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Corporate espionage hackers RedCurl return after hiatus with improved tools

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A corporate espionage organization known as RedCurl that made waves before disappearing last year has resurfaced with a fresh batch of attacks and sharpened tools for the task, researchers at cybersecurity firm Group-IB said Thursday. The group’s four known attacks since the beginning of 2021 include one against one of Russia’s largest wholesalers, which provides home, leisure and office goods, Group-IB found. Overall, the company concluded that RedCurl has been behind more than 30 attacks during a three-year span. RedCurl’s tactical improvements after a seven-month absence include upgrades to most of its tools, such as more effective data encryption for its malware. “Corporate cyber espionage is still a relatively rare and, in many ways, unique occurrence,” Group-IB’s report reads. “However, it is possible that the group’s success could lead to a new trend in cybercrime.” Despite the rarity of corporate cyber espionage, Group-IB’s report on the RedCurl revival is the […]

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A new group of cyber mercenaries targets businesses, journalists — including some in Russia

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Trend Micro said on Wednesday it has discovered a new Russian-language cyber mercenary group that has been going after targets ranging from Russian businesses to journalists and politicians. Researchers discovered the group after a long-time target of Pawn Storm, a hacking group connected to Russian intelligence, also known as Fancy Bear and APT28, said in March of 2020 that hackers targeted his wife with phishing emails. Trend Micro found that the indicators didn’t match Pawn Storm, and attributed the attacks to another Russian-language group it named Void Balaur. Unlike APT28, Void Balaur appears to be an independent group willing to hack into the emails of targets as diverse as aviation companies in Russia to human rights activists in Uzbekistan, according to Trend Micro. “Their targets are really a mixed bag,” lead researcher Feike Hacquebord said in an interview. “It looks like a lot of different customers are using them and […]

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