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Group-IB has presented a report which examines key shifts in the cybercrime world internationally between H2 2019 and H1 2020 and gives forecasts for the coming year. The most severe financial damage has occurred as a result of ransomware activity. The past year — a harrowing period for the world economy — culminated in the […]
Continue ReadingChinese state-sponsored threat actors have been observed exploiting the Zerologon vulnerability in a global campaign targeting businesses from multiple industries in Japan and 17 other regions across the world including the United States and Europe. The attacked industries include engineering, automotive, managed service providers, and pharmaceutical. According to the information gathered by Symantec’s Broadcom […]
Continue ReadingThe TA416 APT has returned in spear phishing attacks against a range of victims – from the Vatican to diplomats in Africa – with a new Golang version of its PlugX malware loader. Source: Threatpost.com
Continue ReadingLa fin de l’année 2020 approche et vient le temps pour les chercheurs de Kaspersky de partager leurs prévisions concernant les évolutions des menaces APT pour 2021. Selon eux, la crise actuelle entraînera de nombreux changements structurels et stratégiques dans le paysage des attaques ciblées, notamment en raison d’un élargissement des zones touchées. The post […]
Continue ReadingThreat actors mount year-long campaign of espionage, exfiltrating data, stealing credentials and installing backdoors on victims’ networks. Source: Threatpost.com
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Trying to make predictions about the future is a tricky business. However, while we don’t have a crystal ball that can reveal the future, we can try to make educated guesses using the trends that we have observed over the last 12 months to identify areas that attackers are likely to seek to exploit in […]
Continue ReadingLazarus Group is believed to be behind a spate of attacks that leverage stolen digital certificates tied to browser software that secures communication with government and financial websites in South Korea. Source: Threatpost.com
Continue ReadingBy Deeba Ahmed A hackers-for-hire APT group is using a strain of yet undocumented malware and targeting South Asian firms in the CostaRicto campaign. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers-for-hire APT group found targeting businesses globally Source: hack read com Hackers-for-hire APT group found targeting businesses globally
Continue ReadingThe APT threat landscape is a mixed bag of tried-and-true tactics and cutting-edge techniques, largely supercharged by geo-politics, a report finds. Source: Threatpost.com APT Groups Finding Success with Mix of Old and New Tools
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For more than three years, the Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) at Kaspersky has been publishing quarterly summaries of advanced persistent threat (APT) activity. The summaries are based on our threat intelligence research and provide a representative snapshot of what we have published and discussed in greater detail in our private APT reports. They […]
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