Security Researcher, Global Research & Analysis Team
Dmitry Galov is responsible for researching non-Windows malware, APTs, and IoT-threats. He joined Kaspersky in September 2015 and became part of GReAT in August 2018. Dmitry has always been interested in programming and reverse-engineering and started participating in different international competitions while still at high school. Nowadays, Dmitry is an experienced specialist with an in-depth knowledge of Android malware.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.