I. Summary Recently, NSFOCUS Security Labs observed some phishing attacks targeting Turkish companies, including the Turkish industrial group Borusan Holding, communication operator Turkcell, bank Vakıf Katılım, and online lottery service company Nesine. The attacker placed different types of phishing documents and new Trojan programs in this group of activities to...
Tag: Phishing
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....
Highlights of 2021 Security Emergency Incident Observations
Intro The world of cybersecurity is rapidly changing and technologies continue to evolve and innovate. While emerging technologies on big data, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, mobile payment, just name a few, are helping digital transformation, new security risks expose constantly. Security incidents handled by NSFOCUS emergency response team in...
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: FIN7 Uses Windows 11 Topics as Bait to Do Spear Phishing Attacks
Overview In July 2021, NSFOCUS Security Labs captured a number of phishing documents using windows 11 related topics as bait. These phishing documents show some ideas and techniques that are different from common phishing attacks. Through in-depth analysis, NSFOCUS Security Labs found that the phishing files are part of a large-scale spear...
