Security News > 2020 > February > New Hacking Group Targets Gambling Firms: Report

A newly identified hacking group has been targeting gambling companies in Asia, the Middle East and Europe, using backdoors to steal source code and other data, according to new research from security firm Trend Micro.

The APT group was first discovered in the summer of 2019 by the consultancy Talent-Jump Technologies, which was conducting an incident response operation for a client located in the Philippines when it came across a never-before-seen backdoor connected to these hackers, according to the Trend Micro report.

During their analysis, the Trend Micro researchers found that the DRBControl group targeted specific gambling companies and developed specialized backdoors to steal data as well as source code, according to the report.

The APT group also appears to use some malicious tools that have been previously ised by other groups, according to the report.

A China-linked hacking group known as Emissary Panda, or APT27, had previously used the HyperBro backdoor in its campaigns, and this malware "Appears to be exclusive to the threat actor," according to the Trend Micro analysis.

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