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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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2024-03-22 00:00:00 | APT29 Uses WINELOADER to Target German Political Parties (lien direct) | Written by: Luke Jenkins, Dan Black
Executive Summary In late February, APT29 used a new backdoor variant publicly tracked as WINELOADER to target German political parties with a CDU-themed lure. This is the first time we have seen this APT29 cluster target political parties, indicating a possible area of emerging operational focus beyond the typical targeting of diplomatic missions. Based on the SVR\'s responsibility to collect political intelligence and this APT29 cluster\'s historical targeting patterns, we judge this activity to present a broad threat to European and other Western political parties from across the political spectrum. Please see the Technical Annex for technical details and MITRE ATT&CK techniques, (T1543.003, T1012, T1082, T1134, T1057, T1007, T1027, T1070.004, T1055.003 and T1083) Threat Detail In late February 2024, Mandiant identified APT29 - a Russian Federation backed threat group linked by multiple governments to Russia\'s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) - conducting a phishing campaign targeting German political parties. Consistent with APT29 operations extending back to 2021, this operation leveraged APT29\'s mainstay first-stage payload ROOTSAW (aka EnvyScout) to deliver a new backdoor variant publicly tracked as WINELOADER. Notably, this activity represents a departure from this APT29 initial access cluster\'s typical remit of targeting governments, foreign embassies, and other diplomatic missions, and is the first time Mandiant has seen an operational interest in political parties from this APT29 subcluster. Additionally, while APT29 has previously used lure documents bearing the logo of German government organizations, this is the first instance where we have seen the group use German-language lure content - a possible artifact of the targeting differences (i.e. domestic vs. foreign) between the two operations. Phishing emails were sent to victims purporting to be an invite to a dinner reception on 01 March bearing a logo from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), a major political party in Germany (see Figure 1). The German-language lure document contains a phishing link directing victims to a malicious ZIP file containing a ROOTSAW dropper hosted on an actor-controlled compromised website “https://waterforvoiceless[.]org/invite.php”. ROOTSAW delivered a second-stage CDU-themed lure document and a next stage WINELOADER payload retrieved from “waterforvoiceless[.]org/util.php”. WINELOADER was first observed in operational use in late January 2024 in an operation targeting likely diplomatic entities in Czechia, Germany, India, Italy, Latvia, and Peru. The backdoor contains several features and functions that overlap with several known APT29 malware families including BURNTBATTER, MUSKYBEAT and BEATDROP, indicating they are likely created by a common developer (see Technical Annex for additional details). |
Malware Threat Cloud Technical | APT 29 | ★★★ |
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2022-04-28 12:00:00 | Trello de l'autre côté: suivi des campagnes de phishing APT29 Trello From the Other Side: Tracking APT29 Phishing Campaigns (lien direct) |
Depuis le début de 2021, Mandiant suit les vastes campagnes de phishing APT29 ciblant les organisations diplomatiques en Europe, les Amériques et l'Asie.Ce billet de blog traite de nos récentes observations liées à l'identification de deux nouvelles familles de logiciels malveillants en 2022, Beatdrop et Boommic, ainsi que les efforts d'APT29 \\ pour échapper à la détection par réorganisation et abus du service Trello d'Atlassian \\.
apt29 est un groupe d'espionnage russe que Mandiant suit depuis au moins 2014 et est probablement Parrainé par le Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).Le ciblage diplomatique centré sur ce récent
Since early 2021, Mandiant has been tracking extensive APT29 phishing campaigns targeting diplomatic organizations in Europe, the Americas, and Asia. This blog post discusses our recent observations related to the identification of two new malware families in 2022, BEATDROP and BOOMMIC, as well as APT29\'s efforts to evade detection through retooling and abuse of Atlassian\'s Trello service. APT29 is a Russian espionage group that Mandiant has been tracking since at least 2014 and is likely sponsored by the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). The diplomatic-centric targeting of this recent |
Malware | APT 29 APT 29 | ★★★★ |
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2020-12-13 22:00:00 | L'attaquant très évasif exploite la chaîne d'approvisionnement de Solarwinds pour compromettre plusieurs victimes mondiales avec Sunburst Backdoor Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain to Compromise Multiple Global Victims With SUNBURST Backdoor (lien direct) |
Mise à jour (mai 2022): Nous avons fusionné unc2452 avec apt29 .L'activité UNC2452 décrite dans ce post est désormais attribuée à APT29.
Résumé de l'exécutif
Nous avons découvert une campagne mondiale d'intrusion.Nous suivons les acteurs derrière cette campagne sous le nom de UNC2452.
Fireeye a découvert une attaque de chaîne d'approvisionnement trrojanisant les mises à jour de logiciels commerciaux de Solarwinds Orion afin de distribuer des logiciels malveillants que nous appelons Sunburst.
L'activité post-compromis de l'attaquant exploite plusieurs techniques pour échapper à la détection et obscurcir leur activité, mais ces efforts offrent également quelques opportunités de détection.
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UPDATE (May 2022): We have merged UNC2452 with APT29. The UNC2452 activity described in this post is now attributed to APT29. Executive Summary We have discovered a global intrusion campaign. We are tracking the actors behind this campaign as UNC2452. FireEye discovered a supply chain attack trojanizing SolarWinds Orion business software updates in order to distribute malware we call SUNBURST. The attacker\'s post compromise activity leverages multiple techniques to evade detection and obscure their activity, but these efforts also offer some opportunities for detection. The |
Malware | Solardwinds APT 29 | ★★★ |
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