APT
CISA and FBI Observed APT Groups Targeting State Networks Related to US Election Systems
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI issued an advisory after spotting advanced persistent threat (APT) actors exploiting multiple legacy vulnerabilities combined with a newer privilege escalation vulnerability—CVE-2020-1472—in Windows ...
File Integrity Monitoring (FIM): Your Friendly Network Detective Control
Lateral movement is one of the most consequential types of network activity for which organizations need to be on the lookout. After arriving at the network, the attacker keeps ongoing access by ...
APT Mercenary Groups Pose Real Threat to Companies But Detecting Tactics and Techniques is Within Reach
Bitdefender identified a new attack attributed to a sophisticated actor offering advanced-persistent-threats-as-a-service The targeted company is engaged in architectural projects with billion-dollar luxury real-estate developers in New York, London, Australia and Oman ...
APT Hackers for Hire Used for Industrial Espionage
Bitdefender recently investigated an APT-style cyberespionage attack targeting an international architectural and video production company, pointing to an advanced threat actor and South Korean-based C&C infrastructure. The targeted company is known to ...
StrongPity APT – Revealing Trojanized Tools, Working Hours and Infrastructure
Bitdefender researchers have recently found the APT group StrongPity has been targeting victims in Turkey and Syria. Using watering hole tactics to selectively infect victims and deploying a three-tier C&C infrastructure to ...
US and UK Cyber Security Agencies Warn of APT Attacks against Healthcare Organizations
An advisory from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity, the Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warns of a coordinated attack against the healthcare ...
New APT Report: The Unknown Knowns
View fullsize Image Via via the erudite Catalin Cimpanu (formerly reporting at BleepingComputer, now writing at ZDNet's ZDNet's ZeroDay blog) comes well-crafted and detailed reporting, targeting the recent identification of APT group ...
Iranian APT Group Overview
Today the Birmingham InfraGard Chapter and the Alabama ISSA held a joint meeting featuring a presentation from the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, part of DHS that was formerly known as the ...
Morphisec Protects You from the New PureLocker Ransomware
Last week, Intezer and IBM X-Force released new research identifying a new form of ransomware, which they named PureLocker. Written in PureBasic and designed to attack servers, this damaging new malware has ...
The Threat Detection Deficit – Microsoft Office 365 ATP Raises the Stakes
A recent Dark Reading article, based on IRONSCALES’ research, found that Microsoft Office 365 […] ...
