and it became harder to track because we were using some of the infrastructure and some of the techniques that were publicly known. And another cyber security company published content about that and then APT28 became much more difficult to track. The other example is APT1. If you remember the APT1 report in 2013 that Mandiant published, that made the group basically disappear from the face of earth, right? We didn't see them for a while and then they changed the infrastructure and they changed a lot of the tools that they were using, and then they came back in 2014. So we can see that that threat actor disappeared for a while, changed and rebuilt, and then they came back. We also know that attackers can try to publish false information in this platform, so that's why it's important that not only those platforms are automated, but also there are human analysts that can verify that information. Joe: It seems like you have to have a process of validating the intelligence, right? I think part of it is you don't want to take this intelligence at face value without having some expertise of your own that asks, is this valid? Is this a false positive? Is this planted by the adversary in order to throw off the scent? I think it's one of those things where you can't automatically trust - threat intelligence. You have to do some of your own diligence to validate the intelligence, make sure it makes sense, make sure it's still fresh, it's still good. This is something we're working on internally - creating those other layers to validate and create better value of our threat intelligence. Jaime: The other issue I wanted to bring to the table is what we call false flag operations - that's when an adversary or a threat actor studies another threat actor and tries to emulate their behavior. So when companies try to do at | Malware Threat Studies Guideline | APT 38 APT 28 APT 1 | |
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2018-11-09 15:30:00 | US Cyber Command Starts Uploading Foreign APT Malware To Virus Total (lien direct) | It’s been reported that The Cyber National Mission Force in the US is now uploading malware samples it finds to VirusTotal. IT security experts commented below. Chris Doman, Threat Engineer at AlienVault: “The US Cyber Command has uploaded two malware samples relating to APT28, the Russian group behind the US election hacking. So far, the … The ISBuzz Post: This Post US Cyber Command Starts Uploading Foreign APT Malware To Virus Total | Malware Threat | APT 28 | |
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2018-09-27 10:40:03 | Cybersecurity Researchers Spotted First-Ever UEFI Rootkit in the Wild (lien direct) | Cybersecurity researchers at ESET have unveiled what they claim to be the first-ever UEFI rootkit being used in the wild, allowing hackers to implant persistent malware on the targeted computers that could survive a complete hard-drive wipe.
Dubbed LoJax, the UEFI rootkit is part of a malware campaign conducted by the infamous Sednit group, also known as APT28, Fancy Bear, Strontium, and
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Malware | APT 28 | ★★★★★ |
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2018-09-27 09:57:03 | LoJax: First UEFI rootkit found in the wild, courtesy of the Sednit group (lien direct) | >ESET researchers have shown that the Sednit operators used different components of the LoJax malware to target a few government organizations in the Balkans as well as in Central and Eastern Europe | Malware | APT 28 | |
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2018-09-27 03:30:00 | VPNFilter Router Malware Adds 7 New Network Exploitation Modules (lien direct) | Security researchers have discovered even more dangerous capabilities in VPNFilter-the highly sophisticated multi-stage malware that infected 500,000 routers worldwide in May this year, making it much more widespread and sophisticated than earlier.
Attributed to Russia's APT 28, also known as 'Fancy Bear,' VPNFilter is a malware platform designed to infect routers and network-attached storage
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Malware | VPNFilter APT 28 | ★★★★★ |
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2017-03-08 17:15:00 | Introduction aux applications de cacao en ingénierie inverse Introduction to Reverse Engineering Cocoa Applications (lien direct) |
Bien que cela ne soit pas aussi courant que Windows Malware, un flux constant de logiciels malveillants a été découvert au fil des ans qui s'exécute sur le système d'exploitation OS X, désormais rebaptisé MacOS.Février a vu trois publications particulièrement intéressantes sur le thème des logiciels malveillants MacOS: un application de cacao de trojan qui envoie des informations systèmey compris les données de trousseau à l'attaquant, un version macOS d'APT28\'s xagent malware , et un new-trojan ransomware .
Dans ce blog, l'équipe Flare souhaite introduire deux petits outils qui peuvent aider à la tâche des applications de cacao en ingénierie inverse pour MacOS.Afin de
While not as common as Windows malware, there has been a steady stream of malware discovered over the years that runs on the OS X operating system, now rebranded as macOS. February saw three particularly interesting publications on the topic of macOS malware: a Trojan Cocoa application that sends system information including keychain data back to the attacker, a macOS version of APT28\'s Xagent malware, and a new Trojan ransomware. In this blog, the FLARE team would like to introduce two small tools that can aid in the task of reverse engineering Cocoa applications for macOS. In order to |
Malware Tool | APT 28 | ★★★★ |
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2014-10-27 03:00:42 | Malware APT28: une fenêtre sur les opérations de cyber-espionnage de la Russie? APT28 Malware: A Window into Russia\\'s Cyber Espionage Operations? (lien direct) |
Le rôle des acteurs de l'État-nation dans les cyberattaques a peut-être été le plus largement révélé en février 2013 lorsque mandiant href = "https://www.mandiant.com/resources/mandiant-expose-apt1-chinas-cyber-espionage-units" cible = "_ Blank"> Rapport APT1, en Chine.Aujourd'hui, nous publions un nouveau rapport: apt28:Une fenêtre sur les opérations de cyber-espionnage de la Russie?
Ce rapport se concentre sur un groupe de menaces que nous avons désigné comme APT28.Alors que les logiciels malveillants d'APT28 \\ sont assez connus dans la communauté de la cybersécurité, notre rapport détaille des informations supplémentaires exposant des opérations en cours et ciblées qui, selon nous, indiquent un sponsor gouvernemental basé à Moscou.
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The role of nation-state actors in cyber attacks was perhaps most widely revealed in February 2013 when Mandiant released the APT1 report, which detailed a professional cyber espionage group based in China. Today we release a new report: APT28: A Window Into Russia\'s Cyber Espionage Operations? This report focuses on a threat group that we have designated as APT28. While APT28\'s malware is fairly well known in the cybersecurity community, our report details additional information exposing ongoing, focused operations that we believe indicate a government sponsor based in Moscow. In |
Malware Threat | APT 28 APT 28 APT 1 | ★★★★ |
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