Senior security researcher, GreAT
An GCFA-certified specialist working as Senior Security Researcher with Global Research and Analysis Team (GreAT) At Kaspersky since 2014. He specialized on targeted attacks research, reverse engineering and malware analysis. Denis regularly providing trainings for the customers on these matters. He got his degree at cybernetics and applied mathematics facility of Moscow State University in 2002 with diploma topic related to information security. Then he started his career as a programmer in different public and commercial companies. He presented his researches at RSA, HITB, SAS, VirusBulletin, MBLT Dev.This is our latest summary of advanced persistent threat (APT) activity, focusing on significant events that we observed during Q2 2021: attacks against Microsoft Exchange servers, APT29 and APT31 activities, targeting campaigns, etc.
We recently came across unusual APT activity that was detected in high volumes, albeit most likely aimed at a few targets of interest. Further analysis revealed that the actor, which we dubbed LuminousMoth, shows an affinity to the HoneyMyte group, otherwise known as Mustang Panda.
We found new malware samples used in WildPressure campaigns: newer version of the C++ Milum Trojan, a corresponding VBScript variant with the same version number, and a Python script working on both Windows and macOS.
Ferocious Kitten is an APT group that has been targeting Persian-speaking individuals in Iran. Some of the TTPs used by this threat actor are reminiscent of other groups, such as Domestic Kitten and Rampant Kitten. In this report we aim to provide more details on these findings.