Collaborate Disseminate
The newly designated APT45 pursues military intelligence but has been expanding its targets, Mandiant says.
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A recent barrage of well-crafted phishing emails aimed at employees at U.S. energy companies, including one nuclear facility, is tied to a years-long international campaign to steal user credentials and gather intelligence from the world’s largest energy firms. The New York Times and Bloomberg reported Thursday that the FBI and Department of Homeland Security had recently warned several U.S. energy companies about the threat of hackers attempting to break into their networks by using specially tailored spearphishing emails and watering hole-style attacks. John Hultquist, who leads U.S. cybersecurity firm FireEye’s cyberespionage analysis division, said that he’s been independently tracking this same operation and that FireEye customers were warned about it roughly five weeks ago. “We’ve tied this recent operation to a campaign that started all the way back in 2015, which extends beyond the U.S., and has targeted companies in the Middle East and Western Europe … specifically in Turkey […]
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