Spam and phishing in Q3 2021
This report contains spam and phishing statistics for Q3 2021, plus descriptions of scams linked to the Olympics, Euro 2020, COVID-19, and other relevant events.
Threats
FinSpy: unseen findings
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.
Reports
APT trends report Q3 2021
The APT trends reports are based on our threat intelligence research and provide a representative snapshot of what we have discussed in greater detail in our private APT reports. This is our latest installment, focusing on activities that we observed during Q3 2021.
Lyceum group reborn
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.
GhostEmperor: From ProxyLogon to kernel mode
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.
DarkHalo after SolarWinds: the Tomiris connection
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.
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