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Spot the Difference: Earth Kasha’s New LODEINFO Campaign And The Correlation Analysis With The APT10 Umbrella

Spot the Difference: Earth Kasha’s New LODEINFO Campaign And The Correlation Analysis With The APT10 Umbrella 2024-11-19 at 11:01 By LODEINFO is a malware used in attacks targeting mainly Japan since 2019. Trend Micro has been tracking the group as Earth Kasha. We have identified a new campaign connected to this group with significant updates […]

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Breaking Down Earth Estries’ Persistent TTPs in Prolonged Cyber Operations

Breaking Down Earth Estries’ Persistent TTPs in Prolonged Cyber Operations 2024-11-08 at 02:00 By Discover how Earth Estries employs a diverse set of tactics, techniques, and tools, including malware such as Zingdoor and Snappybee, for its campaigns. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this

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Water Makara Uses Obfuscated JavaScript in Spear Phishing Campaign, Targets Brazil With Astaroth Malware

Water Makara Uses Obfuscated JavaScript in Spear Phishing Campaign, Targets Brazil With Astaroth Malware 2024-10-14 at 11:48 By Trend Micro researchers have uncovered a surge of malicious activities involving a threat actor group that we track as Water Makara. This group is targeting enterprises in Brazil, deploying banking malware using obfuscated JavaScript to slip past

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Earth Simnavaz Levies Advanced Cyberattacks Against UAE and Gulf Regions

Earth Simnavaz Levies Advanced Cyberattacks Against UAE and Gulf Regions 2024-10-11 at 11:02 By Trend Micro’s investigation into the recent activity of Earth Simnavaz provides new insights into the APT group’s evolving tactics and the immediate threat it poses to critical sectors in the UAE. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News

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Earth Baxia Uses Spear-Phishing and GeoServer Exploit to Target APAC

Earth Baxia Uses Spear-Phishing and GeoServer Exploit to Target APAC 2024-09-19 at 11:47 By We observed Earth Baxia carrying out targeted attacks against APAC countries that involved advanced techniques like spear-phishing and customized malware, with data suggesting that the group operates from China. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives

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TIDRONE Targets Military and Satellite Industries in Taiwan

TIDRONE Targets Military and Satellite Industries in Taiwan 2024-09-06 at 12:49 By Our research reveals that an unidentified threat cluster we named TIDRONE have shown significant interest in military-related industry chains, particularly in the manufacturers of drones. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this

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Threat Actors Target the Middle East Using Fake Palo Alto GlobalProtect Tool

Threat Actors Target the Middle East Using Fake Palo Alto GlobalProtect Tool 2024-08-29 at 12:16 By Threat actors are targeting users in the Middle East by distributing sophisticated malware disguised as the Palo Alto GlobalProtect tool. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this headline:

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A Dive into Earth Baku’s Latest Campaign

A Dive into Earth Baku’s Latest Campaign 2024-08-09 at 07:16 By Since late 2022, Earth Baku has broadened its scope from the Indo-Pacific region to Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Their latest operations demonstrate sophisticated techniques, such as exploiting public-facing applications like IIS servers for initial access and deploying the Godzilla webshell for command

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Behind the Great Wall: Void Arachne Targets Chinese-Speaking Users With the Winos 4.0 C&C Framework

Behind the Great Wall: Void Arachne Targets Chinese-Speaking Users With the Winos 4.0 C&C Framework 2024-06-19 at 10:17 By We recently discovered a new threat actor group that we dubbed Void Arachne. This group targets Chinese-speaking users with malicious Windows Installer (MSI) files in a recent campaign. These MSI files contain legitimate software installer files

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Decoding Water Sigbin’s Latest Obfuscation Tricks

Decoding Water Sigbin’s Latest Obfuscation Tricks 2024-05-30 at 08:09 By Water Sigbin (aka the 8220 Gang) exploited the Oracle WebLogic vulnerabilities CVE-2017-3506 and CVE-2023-21839 to deploy a cryptocurrency miner using a PowerShell script. The threat actor also adopted new techniques to conceal its activities, making attacks harder to defend against. This article is an excerpt

