Monthly Threat Actor Group Intelligence Report, August 2019
This is a summary of activity of suspected state sponsored Threat Actor Groups analyzed by the ThreatRecon Team, based on data and information collected from July 21 to August 20, 2019.
Hagga of SectorH01 continues abusing Bitly, Blogger and Pastebin to deliver RevengeRAT and NanoCore
/in Threat Analysis/by ThreatRecon Team“Hagga” is the username of a Pastebin account used since December last year by a pervasive known group of threat actors which targets thousands of users around the world both for cyber espionage and cyber crime purposes using malspam. Their activities were first discovered in 2017, and the ThreatRecon Team tracks both this group and the members behind “Hagga” collectively as the SectorH01 group.
SectorJ04 Group’s Increased Activity in 2019
/in Threat Analysis/by ThreatRecon TeamSectorJ04 is a Russian-based cybercrime group that began operating about five years ago and conducted hacking activities for financial profit using malware such as banking trojans and ransomware against national and industrial sectors located across Europe, North America and West Africa.
Monthly Threat Actor Group Intelligence Report, June 2019
/in Monthly Report/by ThreatRecon TeamThis is a summary of activity of suspected state sponsored Threat Actor Groups analyzed by the ThreatRecon Team, based on data and information collected from May 21 to June 20, 2019.
SectorE02 Updates YTY Framework in New Targeted Campaign Against Pakistan Government
/in Threat Analysis/by ThreatRecon TeamFrom March to July this year, the ThreatRecon team noticed a spear phishing campaign by the SectorE02 group going on against the Government of Pakistan and organizations there related to defense and intelligence. Spear phishing emails are sent to their victims via Excel XLS files, which asks their victims to enable macros which will end up executing the downloader.
The Growth of SectorF01 Group’s Cyber Espionage Activities
/in Threat Analysis/by ThreatRecon TeamSince 2013, there has been a hacking group receiving support from the national level which conducts cyber espionage campaigns against countries in the South China Sea. We refer to this group as SectorF01. From 2017, their activities have increased significantly. They mainly carry out these campaigns against government agencies and diplomatic, military, and research institutions in neighboring countries, and surveillance activities against opposing forces in their own countries.
Monthly Threat Actor Group Intelligence Report, May 2019
/in Monthly Report/by ThreatRecon TeamThis is a summary of activity of suspected state sponsored Threat Actor Groups analyzed by the ThreatRecon Team, based on data and information collected from April 21 to May 20, 2019.
SectorC08: Multi-Layered SFX in Recent Campaigns Target Ukraine
/in Threat Analysis/by ThreatRecon TeamUnlike other state sponsored threat actors, SectorC08 appears to be only concerned with a single target: Ukraine. Artifacts of their likely activity have been found as far back as 2013 and up till today their modus operandi in their initial stages of operation has not changed much.
Monthly Threat Actor Group Intelligence Report, April 2019
/in Monthly Report/by ThreatRecon TeamThis is a summary of activity of suspected state sponsored Threat Actor Groups analyzed by the Threat Recon Team, based on data and information collected from March 21, 2019 to April 20, 2019.
SectorB06 using Mongolian language in lure document
/in Threat Analysis/by ThreatRecon TeamSectorB06 is a state sponsored threat actor group active especially within Asia. They have been exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office’s Equation Editor which Microsoft removed in January 2018, which in this case seems to be a highly obfuscated version of CVE-2017-11882. The malware we analyzed in this case are sent seemingly only after they already have a basic foothold in their target organizations.