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Russia’s ‘Turla’ Group – A Formidable Cyberespionage Adversary

| | APT, Cyber Espionage, Russia, Snake Malware, Threat Intelligence, Turla
Russia's Turla cyberespionage group is now recognized as one of the world’s most dangerous cybersecurity threats ...
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Turla’s Snake May be Down, But its Legacy Lives On

| | cybercrime, Malware, Russia, Snake, Turla, Uroboros
The Department of Justice’s recent revelation that it dismantled the Turla cybercriminal network was met with surprise—not that the authorities had taken it down and neutralized the Snake malware, but that Snake ...
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Operation GhostShell: Novel RAT Targets Global Aerospace and Telecoms Firms

Operation GhostShell: Novel RAT Targets Global Aerospace and Telecoms Firms

| | Advanced persistent threat, Aerospace, Agrius APT, APT, Critical Infrastructure, cyberattack, Espionage, Europe, Iran, MalKamak, Malop, Malware, Nation-state Attack, national security, Nocturnus, Operation GhostShell, remote-access Trojan, research, ResearchCat, Russia, ShellClient RAT, telecommunications, telecoms, threat actors, Threat Intelligence, Turla, United States
In July 2021, the Cybereason Nocturnus and Incident Response Teams responded to Operation GhostShell, a highly-targeted cyber espionage campaign targeting the Aerospace and Telecommunications industries mainly in the Middle East, with additional ...
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Czech Republic Blames Russia for Yearlong Email Breach

| | APT28, APT29, CozyBear, cyberespionage, Czech Republic, intelligence service, Russia, Sofacy, Turla
The Czech government’s Security Information Service (BIS) revealed in a report that hackers associated with the Russian government are responsible for an email breach, compromising the email system of the country’s Ministry ...
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APT28 Gets the Spotlight, But Turla Remains Russia’s Elite Hacking Unit

| | APT28, cyberespionage, Earworm, Malware, Russia, Turla, Uroboros, Zebrocy
Over the past two years, the Russian cyberespionage group known as APT28, Sofacy or Fancy Bear, has been the focus of many press reports, threat analyses, Western intelligence investigations and, more recently, ...
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Critical Vulnerability Patched in Apache Struts

| | Apache Struts, Command And Control, critical vulnerability, cyberespionage, Malware, Remote Code Execution, Turla, web framework
The Apache Struts web development framework has received new security updates to address a critical vulnerability that could allow attackers to compromise web applications and servers. Apache Struts is widely used for ...
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Decision Analysis Applications in Threat Analysis Frameworks

| | BSides Las Vegas, Featured Articles, Threat analysis, Turla
Cybersecurity is generally considered to be a highly reactive field where professionals struggle to keep up with new and emerging threats. As the profession works to become more human-centered and proactive, I ...
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