Collaborate Disseminate
The APT trends reports are based on our threat intelligence research and provide a representative snapshot of what we have discussed in greater detail in our private APT reports. This is our latest installment, focusing on activities that we observed during Q3 2021. Continue reading APT trends report Q3 2021
According to older public researches, Lyceum conducted operations against organizations in the energy and telecommunications sectors across the Middle East. In 2021, we have been able to identify a new cluster of the group’s activity, focused on two entities in Tunisia. Continue reading Lyceum group reborn
John Southworth gives insights about APT41 and the malware used by the threat actor – the Motnug loader and its descendant, the ChaCha loader; also, shares some thoughts on the actor’s attribution and the payload, including the infamous CobaltStrike. Continue reading SAS 2021: Learning to ChaCha with APT41
How to build up a fascinating story from a hardcore APT report? Sitting by the virtual fireside, Brian Bartholomew and Christopher Bing will discuss how malware researchers and investigative journalists can help each other in their work. Continue reading SAS 2021: Fireside chat with Chris Bing
Experts from NTT Security (Japan) will cover a new APT named Operation Software Concepts. They will share details about this multi-stage attack campaign targeting government and defense sector. Continue reading SAS 2021: Operation Software Concepts
While investigating a recent rise of attacks against Exchange servers, we noticed a recurring cluster of activity that appeared in several distinct compromised networks. With a long-standing operation, high profile victims, advanced toolset and no affinity to a known threat actor, we decided to dub the cluster GhostEmperor. Continue reading GhostEmperor: From ProxyLogon to kernel mode
We discovered a campaign delivering the Tomiris backdoor that shows a number of similarities with the Sunshuttle malware distributed by DarkHalo APT and target overlaps with Kazuar. Continue reading DarkHalo after SolarWinds: the Tomiris connection
What do cyberthreats, Kubernetes and donuts have in common – except that all three end in “ts”, that is? All these topics will be mentioned during the new SAS@Home online conference, scheduled for September 28th-29th, 2021. Continue reading Wake me up till SAS summit ends
We deliver a range of services: incident response, digital forensics and malware analysis. Data in the report comes from our daily practices with organizations seeking assistance with full-blown incident response or complementary expert activities for their internal incident response teams. Continue reading Incident response analyst report 2020
Ferocious Kitten, TunnelSnake, PuzzleMaker and other threat actors, zero-day vulnerabilities, ransomware and banking Trojans – check out our review of Q2 2021. Continue reading IT threat evolution Q2 2021