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Tracking the Progression of Earth Hundun’s Cyberespionage Campaign in 2024

Tracking the Progression of Earth Hundun’s Cyberespionage Campaign in 2024 2024-05-16 at 10:46 By This report describes how Waterbear and Deuterbear — two of the tools in Earth Hundun’s arsenal — operate, based on a campaign from 2024. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to

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Router Roulette: Cybercriminals and Nation-States Sharing Compromised Networks

Router Roulette: Cybercriminals and Nation-States Sharing Compromised Networks 2024-05-01 at 12:16 By This blog entry aims to highlight the dangers of internet-facing routers and elaborate on Pawn Storm’s exploitation of EdgeRouters, complementing the FBI’s advisory from February 27, 2024. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React

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Cyberespionage Group Earth Hundun’s Continuous Refinement of Waterbear and Deuterbear

Cyberespionage Group Earth Hundun’s Continuous Refinement of Waterbear and Deuterbear 2024-04-11 at 13:16 By Our blog entry provides an in-depth analysis of Earth Hundun’s Waterbear and Deuterbear malware. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this headline:

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Earth Freybug Uses UNAPIMON for Unhooking Critical APIs

Earth Freybug Uses UNAPIMON for Unhooking Critical APIs 2024-04-02 at 09:01 By This article provides an in-depth look into two techniques used by Earth Freybug actors: dynamic-link library (DLL) hijacking and application programming interface (API) unhooking to prevent child processes from being monitored via a new malware we’ve discovered and dubbed UNAPIMON. This article is

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Earth Krahang Exploits Intergovernmental Trust to Launch Cross-Government Attacks

Earth Krahang Exploits Intergovernmental Trust to Launch Cross-Government Attacks 2024-03-18 at 12:02 By Since early 2022, we have been monitoring an APT campaign that targets several government entities worldwide, with a strong focus in Southeast Asia, but also seen targeting Europe, America, and Africa. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and

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Threat Actor Groups, Including Black Basta, are Exploiting Recent ScreenConnect Vulnerabilities

Threat Actor Groups, Including Black Basta, are Exploiting Recent ScreenConnect Vulnerabilities 2024-02-27 at 10:18 By This blog entry gives a detailed analysis of these recent ScreenConnect vulnerabilities. We also discuss our discovery of threat actor groups, including Black Basta and Bl00dy Ransomware gangs, that are actively exploiting CVE-2024-1708 and CVE-2024-1709 based on our telemetry. This

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Earth Lusca Uses Geopolitical Lure to Target Taiwan Before Elections

Earth Lusca Uses Geopolitical Lure to Target Taiwan Before Elections 2024-02-26 at 08:42 By During our monitoring of Earth Lusca, we noticed a new campaign that used Chinese-Taiwanese relations as a social engineering lure to infect selected targets. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to

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Earth Preta Campaign Uses DOPLUGS to Target Asia

Earth Preta Campaign Uses DOPLUGS to Target Asia 2024-02-20 at 11:55 By In this blog entry, we focus on Earth Preta’s campaign that employed a variant of the DOPLUGS malware to target Asian countries. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this headline:

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Pawn Storm Uses Brute Force and Stealth Against High-Value Targets

Pawn Storm Uses Brute Force and Stealth Against High-Value Targets 2024-01-31 at 10:02 By Based on our estimates, from approximately April 2022 until November 2023, Pawn Storm attempted to launch NTLMv2 hash relay attacks through different methods, with huge peaks in the number of targets and variations in the government departments that it targeted. This

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Void Rabisu Targets Female Political Leaders with New Slimmed-Down ROMCOM Variant

Void Rabisu Targets Female Political Leaders with New Slimmed-Down ROMCOM Variant 13/10/2023 at 11:02 By Almost a year after Void Rabisu shifted its targeting from opportunistic ransomware attacks with an emphasis on cyberespionage, the threat actor is still developing its main malware, the ROMCOM backdoor. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News

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