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IT threat evolution Q3 2024

SecureList

Tropic Trooper spies on government entities in the Middle East The threat actor Tropic Trooper, active since 2011, has historically targeted government, healthcare, transportation and high-tech sectors in Taiwan, the Philippines and Hong Kong. All the active sub-campaigns host the initial downloader on Dropbox.

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APT trends report Q3 2024

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The attackers leveraged the VLC media player to deploy the FourteenHi backdoor after exploiting MS Exchange vulnerabilities. Tropic Trooper (aka KeyBoy and Pirate Panda) is an APT group operating since 2011. Our report provided an initial analysis of the Trojanized USB management program.

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Charming Kitten APT is targeting Iranian dissidents in Germany

Security Affairs

The Charming Kitten group made the headlines in 2014 when experts at iSight issued a report describing the most elaborate net-based spying campaign organized by Iranian hackers using social media. The cyber spies used social media to gather information on the targets and as a vector for social engineering attacks.

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Charming Kitten Campaign involved new impersonation methods

Security Affairs

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011. . As part of the recently observed campaign, the state-sponsored hackers used three different spear-phishing methods: Ending an email message leveraging social engineering methods.

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Iran-linked APT42 is behind over 30 espionage attacks

Security Affairs

APT42’s TTPs overlap with another Iran-linked APT group tracked as APT35 (aka ‘ Charming Kitten ‘, ‘ Phosphorus ‘, Newscaster , and Ajax Security Team) which made the headlines in 2014 when experts at iSight issued a report describing the most elaborate net-based spying campaign organized by Iranian hackers using social media.

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The Scammers’ Playbook: How Cybercriminals Get Ahold of Your Data

eSecurity Planet

As a matter of fact, the most-reported crime in the 2021 Internet Crime Report report was phishing , a social engineering scam wherein the victim receives a deceptive message from someone in an attempt to get the victim to reveal personal information or account credentials or to trick them into downloading malware. Social Tactics.

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The FBI's Most Wanted Iranian Nation-State Hackers

SecureWorld News

In the digital world, bad actors are using social engineering methods to hack on behalf of the Iranian government, even threatening the 2020 U.S. Traditionally, these attacks put an emphasis on social engineering, finding innovative new ways to defraud end-users. election process. aerospace and satellite sectors.