New Turla Stockstay Backdoor Emerges
Known historically for its tight ties to Russia’s FSB and its development of the Snake implant, Turla has leveraged STOCKSTAY to target sensitive government and military organizations.
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EU Sanctions Iranian and Chinese Companies for Targeting Member Nations
The new sanctions list includes two China-based technology companies, two of their co-founders, and an Iranian firm, all implicated in a range of attacks from corporate espionage and critical infrastructure disruption to disinformation campaigns.
Fancy Tools From Fancy Bear, Another Proxy Network Takedown, and A Look Ahead
This week’s news includes a reappearance by an old favorite, APT28, aka Fancy Bear, which is back with some nasty new implants and tools it is deploying against targets in Ukraine (2:10), and we also have another law enforcement disruption of a residential proxy network, this one known as SocksEscort, which had victims all over […]
APT28 Reemerges with Modern Espionage Arsenal, Code Tied to 2010s Operations
The modern Sednit arsenal is centered on two highly-developed implants, deployed systematically in tandem to ensure persistent access.
Russian Targeting of Edge Devices. Cisco AsyncOS Zero Day, and React2Shell Won’t Go Away
As we ease into the holidays, the security news doesn’t stop coming. This week we discuss the research from AWS threat intelligence on Russian adversaries targeting a variety of network edge devices for opportunistic exploitation, then we break down attacks by a Chinese threat actor that target a new zero day in Cisco’s AsyncOS, and finally we discuss the […]
Russian Hackers Target Misconfigured Edge Devices in ‘Concerning Evolution’ For Critical Infrastructure Attacks
Amazon researchers highlighted a "tactical pivot" by Russian GRU hackers who have been moving away from zero-day and N-day exploitation.