Tag: APT
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Overview of AppleSeed Dropper
02 June 2022 Summary The Kimsuky APT Group has routinely utilized the AppleSeed Backdoor to target various entities within South Korea, mainly for the purposes of espionage. While phishing still remains the primary vector of delivering the backdoor, over the past year, Kimsuky has gone to great lengths to disguise its attacks, utilizing numerous types […]
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Analyzing the Royal Road to Space Pirates
26 May 2022 While the actual blog post has been difficult to access for some, Positive Technologies released research on the Space Pirates APT group that has been spotted intruding on government, IT, and critical infrastructure networks in Russia, Georgia, and Mongolia. Believed to be operating since at least 2019, the Space Pirates group has […]
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A “GULP” of PlugX
Often attributed to Chinese-speaking threat actors, PlugX a remote access trojan(RAT), was identified by security researchers in 2012. With several variants of the RAT identified by vendors over the year, many techniques used to compromise systems have remained the same. While perusing public malware sandboxes for interesting new samples, I stumbled upon a Windows executable […]
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More Flagpro, More Problems
No stranger to this blog, BlackTech has continued to modify techniques to compromise networks and even suffered an OPSEC slip in the way of an open directory. This post will cover a malicious document similar to that identified by [1] PWC and [2] NTT in the previous reporting on the group. While I cannot definitively […]
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