Since russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the aggressor’s offensive forces have launched an avalanche of cyber-espionage campaigns against Ukraine and its allies, mainly targeting government agencies and frequently leveraging the phishing attack vector. The infamous hacking collective dubbed Shuckworm (Armageddon, Gamaredon), which is known to have links with russia’s FSB, has been observed behind a […]
On February 24, 2022, a little more than a year ago, the russian federation started an offensive invasion of Ukraine by land, air, and sea. The war escalated in cyberspace as well. As a result, we are now witnessing the first-ever full-fledged cyber war in human history, with multiple offensive counterparts engaged in attacks against […]
For years, China has been launching offensive operations aimed at collecting intelligence and gathering sensitive data from U.S. and global organizations in multiple industries, with attacks frequently related to nation-backed APT groups, like Mustang Panda or APT41. On May 24, 2023, NSA, CISA, and FBA, in conjunction with other U.S. and international authoring agencies, issued […]
A novel hacking collective tracked as Lacefly APT has been recently observed applying a custom Merdoor backdoor to attack organizations in the government, telecom, and aviation sectors across South and Southeastern Asia. According to the latest reports, these targeted intrusions point to a long-running adversary campaign leveraging Merdoor sample, with the first traces dating back […]
Since the outbreak of the global cyber war, state bodies of Ukraine and its allies have become targets of diverse malicious campaigns launched by multiple hacking collectives. Experts estimate a 250% surge of cyber attacks against Ukraine in 2022 and over 2,000 of them launched by russia-affiliated threat actors since the beginning of the full-fledged […]
New day, new malicious threat challenging cyber defenders! Recently, security researchers have revealed a novel malware strain being actively leveraged by Mustang Panda APT in their ongoing campaign against targets in Europe and Asia. Dubbed MQsTTang, the new custom backdoor has been developed from scratch to fly under the radar and make attribution harder while […]
BlueNoroff, which is part of the larger Lazarus Group, is a financially-motivated hacking collective striving to gain financial benefits from its offensive capabilities. The group, known for stealing cryptocurrency and commonly applying Word documents and LNK files for initial intrusion, has currently been leveraging new adversary methods. In the latest attacks, BlueNoroff experiments with new […]
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 […]