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government agencies have warned about different threat actors, and we’ve worked closely with those agencies and others in the tech industry to share leads and intelligence about what we’re seeing across the ecosystem.” . “Overall, we’ve seen increased attention on the threats posed by APTs in the context of the U.S.
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The APT33 group has been around since at least 2013, since mid-2016, the group targeted the aviation industry and energy companies with connections to petrochemical production. The cyber espionage activity attacks are aimed at organizations in the satellite, defense, and pharmaceutical sectors. South Korean, and Europe.
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The group has been observed while attempting to exploit the Windows Zerologon vulnerability in attacks aimed at Japanese organizations from multiple industry sectors in 17 regions around the globe. The latest campaign has been active since mid-October in 2019 and appears to be still ongoing.
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The APT group targeted organizations in various industries, including the aviation, gaming, pharmaceuticals, technology, telecoms, and software development industries. ” The Winnti group focus on computer game industry, in the past they targeted game developers and recently they hit Russian companies in the same industry.
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The attackers primarily ran malicious ad campaigns, often in the form of advertising pharmaceutical pills and spam with fake celebrity endorsements.” Only through user education and strong partnerships across the security industry will we measure the scale of malicious campaigns and effectively respond to them.”.
Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. “Finally, the APT10 Group compromised more than 40 computers in order to steal sensitive data belonging to the Navy, including the names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, salary information, personal phone numbers, and email addresses of more than 100,000 Navy personnel.”
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