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Ukraine CERT-UA published a security advisory to warn of spear-phishing attacks conducted by Russia-linked Armageddon APT (aka Gamaredon , Primitive Bear, Armageddon, Winterflounder, or Iron Tilden) targeting local state organizations. The group targeted government and military organizations in Ukraine. Pierluigi Paganini.
National Security Agency and Microsoft addressed it with the release of Microsoft October 2022 Patch Tuesday security updates. GooseEgg is usually deployed with a batch script, commonly named execute.bat or doit.bat. This script creates a filenamed servtask.bat, which includes commands for saving or compressing registry hives.
A previously unknown cyber espionage group, tracked as Gallmaker, has been targeting entities in the government, military and defense sectors since at least 2017. Gallmaker is a politically motivated APT group that focused its surgical operations on the government, military or defense sectors. ” continues Symantec.
Google TAG observed Russian, Belarusian, and Chinese threat actors targeting Ukraine and European government and military orgs. Google TAG observed Russian, Belarusian, and Chinese threat actors targeting Ukrainian and European government and military organizations, as well as individuals. Pierluigi Paganini.
The phishing messages use a RAR-archive named “Saboteurs.rar”, which contains RAR-archive “Saboteurs 21.03.rar.” ” This second archive contains SFX-archive “Saboteurs filercs.rar,” experts reported that the filename contains the right-to-left override (RTLO) character to mask the real extension.
In February, US and UK cybersecurity and law enforcement agencies published a joint security advisory about the Cyclops Blink bot that has been linked to the Russian-backed Sandworm APT group. Experts pointed out that these victims do not appear to be evidently valuable targets for either economic, military, or political espionage.
Later, security experts from McAfee reported that attackers are continuing in exploiting the WinRAR flaw, they identified more than “100 unique exploits and counting” in the first week since the vulnerability was publicly disclosed. The post WinRAR CVE-2018-20250 flaw exploited in multiple campaigns appeared first on Security Affairs.
During recent times, Gamaredon is targeting the Ukrainian military and law enforcement sectors too, as officially stated by the CERT-UA. The response body will contain a new executable file, named “jasfix.exe”, representing the new stage. However, the filenamed “ win32.sys class ” files. . Exploring the “.
Security expert Marco Ramilli published a quick analysis of an interesting attack carried out by SWEED threat actor targeting precision engineering firms in Italy. According to VT history detection the same hash has been seen with at least three different names: educrety.exe , prestezza.exe and cardsharper.exe. Introduction.
The Gamaredon APT group (aka Shuckworm, Actinium, Armageddon, Primitive Bear, UAC-0010, and Trident Ursa) continues to carry out attacks against entities in Ukraine, including security services, military, and government organizations. A novelty observed in the recent attacks is the use of a USB propagation malware.
SideWinder (also known as Razor Tiger, Rattlesnake, and T-APT-04) has been active since at least 2012, the group mainly targeted Police, Military, Maritime, and the Naval forces of Central Asian countries. SideWinder rapidly adapts to security detections, modifying malware within hours, altering tactics, techniques, and procedures.
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