The method of a secure cryptographic key exchange was introduced by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman in 1976. Cool thing about the public and private key pair is that the decryption key cannot be deciphered in any way from an encryption key. This feature is exactly what’s exploited by ransomware actors who encrypt data and […]
A notorious APT group tracked as NOBELIUM (aka APT29, Cozy Bear, and The Dukes) adds new threats to their set of malicious tricks. The threat actor, responsible for a 2020 headline-making hack of Texas-based SolarWinds company, remains a highly active criminal gang, impacting a wide range of industries and organizations in public, private, and non-governmental […]
With the outbreak of the global cyber war, the malicious activity of the Armageddon cyber-espionage group aka Gamaredon or UAC-0010 has been in the limelight in the cyber threat arena targeting Ukrainian state bodies. The hacking collective launched a series of phishing cyber-attacks, including campaigns in May spreading GammaLoad.PS1_v2 malware and in April 2022. On […]
The APT37, aka Reaper, Ricochet Chollima, and ScarCruft, is a hacking group affiliated with North Korea. The hackers have been active since at least 2012, mostly targeting orgs in the public and private sectors in South Korea. Starting in 2017, the adversaries expanded their targeting, now seeking victims globally. The affected sectors include but are […]
Researchers report new attacks with an upgraded remote access trojan (RAT) dubbed PingPull launched by Gallium hackers. The Gallium APT has been around since at least 2012 and bears the markings of what is likely a nation-state threat actor, believed to be backed by the Chinese government. Their latest activity is characterized by APT’s strive […]
The operations of Evilnum hackers have been watched closely by security analysts since 2020, with the threat actors’ activity traced back as early as 2018. The APT group is predominantly associated with the attacks on the FinTech sector in Europe, often classified as a financially motivated group. Sources claimed that the most recent spear phishing […]
Meet a novel player in the cyber threat arena! Starting from late 2020 security experts are tracking a new APT collective, dubbed ToddyCat, which was spotted targeting Microsoft Exchange servers in Europe and Asia to deploy custom malware samples. Among the malicious strains distributed by the ToddyCat are previously unknown Samurai backdoor and Ninja Trojan […]
The notorious CVE-2021-44228 Apache Log4j vulnerability aka Log4Shell is still haunting cyber defenders along with reports about its active in-the-wild exploitations. Starting from December 2021, the nefarious Log4Shell flaw on unpatched VMware Horizon and Unified Access Gateway (UAG) servers has been widely weaponized by threat actors enabling them to gain initial access to targeted systems. […]
On June 24, 2022, CERT-UA warned about a new malicious campaign targeting telecommunication providers in Ukraine. According to the investigation, russia-linked adversaries launched a massive phishing campaign delivering DarkCrystal remote access Trojan (RAT), able to perform reconnaissance, data theft, and code execution on the affected instances. The malicious activity is tracked as UAC-0113, which with […]
ShadowPad is a modular backdoor highly popular among China-located threat actors, including such clusters of espionage activity as BRONZE UNIVERSITY, BRONZE RIVERSIDE, BRONZE STARLIGHT, and BRONZE ATLAS. The malware is used to download further malicious payloads, opening the way to wider exploitation potential. According to the research data, the malware traces its roots back to […]