Tag: APT

Turla APT group used a new backdoor in attacks against Afghanistan, Germany and the US (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

Russia-linked cyber espionage group Turla made the headlines again, the APT has employed a new backdoor in a recent wave of attacks Turla APT group...

Large phishing campaign targets EMEA and APAC governments (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

Security researchers uncovered a large phishing campaign targeting multiple government departments in APAC and EMEA countries Large phishing campaign targets EMEA and APAC governmentsSecurity Affairs

Cybersecurity – North Korean APT group Kimsuky allegedly hacked South Korea’s atomic research agency KAERI (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

North Korea-linked APT group Kimsuky allegedly breached South Korea’s atomic research agency KAERI by exploiting a VPN vulnerability. South Korean representatives declared on Friday that...

Cybersecurity – RedFoxtrot operations linked to China’s PLA Unit 69010 due to bad opsec (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

Experts attribute a series of cyber-espionage campaigns dating back to 2014, and focused on gathering military intelligence, to China-linked Unit 69010. Experts from Recorded Future’s...

APT/Hacking/Malware – China-linked APT groups targets orgs via Pulse Secure VPN devices (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini Researchers from FireEye warn that China-linked APT groups continue to target Pulse Secure VPN devices to compromise networks. https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/118358/hacking/pulse-secure-vpn-china-apt.html

APT/Hacking/Malware – Microsoft details new sophisticated spear-phishing attacks from NOBELIUM (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini Microsoft experts uncovered a wide-scale malicious email campaign operated by NOBELIUM, the threat actor behind SolarWinds hack. https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/118352/apt/spear-phishing-attacks-nobelium.html

(APT/Hacking) Sophisticated hacking campaign uses Windows and Android zero-days (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/113342/hacking/project-zero-watering-hole-attack.html

(APT, Hacking, Malware) Sunspot, the third malware involved in the SolarWinds supply chain attack (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/113316/malware/sunspot-solarwinds-attack.html

APT/MALWARE – North Korea-linked Lazarus APT targets the COVID-19 research (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/112621/apt/lazarus-apt-targets-covid-19.html