Examining the Activities of the Turla APT Group

Credit to Author: Srivathsa Sharma| Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We examine the campaigns of the cyberespionage group known as Turla over the years, with a special focus on the key MITRE techniques and the corresponding IDs associated with the threat actor group.

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Decoding Turla: Trend Micro’s MITRE Performance

Credit to Author: Shannon Murphy| Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This year, the MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK evaluation tested cybersecurity vendors against simulated attack scenarios mimicking the adversary group “Turla.” Learn about Trend Micro’s 100% successful protection performance.

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Cybercriminals Exploit the Moroccan Tragedy in New Scam Campaign

Credit to Author: Cedric Pernet| Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This blog entry details a scheme that exploits the recent Morocco earthquake by impersonating the domain name of a well-known humanitarian organization for financial fraud.

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Attacks on 5G Infrastructure From Users’ Devices

Credit to Author: Salim S.I.| Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Crafted packets from cellular devices such as mobile phones can exploit faulty state machines in the 5G core to attack cellular infrastructure. Smart devices that critical industries such as defense, utilities, and the medical sectors use for their daily operations depend on the speed, efficiency, and productivity brought by 5G. This entry describes CVE-2021-45462 as a potential use case to deploy a denial-of-service (DoS) attack to private 5G networks.

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Earth Lusca Employs New Linux Backdoor, Uses Cobalt Strike for Lateral Movement

Credit to Author: Joseph C Chen| Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

While monitoring Earth Lusca, we discovered an intriguing, encrypted file on the threat actor’s server — a Linux-based malware, which appears to originate from the open-source Windows backdoor Trochilus, which we’ve dubbed SprySOCKS due to its swift behavior and SOCKS implementation.

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RedLine/Vidar Abuses EV Certificates, Shifts to Ransomware

Credit to Author: Hitomi Kimura| Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In this blog, we investigate how threat actors used information-stealing malware with EV code signing certificates and later delivered ransomware payloads to its victims via the same delivery method.

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TrickBot & Conti Sanctions: Implications for CISOs & Boardrooms

Credit to Author: Ed Cabrera| Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Discover what the increased regulatory risk due to recent US and UK sanctions imposed on TrickBot and Conti cybercriminals mean for CISOs and board members.

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Analyzing a Facebook Profile Stealer Written in Node.js

Credit to Author: Jaromir Horejsi| Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We analyze an information stealer written in Node.js, packaged into an executable, exfiltrated stolen data via both Telegram bot API and a C&C server, and employed GraphQL as a channel for C&C communication.

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