Warning: Newly Discovered APT Attacker AtlasCross Exploits Red Cross Blood Drive Phishing for Cyberattack
September 25, 2023
I. Abstract NSFOCUS Security Labs recently discovered a new attack process based on phishing documents in their daily threat-hunting operations. Delving deeper into this finding through extensive research, they confirmed two new Trojan horse programs and many rare attack techniques and tactics. NSFOCUS Security Labs believes that this new attack process comes from a new […]
TA569 Suspected of Phishing Attack against Russia and Germany
May 8, 2023
I. Overview On April 18, 2023, NSFOCUS Security Labs discovered a spear phishing attack against Russia during daily threat hunting. After correlation analysis of the event, NSFOCUS Security Labs confirmed that the attacker also launched a similar phishing attack against Germany. The active time of the attacker, the attack target, the type of tool used, […]
Bread Crumbs of Threat Actors (Feb 13 – 26, 2023)
March 10, 2023
From 13 to 26 February 2023, NSFOCUS Security Labs found activity clues from 66 APT groups, one malware family (CoinMiner), and 426 threat actors targeting critical infrastructure. APT Groups Among the 66 APT groups discovered, the APT28 affected the most significant number of hosts from 13 to 26 February. Number of hosts affected by APT […]
Bread Crumbs of Threat Actors (Dec 19, 2022 – Jan 1, 2023)
January 12, 2023
From December 19, 2022 to Jan 1, 2023, NSFOCUS Security Labs found activity clues of 61 APT groups, 3 malware families (Zbot botnet, SpicyHotPot Trojan, and Banload Trojan), and 490 threat actors targeting critical infrastructure. APT Groups Among the 61 APT groups discovered, the APT28 affected the most significant number of hosts from December 19 […]
Analysis of Cyber Attack of APT Organization Confucius against Pakistan’s Intelligence-Based Operation
January 12, 2023
Overview Affected by many factors, Pakistan has long suffered from serious local terrorism threats. The country has also taken counter-terrorism as an important national security strategy. In the second half of 2022, the Pakistani security forces carried out many intelligence-based operations (IBO) in Baluchistan, Khyber and North Waziristan, and killed many terrorists. Pakistan’s recent high-profile […]
APT Group Lazarus Distributing Korean Phishing Lures to Feel Out Cryptocurrency Users
April 12, 2022
Overview Recently, NSFOCUS Security Labs captured a series of phishing documents containing specific Korean bait information. Most of these documents contain keywords such as “BTC”, “ETH”, “NFT”, and “account information”, which trick victims into opening them and then use remote template injection to implant malicious programs, thereby stealing host information. Analysis shows that these phishing […]
APT Lorec53 group launched a series of cyber attacks against Ukraine
February 21, 2022
Overview Recently, NSFOCUS Security Labs captured a large number of phishing files against Ukraine in format of pdf, doc, cpl, lnk and other types. After analysis, we confirmed that the series of phishing activities came from the APT group Lorec53. During the period from the end of 2021 to February 2022, this group used multiple […]
India’s National APT Organization SideWinder Launched Phishing Attacks
February 17, 2022
Overview Recently, NSFOCUS Labs discovered that the South Asian APT organization SideWinder launched phishing attacks with documents used Pakistan National Day-related content as the bait. The domain name of command and control (C2) server was forged as a Pakistani government website. Since SideWinder ‘s targets include Pakistan and China, it has always been considered an […]
Russian APT Group Gamaredon Launches Phishing Campaign against Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
February 10, 2022
Recently, NSFOCUS Security Labs captured a fishing document with the theme “ПАРТНЕРИ КУЛЬТУРНОЇ ДИПЛОМАТІЇ МЗС УКРАЇНИ” (Cultural Diplomatic Partner of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs), and confirmed that the producer of the document was Gamaredon, a Russia-based advanced persistent threat group. The phishing document contains highly credible bait content, and uses a payload protection method […]
APT Retrospection: Lorec53, An Active Russian Hack Group Launched Phishing Attacks Against Georgian Government
February 8, 2022
Summary In July 2021, several phishing documents created in Georgian were discovered by NSFOCUS Security Labs. In these phishing documents, the attackers used current political hotspots in Georgia to create bait and deliver a secret stealing Trojan to specifically targeted victims aiming to steal various documents from their computers. Correlation analysis shows that this phishing […]
