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Russian-speaking cybercrime evolution: What changed from 2016 to 2021
This report shares our insights into the Russian-speaking cybercrime world and the changes in how it operates that have happened in the past five years.
FinSpy, also known as FinFisher or Wingbird, is an infamous surveillance toolset, we has been tracking deployments of this spyware since 2011. In the report we decided to share some of our unseen findings about the actual state of FinSpy implants.
According to older public researches, Lyceum conducted operations against organizations in the energy and telecommunications sectors across the Middle East. In 2021, we have been able to identify a new cluster of the group’s activity, focused on two entities in Tunisia.
While investigating a recent rise of attacks against Exchange servers, we noticed a recurring cluster of activity that appeared in several distinct compromised networks. With a long-standing operation, high profile victims, advanced toolset and no affinity to a known threat actor, we decided to dub the cluster GhostEmperor.
We discovered a campaign delivering the Tomiris backdoor that shows a number of similarities with the Sunshuttle malware distributed by DarkHalo APT and target overlaps with Kazuar.
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.