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...
Tag: APT
APT Group Lazarus Distributing Korean Phishing Lures to Feel Out Cryptocurrency Users
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....
APT Lorec53 group launched a series of cyber attacks against Ukraine
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...
India’s National APT Organization SideWinder Launched Phishing Attacks
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...
Russian APT Group Gamaredon Launches Phishing Campaign against Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Recently, NSFOCUS Security Labs captured a fishing document with the theme "ПÐРТÐЕРИ КУЛЬТУРÐОЇ ДИПЛОМÐТІЇ МЗС УКРÐЇÐИ" (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...
APT Retrospection: Lorec53, An Active Russian Hack Group Launched Phishing Attacks Against Georgian Government
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...
